Leo Total Solar Eclipse 2026

On August 12, 2026 our Leo New Moon is a Total Solar Eclipse, and will exact at 11:36 AM MST, with energies perfecting at 20 degrees Leo.

As we embark on a new Lunar cycle for the sign of Leo, these meditation guides are here to prompt and support you into the Full Moon in approximately two weeks and the New Moon cycle for the sign of Leo in a year from now, inviting you to weave these intentions into a larger practice of your personal growth.

Meditation: What is one thing I can do everyday until the Full Moon to evoke the feeling of Playful in me?

Additional Meditation: What is the one thing I can do everyday until the Full Moon to help me feel and heal the feeling of Lack of Playful within me?

One of the keywords for the Leo archetype is Playful. The goal here is to plant fresh New Moon seeds of this feeling, while considering and healing old wounds that may block us from fully feeling a sense of Playful within ourselves and in the world around us.

Storm clouds and Sunflowers, feels beautifully poetic for this Leo Solar Eclipse. Leo and the sunflowers, Storms that would take us inside for Aquarius- the other end of the axis.
Photo Credit: Stephany Smith

Astrological Aspects:
Retrograde Saturn in Aries is trine to Moon and Sun in Leo.
It is also worth noting the Mercury Jupiter conjunction in Leo happening in the earlier degrees of Leo, is also in opposition to retrograde Pluto in Aquarius. This is note worthy energies during this eclipse phase as they also are happening in the Leo Aquarius axis.

Correspendences:
Medicine Wheel Direction: South
Astrological Element: Fire
5 Element Meridian: Heart Meridian
5 Element Clock Time: 11 Am - 1 Pm
5 Element Element: Fire

The larger picture and cycle of Moon and Sun:
If we consider the larger scope of the cycles of the Moon phases around the Sun, we will find great support and can gather evidence of our healing path through reflecting on our journals and notes along the way.
The Leo Full Moon on February 1, 2026, is the mid point of the cycle, linked here.
The Leo New Moon on July 24, 2025, was the initiation of the pervious cycle, linked here.

Grandmother Moon, please share an aspect of my soul that is coming to light for awareness and healing.

Eclipses and the energy they bring is unique in that it is everything we know and the level of electrical stimulus is intense. Judith Hill refers to it as power surges and power outages. The power outage being the Solar Eclipse- the Moon covering the Sun light.

Days ago I had a whole other essay written on want was coming up, and I ultimately couldn’t publish it- it didn’t feel right when it came down to it. So today, the day of the eclipse, it dawned on me- what I written before was not New Moon enough for a New Moon Solar Eclipse.

In the here and now, my world spent the day educating me on the fight that happens when I try and do too much instead of going with the flow towards stillness and pause. The playfulness that comes comes into the body when you actually stop and play, or do nothing. The blissful rest that happens when you give into that midday nap you needed (I know not all of us are able to take a midday nap on a Wednesday, I am in deep gratitude that I could today). It’s the misdirected anger I had and realizing its the old narrative of living that needs to be released so the new narrative- those new moon seeds can actually have space to be planted.

It’s literally about sitting with the flowers blooming and watching the storm roll in.

I found myself not praying or manifesting in an asking way. I found my prayers focused on the gratitude for what I have and who is all around me. I found myself still in body and mind. I found that peacefulness deepen as those creeping thoughts that would normally take up space- disappear. I found myself able to release tears because I felt clear, and cried harder still when I felt the gratitude in myself for creating that space in myself. The more simple this day moved, the more flow, energetic vitality and connectedness I felt in myself ad others around me.

The piece my soul needed me to recognize and feel was do even less than the narrative in my mind tells me, to do even less than I normally would on a New Moon. Because after all these years celebrating and meditating on Solar Eclipses, I came to a vital piece we have moved so far away from: taking a sacred moment or pause to reflect and be with ourselves.

Thank you, I love you