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Total solar eclipse in Leo

. The Moon meets the Sun at 9°55′ Leo, close enough to a node that its shadow falls on the Earth.

The Moon crosses the face of the Sun around midday. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus are up with them.Solar eclipse 9°55′ LeoA solar eclipse is a supercharged new moon — the Moon crosses in front of the Sun and a door slams open. Beginnings under an eclipse feel fated rather than chosen. What starts here tends to reroute the story.Mercury 29°56′ CancerMercury governs the moving parts: words, ideas, short trips, transactions. How you think out loud, how you listen, what holds your attention.Venus 7°16′ LeoVenus rules love, taste, money, and pleasure. What you find beautiful, who you reach for, how you receive. Less about romance per se and more about what you let in.Mars 10°41′ LibraMars is the engine — desire, anger, drive, sex. How you start things, what you defend, where you push back.Jupiter 1°29′ VirgoJupiter is the principle of expansion — where you grow, where you stretch, where you say yes. Also where you overdo. The placement describes the room you have to become bigger than you have been.Uranus 9°09′ GeminiUranus is the lightning bolt — sudden change, rebellion, the urge to break whatever has become too small. Where it sits in your chart is where you refuse to follow the script.

What it brings up

A new moon in Leo is a good start for anything that needs courage and an audience. The project with your name on it. The thing you want to make for the joy of it. Fear of looking foolish is the price of entry. Share a first draft with someone this week.

The eclipse

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A solar eclipse is a new moon close to the Moon's nodes, so the Moon covers the Sun for a while. Astrologers read it as a strong new moon: a door that opens, sometimes before you feel ready. Beginnings near an eclipse often take a direction of their own.

Eclipses come in seasons, about six months apart, and the story they start tends to run for a year or two. Watch what appears in the weeks around this one. The details usually make sense later.

Map of the Earth with the path of the total solar eclipse of August 2, 2027, from Spain and North Africa to the Arabian peninsula
Where on Earth the eclipse can be seen. The dark band is the path of the full eclipse. Eclipse map courtesy of Fred Espenak, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, from eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov. Public domain (NASA).

The planets it touches

Calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris, tropical zodiac. Updated Nov 6, 2026.

Where does the total solar eclipse in Leo fall in your chart?

9°55′ Leo sits in one house of your chart, and it may touch a planet you were born with. That house is the part of your life this total solar eclipse lights up. Solstice finds it in your chart and talks with you about it on the day.

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