Taurus and the August 2027 total solar eclipse
For Taurus, the total solar eclipse of Monday 2 August 2027 falls in Leo, which counted by whole signs from Taurus is your 4th house: the house of home, family and roots. At the south node, an eclipse in the 4th house is read as the close of a chapter at home: a household reorganized, a family role set down, or a room of the past finally cleared.
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The eclipse in your 4th house
The eclipse is greatest at 10:07 UTC on 2 August, with the Sun and the Moon together at 9°55′ Leo, the fourth sign counted from Taurus.
For Taurus in August, the eclipse lands in the 4th house, the place the Hellenistic astrologers called the Subterranean: the Hypogeion, the lowest point of the chart, the house of home, land, parents and endings.
In love the August eclipse touches living together, family plans and the private life a couple shares; at work, working from home, and the foundations a career quietly stands on; and with money, property, rent, the cost of a household and family money.
The nodes run through Leo and Aquarius this year, so Taurus’s eclipse axis runs from the 4th house to the 10th, the axis of home and career: the private root and the public branch of a life.
On 6 February, 177 days earlier, the annular solar eclipse fell at the other end of that axis, in your 10th house, so Taurus’s two solar eclipses of 2027 answer each other across the chart.
On 2 August Taurus’s traditional ruler, Venus, stands in Leo with the eclipse itself, so the tradition would read the eclipse’s news as reaching Taurus through that same house.
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Taurus’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 Taurus’s 9th house, the house of faith, travel and higher learning, 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 Taurus’s 10th house, the house of career and reputation, where the tradition would look for what is ripening or ending.
Astrologers read an eclipse over months rather than on its day, so for Taurus the 4th 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) | 4th, the house of home, family and roots |
Houses are counted by whole signs from your Sun sign (Taurus 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 Taurus around 2 August
A practice for the weeks around the August eclipse: clear one corner, drawer or room of what you keep only from duty to the past.
And a question for Taurus to carry until the next eclipse season: What from my family’s past am I ready to set down?
Common questions
Which house is the August 2027 eclipse in for Taurus?
The 4th, counted by whole signs from Taurus, since Leo is the fourth sign counted from Taurus. Your own chart, cast for your birth time, may place 9°55′ Leo in a house other than the 4th, and astrologers would read it there as well.
Is the total solar eclipse good or bad for Taurus?
The tradition does not sort the August eclipse into good or bad for Taurus. It reads your 4th house, the house of home, family and roots, as where a chapter turns this August, and it leaves the outcome to your own choices.
When will Taurus feel the August eclipse?
Astrologers look for an eclipse’s themes over the months that follow it rather than on the day, so for Taurus from 2 August until the eclipses of January 2028, with the 4th house as the place to watch.
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