Eclipses in Cancer
Cancer has more solar eclipses than any other sign, 46 of them, one on the June solstice of 2020. Every eclipse in the sign from 1900 to 2100, with date and degree.
Cancer eclipses at a glance
An eclipse in Cancer means the eclipsed body stood between 0° and 30° of Cancer. For solar eclipses that is the Sun, from June 21 to July 22; for lunar ones it is the Moon, from December 21 to January 20, with the Sun opposite in Capricorn. Cancer's 46 solar eclipses are the most of any sign, and the first degree of the sign is the June solstice point, which is why the annular eclipse of Jun 21, 2020 sat at 0°21′ Cancer.
- Total solar eclipse
- 15
- Annular solar eclipse
- 14
- Partial solar eclipse
- 17
- Total lunar eclipse
- 14
- Partial lunar eclipse
- 5
- Penumbral lunar eclipse
- 13
The earliest in the span is the partial solar eclipse of at 27°50′ Cancer, and the latest is the total lunar eclipse of at 0°25′ Cancer. The most recent total solar eclipse in Cancer before 2026 was on at 10°37′; the first from 2026 on is at 29°50′.
Upcoming eclipses in Cancer
The eclipses in Cancer from January 2026 onward, in UTC. The list is split at the year boundary rather than at today's date so it stays put for twelve months, which means its first row can already have happened.
Nobody moves house because of an eclipse in Cancer. Astrologers only say the two coincide more than chance would suggest: Cancer is their file for home, family, the mother and the address on the form, and people with a planet near the degree describe the month as the one with the estate agent, the parent's phone call, or the room finally cleared. The lunar eclipses in Cancer have the Sun opposite in Capricorn, and there the house and the job take turns asking who has been paying for whom.
| Date (UTC) | Kind | Degree of Cancer |
|---|---|---|
| Partial lunar eclipse | 21°33′ | |
| Total solar eclipse | 29°50′ | |
| Total lunar eclipse | 10°34′ | |
| Partial solar eclipse | 19°37′ | |
| Total solar eclipse | 21°04′ | |
| Annular solar eclipse | 10°47′ | |
| Annular solar eclipse | 0°12′ | |
| Total lunar eclipse | 21°46′ |
Every eclipse in Cancer, 1900–2100
All 78 of them, by decade. Each degree links to the Cycle Lab query for that point of the zodiac, so you can see what else has ever stood there.
That solstice eclipse comes back: annular on Jun 21, 2020 at 0°21′ Cancer, annular again on Jun 21, 2039 within a quarter of a degree. Nineteen years, same date, same degree near enough, is the Metonic cycle, and the catalogue holds 633 such pairs with a mean drift of 0.24°. The Saros, 18 years and 11 days, walks instead of standing still: each step moves the eclipse about 10.79° along, so a Saros series takes roughly three steps to cross Cancer.
1900s (4 eclipses)
1910s (4 eclipses)
1920s (3 eclipses)
1930s (4 eclipses)
1940s (4 eclipses)
1950s (4 eclipses)
1960s (4 eclipses)
1970s (4 eclipses)
1980s (3 eclipses)
1990s (3 eclipses)
2000s (6 eclipses)
2010s (4 eclipses)
2020s (6 eclipses)
2030s (3 eclipses)
2040s (3 eclipses)
2050s (3 eclipses)
2060s (4 eclipses)
2070s (4 eclipses)
2080s (4 eclipses)
A solar eclipse is listed by the Sun's own sign. A lunar eclipse is listed by the sign of the eclipsed Moon, which is always opposite the Sun, so a lunar eclipse shown here in Cancer happens with the Sun in Capricorn. Positions are apparent geocentric ecliptic longitude for the equinox of date, the tropical position an astrologer reads. I store each instant in the shared catalogue floored to the hour, so the UTC date is exact and no time of day is shown. The catalogue is published under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: AstroCalcs, eclipses in Cancer 1900–2100, https://astrocalcs.com/eclipses-in-cancer/ (CC BY 4.0).
Eclipses in the other signs
The same tables for each of the twelve signs, from the same catalogue, so a degree that looks busy here can be checked against its neighbours.
- Eclipses in Aries
- Eclipses in Taurus
- Eclipses in Gemini
- Eclipses in Leo
- Eclipses in Virgo
- Eclipses in Libra
- Eclipses in Scorpio
- Eclipses in Sagittarius
- Eclipses in Capricorn
- Eclipses in Aquarius
- Eclipses in Pisces
To search one degree rather than a whole sign, use Cycle Lab, which runs the same catalogue in your browser and shows how busy every other degree is by comparison.
Eclipses in Cancer: questions
What does an eclipse in Cancer mean?
Astrologers treat an eclipse as a new or full Moon with the volume turned up, and read one in Cancer through what they file under Cancer: home, family, the mother and wherever you actually live. They give it most weight when it lands within a few degrees of a planet or angle in a birth chart. The astronomy is plainer: an eclipse is a new or full Moon that falls close to a lunar node. Every degree is in the tables above.
When is the next eclipse in Cancer?
Counting from January of the year this page was built, the first eclipse in Cancer is Jan 12, 2028 (partial lunar eclipse, 21°33′). I split past from upcoming at a year boundary rather than at the build date so the list stays put for twelve months; the price is that its first row can already have happened. The rows after it sit in the upcoming table above, and the decade tables hold every eclipse in Cancer from 1900 to 2100.
How often do eclipses fall in Cancer?
78 times between 1900 and 2100, 46 solar and 32 lunar. Not evenly, though: they come in runs. Each eclipse season falls about 19 days earlier than the year before, which walks the eclipsed degree back through the zodiac by roughly 19 degrees a year, so Cancer collects eclipses in a cluster of about eighteen months, then waits years for the next cluster. And an eclipse usually returns to nearly the same degree, on nearly the same date, 19 years later.
Which sign is a lunar eclipse in?
The Moon's. At a lunar eclipse the Moon is full, so it stands opposite the Sun, and a lunar eclipse listed here in Cancer happens with the Sun in Capricorn. Astrologers name it the same way, as a full Moon in Cancer. The catalogue follows suit: I record the longitude of whichever body is eclipsed, the Sun for a solar eclipse and the Moon for a lunar one. The lunar eclipses that have the Sun in Cancer are on the Capricorn page.