Aries and the August 2027 total solar eclipse
For Aries, the total solar eclipse of Monday 2 August 2027 falls in Leo, which counted by whole signs from Aries is your 5th house: the house of romance, creativity and children. At the south node, an eclipse in the 5th house is read as a completion in the life of the heart: a romance, a project or a pleasure reaching its natural end, and room made for what comes next.
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The eclipse in your 5th house
The eclipse is greatest at 10:07 UTC on 2 August, with the Sun and the Moon together at 9°55′ Leo, the fifth sign counted from Aries.
For Aries in August, the eclipse lands in the 5th house, the place the Hellenistic astrologers called Good Fortune: Agathe Tyche, the place where Venus rejoices, the house of children, pleasure and play.
In love the August eclipse touches romance, dating, courtship and the play that keeps love from going stale; at work, creative work and any project you care about for its own sake; and with money, spending on pleasure, and money risked rather than saved.
The nodes run through Leo and Aquarius this year, so Aries’s eclipse axis runs from the 5th house to the 11th, the axis of the heart and the hope: personal joy and the friends and causes you belong to.
On 6 February, 177 days earlier, the annular solar eclipse fell at the other end of that axis, in your 11th house, so Aries’s two solar eclipses of 2027 answer each other across the chart.
On 2 August Aries’s traditional ruler, Mars, stands in Libra, your 7th house, so the tradition would read the eclipse’s news as reaching Aries through the 7th house as well, the house of partners and agreements.
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Aries’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 Aries’s 10th house, the house of career and reputation, 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 Aries’s 11th house, the house of friends, hopes and community, where the tradition would look for what is ripening or ending.
Astrologers read an eclipse over months rather than on its day, so for Aries the 5th 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) | 5th, the house of romance, creativity and children |
Houses are counted by whole signs from your Sun sign (Aries 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 Aries around 2 August
A practice for the weeks around the August eclipse: let one project or pastime that has gone stale come to an honest end.
And a question for Aries to carry until the next eclipse season: Which pleasure has turned into an obligation?
Common questions
Which house is the August 2027 eclipse in for Aries?
The 5th, counted by whole signs from Aries, since Leo is the fifth sign counted from Aries. Your own chart, cast for your birth time, may place 9°55′ Leo in a house other than the 5th, and astrologers would read it there as well.
Is the total solar eclipse good or bad for Aries?
The tradition does not sort the August eclipse into good or bad for Aries. It reads your 5th house, the house of romance, creativity and children, as where a chapter turns this August, and it leaves the outcome to your own choices.
When will Aries feel the August eclipse?
Astrologers look for an eclipse’s themes over the months that follow it rather than on the day, so for Aries from 2 August until the eclipses of January 2028, with the 5th house as the place to watch.
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