Eclipses

Mercury enters Virgo and comes into a scintillating cazimi conjunction with the Sun. A Pisces lunar eclipse is flavored by disruptive Uranus, and Mercury and the Sun square off with Uranus. Plus, April answers a listener question about haircuts.

Gentle motion, flexibility, and floating: These are your survival tools for this Pisces Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse. If there is an astrological equivalent of quicksand, a Pisces eclipse would pretty much have to be it. At times like this, surrender—not struggle—is the key.

Romantic partnerships are not the only relationships in our lives (just the ones we’re most likely to be obsessed about). What will this eclipse say about the 99.999% of the relationships in our lives that don’t involve yearning looks across a crowded room or intimate physical contact?

At this lunar eclipse, know that the Earth is offering you something, some smooth block of marble, a piece of wood, a section of clay. Open your instinctive mind, and ask yourself: What is it that wants to be brought into being? And what is the right tool with which to carve it out?

Though eclipses are dramatic and interesting, few of them are truly life-changing. For many of us, this Solar Eclipse will come and go with some mild emotional disruption and perhaps some unexpected developments in some area of life, and that’s about it. But watch your chart closely over a number of years, and you learn to identify its hot spots.

I realize that advocating for creative joy seems trivial in the face of the horrifying displays of racism and threats of war that fill the news, and that it’s no substitute for activism. But in celebrating joy and sacred selfhood, we automatically reject the horrors of hatred and warped pride, and affirm the very happiest reasons for living. Love is not a cure for all that ails us, but it’s the right inspiration for the fight.