Your three dates of 2027: how they are calculated and chosen

What a passage is, and why it has a date

The slow planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, keep moving through the zodiac while your chart stays still: it holds the position of the sky at your birth. When one of them reaches a precise angle to a point of your chart, it is called a transit. The site keeps four angles here: the conjunction (the planet passes over the point), the opposition (it faces it), the square (a quarter of the circle) and the trine (a third of the circle).

A transit is felt for weeks, sometimes months. But there is a moment when the angle is exact, to the degree: that is the date the site calculates and shows. It does not say that an event will happen on that day; it marks the heart of a period, the moment when its climate is clearest.

The points of your chart the site looks at

Six points count here, the ones that describe you most directly: the Sun (your direction), the Moon (your inner life), the Ascendant (your way of meeting the world), the Midheaven (your vocation), Venus (your bonds and tastes) and Mars (your drive). A passage of Saturn over your Sun is noticed far more than a passage over a planet further from your daily life.

• With your birth time: all six points are read, Ascendant and Midheaven included.
• Without a birth time: the site reads the Sun, Venus and Mars only. The Ascendant and the Midheaven depend on the time, and the Moon travels about thirteen degrees a day: the date of a passage over it would be wrong by several months.
• Still without a time: the site gives the month rather than the day, because the Sun, Venus and Mars also move by a fraction of a degree during the day.

If you do not know your birth time, the page on finding your exact birth time says where to look: your three dates then gain the Ascendant, the Midheaven and the Moon.

How the three dates are chosen

A year often holds between five and twelve exact passages over these points. To keep only three, the site gives each one a weight, made of three simple criteria that it adds up.

The three passages kept concern three different points: never two dates on the same subject, so that the preview covers three areas of your year. At equal weight, the earliest passage in the year comes first. The three dates are then shown in calendar order.

• The planet: the slower it is, the rarer its passage in a lifetime. Pluto weighs the most, then Neptune and Uranus, then Saturn, then Jupiter, which comes back every twelve years.
• The point touched: the Sun, the Moon and the Ascendant first, then the Midheaven, then Venus and Mars.
• The angle: the conjunction first, the most direct; the opposition and the square next; the trine, more fluid, after them.

When a planet passes several times

Seen from Earth, a slow planet moves forward, goes back for a few months (it is then called retrograde), and moves forward again. It can therefore form the same exact angle to the same point two or three times in the year. In that case, the date shown is that of the first pass, and a line says so: “First of 3 passes in 2027”, followed by the dates of the next ones.

These repeated passes tell one story in several stages: the first sets the subject, the second makes you revisit it, the last one concludes it. The transit page, linked from each date, describes how it unfolds.

Where the sentence under each date comes from

Under each date, the sentence that gives its meaning is taken from the page the site devotes to that precise transit, for example Saturn conjunct Venus. These pages describe a climate, questions and levers; never a dated event. The “Read this transit” link opens the whole page: how long it lasts, what it asks of you, how to use it.

A passage whose page is not written yet is not kept: the site prefers to show a slightly weaker passage, with a text written for it, rather than a one-size-fits-all sentence. To follow your transits week after week, the My transits page takes over.

From three dates to the whole year

Three dates do not make a year. Your 2027 is the full reading: a tailored reading, a PDF of 20 to 25 pages written from your chart, covering all the major cycles of the year, the eclipses in your houses, the month by month and the topics you choose. It relies on the same calculations as your three dates: you will find the same passages there, on the same dates.

The button under your three dates leads to it. With an account, this reading costs €6.99; it is included in My Birth Chart+, €9.99 paid once, no subscription. It needs your exact birth time. The same preview also appears on the Your 2027 page, when your chart is saved on your device.