Virgo and the February 2027 annular solar eclipse
For Virgo, the annular solar eclipse of Saturday 6 February 2027 falls in Aquarius, which counted by whole signs from Virgo is your 6th house: the house of daily work, habits and health routines. At the north node, an eclipse in the 6th house is read as a new regime beginning: a changed job, a changed routine or a changed way of caring for the body, taken up one ordinary day at a time.
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The eclipse in your 6th house
The eclipse is greatest at 16:00 UTC on 6 February, with the Sun and the Moon together at 17°37′ Aquarius, the sixth sign counted from Virgo.
For Virgo in February, 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 February 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 Aquarius and Leo this year, so Virgo’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 2 August, 177 days later, the total solar eclipse falls at the other end of that axis, in your 12th house, and Virgo’s two solar eclipses of 2027 will have spoken from both ends of it.
On 6 February Virgo’s traditional ruler, Mercury, stands in Pisces, your 7th house, so the tradition would read the eclipse’s news as reaching Virgo through the 7th house as well, the house of partners and agreements.
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Virgo’s eclipse season
On 20 February, 14 days after the solar eclipse, the penumbral lunar eclipse at 23:13 UTC dims the Moon at 1°58′ Virgo, across Virgo’s 1st house, the house of the self and the body, where the tradition would look for what is ripening or ending.
Astrologers read an eclipse over months rather than on its day, so for Virgo the 6th house stays in the foreground from 6 February until the next eclipse season, which the Almanac’s ephemeris puts in July.
The eclipse at a glance
| Date | Saturday 6 February 2027 |
|---|---|
| Greatest eclipse | 16:00 UTC (NASA: 16:00:47 TD) |
| New Moon | 15:56 UTC at 17°37′ Aquarius |
| Type (NASA) | Annular solar eclipse |
| Sign and degree | 17°37′ Aquarius |
| Longest annularity | 7 minutes 51 seconds |
| Magnitude | 0.928 |
| Saros series | 131, member 51 of 70 |
| Path of annularity | Chile, Argentina and the Atlantic |
| Seen from | South America, Antarctica and western and southern Africa |
| Your house (whole signs) | 6th, the house of daily work, habits and health routines |
Houses are counted by whole signs from your Sun sign (Virgo is your 1st). A chart cast for your birth time can put 17°37′ Aquarius in a different house. The type, path and visibility are NASA’s; the instant and the degree are the Almanac’s own ephemeris.
For Virgo around 6 February
A practice for the weeks around the February eclipse: choose one new routine for the working week and keep it for a month before you judge it.
And a question for Virgo to carry until the next eclipse season: What daily rhythm would actually care for me?
Common questions
Which house is the February 2027 eclipse in for Virgo?
The 6th, counted by whole signs from Virgo, since Aquarius is the sixth sign counted from Virgo. Your own chart, cast for your birth time, may place 17°37′ Aquarius in a house other than the 6th, and astrologers would read it there as well.
Is the annular solar eclipse good or bad for Virgo?
The tradition does not sort the February eclipse into good or bad for Virgo. It reads your 6th house, the house of daily work, habits and health routines, as where a chapter turns this February, and it leaves the outcome to your own choices.
When will Virgo feel the February eclipse?
Astrologers look for an eclipse’s themes over the months that follow it rather than on the day, so for Virgo from 6 February until the eclipses of July, with the 6th house as the place to watch.
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