Full Moon in Capricorn, June 29, 2026: The Threshold Lunation Before Jupiter Hits Leo
The June 29, 2026 Full Moon at 8 degrees Capricorn perfects with Jupiter in its last hours of Cancer — making this the threshold lunation before a thirteen-month Jupiter-in-Leo chapter opens.
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By Sera Vane·May 17, 2026AI-assisted, editor-reviewed
The clearest full moon of the season lands on June 29, 2026 — and it's the last lunation before Jupiter, the planet of expansion, leaves the sign it has occupied for a full year. The Full Moon perfects at 8°14' Capricorn opposing the Sun at 8°14' Cancer, while Jupiter sits roughly ten hours from ingressing Leo. Most lunations close a small chapter. This one closes a year — and previews the next.
Full Moon at 8°14' Capricorn opposing Sun at 8°14' Cancer
Exact
June 29, 2026, 23:57 UTC
Sign axis
Capricorn (career, structure) opposing Cancer (home, roots)
Jupiter status
29°56' Cancer (anaretic degree); ingresses Leo June 30, 2026 at 10:02 UTC
Mercury status
Retrograde at 26°15' Cancer, conjunct Jupiter (orb 3.69°)
Secondary aspect
Full Moon axis squares Neptune at 4°24' Aries (orb 3.84°)
Background pattern
Mars at 0°50' Gemini applying to Uranus conjunction (orb 2.81°)
Affects most
Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn); natal planets between 6°–11° of those signs
Duration
The Lunation Itself
Astronomically, this is one of the tightest oppositions a Full Moon can deliver. The Sun and Moon perfect at 8°14' of their respective signs — Cancer for the Sun, Capricorn for the Moon — facing each other across the zodiac with essentially zero margin. An opposition, the 180° face-off that forces a confrontation between two planetary instincts, sets the basic geometry: every Full Moon is one, but most arrive with a looser fit. This one doesn't. The lunar peak hits at 23:57 UTC on June 29, 2026 — minutes before midnight on the East Coast of North America, the small hours of the morning across Europe, late morning in East Asia. Most lunations announce themselves with mood. This one announces itself with a specific contradiction: what you have built publicly, and what your private self can actually carry.
Jupiter's Last Cancer Hours
At the exact moment of the lunation, Jupiter sits at 29°56' Cancer — the anaretic degree, the very last 29° of a sign, which astrologers traditionally read as a planet completing its lesson in one zodiacal address before being pushed across the threshold into the next. Roughly ten hours later, at 10:02 UTC on June 30, Jupiter ingresses Leo — meaning the planet moves from one sign into the next, shifting how its appetite expresses. So the Full Moon perfects while Jupiter is, in effect, packing.
Mercury, in retrograde — the apparent backward motion that reads as a stalled, review-mode period through anything the planet is involved in — sits at 26°15' Cancer, within four degrees of Jupiter. The two form a conjunction, the same-sign alignment that fuses two planetary energies into one expression, pulling review-mode communication and end-of-chapter plans into Jupiter's farewell. The result is a Full Moon that lights the career-ambition pole while review-mode emotional intelligence is doing one last pass on the year of nesting that just ended — the same chapter many readers have been tracking through this season's home-versus-stage countdown, now in its final hours.
The last time Jupiter spent a full chapter in Leo was July 2014 through August 2015 — a window many readers remember as the height of celebrity-as-personal-brand acceleration, with streamed concerts, viral confessions, and magazine-cover dressing as a daily sport. The June 30, 2026 ingress inaugurates the first Leo chapter in roughly twelve years, lasting about thirteen months. That's the next year-plus of cultural emphasis on performance, applause, creative risk, and visible self-expression. Venus already crossed into Leo on June 13, pulling desire visibly into the open two weeks before Jupiter follows. The Capricorn Full Moon, then, isn't a regular career check-in. It's the last clear accounting before a year of incentive shifts. The reckoning the Moon is asking for — what's load-bearing, what's vanity — is the audit you'd want to finish before Leo's stage lights come up.
Who's Affected: The Home-Ambition Axis
Every opposition is a tug-of-war between two sign instincts that need each other even when they resent each other. Capricorn is the sign of structure, public reputation, long-term goals, and the bare minimum a life is willing to earn. Cancer is the sign of private emotional life, family of origin, the body's need for rest, the kitchen where the day's grief actually gets metabolized. When the Moon lights up Capricorn while the Sun illuminates Cancer, the question isn't which side wins — it's which side has been quietly subsidizing the other. The promotion that costs you weekends. The family obligation that's eating the focus a career needs. The most felt charge runs through the cardinal signs — Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn — and through any natal planet between 6° and 11° of those four signs. A Full Moon doesn't moralize the trade-off. It just shows you what the trade-off has been.
The Quiet Complications
The Full Moon doesn't arrive in geometric isolation. Both lights square Neptune at 4°24' Aries — the 90° tension angle where two planets demand contradictory things from the same situation. Neptune dissolves edges and idealizes; the Sun and Moon this Full Moon want a clear accounting. The square suggests that what feels emotionally true on the night may be partly fog — a story you have been telling yourself about why the structure is necessary, why the home life can wait, why the dream version of either side is just around the corner. Sit with the lunation, by all means. But the chart pattern suggests not signing anything on the strength of a 3 a.m. revelation.
Behind the lights, Mars at 0°50' Gemini applies to a conjunction with Uranus at 3°39' Gemini — the headline volatility signal underneath the Full Moon's calmer surface. Gemini is the sign of fast decisions and the racing mind. Mars and Uranus together in that sign tend to read as sudden announcements, abrupt direction changes, and arguments that escalate from zero to ninety in a single sentence. Mars only just left the long-game patience of its May stint in Taurus; the shift into Gemini already accelerates the metabolism, and the approaching Uranus contact accelerates it again. Pair that with Mercury retrograde sitting just degrees from Jupiter, and you have a chart pattern where the temptation to dash off a major message — resignation, confession, ultimatum — is unusually high. The same chart that demands an honest accounting also makes premature speech more likely.
One more thread tightens the picture. Jupiter at 29°56' Cancer applies to an opposition with Pluto at 4°53' Aquarius — meaning the planet of expansion is bowing out of Cancer while pushing against the planet of structural transformation across the sky. Jupiter–Pluto contacts ask big questions about scale: what gets to grow, what gets dismantled to make room, who or what is consuming the resources. The fact that this opposition rings at the same moment as the Full Moon lifts the lunation out of personal-life-audit territory and into something closer to existential framing. What you choose to keep building over the next year, and what you choose to let collapse, lines up with a longer story about power and the limits of expansion.
Historical Parallels
The previous Capricorn Full Moon arrived in July 2025, in mid-Capricorn — a smaller-scale version of the same career-versus-roots theme, but without Jupiter at the anaretic edge of a major sign change. That lunation read, for many people, as a quieter reset: a re-commitment to a goal, a structural choice about how to spend the next six months. The June 2026 version sits in early Capricorn, at 8°, a different lunar address — closer to the start of the sign's territory, which traditionally reads as the opening question of an arc rather than the conclusion of one. New question, same axis. What does the next chapter of the structure want to be?
Reaching further back, the last Jupiter-in-Leo cycle, July 2014 through August 2015, was a year of visibly self-expressive cultural moments — a wave of high-budget pop releases, the rise of Instagram as a career platform, and the celebrity-as-personal-brand acceleration we are still living inside. The 2026–2027 Jupiter-in-Leo cycle will not repeat those exact conditions — Saturn in Aries provides a much harder edge than Saturn in Sagittarius did the last time — but the underlying invitation is the same. Leo wants applause for the specific thing you actually made. The Capricorn Full Moon is the threshold question: what specific thing have you made that's strong enough to be applauded?
How It Lands by Sign
Full Moon in Capricorn 2026 — How It Lands by Sign
Aries
10th-house lunation. Career structure peaks under full illumination while the 4th-house Sun pulls toward home. Decide what stays public.
Taurus
9th-house spotlight on belief and long-distance commitments. The 3rd-house Sun answers from neighborhood and inbox. Choose which voice leads.
Gemini
8th-house Moon spotlights shared finances, debts, intimacy. The 2nd-house Sun asks what is yours alone. Settle one account.
Cancer
7th-house lunation culminates the partnership conversation as the 1st-house Sun lights you up. Ask who you have become inside the relationship.
Leo
6th-house Moon exposes the daily grind while the 12th-house Sun nudges retreat. Drop one task you have been carrying out of habit.
Virgo
5th-house Moon spotlights creative output and romance. The 11th-house Sun calls in the wider crowd. Ship the work or share the room.
Libra
4th-house lit — home and family in the spotlight. Career in the 10th opposes. Name what the house needs to survive Leo.
What to Watch For
Yellow-light signal one: the urge to issue a structural ultimatum — quit, propose, post, resign — at the literal moment of the lunation. With Mars applying to Uranus in Gemini and Mercury retrograde clinging to Jupiter, the chart pattern points to sudden communications that read as inevitable in the moment and as premature seventy-two hours later. If the announcement is real, it will survive a week of sitting on it. If it doesn't survive that week, it was a Full Moon impulse, not a decision. Yellow-light signal two: the quiet Capricorn voice telling you that the structure you have built is not enough. The Neptune square is generous with that voice. The chart pattern suggests a calmer audit than a teardown — note what you'd actually rebuild, and what you'd just be remodeling out of restlessness.
What works with this Full Moon is anything that involves naming what you have actually accomplished in the past year of Jupiter in Cancer. Jupiter-in-Cancer rewarded the relational, the local, the kitchen-table conversation, the homecoming text, the choice to nest. As Jupiter prepares to fire into Leo, the Capricorn Full Moon offers one last clean view of the home-side ledger. Look at it. Write it down. Notice which of those Cancer-era investments are coming with you and which were placeholders for the year. Then look at the Capricorn side — the public, the visible, the documented work — and ask the harder question: what of this can you make Leo-bright? The bright thing waiting in Leo wants something you have already built to lift.
When is the Full Moon in Capricorn exact in June 2026?
The Full Moon perfects at 8°14' Capricorn on June 29, 2026 at 23:57 UTC — just before midnight Eastern time, the small hours of the morning across most of Europe. The lunar imprint runs strongest within seventy-two hours either side, with emotional carryover into early July as Jupiter changes signs.
Which signs feel the June 2026 Capricorn Full Moon most?
The cardinal signs — Capricorn, Cancer, Aries, and Libra — feel this lunation most directly because the Full Moon sits in a tight cross with all four. Anyone with personal-planet placements between 6° and 11° of those signs will notice a specific charge across the home-and-career axis through early July.
Should I make a major career decision on this Full Moon?
The chart pattern suggests yes-but-not-immediately. With Mercury retrograde conjunct Jupiter at the anaretic degree and Mars applying to Uranus, snap decisions tend to over-promise. Use the Full Moon to clarify the trade-off you have actually been making, then act in early July once Mercury stations direct and Jupiter has settled into Leo.
What is the difference between a Capricorn Full Moon and a Capricorn New Moon?
A New Moon in Capricorn — typically in January — opens a six-month arc, seeding a fresh structural ambition in the dark. A Full Moon in Capricorn lights up what has already been built. The June 2026 lunation is not about starting; it is about reckoning with what your existing structure can actually carry forward.
How long does this Full Moon's energy last with Jupiter changing signs?
Most Full Moons fade within a week. This one bleeds into a roughly thirteen-month Jupiter-in-Leo chapter, meaning the Capricorn reckoning becomes a baseline question all year. What you commit to or release in the seventy-two hours around June 29 will keep echoing through the Leo cycle that opens June 30.
Imprint felt within 72 hours either side; carryover into early July
Chart subject
Calendar transit (no individual chart subject)
Scorpio
3rd-house Moon heats up — siblings, neighbors, the inbox, the unfinished essay. The 9th-house Sun questions your bigger thesis. Send the message.
Sagittarius
2nd-house lunation tests your relationship to money and self-worth. The 8th-house Sun pulls toward shared resources. Cut one expense, name one need.
Capricorn
1st-house lunation — you, in full light. The 7th-house Sun reflects you back through someone else. Acknowledge what you have outgrown.
Aquarius
12th-house lunation surfaces what you have buried: dreams, patterns, ancestry. The 6th-house Sun asks integration, not analysis. Rest before you decide.
Pisces
11th-house spotlight on community and long-view dreams. The 5th-house Sun reminds you to make, not only network. Pick one collaborator.
