Pisces Full Moon Lunar Eclipse: The Next True Step
Intuition, discernment, and finding our way forward through the second eclipse of the season
On August 27, we arrive at the second eclipse of this August eclipse season: a Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces.
I've been thinking about these two eclipses as parts of the same story.
The Leo Solar Eclipse earlier this month felt like a doorway. It asked us to consider what new story might be beginning, both in our own lives and within the larger collective changes happening around us.
This Pisces eclipse feels different.
Now we're standing in that doorway.
We can still look behind us and see where we've been, but our gaze is beginning to turn toward what lies on the other side. We may not be able to see very far yet. We may not know exactly where we're going. But slowly, the path begins to appear.
And perhaps we don't need anything more than that.
The Moon is in the early degrees of Pisces, close to the North Node, directly opposing the Sun and Mercury in Virgo. I love this polarity because Pisces and Virgo offer such different—and necessary—forms of wisdom.
Pisces knows how to listen.
It asks us to soften our grip on certainty and become receptive to intuition, imagination, dreams, and the things we sometimes sense before we can explain them.
Virgo asks us to discern.
What is real? What is useful? What deserves our attention? How do we take something we've felt or imagined and actually begin to live it?
This eclipse isn't asking us to choose one over the other.
It asks us to bring them together.
Receive. Discern. Then take the next true step.
One of the most fascinating aspects in the eclipse chart is a Yod, sometimes called the Finger of God or Finger of Fate. Neptune in Aries and Pluto conjunct Altair in Aquarius form its base, while the Sun, Mercury, and Regulus in Virgo sit at the apex.
These are enormous energies. Neptune and Pluto speak to changes that unfold across generations rather than days or weeks. Yet all of that energy is being directed toward Virgo—the sign concerned with what we actually do, how we serve, what we practice, and how we tend the details of everyday life.
I find that incredibly meaningful.
We can talk about living through transformational times. We can study the astrology. We can feel that something larger is changing.
But eventually the question becomes much more personal:
What am I going to do differently?
The chart also contains two T-squares, and both add movement and urgency to the eclipse.
The first brings the Pisces–Virgo opposition into relationship with Uranus conjunct Sedna in Gemini. We've been following Uranus and Sedna for much of this year, and here they once again speak to awakening, changing perceptions, new information, and truths emerging from places that have been hidden or forgotten.
The second T-square feels more embodied. Venus in Libra opposes Saturn in Aries, with Mars conjunct Sirius in Cancer at the apex.
Sirius has been important to many cultures, and in ancient Egypt its heliacal rising was associated with the return of the Nile flood and the renewal of agricultural life. With Mars joining Sirius in Cancer, I keep coming back to a very simple question:
What is worthy of our protection?
What kind of future are our everyday choices actually helping to create?
These questions feel particularly important now.
Throughout 2026, I've been following the extraordinary longer-term conversation between Pluto in Aquarius, Uranus in Gemini, and Neptune in Aries. That minor triangle remains active during this eclipse, continuing to weave together themes of transformation, awakening, imagination, technology, communication, and collective change.
But this eclipse brings those enormous themes back down to Earth.
We don't have to solve the future.
We don't have to know exactly where we're going.
We can listen.
We can discern.
And when the path begins to appear, we can take one step.
In this episode, I explore the astrology of the Pisces Lunar Eclipse in depth, including the mythology and symbolism of Regulus, Altair, Sedna, Sirius, and Varuna, as well as the Yod, the two T-squares, and the larger planetary patterns shaping this moment.
We close with a guided meditation that returns us to the doorway opened by the Leo eclipse. We'll take a moment to look back at the road we've traveled, turn toward what is beginning to emerge, and listen for the one small step that may be calling us forward.
Because perhaps that's all we're being asked to know right now.
We don't need to see the entire path. We only need enough light for the next true step.
Rituals of the Eclipse: Our Second Gathering
On Saturday, August 22 at 12 noon Pacific, I'll be hosting the second gathering of Rituals of the Eclipse, my free two-part herbal exploration of this August eclipse season.
We'll spend time with both eclipses and look more closely at how this Pisces Lunar Eclipse may activate our individual birth charts. We'll also continue our relationship with Lincoln's Heritage Rose, grown, harvested, and dried here on the farm. We'll work with the rose as a tea and explore another way of bringing its medicine into ritual by learning to make herbal incense cones.
You don't need to have attended the first gathering to join us. Make sure you're on my email list, because that's where I'll be sharing the live Zoom information, recording, companion materials, and everything you need to participate.
It's another way for us to bring these larger celestial movements into something tangible—connecting the rhythms of the sky with the rhythms of the Earth. Make sure you’re on my email list to get the the invite and recordings!