There are moments that define the rhythm of a life. They arrive on schedule, whether we notice them or not. The cast of characters may change, the roles may reverse, but the theme repeats. These are the course corrections written by eclipses.
We are given chances every day to move forward. To ask someone out. To start the hobby. To sell the car. And most of the time, we stall. We hold on because we worked hard to build whatever it is we are living in, even when it no longer fits.
Eclipses don’t allow that stall. They are course corrections. When we don’t make the move ourselves, the eclipse makes it for us. An eclipse in Libra will begin the new relationship. An eclipse in Leo or in the 5th house will push the hobby into motion. An eclipse in the 3rd house may take out the clunker you refused to part with.
Some eclipses hit the collective, toppling governments or shaking economies. Others land in private lives, shifting families, relationships, or careers. It depends on what planets or asteroids occupy that degree. The scale changes, but the function does not. Eclipses end chapters and begin new ones with a speed that makes the date unforgettable.
They form when the Sun, Moon, and Earth align near the lunar nodes, the invisible points where the Moon’s orbit crosses the Sun’s path. Ancient astrologers called the nodes the dragon’s head and tail, swallowing the light of the Sun or Moon. The image still fits. When the light disappears, something in your life is eclipsed. What returns afterward is not what left.
The Virgo/Pisces axis stretches from 09/2024 to 08/2026, but not every eclipse in this window falls in Virgo or Pisces. The cycle still belongs to these signs, so the karmic lessons repeat their themes even when the exact degree lands elsewhere.
Virgo’s eclipses bring up service, work, health, skill, repair, and refinement. They press on routines, habits, and what is useful or not.
Pisces’ eclipses stir sacrifice, imagination, illusion, spirituality, and escape. They confront us with faith, compassion, and the blurred lines between vision and denial.
These eclipses ask us to balance Virgo’s practicality with Pisces’ imagination, to weigh analysis against intuition. Even when they fall in other signs, the lessons still lead back to Virgo and Pisces.
Cycles are the spine. Each eclipse belongs to a series that repeats every 18 years and 6 months. An eclipse at 6° Pisces in 2025 echoes one in 2007, which echoed another in 1989. Each cycle carries the same karmic themes forward, adding new layers to the old story.
But the replay is never literal. One cycle, a child might gain a step-parent. The next, that same person might be introducing their own children to a new partner. Later, they could become the step-parent themselves. The theme of family restructuring stays constant, but the role evolves. The individual experiences the scenario through different eyes each time.
Another example: one cycle places someone at a holiday table as an outsider meeting a new family. The next cycle finds them years later on the other side, welcoming someone else into their own circle. Even the small details echo, like a dog at their feet in both scenes, but the cast and the perspective have shifted.
Career eclipses follow the same arc. The first might bring a first job. The next, a major promotion. Years later, the same degree might align with retirement or a pivot into a different field. Relationships move in cycles too: meeting during one eclipse, separating in the next, reconciling or closing the chapter in another. The thread holds, but the form adapts with time.
This is why eclipse tracking matters. You are not chasing replicas of the past. You are tracing echoes. The karmic line shows where you have been and how the story keeps unfolding. Context shifts, roles evolve, the cast changes, but the pattern remains recognizable.
Eclipses are not casual weather. They are cosmic deadlines. You live dozens of them, and if you follow the cycles, you can see the architecture of your own story. If you don’t, you only feel the floor drop beneath you, again and again.
For now, remember this: eclipses set the rhythm. You move with it, whether you plan to or not.
What’s Next: Part 2 – Solar vs Lunar Eclipses
Originally this was to be a two part series but it appears to need to be three, therefore next up will be the difference between the types of eclipses, Solar and Lunar. We will look at how solar eclipses open doors and lunar eclipses bring chapters to their conclusion. Together they create the push and pull that keeps life moving forward, whether we resist or not.