You don’t need to be an astrologer to note this is an auspicious time. It’s complex out there, with a side of uncertainty sprinkled with unexpected change. The barometric pressure is ripe with potential, opportunity, innovation, and consequences from seeds planted long ago. Radical change is coming, one way or another. In fact, it will be required.
Enter the eclipses, adding some additional jolts of synchronicity.
Why are eclipses important?
First off, eclipses represent a significant time of reset. Think of rebooting your computer to fix a snag. During a lunar eclipse, for a brief time, the Moon moves into the Earth’s shadow. This can only happen during a Full Moon when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are exactly or very closely aligned. Additionally, eclipses always dance with the Nodes of the Moon, a.k.a fate and destiny. That means we can expect big moments that take time to integrate. Think of them like righting a massive ship. The turn happens, but it takes time to come around. Eclipses represent times full of power pivots, resets, and choice points that evoke the change in direction. So, in simple terms, what is currently arising in your life is really important.
This is a Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces and is conjuct Neptune. The Moon is close to but not aligned with the North Node in Aries. Thus, what specifically needs a reset? The Moon in Pisces with a bit of Aries thrown in.
We are at the crossroads between what was (Pisces) and what will be (Aries). Endings and beginnings. And what got us here can’t get us there. There is a certain assertive fierceness to that knowing.
But newness can be overwhelming as it tests our nervous systems to adapt. This is especially true if the new challenges our sense of identity and esteem or taps into ways we define our security. Our minds are complex, often vying for what feels good, safe, and familiar, regardless of its validity.
Which brings us to this eclipse in Pisces.
From an astrological perspective, truth is defined differently via each sign exemplifying its complicated nature. For example, Gemini’s truth is sourced from critical thinking and logic. Capricorn truth is found in both reason and moral integrity. Aquarius is of the technical variety, think science, and forward-looking vision. Pisces, though, stands firmly in universal truth. As the last sign of the zodiac, it is said to encompass all our flavors of intelligence rising above egoic perceptions. Call it intuition, spirit, god, or the higher self. Pisces is the part of us left when we strip away all our identities, masks, habits, fears, stories, and spells. It is the part of us that is essentially essence, with no classifications of separation. It is powerfully divine, which is both the solution and the problem.
Tapping into a form of divinity can be ego-intoxicating or ego-humbling, depending on the parts of us in charge. Because god-stuff can enlighten or condemn, inspire or punish, love or hate, which is why we need to get this force right. Most conflicts, large and small, have been fought over the ‘truths’ we believe in. They still are. Religious nationalism is rooted in the concept of spiritual warfare. Add a little divinity to truth and we rouse the deepest self-riotous parts of us. There is something very dangerous and dehumanizing in believing our truth is THE truth and your truth is not. Grace can become marred through the filters of our own rightness, creating hate, othering, greed, fear, shame, corruption, and hypocrisy. Because fundamentalism requires acquiescence rather than questioning. It is about dominion not cooperation. It is about power over not power with.
This is why it is so important to get it right. Saturn has been in Pisces since May of last year, and it is conjunct this Full Moon eclipse, revealing all the ways this force needs fixing.
Doing Pisces right means we sit squarely in the questions rather than the answers. It means we live the messages we preach- service, humility, sacrifice, discipline, honesty, empathy, compassion, acceptance, and integrity. Our prayers and intentions are not dictates or blueprints to what we want, but ones that offer our gratitude and understanding of what we have. Pisces, done well, reminds us to cultivate a spiritual practice that asks how we can give rather than how much we can get. Because wisdom means nothing unless integrated into daily life.
Masters of this type of truth knew (know) the tenuous fragility of this force and how easily egoic parts can claim it. Their teachings, regardless of the flavor, always center on the actions of these essential universal truths rather than the words. To help those less fortunate. To turn the other cheek. To resist greed and selfishness. To treat others how they are meant to be treated. To get our egos out of the way as much as possible. To critically think and respond rather than react. In this way, every action, every thought, every breath, or every word spoken becomes an extension of grace itself. That is the light of Pisces.
I often wonder what those wise ones would say today regarding those who use their names, principles, and teachings to justify hateful rhetoric and division under the banner of spiritual truth.
It makes sense this force needs a system reset.
Because when filtered through a clear channel, there is no sign with more potential for the mind-blowing and miraculous, almost magical, possibility than Pisces. It is amazing what can be accomplished when we suspend our egos long enough to tap into the grace that intertwines our world.
When we strive to cooperate, understand, help, and give more than we get, surrendering to ideals rooted in universal rather than selfish truths…
When we honor the knowing that there are many roads to the same place, with no one having a monopoly on doctrine or ideology…
When we are all rooted in the very best of us…
It is grace itself.
And we could use some grace about now.
So, at this Full Moon Eclipse assess how you use this force in your life. Assess if your personal filters need some clearing, some humility, some empathy, some acceptance, some listening rather than telling, some not knowing. Assess if you fall prey to the gravity of certainty, grasping at the need for the security of answers rather than allowing the complexity of questions. Be on the lookout for those who weave fundamentalism into the fabric of their defined truth, leading through dominance rather than collaboration. Note where you may need a faith reset where disappointment and disillusionment have overtaken the light of hope. Watch for hypocrisy, spiritual bypassing, coercion, and control, which live in ashes of broken truth. Strive for the corrections this time is asking of us.
And maybe, we may never be able to reach that high level of enlightenment and goodness (whatever that even means) promised in spiritual texts. But Pisces reminds us we need to try. Because it is in trying that we become the very best versions of ourselves. And that, in itself, is enough.
“If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of god made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in god’s name, it was bad theology.”
― Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
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~This Full Moon Lunar Eclipse occurs at 25° Pisces.
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