On February 17th, 2026, we have a powerful solar eclipse at 28 degrees of Aquarius, marking one of the most important astrological events of the year! This is a preview of an entirely new chapter that begins when the lunar nodes shift into Aquarius and Leo later this year.
Solar eclipses are supercharged new moons! They create a powerful reset point in whatever area of life the eclipse touches. Solar eclipses plant seeds that take 6 months to 18 months to fully bloom. What begins now, carries long-term significance!
The 28th degree of Aquarius places this eclipse in the final degrees of the sign. This means themes that have been building for a long time are now reaching a completion point. Late degrees in any sign carry a sense of urgency. It brings lessons that must be learned, cycles that must close, and decisions that can no longer be postponed. This eclipse asks us to resolve something about our relationship to community, technology, freedom, and the future before we can move forward.
What makes this eclipse important is its connection to 3 major astrological events happening around the same time.
First, the lunar nodes are preparing to shift into Aquarius and Leo later in 2026, meaning this eclipse is activating the axis that will dominate our collective story for the next year and a half. Second, Uranus (the modern ruler of Aquarius) sits at the final degrees of Taurus, squaring this eclipse and preparing for its own major sign change into Gemini over the summer! Third, Saturn and Neptune are forming an exact conjunction in Aries just three days after this eclipse, beginning an entirely new 36 year cycle in how humanity relates to dreams, reality, structures, and spirituality. All of this happening around an eclipse creates a rare concentration of transformative energy!
The Rulers of This Eclipse: Saturn and Uranus
Every eclipse, full moon, and new moon has planetary rulers that color its expression. This Aquarius eclipse has two! Uranus as the modern ruler and Saturn as the traditional ruler. Understanding both planets helps us grasp the full range of what this eclipse might bring.
Uranus represents sudden change, liberation, innovation, rebellion, and breakthrough. It’s the planet of electricity, technology, and the future. Uranus is revolutionary! When Uranus is active, expect the unexpected! Plans get disrupted, but new possibilities emerge that weren’t visible before. Uranus currently sits at the final degrees of Taurus, the sign it has been in since 2018, revolutionizing our relationship to money, the body, the environment, and material security. Its square to this eclipse adds volatility and unpredictability to whatever the eclipse initiates. Something unexpected is coming, and it may arrive suddenly!
Saturn represents structure, responsibility, limitation, time, and maturity. It’s the planet of consequences, hard work, and lasting achievement. Saturn builds things that endure, but it also enforces restrictions and demands accountability. At the time of this eclipse, Saturn has recently entered Aries, beginning a new 2 1/2 year journey through the sign of initiation and individual will. As the traditional ruler of this eclipse, Saturn grounds the Aquarian idealism in reality. Dreams MUST become plans. Visions MUST become structures. Freedom MUST be earned through responsibility.
Uranus wants to break free and innovate without limits. Saturn wants to build carefully and respect boundaries. This eclipse asks us to hold both. It asks us to embrace change while building sustainable structures, to seek freedom while accepting responsibility, and to envision the future while dealing with present realities.
The Saturn-Neptune Conjunction: A New Dream Begins
Three days after this eclipse, on February 20th, Saturn and Neptune form an exact conjunction at 0 degrees of Aries. I have a whole breakdown on this transit here. This is the beginning of a new 36 year cycle in how humanity relates to dreams, reality, spirituality, imagination, and structure. Saturn-Neptune conjunctions are historically associated with major shifts in collective beliefs, the rise and fall of ideologies, and moments when illusions either become reality or dissolve entirely.
This new cycle beginning in Aries (the sign of new beginnings and individual initiative) means we’re entering an era where personal dreams meet personal responsibility, where spiritual visions must be grounded through individual action, and where the boundary between imagination and reality becomes something each person must navigate consciously.
The eclipse happening JUST before this conjunction means that whatever the eclipse initiates is immediately met by this new Saturn-Neptune energy. The seeds planted during eclipse season will grow within this new paradigm where dreams require discipline and visions demand practical application.
5 Major Themes of This Solar Eclipse in Aquarius
The Future of Community and Belonging
Aquarius governs how we form groups, networks, and communities beyond our immediate family and friends. This eclipse asks us questions about where we belong, who we align with, and how we contribute to something larger than ourselves. Many will experience shifts in their friend groups, professional networks, or social circles. Some relationships that felt stable may suddenly feel misaligned, while unexpected connections may form with people who share your evolving values.
The late degree of this eclipse indicates that these aren’t new questions. They’re questions you’ve been unconsciously processing for some time. Now they demand conscious attention and decision. You may need to leave a group that no longer represents who you’re becoming. You may need to commit more fully to a community you’ve been keeping at arm’s length. The eclipse illuminates where your social life needs realignment with your authentic self.
Technology and Human Connection
Aquarius rules technology, and this eclipse arrives at a moment when artificial intelligence, social media, and digital communication are reshaping human interaction.
Questions that arise now might include:
- How do we use technology to connect rather than isolate?
- What role should AI play in our lives and work?
- How do we maintain human authenticity in an increasingly digital world?
The Uranus square amplifies these themes, potentially bringing sudden developments in technology that change how we work, communicate, or relate to each other. This could manifest as breakthroughs that excite us or disruptions that concern us. It could also be both at the same time. The eclipse asks us to become more conscious and intentional about our relationship with technology.
Individual Freedom vs. Collective Responsibility
The Aquarius-Leo axis that the nodes are moving into later this year represents the tension between individual creative expression and contribution to the collective good. This eclipse previews that tension, asking us to examine where we’ve prioritized personal desires at the expense of community well-being, or where we’ve sacrificed individual needs to fit in with groups that don’t truly represent us.
Healthy Aquarian energy honors both individual uniqueness and collective belonging. The shadow side either rebels against all structure in the name of freedom or loses individual identity in conformity to group thinking. This eclipse illuminates where we’ve fallen into either extreme and invites recalibration toward balance.
Innovation and Disruption
With Uranus squaring this eclipse from the final degrees of Taurus, themes of innovation and disruption are especially strong! Taurus rules finances, resources, the body, and material security. Uranus here has been creating instability in these areas since 2018. The square to this eclipse may bring financial surprises, changes in how resources are distributed, health revelations, or shifts in what we value.
The positive expression of this energy is breakthrough, like sudden solutions to problems that have seemed uncontrollable, innovations that create new possibilities, and liberation from situations that have felt stuck. The challenging expression is disruption without resolution, chaos without constructive direction, and change for its own sake without consideration of consequences. This eclipse asks us to embrace necessary innovation while staying grounded in practical wisdom.
Visions for a New Era
The Saturn-Neptune conjunction happening immediately after this eclipse means that questions of vision, imagination, and collective dreams are POTENT. What future are we creating together? What structures do we need to build to support our highest aspirations? How do we stay inspired while remaining realistic?
This eclipse may bring moments of vision and glimpses of what’s possible, alongside sobering awareness of what building that vision actually requires. We’re being asked to dream concretely, imagine practically, and hold visions that are inspiring because they’re achievable through sustained effort.
Potential Challenges During the Solar Eclipse in Aquarius
Information Overwhelm and Confusion
The combination of eclipse energy, the Saturn-Neptune conjunction, and Uranus square creates conditions where information (both true and false) flows rapidly! Distinguishing reliable information from misleading content will be especially difficult around this time. Wait before acting on news or revelations that arrive during eclipse season. What seems certain in the moment may shift as more information emerges.
Sudden Friendship or Group Changes
Eclipses on the Aquarius-Leo axis often bring sudden shifts in social dynamics. A friendship you’ve had for years might suddenly feel wrong, or you might realize a group you’ve been part of no longer represents your values. These realizations can be painful, but they’re meant to be liberating! The challenge is navigating the immediate disruption while trusting in the longer-term alignment.
Technology Failures or Disruptions
With Uranus squaring this eclipse, unexpected technology problems are possible, from personal device issues to broader infrastructure disruptions. Back up important files, have contingency plans for work that relies on digital systems, and don’t schedule critical technology-dependent events during the eclipse window if possible.
Financial Volatility
Uranus in the final degrees of Taurus squaring this eclipse may correlate with financial surprises in markets, in personal finances, or in how resources are distributed. This is not a time for major financial decisions if they can be postponed. Stability and caution serve better than speculation around eclipses.
Ideological Conflicts
Aquarius can be strongly ideological and committed to visions of how things should be. This eclipse may intensify conflicts between people or groups with different visions for the future. Political polarization could become more intense. The challenge is to hold your own values while remaining open to perspectives that differ from yours.
Feelings of Not Belonging
As the eclipse stirs questions about community and social connection, many may experience heightened feelings of not fitting in anywhere. This is especially true if your social environment has shifted or if you’ve outgrown groups you once felt at home in. The loneliness is temporary and serves the purpose of redirecting you toward more authentic belonging.
Anxiety About the Future
Aquarius is future-oriented, and this eclipse may amplify both hope and anxiety about what’s coming. The Saturn-Neptune conjunction adds a layer of uncertainty. Dreams feel both more possible and more fragile. If future anxiety intensifies during this period, grounding practices and present-moment focus become especially important.
Rebellion Without Direction
The Uranian influence on this eclipse can produce urges to break free from constraints (jobs, relationships, commitments) without clear direction about what you’re moving toward. Impulsive decisions made purely from the desire to escape might create problems. Distinguish healthy liberation from genuinely limiting situations and reactive rebellion that creates new problems.
Collective Tension and Unrest
Historically, eclipses in Aquarius have correlated with periods of social unrest and protest. People may feel called to express dissatisfaction with current structures. While this can be healthy and necessary, it can also produce conflicts that escalate beyond original intentions. Awareness of this tendency helps navigate the collective atmosphere.
Spiritual Disillusionment or Confusion
The Saturn-Neptune conjunction following this eclipse can dissolve illusions that have supported people’s spiritual or philosophical frameworks. Beliefs that once felt solid may suddenly feel questionable. This is ultimately a clearing process that makes room for more authentic faith, but the initial experience can feel destabilizing.
5 Benefits of This Solar Eclipse in Aquarius
Liberation from Outdated Social Obligations
The eclipse’s activation of the Aquarius-Leo axis offers freedom from social situations that no longer serve your growth. Relationships maintained purely from obligation, group memberships that drain rather than nourish, or friendships built on who you used to be rather than who you’re becoming, can all be released during this period. This eclipse provides both the clarity to see what needs to end and the energy to make necessary changes.
Breakthrough Innovations and Solutions
Uranus squaring this eclipse can bring genuine breakthroughs like sudden insights that solve longstanding problems, innovations that create new possibilities, and unexpected developments that open doors that seemed permanently closed. Stay alert and flexible during eclipse season! The universe might present solutions through unlikely channels.
Authentic Community Connection
As the eclipse clarifies where you don’t belong, it also reveals where you do! New friendships may form with people who truly see and appreciate you. Existing relationships may deepen as superficial dynamics fall away. Groups aligned with your authentic values may become visible. The eclipse clears space for genuine belonging by releasing inauthentic connection.
Clarified Vision for the Future
The Saturn-Neptune conjunction following this eclipse can crystallize visions that have been fuzzy or overwhelming. Dreams become plans! Aspirations find structure. What you want for your future may become clearer than it has been in years! This clarity provides direction and motivation for the work ahead.
Fresh Perspective on Personal Freedom
This eclipse invites reconsideration of what freedom actually means to you. Sometimes we pursue forms of freedom that don’t actually make us happy. We might rebel for the sake of rebelling, fall into independence that becomes isolation, or nonconformity that becomes its own prison. This eclipse can reveal more authentic forms of freedom that honor both individual needs and meaningful connection.
What We Might See in the World
- Major announcements or developments in AI that spark both excitement and concern about implications for employment and human creativity.
- Significant cryptocurrency or digital currency developments, either major gains, crashes, or regulatory changes.
- Breakthrough in renewable energy technology or major commitment by governments or corporations to clean energy initiatives.
- Widespread technology infrastructure issues like internet outages, satellite problems, or cybersecurity incidents affecting major systems.
- Launch of new social media platform or major changes to existing platforms.
- Mass protests or demonstrations in multiple countries, potentially connected by shared themes around freedom, fairness, or future direction.
- Unexpected political shifts or sudden changes in leadership.
- Significant developments in international alliances or organizations.
- Stock market volatility, particularly affecting technology and financial sectors.
- Major central bank announcements or changes in monetary policy that affect global markets.
- Climate or weather events that focus attention on environmental issues.
- Potential for earthquakes.
- Major corporate scandal or revelation.
Tips for Navigating This Solar Eclipse in Aquarius
Don’t Make Major Decisions Immediately
Eclipse energy is POWERFUL, but it’s murky! Information that emerges during eclipse windows is often incomplete, and emotions run higher than normal. If possible, wait two to four weeks after the eclipse before making major life decisions. Let the dust settle and the full picture emerge!
Practice Digital Boundaries
With Uranus squaring this eclipse, technology can be VERY overwhelming or disruptive. Consider reducing social media consumption during the eclipse week. Limit exposure to news cycles that may be particularly chaotic. Use technology intentionally rather than reactively. Your nervous system will thank you for the boundaries.
Connect with Trusted Community
While this solar eclipse may disrupt some social connections, it’s not a time to isolate entirely. Reach out to people you trust! Share what you’re experiencing. Connection grounds the nervous system and provides perspective during uncertain times. Just be selective. Spend time with people who genuinely support you, not those who amplify anxiety or drama.
Ground in Your Body
Aquarius energy can be very mental, all about ideas, visions, and abstractions. The Uranus square adds nervous system activation. Counter this by grounding in your physical body. Walk in nature. Exercise. Cook nourishing food. Get enough sleep! Physical grounding creates stability amid the mental and emotional intensity eclipse seasons can bring.
Journal Your Visions
The Saturn-Neptune conjunction following this eclipse can bring moments of genuine insight and vision. Capture these by writing them down! You may not understand their significance immediately, but six months from now, what you wrote during this period could provide valuable guidance. Eclipse seasons plant seeds and journaling helps you track what seeds were planted.
Stay Flexible
The Uranus influence on this eclipse guarantees that some things won’t go according to plan. Rather than fighting this, build flexibility into your expectations. Have backup plans! Allow extra time for travel or important commitments. Approach disruptions with curiosity rather than frustration when possible. Sometimes the detour is more important than the destination!
Full Moon in Aquarius July 29th: The Revelation
The seeds planted during this solar eclipse will most-likely culminate around the full moon in Aquarius on July 29, 2026. Full moons illuminate what was hidden. They bring emotional peaks and culmination points. They show you what you couldn’t see before. This particular full moon on July 29th is loaded!
Conjunct Pluto: The Transformation Completes
When the moon meets Pluto, emotions become volcanic! There’s no surface level anything. Secrets surface. Power dynamics that have been simmering finally boil over or finally resolve. There’s a ruthless honesty to Pluto. It strips away pretense.
In Aquarius, this conjunction asks what has to die in the collective sphere for something more authentic to emerge. What friendships have run their course? What groups no longer align with who you’re becoming? What ideals have you outgrown? What hopes for the future were actually someone else’s hopes that you adopted without questioning?
By July 29th, you’ll know in your body what this February solar eclipse was trying to birth. And you’ll probably feel the weight of everything that had to be released for that birth to happen!
Opposite Jupiter in Leo: The Identity Question
Jupiter in Leo expands the ego, the creative self, and the part of you that wants to shine individually. Leo asks what makes you special, unique, worthy of being seen?
The opposition to the Aquarius moon conjunct Pluto creates an axis of tension between individual significance and collective contribution. Between creating for personal glory and creating for the greater good.
This isn’t an either/or though. Oppositions ask for integration. The full moon might reveal where you’ve been hiding your individual gifts because you were afraid of standing out from the group. Or it might show you where ego has been getting in the way of genuine contribution. The pull between these forces wants to find a third way, expressing your unique brilliance in service of something larger than yourself!
Jupiter expands whatever it touches, so this opposition could feel dramatic, even theatrical. Big feelings about recognition, creativity, and your place in the world versus your place in community.
Trine Uranus in Gemini: The Mental Breakthrough
Here’s where the magic happens! Uranus created chaos and friction in February. It now flows harmoniously with the full moon. Trines are gifts, but they’re gifts you have to reach out and accept. They offer ease if you’re willing to work with the energy.
Uranus in Gemini trine this moon means that by July, you’ve integrated new ways of thinking that make the whole eclipse journey make sense! Information that felt fragmentary in February has coalesced into understanding. Communication breakthroughs are possible. Sudden insights arrive that connect dots you didn’t know were related.
The nervous system has adjusted to changes that felt overwhelming in February. What was disruptive has become stimulating. What was scary has become exciting.
This trine means that the transformation you’ve been undergoing finds intellectual expression by July. You can articulate what you’ve been through. You can share what you’ve learned. The revolution has found its voice!
The Deeper Themes of This Cycle
Authenticity versus Belonging
Aquarius has always carried this wound: the desire to be accepted by the group while also being unwilling to compromise who you are to fit in. This eclipse cycle is going to press on this wound HARD. You may find yourself in situations where authentic self-expression costs you certain relationships or group memberships. OR you might discover communities where you can finally be your full weird self without editing!
The Evolution of Hope
Aquarius rules hopes, wishes, and dreams for the future. With Pluto involved, those hopes are undergoing transformation. Some dreams will die this cycle. Not because the universe is cruel, but because they were never really your dreams to begin with. What replaces them will feel more real, more earned, and more connected to who you’re actually becoming.
Technology and Its Discontents
On a collective level, Aquarius rules technology, innovation, and progress. With this eclipse square Uranus and the full moon in July conjunct Pluto, expect significant developments in how we relate to technology. The shadow side of innovation may become impossible to ignore. OR breakthroughs might emerge that change the game entirely. Probably a bit of both.
The Nervous System and Collective Trauma
Uranus and Aquarius both rule the nervous system. Pluto rules trauma and transformation. This cycle might bring collective nervous system activation, like events that trigger widespread anxiety, upheaval, or awakening. The trine at the end means we have the capacity to integrate and adapt, but the journey there might be rocky.
How to Work With This Cycle
In February: Hold your vision loosely. Be willing to be surprised. Notice what feels like it’s breaking down without rushing to fix it. Pay attention to where you feel alienated or suddenly don’t fit. Let yourself not know what’s happening yet.
March through June: Stay curious about the transformation in progress. Journal about power dynamics in your friendships and communities. Notice what you’re outgrowing. Be honest about where you’ve been performing belonging rather than actually belonging! Let some things die so something real can be born.
In July: Trust what surfaces at the full moon. Let yourself feel the depth of the Pluto conjunction without running from intensity. Find the balance between your individual expression and your collective contribution. Share what you’ve learned. Let the Uranus trine bring mental clarity and new ways of articulating your experience.
This is a cycle about becoming more authentically yourself within the context of community. It’s about finding your people while also finding yourself! It’s about letting old hopes die so hopes that actually fit who you’re becoming can emerge.
The square at the beginning means it starts with friction. The trine at the end means it can resolve into something generative! What happens in between depends on how willing you are to be transformed.
The Start of the Year of the Horse
Alongside this powerful solar eclipse, we have the lunar new year! This ushers in the year of the horse. We have a solar eclipse in Aquarius and the beginning of the year of the horse all happening at once. In Chinese astrology, each year is ruled by one of twelve animals, and they cycle through in order. The Horse represents vitality, passion, spontaneity, and a refusal to be contained. Horses are action-oriented, social, and naturally charismatic. They don’t overthink. They gallop forward with enthusiasm and faith!
A Horse year is traditionally a time of movement and progress. We are moving from the year of the snake which brought a year of shedding, transformation, introspection, and wisdom. Now, the Horse brings momentum! Things that were stuck begin to move. Travel, career changes, relationship shifts, and creative projects all tend to accelerate during Horse years. There’s an almost irresistible pull toward freedom and adventure.
The shadow side of Horse energy is restlessness or recklessness. It’s the tendency to charge ahead without considering consequences. But at its best, Horse energy is about courageous action informed by genuine passion!
When Revolutionary Thought Meets Wild Movement
The eclipse in Aquarius and the Year of the Horse arriving at the same time is like having two complementary forces amplifying each other! Aquarius provides the vision and blueprint for something new. It’s the intellectual spark that says, “What if we did things differently?” The Horse provides the engine. It’s the willingness to actually MOVE, to take risks, and run toward something new without needing all the answers first.
Together this brings a “manifesting moment”, when inspiration and action naturally align! This is potent energy for beginning new projects, especially ones that feel aligned with who you authentically are. It’s ideal timing for leaving behind situations that have constrained your freedom, for speaking up, and for taking that leap you’ve been planning. The universe is supporting forward motion!
What This Means
On a personal level, eclipses bring clarity about direction. Combined with Horse energy, you might find yourself suddenly clear about what you actually want, and you feel ready to pursue it! Opportunities might arise unexpectedly. Doors that seemed closed open suddenly.
On a collective level, this alignment often brings breakthroughs in technology, policy, or cultural shifts. We might see innovations accelerate or movements gain unexpected momentum.
The key is understanding that this energy isn’t pushing you toward any particular destination, it’s activating your ability to move toward what genuinely calls to you. The Horse doesn’t follow someone else’s path, it creates its own! Aquarius says the old rules don’t have to apply.
So, what have you been postponing? What version of yourself have you been holding back? Where in your life do you secretly wish for more freedom or authenticity? Now is not the time for timid steps. It’s a time to think BIG, trust your instincts, and move in the direction of your true calling! The universe is literally providing the energetic support for that kind of courageous pivot.
For rising sign messages: read them here!
A Look at Trump’s Chart as This Eclipse Impacts His Chart Personally
I wanted to discuss Trump’s chart because this eclipse is directly impacting him, and I found his chart and his progressed chart VERY interesting! I am in no way a Trump supporter. I will make that clear. This is just an overview for educational purposes and because I do believe he is apart of this collective turning point!
This solar eclipse is happening on Trump’s Descendant. This points to a chapter closing in how he deals with enemies, partners, and the public as a reflection. The Descendant isn’t just about other people, but it’s also about how he projects himself and the parts of himself he doesn’t acknowledge but sees through other people. Something about his relationship to “the other side” is coming to a breaking point.
What’s also interesting is he has his natal Mara in Leo in the 1st house. This is powerful (Leo is showy, commanding, royal), sitting in the house of identity and physical presence. This is the aggressive performer, the man who leads with fighting as a show. The eclipse on the Descendant is aimed at this Mars. This means the audience, the enemies, and the partners are no longer acting like they’re supposed to. The pattern that has kept his identity strong through opposition (needing enemies to feel powerful) might change in a serious way. This could manifest as enemies becoming allies, or allies could reveal themselves as enemies. The relationship field gets scrambled for him.
Mars also rules his 9th house, which covers courts and belief systems. It’s also about legitimacy in the deeper sense, like the right to lead, and the values that justify power. With the eclipse opposing the ruler of his 9th, questions about whether he deserves power get stronger. This could show up literally in court cases reaching important moments, but the real issue is whether the belief system that supports him stays solid or breaks down. Foreign affairs matter here too, like relationships with other countries or international crises that force confrontation.
Mars also rules his 4th house, which is about foundation, endings, and death. The 4th is where things finish. It’s the final place. An eclipse stressing the ruler of someone’s 4th house raises questions about what he’ll leave behind, what lasts, and whether the ground beneath him holds. This could affect home policy, national security, or real estate. Emotionally, it’s about whether the foundation stays strong.
With this eclipse square Uranus, this creates instability specifically when it comes to his career and legacy. Uranus has been transiting his 10th house, tearing down and rebuilding his public image. This has at times been helping him through disruption, and other times weakening his authority. At the time of the eclipse, Uranus is moving away from his Midheaven, meaning the biggest period of change in his career has mostly passed, but the effects continue. The eclipse challenging Uranus means that whatever relationship crisis happens will affect his public standing directly, and the consequences will be unpredictable.
Uranus has also been square his natal Mars, the same Mars this eclipse is opposing for him. This brings a pattern of sudden action and explosive anger. He acts without thinking, often hurting himself, because Mars-Uranus transits don’t plan, it just explodes. There’s real risk of quick decisions that create big, unintended problems. These problems are public and professional.
At this time he also has transit Venus conjunct the North Node in his 8th house. They are trine his natal Mercury in Cancer in the 12th house. This can bring a sense of ease for him when it comes to handling hidden money matters, backroom deals, or arrangements with other people’s money. Venus brings charm and negotiation. The North Node means this is something he’s meant to learn. Since Mercury rules his 2nd house (his own money and values) and 11th house (his network, political allies, his goals), this indicates that private money talks could help his personal wealth and his supporters at this time. Money flows through channels no one sees. Whether this is smart strategy or problematic corruption depends on your view. For me, I lean on believing that he’s working behind the scenes to make deals to try to save himself at this time. It feels problematic.
Now, this eclipse on his Descendant brings things into the light. Eclipses reveal hidden things. The comfortable hidden money deals moving smoothly through private houses MIGHT get exposed by the harsher and tougher energy happening at the same time.
Something else worth noting is he has Chiron moving through his 9th house, coming into an exact square to his natal Saturn in Cancer in the 12th. This introduces pain around authority, the right to lead, and being locked up. Saturn in the 12th is heavy. It can indicate loneliness, institutions (including prisons), hidden enemies, and burdens he carries alone. Saturn here often means someone who fears being trapped, who experiences loneliness as something built into his life, and who might face institutional punishment later. (Not always the case, but it can be an indicator when it’s harshly aspected) Chiron challenging this from the 9th means the pain gets triggered through courts or belief systems. This is slow pressure that touches his deepest fears about being limited and controlled.
Saturn also rules his 6th house (employees, daily work, health, duty) and his 7th house (relationships and enemies), so staff problems, health issues, or work problems connect to this pain. People who work for him could become legal or institutional risks. There’s an old, deep problem in his relationships that Chiron is now touching.
He also has transit Mars moving through his 7th house right now, approaching a trine to his North Node in Gemini in the 11th. This brings active fighting into relationships but directs it toward his bigger network and political path. This is fighting that has a purpose. Enemies energize his supporters, and confrontation clarifies who’s with him. The Gemini North Node wants variety, communication, and flexibility. Mars feeding it indicates aggressive talk or fighting rhetoric that actually strengthens his supporters, at least for now. This can indicate conflict becoming his strength.
So what does this mean for politics?
This whole month of February is a month with more public fights (legal, diplomatic, or political) and these fights matter because they touch his basic right to lead, his public power, and how he sees himself against enemies. The eclipse on his Descendant reflects a specific event or relationship reaches a crisis point, something that forces people to choose, they are either with him or against him.
Uranus means surprises. Something unexpected breaks the expected pattern. This could help him (Uranus sometimes frees) or hurt him (because it can also destroy), but he can’t control it. The volatile Mars-Uranus energy reflects fast reactions to whatever happens, and those reactions might make things worse instead of better.
Meanwhile, hidden money and political dealing continues. Money flows, deals happen, alliances form privately. The question is whether the eclipse’s revealing nature exposes any of this, or whether the shadow work stays hidden.
The Chiron-Saturn challenge is slow institutional and legal pressure activating fears of being trapped. This might not make big news in February specifically, but it definitely creates background stress that affects how he responds to the bigger, more immediate transits.
The Mars trine to his North Node means his supporters stay fired up through fighting. Whatever happens, the fighting itself fits his political identity. He’s not weakened by having enemies, it fuels him.
This eclipse could trigger an ending he can’t control, Uranus creating an event he can’t spin, leading to a reaction that makes it worse. The protection is the flowing trine keeping money and hidden support available, and the Mars-North Node, keeping his supporters engaged through the fight itself.
It’s a risky setup with both danger and possibility, but the eclipse-Uranus challenge is the unpredictable part that makes it hard to predict. But something will change in how he relates to politics.
A Look at Trump’s Progressed Chart
In his progressed chart, Pluto is conjunct the MC in Leo. When Pluto conjuncts the MC in the progressed chart, it signifies something much larger than one person moving through the individual. This isn’t just “Trump becomes more powerful.” It’s that Pluto (representing the underworld, collective shadow, compulsive evolutionary pressure, death and rebirth) has arrived at the most visible point in his progressed chart and is using him as a tool.
Leo on the MC adds the royal dimension. This is power that demands to be seen, that identifies with solar authority, and that believes itself to be the center around which everything else revolves. Pluto here doesn’t create a modest king. It creates a figure who embodies absolute authority as identity. The danger is obvious…Pluto in this position can produce the tyrant archetype, the figure so fused with power that he can’t tell the difference between his own interests and cosmic will. Pluto on an angle, particularly the MC, represents a kind of fate. He becomes a vessel for collective transformation whether he understands this or not.
His progressed ascendant is in Scorpio. Scorpio rising in a progressed chart makes him Pluto-ruled in his progressed identity. His progressed chart ruler in modern astrology is Pluto, and Pluto sits exactly on his progressed MC. There’s no separation between identity and power, between who he is and his authority. This kind of fusion is mythologically important. What happens to him happens to the realm. What happens to the realm happens to him. This creates a deep vulnerability even as it generates enormous power. If identity is fused with authority, then any threat to authority is a threat to existence itself.
Right now his progressed Moon is also in Scorpio in the progressed 1st house. He feels this in the body. It’s not just intellectual worry about political opposition, it’s survival-level fear that operates beneath conscious thought. Scorpio Moon experiences threat constantly because it knows that power structures can collapse, that death is always present, and what exists can be destroyed. This Moon doesn’t trust and cannot relax.
The square from this Moon to Mercury in Leo in the 10th house reveals the internal split. Mercury in Leo in the 10th wants to announce invincibility. The Scorpio Moon knows this is a performance covering terror. The square means these two parts of the psyche can’t communicate effectively with each other. The public voice doesn’t know what the emotional body knows. Statements emerge from the Leo Mercury that the Scorpio Moon immediately recognizes as dangerously exposed. There’s a constant feeling of having said too much, revealed too much, while at the same time being forced to keep speaking, keep announcing, and keep performing the invulnerability that the Moon knows is false.
This is a setup for paranoia. He’s right that threats are everywhere. He’s right that people close to him may betray him. The Scorpio Moon and rising, combined with this much power concentration, attract exactly the kind of hidden opposition he fears. Pluto on the MC makes enemies. Plutonian power is threatening to everyone around it, and those who feel threatened will try to undermine him. Hhe’s suspicious because threats exist, and threats exist partly because his suspicion creates them.
Now add Saturn in Leo in the progressed 10th house, making a square to the Ascendant-Descendant axis…Saturn here is the structural limit on power, the reminder that even authority operates within constraints. Squaring both the Ascendant and Descendant, Saturn creates pressure on identity and relationships at the same time. The self encounters limitation. Others represent limitation. There’s no direction to turn that doesn’t involve confrontation with time, consequence, mortality, and law.
Saturn in Leo is a difficult placement because Saturn restricts what Leo needs to express. The glory is blocked. The confidence is undermined by awareness of inadequacy. Saturn here often shows up as authority that secretly doubts itself, that performs certainty while experiencing deep insecurity about whether it deserves what it has. The square to the angles externalizes this. The doubt isn’t just internal, it’s reflected back by the world. Challenges to legitimacy keep arising because Saturn keeps asking the question, by what right do you rule?
The Venus-Jupiter connection in Libra in the progressed 12th house is his hidden power. The 12th house is the house of secret enemies, self-destruction, imprisonment, exile, and dissolution. It’s also the house of spiritual growth, spiritual liberation, and connection to the infinite. Venus and Jupiter here (the benefic planets) means there’s something genuinely protective operating in the hidden realm. There are allies he doesn’t know about. There’s good fortune working through invisible channels. There may be genuine spiritual support or simply the luck of having enemies who are less capable than they appear.
But the 12th house is tricky because its gifts often come through surrender, dissolution of ego, and accepting limitation rather than fighting it. Venus and Jupiter here might only fully activate if he can access the 12th house mode of being, which would require letting go of the very power that the MC Pluto insists on accumulating. The lucky planets are there, but they may be unreachable as long as the ego remains completely identified with authority.
Libra on this connection emphasizes relationships, justice, and balance. The hidden grace might come through a relationship, like someone who represents a real ally rather than the business alliances of political life. Or it might come through justice in some unexpected form, the legal system producing an outcome that seems bad but actually provides liberation. The 12th house often works through apparent misfortune that turns out to be blessing. Loss that is actually freedom. Imprisonment that is actually protection.
Now if we add the February eclipse into this progressed structure…
The eclipse in Aquarius opposes his natal Mars in Leo in the 1st house. In the progressed chart, Leo rules the 10th house where Pluto sits on the MC. So the eclipse is opposing a planet whose sign rules the most charged house in his progressed chart. The natal Mars and the progressed MC are connected through Leo. Whatever the eclipse activates in terms of confrontation and conflict directly touches the power structure even though the aspect is to the natal chart.
The eclipse hitting natal Mars sends a shockwave through the entire system, and that system now includes a progressed MC with Pluto in the sign Mars occupies natally.
On the Descendant, this eclipse could bring a completion in how he relates to others, whether it’s the end of a chapter in his relationship to enemies, partners, or the public as mirror. Something about the pattern of opposition that has defined his political existence is reaching its end point. This doesn’t mean enemies disappear, but it could mean the nature of opposition transforms. New enemies may emerge, or existing enemies may become something else, either more dangerous or neutralized.
The square from the eclipse to transiting Uranus in his 10th house, with Uranus moving away from connection to his natal MC, brings the unpredictable element into the power center. Uranus has been in his 10th house for years now, revolutionizing his public role, creating sudden rises and sudden crises. The connection with the MC represented the peak of this influence, a period where his very identity as a public figure was being electrically rewired. Now moving away, the most intense phase is past, but Uranus still occupies the 10th and the eclipse makes a square to it.
Like I’ve been mentioning, a square from an eclipse to Uranus is volatile. It reflects an unexpected event, a development that comes from outside the expected parameters, or an intervention that changes everything. In the 10th house, this is public and career-related. Something happens that disrupts the power structure in ways no one anticipated. This could be external (a geopolitical event, an economic crisis, a technological disruption) or it could emerge from within his own administration, a defection or revelation that nobody saw coming.
The Uranus energy doesn’t respect hierarchy or continuity. It breaks what has become too rigid. With the eclipse making a square to it from his Descendant, the disruption enters through the relationship axis, through others, through enemies, and through partners. Someone does something unexpected that changes the game.
Looking at the big picture…
Mars in Leo in the 1st house is his ego-warrior. It’s the part of him that fights to exist. This natal Mars is under attack from the eclipse and connected to Uranian volatility through the square. His instinct will be to fight, to assert, and to dominate through force of will, but the eclipse is an overwhelming force. You can’t fight an eclipse, and Uranus doesn’t respond to Martian aggression. It disrupts whatever aggression tries to control.
The danger here is that his Mars (which is his default response mechanism) is exactly the wrong tool for navigating what the eclipse brings. Mars wants to attack, but the eclipse requires acceptance of ending. Mars wants to control, but Uranus cannot be controlled. The harder he fights, the more he may trigger the very disruptions he’s trying to prevent.
Meanwhile, the softer transits continue operating. Venus and North Node in Pisces in his 8th house, making a harmonious connection to natal Mercury in Cancer in the 12th. Water flows to water. Hidden to hidden. This is the undertow beneath the visible drama. Resources moving through channels no one sees, communications happening in private, debts being called in or forgiven, and inheritances (literal or metaphorical) changing hands. Mercury rules his 2nd house (money) and 11th house (allies and political networks), so these hidden movements affect his material resources and his coalition. It can reflect that this hidden work goes smoothly even while the public domain is chaotic. Deals get made. Support materializes. Money moves. The 8th house is other people’s resources, so this is likely not his own wealth but access to wealth through others like donors, allies, or institutions that share resources with him. The North Node here means this is karmically important, a direction of growth, and something he’s meant to be doing even if it operates entirely in shadow.
But here’s the tension the eclipse reveals…whatever moves through the 8th house may not stay hidden. The eclipse on the Descendant illuminates relationship dynamics, and the 8th house is fundamentally relational. If the eclipse exposes something in the relational field, the 8th house operations could become visible.
Chiron in Aries making a square to his natal Saturn in Cancer in the 12th house adds the wound. Chiron in the 9th house wounds his relationship to legitimacy, to the legal and philosophical structures that authorize power. The square to Saturn in the 12th means this wound connects to his deepest fears of confinement, isolation, and institutional power being used against him. Saturn in the 12th is the nightmare of the prison, literal or metaphorical. Chiron making a square to it says that this wound is active now, this fear is being triggered, and there may be no healing available, only the presence of pain.
Saturn ruling his 6th house means the wound manifests through subordinates, through the functioning of his administration, and through his body. Staff turn against him. Operations malfunction. Health deteriorates. These are expressions of a deeper wound around being trapped and limited by structures he cannot control.
The traditional rulership of Saturn over his 7th house connects this wound back to partners and enemies. The people who oppose him may be instruments of the Chironic wound, activating his Saturn fears whether they intend to or not.
Mars moving through his 7th house and making a harmonious connection to his North Node in Gemini in the 11th is the one clearly beneficial setup for conflict. Mars here energizes opposition, but the trine to the North Node means the opposition serves his destiny. Enemies activate his growth. Conflict clarifies his path. The Gemini North Node in the 11th house wants multiplicity, communication, and network-building, and Mars in the 7th provides energy to pursue these through combat.
This is the dynamic that has always worked for him politically…conflict as fuel. The more he fights, the more his base consolidates. The more enemies attack, the more his coalition defines itself in opposition to those enemies. The Mars-North Node trine means this dynamic continues to function even in the midst of everything else.
This setup describes a figure at the absolute peak of power who is at the same time more vulnerable than ever before! Pluto on the progressed MC is maximal authority. The eclipse opposite Mars, and the square with Uranus is maximal disruption. The progressed Scorpio Moon and rising feel the threat at the cellular level. The Saturn pressures enforce structural limitation. The progressed Venus-Jupiter in the 12th offers hidden grace that may require ego death to access.
The question I sit with is whether he can access the 12th house lucky planets consciously. Venus and Jupiter in Libra in the 12th indicates there’s another way through this but it involves surrender, relationship, justice, and hidden grace. But the Pluto-MC identification with power makes surrender almost impossible. How do you let go when your entire progressed identity is fused with authority? How do you access the gifts of the 12th house when the 10th house Pluto demands you never show weakness? The eclipse may force this question. If he cannot voluntarily release whatever the eclipse is completing, it may be taken from him. And if it’s taken rather than released, the Scorpio Moon experiences this as death, not because physical death necessarily occurs, but because ego death feels identical to physical death for a psyche this identified with power.
The Uranus square is the wild card that prevents prediction. Uranus could intervene in ways that save him from consequences, it could produce the unexpected ally or the technological shift or the geopolitical distraction that changes the game. Or Uranus could produce the unexpected betrayal, the system failure, or the revelation that unravels everything.
What I can say is that February is a convergence point where multiple cycles culminate at the same time. The eclipse brings the crisis. The progressed Pluto on MC represents years of power accumulation reaching their peak expression. The Scorpio rising and Moon show a psyche operating in survival mode beneath the surface. The Saturn pressures enforce accountability. The hidden lucky planets offer grace through surrender.
This is a setup for historical transformation that operates through an individual but is not ultimately about that individual. Whatever happens serves something larger than any single human agenda. Pluto on the MC makes him an instrument of collective shadow.
The outcome is genuinely uncertain because free will operates within fate, Uranus disrupts prediction, and the 12th house lucky planets represent resources that could change everything if accessed. But the direction of pressure is clearly toward transformation, the end of something, and the destruction of what cannot continue unchanged.
So with that being said. This solar eclipse arrives at a pivotal moment in collective evolution. The themes it activates (technology and humanity, individual freedom and collective responsibility, innovation and stability, vision and practicality) are the themes that will define the coming years. What begins now may not fully unfold for months or even years, but the seeds are being planted.
As the nodes prepare to shift into Aquarius and Leo, as Uranus prepares to move into Gemini, as Saturn and Neptune begin their new 36 year cycle, we’re not just experiencing an eclipse, we’re experiencing a changing of the guard. Old patterns are completing. New patterns are beginning. The transition is rarely comfortable, but it’s necessary for evolution.
Whatever this eclipse brings to your personal life, approach it with patience, flexibility, and trust. The disruptions serve purposes that may not be immediately clear. The endings make room for beginnings. The uncertainty creates space for possibilities that couldn’t exist in a world where everything was already decided.
Take care of your body, stay connected to trusted community, give yourself time before making major decisions, and remember that eclipse seasons always pass. What remains when the intensity fades is the genuine growth, the authentic relationships, and the aligned directions that emerged through the temporary chaos. The future is being born! If you’d like to read your rising sign messages for this solar eclipse, you can do so here!