Lunar Eclipse in Pisces 2025: Shadow Work and New Beginnings
We meet a Full Lunar Eclipse in Pisces on Sunday, September 7, one of the most potent invitations we get from the cosmos. A Lunar Eclipse happens when the Earth moves between the Sun and the Moon, casting its shadow across the lunar surface. As above, so below: what plays out in the sky mirrors what happens within us. The shadow that crosses the Moon reflects the hidden parts of our emotional world, the places we have been avoiding or numbing. This is not punishment; it is an invitation for expansion.
The Moon rules our emotional body. It is instinctive, tender, and deeply tied to memory. A Lunar Eclipse is an amplified, more intense Full Moon. But it is not here to punish or deconstruct us. It is here to help us see what we cannot integrate when everything feels neat and bright. Our shadow is not the enemy. Our shadow is simply the parts of us that have been waiting for us to turn toward . In this Eclipse Season, it shows up in our habits, our reactions, and in the ways we lose ourselves or try too hard to be perfect. When we meet our shadow with compassion, it shifts from being something we fear into something that expands us.
Pisces and Virgo sit on opposite ends of the zodiac wheel, and this Eclipse asks us to look at both. Pisces, at its shadowy edge, pulls us into avoidance. It can drown us in feelings, keep us in a fog, or make us believe that if we just keep giving ourselves away, somehow we will be redeemed. Virgo in its shadow becomes rigid. It holds impossible standards, judges mercilessly, and leaves us with the constant sense that nothing is ever enough. You may notice yourself swinging between these two energies, either lost in the blur or clamping down into control. The gift of this Eclipse is found in recognizing both, because in their highest expressions, Pisces connects us with divine flow and unconditional love, while Virgo teaches us the art of discernment and how to bring our Divine inspiration into our Earthly experience.
Shadow work does not mean pulling out a pair of scissors and cutting away what you dislike about yourself. It means slowing down enough to notice when you are hiding, numbing, or criticizing, and then asking what that part of you really needs. Sometimes you need rest. Sometimes you need forgiveness. Sometimes you need a boundary. Often this means doing the uncomfortable things you've been putting off. Working with the shadow is not a one-night ceremony under the Moon, even though the Eclipse will stir things up. It is a daily practice of returning to the places you resist, not to get stuck in them, but to meet them with new awareness. This is how transformation happens: not by erasing the shadow, but by learning to walk with it until it no longer runs the show.
After the Lunar Eclipse we will be met with a Partial Solar Eclipse on Sunday, September 21, 2025. It will bring a different kind of invitation, one that is more about beginning again, planting seeds, and aligning with new cycles. But without the clearing of the Lunar Eclipse first, without a willingness to see what has been hidden, those new seeds will never take root.
The Lunar Eclipse shows up to hand you the key to a door that has been locked. The Solar Eclipse that follows is the moment the door opens, but you can only walk through if you face what has been hidden.
In my membership SHIFT with Jamie, we work directly with these energies as they arise. Pisces teaches us to trust the unseen; Virgo teaches us to apply that trust in the details of our daily life. Together they form a bridge that connects intuition with action. Inside SHIFT, you are guided into practices that help you regulate your nervous system, meet your shadow with honesty and care, and anchor into the clarity that you inevitably discover. This month the talks, meditations, and journaling prompts are designed to hold you in that bridge, so you do not collapse into avoidance or perfectionism, but instead find the space to actually walk toward your future self.
This Eclipse season is not about rushing to fix yourself. It is about staying present with what rises, being willing to see it, and practicing the small daily choices that align you with where you are going. The shadow does not mean you are broken. It means you are human, and it is in meeting that truth again and again that real healing begins.