Pisces Full Moon Lunar Eclipse 9/7/25
Inspired Grace
You don’t need to be an astrologer to sense it. The air itself feels charged, thick with uncertainty, possibility, and unexpected turns. Endings and beginnings. The atmosphere is heavy with seeds planted long ago, now pushing toward consequence. Radical change is not optional. It’s inevitable.
But here’s the catch. Change itself is neutral. It’s a force, like wind filling a sail. That force can carry us toward freedom or toward control, toward compassion or toward selfishness, toward renewal or toward repetition. The difference lies in how we meet it. What parts catch the wind. What information, stories, or intentions we use to set our course.
Enter the Eclipses
Eclipses are significant resets. Think of them like rebooting your computer after a glitch. Sometimes only a full restart will clear the system. During a lunar eclipse, the Moon slips into Earth’s shadow, dimming for a brief but potent moment 1.
Because eclipses always align with the lunar nodes, those points astrologers call fate and destiny, their influence lingers. They set turning points that unfold over time, like the slow arc of a massive ship beginning to turn.
That’s why eclipses matter. They mark lines of demarcation. Choice points. Pivots in direction. What surfaces now, the gritty and the graceful, the uncomfortable truths and intuitive nudges, are not random. They’re the reset moments life is asking you to notice.
Want to know where this reset shows up for you personally? Look to 15° Pisces in your chart, or reach out to me if you’d like support in exploring how this eclipse is activating your path.
The Pisces Paradox
This eclipse falls in Pisces. Aligned with the North Node and trining Jupiter in Cancer, it pulls us into the watery realms of empathy, compassion, intuition, and emotional connection.
But here lies the paradox: water can heal, but it can also erode. It can soften, and it can overwhelm. Under this eclipse, the invitation is to notice—where compassion deepens me rather than drowns me? Where might empathy guide me as a compass rather than a burden I avoid? How can intuition carry me toward service, rather than selfishness?
Pisces and the Nature of Truth
From an astrological perspective, each sign defines truth differently: Gemini through logic, Capricorn through moral integrity, and Aquarius through science and vision. But Pisces, the last sign of the zodiac, speaks to universal truth. It is what remains when all masks, stories, and identities fall away. Call it essence, spirit, higher self, God, or simply the part of us that remembers we are not separate.
And yet this very power is both gift and danger. Tapping the divine can humble the ego or inflate it. History is filled with examples of people who claimed their truth as the truth, wielding divinity as a weapon. Fundamentalism thrives here, turning grace into dominion, cooperation into control, and compassion into coercion.
That is why Pisces requires discernment. It is not enough to pray for what we want, or to float away into practices that bypass the real. Pisces asks us to live what we say we believe. To embody compassion, humility, empathy, honesty, and service in daily life. Because wisdom that isn’t lived is not wisdom at all.
The Flow of Inspiration
TThe Sabian symbol for this eclipse, “The flow of inspiration”, offers the key. Inspiration is not static. It moves, it stirs, it calls us into motion. It cannot be possessed or controlled. It must be channeled. And yet, because inspiration is subtle, it’s also fragile. When filtered through egoic parts, it easily distorts.
Piscean inspiration often arrives in nonlinear ways, through intuition, synchronicities, compassion, empathy, dreams, and the quiet nudges of the heart. It shows up in symbols, in prayer, in those unexpected “God-winks” that urge us to pay attention. It also shows up in brick walls, forced stops, and consequences. Piscean insights are rarely “easy.” The sacred rarely is. Some soften us with grace, while others confront us with truths we’d rather avoid. They ask us to be brave enough to really see what is, and not turn away.
So under this eclipse, make space for stillness. Get quiet enough to hear the whispers. Notice what repeats, what tugs at you, what softens you and what unsettles you. Then ask: Am I truly listening to what is being revealed, or am I twisting it into what I want it to mean?
This kind of listening requires radical honesty. It asks us to lay down our filters of habit, perception, or certainty long enough to let inspiration arrive as it is, not as parts of us want it to be. And with four planets retrograde, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, and Neptune, the “real” is right in front of us. We cannot not see it. Though many will try.
Because true inspiration doesn’t inflate us. It reshapes us. It asks to move through us, transforming us into more generous, compassionate, and creative expressions of grace. The masters of spirit across traditions warned us of this. Their teachings always returned not to lofty words, but to lived action: help the vulnerable, resist greed, choose compassion over fear, and keep the egoic parts from seizing the driver’s seat.
When we practice this, even in the smallest choices, every word, every gesture, every breath, we become living extensions of grace. And maybe we will never reach the high ideals promised in sacred texts. But Pisces reminds us we are meant to try. Because in the trying, in the stumbling, the surrendering, the returning, we shape ourselves into the very best we can be.
And that, in itself, is enough.
“Grace meets us where we are, but does not leave us where it found us”~ Anne Lamott
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This eclipse will be visible from Antarctica, Australia, Asia, the western Pacific, the Indian Ocean, Europe, the eastern Atlantic, and Africa. For more info on the path of totality, go here- https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2025-september-7-