Dear friends,
Welcome to Eclipse Season, the Year of the Fire Horse, and the start of a new Saturn-Neptune cycle that runs for 35 years.
The New Moon in Aquarius ushers in these events on Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at 7:00 AM Eastern US time. The chart — which you can scroll down to view! — is a remarkably tight, highly focused “bundle” pattern, with nearly all of the planets crowded in between the degrees of 4 Aquarius and 24 Aries, and tucked into the Twelfth, First, and Second Houses of the chart when cast for Washington, DC.
Many of the planets are in duets or triplets: pairs or trios located at the same degree of the same sign, making all the same aspects in quick succession. These include the Sun and Moon, perfectly conjunct at 28 degrees, 49 minutes Aquarius; as well as Vesta and Mars both at 19 Aquarius; Venus and the North Node both at 8 Pisces, with Pallas Athena by their side at 7 Pisces; Saturn and Neptune both at 0 Aries (preparing to get married on February 20th); and Ceres, Chiron, and Eris holding hands at 20, 23, and 24 Aries respectively.
Because the planets in Aquarius, Pisces, and Aries are placed so close together, the only big configuration in this New Moon Eclipse sky is a T-square formed by outliers Juno in Capricorn and Jupiter in Cancer along with Chiron and Ceres in Aries. This T-square shoots disruptive energy into the middle-Libra section of your natal chart. Meanwhile, the other outlier, Uranus in Taurus, is still conjunct the fixed star of beheading. The fact is, it is anybody’s game.
Prepare for more shocks, surprises, breakthroughs, the unveiling of mysteries. and disruption of norms and expectations: everything we’ve been seeing in the world since Neptune, God of Dreams, pierced through the fog and entered into Aries on January 26th — now amped up! The sky is only going to get more passionate and insistent, now that we’re officially in Eclipse season and entering the time of the Fire Horse in Lunar astrology.
The last Year of the Horse in the element of Fire took place in 1966, a time of protest movements and civic unrest here in the United States. Fire Horse people are charismatic, unpredictable, bold, and frisky. In the year ahead, collectively, we’ll be blazing new trails and (thank Heavens!) blazing them QUICKLY. It’s a great year for self-reinvention.
To add to all this: on Friday, February 20th, three days after the New Moon Eclipse, Saturn and Neptune are getting married on the World Point of 0 Aries: 0 degrees, 45 minutes, to be precise. The God of Structure and the God of Dreams meet only once every 35 years, and this time they are meeting on the very FIRST degree of the whole Zodiac. In addition to seeding a new 35-year cycle around the psychological work of individuation and awakening — Saturn and Uranus will activate all of our Draconic charts, which illustrate our personal mission and purpose in life.
If you’d like to learn more about the energies of the New Moon in Aquarius, the winter Eclipse season, your Draconic chart, and/or the Saturn-Neptune conjunction, I invite you to join me on Monday evening, February 16th, 2026, at 7:30 PM Eastern for a very special edition of my monthly New Moon webinar!
Wishing a very happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate!
Big hugs, Anne
The New Moon in Aquarius
Chart for Washington, DC
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
7:00 AM Eastern US time
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