Pisces and the August 2027 total solar eclipse
For Pisces, the total solar eclipse of Monday 2 August 2027 falls in Leo, which counted by whole signs from Pisces is your 6th house: the house of daily work, habits and health routines. At the south node, an eclipse in the 6th house is read as a release from a routine: a job, a duty or a way of treating the body that has been carried past its usefulness.
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The eclipse in your 6th house
The eclipse is greatest at 10:07 UTC on 2 August, with the Sun and the Moon together at 9°55′ Leo, the sixth sign counted from Pisces.
For Pisces in August, the eclipse lands in the 6th house, the place the Hellenistic astrologers called Bad Fortune: Kake Tyche, the place where Mars rejoices, the house of labor, illness and service in the old books.
In love the August eclipse touches the everyday care two people give each other, and the chores that can sour a home; at work, the daily job, colleagues, workload and routine, most directly of all the houses; and with money, wages for daily work, and the cost of keeping a routine running.
The nodes run through Leo and Aquarius this year, so Pisces’s eclipse axis runs from the 6th house to the 12th, the axis of work and rest: the duties of the day and the retreat that restores you.
On 6 February, 177 days earlier, the annular solar eclipse fell at the other end of that axis, in your 12th house, so Pisces’s two solar eclipses of 2027 answer each other across the chart.
On 2 August Pisces’s traditional ruler, Jupiter, stands in Virgo, your 7th house, so the tradition would read the eclipse’s news as reaching Pisces through the 7th house as well, the house of partners and agreements.
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Pisces’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 Pisces’s 11th house, the house of friends, hopes and community, 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 Pisces’s 12th house, the house of rest, solitude and the hidden life, where the tradition would look for what is ripening or ending.
Astrologers read an eclipse over months rather than on its day, so for Pisces the 6th 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) | 6th, the house of daily work, habits and health routines |
Houses are counted by whole signs from your Sun sign (Pisces 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 Pisces around 2 August
A practice for the weeks around the August eclipse: drop one daily duty that no one would miss, or hand it to someone better placed for it.
And a question for Pisces to carry until the next eclipse season: Which duty am I carrying that is not mine?
Common questions
Which house is the August 2027 eclipse in for Pisces?
The 6th, counted by whole signs from Pisces, since Leo is the sixth sign counted from Pisces. Your own chart, cast for your birth time, may place 9°55′ Leo in a house other than the 6th, and astrologers would read it there as well.
Is the total solar eclipse good or bad for Pisces?
The tradition does not sort the August eclipse into good or bad for Pisces. It reads your 6th house, the house of daily work, habits and health routines, as where a chapter turns this August, and it leaves the outcome to your own choices.
When will Pisces feel the August eclipse?
Astrologers look for an eclipse’s themes over the months that follow it rather than on the day, so for Pisces from 2 August until the eclipses of January 2028, with the 6th house as the place to watch.
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