Virgo Lunar Eclipse 2026

With last week’s eclipse happening in the sign of Aquarius and connected with the North Node of the Moon, everything can feel like it’s changing around us, or there can be this feeling of restlessness, and even urgency – but right now, the path ahead feels like it’s overgrown with weeds.

We long for more freedom to be our most authentic selves, to break away from “the way things are” but our minds keep tripping us up with thoughts of “I’m not good enough, everyone else is already doing it, what does my voice matter, the internet is already so loud, I’m never going to make it, blah, blah, blah.”

Luckily, this eclipse is here to help.

March 3rd, 2026 at 1:33am HST / 3:33am PST

(And how magical is it that this eclipse is happening at 3:33am PST on 3/3??) You can find your local time zone conversion at timeanddate.com

The Total Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse will be visible from across Eastern Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, South America, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Arctic, Antarctica.

Reminder this is NOT the time to put your crystals out to charge under the moonlight. No rituals, no manifesting during the exact time of the eclipse. The Eclipse energies are much too volatile. Wait until the New Moon in Pisces in 2 weeks.

With this Eclipse occurring in the Sign of Virgo, in the next 3 months we can expect some type of clearing & releasing around jobs, work/life balance, health & wellness, judgment, criticism, and victim mentality.

Remember that Eclipses are fated moments where our Higher Self realigns us toward our Destiny.

During an Eclipse, it’s best to simply BE. Instead of trying to work with the energies, simply allow the energies to work for you. Rest, stay hydrated, and observe the patterns that are unfolding for your highest good (even if it might feel like all hell is breaking loose right now).

This eclipse is the cosmic cleaning crew – here to scrub your mind & take out the trash of all of your ideas about polished perfection, having the perfect plan, and presenting as if you have your shit together.

With this week’s eclipse happening in the sign of Virgo and connected with the South Node of the Moon, we are in unfamiliar territory that is asking us to release our white knuckle grip on our need for perfection, for realistic plans & reliable patterns, and the need to be able to see the path ahead.

This Virgo Lunar Eclipse gives you the opportunity to get serious about tending to the Garden of your Mind. Where do you need to put up a fence to keep the opinions of others from coming in and eating your beautiful offerings? Where have those insidious weeds of negative self talk, criticism, judgment, blame, and holding yourself back started to choke your expression of your Sacred Service? Where might you need to build some trellises so your devotion to your health & wellbeing can climb even higher?

Ruled by Mercury, Virgo in its quintessence is all about pattern recognition and your path of Sacred Service & devotion. It is associated with the archetypes of the priestess, healer, disciple, gardener, herbalist, mentor, and the specialist.

In its healed expression, Virgo is devoted, organized, intelligent, discerning, efficient, humble, and able to perceive the symbolic patterns & interconnectedness of the material realm.

In its unhealed expression, it can be overly critical, judgmental, rigid, perfectionistic, uncertain, timid, and lack of confidence.

If you’d like to dive deeper, I taught a 4-hour class last week, going over everything you need to know about this Virgo South Node Total Lunar Eclipse. You can still sign up to receive the replay here.

Whatever it is that you’re grappling with during this Eclipse Portal, it’s ancient & rooted in fear & survival. For far too long, your inner critic has been filling your mind with judgmental thoughts of self-doubt, inferiority, and uncertainty. This has caused you to strangle your weirdest, most mystical, magical, innovative, truly authentic self expression in favor of coming off as “professional.”

The trouble is, these old thought patterns are so deeply ingrained that even though you know it’s not serving you, there’s still some part of you that finds safety in the familiar…

Whatever these old patterns are that have been thrashing about inside of you, it’s time for them to be transformed, and it’s going to take every ounce of devotion & discipline to your inner weirdo to choose a different path.

It feels scary & uncertain, I know. The old path is falling away, yet the new one hasn’t completely formed yet… but you can feel it out there… something is changing inside of you, mutating even, you’re not the person you were in September 2024 (that’s for sure), but your new, revolutionary, genius expression isn’t quite formed yet…

That’s because with this coming Virgo Lunar Eclipse, there is a deep transformation that is taking place in a particular area of your life that has been getting worked since September 2024.

There is something from your future, calling you forward, related to your unique gifts, talents & abilities, your most authentic self-expression, that has been repressed all these years – in favor of trying to appear perfect.

Sometimes this looks like trying to create for the algorithm instead of your own unique, weird expression, or doing what sells instead of taking a creative risk, or listening to the voices of others, comparing yourself to others, or allowing the judgment or criticism of others (or yourself) to paralyze you…

But your addiction to perfection is strangling your most authentic, weird, magical, woo-woo (and let’s just say it – fucking genius) audacity to share your innate gifts and let your magic out.

The previous Solar Eclipse in the sign of Aquarius initiated us into a new cycle, where sudden insights, mutative revelations, and new ideas spring up in unexpected places like wild flowers. In order to accommodate this radical new growth, we have to let go of the idea that our gardens (businesses, families, etc) need to be perfectly manicured and contained.

During this Lunar Eclipse, it’s important to pull up the weeds of our negative thoughts, to make space for things to be a little feral & unhinged. The world needs your authentic, weird, colorful expression now more than ever.

You don’t need the perfect launch strategy, professional photoshoot, or polished posts. Moving forward, people are going to be far more interested in real, embodied, messy leaders who are out there in their gardens, pulling up weeds, planting seeds, and celebrating the vivid, willy-nilly nature of LIFE and the unexpected wildflowers that pop up in the middle of the roses.

The effects of Virgo eclipses can be more shifting, evolving, puzzling or sometimes confusing, (because it’s a Mutable sign) but they are generally not as intense as Cardinal or Fixed eclipses. We can usually see results in 3 months.

Virgo eclipses influences:

Personal health & hygiene (take really good care of yourself & don’t overstrain or overstress)
Public health, hospitals, social services, caregivers, nurses, medical records, nutrition, herb/vitamin industry, health workers, data systems, diabetes & other health issues that require daily maintenance, etc.
Liver, pancreas, GI tract – really all health/wellness related issues
The working sector, bosses, employees, renters/rental properties, work/life balance, jobs, employment/unemployment, record keeping, utilities, home improvement, property maintenance & development, armies, civil servants, etc.
Food production/distribution, farming, supply chains, animal health, hygiene (on all levels, animal, personal, energetic), supplies, bees, drought, earth work (landslides, mining, earthquakes), seeds, famine, insects, etc.
Pets, veterinarians, and generally anything & everything we take care of/manage on a daily basis.
Take extra good care of your health, rest well, eat well, take time off work, don’t force anything.
NO ALCOHOL OR SUBSTANCES. The energy is already trippy enough! The veils between realms are dissolved. One glass of wine can feel like five…
Check your chart for 12° Virgo and which house that corresponds to for clues as to how/where this eclipse might affect you.

ASPECTS TO THE VIRIGO LUNAR ECLIPSE

The Lunar Eclipse occurs at 12° Virgo and will be engaged in the following aspects:

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Sextiled (supported by) Jupiter at 15° Cancer: Jupiter is known as the Great Benefic, and expands whatever he touches. Whatever old, outdated, negative thought patterns and limiting beliefs you can transform and release around the time of this eclipse are exponentially beneficial for expanding your faith & belief in the bigger picture for your life. Look to the house where you have 15° Cancer to see where you may receive support in this process.
Also of note: Last week, on February 26th, Mercury Stationed Retrograde. As Mercury is the ruler of Virgo (the sign where this eclipse is happening), this makes this particular Mercury Retrograde very significant. Whatever unfolds for you during this eclipse portal, know that the story is still being revealed until Mercury Stations Direct on March 20th, and even more will come into focus once Mercury clears his post-retrograde shadow on April 9th. With Mercury Retrograde in Pisces (the sign opposite Virgo), attuning yourself to the dreamy, imaginal realms of Pisces can help you integrate the message from the Virgo Lunar Eclipse. Deepening your spiritual practices, communing with water, paying attention to your dreams, and staying open to messages from your past lives in Lemuria or the Pleiadians can be especially helpful during this eclipse portal.
- As with all Mercury Retrograde times, backup your devices, be extra diligent in your communications, and have patience when things take longer or have to be redone.

During this Eclipse Portal, something has awakened within you. The Aqurius part of you has been electrifying your consciousness, revolutionizing all your old ideas about what true devotion & your path of service look like (hint: it has nothing to do with sacrifice and everything to do with you being more devoted to your authenticity & creative self-expression, regardless of what anyone else might think). What is the most liberating vision you have for your life?

Are you brave enough to create something you’ve never seen before?

In Human Design the 64th Gate is called “Before Completion” and is the Gate of Confusion

The description reads: Transition, like birth, requires a determined strength for the passage through.

This is likely to be a very mental Eclipse. The Head Center is a pressure center – specifically, the pressure to know: what is the plan, what we doing, what is the answer, what is the next inspiring thing, where can I find some inspiration, how can I be more inspiring, etc.

Here, we must accept confusion before order can be established. The abstract mind is in a constant state of flowing through images and memories from the past, trying to make sense of them. The trick is to try to enjoy the process and not strive for clarity – it will come, but from an unexpected “aha!” moment – not trying to figure things out.

When we can learn to view confusion as a state of pure potential (instead of freaking out from the pressure to know our next steps, or have a plan), and view the chaos of our thoughts with curiosity instead of fear – we can easily transcend from the Shadow frequency of Confusion into the Gift frequency of Imagination.

The word Imagine contains Magic! Even when we feel overwhelmed, expressing our pain (your pain or the pain of the world) through the artistic practice allows for an alchemical process to occur, and your mind finally stops trying to figure things out, which releases a huge amount of energy/light!

This eclipse can bring illuminated insights if we get creative and try to make art from our confusion instead of trying to figure everything out.

Whenever we find ourselves in a state of confusion, this is always a clue that we are also in a state of transformation.

Just as the process of the caterpillar turning into the chrysalis must be so deeply confusing for the caterpillar, we know that at the end of the process, a beautiful butterfly emerges.

Welcome the confusion, allow it to dissolve all of your old ways of thinking, doing business, creating art, parenting – all the things! And welcome the gift of Imagination so you can imagine something innovative, genius, and totally authentic. Something only you can do! The world deeply needs your most authentic creative expression right now!

With this eclipse, we are all being asked to transform ourselves & our lives into something radically different, to welcome innovation, and to be open to creating something that we’ve never seen before.

Here are some suggestions to support you as you prepare for the Lunar Eclipse. I would also recommend to continue these practices until one week after the eclipse as well.

*This guidance is especially important if you or anyone you know have/has your Sun, Moon, Ascendant, Midheaven, or Nadir (including personal planets such as Mercury, Venus, Mars, and to a lesser degree Jupiter & Saturn, and even to a lesser degree Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto) between 7°-17° Virgo or Pisces.

How to support yourself during the eclipse:

Working with Light / Color (wear white, silver, pastels, greens, browns, earthy colors)
Sound (esp healing, devotional, massage music), mantras
Earthing, get in water, baths, etc.
Embody the energy of any planets affected in your chart (covered in class)
Go with the flow – eclipses bring things to a head (don’t resist!)
Make space, clean, clear, purge, have those difficult conversations
Kundalini or Heart Coherence – working with your Electromagnetic field
High vibe foods, places, media, etc
CLEAR YOUR FIELD, journal, burn shit, look for any old, unconscious, patterns – what have you been tolerating/ignoring/dissociating/escaping from??
Be extra intentional about your hygiene on all levels – physical, energetic, etc.
Go gentle with any cleanses you might do, the purgative effects are heightened.

PS: We’re going to have this exact same pattern (North Node Solar Eclipse in Aquarius and South Node Lunar Eclipse in Virgo) in February 2027 – Right in the middle of when the Background Frequency will shift from Tribal to Individual (Human Design speak). So pay attention to what happens in your life around this Eclipse Portal now, because we’re going to go even deeper & complete these patterns (Letting your magic out in all its weird, authentic, individual ways and releasing our addiction to perfection) in a big way in February 2027.

LUNAR ECLIPSE JOURNAL PROMPTS

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Spend some time reflecting on your Sacred Service in the world and how you are being called to get more serious about your devotional path during this time of change on our planet.
What patterns or habits (especially mental – negative self-talk, criticism of self/others) need to be cleansed, purified, or released so that you can deepen your devotional path of service?
What big changes are you noticing in your life, that might feel confusing or overwhelming right now?
How can you use your imagination to find creative solutions to these changes?
Where are you being asked to liberate yourself from all the “shoulds, have to’s, and how’s it supposed to be” thinking so that you can bring something totally unique and different into the world?
Where do you need to expand your creative expression by connecting more with your emotions and the innate wisdom of your physical body?
Where have you been overgiving or self-sacrificing?
As we move into this next Astrological cycle with the upcoming Equinox, what patterns, thought forms, and old ways of being are you being called to release so you can move into this new cycle in a good way?

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