On February 17, 2026, the world experienced an annual “ring of fire” solar eclipse at 28 Aquarius. Astrologers noted striking connections between this eclipse and the birth chart of Donald Trump.
According to his official birth certificate, President Trump was born in NYC on June 14, 1946, at 10:54 AM EDT. He has the 30th degree of Leo rising, with natal Mars in the 27th degree of Leo conjunct his Ascendant. The February solar eclipse of 2026 took place in the 29th degree of Aquarius, directly opposite his natal Ascendant and also opposite Mars, which rules his 9th (foreign affairs) and 4th (endings) houses. Because the Ascendant signifies the body, state of health, and vitality, an eclipse directly opposing the Leo-rising degree, which is ruled by the Sun, raises concerns about his physical health and well-being. Pluto’s conjunction with the natal 6th house (illness) cusp reinforces this concern, as does the placement of eclipse Saturn, the dispositor of the eclipse, in the natal 8th house (mortality) conjunct transiting Neptune. According to Reinhold Ebertin, the biological and sociological correlates of Saturn/Neptune connections include “chronic and unhampered progress of malady, organic decomposition; poor, sick, or depressed persons, etc.” Pluto crossing the 6th cusp and Saturn/Neptune combinations representing chronic or wasting conditions are consistent with Ebertin’s approach and modern medical astrology.
It is also notable that Donald Trump was born on a lunar eclipse day, so that his natal Part of Fortune lies quite close to the Descendant. The February 2026 “ring of fire” eclipse falls directly on his natal Fortuna. The Asc of the 2026 annual eclipse lies at 7° Pisces, where it conjoins the eclipse’s Venus-North Node conjunction at 8° Pisces. Natally, Jupiter rules the 8th (chronic illness, dying) and 5th (fun, pleasures, romance) houses, and Venus rules the 3rd (news, communication, media narratives) house. Eclipse Mercury at 16° Pisces tightly squares natal Uranus in the 10th house (public reputation and career), and Mercury rules the natal 2nd house of the economy but also the throat and the ability to speak. In addition, natal Mars is closely tied to the natal Ascendant. At the time of the eclipse, transiting Mars occupies the natal 6th house of illness, while natal Mars and the natal Asc occupy the 6th house of illness in the eclipse chart.
A comparison of the two charts—the president’s birth chart and the February 17, 2026 eclipse—raises serious concerns that Donald Trump may need to confront significant, serious, chronic, persistent, and unhampered health concerns during 2026. Such concerns are linked in his chart to his manner of speech and communication, the news media, his public image, and surprising or unusual happenings in his career.
Considering other predictive techniques, we see that Donald Trump, born in 1946, is now 79 years old and thus in his 8th whole sign (Pisces, ruled by Jupiter) annual profection year, which ends when he turns 80 years old in June of 2026 and enters his 9th house (foreign affairs) Aries annual profection year. During the February 2026 eclipse, transiting Jupiter applied to square his natal Jupiter, which is stationary direct at the end of this natal 2nd house and conjunct his natal 3rd house cusp. Natally, stationary Jupiter is square to natal Saturn, the ruler of the natal 6th of illness.
Jupiter, the Lord of the Year at age 79 by profection, is also the planetary hour lord at birth. Thus, Jupiter is Lord of the Orb at age 77, making the Sun Lord of the Orb at age 79. Natally, the Sun rules his Ascendant and his 12th cusp of chronic illness, and his natal Asc is opposed by the Sun in the 2026 “ring of fire” eclipse, again reinforcing the issues previously highlighted by his astrological configurations this year.
Bernadette Brady advocates looking at the original eclipse of a Saros series to gain a sense of how a particular eclipse will play out during its Saros cycle. The original eclipse of the Saros 121 cycle occurred on April 25, 0944. Here is the chart for the peak of that eclipse, relocated to Jamaica Hospital, where Donald Trump was born:
In the initial Saros 121 eclipse chart, Taurus rises and Venus rules the Ascendant. In New York City Venus is on the 2nd house cusp, just inside the 2nd house, where she directly opposes Mars, which lies on the cusp of the 8th house. Venus rules the sixth house of illness. Mars rules the 7th cusp (Descendant) and the 12th cusp (chronic or wasting illness, undoing). The Asc of the initial Saros 121 eclipse at Trump’s birthplace is tightly square his natal Asc.
The astrological symbolism of a need to confront chronic health issues keeps repeating. Recent news reports have highlighted irregularities in Donald Trump’s speech and ability to regulate himself while conversing with others. Experts in language, psychology, and medicine have noticed clear changes in his speech and behavior, including difficulty retrieving words, mispronunciation, slurred speech, disinhibited or dysregulated behavior in conversation, going off-topic, tangentiality, circumstantiality, decreasing complexity of speech, trouble completing sentences, and challenges with thought processes, which some think could suggest cognitive decline, including frontotemporal syndromes. It is important to realize that these expert observations are largely based on Trump’s public performances and do not constitute a formal diagnosis made after expert testing and personal examination. These astrological indicators and the real-world observations of medical and language experts are, of course, separate lines of inquiry—but their convergence around the same concerns is striking. Astrologically speaking, the 2026 eclipse activating his Ascendant–Mars conjunction, 6th, 8th, and 12th houses, and Mercury–Uranus square describes a period of heightened vulnerability to long-term challenges involving cognition, communication, and the manner and clarity of his speech—issues that, as the chart suggests, are unlikely to resolve quickly and may actually worsen.
