Previewing the Nodes and Eclipses in Pisces and Virgo

Hey, everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Happy Friday, everybody. Today, we're going to take a look at the next series of eclipses that we will be receiving as the nodes of the moon are going to change signs. They will be changing signs in the early part of next year, and then we will have a good year and a half of eclipses in new signs, Pisces and Virgo. However, the eclipses around the next nodal movement follow some really interesting patterns.

So I want to show you some of them. We're going to look at the dates and timing of all of the eclipses and what's really a little bit of a funky next period of eclipses, as a lot of the eclipses jump out of sign, although the nodes will be in Pisces in Virgo, a lot of these eclipses are going to jump out of sign, which is going to make for some really interesting dynamics in terms of how we end up delineating those things in our charts, and how we end up experiencing the eclipses.

So I'm going to show you the technical details, the dates of the eclipses, which ones fall in Virgo and Pisces, and which ones fall out of signs. Then, we're going to speak broadly about five major themes we can watch for, with the nodes of the moon changing signs into Virgo and Pisces overall. So that is our agenda for today. As always, don't forget to like and subscribe yesterday. I record these a little bit in advance. Yesterday, we crossed the 70,000 subscriber mark.

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All right, let's get into our astrology for the day. I am going to shift screens here, and what we're going to do now is look at the eclipses that are coming up from this moment forward. Okay, so we've just had a Solar Eclipse in Libra. Here's our Solar Eclipse in Libra.

Now, just about halfway through their transit of Pisces and Virgo, what we've had so far has been a lunar eclipse in Virgo, a solar eclipse in Aries, a lunar eclipse in Pisces, a solar eclipse in Virgo. So Virgo is definitely getting more attention than Pisces so far. All right.

Well, if we move forward, Surely there must be something for Pisces. Surely, we must get a solar eclipse, right? But actually, no. If we go forward to February 17, at the time of the next solar eclipse, look at what's happening. Oh my gosh, we have a 28-degree out-of-sign solar eclipse in Aquarius.

The solar eclipse in Aquarius, February 17, means we are not getting a solar eclipse in Pisces with the North Node. That is a big deal because those north node solar eclipses tend to be about very big openings, and for whatever reason, we're getting lunar eclipses in Pisces, which can, kind of, like, clear the plate, bring finish or resolution or completion to things.

So the direction of the North Node, which generally indicates, you know, kind of uncharted territory that we're being called, in the direction of a desire that's unfulfilled, and we have to explore it, that we're getting a lot of signatures of things that are reaching completion or resolution from the past, which maybe, in turn, are opening some new doors. But there's much more lunar eclipse energy around the north node.

The entire time, it's transiting through Pisces, which is just fascinating because the North Node really does activate so much more strongly with solar eclipses because solar eclipses tend to be about those major new beginnings, and the North Node is also pointing us in the direction of things we want to newly explore or focus on in a sort of future-oriented way. It's like, let's go in that direction.

Well, solar eclipses are great for opening that up. But instead of solar eclipses, we see out-of-sign solar eclipses, and we see lunar eclipses. This is fat. It's just a fascinating little detail. Honestly, I have no idea how that's going to play out, but it is. I have zero doubt that it will play a role in exactly how we're experiencing these things. So when I was looking at this, I thought, huh, that is worth mentioning, and I started to think about meditating on alright.

Well, we go forward just a little bit now. We're going to see it on March 3, 2026. Here, we have our next lunar eclipse in Virgo. So Virgo is getting plenty of love, and solar and lunar eclipses all around Pisces are getting skipped over. It's just really, really interesting.

All right, let's go forward to the next solar eclipse, which will be in August of 2026. What I find really interesting about this time is that it is the very last moment of the nodes of the Moon in Virgo and Pisces. And we have an out-of-sign solar eclipse in Leo with the south node of the moon. What, like? What? What is that about? So there again, we have a sign solar eclipse with the South Node this time.

And so it's just funny how, for whatever reason, this transit of the nodes through Pisces and Virgo features a lot of out-of-sign eclipses. And we have one last eclipse on the 27th. This is worth mentioning.

See, here we go. Here's the 27th, and this is a lunar eclipse that will fall out of sign in Pisces. So even though the nodes have now moved to Aquarius and Leo, we're getting an out-of-sign lunar eclipse in Pisces. This will be the last one on August 27. I don't expect any of you, let alone myself, to understand what the significance of all of those out-of-sign eclipses is or the fact that we're not getting one solar eclipse in Pisces squarely the entire time that the nodes of the moon are in Pisces in Virgo.

But I have no doubt that I will be able to look back on this in a year and a half and have an understanding of what it meant that we had a north node in Pisces with only lunar eclipses or out-of-sign solar eclipses in and around that North Node like that. That's going to play a role. I've just never seen it before, so I'm like, Hmm, this will be that's going to be worth tracking.

All right. So, apart from the galaxy, here are the brain details of our next eclipse period. I want to give you five themes that I think you can watch for very practically speaking with the nodes of the moon moving through these signs because regardless of where the eclipses land, the evolutionary trajectory of the soul, as I've been discussing with my friend Ari, who's an evolutionary astrologer, is in part it. Do we delineate part of that purpose, I should say, through the placement of the nodes?

So when they are coming into two new signs and two new houses in your birth chart, by the way, we'll be doing horoscopes for all of these. Eventually, we have new sets of themes that become a critical part of the exploration that the soul is making as it is growing and continuing to evolve. So those themes across the Pisces, Virgo, and access are broadly defined in terms of five categories, one being surrender versus control.

Now, don't think that just because the North Node is in Pisces that it's going to be all about surrender and letting go of control; just because the South nodes are in Virgo, there is going to be a back and forth, a kind of dialog between the tensions of the nodes always. One way in which that tension manifests across Pisces Virgo is that the Piscean watery energy tends to be about surrender, and it is about allowing something bigger than ourselves, or something magical or otherworldly or spiritual or mystical or intuitive, to guide or take the reins. And that's one of the most beautiful qualities that are always at play or being explored in the sign of Pisces, that greater sense of surrender to larger powers, gods, goddesses, the intuition emotions.

On the other hand, Virgo is so much about getting a handle on what I can be in control of, which is not a bad thing. Each one of us has a sphere of influence that we live in every single day, and understanding how to operate within our sphere of influence, kind of understanding the measure of our willpower, like, how much do I have, how much control do I have? What can I control? And what can't I control? How do I get things done effectively? How do I be good, or how do I be effective at the skills that I have? You know, these kinds of concerns are about what I can control that I have some say over, and doing the best I can, and being most effective and organized and useful and sort of clear and clean with the demonstration of what control I do have.

So those are Virgo and things that are very different from the sense of, well, I'm riding the currents of life. I'm, you know, I'm following the music of pan, you know, like, I'm, I was like, I'm listening to the currents of the tao, you know. So these two archetypal domains are in a kind of tension with one another, and they're going to be working back and forth as the nodes of the moon change sign. So we start preparing ourselves for that right now.

Number two would be purity versus forgiveness. See, one of the things that happens with Virgo is Virgo sits on the edge of the entry to the underworld. And so the symbol of the Virgin goddess or the young woman is important because there is a way in which, whether it's young, it doesn't matter what gender it is, right? But it's just the idea of youth and of the initiation into darkness. The darkness could be your own shadow, which is not necessarily evil or bad, but it's something that you have to integrate, understand, and accept.

So so much about Virgo has to do with initiation into adulthood, into the underworld, into the shadow, and making room for it or accommodating it. And if you can't, then there's a way in which you can be driven sort of mad, or you can become neurotic.

So, for example, a very, very common Virgo theme that many psychological astrologers have written about in the past 100 years, you know, has been the theme of young women with strong Virgo placements developing eating disorders like that's, it's common enough that astrologers talk about it like it's a thing. That doesn't mean you're doomed. This doesn't mean in a lot of people, this becomes their spiritual awakening.

My wife, who has talked about this very publicly and openly on her own YouTube channel as an herbalist, has Saturn in Virgo and had some strong activations of Saturn in Virgo when she was a teenage girl and went through. I think it was about a year of her life when she was struggling with an eating disorder, and then she ended up finding yoga, which was all about accepting who you are, your body, that you are beautiful, regardless of you know what you think you look like in the mirror. It was just about self-acceptance.

There it is, purity versus forgiveness. I have to be good. I have to look good. I have to be right. I have to get it right. Those pressures are real pressures that are part of life that aren't necessarily bad, but if we don't have some ability to accept ourselves and accept failure and faults and lack of control. If we don't have some way of reconciling ourselves with the fact that we can't be perfect, then we tend to be so self-critical that we can actually harm ourselves.

So, the distinction between Virgo and Pisces is often between what I can do to be good, pure, effective, beautiful, clean, healthy, and whole. And then also, how do I forgive myself for that part of me that gets a little wild or that gets a little crazy, or that messes up, or that, you know, lets my hair down?

So the juxtaposition between having to be pure and good, and also allowing ourselves to be overwhelmed by elements of life that are wild and less controlled, and also forgiving and accepting ourselves for faults and flaws and the existence of darkness juxtaposition is very strong across the Virgo Pisces access. We're going to start working with those themes: escape versus service and duty.

So we have in Pisces that love or like, the need for bliss and happiness and almost an otherworldly level of sensual, romantic, mystical enjoyment of life. Pisces is so good at tapping into that at the same time, if it goes too far with those qualities, which may, for example, those qualities may be needed. If you are overly practical and rigid and dry and controlled, then you need to bliss out a little bit, right? So there's the tension again.

On the other hand, if that be, if the Piscean qualities become um escapist, you know, if it's like trying to bypass or check out of reality in some way, which could happen through alcohol, or it could happen through avoidance or daydreams or illusions or fantasies, then that practical call toward actionable service, duty, responsibility, controlling ourselves. You know, being conscientious about what we're doing and whether or not we're making a positive contribution to other people, right?

It's a very conscientious, practical sign that cares about things like doing the right thing, being useful, being helpful, and not checking out, even to the extent that it may actually diminish the need for bliss or happiness, which then we get pulled in the opposite direction and we say, hey, gotta let go, gotta surrender, gotta let in the bliss energy a little bit more.

So there's the tension again, sensuality versus rationality. Venus is exalted in Pisces, fallen in Virgo; Mercury is exalted in Virgo, fallen in Pisces. Ancient astrologers said that's because these two signs, these two signs in the planet that are exalted and followed in these two signs, Venus and Mercury, suggest that there is a rational versus sensual dichotomy at play across these two signs that create tension.

So Virgo is a sign that is about being practical, conscientious, hardworking, meticulous, and very thoughtful, and I think even, what do I want to say? Are you service-oriented? So it's a mercury that wants to do the right thing and learn to be good or better at what it does, again, to control what it can control. And then there's the sensual, romantic, otherworldly mystics, like a spa over there in Pisces. It's like, you know, why don't you set down your little toolkit, Virgo, and come and get a foot rub and soak in the hot tub, you know?

So, think about just the general dichotomy between sensuality and rationality. If sensuality goes too far, then it can get lost in delusional, escapist fantasies, right? And so again, that practical, meticulous, careful, thoughtful, rational, discerning, or discriminating quality of Virgo becomes very important.

Number five would be the loss of innocence and redemption. So sometimes, Virgo is also thought of as a sign that initiates a person into adulthood, often through the experience of their own faults, flaws, shadows, losses, and losses of innocence. And you know what? Sometimes, those experiences can be painful or traumatic, and then there are simultaneously stories of redemption, of being healed, of being lifted up, or of being made whole again after what feels like a fall, right? Virgo is taking us into the gateway of the autumn equinox, the fall.

And so the picture of the Virgin Goddess, the young woman, is important because it's a sign of the loss of innocence, and yet that loss of innocence is archetypal. It's not good or bad; it just is. It's a part of our experience, as is the feeling of being made whole again and of redemption. I was once lost, but now I'm found that's actually an archetypal experience that. It just pervades nature; it pervades the cosmos. And so we have to be able to accept and work with the tension between moments where we lose our innocence, or we disappoint ourselves, or we're less than pure, or we get something wrong, or we can't control something, and it truly may represent something of a moral failure or a lack of judgment, or, you know, poor boundaries, or something like that. But then there's an experience of healing and redemption, and when we come out the other side, we carry responsibility. We carry all of the Virgo qualities with a lighter touch. We want to be, in a sense, working the tensions of opposites all throughout all layers and levels of astrology, because working those tensions helps us to be always conscientious of the opposite, the hidden opposite, contained in whatever archetype we're in the midst of. So if you're in a foregoing part of your day, or you're in a Virgoing state of mind, that you are very conscientious because of those experiences you've had of the loss of control and the need for redemption, that you can carry control in a way that is lighter and more forgiving, right? And that's actually a sign of mastery in most crafts. Think about a jazz player who's very controlled and meticulous. If they hit a wrong note, they know how to be very forgiving and incorporate and work with that wrong, quote, unquote, wrong. Note that I've used that example many times before my talks, which is so basic. So, we all will be learning the art of how to be Virgo with a hidden seed of Pisces and how to be Piscean with a hidden seed of Virgo. That's really the goal of the tension of the opposites all across the entire history of astrology. All right, I'm going to leave it there for today.

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So again, I just like to in the beginning, sometimes I just like to lay, like, just put everything out on the table and look, and be like, Wow, look at that. No solar eclipses in Pisces, hmm. And then then I can start meditating on these things, and often over time, and then being in the actual experience of the eclipses, I'll start to make sense of some of those nuances and subtleties.

So that's how I work as an astrologer. So, I can guarantee you that we will be reflecting on that weird lack of solar eclipses and Pisces as the eclipses in Virgo and Pisces unfold. That's going to be a really interesting piece. So mark that down somewhere so you don't forget it. All right, that's it. Have a good one. Everyone. Bye.