Eclipse season: Portal of Change
Twice a year, Eclipses revolutionize our inner and outer worlds. Eclipse season is a time of quick and unexpected changes, filled with unforeseen opportunities for transformation, quantum leaps, and breakthroughs. By increasing pressure and discomfort, Eclipses push us to grow faster than we normally would, release something that no longer serves us, upgrade our lives, and embody a new level of awareness. This is the first Eclipse of this season, and the first one in Pisces since 2017.
Astronomically, Eclipses happen when the Sun and the Moon join or oppose each other while close to the Lunar Nodes, the points that mark the intersection of the Moon’s orbit with the Ecliptic, the Sun’s apparent path in the heavens from our perspective on Earth. The Lunar Nodes, also referred to as the Nodal Axis, are two opposite points in space that are usually traveling in retrograde motion, always exactly opposing each other.
Points of destiny, karma, and fated changes, when the Nodes are activated by Eclipses, doors open and close in surprising ways, people get in and out of our lives, what no longer aligns with our purpose may abruptly end and new opportunities appear, seemingly out of nowhere.
Lunar Eclipses: Opportunities to Close Cycles
Lunar Eclipses are supercharged Full Moons that bring a powerful energy of release, cleansing, and completion. These are potent opportunities to close cycles, make radical changes in our lives, and release our attachment to something that holds us back and keeps us stagnant.
During a Lunar Eclipse, the Moon is partially or totally covered by the Earth’s shadow. This Lunar Eclipse is partial, which is less intense than a total one: the Moon won’t be completely covered as the alignment between the luminaries and the Nodal Axis is not tight.
While a Full Moon brings to light something previously unknown, hidden, or uncertain, illuminating what we need to know and acknowledge, while the Moon is eclipsed we may have trouble identifying clearly what we are truly feeling, what we need, and what is happening for us emotionally. Nevertheless, we have an opportunity to deepen our introspection and gain new insights into unresolved emotional issues.
Super Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces: Surrender to Truth
Pisces is the twelfth and last sign of the Zodiac wheel, the place where we come from and where we are headed, where everything ends and begins. A Mutable Water sign, Pisces teaches us to surrender, to let go of control, to trust the flow of Life and become one with it. Pisces is connected to Truth with a capital T, to the True nature of reality and to what is meant to Be, despite our desires, preferences, and resistance. As we complete our journey through the twelve signs, the sense of self we formed throughout the previous eleven stages dissolves and we become, once again, one with everything that exists.
When a Lunar Eclipse takes place in the last sign of the Zodiac, the energy of completion and closure is exponentially magnified. Huge shifts are happening and this event is asking us to surrender our attachment to outcomes, goals, and ambitions and welcome instead what is True, what Life has in store for us.
The Lunar Eclipse in Pisces invites us to take a look at what is ending in our lives and how we are relating to letting it go: it is an opportunity to pay attention to how we navigate transitions and to how we feel when the time is ripe to close a chapter but we have no clue about what comes next yet.
Lunar Eclipse Conjunct the North Node: Making Space for the New
The Lunar Nodes have fundamental importance in both Vedic and Evolutionary Astrology. In Evolutionary Astrology, the Lunar South Node has to do with habitual tendencies, patterns, and behavior that tend to keep us stuck in the past, perpetuating familiar cycles. This point informs us of our existing talents and natural gifts: it is an energy we know well and also a place we tend to get stuck in. Referred to as Ketu, in Vedic Astrology the South Node is associated with detachment, past karma, and spiritual insights. The Lunar South Node has been in Libra since July 2023 and is going toenter Virgo in January 2025.
In Evolutionary Astrology, the Lunar North Node is associated with our collective evolutionary direction and holds the key to balance the pull of the South Node. The North Node pushes us to explore, grow, and challenge ourselves. Known as Rahu, in Vedic Astrology this point is also connected to greed, materialism, and obsession with worldly success. The North Node is now traveling in the early degrees of Aries and is entering Pisces in January 2025.
This Lunar Eclipse in Pisces conjunct with the North Node in Aries invites us to release what prevents us from moving forward, to close cycles that keep us from growing, and leave the past behind. A prelude to the upcoming North Node ingress into Pisces, this event emphasizes the need to surrender to the flow, let go of security blankets, and allow endings to make space for new beginnings.
You are the most astrological service around. I truly appreciate your in-depth analysis and blend in all natural forces of nature for us to utilize to ground and view our worlds through intuitive lenses. Thank you, Moon Omens.
I am a Gemini sun with a double Pisces moon/rising… and a Virgo stellium. I am ready for and open to whatever the Universe sees fit to bestow upon me during this eclipse season.