Aries horoscope for August 2027
August 2027 asks the most of Aries through the total solar eclipse in Leo (your 5th house) on 2 August. The penumbral lunar eclipse in Aquarius (across your 11th house) on 17 August and Saturn turning retrograde in your 1st house on 9 August complete the month’s picture.
$0 today, then $12/month after 7 days. Cancel anytime.
August 2027 for Aries at a glance
In August the lunations land as the New Moon in Leo (your 5th house) on 2 August, the Full Moon in Aquarius (your 11th house) on 17 August and the New Moon in Virgo (your 6th house) on 31 August. Among the planets, Mercury enters your 5th on 2 August, Saturn turns retrograde in your 1st on 9 August and Mercury enters your 6th on 17 August. In the background, Jupiter holds Virgo, your 6th house, all month, and Saturn stays in Aries, your 1st.
| Date | Event | Where | Your house |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 2 Aug10:05 UTC | New Moon, total solar eclipse | 9°54′ Leo | 5th |
| Mon 2 Aug10:07 UTC | Total solar eclipse, greatest | 9°55′ Leo | 5th |
| Mon 2 Aug | Mercury enters Leo | Leo | 5th |
| Mon 9 Aug | Saturn stations retrograde | 27°52′ Aries | 1st |
| Tue 17 Aug | Mercury enters Virgo | Virgo | 6th |
| Tue 17 Aug07:14 UTC | Penumbral lunar eclipse, greatest | 24°04′ Aquarius | 11th |
| Tue 17 Aug07:29 UTC | Full Moon, penumbral lunar eclipse | 24°11′ Aquarius | 11th |
| Fri 20 Aug | Venus enters Virgo | Virgo | 6th |
| Mon 23 Aug08:14 UTC | Sun enters Virgo | Virgo | 6th |
| Tue 31 Aug17:41 UTC | New Moon | 8°06′ Virgo | 6th |
Houses are counted by whole signs from your Sun sign (Aries is your 1st, Taurus your 2nd, and so on). Times are UTC; every date comes from the Almanac’s own ephemeris, none from a calendar typed by hand.
What does your own chart say about you?
Choose love, work or purpose. Your reading is written from your chart. Your reading uses your own birth details.
Walk through Alex’s whole example first
The Road of AgesSee the turning points of your whole life, from your birth date
See your road's shape
Prefer to explore first?
The Road of AgesThe turning points of your whole life, from your own chart
Walk my road
Free, by email
Your daily sign letter at 7am
A short letter each morning, read for your own Sun sign and the day’s sky. Your birth date sets it; nothing else is asked.
New Moon in Leo, 2 August: your 5th house, total solar eclipse
Monday 2 August brings the New Moon at 9°54′ Leo, exact at 10:05 UTC, and for Aries it falls in the 5th house, the house of romance, creativity and children.
Astrology reads the New Moon as the time to start small and mean it, and in August the small start belongs to your 5th house, Good Fortune: a seed of delight: a hobby resumed, a child’s plan supported, a date actually set. In your 5th house this August, Leo, fixed fire ruled by the Sun, gives it a warm and wholehearted manner that wants to be seen.
Astronomically the August New Moon is a solar eclipse, because it falls near one of the Moon’s nodes, the two points where its path crosses the Sun’s; for Aries that happens in the 5th house. NASA classes it as total; for Aries its greatest moment, at 10:07 UTC at 9°55′ Leo, is the one the tradition counts, and on the central line totality lasts up to 6 minutes 23 seconds. An eclipse in the fifth house is read as a turning in love, creativity or children: the old books call it Good Fortune, and an eclipse there is a change in what brings you joy. Read the total solar eclipse for Aries in full.
A practice for the August New Moon: plan one evening purely for enjoyment, and protect it like an appointment.
Beyond the Sun sign
Your Sun sign is only part of 2027
A Aries forecast reads the year by your Sun sign alone. The Road of Ages reads the turning points of your whole life from your own birth date, and shows where you stand on it now.
See the year on your own RoadFull Moon in Aquarius, 17 August: your 11th house, penumbral lunar eclipse
The Full Moon is exact at 07:29 UTC on Tuesday 17 August, with the Moon at 24°11′ Aquarius and the Sun opposite in Leo. For Aries the Moon lights your 11th house, the house of friends, hopes and community, while the Sun stands across in your 5th.
At a Full Moon the Moon faces the Sun across the sky, and this August it faces it from your 11th house, the Good Spirit, lighting what you hope for, seen clearly enough to tell whether it is still yours. Set in your 11th house, the August lunation takes its tone from its sign: Aquarius, fixed air ruled by Saturn in the old books, gives it an independent and principled manner. With the Sun across the chart in your 5th house, the August Full Moon speaks along the axis of the heart and the hope: personal joy and the friends and causes you belong to.
This Full Moon is also a lunar eclipse, a Full Moon close to the nodes, when the Moon passes through the Earth’s shadow, and for Aries it darkens the 11th house. NASA classes it as penumbral, greatest at 07:14 UTC with the Moon at 24°04′ Aquarius in Aries’s 11th house, a faint shading rather than a red Moon. With the Moon eclipsed in the house of the Good Spirit, the old counsel is to thank the friends who stayed.
A practice for the August Full Moon: notice which groups leave you better than they found you.
New Moon in Virgo, 31 August: your 6th house
The New Moon is exact at 17:41 UTC on Tuesday 31 August, at 8°06′ Virgo. Counted by whole signs from Aries, Virgo is your 6th house, the house of daily work, habits and health routines.
Astrologers treat the New Moon as the month’s quiet beginning; in August that beginning is made in your 6th house, the place the Hellenistic astrologers called Bad Fortune, and it is read as an intention about daily work and how much of yourself it should take. For Aries this August, Virgo makes the mood useful and discerning, ready to sort and to mend.
A practice for the August New Moon: tidy one workspace properly, so that it helps rather than distracts.
Planets changing sign or direction in August
Mercury crosses into Leo on 2 August and so into your 5th house. Until 17 August, with Mercury in the house of Good Fortune, the tradition reads a light, witty spell, good for creative work and for courtship by conversation.
Saturn turns retrograde in Aries, in your 1st house: until 24 December the planet of structure reviews rather than builds. The turn comes on 9 August, at 27°52′ Aries, and in your 1st house its review touches the body, your appearance and first impressions.
On 17 August Mercury moves into Virgo, which is your 6th house. Until 3 September, Mercury in your 6th house puts the mind to work: lists, schedules, problem-solving and the details of the job.
Venus enters Virgo on 20 August, your 6th house. Until 13 or 14 September, Venus in your 6th house softens the working day: kinder colleagues, a pleasanter routine and care for the body taken as a pleasure rather than a chore.
On 23 August at 08:14 UTC the Sun crosses into Virgo, which for Aries is the 6th house. Until 23 September, the Sun in your 6th house makes a month for routines, daily work and the maintenance of a life.
Love, work and money for Aries in August
Venus begins August in Leo, your 5th house, and enters Virgo, your 6th, on 20 August, turning affection toward the everyday care two people give each other, and the chores that can sour a home. The New Moon on 2 August falls in your 5th, the house of romance, creativity and children.
Mars stays in Libra all month, your 7th house, putting the month’s effort into business partners, clients and the contracts that bind them. The New Moon on 31 August lands in your 6th, a house the tradition gives to work and health.
For money, no lunation or fast planet changes in your 2nd house (Taurus) or your 8th (Scorpio) in August, so the tradition would put the month’s weight elsewhere and leave Aries’s budgets to ordinary prudence.
Questions to carry through August
- When did I last do something only because I enjoy it?
- What do I hope for that I have not said aloud?
- What is my tiredness trying to tell me?
More for Aries in 2027
Common questions
When is the New Moon in August 2027 for Aries?
On Monday 2 August at 10:05 UTC, at 9°54′ Leo, in your 5th house of joy, and on Tuesday 31 August at 17:41 UTC, at 8°06′ Virgo, in your 6th house of work and health, counting houses by whole signs from Aries.
Is Mercury retrograde in August 2027?
No. Mercury moves forward all through August; its next retrograde begins on 7 October in Scorpio, your 8th house.
Is there an eclipse in August 2027?
Yes: the total solar eclipse on Monday 2 August, greatest at 10:07 UTC, at 9°55′ Leo, in your 5th house, and the penumbral lunar eclipse on Tuesday 17 August, greatest at 07:14 UTC, at 24°04′ Aquarius, in your 11th house.
Free, by email
Your sign, every morning at 7
A short letter each morning, read for your own Sun sign and the day’s sky. Your birth date sets it; nothing else is asked.
