Libra and the August 2027 total solar eclipse
For Libra, the total solar eclipse of Monday 2 August 2027 falls in Leo, which counted by whole signs from Libra is your 11th house: the house of friends, hopes and community. At the south node, an eclipse in the 11th house is read as a parting of ways with a group or a hope: a circle that has done its work, or an aim that belonged to an earlier you.
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The eclipse in your 11th house
The eclipse is greatest at 10:07 UTC on 2 August, with the Sun and the Moon together at 9°55′ Leo, the eleventh sign counted from Libra.
For Libra in August, the eclipse lands in the 11th house, the place the Hellenistic astrologers called the Good Spirit: Agathos Daimon, the place where Jupiter rejoices, the house of friends, hopes and benefactors.
In love the August eclipse touches friendship inside love, and the friends who become something more; at work, networks, clients, teams and the people who open doors; and with money, gains from work, as the old books put it, and money that comes through other people.
The nodes run through Leo and Aquarius this year, so Libra’s eclipse axis runs from the 11th house to the 5th, 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 5th house, so Libra’s two solar eclipses of 2027 answer each other across the chart.
On 2 August Libra’s traditional ruler, Venus, stands in Leo with the eclipse itself, so the tradition would read the eclipse’s news as reaching Libra through that same house.
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Libra’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 Libra’s 4th house, the house of home, family and roots, 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 Libra’s 5th house, the house of romance, creativity and children, where the tradition would look for what is ripening or ending.
Astrologers read an eclipse over months rather than on its day, so for Libra the 11th 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) | 11th, the house of friends, hopes and community |
Houses are counted by whole signs from your Sun sign (Libra 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 Libra around 2 August
A practice for the weeks around the August eclipse: step back from one group or obligation that no longer matches your aims.
And a question for Libra to carry until the next eclipse season: Which circle have I stayed in out of loyalty alone?
Common questions
Which house is the August 2027 eclipse in for Libra?
The 11th, counted by whole signs from Libra, since Leo is the eleventh sign counted from Libra. Your own chart, cast for your birth time, may place 9°55′ Leo in a house other than the 11th, and astrologers would read it there as well.
Is the total solar eclipse good or bad for Libra?
The tradition does not sort the August eclipse into good or bad for Libra. It reads your 11th house, the house of friends, hopes and community, as where a chapter turns this August, and it leaves the outcome to your own choices.
When will Libra feel the August eclipse?
Astrologers look for an eclipse’s themes over the months that follow it rather than on the day, so for Libra from 2 August until the eclipses of January 2028, with the 11th house as the place to watch.
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