Enter your birth details and a start date above, and this free calculator lists every solar and lunar eclipse in the next one to five years and places each one in your chart. For each eclipse you get its date, its type, the sign, degree and nakshatra where it falls, the house it falls in counted from your Moon sign and from your Lagna, and any of your birth planets in that sign. Without a birth time the houses are counted from the Moon sign only.
How it works
The eclipses come from the eclipse list of the NASA JPL DE440 tables used across this site, which runs from 1899 to 2075. Each eclipse is placed at its greatest phase, in the sidereal zodiac with the Lahiri ayanamsa: a lunar eclipse at the Moon’s position, and a solar eclipse at the Sun’s, with the Moon beside it. That is the same placing as on our eclipse pages for 2026 and 2027, and for those nine eclipses the sign, degree and nakshatra here match those pages.
The house is then counted the way transits are counted, with your own sign as the 1st: from your birth Moon sign, and with a birth time also from your Lagna. Your birth chart is worked out from the same tables, so a Moon sign or Lagna here agrees with our Moon sign and ascendant calculators. In the years 1900 to 2074 the tables hold four to seven eclipses a year, most often four.
Reading the result
The answer names the next eclipse and the house it falls in for you. The table lists them all in date order. A note marks an eclipse in your birth Moon sign or your birth nakshatra, a penumbral lunar eclipse, where only the faint outer shadow touches the Moon, and an eclipse that falls within four hours of the Moon or the Sun changing sign, where almanacs can name different signs. For the 2026 and 2027 eclipses there is a link to the page with the times and visibility in each city.
In transit teaching a planet passing through a sign touches the matters of that house and of the birth planets in that sign, and what it brings depends on the whole chart and the dasha running (P.V.R. Narasimha Rao, Vedic Astrology: An Integrated Approach, 2000, ch. 25.2 and 25.3). The house themes are the usual ones: the 7th, for example, is partnership and marriage, the 10th career and standing. Read the house as the area of life an eclipse is said to touch, not as a forecast.
Where traditions differ
Rao counts transits first from the Moon sign, the most used reference, and also from the Lagna, so the tool shows both. Many almanacs print a list of the signs for which an eclipse is said to be good, middling or bad. We could not trace those lists to a classical text we can name, and they differ between almanacs, so this tool does not give one. Most almanacs keep no sutak for a penumbral lunar eclipse, and sutak is kept only where an eclipse can be seen, which our eclipse visibility calculator works out for any town for 2026 and 2027. An almanac using another ayanamsa can place an eclipse near the edge of a sign in the next sign; the note in the table shows when that can happen.
What it does not do
It does not say whether an eclipse will be good or bad for you, and it gives no remedies. It gives the date of each eclipse but not its local times, because those depend on where you are: the linked pages and the visibility calculator give them for 2026 and 2027. It does not show whether an eclipse after 2027 can be seen from your town. Births and dates from 1900 to 2074 can be entered.
For the eclipses of 2026 and 2027 in full, see all eclipses. For the slow planets’ houses from your Moon, use the personal transit report.
Frequently asked questions
↳ How do I know which house an eclipse falls in for me?
Count from your Moon sign, as the 1st, to the sign the eclipse falls in; with a birth time, count from your Lagna as well. The tool does both for every eclipse in the span you choose.
↳ Which sign does a lunar eclipse fall in, and a solar one?
A lunar eclipse is placed where the Moon is at its greatest phase, and a solar eclipse where the Sun is, with the Moon beside it. Both are read in the sidereal zodiac with the Lahiri ayanamsa, as on our eclipse pages.
↳ Is an eclipse in my own Moon sign bad for me?
The tool marks an eclipse in your Moon sign so you can see it. We could not find a classical source for the good and bad lists printed in almanacs, so the tool does not label any eclipse good or bad. What a transit brings depends on the whole chart and the dasha.
↳ Does an eclipse I cannot see still count?
For the house it falls in, the tool lists every eclipse, seen or not. For the rules of the day, such as sutak, most almanacs follow only eclipses visible from your town. The visibility calculator answers that for 2026 and 2027.
↳ Do I need my birth time?
No. Without it the houses are counted from your Moon sign. If the Moon changed sign on your birth date, both signs are shown, and a birth time settles which is yours.
↳ How many eclipses are there in a year?
Between four and seven in the years 1900 to 2074, in the tables this tool uses; four is the most common.