It’s noisy and mysteriously quiet at the same time, a bit messy, chaotic, groundless, and dark, full of unknowns – the Pisces full moon lunar eclipse sends us through turbulence in the sea of the unconscious into where structures dissolve like paper in water. We are not held together. We are undone. But the beauty is that we are not done, we are un-done, never done, always in the process of birthing something new from the void. This dispersing will deliver us into reintegration. We are an unfinished story.
The Astrology of the September 2025 Pisces Full Moon
Astrologers say that this Pisces full moon lunar eclipse is in conversation with something that started last September. Can you think back? Can you follow the breadcrumbs? Can you piece together some clues about where you are?
I am a mythologist, not an astrologer, so I’m not an expert on figuring out how all the stars align, or what the planets have to do with our lives in a particular moment. And as I often claim, I don’t have a faith based relationship with astrology, but the mythic power of the moon, and the archetypes of the zodiac are meaningful, helpful guides in the sacred secularism of my life. I mention that so that you feel welcome, no matter what your level of belief is. I want you to feel empowered and inspired to weave the archetypal imagery, the symbolic meaning, and the secular approach to mythology into your life (if it’s appealing). You are welcome to partake in the sacred without belief.
Themes of Endings and New Beginnings
Endings and beginnings are part of the mix. Death and rebirth are never not part of the conversation. But so is the sense of continuum.
This eclipse season is part of a series of eclipses happening on the Pisces-Virgo axis. It began in September 2024 and will conclude in 2027. We get to play hide and seek with the sun and the moon, with the independent Virgo, and the interconnectedness of Pisces.
Virgo is the sign that ends the individual half of the astrological wheel. It delivers us into Libra, who sparks the journey into the collective.
Pisces is the sign that concludes a whole cycle of the astrological wheel. It’s the archetype that drops us into the ocean of everything, and melts our form into formlessness in the embryonic fluid of the womb of the universe.
Merging with the infinite is not the end. Renewal follows. The wheel keeps spinning. Particles that broke away from one another find other particles to coalesce with. Death breaks down our form. Decay leads to something else. We become other things. Food for the worms, nourishment for the soil. Maybe that is what the continuum of the soul is. If you’re a spiritual atheist you never know exactly how to work with Pisces energy, this might be your gateway into this mystical sign – turn the mysticism into mystery, into muse, into awe, into the spirituality of science.
Astrologer and activist, Chani Nicholas, says that this lunar eclipse is part of a larger story that began last September and carries us into 2027. A story… Yes! What can you put together about this past year? What were the main themes that were highlighted in your life? What direction do you want the story to take? What twist do you want to write into the plot? We are characters in this story. We are writers on this show.
Virgo Sun, Pisces Moon: Balancing Earth and Water
We need to receive the reality we’re living in. Part of Virgo’s archetypal role is to keep us grounded, connected, and rooted in reality, in the body, on the earth. And we need to imagine and dream, to envision and float in possibilities, which is the archetypal job of Pisces.
The sun is in Virgo. She is clean, caring, precise and reliable. Virgo season is always blessed with the dreamy quality of Pisces. They never balance one another, but always invite an integration of the other.
What Makes This Lunar Eclipse Significent
The earthy energy of Virgo keeps us grounded, but as tangled tree roots open the portal of the eclipse, even Virgo can’t hold us above ground. Down we go through a hole in the ground. Down into the depths of the world, where things feel senseless, upside down, as Alice says. And like Alice we meet the strange, hidden creatures of our psyche.
The Pisces Full Moon 2025 speaks in several languages; the language of death & rebirth, the language of the soul, the language of cosmic vastness. And it speaks the language of our times, with all the confusion that comes with it.
An eclipse is thought of as a moment of unclarity. A dark shadow passes over and conceals our source of light. Bring the Pisces archetype and an eclipse together, and you’ll swim in uncharted waters, float in the unknown, move into depths you may have never visited before.
Eclipses are full of feelings, amplifying the already overflowing emotional waters of the moon’s fullness. Add some Pisces spice into this cosmic soup, and you get yourself a heightened sense of connection to everything that’s going on. And everything that’s going on shakes your comforting shell and pulls you into the waters, into big waves, into a high tide of sensitivity and sentimentality. Keep some tissue nearby. Or a bucket. And a journal.
Change is highlighted as the spiritual meaning of this lunar eclipse. We’re never not changing, of course, but this historical period feels like a crash course in transformation. Structures collapse, containers break, forms unform in front of our eyes, inside our minds, within our lives; collectively and personally. The combination of Pisces and lunar eclipse is extra transformative. Dissolution is on display, for sure!
Virgo creates structures and keeps things neat and organized. She sifts through the chaos and compartmentalizes the confusion. She discerns and decides what to keep and what to let go of. She’s also a perfectionist. This messy eclipse business is quite frustrating for her.
What we can do as we integrate all these parts and pieces, is let the organizing power of the Virgo archetype help us create containers of meaning, and let the chaotic liquidity pour into them. They’ll spill and mix and make a mess, no doubt. But the process itself can be meaningful.
Spiritual Meaning Lunar Eclipse
As someone who views the spiritual as the embodied, and life itself – with all the ups and downs, all the different phases and stages, all the human imperfections – as a meaning making process, I lean into the idea that the portal is open when we decide it is. But I feel that something deep and powerful happens when many people at the same time define a certain moment as a portal.
Something ancient is moving under the waters of this pisces full moon meaning. As ancient as a fish. As ancient as our ancestors who viewed eclipses as omens.
The shadow plays a big part in this celestial game of hide and seek, and the spiritual meaning of a lunar eclipse can be the invitation to integrate the pieces we find hard to embrace as our own.
There’s a softening that occurs when we let the darkness of the unconscious and the waters of the unknown envelop us for a moment. Receptivity is necessary for our creativity, and an opening, a surrender, is necessary for our receptivity.
Call on the Virgo in you to create the necessary boundaries for this melting, this surrendering, this profound softening of your edges.
Rituals & Reflections for The Pisces Full Moon Eclipse
Journal Prompts for Virgo-Pisces Integration
What needs to soften in you, for this pisces full moon lunar eclipse to truly be a portal of the most important transformation you are seeking right now?
What are some of the shadow pieces that you are noticing coming up for you these days? And what is their relationship to the shadows you’re seeing in the collective?
What story began last September for you? If this eclipse is a portal, what parts of you do you commit to embodying and emphasising on the other side? Where do you want this story to go?
What pieces do you need to bring closure to, for the continuation of the journey you’re on to become an expression of your magic.
What do you need to surrender into the dark waters of this eclipse? What do you need to dissolve?
What structures do you need to build moving forward?
Use the prompts that resonate, leave the rest. And leave a comment with one or more of your answers. I’d love to read and hold space for your process.
Simple Pisces Full Moon Eclipse Meditation
This meditation includes in it a mantra and a mudra, which are yogic practices that originated in India. You may feel resistance to doing a practice that comes from a tradition that isn’t the one you come from. Or you might feel deeply connected to it, inspired by it, or rooted in its power. Remember who you are. Remember where this practice comes from. Offer your respect. Trust your process.
You Are The Ocean – Pisces Full Moon Meditation
Set aside 5-20 minutes. Sit comfortably, and allow your gaze to soften. Let your hands rest on your knees or thighs with your palms facing up, which embodies openness and receptivity. If you feel better with your palms facing down, do that instead – it’s totally ok. Whenever you’re ready, let your eyes close. Take a few moments to sit with the movement of your breath, watching the rise and fall, the ins and outs.
The breath is the waves of the ocean.
You are the ocean.
Whenever you’re ready, begin to slow down your breath, to let it deepen, to fill your lungs, to expand your belly as you breathe in. As you exhale, breathe out slowly, empty your breath out completely, and let your belly rest. Take your time.
You are part of this ocean.
You are every creature that swims in your depths.
You are the ocean.
Watch your thoughts, your feelings, your ideas, your boredom, your greatness, your shadows, your doubts, your spacing out. Receive the different pieces of self and society and environment and history that arise. And let them subside without force.
Let them be like waves.
Let them ride the waves of the breath.
Let them swim in the ocean.
You are the ocean.
After a few minutes, you can add a mantra and a mudra:
As you inhale, recite the syllable “Ham” and join your pinky finger with your thumb into Jala Mudra – the gesture, or seal of water. (aham in Sanskrit means “I am.” The “a” part comes at the end of the next syllable).
As you exhale let your hands simply open up into Vara Mudra – the gesture of boon giving – and recite the syllable “Sah” which translates from Sanskrit into that.
(The mantra Hamsah is the mantra of the breath. There’s a lot more that we can say about this, but we’ll save it for another time.)
Stay with this mantra and your breath for as long as you’d like.
You are vast.
You are creative.
You are boundaries and boundlessness.
You are ancient and renewed.
You are the ocean.
The Deeper Meaning of This Pisces Full Moon Lunar Eclipse
What makes this moment meaningful is how you see it, how you decide to integrate, and what you choose to do with it.
The deeper meaning of any spiritual, archetypal, magical work lives in our ability to connect with it profoundly on a personal level, and to anchor it in the collective. As you journal, let the prompts guide you both ways – into yourself and into the world and what is happening in the collective.
This Pisces full moon lunar eclipse is as meaningful as you make it. It doesn’t have to be a huge thing. Some astrologers say that because the energy of an eclipse is so strong, it’s better not to do any rituals. Personally, I don’t subscribe to that belief. It sounds a bit superstitious to me. I think a gentle, simple meditation, and some journaling, is a beautiful way to do deep and meaningful work and to honor the eclipse as a portal.
The deeper meaning swims in your ocean. Trust the process. Trust that you are wise. Weave the lessons, the insights, and the ways that you feel the Virgo and the Pisces archetypes in your own self, and in the world.
Have a meaningful full moon lunar eclipse.
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Hagar