Lunar Eclipse In Pisces – In My Secret Life

On September 7th, 2025, we have a Full Moon and Total Lunar Eclipse in Pisces.

The eclipse is total – which means it’s intense – VERY intense. And it’s in the middle of the sign (15° Pisces) – right at the heart of the Piscean territory. This one goes straight to the point.

The lunar eclipse highlights the tension of the Virgo-Pisces axis – where we aim to find balance between our worldly duties and our higher purpose.

Both Virgo and Pisces want to reach some sort of ‘perfection’ – but they go about it in different ways:

In Virgo – through constant improvement: read diet, wellness, self-help, routines. The approach is practical and rooted in the physical world.
In Pisces – through merging with something that is already perfect; at least, what we see as perfect, something we can’t fully grasp, that lures us like a mermaid call.

These 2 seemingly opposite drives create a feedback loop: the more pressure we put into getting it ‘right’ in the physical world (Virgo), the greater the longing to merge with something greater (Pisces).

Pisces is where we hide from the physical Virgo reality; and Virgo is where we come back to Earth – after wandering lost for too long in the too vast Piscean waters.

The Lunar Eclipse on September 7th, 2025 aims to find balance between these 2 approaches, with a focus on the Pisces side of the axis.

We are in the Virgo season, so our focus naturally turns to everyday reality: work, errands, routines, the small rituals that give us a sense of safety and control.

However, the more pressure we face in daily life – work, duties, responsibilities (Virgo) – the more the psyche leans the other way, into an alternate field where “perfection” is not set by worldly standards but by the hidden drives and unmet desires of the soul (Pisces).

Pisces is where our higher self tries to connect with us through symbols and signs: a dream you can’t shake, a chance encounter that rings like a bell, a longing you can’t translate into ordinary life.

And because these Piscean longings can feel phantasmagoric and out of reach, the way we try to bring them to heel is by doubling down on the Virgo side of the axis: more work, more yoga, stricter diet – whatever keeps us anchored in ‘reality’.

The Age Of Virgo, The Age Of Pisces

This Virgoan reflex is braided into our utilitarian society. Virgo, the maiden with the grains, symbolizes the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture.

That shift began around 12.000 BCE, at the dawn of the Neolithic era, when we had the Age of Virgo.

Interestingly, much of that order (urban establishments, systematized agriculture) grew around temples – the Piscean need to worship and merge with something greater – out of which the Virgo way of functioning emerged: settlement, organization, and production.

And then approx. 2000 years ago, around the year 0, corresponding to the birth of Jesus, we entered the Age of Pisces, with its signatures of spirituality, faith, and redemption.

But Pisces, too, casted Virgo as its shadow: alongside transcendence arose the mundane disciplines of daily life, the rules, routines, and systems of work and service that anchored spiritual devotion.

Just as Virgoan agriculture and settlement once gathered around temples – giving form to a Piscean need to worship – so too did the Piscean call to transcendence later give rise to Virgoan structures: the routines and systems of daily life that kept devotion anchored.

We are now transitioning into the Age of Aquarius, with a wholly different set of logics and priorities. Yet with Neptune in Pisces (from 2011- to 2025, and again 2025-2026), accompanied by Saturn, and the Nodal axis moving through Pisces–Virgo, the focus remains.

The Lunar Nodes on the Virgo-Pisces axis are asking us to sort this polarity out – once and for all.

Eclipses – when the Sun and Moon conjoin the Nodes – are activation points for the axis they occupy, asking us to face imbalances and integrate the missing pieces.

Just like Yin has a bit of Yang, and Yang has a bit of Yin, Virgo and Pisces are 2 expressions of the same polarity, seeking a higher integration.

To achieve this, we have 2 eclipses this current Eclipse season: the upcoming Lunar Eclipse in Pisces (on Sept. 7th-8th, 2025), and a Solar Eclipse in Virgo (on Sept. 21st).

Lunar Eclipse In Pisces – In My Secret Life

Right now, with the Lunar Eclipse, the focus is on Pisces.

Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac – the metaphoric ocean, the great storehouse, the unconscious – or however we want to call that space where everything we’ve gathered from Aries through Aquarius is dissolved and recombined in a melting pot, from which something new can later arise in Aries.

What is this Piscean dreamscape exactly?

When pressure from the environment (Virgo) becomes exacting, we retreat to our Piscean island – a place without burdens, without rigid black-and-white lines, where life opens into colors and nuances.

And it’s exactly the morphing, ambivalent, ever-shifting nature of Pisces that helps us recalibrate – in the same way sleep restores our capacity to function in the 3D world the next day.

The Piscean process is not meant to confuse us; but to help us sink deeper into meaning.

Leonard Cohen (Sun in Virgo, Moon in Pisces) said it best:

“And the dealer wants you thinking

That it’s either black or white.

Thank God it’s not that simple

In My Secret Life.”

The world – through its systems, metrics, and deadlines – likes things in black-and-white terms.

But when we live only in checklists and optimization, the cycle can start to feel like an endless loop or a burden. That is not because the Virgo ritual is wrong. It’s because ritual without soul contact goes dry.
Our inner life is deeper and more complex, and retreating into Pisces offers an oasis of the soul. However, that oasis can also turn into an escape – just like Virgoan works and rituals harden into dry routines – when we push too far into either extreme.

Suffering arises when there’s a gap between the sanctuary we feel inside (Pisces) and the reality of our daily life (Virgo).

The task is not to chase the mirage of perfection on either side. The invitation is to build a bridge – to let the part of us that speaks in symbols and tides (Pisces) be in direct conversation with the part that schedules, crafts, and implements (Virgo).

If, in our secret lives, we get to be who we really are, how do we sneak a truthful slice of that self into daylight – in forms our everyday life can actually hold?

Because the ideal, the mirage, the dream is a symbol for something deeper, subtler, and more numinous than a literal outcome.

The hidden longing behind “I want to look 10 years younger,” might be a nudge to reconnect with our inner child – or to live a chapter that never got lived when it wanted to.

Full Moon Lunar Eclipse In Pisces – The Aspects

This Full Moon Eclipse forms an auspicious trine to Jupiter (at 19° Cancer) – a reminder that we have what it takes – that all the resources we need are within reach.

Jupiter says: perhaps the Piscean longing is not ‘just a dream’. Perhaps it’s the next reality, quietly incubating – ready to surface when the time is right.

Mercury is at 10° Virgo, opposing the eclipse, adds discernment. Data can inform us – or confuse us. Some “facts” are just clever reasons to stay exactly where we are; others are spec sheets for what the dream could look like in real terms.

This questioning, self-doubting Mercury opposite Eclipse energy is not meant to stop us from moving forward. It’s meant to make sure we read the signs – so what we build matches what we mean.

At the Lunar Eclipse in Pisces, don’t dismiss seemingly unrelated inputs. If an image or idea keeps knocking, keep looking at it.

And don’t be overwhelmed by the abstract, “impossible” Piscean dream. Just because it can’t exist as-is in concrete form doesn’t mean it can’t inspire a kindred form – something you can actually design, build, and live in the Virgo world.

Listen for the underlying message that runs through a weird dream, an overheard phrase, a random headline, or a chance encounter. When those threads repeat, you’re being guided toward the next piece of your story.

At this North Node Lunar Eclipse in Pisces, trust the dream enough to follow its thread, and trust yourself enough to let the life you live in secret spill over into the one you live in.