Blood Moon in Pisces: Dissolution, Destiny, and the Great Unconscious
On September 7, 2025 at 1:08pm CT, the sky opened into a Total Lunar Eclipse in Pisces—a blood-red mirror rising from the ocean of the collective unconscious. Eclipses always rip the veil, but in Pisces the tearing is felt most deeply in the psychic field. This was not a gentle tide. It was the undertow that dragged us beneath the surface, away from our numbing strategies and illusions, and into the archetypal sea where Self confronts shadow.
This eclipse was not isolated. It threaded into a larger mythic cycle: the September 2024 lunation that first stirred the waters, the March 2025 Blood Moon that revealed what could no longer be denied, and now this third act, demanding full surrender. What surfaced then, what split open in March, was required to be released.
Pisces and the Jungian Sea
Pisces is the mystic, the dreamer, the redeemer. In Jungian terms, it is the threshold of the collective unconscious, where archetypes live and the boundary between personal and collective dissolves.
In its shadow, Pisces is avoidance—martyrdom, addiction, fantasy. But in its sovereignty, Pisces teaches that surrender is not weakness, but initiation. Jung wrote, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” A Pisces eclipse is precisely that confrontation: fate as the unconscious surfacing. The illusions we cling to—relationships idealized, identities over-identified with, coping mechanisms mistaken for truth—are stripped away. What remains is raw, unfiltered psyche.
Collective + Individual Ripples
Individually, Pisces placements felt this eclipse as a psychic exorcism. The mutable signs—Virgo, Gemini, Sagittarius—were pulled into destabilization, as old patterns in love, work, and identity unraveled. Across the zodiac, the veil thinned. Dreams intensified into prophecy. Emotion rose like floodwater, cleansing what had stagnated.
Collectively, the eclipse stirred the waters of denial. Pisces rules compassion but also delusion. The collective shadow surfaced: the ways we numb ourselves, the spiritual bypassing we’ve accepted, the fantasies that allow injustice to persist. Compassion without accountability crumbled. This eclipse insisted that empathy must be active, that grief must be honored, and that the dream of unity must finally meet the work of integration.
Mars Square Jupiter: Friction as Catalyst
Overlaying the eclipse was a volatile tension: Mars in Libra squaring Jupiter in Cancer.
Mars, weakened in Libra, thrashed between action and indecision, desperate for harmony but prone to projection. Jupiter, exalted in Cancer, magnified emotion, protective and nurturing yet often excessive. Their collision amplified relational strain. Conflicts emerged where balance was only pretense. Boundaries were tested. Overreactions flared.
And yet within this square lay fuel. Mars brought courage; Jupiter magnified scope. Their clash catalyzed breakthroughs if handled consciously. This was the paradox of the aspect: chaos as catalyst, tension as opening. It asked whether we would dissolve into drama or transmute friction into liberation.
The Magic Triangle Ignites
This eclipse stirred the Magic Triangle between Neptune in Aries, Uranus in Gemini, and Pluto in Aquarius. Three outer planets weaving a grand circuit of change: Neptune spiritualizes action, Uranus rewires thought and language, Pluto reforms power and collective systems.
Together they created a geometry of dissolution, revelation, and transformation. In Jungian terms, this was the unconscious insisting on individuation at the collective scale—personal awakenings rippling through culture. The eclipse, arriving in Pisces, amplified this current: feelings surged, illusions fell, and the soul was pressed to meet the demands of an evolving world.
Held with consciousness, the Magic Triangle became a vessel for individuation that serves the collective. Without consciousness, it risked amplification of noise and heat. In this window, the eclipse cleansed the field. Neptune in Aries sanctified courage. Uranus in Gemini liberated the mind. Pluto in Aquarius aligned power with people. Evolution itself was shaped as a triangle: vision feeding innovation, innovation feeding reform, reform making room for a larger soul to breathe.
The Alchemy of Release
This Blood Moon was not a soft dream. It was a holy undoing. It arrived as grief, chaos, and confusion—but beneath it all was profound grace. Pisces teaches that endings are not failures. They are dissolutions into the ocean, clearing space for rebirth. This was individuation on both personal and collective scales: the peeling away of illusion until the Self, bare and unyielding, stepped forward.
The Mars–Jupiter square tempted many into recklessness or inflated drama. But it also carried the potential to ignite courage, to propel us toward clarity. And the Magic Triangle reminded us that we are part of a larger story—one of surrender and awakening, of reform and rebirth.
On September 7, 2025, the Pisces Blood Moon opened a threshold. It stripped us bare, carried us beyond illusion, and pulled us into the ocean of becoming. And though the eclipse has passed, its reverberations are not fleeting—you can feel its effects for 30 days, and up to six months after, as the tides of psyche and soul continue to unfold.