Month: February 2026

Solar annular eclipse – 28 Aquarius. The Sabian Symbol for this eclipse is a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis. This implies a process is underway and there is no turning back. It’s the start of a new chapter. New Moon is always associated with beginnings. The planting of seeds. What will emerge?

In the final degrees of Aquarius, the focus is certainly connected to society and social order. Saturn rules this eclipse and at 0 degrees Aries conjunct Neptune this is another powerful indicator of a new social order emerging. The sextile with both Uranus and Pluto adds to this story of new beginnings. Letting go of past and embracing the new.

This eclipse is part of Saros Series 10 North. This series concerns itself with frustrations or inhibiting events that concern a person’s life connected to news or paperwork. The person may feel tired and drained. Good to take things quietly and work through difficulties one at a time.

Jesse Jackson – US civil rights activist – has died today on the solar annular eclipse. Eclipse opposed POF in 8th. Pressure from Saturn opposed Neptune in 8th since April 2025 to Jan 2026. Immune system compromised. Uranus opposed Venus and conjunction to Saturn and Uranus. Also pressure building with Pluto opposition. End of a chapter in a remarkable life.

This eclipse falls on the degree denoting Sabian Symbol – butterfly emerging from a chrysalis.

Accountability. This is what this time is about. Taking responsibility for your actions especially if they have been harmful to others.

Solar annular eclipse on 17 Feb 2026, triggering USA chart and that of Trump.

Conjunct Moon in US chart in 3rd – ordinary people in communities. What needs to change when we consider things like transport, schools and communication?

This eclipse opposes Mars on Asc of Trump chart. A certain danger?

William Lily in 16th C noted that solar eclipses in last 10 degrees of Aquarius tells of death of cattle. In SA, we are struggling with an outbreak of foot and mouth disease – a viral disease associated with blisters or lesions found mainly on hooves and lips or mouths.

A system unravelling. Death of the boys club? The rich, powerful elites across the world that the system protects instead of protecting the most vulnerable.

This chart indicates that you are not content emotionally within yourself. This creates tension in your relationship. There is pressure in this chart financially – personal and joint resources connected to debt and the home and family responsibilities. Are you living beyond your means? What sacrifices and adjustments do you need to make at home? Is it time to move or downsize? How will these changes impact your children and schools/community?

There is a lot going on here as Saturn moves into Aries for the final time and will stay there until April 2028.

Saturn is fallen in Aries. Saturn teaches us about discipline and structure and the need to take responsibility for our actions. What we realise is that sometimes our actions can be harmful to others. Saturn teaches us about boundaries and the need to say no – this is not working for me. We are now very close to the exact conjunction with Saturn and Neptune on 20 Feb 2026. Neptune dissolves structures that are no longer fit for purpose. The veil is lifted – what is revealed? What did we not want to see? How is this connected to our belief system?

Apartheid was a system of oppression that dissolved with the collapse of communism and a changing world order. When Saturn was last in Aries, the Constitutional Court approved the constitution on 4 Dec 1996 and this became the supreme law of the land. With autocratic power rising across the world this is a document we need to fight to protect individually and collectively.

As we contemplate the next Saturn Neptune conjunction, what of the government’s liberation policies are outdated and need to be reimagined? Lies and deception will cause the collapse of the system. There are many South Africans that are disillusioned with our current political trajectory.

So Neptune asks what sacrifices we are willing to make individually and collectively to meet our new ideals? What actions do we need to take individually and collectively to achieve our long-term potential? None of this is easy but it is certainly possible. It will take dedication and commitment to achieve the dream – the rainbow nation. We seem to have drifted off course. If we remain in victim mindset, we will not make progress. It is time to heal individually and collectively and to take responsibility for our own journeys. It is up to us individually to be the change we want to see in SA and the world. Never underestimate the power of a small action to change the world. Now is the time.

“When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order”.

Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist Ilya Prigogine. His work on dissipative structures and non-equilibrium thermodynamics explains how order can emerge from chaos.

Concepts

Far from Equilibrium: The system is unstable, chaotic, in crisis and this allows for potential transformation.

Small Islands of Coherence: Small groups, initiatives or individuals who align with focus, and who operate in a higher state of consciousness can create change.

Shifting the System: These small, coherent islands can act as “seeds” or “leverage points” that ripple outward, reorganising the entire system into a new, more advanced and functional structure or system.

With Uranus stationary direct tomorrow on 3 February, we need to believe that from chaos can come a new order. With so much pressure astrologically from all outer planets – Pluto, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus – this is entirely possible.

“According to Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist and professor at Harvard who analyzed 323 nonviolent and violent mobilizations between 1900 and 2006, when at least 3.5% of a country’s population actively engages in a peaceful protest movement, it has always resulted in political change.”