Astrology Calendar
Mars spends 81 days retrograde from Jan 10, Jupiter changes sign on Jul 26, and five eclipses land across the year. Here is where each one falls for Capricorn, with the real dates.
Most year-ahead horoscopes give you a paragraph for your Sun sign and leave it there. This one is built differently. The planets do not move differently for each of us. What differs is which part of your life they move through, and that depends on your rising sign rather than your Sun. So read this for your rising sign if you know it, and for your Sun sign if you do not.
Saturn rules your chart and Saturn spends most of 2027 in Aries, which is not a restful placement for you. The work is real but it is building something.
2027 is unusually quiet in one specific way. There is exactly one outer-planet sign change in the whole year: Jupiter moves into Virgo on July 26, 2027. Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto all stay where they are. They settled into their current signs in 2026, and 2027 is the year you live inside those placements rather than adjusting to them.
That makes it a year of consolidation rather than upheaval, with two exceptions: a long Mars retrograde that opens the year, and the eclipses.
This is the single biggest feature of your 2027, and it is the first thing that happens. Mars turns retrograde at 10°26' Virgo on January 10, 2027, 8:00 AM ET, backs up for 81 days, and turns forward again at 20°56' Leo on April 1, 2027, 10:10 AM ET.
Mars retrogrades are rare. They come round roughly every two years, and they last far longer than the Mercury ones people worry about. This one takes up the first quarter of the year.
It starts in your ninth house and backs into your eighth house of shared money and intimacy: other people's money, debt, inheritance, and the closeness that costs something. What that period tends to do is take the forward drive out of that area. Things you push on do not move. Effort that normally works does not. The useful response is not to push harder, it is to use the time to finish, repair and reconsider, and to start again in April.
For the first seven months of 2027, Jupiter is still in Leo, in your eighth house, and it spends part of that time retracing ground: Jupiter is retrograde until Apr 12, going back over territory it covered in late 2026.
Then on July 26, 2027, 12:45 AM ET it moves into Virgo and your ninth house of travel and belief, where it stays for about a year.
Jupiter is the planet of growth and opportunity, and it is not subtle about which department it is working in. For the second half of 2027 and into 2028, the part of your life that opens up is long journeys, study, faith, and the big picture you navigate by. The question it tends to raise is whether what you believe still fits what you have seen.
Five eclipses in 2027, in two seasons. Eclipses tend to accelerate whatever is already happening in the house they fall in, and they work in pairs on opposite sides of the chart. Here is where each one lands for Capricorn.
| Date | Type | Degree | Falls in |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 6, 2027 | Solar, annular | 17°38' Aquarius | Your second house: money and worth |
| February 20, 2027 | Lunar, penumbral | 1°59' Virgo | Your ninth house: travel and belief |
| July 18, 2027 | Lunar, penumbral | 25°58' Capricorn | Your first house: you |
| August 2, 2027 | Solar, total | 9°55' Leo | Your eighth house: shared money and intimacy |
| August 17, 2027 | Lunar, penumbral | 24°04' Aquarius | Your second house: money and worth |
The one to mark is August 2, 2027: a total solar eclipse at 9°55' Leo, with the longest totality over land until the next century. It is not visible from the United States. The path runs across North Africa, southern Spain and the Middle East. But it is the astrological event of the year regardless of where you can stand to watch it.
Three of them, and all three begin in one sign and back into the previous one, which tends to mean the subject changes halfway through.
| Window | Degrees | Length | Where it starts for you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9 to Mar 3 | 5°59' Pisces back to 20°55' Aquarius | 22 days | Starts in your third house |
| Jun 10 to Jul 4 | 6°22' Cancer back to 27°28' Gemini | 24 days | Starts in your seventh house |
| Oct 7 to Oct 28 | 4°56' Scorpio back to 19°19' Libra | 21 days | Starts in your eleventh house |
These four do not change sign in 2027 at all, which is unusual. For you, that means these four areas of life stay under the same pressure, or the same support, from January to December.
| Planet | Sign | Your house | What it is working on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturn | Aries | Fourth: home and family | whether the place you live is actually yours |
| Uranus | Gemini | Sixth: work and health | whether the way you spend your ordinary Tuesday is sustainable |
| Neptune | Aries | Fourth: home and family | whether the place you live is actually yours |
| Pluto | Aquarius | Second: money and worth | what you are willing to charge, and what you are willing to keep |
Saturn and Neptune are both in Aries, which means your fourth house is carrying two very different pressures at once: Saturn asking for structure and Neptune dissolving the edges. That combination is confusing to live through and it is worth knowing that the confusion is the transit, not you.
Worth saying plainly, because several sites will tell you otherwise. There is no Venus retrograde in 2027 at all. The last one ended in November 2026 and the next begins in May 2028. If you read a page promising you a Venus retrograde next year, that page was not checked.
There is also no Saturn, Uranus, Neptune or Pluto sign change. Those all happened in 2026. Anything describing 2027 as the year Saturn enters Aries is a year late.
The full 2027 calendar is here, with every lunation and every station to the minute.
July 26, 2027, when Jupiter moves into Virgo and your ninth house of travel and belief. It is the only outer-planet sign change of the year and it sets the tone for the second half.
January 10, 2027, 8:00 AM ET to April 1, 2027, 10:10 AM ET, which is 81 days. It starts at 10°26' Virgo and backs up to 20°56' Leo.
No. There is no Venus retrograde at any point in 2027. The previous one ended in November 2026 and the next one begins in May 2028.
Rising sign, if you know it, because the houses are what place these transits in your actual life. If you do not know your birth time, read it for your Sun sign; it will be roughly right rather than precisely right.
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Transits & ForecastsA solar return is the chart for the exact moment the Sun comes back to the degree it occupied when you were born. It happens once a year, rarely on your birthday itself, and it describes the twelve months that follow.
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