We have entered the final four months of 2025, a period heavy with transformation, endings, and the collapse of illusions that have held us in place for years, decades, even centuries. The cosmos is preparing us for a shift of paradigm. September carries the weight of two eclipses, both in mutable signs. This impacts Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces. In astrology, mutability represents endings, transitions, and the ability to adapt. These are the signs that prepare us for change, that push us to release what no longer belongs and accept that the season has moved.
The Total Lunar Eclipse in Pisces on 8 September at 04:08 AEST is no ordinary lunation. It is a blood moon lasting over five hours, visible across Australia, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. In simple terms, the Earth blocks the light of the Sun from reaching the Moon, and the Moon glows a deep red. But symbolically, it is far greater. The Sun in Virgo casts its light across the Pisces Moon, illuminating Virgo’s shadow of holding onto our old ways of working, dissecting life and keeping with the mundane. The Pisces moon brings subconscious patterns for us to release, heal and unblock for us to reach a personal mystical truth.
This is an eclipse that strips illusions, confronts fantasies, and dissolves identities that have outlived their resonance. It invites us to surrender, even when the mind grasps for control. It asks us to stop polishing the surface of our lives and begin living from deeper alignment. This is not a checklist of ego discomforts. It is a process of change that’s both sensitive and spiritual. We’re here to step up in our truth instead of proceeding a life that we’ve spiritually outgrown. In many ways this can bring initiation rapid change or eclipse a block that prevented us from being sovereign.
Virgo has long been associated with criticism, perfection, and slavery to duty. It has carried archetypes of the prostitute, the slave, and the nun whose worth is measured through service. The archetype of the prostitute brings us lessons in integrity, raising issues about trading body, spirit and identity for security including financial gain. It’s has a deep subconscious echo of selling our talents, ideas or other expressions of Self as form of selling ourselves out. Compromising our integrity. The slave archetype represents a total lack of power. We don’t feel we have any authority to choose what is right by our hearts. If we’ve surrendered our will to those with financial authority or an individual or a hierarchical environment it means we are working for a system and this echoes a powerlessness in ability. The nun archetype is the spiritual devotion, dedication, persistence, social transformation, education and wisdom. We see life as a spiritual devotional path which can lead into dark passages of isolation and loneliness.
These archetypes play a vital role in understanding how we’ve framed a limited and distorted perception of Virgo’s higher truth. The focus on serving others or not allowing our inner truth to be spoken keeps us in limited state where we’ve outlived every possible situation and haven’t internalised what it is we need. We have used the word perfectionism to describe Virgo qualities as survival and recognition instead of alignment of our sense of purpose in the world. The spotless house so no one can criticise, the endless tasks to prove value, the opinion offered to demonstrate intelligence. Healing, too, has been co-opted into efficiency “fix yourself so you can keep working.” Slavery as an archetype here represents the places we hand over our power to systems, roles, or people.
The eclipse shifts this. It reframes Virgo’s task not to criticise but to discern, not to enslave but to serve, not to chase perfection but to establish order that supports life. Take the kitchen as a simple example. The old Virgo shadow would demand spotless counters and punish anyone who moved a spoon. The higher Virgo understands that order is functional. The kitchen is meant to feed, nourish, and hold life. Its perfection is not in its untouched appearance but in its ability to support living.
When the Sun in Virgos light reflects onto the Pisces Moon, this reframing becomes visible. Virgo is not the enemy of Pisces’ flow. It is the structure that allows the Pisces mess, sensitivities, imagination, spiritual longing and explosions to have form. The eclipse exposes where we confuse control with care, where we seek faultless order rather than embodied discernment. At its heart, this eclipse asks us to accept that we are not in control of endings. Most of us already know, deep down, what must end. Relationships that no longer carry resonance. Jobs that drain more than they give. Habits and roles that no longer fit the soul.
Illusion, however, will be at its strongest. Pisces energy is mystical, but it can also be deceptive. It can convince us that nothing needs to change, that we can carry on as before. Or it can whisper the opposite: that it is already too late, that nothing will ever shift. Both are illusions. The task now is discernment. Neptune in Aries highlights the illusion of time. The false belief that “if it hasn’t happened yet, it never will.” Saturn in Pisces is the antidote. Saturn reminds us that time is cyclical, spiral, and layered. What feels like delay may be gestation. What feels like an ending may be the start of a new spiral.
This is not a call to rush or to abandon. It is a call to breathe, to pause, to listen to the body. The breath tells the truth, when the chest expands and the belly softens, we are in alignment. When the breath is shallow or tight, illusion grips us. This eclipse exposes illusions, and illusions come in many guises. The illusion of timing tells us opportunities are lost forever or must be seized now. But life moves in spirals. The door that closed will open again, in another form. The illusion of substitution convinces us to accept “good enough” because waiting is too hard. We take the job, the partner, the project that soothes discomfort but does not sing to the soul. The illusion of identity clings to roles: “I am my work, my relationship, my success.” Yet these are garments, not the body.
The eclipse strips away what no longer fits. The illusion of control drives us to plan and manage, believing the right effort secures the right outcome. But Virgo’s higher truth is discernment, not micromanagement. The illusion of lack tells us opportunities are scarce. It breeds hoarding, desperation, and force. But life is fractal, opportunities repeat until alignment meets them. Every illusion leads us back to the same question: am I acting from fear or from presence? We are being called to witness these patterns in our psyche, to unclog the energy of our own misconception of life. Life itself or as we’ve known it is changing and by holding onto the old ways of working would be like bringing a caveman into this time. It would believe we’re aliens.
To understand this eclipse, we must return to the last time we experienced a north node in Pisces eclipse in 2006 and was a catalyst change of events. This impacted the end of 2006 through to the events of 2008. Back then, Saturn was in Leo, testing our pride, creativity, and authenticity. Globally, we witnessed financial instability, identity politics, and an atmosphere of deep questioning. Personally, many wrestled with who they were becoming, stepping out of old identities, exploring sexuality, career, and belonging.
For some, 2006 brought the beginning of a process, choices around work, relationships, or identity that reshaped life. By 2007, triggers appeared. New directions, new revelations, new projects began, some exciting, some chaotic. And by 2008, the consequences were clear: endings, breakdowns, global crisis.
This 2025 eclipse echoes that cycle. It is not punishment but resonance. The universe is asking: what did you not finish then? What illusions did you cling to, what compromises did you make? Now is the chance to close the loop. If in 2006 you settled for “good enough,” now you will be asked to release that choice. If in 2007 you began something out of fear, now you are asked to end it. If in 2008 you suffered consequences you did not understand, now you can see the pattern clearly.
The choices we make in these months will ripple into 2026 and beyond, just as the choices of 2007 shaped 2008. This is karmic weather. It does not play small. The work is not glamorous. It is not about vision boards or escape fantasies. It is about sitting with what is uncomfortable and choosing truth over illusion.
It is about recognising when we are tempted to distract ourselves, to rush, to numb, to substitute. It is about listening to our body. It is about discerning where we are controlling instead of trusting. This eclipse is deeply personal. It may hurt. It may bring endings we hoped to avoid. But it is not cruel. It is clearing. It is stripping what no longer fits so that something aligned can finally breathe. Reflect to the end of 2006. What began then? What patterns started to shift? What illusions did we hold? The echo is here now, not to repeat the pain but to offer closure.
The Total Lunar Eclipse in Pisces is a blood moon of endings. If we cling, we face exhaustion, disillusionment, and collapse. If we surrender, we feel raw but free. The truth is that change is not optional. It will come. The only choice we hold is whether we allow it with grace or resist until it breaks us.
The body is the compass. The breath is the guide. Illusion feels frantic, desperate, or numb. Truth feels steady, even when uncomfortable. This is the beginning of the end not to destroy us, but to clear the way for what truly resonates.
Guiding Questions for the Eclipse
- What am I holding onto that I already know has ended?
- Where am I tempted to settle for “good enough” instead of true alignment?
- Which roles or identities no longer fit the soul I am becoming?
- When does planning give me clarity, and when does it slip into control?
- How do I react when I feel time is running out?
- Where do I fall into the illusion of lack, grasping at opportunities out of fear?
- What illusions am I projecting onto others right now?
- How can I let my body, not my mind, guide the next step?
- Where can I practise discernment instead of perfectionism?
- What echoes of 2006–2008 still linger, and how can I bring closure now?
Stay integral to your Soul journey. Big love!
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