New Moon: August 12, 2026 at 17:37 UTC, 20°02′ Leo. This is the exact lunar phase time, not the time of greatest eclipse. The eclipse is a single dated event.
The eclipse falls in Leo, so the house it ignites depends on your rising sign. Pick yours:
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This is the eclipse's home ground, a new romance, creative project, or act of self expression takes off. Something bright and alive asks to be born, often arriving with a spark you did not plan. It can feel like your heart has been handed a stage. Say yes to the bold thing, and let yourself create and love without waiting for permission.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A new beginning takes root at home or with family, a move, a fresh foundation, or a reset of your private base. Something external often rearranges the ground beneath your daily life. It can stir old feelings even as it clears space for a warmer home. Build the foundation that lets you be fully yourself, and let your roots hold heart as well as history.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A new voice, message, or course of study begins, ideas you have sat on are suddenly ready to be spoken with heart. A conversation, a piece of writing, or a bold declaration opens a door in how you communicate. It can feel like finding your voice mid sentence. Say the vivid thing, and let your words carry the warmth they have been holding back.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A fresh start arrives around money and self worth, often with a surge of confidence about what you are actually worth. New income, a new value, or a braver ask can open where you least expected. It may test whether you believe in your own worth enough to claim it. Meet it by valuing yourself out loud and letting your worth take a warmer, bolder shape.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A new chapter opens in who you are and how you show up, the spotlight swings toward you and asks for a bolder self. Something external often lights the fuse: an opportunity, a change, a moment that pulls you into view. It can feel thrilling and exposing at once. Meet it by stepping into the reinvention rather than shrinking from the light.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A quieter new beginning stirs, inner, private, behind the scenes. Something starts in the dark before it is seen, often felt as a shift in mood, dream, or private conviction rather than an event. It can feel subtle, even lonely, next to a bright eclipse. Make room for retreat and reflection, and trust what is forming out of sight.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A new group, friendship, or ambition ignites, a hope you have quietly held finally gets its start. People arrive, a circle forms, or a long held dream finds its first foothold. It can feel like the future introducing you to your people. Say yes to belonging, and let your warmth find a wider room to fill.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓The spotlight hits your public life, a new role, a launch, or a visible step up. The opening often arrives through an external event that changes how the world sees you. It can feel exposing, like being handed recognition before you feel ready for it. Step forward, and let your ambition be as generous as it is bold.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A new horizon opens, travel, study, or a big idea that reorients where you are headed. Something expansive calls, often arriving as an invitation or a spark of conviction you cannot ignore. It can feel like the world just widened overnight. Follow the larger question with your whole heart, and let belief pull you somewhere you have never been.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A new beginning opens around shared resources, intimacy, or something asking to be transformed. A merging, a windfall, a debt, or a deep bond can reset with sudden clarity. It often feels charged, stirring what usually stays hidden between you and another. Meet it with courage and honesty, and let the change carry you somewhere deeper rather than merely safer.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A new one to one chapter opens, a relationship, a commitment, or a partnership begins or resets in earnest. Someone significant may arrive, or an existing bond may step into a brighter, more honest light. It can feel fated, as if the meeting were already written. Meet it wholeheartedly, and let the connection ask the best of you rather than the smallest.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A fresh start arrives in work, routine, or health, a new role, a new regimen, a cleaner way of running your days. The reset often comes through an outside change that reorders your ordinary hours. It can feel demanding before it feels good. Build habits that let you shine sustainably, and let daily service become a quiet source of pride.
Check the Degrees and Aspects ↓A solar eclipse is a New Moon standing directly in front of the Sun. The Moon slips exactly between Earth and the Sun and blocks the light, day dims to dusk along a narrow path across the globe.
If a lunar eclipse is a harvest, a solar eclipse is a seed. This one falls in Leo, the heart, courage, creativity, and being seen. Expect a bold new chapter 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.