2025 Total Lunar Eclipse Pisces Moon Virgo Sun

 September has arrived and has brought an energy that informs change, but not obvious to other usual types of change events.  This time in the Sun Sign Virgo encourages us to separate the so-called “wheat from the chaff.”  The archetype of Virgo speaks to ability to discern details on the Earth plane. Virgo is a mutable earth sign, demonstrating ability to communicate what needs to be improved and healed. With Virgo in command, whatever does not serve us needs to be discarded or significantly improved. Perfectionism is a flaw that Virgo personas need to be wary of in their lives.

Yet, I refer to change happening.  This is not a particular characteristic of Virgo energy. But this month we face a total lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse.  The Eclipse Season is here. 

On Sunday, September 7th, a total lunar eclipse on the Pisces North node opposite Virgo in the South node. Also, the Sun in Virgo will be opposite the Full Moon in Pisces.  In certain places around the globe, we can see a shadow passing over the Moon.

This Full Moon is called the Corn Moon during the season of the last harvest of this crop.

A lunar eclipse can produce strong emotions coming to the surface of our consciousness. We may find we get in touch with pieces of our psyche that need to be embraced and illuminated. Depending on where Virgo and its opposite sign of Pisces is in our individual natal charts, we may find a shift in our awareness and an ability to discern what needs to be removed from our lives (Virgo South Node) and what guides us to our highest consciousness (Pisces North Node).

Later in September, we experience the Solar Eclipse in Virgo. This is a time when the Sun and Moon are conjoined at the exact same degrees.  A solar eclipse is a new moon, but with greater energetic influence.  A new moon, lunar eclipse provides a time to jump start a new effort, project, intention, and any new beginnings that align with your soul’s yearnings. 

Here is a general statement for each sign in our zodiac and the potential influence of the Pisces/Virgo Eclipse cycle: (Remember, not only review your Sun Sign, but read what is said for your Rising Sign as most forecasts are based on the 12-houses of the natal chart). 

The Pisces/Virgo eclipse can have different effects on each astrological sign based on their zodiac elements and ruling planets. Here's a brief overview of its potential influence:

Aries: This eclipse may bring focus to health and daily routines, encouraging new habits or addressing overlooked issues.
Taurus: Focused on relationships and partnerships, Taurus may experience revelations or shifts in their significant bonds.
Gemini: This period could stimulate growth in communication, learning, or travel plans, leading to new opportunities.
Cancer: Career and public image are highlighted; you might experience a milestone or a change in your professional life.
Leo: Personal identity and self-expression come into focus, possibly prompting a reevaluation of your goals or self-image.
Virgo: Since the eclipse involves Virgo, it may bring significant changes in health, work, and daily responsibilities, urging practical adjustments.
Libra: Home and family matters might become prominent, leading to emotional insights or important decisions.
Scorpio: Communication and learning are emphasized; new ideas or collaborations could emerge.
Sagittarius: Scorpio season themes of transformation may intensify, impacting shared resources and intimate connections.
Capricorn: This eclipse may lead to shifts in beliefs, philosophy, or higher education plans.
Aquarius: Social networks, friendships, and community involvement could undergo transformation.
Pisces: As with Virgo, Pisces may experience revelations around identity, personal projects, or self-development.

For those of you who want a deeper dive into the powerful September 7th Total Lunar Eclipse, please read Stephanie Austin’s report.  I value this astrologer’s work.
 
Also, for those of you with mutable signs strong in your chart:  Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces, it may be helpful to get an individual astrology reading.  For me, I have had significant changes in my life when an eclipse cycle passed over my Sun sign. 
 
Happy Trails to you all. 
Love, Cathy
 
Ecological Astrology – Stephanie Austin
 
We are entering a time of big breakthroughs, deep clearings, and major recalibrations, with tremendous support from the invisible realms. This month, the catalytic energies of two eclipses, heightened solar activity, the equinox, and all of the outer planets in retrogrademotion except Jupiter make it imperative to continually check in with our inner guidance and take extra good care of ourselves on all levels. 

In times of intensity and rapid change, paradoxically, the best strategy is to slow down, do less, and be more — more present, more centered and balanced, more attuned to the messages from our body, heart, and soul, more receptive to the downpour of light facilitating our evolution. Simplify. Rest. Eat well. Do a media fast. Spend regular time in nature. "Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty." (Anne Herbert) Declutter, and trust that whatever is falling away is making space for something better.

Whenever a planet turns retrograde or direct, its archetypal energies are amplified and “in the air.” Mercury retrogrades generally get more press and occur more frequently (3-4 times a year), but Uranus, associated with the higher mind and nervous system, individuation and innovation, turns retrograde only once a year. September 5, Uranus begins its annual retrograde passage, which often coincides with several days of feeling buzzy and wired, like we’ve had five cups of coffee, making it more challenging to stay grounded and focused.

Uranus will be retrograde until February 3, 2026, when it stations direct at 27º27’ Taurus. While retrograde in Gemini, Uranus induces us to reevaluate how we use information, social media, and technology. Two months later, Uranus slips back into Taurus one more time (November 7, 2025 to April 25, 2026), prodding us to reassess our values and relationship to money, resources, and the Earth itself. What matters most to us? How is low self-esteem holding us back? Where do we need to dare to be different?

The next full moon, which peaks on September 7 at 11:09 AM PDT at 16º Pisces-Virgo, is a total lunar eclipse, signaling that we have reached a crucial crossroad. The Sun, Moon, and Earth align more precisely during an eclipse, lasering the current sacred geometry of our solar system, galaxy, and beyond. What is calling for change in our lives? Where are we being pushed to take a leap of faith?

The Sun, Mercury, and South Node in Virgo highlight where we need to shift how we think of ourselves and the world, moving from self-disparagement and criticism to discernment and service, while the Moon, North Node, and Saturn in Pisces urge us to follow our north star, our soul desires and spiritual goals. Virgo advises us to concentrate on self-improvement and healing, be mindful of how we spend our time and energy and eliminate what detours and drains us. Pisces prompts us to remember that we are spirit masquerading in matter, at different stages in our spiritual journey, and to use our heart as our GPS. When integrated, we can perceive and trust our intuition, choose from love rather than guilt, shame, or fear, and realize that how we do things is as important as what we do.
Logic and inner knowing. Linear time and synchronicity. Classical physics and quantum mechanics. This eclipse impels us to integrate two very different lenses of perception.

In a fascinating article entitled Your Body's Hidden Technology: The Scalar Field Between Your Hands, Sayer Ji references scientific research as well as yogic technology which show how, when we put our palms together with intention, as “prayer hands, namaste, Añjali Mudrā, or gassho in Zen,” that facilitates unified states of consciousness, helps cancel disorganized electromagnetic patterns in the body resulting from stress, trauma, or disease, and returns the body to its original undistorted state. He also includes a simple practice to explore and experience this for ourselves. Read his informative and inspiring article here.

Lunar eclipses brighten the spotlight on shadow material — unconscious patterns, buried feelings, old fears. The Sun and Mercury near the South Node doubles the emphasis on releasing old patterns and programming before we can move forward. That, plus aspects from Venus, Jupiter, and Pluto to this eclipse may have us scraping the bottom of the karmic barrel, recognizing where core childhood wounds, past life residues, and/or generational trauma remain to be resolved. 

How we experience an eclipse depends on our level of awareness and how it activates our birth chart. Those with planetary placements or angles between 10-20º of Virgo, Pisces, Gemini, and Sagittarius will experience the strongest tailwinds for transformation. And for all of us, on September 7, 2006, there was a lunar eclipse at 15º00’ Pisces-Virgo, very close to the degree of this eclipse, activating similar themes and areas of our lives.

The Virgo-Pisces polarity reminds us that we are multidimensional beings, with constant interplay between our body and mind, feelings and spirit. Our body is the densest level of our being, and the last to clear. We can have processed issues on a spiritual, mental, and emotional levels, but may still need to rewire neural pathways and restore altered DNA. Healing those deep layers requires modalities which involve the physical body as well as the other levels of our being, such breath work, somatic therapy, expressive arts, and yoga, tai chi, or qigong. Time in nature also helps rewire our brain and nervous system, allowing us to regain a sense of safety and agency. 

While Virgo necessitates purification and purgation, integration and wholeness, Pisces invites us towards forgiveness and acceptance, compassion and empathy, both for ourselves and for others. The more we can forgive ourselves, the greater our capacity becomes for forgiving others. The Moon, Saturn, and North Node in Pisces counsel us that there are no mistakes, only learning to make different choices in the future, and that we are all works in progress, all at different stages of remembering who we really are.

The Serenity Prayer succinctly combines the spiritual goals of both Virgo and Pisces: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, the wisdom to know the difference.” For a helpful video with Hawaiian shaman Ramsay Taum on The Sacred Wisdom of Hoʻoponopono (a powerful healing process of repentance, forgiveness, gratitude, and love) click here.

The potential for profound healing and major shifts continues in the weeks following this eclipse.
All these galvanizing celestial alignments, along with the current state of the world, challenge us to stay in our hearts and out of fear
 
 

September Corn Moon - Lunar Eclipse September 7, 2025