Sky events · February 2026

Annular solar eclipse in Aquarius

12:11 UTC

Eclipse symbolism concentrates attention, and on February 17, 2026 that attention falls on friendship, systems, and the future a group is trying to make. The annular solar eclipse occurs in Aquarius; it can be read seriously without treating it as fate.

Peak, universal time
12:11 UTC
In the sign
Aquarius
The Moon stands at
28°50′ Aquarius
Sun or Moon covered
93% at most

A solar eclipse is also a new moon: the Moon passes between Earth and Sun and covers some or all of the Sun from particular locations. The geometry is exact on February 17, 2026; its symbolic meaning remains interpretive. For this annular solar eclipse, the tradition emphasizes a beginning whose full shape may take time to understand.

Aquarius supplies the subject: Aquarius sees how a personal choice connects to a wider pattern. The caution is that distance can make an elegant principle easier to serve than the people living with it. Around the February 17, 2026 eclipse, bring the larger idea back to the group, person, or practical change it is meant to help. Allow later events to add information before drawing a final conclusion.

Questions to carry

  • What is changing around friendship, systems, and the future a group is trying to make, even if you do not yet know what the change will become after February 17, 2026?
  • Where could you bring the larger idea back to the group, person, or practical change it is meant to help while leaving room for the eclipse story to unfold at its own pace?

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Behind this eventExact times, positions, sources, and method
Exact instant
2026-02-17T12:11:53.939Z
Ecliptic longitude
328.84° · 28°50′ Aquarius
Maximum obscuration
0.927
Fact source
eclipses.json, generated 2026-07-20

Instants and positions come from the site's astronomy engine and its committed yearly and monthly sky catalogs — the same data behind the Almanac and the daily horoscopes. Times are universal time; in the Americas an instant can fall the evening before the date printed. Sign-by-sign notes, where present, use whole-sign solar houses. The readings are a tradition being applied, not a forecast — the methodology page sets out both halves.