Astrology 2027: The Dates That Matter and What They Set in Motion for Your Sign

2027 starts slow and ends in good order. Until July 26, every slow-moving planet sits in a fire or air sign — ♃ Jupiter in Leo, Saturn and Neptune in Aries, Uranus in Gemini, Pluto in Aquarius — and Mars spends the whole winter retrograde between Virgo and Leo. Then Jupiter enters Virgo, a total eclipse closes out Leo season, and the year changes register: less momentum, more sorting.

This page is the complete astrological calendar for 2027: exact dates in Eastern Time, the eight moments to put on your calendar, every retrograde, the eclipses, the twenty-five New and Full Moons, then a detailed reading for each of the twelve signs. We will update it as the year unfolds.

The 2027 sky in one table: where the slow planets are

Before the dates, the backdrop. The slow-moving planets rarely change signs; they are what gives a year its background color. In 2027, only one of them does: Jupiter. The others stay exactly where 2026 left them.

Two absences weigh as much as the presences. First, no slow planet occupies a water sign in 2027: Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces hold none of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune or Pluto all year. That hasn’t happened across a full calendar year since 2000. Second, Venus does not go retrograde: after its long loop through Scorpio and Libra in the fall of 2026, it moves forward without interruption until May 2028. Fire and air dominate, and nothing holds back: this is a year that moves outward.

The only sign change of the year, then, is Jupiter’s move into Virgo. It falls on July 26, almost in the middle of summer. That is what cuts 2027 in two.

2027, a year in two halves: momentum, then sorting

From January 1 to July 26, Jupiter crosses the second half of Leo. Around it, Saturn and Neptune advance through Aries, Uranus through Gemini, Pluto and the North Node through Aquarius. Everything pushes toward assertion, visibility, speaking in public. But the momentum isn’t immediate: Mars backs up from January 10 to April 1, from Virgo into Leo, and Jupiter itself only turns direct on the evening of April 12. The first quarter is for rewriting your intentions; spring is for launching them.

Two appointments give this first half its backbone: Jupiter trine Saturn, on April 3 at 17°08′ Leo and Aries, then on July 11 at 27°10′. The trine between the planet of expansion and the planet of structure is the most constructive aspect of the cycle; in fire signs, it rewards what has genuinely been started, not what has merely been announced. Between the two passes, from April 12 to May 8, no planet is retrograde — twenty-five days when everything moves in the same direction.

Then comes the hinge, in a single week. On July 26 at 12:45 am ET, Jupiter enters Virgo; the same day, at 9:31 am, Mars opposes Neptune. On August 2 at 6:05 am, the Leo New Moon is a total eclipse, at 9°55′ of the sign. Jupiter left Leo a week earlier: the eclipse closes the season behind it.

The second half is for sorting. Jupiter in Virgo asks for proof, methods, schedules that hold; its square to Uranus on September 10 pits rigor against improvisation and forces a choice about what to keep. Saturn retrograde from August 9 to December 23 rereads the commitments made in spring. Mars works down through Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius, and the fall brings a third Mercury retrograde from October 7 to 28. No more launching: you tidy, repair, consolidate. And the year’s last aspect, a Mars–Jupiter trine, lands late on December 30.

A word on how to read what follows. On ZodiacNova, we prefer to understand rather than predict: a transit date isn’t a prophecy, it is a moment when a theme rises in the conversation. The tables give exact times; the commentary says what those moments favor, not what they impose.

January–March 2027: a slow start

Nothing is urgent early in the year, and that is just as well. Jupiter has been retrograde since December 12, 2026, Mars joins it on January 10, Mercury on February 9, and Uranus doesn’t turn direct until February 8. From February 9 to March 3, Mars, Jupiter and Mercury are all retrograde at once: that is the heart of the slowdown. February’s two eclipses, in Aquarius then Virgo, open the year’s eclipse season. The equinox on March 20 gets things moving again, and Mars turns direct twelve days later.

The detail that matters: Mars retrograde isn’t Mercury retrograde. It doesn’t scramble messages, it slows action. The project moves, but by detour: you redo a move done badly, repeat a step, find the reason you started in the first place. We lay out the mechanism on our Mars retrograde page, and the full Mercury calendar in Mercury Retrograde 2027.

April–June 2027: the restart

Spring gives back everything winter held. Mars turns direct on April 1, Jupiter trines Saturn two days later, and Jupiter itself gets moving on the evening of the 12th. Then the clearest window of the year opens: from April 12 to May 8, no planet is retrograde. Pluto backs up from May 8, Mercury from June 10, but the ground stays supportive: Uranus trine Pluto on June 15 is the first of three passes of an aspect that runs until May 2028.

If you have a launch, a signing, a move or an application to schedule in 2027, the window from April 12 to May 8 is the easiest to defend. It is short. The Aries New Moon, on April 6 at 7:51 pm, comes six days before Jupiter’s direct station: that is the moment to put it into words; April 12, the moment to begin.

July–September 2027: the hinge

This is the quarter that changes the year. Jupiter trines Saturn a second time on July 11, then enters Virgo on July 26, the day Mars opposes Neptune. On August 2, the total eclipse in Leo closes the first half; on August 9, Saturn turns retrograde for the rest of the year. September settles the second half in: Jupiter square Uranus on the 10th, Uranus retrograde on the 15th. The momentum is behind you; ahead, the sorting.

Note the coincidence of September 10: Jupiter square Uranus forms at 9°57′ Virgo and Gemini, and Uranus comes to a standstill five days later at exactly that degree. An aspect that lands on a station is held longer than usual: the square colors all of September, not a single day.

October–December 2027: putting things in order

The last quarter consolidates. Mercury goes retrograde a third time from October 7 to 28, from Scorpio into Libra; Pluto turns direct on October 17; Mars, in Sagittarius then Capricorn, forms its last aspects to the slow planets. December lets go: Neptune direct on the 15th, Saturn direct on the 23rd, at 21°01′ Aries — the exact degree Mars squares the evening before. On December 30 at 11:33 pm, Mars trine Jupiter closes the year on an agreement.

October 28 sums up the fall: Mercury turns direct at 10:10 am, and Mars opposes Uranus at 2:06 pm. You get your words back in the morning, and by mid-afternoon a piece of news changes the plan. Fall 2027 isn’t slow, it is methodical: it asks you to finish one thing before opening the next.

The eight dates of 2027 to put on your calendar

If you keep only eight lines from this page, keep these. They cover the changes of direction, the sign changes and the two solar eclipses; times are Eastern.

January 10 — Mars retrograde, until April 1

Mars comes to a standstill at 10°26′ Virgo on January 10 at 8:00 am, backs into Leo on February 21 and turns direct on April 1 at 10:11 am, at 20°56′ Leo. Its shadow period is long: Mars first reaches 20°56′ Leo on November 5, 2026 and only returns to 10°26′ Virgo late on June 7, 2027. Seven months on the same ground, from method (Virgo) to motivation (Leo). This is the only Mars retrograde between February 2025 and February 2029: what gets revised here won’t be revised again soon.

February 6 — annular solar eclipse in Aquarius

At 10:59 am, the Aquarius New Moon is an annular eclipse, at 17°38′ of the sign, opposite Jupiter retrograde in Leo within five degrees. Visible from the South Pacific to Argentina, invisible from the United States. Three days later, Mercury turns retrograde: from February 9 to March 3, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter are all moving backward. This is the stretch of the year when it is most reasonable to launch nothing and reread everything.

April 3 and 12 — Jupiter trine Saturn, then Jupiter direct

On April 3 at 9:22 am, Jupiter (still retrograde) and Saturn form an exact trine at 17°08′ Leo and Aries. On April 12 at 10:13 pm, Jupiter stops at 17°00′ Leo and moves forward again. That opens the only window of the year with no planet retrograde, until May 8 at 8:14 am. The trine re-forms on July 11 at 6:45 pm, at 27°10′: what is undertaken in April finds its confirmation in July.

June 15 — Uranus trine Pluto, first pass

At 4:01 am, Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius form an exact trine at 6°52′. The aspect returns on January 13 and May 9, 2028. Two air planets, two generations of transformation: tools and information (Uranus), collective structures (Pluto). The trine is fluid; it imposes nothing, it accelerates what was already moving. The sextiles from Uranus to Neptune (January 15, June 6) and from Neptune to Pluto (June 28, October 16) complete this background of the year, discreet and supportive.

July 26 — Jupiter enters Virgo

At 12:45 am, Jupiter leaves Leo after thirteen months and enters Virgo, where it stays until August 24, 2028. The same day at 9:31 am, Mars in Libra opposes Neptune in Aries. The day has two faces: one opens a cycle of method, work and health, the other confronts a desire with an illusion. For Virgo, it is the start of a banner year; for everyone, it is the moment to move from intention to instructions.

August 2 — total solar eclipse in Leo

At 6:05 am, the Leo New Moon is a total eclipse at 9°55′ of the sign. Totality lasts up to 6 minutes 23 seconds near Luxor, Egypt — the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century visible from land. The path of totality crosses southern Spain (Cádiz, Málaga), Gibraltar, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Somalia. None of it is visible from North America; London sees 42% of the Sun covered at 10:00 am local time, Madrid 86%. The next total eclipse over the contiguous United States comes on August 23, 2044, then coast to coast on August 12, 2045. Mars and Uranus, at ten degrees of Libra and Gemini, frame the eclipse point with two sextiles: the end of a chapter is also an opening.

September 10 — Jupiter square Uranus

At 12:36 pm, Jupiter in Virgo and Uranus in Gemini form an exact square at 9°57′. Uranus comes to a standstill on September 15 at that same degree, then moves retrograde until February 12, 2028. The square between the two mutable signs pits two ways of learning against each other: method and the leap. In September 2027, neither should shut out the other; the month rewards those who change tools without changing goals.

December 23 — Saturn direct, after Neptune on the 15th

Neptune turns direct on December 15 at 4:43 am, at 3°51′ Aries; Saturn on December 23 at 9:49 pm, at 21°01′ Aries. The evening before, at 10:55 pm, Mars in Capricorn formed an exact square to that same degree: one last brake just before the restart. Saturn has only three and a half months left in Aries — it moves into Taurus on April 13, 2028. What you have built since February 2026 is judged now.

Every retrograde of 2027, and the planet that skips it

The table below gathers the year’s stations, in Eastern Time. A retrograde planet doesn’t actually move backward: seen from Earth, it appears to retrace its steps for a few weeks or months. In astrology, that phase is one of revision. We go into each case on our retrogrades hub.

Three practical consequences. From April 12 to May 8, no planet is retrograde: that is the year’s window for starting. From February 9 to March 3, three personal and social planets move backward at the same time: that is the window for finishing. And Venus does not go retrograde: the love and money stories of 2027 are spared the forced rewind that the fall of 2026 imposed on so many people — we followed it in our article on Venus retrograde in Scorpio.

The eclipses of 2027: the Aquarius–Leo axis

Three of the four eclipses of 2027 fall on the axis of the lunar nodes, Aquarius–Leo; the fourth, February’s lunar eclipse, falls in Virgo. In astrology, an eclipse accelerates the theme of the house it lands in; the two solar eclipses, in February and August, matter most. To find out which house is involved for you, read your sign below, then your rising sign.

The Full Moon of July 18, at 25°49′ Capricorn, grazes Earth’s penumbra for thirteen minutes: astronomical tables count it as a penumbral eclipse, astrological calendars ignore it, and so do we. The two eclipses that count are February 6 and August 2. The first opposes Jupiter retrograde; the second receives sextiles from Mars and Uranus. For the mechanics of the axis, see the North Node, the South Node and the lunar nodes cycle.

New Moon and Full Moon calendar for 2027 (Eastern Time)

A New Moon opens a four-week cycle on the theme of its sign; the Full Moon, two weeks later, shows the result. The two solar eclipses are marked ✦. The degrees are for those who read their birth chart: a lunation within two degrees of one of your planets weighs more than the others.

Two lunations deserve a spot on the calendar beyond the eclipses: the Aries New Moon of April 6, six days before Jupiter’s direct station, and the Virgo New Moon of August 31, the first in the sign since Jupiter arrived — the right moment to write the instructions for the second half of the year.

Astrology 2027 sign by sign

The readings below use solar houses: your sign sits in the 1st house, and we look at which houses Leo, Virgo, Aries, Gemini and Aquarius fall in — the signs where 2027 plays out. The method is simple and reliable, but approximate: if you know your rising sign, read that sign’s text too; it is often more precise. For each sign, you’ll find the houses touched by Jupiter before and after July 26, by Saturn, by the eclipses and by Mars retrograde, then the useful reflex for the year.

Frequently asked questions about astrology in 2027

Going further

This page will be updated at each milestone of the year: stations, sign changes, eclipses. Until then, you can dig into the transits that structure 2027 — the Jupiter transit, the Saturn transit and, if you are between 28 and 30 or between 57 and 60, the Saturn return — follow the full calendar of Mercury Retrograde 2027, and above all calculate your birth chart to read these dates where they really play out: in your houses, not only in those of your sign. 2027 is neither a good year nor a bad one; it is a year that gives first, and counts afterward.