Aquarian New Moon 28° - 17th Feb 2026 AEST

This Aquarian New Moon arrives at 28 degrees

aligning with the Chinese New Year and carrying the unmistakable energy of renewal. New Moons always mark a reset point, where the Sun and Moon merge and the emotional field goes dark long enough for a new imprint to form. In Aquarius, this reset ripples outward into the collective.

What makes this lunation especially interesting is its placement in the 5th house for those of us in Australia which is Leo’s domain, where the Sun rules and holds our creative life force, identity expression, and the inner child.
While Aquarius governs humanity, the 5th house brings the focus back to individuality and our ego drives. It reminds us that true contribution to the collective begins with authenticity. This is a Moon that asks you to reclaim parts of yourself that may have gone quiet from your creativity, your joy, your spontaneity, and your right to take up space.

However, just prior to the exact New Moon, both luminaries form a square to Uranus in Taurus, adding an unmistakable voltage to the atmosphere. Uranus is the awakener, and in Taurus it disrupts our attachments to stability, finances, routines, physical comfort, and deeply ingrained value systems that affect our self-image as well as our physical possessions.

When a New Moon is in hard aspect to Uranus, the emotional landscape can feel restless, unpredictable, or charged with sudden insight. You may feel a strong urge to break patterns that create pain and insecurity, make a change, or confront truths that have been quietly building beneath the surface.

Squares to Uranus often act like lightning in the psyche. They illuminate where life has outgrown its container. In Taurus, this awakening is frequently felt through the body and nervous system as sudden fatigue, bursts of clarity, emotional waves, electrical nervous system agitation or a sense that something internally is shifting faster than your outer world can keep up with. This is recalibration without warning.

With the New Moon in the 5th house, this recalibration speaks directly to joy and self-expression while its aspect to Uranus speaks to relationships of all types from business, friends, and intimate. Many people have unconsciously traded authenticity for acceptance, or creativity for predictability. This Moon gently but firmly asks where you have edited yourself to belong, and whether those versions of you still feel true.

Aquarius energy always carries a future pulse. It plants seeds ahead of visible change. With Uranus in the mix, those seeds feel electric like internal sparks of awakenings. Think of neurons when they are activated, looking like electric impulses moving and searching for other neurons to connect to.
You may notice a widening gap between who you’ve been and who you’re becoming. That tension is a signal of resistance to the change coming in.

Psychologically, Uranian New Moons often expose identity thresholds. They bring awareness to outdated roles, inherited expectations, and subconscious patterns that once felt necessary for safety. The discomfort many feel under this sky is necessary for our evolution. Fixed energy resists change, yet this lunation insists on movement.

For those with strong fixed placements especially, this can feel like a push-pull between holding on and breaking free. But not every breakthrough needs to be dramatic although in Leo’s house, things can get dramatic if awareness is not present. Some of the most profound shifts begin as quiet inner decisions, a new boundary, a reclaimed desire, a willingness to be seen more honestly.

Ultimately, this New Moon is a reset around visibility, where the ego drives are released and external validation no longer required so truth can shine. It’s time to reclaim who you were and need to be. Aquarius invites authenticity and in the 5th, house asks you to have the courage to step up into the higher octave of Uranus to create freedom and liberation within all of our relationships as this is the highest form of freedom.

This is the beginning of a new way of being with just the right amount of interruption to bring about the higher minds knowing, bringing us out of the fog and into clarity.

The Planets intentions reflect who we are becoming, rather than outgrowing others, we have the opportunity to pour the waters of knowledge onto humanity through creative expression enabling our soul brothers and sisters to join us in an awakening.

Every soul shifts at their own pace, and it’s important to be mindful not to force change onto others until their soul is ready to make the shift. These transits are us to be truer not harder.