The August 2026 Eclipses: What the Sky Is Signalling
August 2026 brings a solar and a lunar eclipse within a single eclipse season, as eclipses always come. What makes this particular pair worth examining is not that there are two of them, but where they fall in the sky, for their placement carries a clear and readable signature. THE ECLIPSES Total Solar Eclipse — 12 August 2026 The first is a total solar eclipse, with the path of totality sweeping across the Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, the North Atlantic and northern Spain, while a partial phase is seen across much of Europe, North Africa and parts of North America. Both the Sun and the Moon come together in Karkataka (Cancer), the Moon's own sign, in the nakshatra Ashlesha. Jupiter and Mercury sit right beside them in Pushya, so that four planets are gathered in the Moon's house at once. Contact times, given in IST: • Eclipse begins — 21:04 IST, 12 August • Totality begins — 22:28 IST, 12 August • Maximum eclipse — 23:15 IST, 12 August • Totality ends — 00:04 IST, 13 August • E...