Astrology 2027: The Year's Major Transits and Key Dates

If you want the shape of 2027 before the details: it’s a year of settling into new rooms. The outer planets spent 2024–2026 changing signs. Pluto went into Aquarius, Neptune and Saturn into Aries, Uranus into Gemini. In 2027 all four stay put, so the themes those moves opened become the furniture of daily life. The one big sign change of the year belongs to Jupiter, which leaves Leo for Virgo on July 26. Around it, the sky offers two rare things together: a long, easy Jupiter–Saturn trine in fire signs, and the longest total solar eclipse of the century, on August 2.

Every date below comes from the same engine that builds this site’s birth charts, not from someone else’s poster. Times are UT, and positions are tropical (Western).

The 2027 key dates

Date (UT)	Event	Position
Jan 10	Mars turns retrograde	10°26′ Virgo
Jan 15	Uranus sextile Neptune, exact	1°56′ Gemini / Aries
Feb 6	Annular solar eclipse	17°38′ Aquarius
Feb 8	Uranus turns direct	1°41′ Gemini
Feb 9 – Mar 3	Mercury retrograde	Pisces → Aquarius
Feb 20	Penumbral lunar eclipse	2°06′ Virgo
Apr 1	Mars turns direct	20°56′ Leo
Apr 3	Jupiter trine Saturn, exact (2nd of 3)	17°08′ Leo / Aries
Apr 13	Jupiter turns direct	17°00′ Leo
Jun 6	Uranus sextile Neptune, exact	6°21′ Gemini / Aries
Jun 10 – Jul 4	Mercury retrograde	Cancer → Gemini
Jun 15	Uranus trine Pluto, exact (3rd of 5)	6°52′ Gemini / Aquarius
Jun 28	Neptune sextile Pluto, exact	6°37′ Aries / Aquarius
Jul 11	Jupiter trine Saturn, exact (3rd of 3)	27°10′ Leo / Aries
Jul 18	Penumbral lunar eclipse (barely)	25°49′ Capricorn
Jul 26	Jupiter enters Virgo	0° Virgo
Aug 2	Total solar eclipse	9°55′ Leo
Aug 9	Saturn turns retrograde	27°53′ Aries
Aug 17	Penumbral lunar eclipse	24°12′ Aquarius
Sep 10	Jupiter square Uranus, exact	9°57′ Virgo / Gemini
Oct 7 – 28	Mercury retrograde	Scorpio → Libra
Oct 16	Neptune sextile Pluto, exact	4°45′ Aries / Aquarius
Dec 24	Saturn turns direct	21°01′ Aries

The rest of the stations are in the 2027 retrograde calendar, and every new and full Moon is in the Moon calendar.

Jupiter: Leo until July 26, then Virgo

Jupiter starts the year retrograde in Leo. It turned back on December 13, 2026 at 27° Leo and backs up to 17°, where it turns direct on April 13. Then it covers that ground a third time and crosses into Virgo on July 26, staying there until August 2028. Jupiter widens whatever it touches. In Leo, the year-long theme has been visibility, creative risk and being seen. In Virgo it turns practical: skills, health routines, the quality of everyday work, the satisfaction of doing something properly. It’s a less glamorous Jupiter, and often a more useful one.

That ingress comes with its own friction. On September 10, Jupiter in early Virgo squares Uranus in early Gemini, five days before Uranus stations retrograde at almost the same degree. Uranus sits nearly still, so the square stays close for weeks. Read it as a tug between a careful plan and a sudden better idea, which is lively if you leave room to improvise.

Saturn and Neptune: Aries all year

Saturn has been in Aries since February 14, 2026 and stays until April 13, 2028, so all of 2027 belongs to it. It moves from about 11° to 28° Aries and back to 21°. Saturn in Aries asks for self-direction you can sustain, as opposed to impulse. For anyone born between 1996 and 1999 it is also the first Saturn return, and 2027 is the busy middle of it for natal Saturns in the teens and twenties of Aries.

Neptune keeps it company. It entered Aries on January 26, 2026 for a stay of roughly thirteen years, and the two met in an exact conjunction on February 21, 2026, at the very start of the zodiac. In 2027 they are pulling apart, but the shared signature holds: the dream (Neptune) and the deadline (Saturn) now share a sign, the sign of beginnings. Astrologers tend to read the pairing collectively as new ideals that have to prove they can be built.

Uranus, Pluto and the long sextiles

Uranus stays in Gemini all year, between 1° and 10°, a placement associated with fast-changing information, communication technology and restless minds. Pluto stays in early Aquarius (3°–8°), deep in its two-decade stay. What makes 2027 unusual is how cooperative the slow planets are with each other. They form three harmonious aspects:

• Uranus sextile Neptune: exact January 15 and June 6. June 6 is the last exact pass of a series that began in 2025, the first since the 1960s.
• Uranus trine Pluto: exact June 15, the third of five passes running from July 2026 to May 2028.
• Neptune sextile Pluto: exact June 28 and October 16. The two have hovered around a sextile since the 1940s, one of the longest-running aspects of the modern sky, but 2026 brought the first exact hits since 1986, and the series runs on to 2032.

These are generational backdrops, felt in culture more than in your Tuesday. They become personal only when a planet in your own chart sits around 1°–10° of a sign, in aspect to them.

The Jupiter–Saturn fire trine

The headline aspect of the year is Jupiter in Leo trine Saturn in Aries, two fire signs in easy contact. It’s the waxing trine in the 20-year cycle that began with the December 2020 “Great Conjunction”, and it comes in three passes: August 31, 2026 (13° Leo/Aries), April 3, 2027 (17°) and July 11, 2027 (27°). Jupiter expands and Saturn structures, and when they cooperate the tradition calls it a good season to make ambitious plans concrete. Plans made around the April pass and finished around the July one fit that reading well. In your own chart it’s sharpest if you have planets in the middle-to-late degrees of fire signs.

Five eclipses on the Leo–Aquarius axis

The Moon’s nodes sit in Aquarius (North) and Leo (South) all year, so 2027’s eclipses gather there:

• February 6: annular solar eclipse at 17°38′ Aquarius, a ring of fire over South America and the Atlantic.
• February 20: penumbral lunar eclipse at 2°06′ Virgo.
• July 18: a penumbral lunar eclipse so shallow most calendars call it an ordinary full Moon.
• August 2: total solar eclipse at 9°55′ Leo, with over six minutes of totality near Luxor, the longest land totality of the century.
• August 17: penumbral lunar eclipse at 24°12′ Aquarius.

Eclipses are read as reset buttons for the house they fall in. With both solar eclipses on Leo and Aquarius, 2027’s resets play out between self and group: personal expression on one side, friendships and causes on the other.

What 2027 means for your sign

Big transits play out by house, and houses come from your rising sign. As a quick guide, using whole-sign houses from your Ascendant (your Sun sign works as a rough stand-in if you don’t know it):

Rising sign	Jupiter: Leo → Virgo	Saturn + Neptune	Uranus
Aries	5th → 6th	1st	3rd
Taurus	4th → 5th	12th	2nd
Gemini	3rd → 4th	11th	1st
Cancer	2nd → 3rd	10th	12th
Leo	1st → 2nd	9th	11th
Virgo	12th → 1st	8th	10th
Libra	11th → 12th	7th	9th
Scorpio	10th → 11th	6th	8th
Sagittarius	9th → 10th	5th	7th
Capricorn	8th → 9th	4th	6th
Aquarius	7th → 8th	3rd	5th
Pisces	6th → 7th	2nd	4th

Look up what each house governs and you have the outline of your year. A Virgo rising, for example, gets Jupiter crossing the Ascendant in late July, the classic “personal fresh start” transit. A Libra rising meets Saturn and Neptune in the relationship house all year. If your chart uses Placidus houses, the boundaries can shift a little.

How to actually use this

A forecast is weather, not fate. The table tells you which seasons are windy, not what you’ll do in them. Three ways to make it personal:

1. Find your rising sign. Calculate your birth chart (it’s free, runs in your browser and needs no account) and read your row in the table above. No birth time? Here’s how to narrow it down.
2. Check for contacts. Note any planets you have at 15°–28° of fire signs (the Jupiter–Saturn trine), at 0°–10° of the mutable signs (Jupiter square Uranus), or near 10° Leo and 17° Aquarius (the solar eclipses).
3. Follow it day by day. The daily horoscope tracks each of these transits against your saved chart as they happen.

Dates computed with this site’s ephemeris. Positions are tropical. In the Vedic (sidereal) zodiac each sits about 24° earlier, which is why Vedic calendars show Jupiter entering Virgo in November 2027 and Saturn reaching Aries only in June.