New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aquarius
The New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aquarius will arrive on February 17th, acting as a catalyst for change in the areas of our lives that need it the most.
New Moon Solar Eclipses act as cosmic reset points that accelerate change, opening new doors, paths, stories, and avenues that may feel sudden, fated, and unavoidable.
In Aquarius, this is entirely forward-focused.
This New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aquarius inspires us to make fated adjustments to our long-term goals, future plans, perspectives, ideologies, individuality, and our contribution to society. This is our cosmic signal to step into new ways of being, thinking, connecting, and contributing.
Solar Eclipses symbolize pivotal thresholds that infuse our personal growth and conscious wills with our emotional needs and intuitive journeys. In this case, as the Moon briefly cloaks the Sun in the shadow of her body, endings, beginnings, and fated redirections will ensue and feel both liberating and destabilizing.
This moment marks a profound new beginning in areas of our lives related to innovation, community, aspirations, friendships, and collective involvement.
In Aquarius, it acts as a catalyst for change, freedom, liberation, forward movement, and the restructuring of our identities, connections, and the systems we’re a part of, so they will better reflect who we are becoming.
Eclipses always occur in the North and South Nodes; while the North Node guides us toward the future, the South Node shows us what we have learned from our past experiences.
The North Node guides us toward what we want to accomplish or find success in, while the South Node shows us what we must release so that we can make space for the coming changes. Both bring growth.
This Solar Eclipse will remind us to embrace change and the new beginnings that follow, even when facing uncertainty or uncharted territory.
Occurring in the North Node offers us opportunities to step into our purpose and align with the path that propels us toward growth and self-actualization.
The new beginnings commencing now will be deeply tied to the story of our personal growth, as the New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aquarius will form a sextile to Chiron in Aries.
Their sextile opens a path for healing around our identity, independence, self-reliance, courage, and bravery.
We’ll feel inspired to heal old wounds related to isolation, independence, leadership, and assertion. Many of us could experience moments that invite us to stand our ground and stick up for ourselves.
In addition to this, the New Moon Solar Eclipse will also form a square with Uranus in Taurus for one final time, adding layers of unpredictability, disruption, surprise, and completion. This square will highlight the changes we’ve been experiencing around stability, finances, values, and security.
Because this is the last Eclipse to activate Uranus in Taurus, it represents a closing chapter, with one final push before the curtains close, to redefine what security means to us.
However, it is important to note how the Moon will be in mutual reception with Uranus, as the Moon is exalted in Taurus and Uranus is at home in Aquarius. This exchange strengthens the Eclipse’s impact, helping us emotionally integrate sudden change with clarity and resilience.
While events may feel surprising or destabilizing, this mutual reception offers a hidden grace: the ability to adapt and emotionally regulate, and trust that the shifts unfolding now are aligning us with a more liberated and sustainable future.
What begins now may not fully reveal itself immediately, but over the next 6 months, we’ll see major developments around our identity, friendships, long-term goals, and our role in society.
The Eclipse is inevitable, which is why we must free ourselves from the fear of what could all go wrong, and embrace Mercury in Pisces transit and find beauty in the journey about to begin.
This Eclipse is about becoming who we are meant to.
For insights, we can look to the House that Aquarius rules over in our birth charts to find the area of our lives, themes, and topics we can expect to prioritize.
I know how this sounds, but for additional insights, we can think back to and reflect on what occurred around February 15th and July 27th of 2018. Thinking back to that time, or looking at old photos, reviewing old journal entries, and even asking those close to us what we were doing around those dates can help shed some light on what we can expect.
I always say that history doesn’t repeat itself; it echoes. So the new cycle beginning now will have some differences from the one back then. Last year’s lunations in Aquarius would have already brought some unexpected twists and turns in this area of our lives as well, so think back to January and August of 2025.
Ultimately, this New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aquarius marks the start of a new chapter within the Aquarius-ruled area of our birth charts.
This chapter will carry themes of liberation and progress, teaching us that changes are always on the horizon. We’ll learn how the future isn’t shaped by clinging to the past, but by daring to imagine something better. With so many planets stepping into Aries around this time, we’ll have no other option than to boldly do it.
Horoscopes are below, and as always, you can book a reading with me for a private reading.
Aries: aspirations + social time with friends and family
Taurus: ambitions + career opportunities + responsibility
Gemini: new experiences + traveling + growth + learning
Cancer: new commitments + investments + major change
Leo: romance + relationships + agreements + contracts
Virgo: new habits and routines + mental/physical health
Libra: work-life balance + creativity + inspiration/passion
Scorpio: home + family + comfort + future + foundations
Sagittarius: traveling + events + new perspectives
Capricorn: new ventures + finances + priorities + health
Aquarius: new beginnings + life direction + progress
Pisces: endings + relief + healing + intuition + spirituality