When the World goes Dark - Solar Eclipse in Aquarius
Welcome to Eclipse Season, where the light of our luminaries gets obscured, and I cringe when people talk about manifesting.
We normally get two eclipse seasons each year, and they generally occur in pairs on what would be the “normal” New Moons (Solar Eclipses) and New Moons (Lunar Eclipses). The next ones will be:
Solar Eclipse at 28°49’ Aquarius - 17 February 2026 at 13:01 CET
Lunar Eclipse at 12°5’ Virgo - 3 March 2026 at 12:37 CET
Traditionally speaking, eclipses are malefic events for the Sun and Moon, which is easy to understand when you remember that the luminaries give us life (Sun) and light the way at the darkest hours (Moon). And if you have ever experienced a total solar eclipse, you have a very somatic understanding of how it feels when the world goes dark, and nature falls quiet in the middle of the day. It’s a moment of disorientation, where time stands still and speeds up at the same time. They are by nature, disorienting.
Somatics and the Moon
There is something about the Moon that makes humans sing, paint, write and wolves howl.
We’ve always looked up to the Moon for light and guidance, and one of the things the Moon teaches us is how to live inside time. Not the kind measured by clocks, but the kind marked by hunger, fatigue, desire, and return. She is the keeper of cycles we cannot override but learn to honor.
In astrology, the Moon is not a symbol to decode but a relationship to tend. She describes the way we acclimate to being alive: how we respond before we think, how we care and are cared for, how safety is sensed long before it is named. The Moon is where astrology becomes intimate, where meaning moves from the sky into the body.