This piece is a companion to “The Finger of God Points to Virgo”, written at the Virgo New Moon two weeks ago.
Read together, they offer a mirrored map—solar and lunar, structure and surrender—for navigating this eclipse season with both precision and poetry.
What the mind prepares, the soul answers.
What the hand arranges, the tide reclaims.
Two weeks ago, we stood at 0° Virgo, receiving the quiet pressure of a New Moon that arrived like a whispered command. No drama, just the gravity of the need for sacred adjustment. The cosmos pointed—via a yod, via tension, via silence—to something that required tending before we even understood what was coming.
On Sunday we will know.
Because the tide is arriving. And it will speak in Pisces.
But to hear the eclipse message, we must quiet the part of our mind that only knows the language of logic, and tune into that part which speaks in dream, myth, music and magic. This lunar eclipse at 15° Pisces is a response, a call from the deep, a poetic retort to Virgo’s meticulous spell. Virgo asked us to sweep the floor; now Pisces invites us to wash it with moonlight and let the salt in.
This is the paradox at the heart of this eclipse season:
What was clarified must now be dissolved.
What was prepared must now be surrendered.
The Eclipse as Confluence
Astrology teaches us to think of full moons as culminations: peaks in the lunar cycle, the fruit born of the seed. But a lunar eclipse calls for a more nuanced pattern recognition, especially one occurring at the North Node. This becomes more of an invitation than a conclusion. And particularly in Pisces, where linear time itself starts to blur around the edges, and space spills out into infinity.
Rather than a monthly culmination point, this eclipse is pointing us towards a confluence: a poetic fusion of longing, memory, and the symbolic threads pulling at our soul.
The Virgo New Moon gave us a geometry of sacred disjunction—a yod formed by Pluto, Saturn, and Neptune, all moving retrograde. We were asked to prepare a vessel for something unknown. This eclipse brings that unknown to the surface—we are about to enter the flood phase of the ritual.
Virgo Prepared the Vessel — Pisces Fills It with Myth
Think of this eclipse as the ritual cup being filled with the kind of waters that baptize, disorient, and unmoor. If Virgo season was about discerning what mattered, Pisces now asks:
Can you let go of what makes sense long enough to receive what actually is?
The Virgo New Moon asked us for more effort. This Pisces Full Moon invites us into intimacy with the unknown. It pulls us toward the North Node like the magnet in our soul compass, towards something half-remembered from a dream we haven’t had yet.
Through Virgo we are called to serve as sacred technicians. Through Pisces we are invited to channel our inner oracle. And through this eclipse window comes the whisper of a song from beyond the veil: a moment when our soul can sing both roles into harmony.
Two weeks ago, I wrote:
“What does it mean to prepare the vessel when you don’t know what it will hold?”
Now we answer:
It means being ready to be changed by what arrives.
This Full Moon in Pisces, conjunct the North Node, is asking us to respond—to trust the signal beneath the noise, the dream beneath the structure, and the self that hasn’t yet emerged.
Allow it be messy. Allow it be mythic.
Eclipses call us to move beyond the astrological map and step into the archetypal dimension.
With that move in mind, here are some questions that might guide us towards a resonance with the archetypal realm:
What vision or feeling has been surfacing that I don’t yet know how to name?
What future self is calling to me through dream, art, music, memory?
Am I willing to be disoriented, in service of becoming more whole?
Virgo has prepared us by sweeping the floor of our soul.
This weekend, Pisces enters barefoot, leaving saltwater footprints.
Together, they form the ritual architecture of this eclipse season:
Preparation and Surrender. Structure and Soul. Discernment and Dream.
Don’t try to resolve the tension.
Live it.
Because this eclipse is more than an event. It’s a threshold. And we are already on the other side.
🌑 Join Us for the Eclipse Ritual — Live this Sunday
I'll be holding a live guided ritual for the Pisces Full Moon Lunar Eclipse this Sunday at Noon EST—an imaginal space for dreaming, dissolving, and stepping across the threshold together.
We’ll be listening. Feeling. Attuning.
It’s a ritual for our future self we haven’t met yet.
Bring: a bowl of water, a candle, and something sacred to you.
Details and RSVP link here → Zoom Registration
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