Welcome to the Pisces Full Moon, the time of the year when the spotlight is on compassion and empathy, spirituality and the world beyond. Pisces brings us to the end of the zodiac to contemplate the meaning of our lives and to prepare for a new life. This full moon is also notably a lunar eclipse and eclipses are agents of change. The full moon will be exact on September 7, 2025 at 2:09 pm ET, 15 degrees Pisces-Virgo. That’s 11:09 am Los Angeles, 7:09 pm London, 8:09 pm Johannesburg, 11:39 pm New Delhi, 4:09 am Sydney on September 8, and 6:09 am Auckland.
Full moons are decision points. They can coincide with events and times when a specific area of our lives is in the spotlight. But what about a lunar eclipse? The light of the full moon is occulted. There’s a jolt of energy.
The days around the lunar eclipse may be pivotal, marking personal and collective events that change the narrative. It’s a time of transition as one chapter gives way to another. For many, the eclipse may pass without notice, but it is nevertheless a time when a key area of life demands attention.
It’s important that we understand that eclipses come in series and this series, bouncing the energy back and forth over an 18 to 29-month period. This latest series of eclipses, falling between the signs of Pisces and Virgo, began with a lunar eclipse at 25 Pisces on September 17, 2024 followed by a lunar eclipse on March 14, 2025 at 23 Virgo. They will conclude with a Virgo lunar eclipse on February 20, 2027 at 1 Virgo.
So, whatever we are experiencing with these eclipses is already known to us. It was threaded through our experiences of September 2024 and March 2025. And it may foretell events to come in 2026.
Eclipses are the engine of fate. They punctuate time, swiftly closing out old chapters, and equally swiftly opening up new ones. They can herald a move, a marriage, the birth of a child, or a career change, to name a few. (Especially if the eclipse is on the same degree and sign as a planet in the birth chart.)
That said, this is a Pisces lunar eclipse, a full moon that illuminates the last sign of the zodiac and acts like a bridge to another world and a new life. Pisces is a water sign, an element that transports us, carrying us to sleep or sending us on a great voyage within.
We need all the signs of the zodiac. They each represent a key facet of life that must be learned and mastered. Without Pisces we would never have empathy. We would never be able to summon compassion for others. We wouldn’t look beyond ourselves and the everyday world for meaning and purpose. We wouldn’t have the courage to let go so that something new can come into our lives.
Pisces also has deep waters. And, like all signs of the zodiac, there is a duality to Pisces, from the highest of highs and spiritual unity to the depths of our grief and hopelessness. Pisces is both. Our experiences this eclipse season may travel between both.
How do we have hope when there is such suffering in the world? we may ask ourselves. But if one person has hope and inspires others to have compassion, then there is room for more hope and, perhaps, positive change in the world.
So, we may be asked in September to search for hope, to find our compassion, to open our hearts to others and the world beyond. Ruled by Jupiter, the Pisces eclipse may stir questions around meaning and purpose and push us to seek answers in quiet places.
Speaking of Jupiter, the eclipse makes a trine to Jupiter in Cancer, which means that there are opportunities in this eclipse. Perhaps a door opens or someone helps us in a way that may feel like grace.
That said, Jupiter is square Mars in Libra at the time of the eclipse, a point of friction and a hint that this eclipse may provoke or challenge. Mars and Jupiter hit on themes around what we believe in and stand for, the opinions we carry, and our faith in the future.
Finally, Saturn is at 29 Pisces, the last degree of the entire zodiac. It symbolically represents endings as well as the moment before the dawn. Saturn is lessons, karma, and the awareness that a great chapter has come to the close. We may not fully understand this eclipse at the time. Perhaps, as we go into the next few months, we will see it within a larger context.
Join me on Saturday, September 6 for an intimate, holistic eclipse workshop, from 1-3pm ET. Recorded for replay. In it, we will create sacred space together and, using my “12 Rooms” approach to astrology as well as the four elements, we will enter into our astrology and the “rooms” in which the eclipses will take place. Using mediation, we will dialogue with what the eclipses have to share with us. Learn more and register.
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