Cancer and the August 2027 total solar eclipse
For Cancer, the total solar eclipse of Monday 2 August 2027 falls in Leo, which counted by whole signs from Cancer is your 2nd house: the house of money, possessions and values. At the south node, an eclipse in the 2nd house is read as a letting go around money and possessions: an expense, a habit of spending or a measure of your worth that has run its course.
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The eclipse in your 2nd house
The eclipse is greatest at 10:07 UTC on 2 August, with the Sun and the Moon together at 9°55′ Leo, the second sign counted from Cancer.
For Cancer in August, the eclipse lands in the 2nd house, the place the Hellenistic astrologers called the Gate of Hades: the place just below the rising sign, in the old books the house of livelihood and of what sustains a life.
In love the August eclipse touches what you give and receive in love, and whether affection is being bought or freely offered; at work, your earnings and the price you put on your work; and with money, income, savings, spending and possessions, most directly of all the houses.
The nodes run through Leo and Aquarius this year, so Cancer’s eclipse axis runs from the 2nd house to the 8th, the axis of what is yours and what is shared: earnings and debts, possessions and trust.
On 6 February, 177 days earlier, the annular solar eclipse fell at the other end of that axis, in your 8th house, so Cancer’s two solar eclipses of 2027 answer each other across the chart.
Cancer’s ruler is the Moon, the body that passes in front of the Sun at a solar eclipse, so the tradition reads the August eclipse as reaching Cancer through its own ruler as well as through the 2nd house.
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Cancer’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 Cancer’s 7th house, the house of partners and agreements, 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 Cancer’s 8th house, the house of shared money, intimacy and deep change, where the tradition would look for what is ripening or ending.
Astrologers read an eclipse over months rather than on its day, so for Cancer the 2nd 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) | 2nd, the house of money, possessions and values |
Houses are counted by whole signs from your Sun sign (Cancer 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 Cancer around 2 August
A practice for the weeks around the August eclipse: cancel one expense or part with one possession that belongs to an older version of your life.
And a question for Cancer to carry until the next eclipse season: What am I paying for that I no longer value?
Common questions
Which house is the August 2027 eclipse in for Cancer?
The 2nd, counted by whole signs from Cancer, since Leo is the second sign counted from Cancer. Your own chart, cast for your birth time, may place 9°55′ Leo in a house other than the 2nd, and astrologers would read it there as well.
Is the total solar eclipse good or bad for Cancer?
The tradition does not sort the August eclipse into good or bad for Cancer. It reads your 2nd house, the house of money, possessions and values, as where a chapter turns this August, and it leaves the outcome to your own choices.
When will Cancer feel the August eclipse?
Astrologers look for an eclipse’s themes over the months that follow it rather than on the day, so for Cancer from 2 August until the eclipses of January 2028, with the 2nd house as the place to watch.
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