Astrology 2027: where the major transits land in your chart

Six movements shape the year: a Mars retrograde in winter, a change of sign for Jupiter in summer, Saturn moving forward then back through Aries, three outer planets continuing a stay begun in 2026, and two solar eclipses on the Aquarius–Leo axis. Mercury goes retrograde three times, Venus not once.

Mercury’s three retrogrades (9 February → 3 March, 10 June → 4 July, 7 → 28 October) have their own article, with dates and shadow periods. New and full moons are in the 2026–2027 lunar calendar. Here we deal with what lasts: the slow-planet transits, the Mars retrograde, the eclipses, and above all how to relate them to your own chart.

Mars stations on 10 January at 12:59, at 10° 26′ Virgo, backs into Leo on 21 February and turns direct on 1 April at 15:08, at 20° 56′ Leo. It is the only Mars retrograde of 2027, and the last before 2029. Between those dates, on 19 February, Mars is opposite the Sun, and the next day at its closest to Earth: it shines all night, brighter than at any other time of the year.

Twelve weeks of retrograde motion, but the zone involved is occupied for much longer. Mars reaches 20° 56′ Leo on 5 November 2026, gets to 10° 26′ Virgo on 10 January, returns to 20° 56′ Leo on 1 April, then passes 10° 26′ Virgo again on 8 June. Anyone with a natal point between those two degrees sees Mars cross it three times in seven months. That is the first thing to check, before any comment about the sign.

Where it lands for you

By conjunction, Mars retrograde touches any natal point between 20° 56′ Leo and 10° 26′ Virgo. For the Sun, that means people born between 13 August and 3 September, whatever the year. By opposition, the same degrees of Aquarius and Pisces (born 9 February – 1 March); by square, Taurus and Gemini (11 May – 1 June), Scorpio and Sagittarius (12 November – 3 December). The natal house that holds late Leo and early Virgo tells you the area of life concerned.

Saturn starts 2027 at 8° 20′ Aries and ends it at 21° 04′. In between it climbs to 27° 53′, where it stations on 9 August at 19:05, then moves back until 02:47 on 24 December, at 21° 01′. It entered Aries on 14 February 2026 and will leave for Taurus on 13 April 2028: 2027 is the core year of the stay.

Two rhythms follow each other. From January to early May, Saturn covers degrees 8 to 21 of Aries in a single pass, without coming back. From 4 May it enters the zone it will visit three times, from 21° 01′ to 27° 53′: moving forward until 9 August, retrograde until 24 December, then forward again until 27 March 2028. A natal point in that zone lives an eleven-month Saturn transit; a point between 8° and 21° gets a shorter pass, but a Saturn pass is still a Saturn pass.

Where it lands for you

A natal Sun between 8° and 28° Aries, that is a birth between 28 March and 18 April, receives Saturn by conjunction during the year. A birth between 1 and 22 October receives it by opposition, a birth between 29 June and 21 July or between 29 December and 19 January by square. For everyone else, Saturn crosses one natal house all year long, and that is the house to look at: Saturn transits by house are covered in the course.

Jupiter has been in Leo since 30 June 2026 and retrograde since 13 December, at 27° 01′. It turns direct on 13 April 2027 at 17° 00′ Leo, is back at 27° on 11 July, then enters Virgo on 26 July at 05:49. It ends the year there at 27° 16′ and stays until 24 August 2028.

Degrees 17 to 27 of Leo are therefore crossed three times, from September 2026 to July 2027. The same mechanism repeats on the other side: Jupiter will station on 12 January 2028 at 27° 31′ Virgo and move back to 17° 32′, making degrees 17 to 27 of Virgo a triple-pass zone between October 2027 and August 2028. Degrees 0 to 17 of Virgo, covered from late July to mid-October 2027, are visited only once.

Where it lands for you

Jupiter in Leo concerns by conjunction births from 9 to 21 August; Jupiter in Virgo, births from 22 August to 21 September. By opposition, births from 5 to 17 February and from 18 February to 18 March respectively. Jupiter is fast: a single contact lasts two to three weeks, a triple contact stretches over nearly ten months. The two natal houses crossed, the one holding late Leo and the one holding Virgo, each receive a year of its attention.

The three outer planets are not the headline in 2027: they were between 2024 and 2026, when all three changed sign. Uranus has been in Gemini since 26 April 2026, Neptune in Aries since 26 January 2026, Pluto in Aquarius since 19 November 2024. In 2027 they move on by three to eight degrees, and that is precisely what makes them powerful for anyone with a natal point in their path: their transits last twelve to eighteen months, almost always in three passes.

Among themselves, the three get along. Uranus and Pluto form an exact trine on 15 June, at 6° 52′ Gemini and Aquarius: two air signs, technical novelty and collective transformation pulling the same way. Uranus and Neptune are in exact sextile on 15 January and 6 June, Neptune and Pluto on 29 June and 16 October. These are background harmonies, read on the scale of a generation rather than a year; they take on a personal meaning when one of the three touches your chart.

Where it lands for you

Uranus by conjunction for births from 22 May to 1 June, Neptune from 21 to 28 March, Pluto from 24 to 28 January. By opposition, Uranus targets births from 23 November to 2 December, Neptune from 24 to 30 September, Pluto from 27 to 31 July. The squares are in the map below. Beyond the Sun, the same reasoning applies to the Moon, the Ascendant and every planet: you then need the calculated chart. Meanings by planet are in the courses on Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

On 6 February at 15:59, the Aquarius new moon is an annular eclipse, at 17° 38′ of the sign, visible from South America and West Africa, not from Europe. On 2 August at 11:06, the Leo new moon is a total eclipse at 9° 55′: one of the longest of the century, a little over six minutes of darkness in broad daylight at its maximum, in Egypt. Its path of totality crosses the far south of Andalusia, in the provinces of Cádiz and Málaga, then Gibraltar, Tangier, North Africa, Libya and Egypt.

The two eclipses answer each other on the Aquarius–Leo axis, where the lunar nodes travel in 2027 (from 22° 51′ to 3° 34′ Aquarius for the mean node). The 2 August eclipse falls in the same part of the zodiac as the total eclipse of 12 August 2026, ten degrees lower in the sign: people with planets in the first half of Leo or Aquarius have already begun the chapter. The year’s three lunar eclipses, on 20 February at 2° Virgo, 18 July at 26° Capricorn and 17 August at 24° Aquarius, are penumbral: mark them in the calendar, without giving them the weight of a total eclipse.

Where it lands for you

With a three-degree orb, the 6 February eclipse concerns by conjunction births from 3 to 10 February, by opposition births from 6 to 14 August, by square births from 4 to 12 May and from 6 to 13 November. The 2 August eclipse concerns by conjunction births from 29 July to 6 August, by opposition births from 26 January to 2 February, by square births from 26 April to 4 May and from 29 October to 6 November. The eclipse point stays sensitive for several months: Mars reactivates the 2 August point by square, from Scorpio, on 17 September 2027.

Everything above fits into one table. For each transit, the “Degrees swept” column gives the stretch of zodiac covered in 2027 and, where there is one, the zone crossed three times. The last two columns translate those degrees into birth dates, for the Sun: the one point of the chart everyone knows without a calculation.

The date windows are calculated over the years 1950 to 2010 and hold to within a day for any year of birth. A date inside a window means that the natal Sun lies on the transit’s path during 2027; the exact date of contact depends on the precise degree, which any chart software will give you. For the other points of your chart, the Moon, the Ascendant, the planets, read the degrees column with your positions to hand.

The method comes down to four verbs: list, overlay, locate, rank. Twenty minutes with your chart in front of you, and you know which transits of 2027 concern you, on which dates and in what order of importance.

1. List your degrees

Note the position of your twelve points: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Ascendant and Midheaven, in degree and minute of sign. A calculated birth chart gives you all of them. Without a birth time, the Ascendant, the Midheaven and the houses are missing: the article on the birth chart without a birth time explains what remains readable.

2. Overlay the map

For each line of the sensitive-degree map, a natal point is touched if it lies within 3° of a swept degree (conjunction), within 3° of the same degree in the opposite sign (opposition), or in one of the two signs at 90° (square). Trines and sextiles count with a 2° orb: they support more than they trigger events. For Mars, bring everything down to 1°.

3. Locate the natal house

Find which house of your chart holds the degrees swept. The cusps of your chart divide the zodiac into twelve areas; a slow transit colours the one it crosses for its whole stay, whether or not it forms an exact aspect. Saturn in the 2nd house throughout 2027 speaks of money and resources, in the 7th of partnership and contracts, in the 10th of career. The course on the twelve houses covers each one.

4. Rank with the three-pass rule

You now have a list, sometimes a long one. Three criteria sort it, in this order. Speed: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto come before Jupiter, which comes before Mars and the eclipses. Target: a contact to the Sun, the Moon, the Ascendant or the Midheaven comes before a contact to another planet; a conjunction or an opposition comes before a square, which comes before a trine. Number of passes: a transit that crosses the same degree three times, thanks to retrogradation, comes before a single pass. Keep the top two or three: they are the transits of your year. The rest are footnotes.

The chart is mine, the one I published for the dominant planet method: 1 November 1971, 10:15, Troyes (France). Ascendant 8° 07′ Sagittarius, Midheaven 3° 05′ Libra, Placidus houses. I ran it through the sensitive-degree map, then through the three-pass rule. The result is the list below, in the order in which I keep it.

What the list teaches me first is what is not on it. My Sun is at 8° 17′ Scorpio: no slow transit touches it exactly in 2027. Pluto comes within a degree of the square in May, the 2 August eclipse squares it within a degree and a half, but the real appointment, Pluto square the Sun, waits until March 2028. A hurried reader looking at my Sun sign would conclude that 2027 is a quiet year. The map says the opposite: Uranus on the Descendant all year, Saturn on the Moon in spring.

Next, the order. Retrograde Mars opposes my natal Mars three times, from November 2026 to May 2027, and yet it is fifth on the list: speed comes first. Conversely, Saturn touches my Moon only once, on 1 April, and it is second: a slow planet on a luminary, in an angular house, weighs more than a repeated fast transit. That is what the rule is for: not being impressed by the number of lines.

What I do with it, finally. I predict nothing. I note that the year is about the other, partnerships and contracts (Uranus in the 7th house), and about foundations and security (Saturn in the 4th, on the Moon), and that these two themes cross in April and July. I reread the two relevant courses, I write down my dates, and I let the year take care of the rest. That is exactly the use I recommend to everyone: a calendar of attention, kept with rigour, read with modesty.