Through Shadow and Light ✦ The September 2025 Eclipse Portal
Samantha Rei
9/7/2025
Eclipses are cosmic thresholds. For millennia they’ve been met with awe and caution — moments when the Sun or Moon fell into shadow,, and people instinctively knew the world was shifting. In truth, eclipses still hold that power: they bend time, accelerate change, and bring endings and beginnings into sharp relief.
This September, two eclipses open one of the most significant portals of the year:
Pisces Total Lunar Eclipse — September 7, 2025 (15° Pisces)
Virgo Partial Solar Eclipse — September 21, 2025 (29° Virgo)
Together, they form an eclipse portal — a two-week passage where life rearranges itself. These aren’t isolated events; they’re part of a bigger unfolding along the Virgo–Pisces axis, a polarity we’ll see highlighted until early 2027.
And this time, the eclipses arrive against the backdrop of the rare Saturn–Neptune conjunction, building through Pisces and becoming exact at 0° Aries — the world axis — in February 2026, a collective reset point, as the outer planets have simultaneously shifted into new signs of fire and air. This makes September’s eclipses more than personal transitions — they’re collective turning points, dissolving old boundaries and asking us to dream new systems and a new Earth into being.
“This isn’t just balance between Virgo and Pisces. It’s a redreaming of order itself.”
The Virgo–Pisces polarity has always asked us to balance the practical with the mystical. Virgo represents refinement, devotion, health, and service — the details that hold life together. Pisces dissolves edges, reminding us of compassion, imagination, and our unity with something larger than self.
But this axis is more charged than usual. Saturn holds steady in Pisces, while Neptune, now in early Aries and soon to dip back into Pisces, blurs the edges — dissolving boundaries even as integrity and discernment are required. At the same time, all the outer planets now anchor into fire and air signs, tilting the collective toward vision, momentum, and big ideas.
This isn’t just balance between Virgo and Pisces. It’s about redreaming order itself: shaping flexible containers that can hold both clarity and mystery, ritual and surrender, body and soul.
✦ The Virgo - Pisces Axis: Ritual and Mystery
🌕 Total Lunar Eclipse | September 7, 2025 (15° Pisces)
A total lunar eclipse is a Full Moon magnified — emotional tides crest, truths surface, and endings feel fated. Because this eclipse aligns with the North Node, it doesn’t only mark closure; it also opens a destiny door, calling us toward unfamiliar yet necessary growth.
This Pisces eclipse forms a trine to Jupiter in Cancer, where Jupiter is exalted. Even as stories dissolve, Jupiter brings grace and expansion: endings arrive softened, with blessing, creating space for something more aligned to rise.
At the same time, Saturn retrograde in Pisces calls us to re-examine dreams and ideals. Which visions were illusions? Which can be given form? Saturn sharpens the discernment, asking what can be built, what needs release, and what’s ready to be lived in reality.
The Virgo–Pisces polarity here reminds us that life is both ritual and mystery. Service and surrender, structure and compassion — both are required.
We last experienced eclipses on this axis in 2006–2008 and 2015–2017. Reflect on those years: what transitions or healing began? Threads from those cycles may echo now, surfacing under a new sky.
✨ If you have planets or angles in the mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces) around 15°, you will feel this eclipse most strongly. The house in your chart holding 15° Pisces reveals which area of life is being rewritten.
"Between shadow and light, we walk the threshold where endings become beginnings."
🌑 Partial Solar Eclipse | September 21, 2025 (29° Virgo)
Two weeks later comes a partial solar eclipse at 29° Virgo — the final, anoretic degree of the sign. Solar eclipses are supercharged New Moons, seeding fresh beginnings and sudden shifts. But at 29°, there is urgency: something must resolve before we can move forward.
Because this is a South Node eclipse, it carries a karmic tone. South Node eclipses release what no longer aligns — outdated roles, commitments, or patterns. New beginnings here are born from endings first.
This eclipse is weightier than the Pisces one. It opposes Saturn and Neptune as they edge toward conjunction. The tension builds: Saturn presses for structure and accountability, while Neptune erodes the old frameworks, dissolving what once felt solid. Their exact union at 0° Aries on 20 February 2026 marks a collective restart — the last time they met, in 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and revolutions reshaped the world. This eclipse is part of that larger turning.
Other planetary threads add nuance:
Mercury in Libra (Virgo’s ruler) highlights relationships, balance, and the search for harmony.
All the outer planets are retrograde, turning energy inward for review and reconsideration.
A trine to Uranus retrograde hints at breakthroughs — sudden, liberating shifts, even amidst tension.
The eclipse arrives the day before the equinox, amplifying the call to recalibrate balance as the Sun enters Libra.
Unlike Pisces’ grace-softened endings, this Virgo eclipse is sharper, more demanding. It insists on confronting illusions, stripping away what no longer holds, and planting new seeds with discernment.
Key message: Be flexible. Like the willow tree, bend rather than break. Surrender to the process, and you’ll find resilience in change.
✨ Those with planets or angles in the mutable signs near 29° will feel this eclipse most directly. The house where late Virgo falls in your chart shows where endings and beginnings are rooted.
🌀 The Eclipse Portal: A Passage of Becoming
Between September 7 and 21 lies the eclipse portal — two weeks where shadow and light weave together. This is not a time to push ahead with certainty, but to listen, reflect, and allow life to reorganize.
With outer planets blazing new paths through fire and air, this is more than personal change. We are part of a collective re-imagining. What dissolves and what begins now belongs not just to your life, but to the story we’re writing together.
🌓 Closing: Dreaming a New Earth
Eclipses remind us that endings and beginnings are not separate — they are stitched together. September’s eclipses dissolve illusions, strip away what no longer serves, and plant the seeds of new devotion and vision.
This is not a small moment. It is part of a greater portal, urging us to build flexible structures, dream courageously, and participate in the collective becoming. A new Earth is not only imagined — it is lived into being, choice by choice.
✨ To explore how these eclipses are moving through your personal chart and to receive step-by-step rituals for working with lunar energy, you can download my Moon Manifestation Guide. It includes practices for intention-setting, reflection, and guidance on locating which house these eclipses activate in your chart. For those who love the astronomy side, you can explore eclipse paths and timings at NASA’s Eclipse Website.
Eclipses are cosmic thresholds. For millennia they’ve been met with awe and caution — moments when the Sun or Moon fell into shadow,, and people instinctively knew the world was shifting. In truth, eclipses still hold that power: they bend time, accelerate change, and bring endings and beginnings into sharp relief.
This September, two eclipses open one of the most significant portals of the year:
Pisces Total Lunar Eclipse — September 7, 2025 (15° Pisces)
Virgo Partial Solar Eclipse — September 21, 2025 (29° Virgo)
Together, they form an eclipse portal — a two-week passage where life rearranges itself. These aren’t isolated events; they’re part of a bigger unfolding along the Virgo–Pisces axis, a polarity we’ll see highlighted until early 2027.
And this time, the eclipses arrive against the backdrop of the rare Saturn–Neptune conjunction, building through Pisces and becoming exact at 0° Aries — the world axis — in February 2026, a collective reset point, as the outer planets have simultaneously shifted into new signs of fire and air. This makes September’s eclipses more than personal transitions — they’re collective turning points, dissolving old boundaries and asking us to dream new systems and a new Earth into being.
“This isn’t just balance between Virgo and Pisces. It’s a redreaming of order itself.”
The Virgo–Pisces polarity has always asked us to balance the practical with the mystical. Virgo represents refinement, devotion, health, and service — the details that hold life together. Pisces dissolves edges, reminding us of compassion, imagination, and our unity with something larger than self.
But this axis is more charged than usual. Saturn holds steady in Pisces, while Neptune, now in early Aries and soon to dip back into Pisces, blurs the edges — dissolving boundaries even as integrity and discernment are required. At the same time, all the outer planets now anchor into fire and air signs, tilting the collective toward vision, momentum, and big ideas.
This isn’t just balance between Virgo and Pisces. It’s about redreaming order itself: shaping flexible containers that can hold both clarity and mystery, ritual and surrender, body and soul.
✦ The Virgo - Pisces Axis: Ritual and Mystery
🌕 Total Lunar Eclipse | September 7, 2025 (15° Pisces)
A total lunar eclipse is a Full Moon magnified — emotional tides crest, truths surface, and endings feel fated. Because this eclipse aligns with the North Node, it doesn’t only mark closure; it also opens a destiny door, calling us toward unfamiliar yet necessary growth.
This Pisces eclipse forms a trine to Jupiter in Cancer, where Jupiter is exalted. Even as stories dissolve, Jupiter brings grace and expansion: endings arrive softened, with blessing, creating space for something more aligned to rise.
At the same time, Saturn retrograde in Pisces calls us to re-examine dreams and ideals. Which visions were illusions? Which can be given form? Saturn sharpens the discernment, asking what can be built, what needs release, and what’s ready to be lived in reality.
The Virgo–Pisces polarity here reminds us that life is both ritual and mystery. Service and surrender, structure and compassion — both are required.
We last experienced eclipses on this axis in 2006–2008 and 2015–2017. Reflect on those years: what transitions or healing began? Threads from those cycles may echo now, surfacing under a new sky.
✨ If you have planets or angles in the mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces) around 15°, you will feel this eclipse most strongly. The house in your chart holding 15° Pisces reveals which area of life is being rewritten.
"Between shadow and light, we walk the threshold where endings become beginnings."
🌑 Partial Solar Eclipse | September 21, 2025 (29° Virgo)
Two weeks later comes a partial solar eclipse at 29° Virgo — the final, anoretic degree of the sign. Solar eclipses are supercharged New Moons, seeding fresh beginnings and sudden shifts. But at 29°, there is urgency: something must resolve before we can move forward.
Because this is a South Node eclipse, it carries a karmic tone. South Node eclipses release what no longer aligns — outdated roles, commitments, or patterns. New beginnings here are born from endings first.
This eclipse is weightier than the Pisces one. It opposes Saturn and Neptune as they edge toward conjunction. The tension builds: Saturn presses for structure and accountability, while Neptune erodes the old frameworks, dissolving what once felt solid. Their exact union at 0° Aries on 20 February 2026 marks a collective restart — the last time they met, in 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and revolutions reshaped the world. This eclipse is part of that larger turning.
Other planetary threads add nuance:
Mercury in Libra (Virgo’s ruler) highlights relationships, balance, and the search for harmony.
All the outer planets are retrograde, turning energy inward for review and reconsideration.
A trine to Uranus retrograde hints at breakthroughs — sudden, liberating shifts, even amidst tension.
The eclipse arrives the day before the equinox, amplifying the call to recalibrate balance as the Sun enters Libra.
Unlike Pisces’ grace-softened endings, this Virgo eclipse is sharper, more demanding. It insists on confronting illusions, stripping away what no longer holds, and planting new seeds with discernment.
Key message: Be flexible. Like the willow tree, bend rather than break. Surrender to the process, and you’ll find resilience in change.
✨ Those with planets or angles in the mutable signs near 29° will feel this eclipse most directly. The house where late Virgo falls in your chart shows where endings and beginnings are rooted.
🌀 The Eclipse Portal: A Passage of Becoming
Between September 7 and 21 lies the eclipse portal — two weeks where shadow and light weave together. This is not a time to push ahead with certainty, but to listen, reflect, and allow life to reorganize.
With outer planets blazing new paths through fire and air, this is more than personal change. We are part of a collective re-imagining. What dissolves and what begins now belongs not just to your life, but to the story we’re writing together.
🌓 Closing: Dreaming a New Earth
Eclipses remind us that endings and beginnings are not separate — they are stitched together. September’s eclipses dissolve illusions, strip away what no longer serves, and plant the seeds of new devotion and vision.
This is not a small moment. It is part of a greater portal, urging us to build flexible structures, dream courageously, and participate in the collective becoming. A new Earth is not only imagined — it is lived into being, choice by choice.
✨ To explore how these eclipses are moving through your personal chart and to receive step-by-step rituals for working with lunar energy, you can download my Moon Manifestation Guide. It includes practices for intention-setting, reflection, and guidance on locating which house these eclipses activate in your chart. For those who love the astronomy side, you can explore eclipse paths and timings at NASA’s Eclipse Website.
© 2024 Samantha Rei ~ Soul-rooted guidance for women
I call in only aligned souls — those meant to walk this path with me. May this work be rooted in truth, guided by clarity, and held in integrity — for the highest good of all. I welcome abundant compensation, and may it return to the giver tenfold. So it is.