"Veils Lifted and Secrets Exposed": The PARTIAL LUNAR ECLIPSE at 25°41' Pisces, Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 02:44 UTC

"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal." ~Orwell, 1984

Sep 14, 2024

Not all eclipses are created equal, and the approaching eclipse season is a masterclass in unveiling what has long been obscured. Beginning with the partial lunar eclipse at 25º Pisces on September 18, 2024, and followed by an annular solar eclipse at 10º Libra two weeks later, this cosmic moment reveals hidden currents, long-buried emotional truths, and unconscious patterns that have shaped our lives. These eclipses won’t allow us to simply drift along; they will drag the depths of our psyches, pulling us toward dramatic realisations and forcing us to confront what has been shadowed. Through this unveiling, change becomes not just inevitable, but inescapable, driving us into uncharted realms of emotional and psychological growth.

This eclipse pair is about revelations—the Pisces lunar eclipse, in particular, magnifies the patterns that have kept us bound to forces of control and illusions of security. We’ve clung to the structures, people, and beliefs that have kept us dependent, stuck in both internal and external contracts. Relationships—be they personal, social, or even societal—have been propped up by illusions, those flimsy, flaky dynamics that have outlived their purpose. The eclipses tear through these false layers, exposing where we've unwittingly given away our power, where we've stayed entangled in old paradigms out of fear or convenience. The Pisces lunar eclipse, the final sign of the zodiac, operates like a cosmic gutter, where the dissolved residues of what can no longer stand the test of truth drain away, leaving no room for compromise with delusion and phoney affectation.

The Aries-Libra nodal axis has been driving us toward a reckoning for the past year, with the North Node in Aries pushing for fierce independence, and the South Node in Libra illuminating the need to let go of the roles we’ve played to maintain peace at the expense of our authenticity. Now, as this nodal cycle culminates, the eclipse season magnifies these themes to a catabolic breaking point. The solar eclipse at the South Node in Libra (Oct. 2) is the severing cut—an undeniable end to relational patterns that no longer serve. It’s not subtle; it’s a cosmic exodus from the old ways of being. The lunar eclipse in Pisces, however, is more haunting, casting a shadow over the unspoken, unseen forces that have dictated our emotional and relational patterns. This eclipse asks us to surrender to the dissolution, to allow the veil to fall away, even as we may still cling to the comfort of its lies.

Venus, exalted in Pisces and ruling Libra, presides over these events with her dual presence, establishing a complex harmony between the eclipses. Her role in the lunar eclipse heightens our emotional sensitivity, drawing us into a state of profound emotional recognition. This is by no means a soft moment of reflection, but an almost otherworldly pull into the depths of our own emotional landscapes. When Venus later rules the solar eclipse, she demands the purging of relational baggage and patterns of co-dependence that we’ve relied upon for far too long. Yet, she is not simply nurturing; at the height of the lunar eclipse, she is facing off against Chiron and Eris, triggering the collective wounds of exclusion and the jagged edges of our interpersonal scars of outright rejection. The result is an unavoidable gouging into the parts of ourselves we have hidden, the shameful truths of inadequacy and inability to counter that we have all too long been too afraid to speak.

The Moon, governing our instincts and subconscious, becomes the focal point of this eclipse. The Earth’s shadow falling faintly across the Moon symbolises the subtle unveiling of emotions that we have buried deep within, initiating a series of emotional outbursts, revelations, and shifts in perception that bring us face-to-face with what we can no longer ignore between us. There is no escaping the psychological upheaval these eclipses bring—they are profoundly intense mirrors, reflecting back the inner worlds we’ve kept hidden from view, forcing us to come clean about our indiscretions and shed the personas and beliefs that no longer serve our evolution.

Central to this is the Pisces-Virgo axis, which lies at the heart of the lunar eclipse. Pisces dissolves what Virgo tries to control. Where Virgo seeks perfection, order, and clarity, Pisces demands we surrender to the unknown, to the mysticism that Virgo's precision cannot grasp. As the lunar eclipse intensifies, we are forced to confront where our obsession with control, with having everything neatly arranged, is crumbling. The structures we’ve relied on, the lines we've drawn, and the clear-cut answers we’ve held to are dissolving into the Piscean mist. Neptune’s ongoing presence in Pisces, further emphasised by Saturn's grounding influence, pulls us deeper into the fog, reminding us that some things are beyond our ability to organise or understand.

In this liminal space, where Virgoan exactness dissolves and Pisces reigns, we are faced with a stark choice: embrace the unknown or continue clinging to a sense of order that is rapidly falling apart. The Virgo Sun seeks to impose a myriad of excusatory reasons, but the Pisces Moon won’t have it, instinctively overpowers it by seeing right through the cold rationale, revealing that much of what we’ve held onto is nothing more than a well-constructed illusion. It’s the moment when the facade shatters, leaving us exposed and transparent (naked) to the emotional and spiritual truths that have been there all along.

At the heart of this eclipse is a grand kite formation, with the Sun-Moon opposition as the spine and Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus in their final degrees. Pluto in Capricorn signals the breakdown of crumbling structures, Uranus in Taurus demands a radical shift in our values, and Neptune in Pisces dissolves illusions that can no longer serve. The eclipsed moon only accentuates that this is a major turning point: what cannot withstand the truth in our most personal interactions will be simply swept away, leaving only what is real and true. Adding to this, a T-square from Jupiter in Gemini increases the tension, pushing us to confront where our scattered beliefs have become bloated, where we’ve overextended ourselves, demanding that we cut through the grandiloquence of our rhetoric to find real, sustainable growth.

Ultimately, these eclipses are about far more than just closure or fresh starts—they reveal deep fissures in our phoney-world constructs, precipitating events that force us into irreversible transformation. As we let go of the need for control and surrender to the unknown, we find ourselves standing at the threshold of a new way of being, one that demands both spiritual and emotional honesty. This eclipse season is a profound call to embrace the dissolution of the familiar, to let the tides of Pisces wash away the illusions we've clung to, and to step into a more expansive, transformative phase of growth.

Explore the intricate effects of these transformative energies in more depth with my poignantly astute eclipse horoscopes, where I delve into how these cosmic shifts will impact you personally. Step into the apotheosis of this moment and prepare to release what no longer serves, as these eclipses demand nothing less than total realignment.

Many blessings, have an amazingly empowering Lunar Eclipse xx