There is a full moon in Pisces on September 17th. It is also a lunar eclipse! If we think of time and space as a smooth expanse of fabric, an eclipse would look like a snag, a little bundle of thread and maybe even a small tear, calling our attention back to this place. An eclipse in Pisces finds us snagged on our ability to live within faith, to trust the unknowable, to surrender into the waters of lived experience, even if we can’t see the bottom, or are tossed by sharp waves. Does anyone really know what’s going on? Because I sure don’t. But within this lack of control, lack of even basic understanding of the physics of the current moment, we exist regardless, and so we need to learn how to do so. Pisces can feel so overwhelming because, as the final sign of the Zodiac, it is full of everything that came before. It is impossible to organize the infinite, and this can be hard especially for the opposite sign of Virgo, which is where the sun and Mercury currently sit.
If you’ve been feeling jaded and forsaken, this eclipse can lift some of that, as long as we remain open to magic, to passion, to letting god take the wheel. This is a great time to shed old versions of yourself that keep you from moving forward, and to step into the form you want to be. You do not need to be all of the ghosts of yourself that you carry with you, all at once; you can be just the one, the current iteration of self, that you want to be. Let those around you morph and shift with you, instead of holding them to the versions you once knew them to be, allow them to grow in ways that enable your own growth. There are so many ways we are learning to be, and we make it hard on ourselves when we get too stuck to the ways we were. Notice when you are allowing for change, for release of the old, and when you are holding tight.
Neptune is right next to the moon, offering us a chance to imagine new dreams, but also triggering our distrust of the unknown. Yes, when we imagine a new future we are taking a risk, but we are also caring for ourselves and others, by opening up possibility instead of shutting it down.
Mercury is near the sun, in Virgo, perhaps amplifying our insecurities, but also providing an opportunity to get really clear on our intentions and how we will enact them. The ping pong of these two opposing forces, Pisces and Virgo, could lead to feeling expansively hopeful one moment, and then dryly practical the next: if your practical response to your dreams is to shut them down or preemptively give up, try to allow the practical to instead support your dreaming. Virgo is not meant to be a downer or a prude, it is just unavoidably realistic.
A lunar eclipse occurs when the earth moves between the sun and moon, creating a shadow on the moon’s surface due to the earth blocking the sun’s rays. When the moon is in shadow, it’s almost like the moon is in its own solitary power, without the sun creating light for it to reflect.
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