Search interest in USA astrology for 2027 and 2028 tends to arrive as a question about predictions. This page is built as the layer underneath that question: a research note that maps the 2027-2028 slow-transit calendar onto the United States national chart house by house, dates every ingress, station and eclipse in the window, and states what the framework does and does not claim. The dated, falsifiable US calls that sit on top of this calendar live on their own pages and on the public tracker; this is the shared chart-side input they all draw from, the country-level companion to the global mundane astrology 2028 calendar.
The chart: Sibly 1776, Scorpio lagna
Every Tempora read of the United States uses one chart, the Sibly chart for the Declaration of Independence: 4 July 1776, 17:10 local mean time, Philadelphia. It is the founding moment most consistently used in mundane work, and holding one chart across every US page keeps the house attributions comparable from article to article.
Computed sidereally under the True Pushya Paksha ayanamsa, the chart resolves to Scorpio rising at 22.77 degrees in Jyeshtha nakshatra. The same chart is often cited as Sagittarius rising in tropical frameworks; under Tempora's sidereal computation it is Scorpio, and all house counts below are Whole Sign from that lagna. The natal skeleton that matters for 2027-2028: a four-planet cluster in sidereal Gemini in the 8th house (Sun 23.73, Jupiter 16.34, Venus 13.51, Mars 1.79), Mercury 4.61 and Rahu 18.00 in Cancer in the 9th, Moon 7.58 in Aquarius in the 4th and Saturn 25.22 in Virgo in the 11th. The chart calibrates at n equals 8 events in Tempora's corpus, a small sample the framework names rather than hides.
The Saturn-Aries window on the US houses
The structural anchor of the two years is Saturn's move from Pisces to Aries. The dated sequence, computed from Swiss Ephemeris: Saturn enters sidereal Aries on 23 May 2027, stations retrograde on 10 August 2027, retreats into Pisces on 4 November 2027, stations direct on 24 December 2027 and makes its settled entry into Aries on 11 February 2028. It stations retrograde again on 23 August 2028 and holds Aries through the end of the window, first leaving for Taurus on 21 July 2029. The full station-by-station walk is on the Saturn transit 2027 dates page.
From the Scorpio lagna, Aries is the 6th house: labour, debt, service, employment and disputes. Saturn is debilitated in Aries by classical convention, and the chart's depositor logic gives no clean cancellation here, since the US natal Mars sits in Gemini. So the chart-side reading for mid-2027 through 2028 is a slow structural pressure on the US employment register, debt cycles and dispute volume, with the November 2027 to February 2028 retreat splitting the transit into a first touch and a settled phase. That is a house attribution, not an event forecast. The dated calls that convert it into testable windows are the US recession 2027-2028 call, which carries explicit test conditions on NBER declaration, unemployment and drawdown, and the US real estate 2027-2028 call on the housing axis, each with its reconciliation condition on the tracker.
The limitation belongs in the same breath: Saturn in Aries is a condition shared by every chart on Earth for those months. What distinguishes a country read is where the transit falls on the national chart and what it contacts there, and even then the base rate matters. Recessions, labour disputes and debt stress occur in many years without this transit; the framework claims a shift in conditional weight, not a mechanism that produces events on its own.
Jupiter's path 2027-2028: the 9th, 10th and 11th houses
Jupiter spends the two years walking three signs that map to three US houses. The dated sequence: Jupiter retrogrades from Leo back into Cancer on 3 February 2027, stations direct on 13 April 2027, re-enters Leo on 19 June 2027 and moves into Virgo on 18 November 2027. In 2028 it stations retrograde on 12 January, retreats into Leo on 9 March, stations direct on 14 May, re-enters Virgo on 17 July and finally crosses into Libra on 18 December 2028.
On the Sibly chart that path reads: Cancer is the 9th house of foreign relations and law, where the natal Mercury and Rahu sit; Leo is the 10th house of government, the executive and public standing; Virgo is the 11th house of gains, allies and the legislature, and it holds the US natal Saturn at Virgo 25.22. Jupiter's first Virgo leg from November 2027 therefore begins a slow approach to the natal Saturn degree, and the approach is still running through the November 2028 election window, the closest chart-side aspect of that period. Two limitations attach. Jupiter is debilitated in Virgo, so the benefic is operating from its weakest sign through both Virgo legs. And a Jupiter house transit lasts around a year per sign for every chart; the 9th-10th-11th sequence describes where the benefic emphasis sits on this chart, not a promise of foreign-policy wins, executive success or legislative gains in those windows.
The nodal axis: Capricorn-Cancer, then Sagittarius-Gemini
The Rahu-Ketu axis entered Capricorn-Cancer on 27 December 2026 and holds it until 15 July 2028, when Rahu moves to Sagittarius and Ketu to Gemini. The nodes always travel together and opposite, so both ends shift the same day.
On the US chart the first phase places Rahu in the 3rd house and Ketu in the 9th house, the foreign-relations house, where transit Ketu passes across the chart's natal Rahu at Cancer 18.00 during the transit. The 15 July 2028 handover then moves Rahu into the 2nd house of wealth, treasury and national voice, and Ketu into the 8th house, directly onto the sign that holds the chart's four-planet Gemini cluster of Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Venus. Because eclipses fall on the nodal axis by definition, the eclipse calendar follows the shift: through mid-2028 eclipses land on the US 3rd-9th axis, and from July 2028 they begin landing on the 2nd-8th axis. The nodal position is shared globally; the cluster contact is what makes the second phase specific to this chart. The framework reads it as raised activation weight on the chart's financial and shared-resources axis into 2029, an emphasis marker rather than an event claim.
The 2 August 2027 total solar eclipse
The headline sky event of the window is the total solar eclipse of 2 August 2027, one of the longest totalities of the century, with a path crossing North Africa, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Arabian peninsula. The US mainland is not on the path. Under True Pushya Paksha the eclipse falls in sidereal Cancer in Ashlesha nakshatra, which is the Sibly chart's 9th house of foreign relations, holding the natal Mercury and Rahu.
Tempora's dedicated read, with a dated US-Middle East test window and its reconciliation terms, is the 2 August 2027 eclipse page. That page also carries a correction worth repeating here because it shows how this corpus is maintained: an earlier framing placed the eclipse on the US natal Sun, and a published reconciliation retired that mechanism after engine verification showed the eclipse degree and the natal Sun roughly 23 degrees apart. The eclipse is read the way the 2027 eclipse calendar sets out: it sensitises the eclipsed degree band for about six months, raising the weight of later transits across it, and it does not by itself decide outcomes.
The November 2028 election backdrop
The United States votes on 7 November 2028. The chart-side backdrop on that date: Saturn debilitated in Aries in the 6th house, in its post-station retrograde phase after 23 August 2028; Jupiter in Virgo in the 11th house closing on the US natal Saturn at Virgo 25.22; and the nodal axis newly arrived on Sagittarius-Gemini, with Rahu in the 2nd house and Ketu in the 8th over the Gemini cluster. Notably, the strongest calibrated signature on the US chart, Saturn transiting the natal Sun, does not fire in 2028 at all, since the Sibly Sun sits in Gemini and Saturn does not reach Gemini until the early 2030s. The framework reads structural pressure on the labour, debt and institutional axes through the cycle and makes no claim about candidates, parties or outcomes. The full election read, including the transit hits on the election date and the reconciliation condition, is the 2028 US election astrology page.
What this framework does and does not claim
The claims in this note divide cleanly. The transit dates are deterministic: any Swiss Ephemeris computation under the same ayanamsa returns the same ingresses, stations and eclipses. The house attributions follow mechanically once the chart and lagna are fixed. Everything after that is conditional, and the conditions deserve stating plainly.
The framework does not claim that any specific event will occur in the United States on any specific date. It does not claim universal accuracy; the US chart calibrates on eight events, a sample small enough that every signature on it carries wide uncertainty. It reads elevated conditional weight on particular axes during particular windows, and each time that read is converted into a dated call, the call is published with a test condition under which it is wrong and a committed reconciliation date. The corpus already includes a retired mechanism on the 2027 eclipse page and a documented miss on an earlier call, both left public. Base-rate honesty cuts both ways: US labour stress, foreign-policy events and market drawdowns occur in most multi-year windows, so a calendar like this one earns its keep only when its dated calls beat that baseline over time, which is what the tracker exists to measure.
The 2027-2028 US calendar
Every ingress, station and eclipse in the window, with the US house it activates from the Scorpio lagna. Ingress and station dates are from Tempora's Swiss Ephemeris fact sheet; eclipse dates and signs follow the published 2027 and 2028 eclipse calendars, computed on the same engine.
| Date | Event | US house (Scorpio lagna) |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Feb 2027 | Jupiter retrogrades Leo → Cancer | 10th → 9th |
| 6 Feb 2027 | Annular solar eclipse, Capricorn · Dhanishta | 3rd |
| 20 Feb 2027 | Penumbral lunar eclipse, Leo · Magha | 10th |
| 13 Apr 2027 | Jupiter stations direct in Cancer | 9th |
| 23 May 2027 | Saturn ingresses Aries | 6th |
| 19 Jun 2027 | Jupiter re-enters Leo | 10th |
| 18 Jul 2027 | Penumbral lunar eclipse, Capricorn · Uttara Ashadha | 3rd |
| 2 Aug 2027 | Total solar eclipse, Cancer · Ashlesha | 9th |
| 10 Aug 2027 | Saturn stations retrograde in Aries | 6th |
| 17 Aug 2027 | Penumbral lunar eclipse, Aquarius · Dhanishta | 4th |
| 4 Nov 2027 | Saturn retrogrades Aries → Pisces | 6th → out |
| 18 Nov 2027 | Jupiter ingresses Virgo | 11th |
| 24 Dec 2027 | Saturn stations direct in Pisces | — |
| 12 Jan 2028 | Jupiter stations retrograde in Virgo | 11th |
| 12 Jan 2028 | Partial lunar eclipse, Cancer · Punarvasu | 9th |
| 26 Jan 2028 | Annular solar eclipse, Capricorn · Shravana | 3rd |
| 11 Feb 2028 | Saturn settles in Aries | 6th |
| 9 Mar 2028 | Jupiter retrogrades Virgo → Leo | 11th → 10th |
| 14 May 2028 | Jupiter stations direct in Leo | 10th |
| 6 Jul 2028 | Partial lunar eclipse, Sagittarius · Purva Ashadha | 2nd |
| 15 Jul 2028 | Nodes shift: Rahu → Sagittarius, Ketu → Gemini | 2nd and 8th |
| 17 Jul 2028 | Jupiter re-enters Virgo | 11th |
| 22 Jul 2028 | Total solar eclipse, Cancer · Pushya | 9th |
| 23 Aug 2028 | Saturn stations retrograde in Aries | 6th |
| 18 Dec 2028 | Jupiter ingresses Libra | 12th |
| 31 Dec 2028 | Total lunar eclipse, Gemini · Ardra | 8th |
The 24 December 2027 direct station falls with Saturn back in Pisces, outside the Aries leg, which is why the house column marks it separately: it is the turn that sets up the settled 11 February 2028 entry.
Frequently asked questions
Which chart does Tempora use for USA astrology in 2027 and 2028?
Tempora's canonical US chart is the Sibly 1776 chart: 4 July 1776, 17:10 LMT Philadelphia, computed sidereally under the True Pushya Paksha ayanamsa. That computation resolves to Scorpio rising at 22.77 degrees in Jyeshtha nakshatra, with a four-planet cluster of Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Venus in sidereal Gemini in the 8th house, Mercury and Rahu in Cancer in the 9th, Moon in Aquarius in the 4th and Saturn in Virgo in the 11th. Houses are Whole Sign from the Scorpio lagna. The same chart and lagna are used across every Tempora US page, so the house attributions in this calendar match the US recession, real estate and election reads.
What is the biggest US transit of 2027?
Saturn's move from Pisces to Aries is the structural anchor. Saturn enters sidereal Aries on 23 May 2027, stations retrograde on 10 August 2027, retreats into Pisces on 4 November 2027, turns direct on 24 December 2027 and settles in Aries on 11 February 2028 for a multi-year stay. Aries is the 6th house of the Sibly chart from Scorpio lagna, the labour, debt, service and disputes axis, and Saturn is debilitated in Aries by classical convention. The ingress dates are computed facts; what the transit produces on the US chart is a conditional read, and the dated windows that use it carry test conditions on the public tracker.
Where does Jupiter travel on the US chart across 2027 and 2028?
Jupiter retrogrades from Leo back into Cancer on 3 February 2027, turns direct on 13 April 2027, re-enters Leo on 19 June 2027 and moves into Virgo on 18 November 2027. In 2028 it retrogrades into Leo on 9 March, turns direct on 14 May, re-enters Virgo on 17 July and crosses into Libra on 18 December. On the Sibly chart from Scorpio lagna that path runs through the 9th house of foreign relations, the 10th house of government and the 11th house of gains and the legislature, where the US natal Saturn sits at Virgo 25.22. Jupiter is debilitated during the Virgo legs, a limitation the read carries explicitly.
Does the 2 August 2027 total solar eclipse affect the United States?
The 2 August 2027 total solar eclipse falls in sidereal Cancer in Ashlesha nakshatra, which is the 9th house of the Sibly chart, the house of foreign relations, where the US natal Mercury and Rahu sit. The path of totality crosses North Africa and the Arabian peninsula, not the US mainland. An earlier chart-side framing that placed the eclipse on the US natal Sun was retired in a published reconciliation: under True Pushya Paksha the eclipse degree and the natal Sun sit roughly 23 degrees apart. The eclipse is read as sensitising the Cancer degree band for about six months, raising the weight of later contacts rather than deciding outcomes by itself.
What changes when the nodes shift on 15 July 2028?
The Rahu-Ketu axis moves from Capricorn-Cancer to Sagittarius-Gemini on 15 July 2028. On the Sibly chart from Scorpio lagna that takes Rahu from the 3rd house to the 2nd house of wealth, treasury and national voice, and Ketu from the 9th house into the 8th house of shared resources and debt, the house that holds the chart's four-planet Gemini cluster of Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Venus. The eclipse calendar follows the axis, so from mid-July 2028 eclipses begin falling across the US 2nd-8th axis. The shift redistributes activation; it does not by itself predict any event, and the axis position is shared by every chart on Earth.
Does this calendar predict the November 2028 US election result?
No. The framework reads structural backdrop, not electoral outcome. The 7 November 2028 election falls with Saturn debilitated in Aries in the US 6th house, Jupiter in Virgo in the 11th house closing on the US natal Saturn at Virgo 25.22, and the nodal axis newly arrived on Sagittarius-Gemini. Tempora's dedicated election page reads those transits against the Sibly chart and states its reconciliation condition, and it does not name candidates, parties or outcomes. The backdrop describes which axes carry pressure during the cycle; political actors decide the form.
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Transit ingress and station dates are computed from Swiss Ephemeris under the True Pushya Paksha ayanamsa by PVRN Rao; eclipse dates and sidereal signs follow Tempora's published 2027 and 2028 eclipse calendars on the same engine. The US Sibly chart calibrates at n equals 8 events, a small sample carrying wide uncertainty. Mundane astrology describes structural backdrops and dated transit windows, not guaranteed outcomes; planetary cycle correlations describe tendencies, not certainties. This article is not financial, medical, legal, political or personal advice, and no commercial or financial action should be taken solely on its contents. Internal audit log maintained.