Taurus horoscope for August 2027
The heart of August 2027 for Taurus is the total solar eclipse in Leo (your 4th house) on 2 August. The penumbral lunar eclipse in Aquarius (across your 10th house) on 17 August and Saturn turning retrograde in your 12th house on 9 August complete the month’s picture.
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August 2027 for Taurus at a glance
In August the lunations land as the New Moon in Leo (your 4th house) on 2 August, the Full Moon in Aquarius (your 10th house) on 17 August and the New Moon in Virgo (your 5th house) on 31 August. Among the planets, Mercury enters your 4th on 2 August, Saturn turns retrograde in your 12th on 9 August and Mercury enters your 5th on 17 August. In the background, Jupiter holds Virgo, your 5th house, all month, and Saturn stays in Aries, your 12th.
| Date | Event | Where | Your house |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 2 Aug10:05 UTC | New Moon, total solar eclipse | 9°54′ Leo | 4th |
| Mon 2 Aug10:07 UTC | Total solar eclipse, greatest | 9°55′ Leo | 4th |
| Mon 2 Aug | Mercury enters Leo | Leo | 4th |
| Mon 9 Aug | Saturn stations retrograde | 27°52′ Aries | 12th |
| Tue 17 Aug | Mercury enters Virgo | Virgo | 5th |
| Tue 17 Aug07:14 UTC | Penumbral lunar eclipse, greatest | 24°04′ Aquarius | 10th |
| Tue 17 Aug07:29 UTC | Full Moon, penumbral lunar eclipse | 24°11′ Aquarius | 10th |
| Fri 20 Aug | Venus enters Virgo | Virgo | 5th |
| Mon 23 Aug08:14 UTC | Sun enters Virgo | Virgo | 5th |
| Tue 31 Aug17:41 UTC | New Moon | 8°06′ Virgo | 5th |
Houses are counted by whole signs from your Sun sign (Taurus is your 1st, Gemini your 2nd, and so on). Times are UTC; every date comes from the Almanac’s own ephemeris, none from a calendar typed by hand.
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New Moon in Leo, 2 August: your 4th house, total solar eclipse
On Monday 2 August the Moon and the Sun meet at 9°54′ Leo, at 10:05 UTC; for Taurus that degree lies in the 4th house, the house of home, family and roots.
Astrology reads the New Moon as the time to start small and mean it, and in August the small start belongs to your 4th house, the Subterranean: a fresh start with a parent or with the memory of one. For Taurus this August, Leo makes the mood generous and proud, ready to lead and to play.
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 Taurus that happens in the 4th house. NASA classes it as total; for Taurus 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 at the foot of the chart is read as a turning in home and family: a move, a change in a household, or a new chapter with a parent. Read the total solar eclipse for Taurus in full.
A practice for the August New Moon: ask a parent, or someone who knew your family, one question you have never asked.
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See the year on your own RoadFull Moon in Aquarius, 17 August: your 10th 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 Taurus the Moon lights your 10th house, the house of career and reputation, while the Sun stands across in your 4th.
The tradition reads a Full Moon as a culmination, and the August Full Moon brings it to your 10th house, the Midheaven in the old books, where it shows the balance between public duty and private life, tilted one way for too long. Set in your 10th house, the August lunation takes its tone from its sign: Aquarius makes the mood cool and forward-looking, concerned with the group and the future. With the Sun across the chart in your 4th house, the August Full Moon speaks along the axis of home and career: the private root and the public branch of a life.
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 Taurus it darkens the 10th house. NASA classes it as penumbral, greatest at 07:14 UTC with the Moon at 24°04′ Aquarius in Taurus’s 10th house, a faint shading rather than a red Moon. With the Moon eclipsed on the Midheaven, the old counsel is to let a chapter of work close well before you open the next.
One way for Taurus to meet it in August: take one visible action that matches the reputation you want to earn.
New Moon in Virgo, 31 August: your 5th house
Tuesday 31 August brings the New Moon at 8°06′ Virgo, exact at 17:41 UTC, and for Taurus it falls in the 5th house, the house of romance, creativity and children.
A New Moon is read as an opening rather than an event, so the August lunation is less a happening than an invitation in your 5th house, Good Fortune: an intention about play, art or love that you would be shy to say out loud. In your 5th house this August, Virgo, mutable earth ruled by Mercury, gives it a careful and practical manner, fond of detail.
A practice for the August New Moon: return to a hobby you dropped because it did not earn anything.
Planets changing sign or direction in August
On 2 August Mercury moves into Leo, which is your 4th house. Until 17 August, with Mercury at the root of your chart, the tradition reads a spell for talking things through at home and for planning a move or a repair.
Saturn turns retrograde in Aries, in your 12th 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 12th house its review touches rest and retreat, solitude, and hidden patterns.
Mercury enters Virgo on 17 August, your 5th house. Until 3 September, Mercury in your 5th house makes play of the mind: flirtation, games, creative writing and talk with children.
Venus enters Virgo on 20 August, your 5th house. Until 13 or 14 September, Venus in your 5th house is in her joy, the house of Good Fortune: the tradition reads one of the year’s best spells for romance, art and delight.
On 23 August at 08:14 UTC the Sun crosses into Virgo, which for Taurus is the 5th house. Until 23 September, the Sun in your 5th house, the old books’ Good Fortune, makes a month for romance, creativity and play.
Love, work and money for Taurus in August
Venus begins August in Leo, your 4th house, and enters Virgo, your 5th, on 20 August, turning affection toward romance, dating, courtship and the play that keeps love from going stale. The New Moon on 31 August falls in your 5th, the house of romance, creativity and children.
Mars stays in Libra all month, your 6th house, putting the month’s effort into the daily job, colleagues, workload and routine, most directly of all the houses. The Full Moon on 17 August lands in your 10th, a house the tradition gives to career.
For money, no lunation or fast planet changes in your 2nd house (Gemini) or your 8th (Sagittarius) in August, so the tradition would put the month’s weight elsewhere and leave Taurus’s budgets to ordinary prudence.
Questions to carry through August
- Who is family to me now?
- What am I building in public?
- When did I last do something only because I enjoy it?
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Common questions
When is the New Moon in August 2027 for Taurus?
On Monday 2 August at 10:05 UTC, at 9°54′ Leo, in your 4th house of home, and on Tuesday 31 August at 17:41 UTC, at 8°06′ Virgo, in your 5th house of joy, counting houses by whole signs from Taurus.
Is Mercury retrograde in August 2027?
No. Mercury moves forward all through August; its next retrograde begins on 7 October in Scorpio, your 7th 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 4th house, and the penumbral lunar eclipse on Tuesday 17 August, greatest at 07:14 UTC, at 24°04′ Aquarius, in your 10th house.
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