Solar and lunar eclipses
Eclipses come in seasons about six months apart, four to seven a year. This page explains each kind; the year pages list every eclipse with its time and degree.
Next eclipses
Times in Eastern Time (ET)
- Annular solar eclipse17°37′ Aquariusin 108 days
A ring of sunlight around the Moon along a narrow path; partial across a wider area of the day side. Look at the Sun only through eclipse glasses, at every stage.
What a solar eclipse in Aquarius stands for
A solar eclipse is a new Moon near a lunar node, so Sun and Moon both sit in Aquarius, a fixed air sign ruled traditionally by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus. In this symbolic language it reads as a reset in Aquarian territory: your ideas, your groups, your sense of where you belong. You might notice which beliefs are genuinely yours.
- Penumbral lunar eclipse1°58′ Virgoin 123 days
Visible wherever the Moon is up at the time, but faint: at most a slight shading of the full Moon, which many people never notice.
What a lunar eclipse in Virgo stands for
A lunar eclipse is a full Moon near one of the Moon's nodes, here with the Moon in Virgo, a mutable earth sign ruled by Mercury, and the Sun opposite in Pisces. Astrologers treat it as a brighter-than-usual contrast: the wish to sort, fix and refine set against everything that stays unsorted. You might notice where useful care has quietly turned into self-correction.
- Penumbral lunar eclipse25°57′ Capricornin 271 days
Visible wherever the Moon is up at the time, but faint: at most a slight shading of the full Moon, which many people never notice.
What a lunar eclipse in Capricorn stands for
A lunar eclipse is a full Moon near one of the Moon's nodes, where the Moon passes into Earth's shadow. With the Moon in Capricorn, a cardinal earth sign ruled by Saturn, and the Sun opposite in Cancer, astrologers read a familiar tension: what you've built and what holds you. You might ask which structures still shelter you, and which you maintain from habit.
- Total solar eclipse9°55′ Leoin 285 days
Total only along a narrow path where the Moon's shadow falls; partial across a much wider area of the day side. Look at the Sun only through eclipse glasses, except in totality itself.
What a solar eclipse in Leo stands for
A solar eclipse is a new Moon near one of the Moon's nodes, so Sun and Moon both sit in Leo, a fixed fire sign the Sun rules, and the Moon crosses in front of the Sun for part of Earth. In this symbolic language, that reads as a reset in how you want to be seen: what you make, what you claim, what you'd rather stop performing.
Eclipses from where you are
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Terms used here
- Total solar eclipse
- The Moon covers the whole Sun, seen from a narrow path on Earth.
- Annular solar eclipse
- The Moon is too far from Earth to cover the whole Sun and leaves a ring of sunlight around it.
- Hybrid solar eclipse
- Total along part of its path and annular along the rest, as the curve of the Earth brings the shadow closer or takes it away.
- Partial solar eclipse
- The Moon covers only part of the Sun, from everywhere it can be seen.
- Total lunar eclipse
- The whole Moon passes into Earth's dark inner shadow, the umbra.
- Partial lunar eclipse
- Part of the Moon passes into the umbra; the rest stays in the faint outer shadow.
- Penumbral lunar eclipse
- The Moon passes only through Earth's faint outer shadow, the penumbra, and darkens slightly.
Solar eclipses
A solar eclipse is a new Moon close to one of the lunar nodes — the points where the Moon's path crosses the Sun's — so the Moon briefly covers the Sun for part of Earth. Astrology reads that blocked light as a beginning whose shape isn't visible yet. You might notice where you've been running on habit, and let something start quietly, on your own terms.
Lunar eclipses
A lunar eclipse is a full Moon near one of the Moon's nodes, the points where its path crosses Earth's, when the Moon passes into Earth's shadow. Read as symbol, it's a full Moon with the volume raised: something you've been half-aware of becomes visible. You might try naming one feeling you've been managing rather than feeling, and see what it asks for.
The interpretations on this page were drafted with software assistance and checked against our voice guidelines by an automated reviewer.
Every eclipse, 2025–2030
- Total lunar eclipse23°58′ Virgo
- Partial solar eclipse8°59′ Aries
- Total lunar eclipse15°24′ Pisces
- Partial solar eclipse29°04′ Virgo
- Annular solar eclipse28°50′ Aquarius
- Total lunar eclipse12°51′ Virgo
- Total solar eclipse20°02′ Leo
- Partial lunar eclipse4°51′ Pisces
- Annular solar eclipse17°37′ Aquarius
- Penumbral lunar eclipse1°58′ Virgo
- Penumbral lunar eclipse25°57′ Capricorn
- Total solar eclipse9°55′ Leo
- Penumbral lunar eclipse24°04′ Aquarius
- Partial lunar eclipse21°33′ Cancer
- Annular solar eclipse6°10′ Aquarius
- Partial lunar eclipse15°15′ Capricorn
- Total solar eclipse29°50′ Cancer
- Total lunar eclipse10°34′ Cancer
- Partial solar eclipse24°49′ Capricorn
- Partial solar eclipse21°29′ Gemini
- Total lunar eclipse4°49′ Capricorn
- Partial solar eclipse19°37′ Cancer
- Partial solar eclipse13°45′ Sagittarius
- Total lunar eclipse29°18′ Gemini
- Annular solar eclipse10°50′ Gemini
- Partial lunar eclipse24°38′ Sagittarius
- Total solar eclipse3°02′ Sagittarius
- Penumbral lunar eclipse17°47′ Gemini
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How these times are computed
Every time here comes from our own engine, built on astronomy-engine, an open-source ephemeris, and checked against independent references: the U.S. Naval Observatory's Moon phases, NASA's eclipse canon and a second, independent ephemeris. The page is written in Eastern Time (ET); your browser shows the times in the zone you pick.
An eclipse's time is the moment of greatest eclipse. Its degree is the Sun's for a solar eclipse and the Moon's for a lunar eclipse. Where an eclipse can be seen depends on your location and is not shown here.
Astrology is a symbolic language, not a science: the positions are exact, and what they mean is interpretation.