February 17, 2026 marks a powerful threshold: a Solar Eclipse New Moon in Aquarius, arriving alongside the Lunar New Year and the beginning of the Year of the Fire Horse. This essay explores what it means to begin without certainty, to move forward without abandoning yourself, and to release old agreements that no longer fit who you’re becoming. Less about reinvention and more about coherence, this New Moon asks what you’re ready to set in motion now that you know better, and what kind of future you’re willing to stand behind as the path unfolds.

As Capricorn Season winds down, we meet a late-degree Capricorn New Moon that feels less like a fresh start and more like a moment of reckoning. Ruled by Saturn, this is a threshold Moon asking for honesty, discernment, and a clear-eyed look at what we are carrying forward. With Venus entering Aquarius ahead of the Sun and Mars still anchoring us in Capricorn, this lunation invites a pause to assess our commitments, relationships, and goals, not through ambition, but through sustainability. What remains now is not what was rushed or performed, but what has proven itself over time.

The Dark Moon in Scorpio arrives like a invitation to slow down, breathe, and descend into the deeper waters of ourselves. With Mercury Retrograde stirring up old conversations and buried feelings, this New Moon is not a clean slate. It is a reckoning. The astrology of this moment asks us to be brave enough to open the vault we locked long ago, to acknowledge the stories we tried to outrun, and to release the emotions we pressed down in order to survive.

The New Moon on October 21st arrives at the final degrees of Libra, closing the eclipse portal and opening a new cycle. At its heart, this lunation is about conscious relating — finding balance between self and other, and choosing connection rooted in truth instead of illusion. With an exact opposition to Chiron in Aries, squares to Jupiter and Pluto, and the pressure of a rare Yod, the cosmos is asking us to examine the patterns that keep us off balance. Two days later the Sun enters Scorpio, adding depth to Libra’s call for harmony. This New Moon invites us to reset, rebalance, and begin again with clarity.

On August 23rd, the Virgo New Moon arrives as both Sun and Moon cross into Virgo, marking not just a seasonal threshold, but a spiritual one. This lunation is especially potent—falling at a critical degree, and as the first of two Virgo New Moons in succession, it amplifies themes of recalibration, service, and healing. Virgo’s energy asks us to clear what no longer supports us, refine the habits that sustain us, and return to rhythm rather than perfection.