Aquarius and the August 2027 total solar eclipse
For Aquarius, the total solar eclipse of Monday 2 August 2027 falls in Leo, which counted by whole signs from Aquarius is your 7th house: the house of partners and agreements. At the south node, an eclipse in the 7th house is read as a reckoning in partnership: an agreement concluded, a pattern between two people outgrown, or a bond renewed on fairer terms.
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The eclipse in your 7th house
The eclipse is greatest at 10:07 UTC on 2 August, with the Sun and the Moon together at 9°55′ Leo, the seventh sign counted from Aquarius.
For Aquarius in August, the eclipse lands in the 7th house, the place the Hellenistic astrologers called the Setting: the Dysis, the sign setting opposite the rising one, the house of marriage, partners and open enemies.
In love the August eclipse touches marriage, committed partnership and the person across the table, most directly of all the houses; at work, business partners, clients and the contracts that bind them; and with money, joint ventures and agreements that put money between two parties.
The nodes run through Leo and Aquarius this year, so Aquarius’s eclipse axis runs from the 7th house to the 1st, the axis of self and partner: how much of the year is yours to steer, and how much is shared.
On 6 February, 177 days earlier, the annular solar eclipse fell at the other end of that axis, in your 1st house, so Aquarius’s two solar eclipses of 2027 answer each other across the chart.
On 2 August Aquarius’s traditional ruler, Saturn, stands in Aries, your 3rd house, so the tradition would read the eclipse’s news as reaching Aquarius through the 3rd house as well, the house of words, siblings and short journeys.
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Aquarius’s eclipse season
On 18 July, 15 days before the solar eclipse, the penumbral lunar eclipse at 16:03 UTC dims the Moon at 25°57′ Capricorn, across Aquarius’s 12th house, the house of rest, solitude and the hidden life, where the tradition would look for what is ripening or ending.
On 17 August, 15 days after the solar eclipse, the penumbral lunar eclipse at 07:14 UTC dims the Moon at 24°04′ Aquarius, across Aquarius’s 1st house, the house of the self and the body, where the tradition would look for what is ripening or ending.
Astrologers read an eclipse over months rather than on its day, so for Aquarius the 7th house stays in the foreground from 2 August until the next eclipse season, which the Almanac’s ephemeris puts in January 2028.
The eclipse at a glance
| Date | Monday 2 August 2027 |
|---|---|
| Greatest eclipse | 10:07 UTC (NASA: 10:07:49 TD) |
| New Moon | 10:05 UTC at 9°54′ Leo |
| Type (NASA) | Total solar eclipse |
| Sign and degree | 9°55′ Leo |
| Longest totality | 6 minutes 23 seconds |
| Magnitude | 1.079 |
| Saros series | 136, member 38 of 71 |
| Path of totality | Morocco, Spain, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Somalia |
| Seen from | Africa, Europe, the Middle East and western and southern Asia |
| Your house (whole signs) | 7th, the house of partners and agreements |
Houses are counted by whole signs from your Sun sign (Aquarius is your 1st). A chart cast for your birth time can put 9°55′ Leo in a different house. The type, path and visibility are NASA’s; the instant and the degree are the Almanac’s own ephemeris.
For Aquarius around 2 August
A practice for the weeks around the August eclipse: name one agreement that needs renegotiating, and begin the conversation kindly.
And a question for Aquarius to carry until the next eclipse season: What do I keep agreeing to that I no longer mean?
Common questions
Which house is the August 2027 eclipse in for Aquarius?
The 7th, counted by whole signs from Aquarius, since Leo is the seventh sign counted from Aquarius. Your own chart, cast for your birth time, may place 9°55′ Leo in a house other than the 7th, and astrologers would read it there as well.
Is the total solar eclipse good or bad for Aquarius?
The tradition does not sort the August eclipse into good or bad for Aquarius. It reads your 7th house, the house of partners and agreements, as where a chapter turns this August, and it leaves the outcome to your own choices.
When will Aquarius feel the August eclipse?
Astrologers look for an eclipse’s themes over the months that follow it rather than on the day, so for Aquarius from 2 August until the eclipses of January 2028, with the 7th house as the place to watch.
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