The Solar Eclipse August 12th - What it means for you...
8/11/2026
Eclipses are saturated in lore. The ancients were not fond of them. Solar eclipses always fall on the New Moon when the dark Moon manages to be at the exact right angle to block out the Sun. Depending on where one is on Earth, the Sun will be blocked. This solar eclipse is happening over Europe and is in totality over the Atlantic Ocean, Greenland, Iceland, Northeastern Spain, and Portugal. It will be near-total across the rest of Europe (90–96%). It is a long eclipse of two minutes and eighteen seconds. Solar eclipses represent massive change. They happen at the New Moon, which represents new beginnings, but of course, new beginnings can only occur after a period of endings as well.
The US had two major total solar eclipses. The eclipse paths occurred from coast to coast, making an X over our nation. The first happened shortly after Trump took power, and the second just before he took power again. In that period, our country went through massive changes, not for the better as we all know. The X signature was deemed especially symbolic. It has not only brought us a period of intense karmic blowback, but it seems to have literally X-ed out the two hundred and fifty years of the US’s growing power in the world.
It seems like a bad omen for Greenland and Europe that the eclipse will be in totality and partial totality over that part of the world. After seeing the effects of the double solar eclipse over our nation. In the past week, the US has given the go-ahead to illegally drill for oil in Greenland while Trump is hellbent on grabbing the territory from Denmark.
In a personal horoscope, a solar eclipse conjuncting a person’s natal Sun is radical. I saw this happen to a close friend whose entire world was turned upside down the day after the eclipse. Everything in her life reversed itself. The change was necessary for her personal growth and, ultimately, for her greater good, but she went through a very difficult period before it happened.
Eclipses are often thought of in Western Astrology as super-charged New Moons, but they are more than that. They burn out the house or planet they come into contact with and reset the energy. They represent a massive change in that area of life. An eclipse in a house will show you where the changes in your life are going to happen. If there is a planet in conjunction, it is profoundly felt by the individual, and the affected planet bears the brunt of the change. An opposition to the eclipse acts as a balancing force to the planet it opposes. A square is felt as pressure to change the trajectory of the planet it is squaring. A trine facilitates change, and a sextile offers an opportunity for change.
If the eclipse is not touching any of your planets by aspect—meaning you have nothing at 15–25 degrees (20 degrees is the exact degree of the eclipse)—the house will give you an idea of where change is coming. It will also be much less dramatic and potentially go unnoticed. You may feel the energy of the Node at 29 Leo or Aquarius if you have a planet there or a planet in square, but it will not be as profoundly felt. The nodal conjunction will bring up shadow issues and feelings; in conjunction with the solar eclipse, it can give you the opportunity to push through those fears and face them.
The Sun is not only the giver of life and energy to our planet; in our natal chart, the Sun represents our vitality, life force, and ego. If the solar eclipse is happening on your natal Sun, this is a once-in-a-lifetime event. It will transform how you see yourself, and because of that, everything around you will change.
Solar Eclipse on your Moon: It will change how you feel about things and potentially the relationship with your mother (or wife, if you are a married man).
