May this Eclipse be your mirror.
A loving embrace from Life. A reminder of your heart. A reflection of your belonging.
A celebration of your uniqueness. A clear and loving light allowing you to be seen, recognised, and witnessed in your truth.
When is the Leo New Moon Solar Eclipse 2026?
The New Moon Solar Eclipse in Leo meets us August 12 or 13, 2026. See exact times for your location below.
- Wellington: Tuesday August 13, 5:47am
- Sydney: Tuesday August 13, 3:47am
- Tokyo: Tuesday August 13, 2:47am
- Singapore: Tuesday August 13, 1:47am
- New Delhi: Monday August 12, 11:17pm
- Dubai: Monday August 12, 9:47pm
- Istanbul: Monday August 12, 8:47pm
- Paris/Berlin: Monday August 12, 7:47pm
- London: Monday August 12, 6:47pm
- Rio De Janeiro: Monday August 12, 12:47pm
- New York/Toronto: Monday August 12, 1:47pm
- Los Angeles/Vancouver: Monday August 12, 10:47am
New Moon Solar Eclipse August 2026 Astrology
A New Moon Solar Eclipse in Leo hums with beginnings and beauty, aliveness and creativity. It is a cosmic celebration. An emergence of joy and play, self-expression and spirit.
And yet it moves beneath the surface too. Into heart hurts and tender terrain, where the South Node becomes a healing chamber:
A soft voice revealing where the wish to be seen has become entangled with the pain of not having been seen. A tender meeting of grief for moments of not being truly recognised, felt, revealed within the eyes of another, appreciated by our own selves.
A sacred holding place for the shame and projections placed upon us for seeking a fundamental human need:
To meet our aliveness. To have our aliveness met.
Within ourselves. With another. By life. By creation.
A need that is innate. Beautiful. Sacred. On purpose.
Not something to be shamed. Dismissed. Pushed aside or mistaken for vanity.
We are flowers being taught that display is egoic. We are birds being told our song is attention seeking. We are the Sun being taught that to shine is selfish.
We are ourselves – being taught to be something, someone, anything, else.
And we are longing to return.
Total Solar Eclipse in Leo 2026 Spiritual Meaning & Forecast
Within the arms of this Solar Eclipse, we are meeting all the ways we have forgotten our own divinity. Our own radiance. Our own creativity. Our unique belonging as ourselves within this world.
We are arriving at a threshold of no longer accepting the stories that to shine is to take up too much space. That to express is anything short of adding to creation.
We are meeting all the ways we have dismissed our own naturalness. Inhibited our own expression. Forgotten our own life force. Created patterns and mechanisms, conscious and unconscious, as pathways to reconnect. Protections and responses put in place believing they might help us find our way back – to our naturalness, to one another, to Life: Shaping our light into performance, protection, perfection, disappearance. Mistaking visibility for being seen. Admiration for intimacy. Attention for love.
But the patterns were never the pathway.
Returning home is. Remembering truth is. Reconnecting to the aliveness of Self that never left is.
Releasing all the stories that to be accepted in this world we must perform a certain role. Releasing the projections of hurt from hurt hearts that were never allowed to express their truths. Forgiving the shapes our longing took while trying to lead us home.
August New Moon Solar Eclipse Astrology Invitations
A sign of the heart, there is love streaming through this Eclipse. Love that awakens, transforms. Love that enlivens, softens. Love that creates, reveals. Love that burns away. Love that returns us to truth.
We have entered a new collective season. The North Node in Aquarius, the South Node in Leo. This Eclipse opens this season. It clears the way and ushers in new light. It holds the field and clears away old roots.
It begins reorganising the way we live within ourselves, as ourselves, connected to ourselves; so that as we step into the shared field of the collective that Aqauarius lives within, we are not erased by it, lost within it.
So that as we step into community, we are no longer confusing sameness for belonging, agreement for intimacy.
Rather we are remembering belonging that does not require disappearance. Togetherness that does not depend upon sameness. A shared future spacious enough for the whole of us to arrive.
We are learning how to stand among one another without abandoning ourselves, ready to discover the abundance of gifts waiting in a world that celebrates each self.
Leo New Moon Solar Eclipse Ritual
Solar Eclipse in Leo Ritual: Sekhmet Radiance Chamber
Enter the Sekhmet Radiance Chamber; a golden temple beyond time, alive with sacred fire, ancient remembrance and the song of your soul.
Held within Sekhmet’s fierce and loving presence, you are invited to release the shame, grief, fear and old stories that have dimmed your light. As these layers fall away, something deeper begins to rise: self-trust, joy, embodied sovereignty and the freedom to exist fully as you are.
This journey is a homecoming to your eternal flame – the part of you that has never been lost or diminished. A remembering of your true nature. A celebration of your aliveness. An invitation to reclaim your radiance and let your own frequency move through the world, naturally and unapologetically.
Access now in the Flow with the Moon Membership.
New Moon in Leo 2026 Lunar & Planetary Aspects
- Sun conjunct Moon in Leo
- Sun, Moon & Mercury in Leo trine Saturn Retrograde in Aries
- Mercury conjunct Jupiter in Leo
- Mercury & Jupiter in Leo sextile Venus in Libra
- Mercury & Jupiter in Leo sextile Uranus in Gemini
- Mercury & Jupiter in Leo trine Neptune Retrograde in Aries
- Mercury & Jupiter in Leo opposite Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius
- Venus in Libra opposite Neptune Retrograde in Aries
- Venus in Libra square Mars in Cancer
- Venus in Libra trine Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius
- Mars in Cancer square Neptune Retrograde in Aries
- Uranus in Gemini trine Neptune Retrograde in Aries
- Uranus in Gemini sextile Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius
New Moon Solar Eclipse in Leo Horoscope for each Zodiac Sign
Watch below for your Leo New Moon Solar Eclipse Horoscope for your zodiac sign by Dilosh. Be sure to watch your Sun, Moon and Rising Sign!
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- Intro: 00:00
- Leo: 21:51
- Virgo: 29:18
- Libra: 35:12
- Scorpio: 43:36
- Sagittarius: 51:19
- Capricorn: 1:01:01
- Aquarius: 1:08:50
- Pisces: 1:15:32
- Aries: 1:21:31
- Taurus: 1:28:11
- Gemini: 1:32:03
- Cancer: 1:37:34
