Eclipses in Aries
Every eclipse at a degree of Aries between 1900 and 2100, dated and placed: the solar ones from late March to April, the lunar ones from late September to October.
Aries eclipses at a glance
An eclipse in Aries, on this page, means the eclipsed body stood between 0° and 30° of Aries: the Sun for a solar eclipse, the Moon for a lunar one. Solar eclipses in Aries fall from March 19 to April 20, while the Sun is in the sign. Lunar eclipses in Aries fall from late September to October 21, when the Moon is full in Aries and the Sun stands opposite it in Libra.
- Total solar eclipse
- 9
- Annular solar eclipse
- 13
- Partial solar eclipse
- 16
- Total lunar eclipse
- 18
- Partial lunar eclipse
- 9
- Penumbral lunar eclipse
- 12
The earliest in the span is the partial solar eclipse of at 17°48′ Aries, and the latest is the penumbral lunar eclipse of at 6°32′ Aries. The most recent total solar eclipse in Aries before 2026 was on at 19°24′; the first from 2026 on is at 10°21′.
Upcoming eclipses in Aries
The eclipses in Aries from January 2026 onward, in UTC. The list is split at the year boundary rather than at today's date so it stays put for twelve months, which means its first row can already have happened.
Astrologers put the self under Aries: the body, the name, the urge to go first. An eclipse there, they say, puts a question to whoever you have been announcing yourself as. People with a planet near the degree describe the month as the one where they stopped waiting to be asked, or quit the thing they had only ever been doing to prove a point. The lunar eclipses, with the Sun in Libra, tend to make it a two-person question.
| Date (UTC) | Kind | Degree of Aries |
|---|---|---|
| Total lunar eclipse | 25°59′ | |
| Total solar eclipse | 10°21′ | |
| Total lunar eclipse | 15°27′ | |
| Partial lunar eclipse | 4°58′ | |
| Partial lunar eclipse | 6°31′ | |
| Partial solar eclipse | 19°49′ | |
| Partial solar eclipse | 21°09′ | |
| Total lunar eclipse | 26°19′ |
Every eclipse in Aries, 1900–2100
All 77 of them, by decade. Each degree links to the Cycle Lab query for that point of the zodiac, so you can see what else has ever stood there.
The total solar eclipse of Apr 8, 2024, the one that crossed North America, sat at 19°24′ Aries; on Apr 9, 2043 a partial solar eclipse arrives within half a degree of the same spot. That is the Metonic cycle, 19 years almost to the day, and it holds across the catalogue: 633 pairs of eclipses 19 years apart, drifting 0.24° on average. The Saros, 18 years and 11 days, is the other clock, and it does not stay put; each step moves the eclipse about 10.79° along the zodiac, so a Saros series takes roughly three steps to cross Aries and moves on.
1900s (5 eclipses)
1910s (3 eclipses)
1920s (4 eclipses)
1930s (4 eclipses)
1940s (5 eclipses)
1950s (3 eclipses)
1960s (5 eclipses)
1970s (3 eclipses)
1980s (4 eclipses)
1990s (3 eclipses)
2000s (4 eclipses)
2010s (3 eclipses)
2020s (3 eclipses)
2030s (4 eclipses)
2040s (2 eclipses)
2050s (5 eclipses)
2060s (2 eclipses)
2070s (6 eclipses)
2080s (3 eclipses)
2090s (6 eclipses)
A solar eclipse is listed by the Sun's own sign. A lunar eclipse is listed by the sign of the eclipsed Moon, which is always opposite the Sun, so a lunar eclipse shown here in Aries happens with the Sun in Libra. Positions are apparent geocentric ecliptic longitude for the equinox of date, the tropical position an astrologer reads. I store each instant in the shared catalogue floored to the hour, so the UTC date is exact and no time of day is shown. The catalogue is published under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: AstroCalcs, eclipses in Aries 1900–2100, https://astrocalcs.com/eclipses-in-aries/ (CC BY 4.0).
Eclipses in the other signs
The same tables for each of the twelve signs, from the same catalogue, so a degree that looks busy here can be checked against its neighbours.
- Eclipses in Taurus
- Eclipses in Gemini
- Eclipses in Cancer
- Eclipses in Leo
- Eclipses in Virgo
- Eclipses in Libra
- Eclipses in Scorpio
- Eclipses in Sagittarius
- Eclipses in Capricorn
- Eclipses in Aquarius
- Eclipses in Pisces
To search one degree rather than a whole sign, use Cycle Lab, which runs the same catalogue in your browser and shows how busy every other degree is by comparison.
Eclipses in Aries: questions
What does an eclipse in Aries mean?
Astrologers treat an eclipse as a new or full Moon with the volume turned up, and read one in Aries through what they file under Aries: the self and the urge to start something. They give it most weight when it lands within a few degrees of a planet or angle in a birth chart. The astronomy is plainer: an eclipse is a new or full Moon that falls close to a lunar node. Every degree is in the tables above.
When is the next eclipse in Aries?
Counting from January of the year this page was built, the first eclipse in Aries is Oct 18, 2032 (total lunar eclipse, 25°59′). I split past from upcoming at a year boundary rather than at the build date so the list stays put for twelve months; the price is that its first row can already have happened. The rows after it sit in the upcoming table above, and the decade tables hold every eclipse in Aries from 1900 to 2100.
How often do eclipses fall in Aries?
77 times between 1900 and 2100, 38 solar and 39 lunar. Not evenly, though: they come in runs. Each eclipse season falls about 19 days earlier than the year before, which walks the eclipsed degree back through the zodiac by roughly 19 degrees a year, so Aries collects eclipses in a cluster of about eighteen months, then waits years for the next cluster. And an eclipse usually returns to nearly the same degree, on nearly the same date, 19 years later.
Which sign is a lunar eclipse in?
The Moon's. At a lunar eclipse the Moon is full, so it stands opposite the Sun, and a lunar eclipse listed here in Aries happens with the Sun in Libra. Astrologers name it the same way, as a full Moon in Aries. The catalogue follows suit: I record the longitude of whichever body is eclipsed, the Sun for a solar eclipse and the Moon for a lunar one. The lunar eclipses that have the Sun in Aries are on the Libra page.