LUNAR ECLIPSE [25 Pisces 41]
September 18, 2024 (03:34 GMT+1)
This month’s Full Moon is special because it’s a Lunar Eclipse when the light of the Moon is eclipsed due to its relationship with the Sun and Earth. This eclipse takes place on September 18th or a day earlier if you live in the Americas.
During a Lunar Eclipse, the Sun and Moon are at opposite sides of the zodiac. A shadow is thrown during an eclipse. Once the shadow lifts, it brings what’s hidden to light or sheds a new perspective on a current situation.
Traditionally, you’re wise to wait a few days after an eclipse before taking action as new information may come to light. Eclipses can be dramatic and are often associated with the unexpected events in life, the things you didn’t see coming.
This is a significant eclipse because it’s the first eclipse in a new eclipse cycle cutting across the Virgo-Pisces axis of the zodiac. This eclipse cycle will last from September 2024 to February 2027.
Eclipse Lore
In ancient times eclipses were viewed as a bad omen, although in modern times they are not so feared. Eclipses are power points of energy when your spiritual awareness is heightened.
There are two main types of eclipses, a Solar or new moon eclipse when the light of the Sun is obscured and a Lunar or full moon eclipse when the Moon’s light is hidden. Eclipses present you with an opportunity to sweep out the old to prepare the space for something fresh and new to emerge.
To understand eclipses, the language and symbolism of the eclipse can act as a guide. When the lights, the Sun and Moon, are eclipsed, you are in the dark and events are hidden and shadowy. Secrets emerge and what’s unknown comes to light.
As an eclipse involves three bodies, the Sun, the Moon and the Earth, this may represent a ‘triangle’ situation in your life where one person loses out allowing another person to take advantage. At an eclipse, one door may have to shut before a new door can be opened.
Eclipses symbolise a time when the pendulum of fate can swing dramatically and that may feel both exhilarating and scary. Sometimes, change happens close to the eclipse date. At other times, the influence of an eclipse can last until the next set of eclipses, six months later.
An eclipse has most impact when it falls within 2-3º of a planet or angle in your birth chart. Very often, an event close to the eclipse date sets the wheels of change in motion and the eclipse energy plays out over the next few weeks or months.
Eclipses take place in cycles that last for 18-24 months. What can happen is you get a run of eclipses triggering key points in your birth chart and your life shifts significantly within that period.
When you look back on the past, you invariably see that major turning points in your life, moments of destiny, coincide with important eclipse cycles.
Eclipse Data
Eclipse cycles re-occur approximately every 18-19 years. The eclipses are linked to the karmic nodes, although the nodes are still in Aries and Libra right now. They’ll move into Pisces and Virgo in January 2025.
The last eclipse cycle in Virgo-Pisces was March 2006 to February 2008, the previous one was September 1987 to August 1989 and the one before that was March 1969 to February 1971.
This eclipse cycle is important for you if you’re one of the mutable star signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces. Also, if the eclipses impact planets or angles in your horoscope. Here’s the full eclipse cycle:
- Lunar Eclipse [25 Pisces 41] – Sept 18 2024
- Lunar Eclipse [23 Virgo 57] – March 14 2025
- Lunar Eclipse [15 Pisces 23] – Sept 7 2025
- Solar Eclipse [29 Virgo 05] – Sept 21 2025
- Lunar Eclipse [12 Virgo 54] – March 3 2026
- Lunar Eclipse [4 Pisces 54] – Aug 28 2026
- Lunar Eclipse [2 Virgo 06] – Feb 20 2027
Straightaway, you notice that most of the eclipses in this cycle are lunar or full moon eclipses. This is unusual, especially as there will be no solar or new moon eclipse in Pisces. Lunar eclipses are often more emotional and dramatic as they coincide with the full moon phase of the moon cycle.
Virgo/Pisces Axis
It’s important to note which star signs the eclipses fall in. Over the next couple of years, the eclipses will cut across the Virgo/Pisces axis of the zodiac. If you have planets and angles in these star signs, this eclipse cycle will be most powerful for you.
This is the axis of order versus chaos. Virgo’s ruled by Mercury, the planet of communication which loves detail, facts and figures. Pisces is ruled by two planets, the biggest planet Jupiter and the boundless planet Neptune. This is the realm of dreams and fantasy, encouraging you to get in flow with life, to be creative, imaginative and dive into the spiritual realm.
The Virgo-Pisces axis highlights themes of service, sacrifice and surrender. The star signs Virgo and Pisces tap you into the rituals of daily life through good health and prayer. Virgo is the god of small things while Pisces takes you out into the universe – the microcosm and the macrocosm.
These are not material star signs. Instead, the Virgo-Pisces axis encourages you to be grateful for what you have and to understand that less can be more. Food and harvest are Virgo themes, one of the earth signs, and Pisces rules the sea and liquids, one of the water signs.
The focus is on what we share with each other, how the earth feeds and nourishes us and the life-giving nature of water. It’s about creating a sustainable environment for everyone and caring for the vulnerable and weak in our society. All these issues are likely to fall under sharper focus during the next two and a half years.
In Virgo, you’re on dry land, sorting things out, taking care of your body, getting organised. Whereas in Pisces, you’re swimming in the sea, losing yourself, heading into the unknown and marvelling at the boundless nature of the universe.
Take some time out for you during this powerful Lunar Eclipse. Work with your logical left brain and your intuitive right brain. Oppositions can create tension and what’s been hidden may come to light. Ideally, aim to get in flow of the Virgo-Pisces axis.
The closest aspect to the eclipse is a conjunction to Neptune at 28° Pisces. Therefore, the creative, imaginative, ‘lose yourself’ aspects of the Virgo-Pisces axis are emphasised. Spiritual awareness is heightened but ensure you have your anchor to keep you safe and in touch with reality.
It feels very poignant that during this Lunar Eclipse, I’m going to two funerals, one on the day of the eclipse and one the day after. Obviously, this flags up the theme of endings. Yet, an eclipse in Pisces is a reminder that when life ends on the physical plane, the person lives on in the spiritual, universal realm – the oneness of being.
What Does It Mean For You
If you know your horoscope, it’s helpful to consider where the new set of eclipses will fall to better understand where change may occur and which areas of your life are under the cosmic spotlight. Here’s a reminder. Read both your Sun sign and your Ascendant sign if you know it:
- Pisces: Personal goals, image and profile, body – relationships, partnership, contracts
- Aries: Retreat and inner work, caring for others – work, service, lifestyle and health
- Taurus: Friends, groups and social networks – self-expression, creativity, children and love affairs
- Gemini: Career and vocation, your future path – home and family, your past and legacy
- Cancer: Travel, education, beliefs – communication, community, neighbours and siblings
- Leo: Other peoples’ money and taboo issues – possessions, assets, values and self-worth
- Virgo: Relationships, partnership, contracts – personal goals, image and profile, body
- Libra: Work, service, lifestyle and health – retreat and inner work, caring for others
- Scorpio: Self-expression, creativity, children and love affairs – friends, groups and social networks
- Sagittarius: Home and family, your past and legacy – career and vocation, your future path
- Capricorn: Communication, community, neighbours and siblings – travel, education, beliefs
- Aquarius: Possessions, assets, values and self-worth – other peoples’ money and taboo issues
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