Saros 2 New North: Eclipse Family in Astrology

Sudden collapse of plans or lifestyles leading to rebuilding and transformation

If this family of eclipses affects a chart, the person will experience the sudden collapse of plans or lifestyles. Confusion may reign, but the longterm effects are those of rebuilding and transformation. After the dust has settled, the rebuilding starts and the consequences of this reshaping will have far-reaching effects. This eclipse family changes a person's direction through the sudden collapse of an existing structure.

Uranus squares the New Moon/Pluto midpoint. The New Moon is also on the Mercury/Node midpoint. The Jupiter/Pluto midpoint is on the Nodal axis, and the Saturn sits on the Venus/Node midpoint.

Because 2 New North has not yet produced an eclipse, it has no direct historical correlations to examine. Instead, we can look at the year of its birth for clues about the energy it carries. The series was born on June 17, 1928, during one of the most deceptively stable periods in modern history. The Roaring Twenties were at their zenith; stock markets were climbing, consumer culture was expanding, and the structural vulnerabilities in the global financial system were invisible to all but a handful of observers.

Within sixteen months of the birth eclipse, the world would experience one of the most dramatic structural collapses in history: the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 and the onset of the Great Depression. The birth chart's Uranus square to the New Moon/Pluto midpoint could hardly have found a more fitting context. The plans and lifestyles that collapsed in 1929 and the years following gave way to precisely the kind of painful, confused, and ultimately transformative rebuilding that this series encodes.

The fact that 2 New North will not produce its first eclipse until 2054 invites a forward-looking perspective. Whatever structural realities dominate the mid-twenty-first century, this series will arrive to test their foundations. Its first eclipse at 10.9 degrees Leo suggests that matters of creative leadership, personal authority, and public self-expression will be the domains where collapse and rebuilding first manifest.

Working with 2 New North is, for now, an exercise in anticipation. No living person has experienced one of its eclipses, and no one will until 2054. But for astrologers and students of eclipse cycles, this family offers a fascinating case study in how a Saros series inherits and transforms the themes of its predecessor.

If 2 Old North (ending in 2036) taught the lesson of accepting difficult endings in relationships and acting swiftly to create better outcomes, then 2 New North appears to escalate that lesson to a structural level. The collapse it describes is not merely relational; it encompasses plans, lifestyles, and the assumptions that underpin them. The rebuilding phase promises genuine transformation, but the path through confusion and disorientation is part of the process, not a detour from it.

The first eclipse arrives on August 3, 2054, at 10.9 degrees Leo. Those born in the 2020s and 2030s will be the first generation to experience this series in their adult lives. For those studying their own charts today, the relevant question is whether 10 to 11 degrees of Leo (or the corresponding degrees in other fixed signs) occupy sensitive positions in your natal chart; if so, 2054 may mark the beginning of a new and significant eclipse thread in your personal history.

As the youngest active Saros family, 2 New North has only a single eclipse on its horizon: August 3, 2054, at 10.9 degrees Leo. The subsequent eclipse (projected for approximately 2072) will advance deeper into Leo, continuing the series' exploration of themes related to creative authority, personal sovereignty, and public self-expression.

Over the coming centuries, the series will migrate through Virgo, Libra, and beyond, gradually transforming the domain in which its collapse-and-rebuild signature operates. But for the foreseeable future, Leo will be its territory: the sign of the will, the stage, and the heart. That this new family begins in the sign where its predecessor ends (2 Old North's final eclipse is at 0.8 degrees Leo in 2036) creates a symbolic continuity, as though one long story about disruption and renewal is simply turning to a new chapter.