Eclipses 2027

Greatest eclipse at 6 February 2027, 16:00 UTC, with the Sun and Moon at 17°38′ Aquarius. This is also the Aquarius new moon. At the central point 86% of the Sun's disc is covered. The computed point of greatest eclipse is 31.3°S, 48.5°W.

The Moon stands exactly in front of the Sun and is too small to cover it, so the Sun is not erased but outlined — a ring of fire around a dark centre. Aquarius is the water-bearer, the vessel that pours knowledge out for others; an annular eclipse in this sign draws the vessel's outline and hides its middle. The tradition reads the ring as a boundary made visible: for a few minutes you can see the exact edge of what you thought was the light. The new moon here is the seed of the year's first eclipse season. Plant something you are willing to see the edges of.

Greatest eclipse at 20 February 2027, 23:13 UTC, with the Moon at 1°59′ Virgo and the Sun opposite in Pisces. This is also the Virgo full moon. The penumbral phase lasts about 242 minutes.

The faintest possible eclipse, in the sign of the finest discrimination. The Moon slides through the Earth's outer shadow and dims by a degree most eyes never register; Virgo is the sign that registers exactly that kind of degree. The tradition would say the year's first lunar eclipse is a test of attention rather than of courage — can you notice a shading this subtle in your own life, the small loss of light in something you use every day? The Sun stands in Pisces opposite, so what is shaded is the practical thing, and what is lighting it is the dissolving thing.

Greatest eclipse at 18 July 2027, 16:03 UTC, with the Moon at 25°58′ Capricorn and the Sun opposite in Cancer. This is also the Capricorn full moon. The penumbral phase lasts about 25 minutes.

A light shading at the goat's late degrees, with the Sun in Cancer — the home — shining across at the structure. Capricorn is what you built to hold yourself up; a penumbral eclipse here is that structure seen with a faint shadow along one edge, not cracked, not falling, just shown to have a side you do not usually look at. The tradition reads this as the mid-year audit that is not yet Saturn's: quiet, exact, ignorable if you insist. Do not insist.

Greatest eclipse at 2 August 2027, 10:07 UTC, with the Sun and Moon at 9°55′ Leo. This is also the Leo new moon. At the central point 100% of the Sun's disc is covered. The computed point of greatest eclipse is 25.5°N, 33.2°E.

The Sun is Leo's own ruler, and here it is covered completely in its own sign — the corona visible, the day gone dark at noon along the central line. The tradition reads a total solar eclipse as the ego's light withheld so the light behind it can be seen: for the length of totality the source is hidden and what remains is the halo, the thing that was always there and never visible against the glare. Leo is the heart, the stage, the sovereign self. To have that covered is not a punishment. It is the one moment in the year you can see what shines when the performance stops.

Greatest eclipse at 17 August 2027, 07:14 UTC, with the Moon at 24°04′ Aquarius and the Sun opposite in Leo. This is also the Aquarius full moon. The penumbral phase lasts about 220 minutes.

The second Aquarius eclipse of the year closes what the first opened: the ring of February becomes the shade of August. Now it is the Moon in the water-bearer's sign, dimmed lightly while the Sun in Leo faces it — the heart lighting the vessel and the Earth's edge falling across it. The tradition reads the pairing plainly. In winter you were shown the outline of what you give; in summer you are shown, faintly, where the giving has thinned. It is the last eclipse of the year, and it asks only to be noticed.