. The Moon meets the Sun at 17°37′ Aquarius, close enough to a node that its shadow falls on the Earth.
Sun and MoonMercuryVenusSaturnNeptunePluto
The Moon crosses the face of the Sun around midday. Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto are up with them.Solar eclipse 17°37′ AquariusA 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 5°08′ PiscesMercury governs the moving parts: words, ideas, short trips, transactions. How you think out loud, how you listen, what holds your attention.Venus 3°31′ CapricornVenus 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.Saturn 10°46′ AriesSaturn is structure, discipline, time. Where you build slowly. Often felt as a hard teacher early in life and a wise one later. The placement describes the ladder you are quietly climbing.Neptune 2°28′ AriesNeptune dissolves edges — dreams, imagination, longing, fog. Where it touches your chart, things blur: inspiring at best, confusing at worst. It asks you to feel your way rather than think your way.Pluto 5°29′ AquariusPluto works underground — power, obsession, death-and-rebirth cycles. It moves slowly and changes things permanently. Where it sits is where life keeps composting you into someone new.
What it brings up
A new moon in Aquarius begins with other people and with the future. A group, a cause, a friendship, an odd idea that will not leave you alone. Your own way of doing things is the point. Join, or start, one thing this week that has people in it who think like you.
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.
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
North Node meets the Moon, about 3 degrees off.
Jupiter opposes the Moon, about 5 degrees off.
Calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris, tropical zodiac. Updated Nov 6, 2026.
Where does the annular solar eclipse in Aquarius fall in your chart?
17°37′ Aquarius 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 annular solar eclipse lights up. Solstice finds it in your chart and talks with you about it on the day.
