New Moon Eclipse Energy
Releasing perfectionism, buns of steel, and a hot tub full of French onion soup.
Eclipse season is in full swing. It started back on September 7th with the full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces. Sunday’s upcoming solar eclipse in Virgo has already been starting to shake things up, at least for me. It’s been hard to fall asleep, and when I finally do, my dreams are strange and vivid — a spongy blue wall in my parents’ house, a hot tub filled with French onion soup, a metallic baby crawling right off the edge of a table, etc.
Eclipses can bring sudden and profound transformation, and certain encounters that occur during this time tend to feel fated. Maybe some of you have been experiencing events like this? If so, I’d love to hear about it.
Personally, I reconnected with an old friend right around the lunar eclipse, and unintentionally planned a trip back to New Jersey a few days later. I’m here now, cleaning out my parents’ house, which feels very appropriate for Sunday’s Virgo eclipse happening in the South Node. It’s all about shedding and release, which is actually a big theme of 2025 — Year of the Snake and all.
We’ve been tackling the attic, a huge space full of unlabeled and unsorted boxes and bins. It feels endless. There’s a lot of junk, but then I’ll come across the occasional treasure.
A theme of this eclipse is about releasing perfectionism, which incidentally, is one of the themes of this Substack. I’m a huge perfectionist and really don’t like putting things out into the world until they’re 100% an A++ all the time (impossible), which, as you can imagine, leads to paralysis. Creativity dies in that kind of environment.
One of the reasons I started this Substack was to force myself into being okay with imperfection and putting things out there on a regular basis regardless of how polished a post might be. And now that I think about it, I started getting it all ready to go right around the time of the spring eclipses. So maybe the lesson here is sometimes flaws make things more interesting.
If you’d like to use Sunday’s eclipse energy to your advantage, here are a few things you can do:
Give yourself permission to be imperfect.
Make a list of things you want to purge. Old habits that no longer serve you, creative projects that no longer light you up, objects that clutter your space.
Start a new healthy habit that you want to keep up, like exercising or cutting out sugar. Things you begin during an eclipse take on a momentum of their own and are easier to continue.
Sleep. Eclipse energy is draining!
Until next time,
Tara
It’s funny, I’ve been thinking and writing a lot about the notion of paralysis. I appreciate this so much and I also identify with it COMPLETELY. To write without 19 edits is somehow liberating and I enjoy everything you’re doing, each time.