Solar Eclipse – a symbolic translation
Posted on: September 21, 2025
Solar Eclipse – a symbolic translation
A Solar Eclipse happens when the Moon briefly blocks the Sun’s light as seen from Earth. Like a regular monthly New Moon but as it is conjunct the Lunar Nodes – the crossing points of the Sun and Moon – it forms a total or partial eclipse.
Symbolic Translation
Symbolically we can read this as Soul (Moon) receiving all the light of Spirit (Sun), leaving a Dark Moon and a Dark Sun visible to Earth (the body / the collective). A break in the light flow to Earth.
Think of an eclipse as a deliberate, fated “glitch” in the system: the body and the collective are given a moment to pause, shut down, and reboot. If we arrive into that pause open, rested and receptive, the reset is effective. If we arrive triggered – flooded with adrenaline, terror, hatred or low-density emotion – the system cannot fully restore itself. The reboot is compromised by the body’s survival response.
Luminaries Choreography
These glitches come in cycles ~ twice a year. They are part of the luminaries’ choreography (Sun and Moon) that shape how a human life – Spirit in a Body – learns, exchanges and evolves. The Sun carries vitality, The Moon carries memory, our response to emotion and influence on choice of perception; their meetings call us to review, to choose, to re-align with soul-purpose (the nodal axis that keeps karma and dharma in view).
If your emotional state and mental attention is constantly pulled outward by noise, preoccupied by drama or distraction, the body cannot assimilate the deeper, predestined changes available to you. Life then becomes a game of attractions and levels: each distraction is a lesson in discernment – where will you invest your attention and intention? The further you buy into the game’s illusion, the harder it becomes to remember the original quest. A misleading that compacts karmic weight and a form of amnesia.
“Life is a Game”
Invitation
An eclipse is an invitation to take advantage of the glitch in the ‘game of life’: to clear the illusions that veil you – conscious or unconscious, culturally conditioned or inherited. There’s no blame or shame in the veils – only an opportunity to see and remove them. If you do not use the eclipse as a clearing point, it can instead double down your old patterns, embedding them more deeply. Remember: the eclipse effect is not only the day itself but the weeks around it – a portal of influence.
In our present culture the “main stage” often amplifies illusion, acting as the biggest subscribed illusion. The thing is too many people are aware of the illusion so this power is diluted and quite nominal now but their noise is the greatest. Even if you’re not directly engaged, their noise can penetrate the field.
Counter-Frequency
To stay whole you need a counter-frequency: practices, boundaries and an inner sound that resonate more strongly than the external distraction. This strengthens your capacity to be moved by the cosmic, fated frequency — the one that actually furthers your soul’s growth.
Use the eclipse as an opportunity. See what asks to be released. Notice where your attention leaks. Strengthen what nourishes you. Prepare the body, mind and emotions – restful sleep, nourishing food, gentle movement, centred breath, conscious thoughts that are kind and loving that support and hold your emotional energy – so that when the cosmic glitch arrives your system can receive its medicine.
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Reflection prompts
• What has been demanding your attention lately – and how much of that attention is truly required?
• Where in your life do you sense illusion masking as duty, identity or distraction?
• How can you create a counter-frequency right now (a practice, a boundary, a ritual) that protects your field during this eclipse window?
(Read the 29° Virgo Sabian Symbol article for more on this meaning https://12thspace.com/blog/29-virgo-eclipse/)
Breathe with these for a moment. Let the questions land as invitations, not judgments. The eclipse is not an ending so much as a clearing: a chance to reboot with greater clarity and care.
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For a simple prayer to use at the point of eclipse this evening → check out the Dream & Serve Prayer that we have been using for these weeks of the Eclipse Season. https://12thspace.com/blog/dream-serve-prayer/
Read more about the Equinox → https://12thspace.com/blog/o-omega/