Astrology calendar

How to read the calendar

Each day of the month shows its date, the sign the Moon is in at noon, and an icon for each event. A planet changing sign or turning is its glyph in its own color, with ℞ when it turns retrograde and D when it turns direct. A full moon is a filled circle, a new moon an open one, and an eclipse a shadowed one. Select a day to jump to its events and their exact times. The chips above the month choose what to show; the Moon's own sign changes are off until you turn them on, since there are two or three a week.

Choose any month of 2026 or 2027 from the month menu, or use This month to return to the current month. The event list and downloads follow your time zone and filters. The year-by-year reference tables below stay in UTC. On narrow screens or with enlarged text, the month grid scrolls horizontally; the full event list follows it.

What the calendar lists

• Sign changes. The Sun's start each zodiac season. Mercury, Venus and Mars change sign every few weeks or months, Jupiter about once a year and Saturn every two and a half years. Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Chiron take years. A planet can re-enter the sign it has just left while retrograde, marked "(retrograde)".
• Retrogrades. The moment a planet appears to stop and turn backward (retrograde) or forward again (direct). Mercury does it three or four times a year; every planet from Mercury to Pluto is here. The planets in retrograde page has each loop with its shadow.
• New and full moons, with the traditional name of each full moon, supermoons and Blue Moons. The full moon calendar and new moon calendar have more on each.
• Eclipses, which fall only at a new or full moon. The eclipses page shows what each one looks like from your town. For the hours when the Moon is void of course, see the void of course Moon.
• The Moon's sign, for every day, and the exact time of each change when Moon signs are turned on. The Moon sign today page follows it hour by hour.

2027 at a glance

Mars turns retrograde in Virgo on January 10, backs into Leo on February 21 and turns direct there on April 1. Mercury is retrograde three times: from February 9 to March 3, backing out of Pisces into Aquarius; from June 10 to July 4, from Cancer into Gemini; and from October 7 to 28, from Scorpio into Libra. Chiron, which slipped back into Aries in September 2026, re-enters Taurus on April 14. Jupiter, in Leo since June 30, 2026, moves into Virgo on July 26. Saturn and Neptune spend the whole year in Aries, Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius; Saturn is retrograde from August 9 to December 23.

The year's eclipses begin with an annular solar eclipse on February 6, the day of Chinese New Year, and include the total solar eclipse of August 2, whose path of totality crosses Spain, North Africa and Arabia. The lunar eclipses of February 20, July 18 and August 17 are all penumbral, the faintest kind. Dates in this section are in US Eastern time; the calendar above gives your own.

Your own chart

These are the sky's events for everyone. What they mean for you depends on where they fall in your birth chart: the transit chart puts today's planets, or those of any date, around your own chart and lists the transits that are exact.