Eclipse Season Preview
The 2nd eclipse season of 2026 will pack a punch. Are you ready?
The what, the where, the when and the how…
TLDR: Eclipses have been central points of astrological focus for all of written history and likely much longer. They occur in pairs (sometimes with a third) two weeks apart. One will initiate a severing or removal and one the start of something new. The placement of the eclipse will determine the general energetic signature and area of life where it will occur.
The first in this cycle is the severing portion. A solar eclipse in Cancer, specifically in the Temple of Secrets, followed by a lunar eclipse is Aquarius in the Temple of Liberation.
Look at your chart (sidereal) and find 25°48’ Cancer and 10°30’ Aquarius to know the areas of your life this season will impact the most.
In the U.S. chart this will be in the 8th house and then the 3rd house. This is likely to translate to a greater separation between lived experience and media promoted story. For example, the prices of gas and groceries versus the media saying everything is great. In this eclipse season, some people will further buy into the stories of the media and others will further reject it. This can create more feelings of separation and division in the collective.
Given the war that is escalating and the divorce of media and lived reality plus the additional pressure building on the grid. The invitation is to do what you can to be prepared and most of all find your emotional center.
-Ariel
The world and, more specifically, YOU, will experience a Solar eclipse on August 12th, 2026. The eclipse will occur at 25°48’ Cancer, and Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic Ocean, Spain, and a small corner of Portugal will witness a total eclipse. Other locations in the Northern Hemisphere will experience a partial solar eclipse that day, including parts of the northern U.S. (from Alaska to North Carolina), most of Canada, much of Europe, and northwestern Africa.
And a very lucky few (“luck” being relative, I suppose) in mainland Europe and Africa will have the opportunity to witness a partial eclipse at sunset. Quite unique indeed.
This will be followed (eclipses happen in pairs; more rarely, a third), by a Lunar eclipse on the 27th (11:15 PM Central) of August at 10°30’ Aquarius.
debates rage among astrologers (and probably always have) as to whether or not one feels the effects of an eclipse if that person ⸺ or in the case of mundane astrology, a nation ⸺ is not in the observable path of that eclipse. It’s been my experience that everyone (and every nation) indeed does feel the effects. The degree to which depends on the birth chart, timing as it relates to what planets are currently “charged” for the individual or nation, and where the eclipse falls relative to the preceding two points.
As an eclipse involves an interaction and relationship between the Sun, Moon, Earth and the Lunar nodes, Ariel and I understand them as karmic events. If the idea of karma is not your jam, you can think of them triggering fated situations and circumstances. We incarnated here in order to learn lessons that ostensibly could not be learned otherwise, and eclipses are a timing mechanism of sorts that trigger events and circumstances that enable us to confront those lessons. How we in fact deal with those inevitable confrontations (karma or, fate) is what we would call free will.
The teasing apart of this one concept alone, that is, the interaction of fate, karma and free will, could occupy the lion’s share of your life’s contemplation. What is the dividing line between fate and free will? Why this fate (or karma) and not another? Do I truly have free will? Or is the idea of free will just a comforting idea (the true “opium of the masses”) that enables a conscious being to go on participating in a meaningless simulation? The truth is, there is no outside authority who can answer this for you. It’s an experience that has to be lived. And, it’s my opinion that it’s a lived experience that can be uniquely approached by swan diving headlong into eclipse energy. Facing all the good, the bad and the ugly the eclipse triggers with reckless abandon. Is there truly any other way to live?
Riddle me this…
It was the late, great, Terence McKenna who once quipped, “You know, sometimes people ask me if DMT is dangerous, and the honest answer is: only if you fear death by astonishment.”
Truth is though, you can experience astonishment quite easily even outside of the DMT experience proper. I say “proper” because even the most ardent anti drug crusader produces DMT quite endogenously. Every living thing on earth does. Which is, in itself, quite astonishing to me. And a rather hilarious cosmic joke at that. Regardless of the incredibly complex chemical process that produces the sense of astonishment, one sure fire way to trigger that response, free of ducking-and-diving the DEA’s schedule I list, is to consider that we can experience such an event as an eclipse in the first place. The math and “coincidences” involved are, well… astonishing.
At the heart of every eclipse is a statistical “impossibility” that just so happens to be. Our Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but it is also 400 times closer to Earth. This perfect ratio allows the Moon to obscure the Sun with near-exact precision; neither too large nor too small, but in a just right, Goldie Locks situation so as to create one of the most breathtaking phenomena known to man.
Coincidence? Let’s break it down, and consider the odds involved.
The Sizes & Distances of the Sun and Moon
Diameter of the Sun: ~864,938 miles
Diameter of the Moon: ~2,159 miles
Ratio of their sizes: The Sun is 400.6 times wider than the Moon
Average distance from Earth to the Sun: ~92,955,807 miles (1 AU)
Average distance from Earth to the Moon: ~238,855 miles
Ratio of their distances: The Sun is 389 to 400 times farther away than the Moon (depending on their elliptical orbits).
This near-perfect 1:400 ratio means that from Earth, the Moon and the Sun appear to be exactly the same size in the sky, allowing for total eclipses to occur.
If the Moon were just a little closer or a little farther away, (or of a different size) the entire phenomenon of a just perfect total eclipse would not exist. Instead, we would only ever witness partial eclipses (if the Moon were smaller or farther away) or annular eclipses (if it were larger or closer). The sheer “coincidence” of these numbers aligning in such a perfect way is staggering.
Study astrology long enough and the sheer volume of these mathematical and harmonic “coincidences”, together with their ability to predict and reflect lived experience on earth, will bend your mind just as assuredly as skillfully administered psychedelics.
Which, by the way, is precisely why those who wish to control the masses (i.e., governments and the banking elite who puppet them), vilify both psychedelics and the occult with such psychopathic fervor. Because your waking up and asking inconvenient questions is a threat to their masquerade of legitimacy.
But what does it all ⸺ eclipses and the astonishing set of “coincidences” that produce them ⸺ mean?
I take it to mean that our culture has accumulated a profound degree of knowledge. Classifications and data and labels and just-so “facts”. AI being the crowning achievement of this accumulated knowledge. And, along the way, humanity has lost a depressingly equal degree of wisdom. That is, the ability to deploy knowledge skillfully in the pursuit of (capital T intended) Truth. Chalk it all up to being mired in the Kali Yuga. But whatever the cause of that wisdom bankruptcy, here we are.
And yet, individually, we can, if we so choose, reclaim that which leads directly to wisdom; our wonder. And in that wonder we can explore and investigate ideas that our “rational” and “knowledgeable” society has deemed snake shit crazy. That which ought not be considered worthy of legitimate inquiry, if you’re, you know… rational and knowledgeable.
Aside from the fact that our “rational” and “knowledgeable” society might want to take a long look in the mirror vis-a-vis the state of our current world before making such proclamations, I propose a deep, DEEP contemplation on what this eclipse might mean for you.
I get that any religious text can be spun a thousand ways from Sunday, but I challenge you to empty your mind of whatever “rational” and “knowledgeable” inclinations you have regarding the “coincidences” of The Sun, Moon and Earth and whatever Western science has to say (in a smug, rather matter-of-fact tone) on the metaphysical meanings of an eclipse. I mean, you can always scurry back to those scientific “facts” if you begin to hyperventilate in your “irrationality”. You could instead, if you choose, take a red letter cue from Jesus:
Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 18:3–4
I obviously don’t expect you to take my interpretation of a mystical text as THE interpretation. That, in my opinion, is the very nature of mystical texts; that YOU contemplate them and come to your own conclusions. But what I see the kingdom of heaven as being, at least in part, is wisdom itself. And wisdom, unlike knowledge, is not something you merely ingest and regurgitate so as to please or gain some favor from someone or some entity you’ve erroneously assumed to have some manner of control over you.
So we have a couple of choice points as it relates to this coming Solar eclipse. We can experience it as:
A meaningless convergence of random happenings between the 3rd rock from a roiling mass of nuclear fusion and an inert hunk of spacerock, all hurdling through an inconsequential void…
OrA breathtakingly, mind-boggling, God as expressed in unimaginable mathematical precision that implies an as above, so below correspondence between the smallest subatomic particle and the infinite Universe. With you in the middle of it all.
If you’ve been with us through the years, or if you’re new here and read this far, I’m guessing that no amount of spoon-fed mass distraction, bread-and-circuses or Kabuki political theater could ever take your eyes off the prize of teasing out the magic that’s embedded in the everyday natural world.
So if we use this coming eclipse as a phenomenon of the natural world that’s worthy of deep contemplation, how best could we go about that?
For starters, consider the idea of karma (or fate, if you will), and the lessons that you chose to engage in during your time at earth school. You can think of this in a literal sense, or as simply a metaphor of understanding a larger principle that resides beyond our limited capacity to conceive of the ultimate Truth.
Where this eclipse falls in your birth chart will trigger events in your life over the next 6 months that have the feel and tone of the issues represented by that placement. The magnitude of that impact depends on a multitude of factors, yes. But where it falls (specifically, in what house) is always indicative of the types of issues you’ll encounter. That’s the personalized “what” of the cycle. How you navigate those issues, and the potential outcomes, are also shown in the chart. Within that band, more or less, is where the aspect of “free will” comes into play.
As everyone’s (and every nation’s) chart is a wholly unique tapestry, booking a reading is the surest way to gain insight into the nature of the issues you’ll be encountering over the next 6 months. No matter when we do readings we always look at where the previous eclipse season hit as well as the next upcoming. Because those energies are always present for the individual. Like an inflow and outflow of the tides, each eclipse season merges into another.
Looking at the upcoming eclipses in broad strokes we see that the Solar eclipse is a Ketu (or south node) event, with the Lunar eclipse being a Rahu (or north node) happening. This gives us our first hint of the nature inherent in each of the eclipses, as Ketu signifies energies that must come through to initiate an ending, while Rahu propels us toward new experiences. I’ll run through a quick example using the US chart in the next section if you’re curious as to how Ariel and I, in part, interpret how these energies play through in a given chart
In general though, every entity in this Universe is in a constant state of flux. Nothing is static. And, broadly speaking, that flux is a combination of old energies leaving the system while new energies are being brought in. In a human (and in nations, too), those are experienced as old patterns, ideas, relationships or ways of being that are no longer useful to forward progress that are coming up for resolution (represented by the Ketu eclipse), and those new patterns, ideas, relationships or ways of being that we’re being asked to encounter, absorb, transmute and, ultimately, learn from. It’s an ongoing and never ending cycle.
And, too ⸺ broadly speaking ⸺ the Sun represents our (or a nation’s) purpose and vitality. Our creative or generative power. The paternal line and/or authority. With the Moon representing our “I AM” statement; the maternal line, our unconscious mind, feelings, and reactions. For a nation, the Moon represents the same qualities in the collective, or “the people”. They are the two of the three primary forces that make up a unique “personality”. You cannot know an individual (or a nation) without first gaining a firm grasp of the Sun, Moon and Ascendant.
Viewing the upcoming eclipse season through the lens of the US chart
Astrological predictions are not made in a void. Roughly speaking, they are the result of one part astrological know-how, one part understanding the preexisting energies present in the system (person or, in this case, nation), and one part what we might call “intuition”. That is, of the multitudes of energies entering and commingling with energies already circulating in the system, which are the ones that will hit a resonant chord with one another, and how will that new resonance play out in reality? If you go back to when we first started making our predictions public you’ll find an impressive batting average. It’s why we and our clients are prepared for the coming storm. And no doubt, there is a storm churning.
Every entity undergoes periods where a certain combination of planets (including the lunar nodes) are highly charged and even more influential in the life experience of that entity than would otherwise be the case. I wrote about this previously, but in the case of the United States currently, Rahu and Ketu are those charged influences, and they will remain so until April 10th, 2027. The result of this, in addition to layering on an eclipse season, is kind of like what a Super el Nino is to your run-of-the-mill variety. That alone should grab your attention. I will say this, though: the Universe never spins-up chaos out of the blue to drop in your lap. She offers up sign after sign after sign of what’s to come. That you heed the signs are up to you. That’s the free will part. And this building situation is no different. The signs are very clear and present.
More specifically, the Solar eclipse on August 12th will occur in the US 8th house and, as mentioned previously, at 25°48’ Cancer. In the Lunar Temple of Secrets. In an interesting twist, the natal US Moon rules the 8th house from her position at 7°14’ Aquarius, on the cusp of the 3rd. Pretty much a bullseye hit for the following Lunar eclipse on the 28th at 10°30’ Aquarius, in the US 3rd, in the Lunar Temple of Liberation. So we have a heavy 3rd and 8th house emphasis upcoming.
The first step in understanding what an eclipse has in store is to understand the houses in which they occur. That said, It’s tough to write good sales copy for the 8th house of the zodiac. If you took a poll of all the things people collectively find terrifying or otherwise repugnant you find them all huddled there in the 8th. And those things will be illuminated to the nth degree over the next several months in the US.
Seen through that lens, then, the current confrontation with Iran can only turn increasingly more ugly and will have severe repercussions that will reach our shores. Economically, this is very troublesome. It’s liable to pull the linchpin that’s somehow still keeping the economic house-of-cards standing. And, Unfortunately, we cannot ignore transit Uranus applying into a return to his natal position in 6th house Taurus. That being the area of rank-and-file military and first responders. This points to continued confrontation/military action “over there”, and on our shores. And, too, this does not preclude the potentiality of natural disaster. Earthquakes and/or flooding most likely. Both natural and man-made crises could happen concurrently. Either planned in that way, or a “coincidental,” luck of the draw.
As always, I’m hesitant to write these things because it does absolutely no good to be dumbstruck into inaction by doomsday fear mongering. The point is not to succumb to full-on, deer-in-the-headlights inaction. The point is to take some time to think through the things you can do to prepare for rough sailing, actually do said things, and then go on living your best life.
Back when I lived on the North Carolina coast’s “hurricane alley”, worst case scenario prepping was the antie paid for living in an otherwise beautiful place. It’s just part of life in that area to prep for being completely shut off from 1st world amenities for extended periods. Just take some time to think through the things you and yours need to get through an extended period of empty shelves and no Amazon, no power, no comms, and no public utilities. Then, actually put that plan into action. Being even 3 days up in this area is miles ahead of being completely unprepared.
The other ⸺ and possibly the most important ⸺ preparation you can do is to practice emotional and psychological centeredness. This combination of a 3rd and 8th house eclipse season (in addition to an already boiling over US chart) means that the collective’s ability to remain centered will be tested. I don’t know exactly what will be revealed, or what we will be forced to confront, but it will require an emotional and psychological maturity to weather the storm. Quick situational adaptation is key in chaotic situations, and you cannot effectively do that if you’re emotionally and psychologically scattered.
Another 3rd house emphasis marker of note is the fact that the US experienced a progressed New Moon in the 3rd house (28°42’ Aquarius) in March of 2024. Meaning the US is undergoing a 30-year theme of wrangling 3rd house issues. Communication networks (and the info and propaganda supplied via those networks), internal supply chains and their support networks (roads, bridges, railways, ect.), the power grid, public utilities (including AI as a public utility); all of these will be stressed and transformed during this period. You can put the surveillance economy in this basket, too.
Here is one example of a scenario I see forming, and that will be experienced by the collective (that is, reach a critical mass) triggered by this upcoming eclipse season. AI is fast becoming (or already has become) the de facto arbiter of knowledge for the population at large. Not wisdom (that’s unique to consciousness), but knowledge. And knowledge is, by its nature, prioritized into an assigned value hierarchy. One of the facets of wisdom is the ability to prioritize knowledge in a meaningful way so as to edge ever closer to Truth. Now, what happens when that knowledge prioritization has been co-opted?
Imagine a scenario where this knowledge prioritization has been co-opted by governments. Or more specifically, by those entities that control governments. Now, imagine a scenario in which, in order to gain an edge, trading systems (stocks, futures, derivatives, etc.) are devised that buy and sell based on immediate AI interaction. You immediately have a world then, that mirrors a reality as described by Hans Christian Andersen’s, The Emperor’s New Clothes. A steady stream of “truths” spoken by government officials and prioritized by AI as “fact”. AI powered trades are initiated by AI powered trading schemes to capitalize on those AI prioritized “facts”.
One example of how that plays out currently is the curious case of oil futures trading at a stupid low valuation given the fact that wars are raging (Iran, Russia and the Ukraine) and the major flow routes for oil along with major refineries are effectively shut for business. You feel the drastic pinch of inflation at the store and at the pump, yet the “official” story (and the story AI has prioritized) is that inflation is non-existent. What “truth” do you believe? What you actually experience, or what you’ve been told to believe?
Given the energies already present in the collective, this is, in my mind, a legitimate 3rd house/8th house/eclipse scenario. And the same holds true across the commodities markets in general. Especially so, as it pertains to gold and silver prices. They, too, being crazy low given the current global chaos.
Oil prices are just one example of how this 3rd house/8th house interaction plays out in the collective. But if you begin to pay attention to what prominent heads-of-state (Trump being just one example) say, and the actual reality surrounding the topic they’re speaking about, you’ll begin to question if they and you actually inhabit the same reality. My point is ⸺ and this will be illuminated during the upcoming eclipse season ⸺ that there is a reason behind that. Whether it’s a result of stupidity, incompetence or malfeasance, the end result is that there is a narrative being spun that’s completely divorced from reality. Are you going to believe the narrative, or what you actually experience?
And more to the point, are you actually experiencing the world without the “aid” of an electronic interface?
You might ask what ⸺ if any ⸺ upside is there is to all of this? And my answer is that we are all, to the best of our abilities, learning to be sovereign individuals. Sovereign in mind, body, spirit and soul. And the first step toward true sovereignty is holding emotional and psychological center amidst the chaos that you cannot otherwise control. You can plan, prep, and “batten the hatches” for the physical experience. And I highly recommend you do just that. But the call is to do the same preparation for the emotional and psychological upheaval to come.
— Keith