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Eclipse Calendar: Solar and Lunar Eclipse Dates and Meaning
Eclipses come in pairs about every six months, two to four times a year, and are the most powerful lunations on the calendar. This page lists every solar and lunar eclipse from 2026 to 2045, including every blood moon, with the sign each falls in, what it means, and how to find which house it activates in your birth chart.
Eclipse Dates by Year
What Is a Solar Eclipse?
A solar eclipse happens at a new moon, when the Moon passes directly between the Earth and the Sun and blocks its light. It only occurs when that new moon falls near one of the Moon's nodes, the points where its path crosses the Sun's. A solar eclipse can be total (the Sun fully covered), annular (a ring of sunlight remains around the Moon), or partial. In astrology a solar eclipse is a new moon with the volume turned up, a powerful moment for beginnings and a turning point whose story can unfold for months.
What Is a Lunar Eclipse?
A lunar eclipse happens at a full moon, when the Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon and casts its shadow across the Moon. It can be total, partial, or penumbral, depending on how deeply the Moon enters the shadow. Astrologically a lunar eclipse is a full moon intensified, a time of culmination, revelation, and release, when something often comes to a sudden head or a hidden truth surfaces.
What Is a Blood Moon?
A blood moon is the popular name for a total lunar eclipse. As the Moon passes fully into Earth's shadow, the only sunlight reaching it is bent through Earth's atmosphere, which filters out blue light and leaves the Moon glowing a deep coppery red. There is nothing astronomically ominous about it, but because it is the most striking and complete kind of lunar eclipse, astrologers treat the blood moon as the most emotionally charged lunation of all, a powerful marker of endings and turning points.
How Eclipses Work in Astrology
Eclipses always sit on the Moon's nodal axis, so each one activates a pair of opposite houses and signs in your chart at the same time. That is why eclipses tend to mark events that rebalance two connected areas of life, such as home and career, or self and relationship. Solar eclipses lean toward beginnings and external events, lunar eclipses toward endings and emotional release. Their influence is felt over weeks, not a single day, and the house an eclipse falls in for you shows exactly where the shift lands.
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