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January 26, 2028 · Annular Solar Eclipse · 6°11′ Aquarius · UTC

The Aquarius Solar Eclipse · January 2028

The annular solar eclipse at 6°11′ Aquarius brings a New Moon focus to networks, shared ideas and participation.

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New Moon: January 26, 2028 at 15:13 UTC, 6°11′ Aquarius. This is the exact lunar phase time, not the time of greatest eclipse. The eclipse is a single dated event.

Read by rising sign

Choose Your Rising Sign.

These readings use whole sign houses. Choose your rising sign for the area of life, then check natal planets and angles for exact contacts.

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What is happening

What This Eclipse Highlights

The annular solar eclipse at 6°11′ Aquarius brings a New Moon focus to networks, shared ideas and participation. This is a different degree from the February 2027 Aquarius eclipse, so it contacts a different set of natal placements most closely. A familiar sign theme does not mean the same personal story is repeating for everyone, even when both events fall in the same whole sign house.

Aquarius can imagine a different system before its everyday rules are clear. Ask who gets a voice, how decisions will be made and what each person is agreeing to contribute. The Leo side of the axis keeps personal authorship in view. A shared future becomes more workable when the individual people expected to build it can still recognize their own aims within it.

A solar eclipse is a New Moon near a lunar node, with the Moon passing between Earth and the Sun. Annular and total describe the apparent sizes and alignment of the solar and lunar disks, while visibility depends on where you are on Earth. The astrological reading uses the New Moon’s tropical zodiac degree, which is a different measurement from the location of the visible eclipse path.

Start with the house containing Aquarius, then read Leo across the axis. An exact conjunction brings a natal point in Aquarius into direct contact; the other named aspects below describe different relationships to the eclipse degree. Look at the natal planet’s function and the houses it rules before deciding what the contact might concern. The chart provides a symbolic framework for interpretation, not an obligation for a particular event to happen.

Make it personal

Check Your Chart

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.

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Check the Degrees

Which Signs Make Which Aspects?

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.

From Aquarius to Your Natal Chart

Conjunction
Aquarius
Square
Taurus and Scorpio
Opposition
Leo
Sextile
Aries and Sagittarius
Trine
Gemini and Libra

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.