Void of course Moon · January 2027
January 2027: 14 void-of-course Moons, the longest 32 h 00 m
New planner, fresh resolutions, and fourteen small pauses already printed in the margins.
Photo: NPS / Bill Bjornstad
At a glance
14 windows, 152 hours, 20% of January.
- Voids
- 14152 h total
- Longest
- 32 h 00 mThu Jan 21 · 00:45 to Fri Jan 22 · 08:45 UTC, Cancer to Leo, after sextile Mars
- Shortest
- 2 h 38 mJan 31, from 28°40′ Scorpio
- First void
- Fri Jan 1 · 03:27UTC, Libra to Scorpio
- New Moon
- Thu Jan 7 · 20:24UTC, 17°18′ Capricorn
- Full Moon
- Fri Jan 22 · 12:17UTC, 2°14′ Leo
14 voids, 20% void
January's long nights, and a Moon that keeps moving through them.
January is the month everyone wants to start things. Gym memberships, budgets, the side project you swore you would launch. The Moon goes void about three and a half hours into the year, so New Year's morning comes with a built-in invitation to finish before you begin.
The headline window comes around the Full Moon in Leo. The Moon leaves its last aspect in Cancer, a sextile to Mars, and then drifts without another contact for a day and a third before crossing into Leo. If you were planning a big announcement for that stretch, the tradition would nudge you a day later, once the Moon has landed in Leo and starts making aspects again.
The good news for resolution season: most of January's voids are under ten hours, and several fall overnight in the Americas. Your calendar is wide open for the important stuff. Use the quiet patches for the slow, satisfying jobs January loves anyway: sorting files, cancelling subscriptions, sleeping in.
5th of 12
January 2027, counted
14 windows, 152 h. 5th of 12 by hours; 9% over a 2027 month's mean; one past 24 h. Weekend starts (UTC): 3. Weekday 13:00 to 22:00 UTC starts: 2.
The New Moon at 17°18′ Capricorn on Thu Jan 7 · 20:24 UTC, the Full Moon at 2°14′ Leo on Fri Jan 22 · 12:17 UTC: 2, both clear of any void.
The sky behind it
January last aspects: Jupiter 6, Mercury 3, Sun 3, Mars 1, Venus 1. Method.
5 planets close voids
Jupiter has the last word
Jupiter closes six of January's fourteen voids, more than any other planet. The run starts on New Year's Day with a sextile from Libra and keeps going: a square from Scorpio on the 3rd, a trine from Sagittarius on the 6th, an opposition from Aquarius on the 11th, then a sextile and a conjunction either side of the long Cancer stretch. A void that follows a Jupiter contact tends to feel generous rather than flat, the kind of lull where people overpromise.
The Sun takes the middle of the month instead. Three voids in a row, on the 13th, 15th and 18th, begin with a solar aspect, as the Moon moves from Pisces through Aries and Taurus in the waxing week after the Capricorn New Moon of January 7.
Two windows run under four hours: the Taurus void on the 18th, about three and a half hours, and the last one of the month, a Scorpio void on the 31st that lasts about two and a half. Four run past twelve hours, and the 32-hour Cancer void on January 21 and 22 is the only one that covers a whole calendar day.
2 in work hours
January: when to wait, when to go
Try this today
- Book your first appointment of the year outside a void window.
- Use the long Cancer void for a cosy reset day: laundry, soup, an early night.
- Write your goals while the Moon is void, then act on them once it enters the next sign.
Mark the long Cancer-to-Leo window first, then look for voids that land on your working hours in your own time zone (the checker below converts them). Sign-ups, first sessions and launches go outside those windows. Admin, reviewing last year and rest go inside them.
If you work office hours in New York or London, the voids to watch are the Capricorn one on January 8, which runs from 05:11 to 22:10 UTC and so covers both working days, and the Virgo one from late on the 25th to 11:12 UTC on the 26th. The Taurus void on the 18th is over by 08:32 UTC, before most of Europe has had lunch, so it rarely needs a plan of its own.
Check your moment
January, minute by minute
Jan 21 opens the 32 h 00 m void; Jan 31 has the 2 h 38 m one.
Right now
Checking the clock...
Your moment
Void of course.
The window runs Thu, Jan 21, 12:45 AM to Fri, Jan 22, 8:45 AM (32 h 0 min). Tradition would start after the Moon enters Leo.
Voids touching this day: Thu, Jan 21, 12:45 AM to Fri, Jan 22, 8:45 AM (Cancer to Leo).
More to read
Shorter reads. Each opens in place.
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Worth knowing
Two Mercury contacts bookend the month: the Moon's last aspect before Aquarius is a conjunction with Mercury, and its final void of January begins with a square to Mercury. Expect the messaging-heavy days to sit on either side of those windows.
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December 2026 and earlier are on our everyday tool. February 2027 has 12.
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Every void-of-course Moon in January 2027
14 rows, UTC, from Fri Jan 1 · 03:27 to Sun Jan 31 · 03:13.
| Void starts (UTC) | Moon moves | Length | Last aspect | Ends (UTC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri Jan 1 · 03:27 | Libra → Scorpio | 6 h 49 m | sextile Jupiter | Fri Jan 1 · 10:15 |
| Sun Jan 3 · 13:33 | Scorpio → Sagittarius | 7 h 24 m | square Jupiter | Sun Jan 3 · 20:56 |
| Wed Jan 6 · 01:23 | Sagittarius → Capricorn | 7 h 54 m | trine Jupiter | Wed Jan 6 · 09:17 |
| Fri Jan 8 · 05:11 | Capricorn → Aquarius | 17 h 00 m | conjunction Mercury | Fri Jan 8 · 22:10 |
| Mon Jan 11 · 01:58 | Aquarius → Pisces | 8 h 37 m | opposition Jupiter | Mon Jan 11 · 10:35 |
| Wed Jan 13 · 07:32 | Pisces → Aries | 13 h 41 m | sextile Sun | Wed Jan 13 · 21:13 |
| Fri Jan 15 · 20:34 | Aries → Taurus | 8 h 09 m | square Sun | Sat Jan 16 · 04:43 |
| Mon Jan 18 · 04:57 | Taurus → Gemini | 3 h 35 m | trine Sun | Mon Jan 18 · 08:32 |
| Wed Jan 20 · 01:01 | Gemini → Cancer | 8 h 20 m | sextile Jupiter | Wed Jan 20 · 09:21 |
| Thu Jan 21 · 00:45 | Cancer → Leo | 32 h 00 m | sextile Mars | Fri Jan 22 · 08:45 |
| Sat Jan 23 · 23:33 | Leo → Virgo | 9 h 11 m | conjunction Jupiter | Sun Jan 24 · 08:44 |
| Mon Jan 25 · 17:56 | Virgo → Libra | 17 h 16 m | square Venus | Tue Jan 26 · 11:12 |
| Thu Jan 28 · 07:46 | Libra → Scorpio | 9 h 35 m | trine Mercury | Thu Jan 28 · 17:21 |
| Sun Jan 31 · 00:36 | Scorpio → Sagittarius | 2 h 38 m | square Mercury | Sun Jan 31 · 03:13 |
All times are UTC. In the Americas the local date can be a day earlier; in Asia and Australia a day later.
Quick answers
Is the Moon void of course on New Year's Day 2027?
Yes, for a few hours. The Moon makes its last aspect in Libra in the early hours of January 1 (UTC) and enters Scorpio later that morning. The table on this page has both times.
Is January 2027 a good month to start a new habit?
Most of the month is not void, so there is plenty of room. Tradition would just avoid starting on the long void before the Moon enters Leo around the Full Moon.
Is the Moon void at the Capricorn New Moon on January 7, 2027?
No. The New Moon falls at 20:24 UTC on January 7, and the next void does not begin until 05:11 UTC on the 8th, after the Moon's conjunction with Mercury in Capricorn. That leaves roughly nine clear hours after the lunation for anyone who likes to set intentions right at the New Moon.
