Sky events · August 2026

Partial lunar eclipse in Pisces

04:12 UTC

The August 28, 2026 partial lunar eclipse in Pisces brings unusual emphasis to imagination, compassion, and the endings that need room rather than force. Its traditional reading is a threshold, not a forecast, so notice what changes without rushing to name the whole story.

Peak, universal time
04:12 UTC
In the sign
Pisces
The Moon stands at
4°51′ Pisces
Sun or Moon covered
97% at most

A lunar eclipse is also a full moon: opposite the Sun, the Moon passes through Earth’s shadow and darkens from the viewpoint of the night side of Earth. The geometry is exact on August 28, 2026; its symbolic meaning remains interpretive. For this partial lunar eclipse, the tradition emphasizes a culmination, disclosure, or release that deserves space before interpretation hardens.

Pisces supplies the subject: Pisces can sense what a literal answer misses and let a softer truth emerge. The caution is that porous boundaries can blur intuition with assumption or care with overextension. Around the August 28, 2026 eclipse, leave space for feeling while giving one promise, limit, or ending a clear shape. Allow later events to add information before drawing a final conclusion.

Questions to carry

  • What is changing around imagination, compassion, and the endings that need room rather than force, even if you do not yet know what the change will become after August 28, 2026?
  • Where could you leave space for feeling while giving one promise, limit, or ending a clear shape while leaving room for the eclipse story to unfold at its own pace?

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Behind this eventExact times, positions, sources, and method
Exact instant
2026-08-28T04:12:49.076Z
Ecliptic longitude
334.85° · 4°51′ Pisces
Maximum obscuration
0.966
Fact source
eclipses.json, generated 2026-07-20

Instants and positions come from the site's astronomy engine and its committed yearly and monthly sky catalogs — the same data behind the Almanac and the daily horoscopes. Times are universal time; in the Americas an instant can fall the evening before the date printed. Sign-by-sign notes, where present, use whole-sign solar houses. The readings are a tradition being applied, not a forecast — the methodology page sets out both halves.