Feb 17 - Solar Eclipse - (28 Aquarius 49)

 

This New Moon is an Eclipse!

 

 

In my astro report for the Aquarius New Moon & 29-day lunar cycle I lay out the new moon chart details such as the final Sun/Moon square to Uranus in Taurus.  It is not a subtle aspect but then we appear to NOT be doing subtle in 2026.       I encourage you to read the whole report HERE.  

 

Having said that there is the added steroid to this Aquarius new moon at 28 degrees of Aquarius, it is an annular (ring-of-fire) eclipse.   We are now beginning a two-year process of Leo and Aquarius eclipse seasons where we access our own uniqueness, weirdness, abstract thinking, while also leaving our egos at the door and coming together with like-minded for joint efforts.   However, we must take care not to fall into group thought.   This will be challenging especially because eclipses     bring something super big to get our attention.   Like a theater production and the lights turn on and off announcing it is time to focus on the stage.   That’s an eclipse.   The sun is put in shadow, and we all turn to see what we see on the stage.   

 

Drilling down into the history of the 28 degrees Aquarius eclipses, there have been four since the 17^th century.

 

Feb 17, 1654

Feb 17, 1692

Feb 17, 1711

Feb 16, 1922

 

I will spare you an international history lesson because no one has time for it.  But in a nutshell, the Aquarius eclipses in 1654, 1711 and 1922 speak to citizens fatigued by wars.   There were major treaties in 1654 and 1922 signed around the eclipses.  In 1711 empires like Britain and Spain were asserting power but locals were talking to each other through pamphlets, news and face to face in groups.  Can you feel the air and the abstractness?   It was also becoming clear to those folks that even if the battles were ending, what caused the wars was not being addressed.  

 

The 28-degree Aquarius eclipse that had long ramifications is Feb 17, 1692.   If you live in New England, you may have a beat on that date but for the rest of us, it connects to Salem Massachusetts and the month that innocent people were accused of being witches.  Rumor, hysteria, group thought ruled that eclipse and history has proven it was NOT the most productive use of an Aquarius eclipse.  I can’t help but shudder at the thought if those tweaked ‘puritans’ had cell phones and TikTok accounts.   The damage of group thought could have spread far beyond Salem.    Let’s all agree not to do that at this eclipse.  

 

Obviously, each of those 28-degree Aquarius eclipses had other astro landscape different from what we are experiencing now.   Ruling planet Uranus in Taurus for all its crankiness in this new moon chart does bring something different to our eclipse story.  In those earlier dates Uranus was either in a mutable or a fire sign so the disconnect was around ideology, ideas, belief or war.   With Taurus our focus is land, money, food, housing and values.    The eclipse may highlight societal cracks where we live, values and what or how we get our food.     The solar eclipse is followed by the lunar eclipse at the Virgo full moon on March 3, which also has a practical tone and food/harvest component so we may get more information then.   This Aquarius eclipse will have a companion total solar eclipse on August 12 in the sign Leo which by that time will feel like ten lightyears away.  We will be the same planet, Earth, but different universe.   There is a lot going on between now and then.