Symbolism describes pressure. Prediction claims an outcome. A full moon in your 4th house symbolises a peak in home and family matters — a conversation you have been avoiding, a lease decision coming due, a parent's need landing on your week. It does not say you will move, or that someone will leave.

Prediction language sounds like this: "You will hear bad news from your landlord on Tuesday." Symbolic language sounds like this: "The 4th house is where the pressure concentrates this week, so protect the hours you need for that conversation." One hands you a verdict. The other hands you a map.

The 3° conjunction rule does most of this work for you. Within 3°, the transiting Moon touches a natal planet whose themes you have lived with your whole life, and the lunation turns the volume up on an existing pattern. Outside orb, the same aspect is real in the chart and inert in your Tuesday.

A tight contact also tells you what a full moon actually does, and what it does not. It surfaces, exposes and brings things to a peak. It does not deliver verdicts, force a decision, or reveal what another person feels about you. Your 7th-house Moon contact can make a relationship question unavoidable. It cannot tell you the other person's answer.

Loop payoff here: if the full moon is just the Sun and Moon sitting opposite each other, why does it matter to one person's chart and not another's? Because the opposition is fixed sky, and the address is personal. The Moon's house, plus any natal planet inside orb, decides whether the lunation lands on a live topic in your life or passes over you as calendar noise — the same way a storm warning matters more if it names your street.

Sign-only advice gives you the headline, not your address. A full moon in Taurus tells you the flavour — money, comfort, slowing down. It does not tell you whether that Moon lands in your 10th house of career or your 3rd house of siblings and errands. Those are different weeks.

The free birth chart calculator supplies the part that sun-sign columns cannot: your rising sign, your houses and your natal degrees. Those placements need your birth date, birth time and birthplace together — with only a date, the calculator cannot return them.

Then the transit chart calculator does the comparison work. Enter your birth details, the target date and the event location, and it places the current Moon against your natal planets so you can see the separation in degrees. That number decides everything. A contact at 2° answers to the 3° rule. A contact at 9° does not.

You have the three checks. Now run them as one pass, because they correct each other. Open your natal placements first, then the transit chart for the full moon you are reading.

House. Find the Moon’s degree and sign, then locate which house of your chart holds it. This is the topic. A Moon in your 6th house points at work, health and daily routine — the skipped checkup, the job that eats your evenings, the habit you keep meaning to fix. A Moon in your 11th points at friends, groups and long-term plans. Same lunation, different life.

Axis. The Sun sits opposite, so it occupies the house across from the Moon. Write both houses side by side. If the Moon is in your 4th and the Sun in your 10th, the pressure runs between home and career — exactly the classic version of that standoff. That pairing is what the lunation is asking you to balance.

Nearest contact. Count the degrees between the Moon or Sun and your natal planets, and check both sides of the axis, because a full moon pushes in two directions at once: a natal planet near the Sun’s degree carries the release-and-let-go half, while the Moon side carries what is surfacing. Conjunctions count within 3°; oppositions count within 5°.

The numbers do the filtering. If your natal Moon is at 4° Aries and the transiting full Moon is at 3.62° Aries, that is a 0.38° conjunction — take it seriously. If your natal Moon sits at 12° Aries, the same lunation is nine degrees away: relevant to your chart as a general climate, but not a personal trigger this month.

Practical example. Say your natal Venus is at 2° Scorpio. At the Taurus full Moon of October 26, 2026, the Moon sits at 2.76° Taurus — a 0.76° opposition, inside the 5° orb and tight. Money, values or a relationship arrangement reaches a peak you can act on. If your Venus sits at 14° Scorpio instead, the same Moon is decoration. That Venus reading is a worked illustration, not a claim about your chart; your own degrees come from the transit chart calculator.

Most full moons are not about you, and that is normal. Background noise looks like this: the Moon falls in a house you rarely think about, sits 6° or more from every natal planet, and the Sun–Moon axis lands on sectors with no planets in them. You notice the sky is bright. Nothing else changes.

Here is the trap. A full moon rises every month in a different sign, so twelve monthly lunations across twelve signs guarantee a personal-sounding paragraph for every reader — whether or not the sky touched anyone's chart. That is arithmetic, not astrology.

The honest test is subtraction. Name the hits before you read the forecast. If you cannot point to a house holding the Moon and at least one natal planet inside orb, close the tab. You lose nothing.

One exception: a lunation can still matter when it lands on a house cusp, a natal angle, or a planet you have been actively working with. If your solar return, a recent transit or an outer-planet passage has been pressing on the same degree for months, a loose contact can be the final centimetre of a pattern already in motion. In that case the trigger is the earlier transit, not the full moon.

Sensitivity matters too. A natal Moon or Sun near the lunation axis often feels a weekly peak as emotional weather — a short, sharp mood, a restless night, a conversation you finally have. That is atmosphere, not a verdict. Underneath it, the background is still background.

Loop payoff: the same sky, every month, for everyone — which is exactly why most full moons pass you by. A lunation only becomes an event in your life when it lands on named real estate in your chart. When it does not, treat it as one more bright night and move on.

Can one full moon hit two people completely differently? Yes, and often does. Your partner gets a 1° Moon–Mars contact and a fight. You get nothing and sleep fine. Same night, same sky.

Does the sign of the full moon tell me if it matters? Partly. The sign sets the flavour; the house sets the subject. A Taurus full moon in your 10th house is a career peak. The same Taurus moon in your 3rd is a conversation with a sibling.

What if I do not know my birth time? You can still check the Moon and Sun by sign and see whether either sits close to a natal planet you do know. Houses, angles and the rising sign stay out of reach until you have the time.

Which contact counts most? The tightest one to a personal planet — Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus or Mars. Those are the placements you feel daily, so a 1° hit there outranks a 4° hit to Neptune every time.

How long does the effect last? Treat it as a window of a few days around the exact moment, not a month-long sentence. The full moon peaks, then the pressure eases.

What do I do with a real hit? Name the house, name the planet, name one action. If the Moon lands on your 2nd-house Venus, review your budget this week rather than waiting for a feeling to arrive.