Astrology Calendar
Five eclipses in two seasons, including the longest totality over land this century. Dates, types and the exact degree of each, computed rather than copied.
| Date and time | Type | Degree | Where it is visible |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 6, 2027, 10:59 AM ET | Solar, annular | 17°38' Aquarius | Parts of South America, Antarctica and the south Atlantic |
| February 20, 2027, 6:12 PM ET | Lunar, penumbral | 1°59' Virgo | Much of the night side of Earth |
| July 18, 2027, 12:02 PM ET | Lunar, penumbral | 25°58' Capricorn | Much of the night side of Earth |
| August 2, 2027, 6:06 AM ET | Solar, total | 9°55' Leo | North Africa, southern Spain and the Middle East |
| August 17, 2027, 3:13 AM ET | Lunar, penumbral | 24°04' Aquarius | Much of the night side of Earth |
The one people will still be talking about. On August 2, 2027, 6:06 AM ET the Moon covers the Sun completely at 9°55' Leo, and the path of totality runs across North Africa, the southern tip of Spain and on into the Middle East. Totality lasts over six minutes at its longest point, which will not be beaten over land until the next century.
It is not visible from the United States. The next total solar eclipse that crosses the country is in 2045. But eclipse astrology works on the degree, not the view: what matters is whether nine or ten degrees of Leo is close to something in your chart.
Most eclipses pass over most people without much happening, and the honest version of this is not the version that gets shared. An eclipse matters to you when its degree falls within roughly two degrees of a planet or an angle in your own chart. That is a narrow target, which is why a given person might have one significant eclipse in three years rather than five in one.
Two eclipses, a fortnight apart, on opposite sides of the wheel. The annular solar eclipse on February 6, 2027, 10:59 AM ET falls at 17°38' Aquarius; the penumbral lunar eclipse on February 20, 2027, 6:12 PM ET falls at 1°59' Virgo. An annular eclipse is one where the Moon is too far from Earth to cover the Sun completely, so a ring of light stays visible around it.
Eclipse seasons work in pairs like this because they need the Sun near one of the two points where the Moon's tilted orbit crosses Earth's. That alignment lasts a few weeks and comes round roughly every six months, which is why eclipses always arrive in clusters rather than singly.
A year has between four and seven eclipses, and five is the common case. Two seasons of two is the minimum; a year gets a fifth when a season is long enough to fit three, which is what happens in 2027 between July and August. The three summer eclipses on Jul 18, Aug 2 and Aug 17 are one season, not three separate events.
If you take one thing from this page, take these five numbers and the signs they sit in. They are what makes an eclipse yours or not.
A solar eclipse tends to mark a beginning and a lunar eclipse a culmination or an ending, which is the same distinction as a new moon and a full moon, turned up. The sign tells you the flavour; the house in your own chart tells you the department.
The full 2027 calendar is here, and the year-ahead pages work each eclipse into the houses of each rising sign.
Five: two solar and three lunar.
August 2, 2027, 6:06 AM ET, at 9°55' Leo. The path of totality crosses North Africa, southern Spain and the Middle East.
No. The next total solar eclipse visible across the United States is in 2045.
Not meaningfully. An eclipse tends to matter when its degree falls within about two degrees of something in your own chart, which for most people is a rare alignment.
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