Wedding dates to avoid in 2027
Every window on this page is computed from the ephemeris in your browser, not copied off a list. The astronomy is a fact. The reading of it is tradition. Neither one is a promise about your marriage, and anyone selling you that is selling you something else.
Venus last ran backwards Oct 3 - Nov 13, 2026. It does not turn retrograde again until May 10 - Jun 22, 2028. That leaves 544 days with no retrograde Venus in them, and all of 2027 sits inside the gap.
Venus retrograde is the one span the old texts will not marry anyone in — tradition reads it as the season when what you promise gets rewritten later. In 2027 there is no such season. That is a fact about a planet, not a forecast about you. What is left to work around is smaller, and every piece of it has dates.
The 2027 windows tradition moves a wedding out of
Sorted by when they open. Severity is the engine's ranking, not a warning label: a retrograde Venus outranks a retrograde Mercury, which outranks an eclipse window.
- Jan 10 – Apr 1, 2027Mars retrograde
Mars runs backwards from 10°26' Virgo to 20°56' Leo. Old practice treats this as poor ground for opening something you want settled fast, and fine ground for finishing what is already open.
The first day after it this engine scores 63 or better is Thursday, April 8, 2027, at 72 out of 100. The first Saturday it scores at 54 or better is Apr 10, at 68.
- Feb 3 – Feb 9, 2027Solar eclipse window
Annular solar eclipse on Feb 6, 2027, 2.87° from the lunar node, in Aquarius. Traditional practice keeps the days either side of an eclipse clear of anything meant to be permanent.
The first day after it this engine scores 63 or better is Friday, March 12, 2027, at 66 out of 100. The first Saturday it scores at 54 or better is Mar 13, at 55.
- Feb 9 – Mar 3, 2027Mercury retrograde
Mercury runs backwards from 5°59' Pisces to 20°56' Aquarius. The traditional rule is narrow and practical: do not sign anything you would hate to sign twice.
The first day after it this engine scores 63 or better is Friday, March 12, 2027, at 66 out of 100. The first Saturday it scores at 54 or better is Mar 13, at 55.
- Jun 10 – Jul 4, 2027Mercury retrograde
Mercury runs backwards from 6°22' Cancer to 27°28' Gemini. The traditional rule is narrow and practical: do not sign anything you would hate to sign twice.
The first day after it this engine scores 63 or better is Tuesday, July 6, 2027, at 66 out of 100. The first Saturday it scores at 54 or better is Jul 10, at 60.
- Jul 30 – Aug 5, 2027Solar eclipse window
Total solar eclipse on Aug 2, 2027, 1.63° from the lunar node, in Leo. Traditional practice keeps the days either side of an eclipse clear of anything meant to be permanent.
The first day after it this engine scores 63 or better is Friday, August 6, 2027, at 71 out of 100. The first Saturday it scores at 54 or better is Oct 2, at 58.
- Oct 7 – Oct 28, 2027Mercury retrograde
Mercury runs backwards from 4°56' Scorpio to 19°19' Libra. The traditional rule is narrow and practical: do not sign anything you would hate to sign twice.
The first day after it this engine scores 63 or better is Wednesday, November 3, 2027, at 63 out of 100. The first Saturday it scores at 54 or better is Nov 6, at 57.
Add them up and roughly 49 days of 2027 land in this engine's bottom band. That leaves three hundred and change.
Marrying before 2027?
What is left of this year, on the same terms. This section empties itself as the windows close.
- Aug 26 – Aug 30, 2026Lunar eclipse window
Partial lunar eclipse on Aug 28, 2026, 4.96° from the lunar node, in Pisces. Traditional practice keeps the days either side of an eclipse clear of anything meant to be permanent.
The first day after it this engine scores 63 or better is Thursday, September 17, 2026, at 63 out of 100. The first Saturday it scores at 54 or better is Sep 26, at 60.
- Oct 3 – Nov 13, 2026Venus retrograde
Venus turns retrograde at 8°29' Scorpio and direct again at 22°51' Libra. Tradition reads a retrograde Venus as the season when promises get rewritten. It is the one span the old texts will not marry anyone in.
The first day after it this engine scores 63 or better is Monday, November 16, 2026, at 67 out of 100. The first Saturday it scores at 54 or better is Nov 21, at 64.
- Oct 24 – Nov 13, 2026Mercury retrograde
Mercury runs backwards from 20°59' Scorpio to 5°02' Scorpio. The traditional rule is narrow and practical: do not sign anything you would hate to sign twice.
The first day after it this engine scores 63 or better is Monday, November 16, 2026, at 67 out of 100. The first Saturday it scores at 54 or better is Nov 21, at 64.
Check your date
Type the date you are holding. The engine scores it out of 100 and prints every reason that moved the number, with the degree or the clock time it came from. It will not tell you the day will go well. Nothing can.
The bands are cut to a measured ten-year distribution, not to round numbers. A 72 happens about one and a half days a year. A 63 is genuinely good. Most days sit between 44 and 53, which is what ordinary means and why most days are exactly that.
The 2027 Saturdays this engine does not argue with
Of 52 Saturdays in 2027, 11 score 54 or better and 4 reach the good band. 9 sit in the bottom one. Saturday belongs to Saturn in the old rulerships and gives back three points before anything else is counted — Friday is Venus's day, which is why half the world used to marry on one.
| Saturday | Score | Verdict & Moon |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 13 | 70 | GoodWaxing Moon, 100% lit, in Taurus |
| Dec 11 | 70 | GoodWaxing Moon, 95% lit, in Taurus |
| Apr 10 | 68 | GoodWaxing Moon, 16% lit, in Gemini |
| Apr 17 | 63 | GoodWaxing Moon, 87% lit, in Virgo |
| Jan 16 | 62 | WorkableWaxing Moon, 59% lit, in Taurus |
| May 8 | 62 | WorkableWaxing Moon, 6% lit, in Gemini |
| Jul 10 | 60 | WorkableWaxing Moon, 49% lit, in Libra |
| Oct 2 | 58 | WorkableWaxing Moon, 8% lit, in Scorpio |
| Nov 6 | 57 | WorkableWaxing Moon, 53% lit, in Aquarius |
| Mar 13 | 55 | WorkableWaxing Moon, 29% lit, in Taurus |
| May 15 | 55 | WorkableWaxing Moon, 76% lit, in Virgo |
If you are not tied to a Saturday
The days 2027 scores highest, whatever weekday they land on. The top one is Monday, April 19, 2027, at 73 out of 100.
- Monday, April 19, 2027 — 73/100. Waxing Moon at 13°30' Libra, 98% lit, 164° past the Sun and clear of its rays. The oldest rule in electional work is to start on increasing light.
- Wednesday, May 12, 2027 — 73/100. Waxing Moon at 14°46' Leo, 44% lit, 83° past the Sun and clear of its rays. The oldest rule in electional work is to start on increasing light.
- Thursday, April 8, 2027 — 72/100. The Moon's next exact aspect is a sextile to Venus at Apr 9, 12:25am US Eastern. "Let the Moon apply to a fortune" is the one instruction every electional text agrees on, and here it does.
- Monday, May 10, 2027 — 71/100. Waxing Moon at 16°16' Cancer, 22% lit, 56° past the Sun and clear of its rays. The oldest rule in electional work is to start on increasing light.
- Friday, August 6, 2027 — 71/100. Waxing Moon at 12°25' Libra, 24% lit, 58° past the Sun and clear of its rays. The oldest rule in electional work is to start on increasing light.
- Friday, August 27, 2027 — 71/100. The Moon's next exact aspect is a sextile to Venus at Aug 27, 1:39pm US Eastern. "Let the Moon apply to a fortune" is the one instruction every electional text agrees on, and here it does.
What a real date search costs
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Mercury retrograde and weddings, honestly
Is it bad luck to get married during Mercury retrograde?
Traditional practice does not treat Mercury retrograde as bad luck. It treats it as a paperwork rule: do not sign anything you would hate to sign twice. A wedding is a contract as well as a party, which is the whole reason the rule reaches it at all. In 2027 Mercury runs backwards three times — Feb 9 - Mar 3, 2027; Jun 10 - Jul 4, 2027; Oct 7 - Oct 28, 2027.
Does 2027 really have no Venus retrograde?
Yes. Venus turned direct on Nov 13, 2026 and does not station retrograde again until May 10 - Jun 22, 2028. Venus retrogrades roughly every 19 months, so a clear calendar year is uncommon rather than rare. 2027 is one, and you can check it yourself: this page recomputes both stations in your browser every time it loads.
What is the best day to get married in 2027?
There is no day that makes a marriage work. Anyone who tells you otherwise has stopped reading the chart and started reading you. What this engine can say is which days traditional electional practice would not argue with, and why. Its highest-scoring Saturdays in 2027 are Nov 13 and Dec 11, both at 70 out of 100. Its highest-scoring day of any weekday is Monday, April 19, 2027, at 73 out of 100. Every reason behind both is in the tables above.
Should I avoid an eclipse for a wedding?
Traditional practice keeps the days either side of an eclipse clear of anything meant to be permanent. 2027 has 2: Annular solar eclipse on Feb 6, 2027; Total solar eclipse on Aug 2, 2027. The windows above run three days either side of each. An eclipse is also a genuinely good thing to see, so this is a scheduling note, not a reason to stay indoors.
Do these dates change for my time zone?
Some of them do. A retrograde station is one instant on the world's clock, and an instant landing near midnight UT falls on different calendar dates in different countries — which is why two ephemerides can print different days and both be right. Dates here render in US Eastern unless you change the selector at the top, and every date on the page redraws from the same instants when you do.
Where do these dates come from?
An ephemeris built for this site. Retrograde stations are found by bisecting the planet's apparent daily motion to the instant it changes sign, not by scanning a table. Eclipses are classified from the shadow geometry and were checked against the NASA five-millennium catalogues across 1901–2100. The scoring weights are traditional electional rules — the Moon's light, its sign, its speed, what it runs to next, the planetary day ruler — and every reason printed above cites the number it came from.
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