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Total Solar Eclipse at 20° Leo 01′

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August 12, 2026, 17:45 UT

Liberation of life’s contracts, attitudes, identity, creativity, and roles.

The Total Solar Eclipse at 20°01′ of Leo belongs to the Saros 126 cycle and is a South Node eclipse.

The duration of the totality phase is 2 minutes and 18 seconds.

The eclipse will not be visible from our country (Greece). It will be visible in these regions

The first eclipse of the Saros 126 cycle occurred on 10 March 1179, at 26°01′ Pisces.

This eclipse is expected to unfold its effects mainly during the period January–April 2027, with emphasis on March 14–21, 2027, when the South Node passes over this particular degree, and as Mars activates this specific degree on the following dates: November 1–5 2026 and March 28 –April 5, 2027. It is also possible that the theme of the eclipse has already been activated and is known to us, or that it will bring old issues back to the surface.

The repetitions of the cycle unlock messages and themes related to the collective level of experience, but also on an individual level insofar as our natal chart is affected:

The recent eclipses of this particular cycle occurred in: May 1900, June 1918, June 1936, June 1954, July 1972, July 1990, August 2008. Think of these periods as potent markers of what is occuring and developing in this currrent time, under different circumstances.

The influence of an eclipse, as well as the events it manifests, belong to a theme, and an area of life, that have a cyclical nature and unfold over a broader period before and after the phenomenon, recurring roughly every ~19 years. Eclipses in fixed signs carry the theme of the need for stabilization, and for permanent or long-term changes, only this one shows it may require some adjustment later. More broadly, eclipses in the signs of Leo and Cancer are of vital and central importance in our lives, since they concern signs ruled by the Luminaries (Sun–Moon -life giving forces of creation), while the opposite pole is ruled by Saturn. Therefore, from 2026–2029, fundamental areas of our life will be affected, along with the way in which our perception of creativity, lifestyle, and reality is structured and organized.

This eclipse has a more personal feel for those born August 12, November 12 , May 12, February 12 (+/- 3 days), or those who have a prenatal or postnatal eclipse in this particular Saros cycle; also if there are natal placements of personal planets or points at these specific degrees (19–21 Leo, Aquarius, Scorpio, Taurus) and by antiscia at 09 degrees Taurus. According to the astrologer Bernadette Brady, the theme of this Saros cycle, “concerns itself with breaking out of a very negative situation where no hope can be seen to a more positive space containing many options. A worry that may have been affecting the person will suddenly clear. The solution is shown by the Cosmos and needs to be taken up without too much delay” (1).

What we observe in the current chart, is the need to distinguish true action from the need to do something simply because we want validation and attention, even through a promise or through generosity.

Sun in Leo themes: Actions and Deeds, Leadership, Profession, Fame, Creations, Vitality, Children, Identity.

As the Sun is shadowed by the Moon, there is an emphasis on the Moon, which absorbs all the Sun’s light and casts its shadow onto Earth. Something ends, and along with it, a way of life, a role, a pattern of expression, which belongs to the conscious self. The revival of the past, as well as the value and stabilization of the familiar zone of life — of our personal history, is a central theme.

The emphasis on the element of Fire, and on the fixed and cardinal quality, shows us that the energy demands action, effort, a turn toward new things, together with a manifestation of ideas, concepts, and moral dilemmas. This is a creative combination, and it also seeks to bring closure to things, as well as points to how far to take things, where to resist where to let go (fixed). How our creativity, our notion of expansion, experiences, beliefs and knowledge, within a context of integration into the social fabric, networks, structures, alliances, friendships and assisting technology tools.

How much these have contributed to what we have created, but also how much they have hindered us or contributed to our development, our vision, knowledge, beliefs, support and enthusiasm, or opportunities.

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Notes on the Full Moon at 06 Aquarius 30′

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July 29, 2026

The Full Moon in Aquarius which occured on July 29, 2026, in conjunction with retrograde Pluto, was illuminated by the Sun in conjunction with Jupiter in Leo. And while some speak of a rare moment of prosperity, I speak of prayer or faith, of the search for meaning, and of a momentary sense of clarity about what is truly important, points to integrity, to the continuity of life and the safe coexistence of people. May we hold the right priorities. The theme will unfold in the next two weeks. However it maybe life altering, through important decision making.

So, what was illuminated for you? What did we realise and was revealed to us? What is the meaning, how themes around identity, ego, surface within group or sense of belonging. Where emotions escape and absorbed into other dimensions? And I am not speaking of creative or spiritual dimensions, which is the positive scenario — I speak of dimensions where one is driven to struggle with the elements, where one is forced or compulsively driven, where one turns away from truth and creates mechanisms of avoidance or easy escape, betraying roles and rules, and moves within a state of “anything goes”.

Leo is a sign of authentic leadership, and this concerns also those who hold or adopt roles, collectively and personally, — how worthily and authentically they represent them, how conscious they are in relation to these roles. We all have Leo somewhere in our charts. This is one of our vital area. How one may potentially disconnect, whether due to circumstances, whether by force or compulsion, external or internal pressures, but also without realizing it, lose all sense of measure. Maybe it is time to ponder on this. This is a Moon that was forced to move through its own shadows, in one way or another, and get in touch with other dimensions of feelings. Something was revealed, its heights and its depths, even though it was in trine (easy aspect) with Uranus and sextile (another easy aspect) with Neptune, also retrograde in Aries (which is why I speak of other dimensions). These are transcendental energies.

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Returning to the Source

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July at a glance-Some notes on the rare alignments of this month.

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July 2026 is not merely a month of several transits, but a moment where multiple historical conversations intersect.1

Events occurring now may not originate in the present moment but may act as carriers of older stories, unfinished processes, dormant aspirations, collective traumas, dreams or unrealized possibilities that belong to earlier chapters of both personal and collective history. When we speak of collective history, we refer to the power of collective dreams.2

Mercury’s apparent retrograde motion in Cancer in July, is part of the process, and Jupiter is revealing or magnifying: Returning somewhere, back into the past, and walking again through the same paths and the same routes, many things will be revealed to us and will come into our awareness. Something urges us to reconnect with the source, both of the small and the great matters. Everything is interconnected. We may see old matters related to borders, treaties, national or international be re-activated. Deals and treaties being revisited, and personal familiar territory and history re-traced, while other seemingly unrelated events surface memories.

This month favours a kind of clarity, and re-connection, the nature of which, we may have not experienced before, like the moment when one half-awaken from a dream can have an absolute connection with reality and with our their, past or existence. And if the dream is not a successful metaphor, then it will be a moment of insight, a revelation of where true meaning, faith, trust, and essence are needed and found.

All of this will require effort and perseverance, but also a certain kind of inner, conscious calmness and protection from the “noise” that can distract, and is not ours, does not belong to us; it does not belong to our path, or it has only temporarily entered our lives. Great cycles meet this July, through harmonious aspects. The pressure of the last four years is decompressing and releasing energy with greater ease. Whether this is positive or negative cannot yet be determined; it will become clear both for each individual and for each collective, as every situation and position is different.

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Jupiter Left the Moon’s Home for the Sun’s

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On June 30th, 2026, Jupiter completed its year-long transit through Cancer (begun June 9-10th, 2025) and moved into Leo. Has something shifted energywise in your life? Jupiter is not simply about the opportunities we give or receive; it is about our participation in the continuation of life’s meaning. Meaning, or enthusiasm, can manifest across the whole spectrum, from its healthiest to its most excessive forms. As Jupiter now travels through Leo, themes of identity, children, creations and creativity, risk, speculation and investments come into the light, as well as everything that sustains and vitalises life. Jupiter in the homes of the Luminaries is ephasisng what is vital and life giving in our lives, associates with peak experiences, and this time around, is even more potent to examine it, as it is a crucial activator and contributor of larger planetary cycles aligning, with the second part of July being the month that this shift is more evident.

The year of Cancer was the Moon’s lesson, a year of peak experiences on the level of feeling and our habitual zones and patterns: intense inner states that felt deeply personal, an inward, absorbing process that enriched our memories and affected our lives closing big chapters and opening new ones. With its focus on protection, on roots and origin, on caring for ourselves and others, on protecting and being protected, Jupiter was a guest in a house where the host changes mood, aim, and intentions every 2.5 days, and it learned, along with us, the flexibility of the ‘good guest’. It was a year that drew us gently (or abruptly) out of our safe places and comfort zones: it tested our faith, acquainted us with the relationship between promise and realism, tolerance and boundaries, and perhaps taught us how resonating our faith and vision with the mood of the day or atmosphere around us, can have its ups and downs, high drama and intense sharing. It may have felt like we lived many lives, and experienced a broad range of dimension of responses, in the course of one year. It may be worth asking ourselves: what nourished and supported us this year? What did we absorb, and enriched us inwardly? Where did our intuition and emotional intelligence guide us well and creatively, and where did it catch us unprepared? Which memories do we keep and cherish? What did we realise we no longer need, or isn’t healthy? Where did we move, literally, emotionally, or psychologically? Which habits changed? Where did we find solace?

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Full Moon at 12 Libra 21′

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April 2, 2026

Full Moon in Libra today, and everything leads back to Venus, which is at 3 degrees of Taurus (the Moon’s highest exaltation) and forming an applying square to Pluto.

A very active Full Moon that shakes things up and brings significant change. Issues of security and protection of what has been gained come to the forefront. Money, values, finances, relationships, alliances, emotions, aesthetics, and creations all undergo crises, tension, transformation, and deep, fated change. There may be disagreements, but also new initiatives, and potential in all of the above.

The Moon illuminates what we need and what is missing: balance, justice, diplomacy, harmony, peace, fairness, and beauty. With emphasis on the cardinal cross, situations unfold with plot, drama, and power dynamics that affect our relationships.

The fixed signs of Taurus and Aquarius in this Full Moon, as Venus squares Pluto, relate to support from the group—or the lack of it—along with financial and value-based, or security matters. How we provide for those (Venus apllies to Ceres in Taurus), or what is deprived. Questions of security and protection around validation and acceptance arise. Something intensifies. Something must change in our perspective and in the way we approach these themes. Jupiter expands what it touches, and this is self righteousness, self-will, initiative and feelings, which are revealed. Lack of tolerance or big egos clash with the need to be diplomatic and fair.

You cannot keep changing yourself to be accepted or liked, nor give in to pressure or suppress your values and desires just to receive support from a group or from those more powerful than you. However, you can feel inspired by a group or a belief to create and to feel stronger. You may also need to stand firm in what has value for you, even without support. This includes attachments, challenges, and obsessions.

Difficult negotiations and ethical dilemmas arise, requiring deep and honest truth—and possibly a price to pay. If something or someone fascinates us, it may consume us entirely. If something pressures us, it will force us to shift perspective, confront, or realize that now is the moment when something is lost forever—or when something must be done, marking the next step. Issues of privacy vs public sharing may surface.

We may help others see things differently through effort. We may give in to pressure, experience pressure, or make a breakthrough. Excess, waste, and lack of moderation dominate reactions—either within us or in our environment. At the same time, the search for meaning becomes urgent, potentially leading either to spiritual loneliness or to a need for reflection on the bigger picture.

For whom are we doing what we do? How and why will we continue—and at what cost?

What is missing: Capricorn—self-discipline, effectiveness, consistency, organization, commitment, results, goal orientation, and above all, responsibility.

The trine between Mercury and Jupiter from Pisces to Cancer may save the situation—or offer an alternative way to resolve an important or critical issues through intuition and emotional intelligence..

Love, relationships, exchanges, and money become matters engaging with right and wrong, ideas and evaluations. Who controls whom? On a collective level, the economy and security are under strain—some are deprived while others reap enormous benefits. Justice, values, and meaning are shaken.

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Εαρινή Ισημερία 2026 – Equinox

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Σαστισμένοι απο την πραγματικότητα – Bewildered by reality

Χάρτης Εισόδου του Ήλιου στον Κριό με συνετεταγμένες Αθηνών

20 Μαρτίου 2026

Η Εαρινή Ισημερία είναι η αρχή του Τροπικού έτους και η έναρξη της Άνοιξης. Την σηματοδοτεί η είσοδος του Ήλιου στον ζώδιο του Κριού.

Πως εξισορροπούμε το φώς με το σκοτάδι;

Ποιός είναι αυτός ο χώρος που μας επιτρέπει να υπάρχουμε, να δημιουργήσουμε, να ανακαλύψουμε και να οραματιστούμε κάτι μελλοντικό; Να εργαστούμε γιαυτό. Να αναλάβουμε την ευθύνη σε βάθος χρόνου. Η υπερφόρτιση μας οδηγεί σε ένα ξύπνημα-ξέσπασμα που φέρνει την αλλαγή, την συνειδητοποίηση του τι χρειάζεται να παραμερίσουμε, για να προχωρήσουμε στο επόμενο βήμα, να θυμηθούμε κάτι που είχαμε ξεχάσει για εμάς. Το τροπικό έτος της σποράς νέων πραγμάτων. Δοκιμάζουμε κάτι για πρώτη φορά. Πως συνυπάρχουν όλα μαζί στο τώρα; Τι θέλουμε να κάνουμε και τι αποφεύγουμε. Ποια είναι η εσωτερική μας ώθηση; Όταν δεν υπάρχει σταθερότητα, είναι σημαντικό να βρίσκουμε τρόπους να γειωθούμε.

The Spring Equinox marks the beginning of the Tropical year and the onset of Spring in the Nortern Hemisphere. It is signified by the Sun’s entry into the sign of Aries.

How do we balance light with darkness?

What is this space that allows us to exist, to create, to discover, and to envision something in the future? To work toward it. To take responsibility over time. Overload leads us to an awakening—an outburst—that brings change, the realization of what we need to set aside in order to move forward to the next step, to remember something we had forgotten about ourselves.

The tropical year of planting new seeds. We try something for the first time. How do all things coexist in the present moment? What do we want to do, and what do we avoid? What is our inner drive?

When there is no stability, it becomes important to find ways to ground ourselves.

© Eleni Kostika, 2026

When Saturn meets Neptune

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February 20th, 2026

The cave church of Aghios Nicholaos of Pouria – Skyros Island

From where do we build and draw faith?

Neptune is in the spotlight due to its definitive entry into Aries, and its conjunction with Saturn at 00 degrees Aries and 45′ (1st degree of Aries). What is a conjunction? A conjunction gives emphasis, unifies energies, it does not offer awareness. Awareness is manifesting through the opposition aspect (like the Full Moon). This particular conjunction is characterized as “historic” because it is rare. We do not have a recent previous one in this sign and at this degree of the sign, in order to make certain comparisons. It also preludes (converses) in time with two other planetary cycles of collective significance and development that are entering another area of expression (Uranus trine Pluto – Aquarius and Gemini) and Uranus sextile Neptune (Gemini–Aries) this year. This is particularly rare, and highlights that whatever begins now, affects us all, and within the next three to five years (until 2031), not only is here to stay, it will determine the evolution of the world, of coming generations, and of our reality, to a degree that we cannot really and fully conceive.

We are in a moment of envisioning, contemplation or completion and closure of chapters. In a moment of collapse of previous ideals, and creation of new ones. In a moment where our faith may be tested. How is this interpreted at the beginning of a Aries? (The Vernal Equinox point?- The point of equal light and darkness). How does this completion manifest in a new way, an initiative, a new environment. A new perspective. With a different stance that is called to evolve on what we define as ideal. Which is expressed in a new way and relates to our vital space, perhaps our own lived experience, or sense of identity.

When something is so close to us, we do not perceive it holistically so easily, it absorbs us, and gives us the impulse to do something about it. Boundaries may seem unclear. It is like the threshold of a door the exact moment we enter or depart, and that first step. We struggle to separate or discern what is coming or what will arise from it. This stirs up emotions, thoughts, courage, hope, and this step will have certain consequences -results in the future. The conjunction speaks of a trigger, a first manifestation. Something that nudges us to see things differently, to negotiate the moment with the totality. To perform a transcendence. It is like an embrace, of a farewell or of a critical meeting. Every new commitment, also speaks of a release of a previous one.

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New Moon at 28 Scorpio 17′

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Thursday, November 20, 2025 -06:46 UT

Shared resources, values, truths, deeper or inner clarity-Returning to the past to redefine the path forward.

The current lunar cycle at 28° Scorpio 17’, likely prevents something from being completed—at least for now—or calls for a re-evaluation and going deeper with efforts or matters of concern. It brings us back to older issues or innovative ideas (2018: Uranus entering Taurus; 2019: first Sun–Uranus cycle; May 2025: last Sun–Uranus cycle). What did we do professionally since 2018? What choices and life decisions did we make? What were our values within those choices? What was the political and economic landscape? What did we create, what did we acquire, how did we use it, and what did we lose? How did we change in terms of self expression, choices, and individuation, and regarding groups or collective endeavours and people within our generation? Let us take stock.

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New Moon at 06 Gemini 05′

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May 27, 2025 03:02 UT, 06:02 EEST

From May 27 – June 25, 2025:

This is an important and highly active Lunar Cycle in the sign of Gemini, full of stimulation. It will significantly influence how we think, communicate, feel, and connect or interact with the world—both on a personal and collective level. This cycle brings significant news, announcements, and developments, but also calls for a different mental approach and attunement with others. It offers a preview of broader collective and individual changes that will become more apparent during the first quarter of 2026, with the conjunction of the Saturn–Neptune planetary cycle, and Saturn and Neptune reaching 0N Declination (a ~37-year cycle focused on ideological and physical boundaries and borders).

Saturn and Neptune have already ingressed in Aries, signaling the entrance (είσοδος – meaning harvest in greek) into a new environment. The planets ruling Aries—Mars and the Sun—are the ones receiving them. (Temperament: Hot and Dry – Choleric in nature, with qualities of dynamism, action, success, desire, and also the struggle for power, leadership, and innovation, emphasizing physical and intellectual presence.) These are the planets of identity, leadership, initiative, and will. They relate to profession, rulers, leadership, and the military. The world is beeing reorganized, and old structures and efforts are either changing form, manifesting in a new manner, or dissolving to make way for the new.

I am briefly noting, as themes for collective reflection, the two important events that occurred during the previous Saturn–Neptune conjunction in Capricorn (an Earth sign) in 1989: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War (followed by the Maastricht Treaty in 1993), and at the same time, Tim Berners-Lee laying the foundations of the World Wide Web at CERN.

Lunar Cycle at 6° Gemini 5’

On a personal level, this lunar month brings heightened mental activity, fragmented or innovative thoughts, ideas, viewpoints, stimuli, news, or information. There’s a strong inclination toward research, sharing, recognizing difficulties, and drawing strength, knowledge, or healing through groups or personal confessions. (Mercury is combust, close to the Sun, in trine with retrograde Pluto.)

Mercury rules the South Node in Virgo, emphasizing themes of organization, data transmission, processing, communicating information that has been assimilated, possibly secret intelligence, AI. Planning, connection/access, creativity (Mercury/Moon), young people, trade and commercial transactions. The spectrum ranges from the unusual to the hidden or even illegal. The Moon is out of bounds—indicating a cycle that pulls us outside the ordinary through travel, movement, exchange of information, storytelling, conversation, and learning. We may struggle to understand or clarify —more information is needed. The Full Moon will illuminate meaning, direction, guidance and truth.

This is a cycle of learning and cognition, urging us to clarify matters and make a new start. It calls us to innovate, step out of our comfort zone, close chapters related to work, contracts, or legal matters, and move forward with a plan. Seeds of ideas for the future become more visible, offering a fresh perspective. We’ll all be students in some way—learning something new. It’s a time for reviewing achievements and clarifying past uncertainties. There’s also a revival or blooming of knowledge, work and skill accumulated in need of renewal, manifestation and new application.

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Sun Uranus conjunction at 27 Taurus 17′

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May 17-18, 2025

On May 17 or 18, depending on where we are on the planet, the final Sun-Uranus conjunction in the sign of Taurus takes place, at 27 degrees and 17′. The first conjunction during the current transit of Uranus, in this sign occurred on April 23, 2019, at 2 degrees and 31′ of Taurus. Although the synodic cycle is annual, this upcoming conjunction seems to mark the final chapter of completion of Uranus’s theme purpose in Taurus. For all of us, it signals the evolution of all issues that were awakened or shaken in relation to our values since Uranus entered Taurus in 2018 — all matters ruled by Venus, as well as their spiritual content, the creative or experimental spirit we infused into what we possess, what defines our individual values, aesthetics, our resources, and our belongings.

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