Eclipses change us forever. Solar Eclipses bring something new into our lives and Lunar Eclipses take something away that is for whatever reason no longer in alignment with our journey forward.

Every Lunar Eclipse is a Full Moon. Not every Full Moon is a Lunar Eclipse. A lunar eclipse is created when the Earth passes directly between the Sun and a full moon, casting its shadow across the lunar surface. This alignment causes the Moon to darken, often appearing reddish called a “blood moon” because Earth’s atmosphere filters sunlight.

This particular Lunar Eclipse is in the mutable earth sign of virgo. Virgo connects us with our physical bodies, the systems of our bodies, the systems in our lives, how we are called to be of service to others, our daily devotional energy. Virgo is discerning and simplifying and able to focus on the details of this current moment like no other sign. This Virgo Lunar Eclipse is occurring in the midst of a mercury retrograde in the sign that is Virgo’s opposite or polarity: Pisces. We are right in the midst of a time period when most of the energy is supporting us in losing sight of the details, and feeling like most things on our schedules are not actually happening at the time or date originally specified and there is a lot of surrender to the flow and forgiveness needed to manage our own energy. The Moon is our fastest moving planet causing our moods to shift as it changes signs every 2.5 days. The Moon rules our emotional response to life as it holds the records of the past. As the moon becomes full and the earth casts it’s shadow across it creating the lunar eclipse in the sign of virgo it’s a major checking in moment for us inviting us to feel our feet on the ground in this present moment and discern what is necessary and what is excess? What choice will ground me and what choice will bring chaos? It’s a call to do an interview with the body and truly listen to what is out of balance between our mind-body-spirit connection. The stellium or cluster of Pisces planets during the eclipse can make us feel like our life is flipped upside down and the Virgo eclipse comes in and turns it right side up for a moment so we can see clearly what to do next to invite some stability and direct next steps into what has felt like a fatiguing journey across many oceans.

The Lunar Eclipse in Virgo is conjunct or working directly with the South node in Virgo. The South Node represents the collective clearing out of the patterns no longer serving the grounded embodiment of our energy in this lifetime. The South Node is always directly opposing the North Node just as the Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse is always directly opposing the Sun. So that means that the Sun and the North Node are working together in Pisces to bring attention to the dreams calling us forward through revealing what is standing in the way of those dreams being more reachable.

The Sun in the water sign of Pisces is in a supportive trine aspect with the planet Jupiter in the water sign of Cancer. Jupiter is a very supportive planet in general known as the benefic planet that brings luck and expansion and higher consciousness. Jupiter in cancer supporting the Sun in Pisces during the Lunar Eclipse shows up as a warm hug of gentle, compassionate energy for us to lean into if we find ourselves feeling critical or harsh with ourselves or others during the Virgo Eclipse. Virgo can be overly critical and this energy invites us to soften into unconditional love. The Full Moon Eclipse in Virgo is also in a sextile or opportunity aspect with that Jupiter in Cancer which backs up this notion of not allowing ourselves to get lost in negative self talk or judgement of others in any extreme way.

The planet Venus also in the sign of Pisces at 26 degrees is in a sextile or opportunity aspect with the planet Uranus in the sign of Taurus during the Eclipse. Venus is the natural ruler of Taurus and also likes being in Pisces so is an opportunity for us to stabilize our relationships through random acts of kindness and showing each other how much you mean to each other.

Saturn and Neptune are still in somewhat of a conjunction after their exact conjunction at zero degrees of Aries on February 20th. They are working together to bring each of us alive and awake to what we are uniquely here on this planet at this time to do. All of the Pisces planets are ensuring that we continue to usher out any residue of old patterns that would block our ability to fully harness that Aries motivation to move forward.

The planet that rules Aries: Mars-is still in somewhat of a square or point of tension with the planet Uranus after their direct square on February 27th. Mars is known as the little brother to Uranus as both planets are movement oriented with Uranus being motivated to move by divine insight while mars is motivated to move by primal instincts. These two planets in a point of tension with each other can show up in our world as volatility and perhaps fights that cause lasting effects. Those lasting effects can mean there is a breakdown to breakthrough that happens or a breakdown that is unrepairable. We must be conscious about how we work with these energies within us and in our own lives during the lead up and the come down of this Eclipse.

Our boundary and rule governing planet: Saturn in the fire sign of Aries is in a sextile or opportunity aspect with the planet of transformational change: Pluto in the Air sign of Aquarius. These two planets are presenting to us an opportunity to truly see and plan for a way forward across the bridge from present to future. We would be wise to be honest with ourselves about anything that we are carrying within our subconscious minds that is heavy or burdensome so that we can seek out the healing we need.

Our progressive and truth seeking planet: Uranus in the Earth Sign of Taurus is also in a sextile or opportunity aspect with our illusion dissolving, higher self connecting planet of Neptune in the fire sign of Aries. These two outer planets are communicating about how to bring the future into the tangible steps we are taking now in our everyday lives. How do we create stability in such a de-stabilizing world? How can we simplify and use our energy to be here now while also being aware of what needs to be done at a steady pace?

These are the questions we are being asked to sit with during this Lunar Eclipse.

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