For the past couple of days I have been getting the distinct impression that tomorrow's Full Moon in Pisces and Lunar Eclipse have serious things in store for all of us. Today, everyone I talked to had a really difficult day, mostly work-wise, and I have to believe that it has something to do with the Moon's power and position. What is going on?

Cafe Astrology puts it best:

This month's Full Moon is a Lunar Eclipse, with the Sun in Virgo opposing the Moon in Pisces. Lunar Eclipses are about relationships and polarities. With the Virgo-Pisces service axis involved, and as part of the Virgo New Moon cycle that began on August 23rd, this Lunar Eclipse presses us to look more closely at our needs, lacks, and wants in our lives. We are pushed to find a balance between day-to-day functions and routines, physical health, and the need for order (Virgo) and vision, spiritual health, disorder, and the infinite (Pisces). Virgo rules the tools and techniques that we use to deal with day-to-day life, while Pisces rules the tools that we use to deal with our spiritual selves. Some sort of crisis (which can be a crisis of consciousness) or sudden awareness of a lack in our lives provides us with a golden opportunity to explore our emotional needs within the context of the house polarity where the eclipse occurs in our natal charts. Relationships may be challenged, broken, or strengthened dramatically at this time. Our discovery is emotionally charged and dramatic. Epiphanies are likely at this time as we become acutely aware of our lack. This understanding can propel us into positive action.

Although the Full Moon can be an opportune time for casting fertility spells, I think that this month's Full Moon, under the power of the Eclipse and Pisces' tendency to bring us psychic impressions, we really should be concentrating on the Full Moon's power to support us in problem-solving magick and divination.

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A Moon in Pisces is the best time to work magick involving dream work, clairvoyance, and telepathy. Some people experience stirrings of vague memories (often identified as past lives) or insights into the spiritual meaning of current situations.

The Full Moon is the culmination of the Moon’s cycle, and the beginning of the waning phase. The two weeks following the Full Moon are a good period for working on ourselves, finalizing things, processing information, wrapping up, and letting go of the things we don’t need any more. This Piscean Moon will give us the psychic power to know what these things are.

A Lunar Eclipse is a very special Full Moon that brings particular import to the decisions we make, things we let go of, and things we finish during the waning cycle that follows the Full Moon. Many people fear eclipses because they tend to bring about a crisis that leads to a significant event or change. Right now, with the influences that are at work, this change is most likely to be for our benefit. We are likely to intuit the steps necessary to precipitate or to attract changes because our inner guides know that we need it. Human beings are progressive by nature, and although we might stay in situations that are making us miserable for longer than we should, deep down inside we know that change is necessary for growth.

Full Moons in general, and Lunar Eclipses in particular, are times of high emotion, and they bring awareness. The Sun and the Moon, our animus and our emotions, are on opposite sides of the sky, as if the other were a mirror. This is a time of mirroring, we can see ourselves in others if only we are willing to look.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse occur Thursday, September 7th at 2:42 pm EDT.

Some common correspondences with the September Full Moon are listed below.

Correspondences

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The highest energy occurs at the Full Moon, so this is the most powerful time for any magickal work. In addition to being an ideal time for dream work, clairvoyance and telepathy, a Full Moon in Pisces is also beneficial for work involving music and the creative arts. Pisces rules the feet; now is the time to perform healing rituals for ailments of the feet. It also can be a good time for healing of the lymph glands.

The Full Moon is a time of strength, love and power. At this time the Moon represents the Goddess in her Mother aspect. We should take the time to honor the Mother Goddesses: Cerridwen, Isis, Anu, Hera, Demeter, Freya, Luna, Diana, Frigg, Morrigan, Ceres, Nepthys, Ch'ang-O.

The September Full Moon is known primarily as the Harvest Moon, but often is also referred to as the Fruit Moon, Barley Moon, Moon of the Wise, or the Crone Moon. The Celts associated the September Full Moon with the Hazel tree and used its energy for manifestation, protection and fertility.

The energy of the September Full Moon inspires us to rest after labor, to strike a balance between the light and dark aspects of ourselves and our lives. We feel energized to organize and to clean and straighten up physical, mental, emotional and spiritual clutter.

Other September Full Moon correspondences:

Nature Spirits: trooping fairies
?Herbs: copal, hennel, rye, wheat, valerian, skullcap
?Colors: brown, yellow-green, yellow
?Flowers: narcissus, lily
?Scents: storax, mastic, gardenia, bergamot
?Stones: peridot, olivine, chrysolite, citrine
?Trees: hazel, larch, bay
?Animals: snake, jackal
?Birds: ibis, sparrow

Posted by Angela-Eloise at 8:25 PM