New Moon: February 17, 2026 at 12:01 UTC, 28°50′ Aquarius. This is the exact lunar phase time, not the time of greatest eclipse. The eclipse is a single dated event.
The eclipse falls in Aquarius, so the house it opens depends on your rising sign. Pick yours:
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A powerful new beginning opens in your community, networks, and hopes for the future. A group forms, a friendship arrives, or a long held aim suddenly finds its footing. This is the eclipse's home ground, and its reset can feel like the future calling you by name. Find your people, name the bigger hope, and let yourself belong to a shared aim.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A new public chapter begins, an innovative role, a launch, or a visible step into more freedom and reach. The shift often arrives through an external event that changes how you are seen. It can feel exposing, like being pushed onstage before you rehearsed. Step forward, and let your ambition serve something larger than your own standing.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A new horizon opens, a belief, a course of study, or a journey that reorients where you are headed. A future facing search for meaning begins, often triggered by an idea or invitation you did not see coming. It can unsettle the certainties you have leaned on. Follow the wider question, and let your worldview expand past the borders it has kept.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A new beginning opens around intimacy and shared resources, a merging, a debt cleared, a sudden change in what binds you to another. Something long held in the dark can surface and reset. It often feels charged, even destabilizing, before it frees you. Meet it with honesty and an open hand rather than a tight grip on power or possession.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A new partnership begins, or an existing one resets, on more equal and freedom respecting terms. Someone may arrive suddenly, or a bond may reorganize itself around honesty rather than habit. It can feel like the ground of your relationships has shifted overnight. Meet it by choosing companionship over control and a shared future over old expectations.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A fresh start arrives in work, health, and the rhythm of your days, new systems, new tools, a cleaner way to run your life. It often comes through a change you did not schedule: a role ends, a habit breaks, a body signal asks for attention. It can feel disruptive before it feels efficient. Rebuild your routines to be sustainable and open to help rather than heroics.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A new creative or romantic chapter opens with an experimental, freedom loving edge. Something unexpected sparks, a project, a person, a way of playing that does not fit your old script. It can feel exhilarating and a little unruly. Say yes to the unconventional expression, and let your heart follow what is genuinely alive rather than what performs well.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A new beginning stirs at home and in your foundations, a move, a chosen family, or a break from an inherited role. The reset often arrives through an outside event that rearranges your private ground. It may feel destabilizing before it feels like freedom. Build a base that faces forward rather than one that keeps the past intact, and let your roots hold your future rather than your history.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A new idea, connection, or way of communicating ignites, something you have quietly carried is suddenly ready to be said. A conversation, a course, or a network opens a door in how you think and who you think alongside. It can feel like your mind has caught up with the future. Say the new thing out loud, and let it lead you toward the people it belongs to.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A fresh chapter opens around money and self worth, often on terms you would not have chosen a year ago. New income streams, new values, or a sudden shift in what you prize can arrive with little warning. It may unsettle your sense of security before it steadies it. Meet it by loosening your grip on the old measures and letting a braver definition of worth take root.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A new self begins to take shape, freer, stranger, more your own than the version you have been carrying. Something external often triggers it: a change of scene, a break, a door that swings open in how you appear to others. It can feel abrupt, like the future arriving before you were ready. Step through it, and let the reinvention be as unconventional as it wants to be.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A quiet inner beginning stirs, something new takes root in private long before it shows on the surface. The reset happens in the unseen places: dreams, solitude, the parts of you that have been resting or hidden. It can feel more like a whisper than an event. Make room to retreat and listen; what starts in the dark now will surface in its own time.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A solar eclipse is a New Moon standing directly in front of the Sun. An annular eclipse leaves a bright ring around the Moon, a 'ring of fire.'
New moons begin things; an eclipse new moon begins them with unusual force. This one falls in Aquarius, community, freedom, and the future, so expect a fresh, unconventional start in the part of your chart it activates.
The rising sign reading gives you the whole sign house story. Check the event degree against your natal planets and angles to see whether it is also making an exact contact in your chart.
Read these as contacts to a natal planet or angle, not a prediction for everyone with that Sun sign. Each aspect is exact at the same numbered degree in the signs listed.
Use the transit’s degree or the eclipse degree given above, then find natal planets and angles near that same degree in the signs listed here. The sign relationship identifies the aspect; the degree tells you how close it is.
A square or opposition can describe tension that needs a response; a sextile or trine can describe cooperation or an opening. Neither is a guaranteed outcome. Read the contacted planet, its house and the rest of the chart.