Capricorn and the August 2027 total solar eclipse
For Capricorn, the total solar eclipse of Monday 2 August 2027 falls in Leo, which counted by whole signs from Capricorn is your 8th house: the house of shared money, intimacy and deep change. At the south node, an eclipse in the 8th house is read as a debt or a secret coming to settlement: what was owed, hidden or shared reaching the point where it can be closed.
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The eclipse in your 8th house
The eclipse is greatest at 10:07 UTC on 2 August, with the Sun and the Moon together at 9°55′ Leo, the eighth sign counted from Capricorn.
For Capricorn in August, the eclipse lands in the 8th house, the place the Hellenistic astrologers called the Idle Place: in the old books the house of death and of other people’s goods, in modern practice of shared money, intimacy and deep change.
In love the August eclipse touches intimacy, trust and the shared life two people build with their money and their secrets; at work, investors, commissions, and the money other people place in your hands; and with money, debts, loans, taxes, insurance and inheritance, other people’s money in your life.
The nodes run through Leo and Aquarius this year, so Capricorn’s eclipse axis runs from the 8th house to the 2nd, 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 2nd house, so Capricorn’s two solar eclipses of 2027 answer each other across the chart.
On 2 August Capricorn’s traditional ruler, Saturn, stands in Aries, your 4th house, so the tradition would read the eclipse’s news as reaching Capricorn through the 4th house as well, the house of home, family and roots.
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Capricorn’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 Capricorn’s 1st house, the house of the self and the body, 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 Capricorn’s 2nd house, the house of money, possessions and values, where the tradition would look for what is ripening or ending.
Astrologers read an eclipse over months rather than on its day, so for Capricorn the 8th 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) | 8th, the house of shared money, intimacy and deep change |
Houses are counted by whole signs from your Sun sign (Capricorn 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 Capricorn around 2 August
A practice for the weeks around the August eclipse: settle one small debt or obligation, in money or in words, that has been hanging over you.
And a question for Capricorn to carry until the next eclipse season: What am I ready to settle or forgive?
Common questions
Which house is the August 2027 eclipse in for Capricorn?
The 8th, counted by whole signs from Capricorn, since Leo is the eighth sign counted from Capricorn. Your own chart, cast for your birth time, may place 9°55′ Leo in a house other than the 8th, and astrologers would read it there as well.
Is the total solar eclipse good or bad for Capricorn?
The tradition does not sort the August eclipse into good or bad for Capricorn. It reads your 8th house, the house of shared money, intimacy and deep change, as where a chapter turns this August, and it leaves the outcome to your own choices.
When will Capricorn feel the August eclipse?
Astrologers look for an eclipse’s themes over the months that follow it rather than on the day, so for Capricorn from 2 August until the eclipses of January 2028, with the 8th house as the place to watch.
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