Astrology CalendarMercury Retrograde 2027: The Exact Dates
Three windows in 2027, with stations to the minute and the degrees each one covers. Computed from an ephemeris, not copied, and dated so you can tell.
Moon Phases
New Moon in Pisces is a beginning: rest, art, forgiveness, the thing with no output. Every date for the next six years computed from the ephemeris, which ones are eclipses, and how to tell whether one is yours.

A new moon lands in each sign roughly once a year, because the Sun takes a year to go round and the lunar month fits into it about twelve and a half times. These are computed from the ephemeris, in US Eastern time.
| Date | Exact degree | Also an eclipse? |
|---|---|---|
| March 8, 2027 | 17°35' Pisces | No |
| February 25, 2028 | 6°21' Pisces | No |
| March 15, 2029 | 24°53' Pisces | No |
| March 4, 2030 | 13°44' Pisces | No |
| February 21, 2031 | 2°49' Pisces | No |
The degree matters more than most pages admit. A lunation only means much for you personally if that degree is close to something in your own chart, within a few degrees. A new moon at 12 degrees of Pisces is a significant week for somebody with a planet at 11 degrees of Pisces and an ordinary one for everybody else.
At a new moon the Sun and the Moon are in the same degree of the same sign, which is why there is nothing to see: the lit face is turned away from us. Traditionally it is the start of the lunar month and the point for setting something going rather than finishing it.
The sign tells you the subject. Pisces is Water, Mutable, ruled by Neptune and Jupiter, and its keyword is I believe. So a new moon here puts rest, art, forgiveness, the thing with no output on the table.
| Moon in | Pisces |
| Sun in | Pisces |
| Element and mode | Water, Mutable |
| Ruled by | Neptune and Jupiter |
| Good for | start something small and specific |
| The Pisces version | rest, art, forgiveness, the thing with no output |
Because the lit half is facing away from us. The Moon is between the Earth and the Sun, so the side turned toward us is in its own shadow. A new moon is invisible by definition, and the thin crescent people call a new moon is already a day or two old.
Practically that is the argument for what the phase is used for: there is nothing to show yet. A new moon in Pisces is for rest, art, forgiveness, the thing with no output, and specifically for the version of it nobody else needs to know about for a fortnight.
The sign is the same for everybody. The house it falls in is not, and that is what decides whether a lunation is about your job, your money or your marriage. On whole sign houses, which is the system this uses, it follows directly from your rising sign.
| Rising sign | House it lands in | So it is about |
|---|---|---|
| Aries | 12th | rest, grief and what nobody sees |
| Taurus | 11th | friends, groups and hopes |
| Gemini | 10th | career and reputation |
| Cancer | 9th | travel, study and belief |
| Leo | 8th | shared money, intimacy and endings |
| Virgo | 7th | partnership, marriage and open conflict |
| Libra | 6th | daily work, health and routine |
| Scorpio | 5th | romance, children and creative work |
| Sagittarius | 4th | home, family and property |
| Capricorn | 3rd | talking, learning, siblings, short trips |
| Aquarius | 2nd | money you earn and what you own |
| Pisces | 1st | you, your body, how you come across |
That table is the single most useful thing on this page. A new moon in Pisces is a career event for one person and a money event for another, and which one it is for you is fixed by a birth time rather than by a birthday.
That depends on where Pisces falls in your chart, which needs your birth time. The same new moon lands in your career house, your money house or your marriage house depending on what was rising when you were born. Here is how to find your birth time.
March 8, 2027, 4:30 AM ET, at 17°35' Pisces.
Start something small and specific. The Pisces version: rest, art, forgiveness, the thing with no output.
In Pisces as well. A new moon is the Sun and Moon meeting in the same degree.
Only loosely. It matters to you personally when its degree is within a few degrees of something in your own chart. Otherwise it is a date in a shared calendar.
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