a tarot spread for eclipse season.
Eclipse season is here (!) and the next few weeks will offer an expedited transformation within the Pisces and Virgo parts of our chart. The North Node in Pisces invites an expansion of imagination, and the South Node in Virgo demands the release of perfectionism. Details are intended to refine our vision, not limit our capacities. The Pisces-Virgo axis contemplates the expression of true health, and we’ll be invited to do the same.
This eclipse season, the overarching theme of the reading centers on choice and evolution, perhaps evolving through the decision to make new choices. It’s almost like the practice of pleasure allows us to see an old situation from an entirely new perspective. When we give ourselves permission to feel good in small ways each day, the larger themes of our life shift in new and creative ways. Rather than trying to move past a situation or close an emotional loop, we are being invited to lean into pleasure and observe how that naturally facilitates closure of the past.
Some of us might be feeling stuck, stagnant, or a bit lost. There’s this sense of feeling unsure about what to do, leading to being frozen in time. It’s like we’ve gotten so used to feeling stuck in a particular area of our lives that we’ve crystallized an identity around it (this is who I am / this is what life is like / this is what always happens). The root of this contraction is unexpressed emotion, likely anger or frustration, that has led to a taste of bitterness. Somewhere along the way our hearts may have hardened, and this reading invites us to move through these emotional waves while resourcing ourselves through pleasure.
Grief can be held in devotion; rage can be expressed through water; and fear can be metabolized through ritual. A complete surrender to the cosmic intelligence seeking to guide ourselves back home. For some, the experience that led you here may have caused you to question your ability to fulfill a longing. For others, it may relate to a kind of self-doubt and confusion that has become more familiar and comforting than initiating a new chapter and creating space for what you really want.
The key to shifting this state is to acknowledge that you are ready to get unstuck.
Consciously, this might sound invalidating – as if anyone consciously chooses to feed their suffering. Unconsciously, there is a part of us that has become accustomed to shutting down and contracting as a way to avoid a deeper truth.
Now, another way we might feel into this reading is to position ourselves in relationship, and see that either we are exhibiting this behavior relationally or perhaps receiving it from another. There’s a sense of someone turning away from the other, an unwillingness to move through an experience and evolve together. The key here is to lean into moments of ease as a way to signal to your body that you’re safe — and from here to evoke inspiration in the other, or to access a new dimension of experience where alternate ways of relating are possible.
Either way, it’s up to us to make a new choice to open our hearts and follow the bliss of instinctual feeling. If there’s something we have been wanting to say, we might now share. If there’s a truth that wants to be named, it will likely be named. Eclipses propel us into experiences that are custom made for our unique healing journey.
Riding our emotional waves with courage is the practice for the month ahead, trusting that wherever it leads us is the right next step.
Questions for contemplation:
Where are you experiencing a feeling of stagnation, confusion, or heaviness?
How does this mirror an earlier experience of seeking validation/security that was difficult to receive?
Where did you learn that trusting yourself was a dangerous thing to do?
How does this keep you stuck as an adult today?
How might have you created an identity around the complication of this emotional pattern? Think: I am [X] because life is difficult, and the world is an isolating place.
How does confusion play a protective role against taking responsibility for yourself? What feels threatened by the clarity of this moment?
How does emotional unavailability keep you comfortable, either in exhibiting this behavior yourself or chasing another who exhibits this state?
What would it look like to cultivate vulnerability by leaning into bliss?
If the mind was relaxed, what would your body ask you to do?
How might this ignite a brand new chapter in your life – whether you feel ready or not?
What if there was no such thing as being ready?
Who or what enters your life when you no longer defend old patterns? Who or what exits?
What starts to move once you acknowledge that you’re ready to get unstuck?
These questions are intended to create a space for contemplation. If nothing arises in response, that’s ok. Sit with them for some time, returning to them when it feels right.
The beauty lies in living with the question and seeing what opens up as a result.
Wishing you lots of moments of space and rest as you integrate the themes that present.
Xx
