This New Moon Solar Eclipse in Virgo isn’t neat or orderly, it’s messy, tangled, and brimming with complexity, discordance, and immovable objects meeting unstoppable forces. Instead of the clean slate we might be hoping for, the sky presents us with a web of aspects that pull in multiple directions at once.
As above, so below. As below, so above. This is not causation, it is correspondence.
We’re navigating:
- A Kite Formation – often seen as a gift of energy flow, but in this case it feels less like ease and more like a pressure valve that’s plugged and ready to blow.
- Inconjunctions and Squares – irritation and restlessness churn beneath the surface. Nothing fits perfectly, yet the tension demands adjustments and reorientation.
- An Explosive Yod – the “Finger of God” points toward a fated turning point. Under eclipse light, it carries a sense of volatility and transformation, pushing us toward release, revelation, and restructuring within an overwhelming overhaul, whether we feel ready or not.
This eclipse doesn’t arrive with soft edges. It arrives like a cosmic intervention, messy, intense, and undeniably transformative.
The New Moon Opposition to Saturn
The New Moon itself opposes Saturn, though it is a separating aspect. This means the rock-and-hard-place tension we’ve been wedged between is beginning to shift. We’ve faced our limitations, we’ve encountered the boundaries, and now we know the walls we must work within if we want to move forward, while simultaneously letting go.
With Saturn aligned with the North Node, we know the limitations and hardships ahead of us if we are to reach the place we long for. This South Node eclipse asks us to release old ways of engaging with Virgo themes: pragmatism, analysis, process-driven rigidity, and an obsession with specificity.
Mercury in Libra reminds us to defer, listen, and interact with others, but Mercury itself is strained, pulled into wide opposition with Saturn and Neptune across Pisces and Aries. It doesn’t make for smooth dialogue or clarity. Instead, it creates cognitive discordance.
Not just dissonance, discordance. Jagged. Off-key. Fragmented. Like nails on a chalkboard or a fork scraping a plate. It makes us wince. And yet, it’s exactly what we must move through. There are no other options.
The Yod and the Eclipse
Also part of this Eclipse lunation stands a potent Yod:
- Mars at 29° Libra
- Saturn at 28° Pisces
- Neptune at 0° Aries
- Uranus at 1° Gemini
This configuration is chaotic, volatile, and deeply uncomfortable. Mars doesn’t sit neatly with the New Moon, but it aspects the planets woven into the eclipse energy, making it an inseparable part of this tangled story. A dynamic web, perfect for catching all that pass through.
Mars is also square Pluto (29° Libra to 1° Aquarius), raising the stakes even further. And as Mars shifts into Scorpio, it will form a direct inconjunction with Neptune and Uranus and a perfect square with Pluto.
This is volatility incarnate. Simmering tensions can and will boil over. Boundaries are unstable. Pressure is mounting. When Mars crosses into Scorpio at 0°, the fuse lights.
What This Means
This eclipse has the feel of a minefield—step lightly, and yet know that no matter how carefully you walk, the ground is unstable. Click. Click. Boom.
Our nervous systems may feel cranked to 1000. There’s no sugarcoating this. The next six to nine months will carry intensity, upheaval, and change. Possibly liberating, but not without cost. The question becomes: what will you give up to gain something else? What battle cry will you carry and what hill are you willing to sacrifice everything on?
Every element is represented here, earth, air, fire, water. Spirit is the only one missing. And that is what this eclipse calls forth in us: the resilience, the force of spirit, the diamond forged through pressure.
As a friend of mine says: it is the grinding, grating layers of reality that create diamonds in the rough, for those who have seen the depths and depravity of humanity and lived to tell it. I am in full agreement with her.
This eclipse is about major transformation, upheaval, and change—both personal and collective. We may even see civil unrest, fractures in governance, and sharp divides growing sharper and wider. Extremism exists, yes, but so too does the middle ground. No matter how radicalized everyone else seems to be.
Discernment will be required. The kind of discernment that cuts to the bone. The kind that can shatter illusions, popularity, whole lives, and yes, even the soul.
We are living in interesting times. And with that comes the gift of chaos walking. The question remains:
Can you stand in the eye of the storm, or will you let it tear you apart?
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