Full Moon of September 26, 2026, in Aries: The Harvest

Saturday, September 26, at 6:49 p.m., the moon rises full in Aries. It is the Harvest Moon, the one that falls closest to the equinox. A moon of fire set against a harvest season, and an evening not to be missed.

There are quiet full moons and there are full moons that make themselves heard. This one belongs to the latter family. It blends two elements that are unlike one another, the fire of Aries and the harvest of autumn, resulting in an intense lunation, full of passion and a touch of tension, that drives one to action. Here is what it signifies, and the ritual we suggest you perform during it.

A fire moon at harvest time

On that evening, the moon faces us fully, in the sign opposite the Sun. The Sun has been traversing Libra since September 23, so the moon rises in Aries. It is called the Harvest Moon because it is the closest to the autumn equinox: in the past, it was the moon that extended the evening light, allowing harvests to be brought in late.

It is a moon of taking stock and of ardor at the same time. We look at what has grown since the start of the season, what has held firm, what deserves to be kept. And at the same time, something pushes us to move forward, to take heart in our work again. Tradition holds that the full moon makes everything greater. The joys, the surges, and the impatience too.

What Aries awakens

Aries opens the zodiac; it is a sign of fire. In tradition, it bestows courage, intensity, and the desire to begin. It does not deliberate for weeks; it demands the first gesture. It is the sign that believes in the power of rituals because it believes in momentum.

Placed upon the harvest season, this fire does us good. What was begun at the new moon of September 11 is now hitting the three-week mark. It is the time to decide to keep it.

Maintaining momentum, choosing the moment

This intensity requires a bit of steering. Tradition attributes to this moon a taste for excess, for illusions, and for decisions made too quickly. We therefore avoid impulsive actions and infatuations, and we take the time to reflect before we act. The momentum remains; we simply choose where to direct it.

On the evening of the full moon, we go inward

This is why this evening is so well-suited for pausing. In all traditions, a full moon is a time of reflection: we turn things off, we slow down, we listen. And what we listen to is our own desire for well-being, the one that speaks softly and which we drown out for the rest of the month.

Half an hour is enough. An open window if the sky is clear, a candle otherwise, and nothing else to do. The moon does the rest: it is full, it is high, it compels you to raise your head. That is already quite a lot.

Rereading the intention set on September 11

At the new moon, we suggested you write a sentence: your intention of beauty for this lunation, what you wanted for your skin. The evening of the full moon is the moment to reread it.

Three weeks is the time we allow a ritual before judging it. If the sentence you wrote a fortnight ago still holds true, keep it until the new moon of October 10. If it has shifted, rewrite it that evening, in the present tense, in a single line. And if you do not know where to start, the skin diagnosis will tell you in two minutes what your skin needs at this moment.

The shaman's advice

Do good for your body to do good for your spirit, so that your soul wants to stay there. That is the entirety of the advice, and it fits into one evening. The body first, because it is through the body that we reunite with ourselves the fastest.

His thought: “I take care of my body so that my soul wants to stay in it.” To be said to yourself once, slowly, before you begin.

His ritual: the Harvest evening ritual, three slow gestures, from body to face, without a phone and with nothing else to do.

The Harvest evening ritual, step by step

The body, still warm

A warm shower, a little longer than usual, then the Onguent Magistral on skin that is still warm. It is a rich, nourishing, and restructuring body treatment with long-lasting hydration, powered by its totem tree, jojoba. Take your time with your legs, arms, and neck. This is the part of the ritual that counts the most this evening.

The face, in pause

Next, the Masque Précieux au Marula, a generous layer, for ten minutes. It erases signs of fatigue, hydrates, nourishes, and plumps the skin. These ten minutes are the real subject: you do nothing else, you breathe, you reread your intention. This is where the evening becomes a ritual rather than a routine.

The slow gesture, to finish

Finally, the Huile aux Trésors, three drops in your hands, a self-massage of the face from the inside out, from the chin toward the temples. This alchemy of seven oils hydrates, smoothes, revitalizes, nourishes, and regenerates. It is a dry oil, so it penetrates without leaving a film.

• Warm shower, then Onguent Magistral on the still-warm body.
• The Masque Précieux au Marula, ten minutes, doing nothing else.
• Huile aux Trésors in a slow massage, from the chin toward the temples.
• A sentence written or reread before going to bed.

The lunation closes on October 10 with the new moon in Libra, which will open the next cycle. Until then, the moon is waning: it is the right time to sustain what has been started, without adding anything else.

Lunar correspondences are a matter of tradition and the calendar; they do not describe any effect of the stars on the skin.