The February 17th New Moon & Solar Eclipse
A door opens.
Hi there,
Tomorrow’s New Moon and Solar Eclipse on February 17th is not subtle.
It cracks your heart wide open.
Not in a dramatic way. Not in a chaotic way.
In a clarifying way.
This is a moon that asks you to stop running the same emotional script you’ve been handed, the same patterns on repeat, the same reactions, the same loops you’ve lived inside for years.
It gently (and sometimes firmly) says:
What if you didn’t do it that way this time?
What if, just for a moment, you removed yourself from the swirl of life, taking the emotions out of it all and asked:
How would I proceed?
What are the facts?
What is actually true here?
Alongside the new moon, this eclipse doesn’t want performance.
It wants honesty. The kind of truth that is clean. The kind that doesn’t wound, doesn’t dramatize, doesn’t hide.
It wants clarity.
It wants you to speak with kindness.
This is a realignment moon and eclipse.
A return to what matters.
And sometimes that return looks surprisingly simple as you start your day…
A sunrise over the icy winter water.
A square of chocolate in the quiet of the morning.
Drawn out cuddles under a warm comforter.
Sweetness. Ease. The small, steady pleasures that remind you you’re alive.
The eclipse energy may feel like something shifting beneath your feet, because it is.
Solar eclipses mark turning points. They move us forward. They close doors that have been ready to close.
But this is not a spell.
It’s not magic in the fantasy sense.
It’s the kind of alchemy that comes when you finally decide to live differently. When you stop repeating what hurts and start choosing what aligns.
The changes that arrive now are needed. Necessary. Intelligent.
Let this moon lift you.
Let it move you toward the life you’ve surely been hoping for, not through force, not through fantasy, but through clear eyes and an open heart.
Action for you tonight or tomorrow:
Write down one pattern you are no longer willing to repeat.
Then write the most factual, grounded next step you can take instead.
No drama. Just truth.
The eclipse will do its part.
You do yours.
With you under this night sky,
Licia
For you, Writer.
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