Solar & Lunar Eclipse Calendar 2026-2028
The classical texts treat eclipses as the most significant events in the sky. Track every upcoming solar and lunar eclipse with its exact IST time, its classical reading, and the 12 days the tradition counts inauspicious for beginnings.
Annular Solar Eclipse (Capricorn)
An annular solar eclipse in Capricorn, Saturn's earth sign.
🌑 Total Solar Eclipse
In the tradition: The Sun is eclipsed at 26° Leo, its own sign. The tradition reads a solar eclipse as darkening the Sun's significations - gold, government and leadership - and gives an eclipse in the Sun's own sign extra weight.
Inauspicious for beginnings: Aug 6 – Aug 18, 2026
🌕 Partial Lunar Eclipse
In the tradition: The Moon is eclipsed in Aquarius, Saturn's air sign, 16 days after the August solar eclipse. The tradition reads a lunar eclipse as darkening the Moon's significations - silver, dairy, water and public mood.
Inauspicious for beginnings: Aug 22 – Sep 3, 2026
🌑 Annular Solar Eclipse
In the tradition: An annular solar eclipse in Capricorn, Saturn's earth sign. The tradition reads the Sun's significations darkened in a sign linked with structure, land and industry - crude oil, infrastructure and real estate.
Inauspicious for beginnings: Feb 1 – Feb 12, 2027
🌕 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
In the tradition: A penumbral lunar eclipse in Leo, near the degrees of the August 2026 solar eclipse. The tradition treats an eclipse degree as a sensitive point that later eclipses and transits re-activate.
Inauspicious for beginnings: Feb 15 – Feb 27, 2027
🌕 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
In the tradition: A penumbral lunar eclipse in Cancer, the Moon's own sign, two weeks before the August 2027 total solar eclipse. The tradition reads the Moon's significations - silver, dairy, food and public mood - as most sensitive in its own sign.
Inauspicious for beginnings: Jul 12 – Jul 24, 2027
🌑 Total Solar Eclipse
In the tradition: A total solar eclipse on the Cancer-Leo cusp, partly visible from India. The tradition reads both luminaries' significations as touched - the Sun's gold and leadership, the Moon's silver and public mood - and gives extra weight to an eclipse visible where it is read.
Inauspicious for beginnings: Jul 27 – Aug 8, 2027
🌑 Annular Solar Eclipse
In the tradition: A second solar eclipse in Capricorn within a year, near the degrees of the February 2027 eclipse. The tradition reads repeated eclipses in one sign as emphasis on that sign's themes of structure, land and industry.
Inauspicious for beginnings: Jan 20 – Feb 1, 2028
🌑 Total Solar Eclipse
In the tradition: A total solar eclipse in Cancer, the Moon's sign, visible from Australia and New Zealand. The tradition reads the Sun's significations darkened in a sign linked with home, food, water and silver.
Inauspicious for beginnings: Jul 16 – Jul 28, 2028
Why the tradition gives eclipses so much weight
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, casting a shadow on Earth. A lunar eclipse occurs when Earth passes between the Sun and Moon. Vedic astrology reads an eclipse as Rahu or Ketu, the lunar nodes, swallowing the light of the luminary - a disturbance in that luminary's significations.
A solar eclipse is read as darkening the Sun's significations: gold, government, leadership and authority. A lunar eclipse does the same for the Moon's: silver, dairy, water, food and public mood. The tradition counts the 12 days around an eclipse (6 before, 6 after) inauspicious for beginnings - weddings, openings, signings. These are associations from the texts, not forecasts.
Eclipse degrees
The tradition treats the zodiac degree where an eclipse falls as a sensitive point, and reads a later transit across it - within 18-24 months - as touching the same significations again.
How to use this tracker
For each upcoming eclipse: (1) note the 12-day window the tradition treats as inauspicious for beginnings in the affected commodities and sectors; (2) check our Planetary Transit Calendar for transits that activate the eclipse degree in the following months; (3) for a personal reading on how an upcoming eclipse aspects your birth chart, talk to a Vedic financial astrologer.