Transits, Patterns, and the Collective Unconscious
The New Moon on February 17, 2026 lands at 28 degrees Aquarius. It’s also a solar eclipse, which means this isn’t just a reset. It’s a reset with the volume turned up. Eclipses accelerate whatever the lunation touches, and what this one touches is the threshold of an era change.
This is the last New Moon before Saturn and Neptune conjoin at 0 degrees Aries on February 20. Three days later. The conjunction is already within a quarter of a degree when this eclipse hits. Whatever you plant here, it germinates inside the single most significant transit of the year. That’s not incidental. That’s the context.
New Moons are beginnings. Solar eclipses are beginnings that don’t let you look back. The intention you set here carries more weight than an ordinary lunation because the eclipse mechanism blocks the Sun’s light momentarily, creating a hard break in continuity. Something ends so something else can start. And this one asks you to start knowing the ground is about to move. Not in a month or a season. In days.
This week feels like:
The theme is transition with no clear landing zone. You can feel something enormous approaching but you can’t name it, plan for it, or control the timing. The buzzing under everything this week is real. It’s not anxiety. It’s the nervous system registering a shift before the mind catches up.
Numerologically, February is a Universal Month 3: creative expression and the voice. There’s an interesting tension here. The 3 wants to speak, to create, to connect. But the Uranus square is disrupting everything before it can take form. The creative impulse is there. It just keeps arriving sideways.
The Sun and Moon at 28 degrees Aquarius form a tight square to Uranus at 27 degrees Taurus. Orb of about 1.3 degrees. That’s close enough to dominate the chart.
Uranus square the New Moon means the seed you’re planting comes with a jolt. Something unexpected. A disruption to whatever plan you thought you had, or a sudden clarity that rearranges your priorities. Uranus in Taurus has been destabilizing material security, financial systems, the body, the relationship to the physical world since 2018. At 27 degrees, it’s deep into that work. The New Moon activates it directly.
This isn’t a soft, contemplative New Moon. It’s electric. The intention that wants to form here might not look like what you expected. It might arrive sideways, through a surprise, a piece of news, a conversation that shifts something. Pay attention to what disrupts your plans on or around this date. The disruption might be the message.
Aquarius and Taurus are both fixed signs. Fixed squares are stubborn. They don’t resolve quickly. The tension between “how things should work in theory” (Aquarius) and “how things actually work in practice” (Taurus) is the friction this New Moon lives inside. You might feel pulled between an ideal and a reality that won’t bend to it.
Not everything here is friction. Mercury at 16 degrees Pisces trines Jupiter at 15 degrees Cancer with an orb under a degree. That’s a clean, supportive aspect between the mind and expansion. Mercury in Pisces thinks in images, feelings, and impressions rather than linear logic. Jupiter in Cancer expands through emotional intelligence, nurturing, and rootedness. Together, they offer a channel for intuitive understanding that cuts through the noise.
If the Uranus square is the lightning, the Mercury-Jupiter trine is the quiet voice underneath it that says trust what you know in your gut. Not every signal this New Moon sends will be loud. Some will be subtle. The trine says the subtle ones might matter more.
Saturn at 0 degrees Aries. Neptune at 0 degrees Aries. Orb of 0.26 degrees and closing. By the time this New Moon is three days old, the conjunction is exact.
This means the seed you’re planting at the New Moon is already inside the new era. The 36-year Saturn-Neptune cycle that began in 1989 is ending. The new one is forming. Whatever intention you set at this lunation, it doesn’t belong to the old world. It belongs to what comes next. That might feel exciting. It might feel like the floor just dropped out. Both responses are honest.
Saturn crossing into Aries happened on February 14, just three days before this New Moon. Saturn hasn’t been in Aries since 1999. The collective energy is shifting from the boundaryless, dissolving quality of late Pisces into something harder-edged, more direct, more willing to initiate. This New Moon is the first lunation after that ingress. The first time we collectively plant a seed in this new soil.
Mars at 19 degrees Aquarius and Pluto at 4 degrees Aquarius add weight to the Aquarius side of this chart. The New Moon isn’t happening in a quiet sign. It’s happening in a sign that’s already loaded with collective intensity. Mars brings drive, urgency, the impulse to act. Pluto brings transformation, power dynamics, the undertow of forces larger than any individual.
This is an eclipse for collective intentions, not just personal ones. What kind of community do you want to build? What systems do you want to participate in? What structures deserve your energy and which ones have been coasting on your compliance? These are Aquarian questions, and with Mars and Pluto both in the sign, they carry heat.
The previous Aquarius New Moon fell on January 29, 2025, at 9 degrees Aquarius. Pluto had just entered Aquarius at 2 degrees. Neptune was still at 27 degrees Pisces. Saturn was at 17 degrees Pisces. The outer planets were in completely different positions.
That New Moon a year ago was the first full Aquarius lunation with Pluto in the sign. It seeded the early questions of the Pluto-in-Aquarius era: what happens when power restructures along collective lines? Who gets to define the group? What does individual identity mean inside systems that keep getting larger?
This New Moon at 28 degrees Aquarius is almost an entire sign later. The questions have matured. You’re no longer wondering whether the shift is real. You’re living inside it and trying to figure out what to build. The square to Uranus says: the answer won’t come from your comfort zone. It will come from the place that scares you a little.
The house where 28 degrees Aquarius falls in your chart shows where this eclipse plants its seed. Read for your rising sign. If you don’t know yours, find your rising sign with our free calculator. Your Sun sign will give you a general sense.
Aries rising. 11th house. Community, friendships, collective vision. A new chapter in your social world wants to begin, and it might begin with a disruption. Someone leaves, someone arrives, or the group you’ve been part of reveals itself as something different than you thought. The new seed is about who you actually want to build with.
Taurus rising. 10th house. Career, public role, reputation. The New Moon squares your rising sign directly. Something in your professional life gets shaken loose. A sudden opportunity, a change in direction, or the realization that the role you’ve been performing no longer fits. Plant the intention for the career that’s honest, not the one that’s safe.
Gemini rising. 9th house. Beliefs, education, publishing, travel. An old worldview is cracking open and a new one wants to form. The Uranus square might deliver this through an unexpected encounter, a book, a conversation with someone from a completely different framework. Let the disruption teach you.
Cancer rising. 8th house. Shared resources, intimacy, psychological depth. Financial or emotional entanglements shift. Something hidden becomes visible, or a power dynamic you’ve been tolerating reaches a breaking point. The seed here is about what you’re willing to go deeper into and what you need to release.
Leo rising. 7th house. Partnerships. The New Moon lands on your relationship axis. A new beginning in partnership, or a new understanding of what partnership actually requires from you. The Uranus square means the beginning might not look the way you expected. Let the relationship be surprising.
Virgo rising. 6th house. Health, daily work, routines. The architecture of your daily life is ready for a reset. Not a minor adjustment. The square to Uranus in your 9th house suggests that a shift in belief or perspective is what drives the change in routine. What you think is possible for your health or work life is expanding.
Libra rising. 5th house. Creativity, romance, joy, children. A creative impulse arrives with force. It might disrupt your sense of stability (Uranus in your 8th) but the disruption is the point. The new thing that wants to be made or the new love that wants to form doesn’t fit neatly into the existing structure. Make room.
Scorpio rising. 4th house. Home, family, emotional foundation. The ground beneath you is shifting. Literally or emotionally. A move, a family change, a renegotiation of what home means to you. The Uranus square from your 7th house says partnerships are part of the catalyst. What you build domestically affects what you build with others.
Sagittarius rising. 3rd house. Communication, daily environment, siblings, the way you process information. A new way of thinking or communicating wants to emerge. The Uranus square from your 6th house ties it to health or work. The disruption might come through the body or through a change in routine that forces you to articulate something you’ve been circling around.
Capricorn rising. 2nd house. Money, values, self-worth. What you own and what you’re worth is being renegotiated. The Uranus square from your 5th house means creativity, joy, or a romantic situation is the catalyst. Something pleasurable or expressive is pushing you to reconsider your relationship to resources. Value what actually matters to you, not what you’ve been told should matter.
Aquarius rising. 1st house. This is yours. Identity, body, the face you show the world. The New Moon conjuncts your rising sign area directly. A personal reset. A new beginning in how you present yourself, how you occupy space. The Uranus square from your 4th house means the disruption comes from deep inside, from family or emotional foundations. The new version of you isn’t just cosmetic. It’s structural.
Pisces rising. 12th house. The unconscious, solitude, dreams, hidden patterns. A quiet but powerful New Moon for you. Something is planting itself in the parts of your psyche you don’t have easy access to. Dreams might be vivid. Old memories might surface. The Uranus square from your 3rd house says pay attention to what you say out loud without thinking. That’s where the unconscious is leaking through.
This is the last lunation before the Saturn-Neptune conjunction rewrites the rules. And it’s not just a New Moon. It’s an eclipse. That makes it significant not because of pressure but because of timing and intensity. The seed you set now grows in the soil of whatever comes next, and the eclipse ensures the planting cuts deep.
The Uranus square means the intention might not arrive as a clean, polished sentence. It might arrive as an impulse, a disruption, a feeling you can’t quite name yet. That’s fine. Eclipses in Aquarius don’t need your intentions to be pretty. They need them to be real.
Sit with whatever is alive in you right now. Not what you planned to want. Not what you wanted last month. What’s actually pulling at you today, even if it doesn’t make sense yet, even if it arrived through a door you didn’t expect to open.
That’s the seed. Plant it. The ground is moving, and it needs something honest to grow.
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