feeling unhinged? let me explain...

your virgo eclipse and mercury rx guide

Mar 01, 2026

woooooof, chat. the astrology is astrologyingggg.

feeling…
tired?
confuzzled?
agitated?
late for life?
spiraling?
lack of clarity?
transformative?
like you’re shedding?

cool, cool, coooool. you’re exactly on time.

mercury is in gatorade again

it began on thursday, february 26th, in the sign of pisces and honeeeeey, mercury in pisces when it's not retrograde already feels like trying to read a glitchy, water-damaged screen. add a retrograde to it, and comms are just WACKY. emails vanish into the ether, miscommunications are basically the dress code, and getting where you need to go can feel like swimming against a whirlpool tide.

but here's what i'll say about this particular retrograde being in pisces….other communication channels are waking up and asking to be revisited. i'm talking the language of omens. of dreams. of your clairs. the subtle world is alive and sparkling and winking at you to remember how you used to interact with it as a child. the messages may not be the most coherent right now(although i woudn’t be surprised if they provide insights the normie world of comms cannot right now) , but they want you in relationship with them.

that’s the cool thing about mercury retrograde, and why i will never hate on it (even if i am annoyed and inconveinced by it). it begs of us to revisit old pieces of ourselves. it asks you to redefine how you are looking at the world or a problem. it invites you to reconsider what you know. it demands that you recalibrate by reaching back in time and reconsider picking up that old project, that idea you abandoned, that piece of you that you let fall through the cracks for whatever reason.

in this capitalist world, we are told to GO, PRODUCE, PURSUE. now FASTER, AGAIN, GO! but mercury retrograde says naaaah man, you gotta slow down. you gotta give yourself enough time to get to work leisurely enough to stop and smell the roses and experience the poetry that the subtle world is always trying to whisper in your ear. you are worth more than the pace you’re able to maintain. brilliance lives in the remembering right now, and remembering is a gloriously passive act. there is spaciousness available to you if you let your mind wander and right now, that wandering is the work.

on top of this mercury retrograde slippery time slide we are on, we are also in the depths of eclipse season. on tuesday march 3rd we welcome the next eclipse of this eclipse season….

a lunar eclipse in virgo.

i swear eclipses don’t show up to wreck your life. they stitch time together. they pull threads from past cycles and weave them into new chapters.

this is the third virgo eclipse in the pisces/virgo eclipse series, a story that kicked off back in 2024. think about what virgoan things you’ve been quietly (or loudly…) untangling over the past year. perhaps being an overly harsh inner critic or perfectionist habits that exhaust you? this eclipse continues that process of release. the south node is doing its thing, and its thing is shedding.

our current eclipse cycle stretches from 2024 into early 2027, but it echoes back to 2006–2008 and 2015–2017, the last time we had eclipses along this axis. reverbs from 2006–2008 are floating around, but it may be easier to notice the connections to 2015–2017 and our recent unfoldings under this axis in 2025.

here’s a map of the current cycle so you can orient yourself:

sept 17, 2024 – lunar eclipse 25° pisces
mar 14, 2025 – lunar eclipse 23° virgo
sept 7, 2025 – lunar eclipse 15° pisces
sept 21, 2025 – solar eclipse 29° virgo
mar 3, 2026 – lunar eclipse 12° virgo ← we are here
aug 28, 2026 – lunar eclipse 4°pisces
feb 20, 2027 – lunar eclipse 2° virgo

with the north node in pisces, we’re learning to trust our intuition over our to-do lists, to embrace the mess, and to accept that sometimes the most healing thing is to feel your feelings without immediately trying to organize them into a system. with the south node in virgo, we are releasing the death grip on perfectionism and the idea that we need to optimize ourselves into worthiness. we’re ditching our inner manager who thinks productivity equals value. we’re done needing every detail figured out before taking the next step.

ask yourself: what would happen if i stopped trying to perfect myself and just trusted that i’m already enough?

and in this exact right here, right now moment? slow down. rest. integrate.

this is a time to underschedule yourself. journal. take a bath. have a cry if you need one. let your nervous system exhale. the integration happening right now is real. the release is real. the shedding is real.

so how do you actually support yourself rn? glad you asked.

leave yourself space for reflection. whether it’s a ten-minute menty-health walk or an ongoing list of ah-ha’s in your notes app, the insights are coming, you want somewhere to put them.

look back. pull up your photos, your calendar, your emails from the last eclipse dates in this current cycle (september 2024, march 2025, september 2025) and older cycles (2006-2008/ 2015-2017). what threads are there to pull on to support the integration you are navigating at this time?

ground the f*ck down. eat something earthy and sustaining (hi, potatoes). go barefoot in the grass. sit on the floor. hold a rock. hug a tree if you’re feeling bold. breathe until your shoulders actually drop. it can truly be this simple.

if you want something a little more ritualistic: sit down, plant your feet. close your eyes. imagine a cord at the base of your spine shooting all the way down, down, down. through the floor, through the soil and the worms, through the magma, straight into the core of the earth. now sigh. really sigh. let whatever you’ve been carrying move down that cord and watch the earth take it and transmute it. repeat as often as needed.

make space. block a blank afternoon and actually protect it. clean out the drawer, the closet, the pile in your car that’s been there for four months. breathe deeply and feel your ribcage open. space is not something you find, it’s something you make.

sleep more. the downloads are waiting for you in the dream world. mercury retrograde in pisces and eclipse season are basically conspiring to make your dreamlife wildly active right now, let them.

take a bath. nothing holds grounding and surrender at the same time quite like it. thank the water and earth spirits while you’re in there.

shut-down your internal micro-manager. she may be very LOUD under this eclipse…clipboard out, red pen ready, cued up to nitpick every little thing. every time she shows up, meet her with grace instead of agreement. no amount of self-criticism is going to get you closer to whole.

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now look to your virgo house

the eclipse on march 3rd is activating a specific area of your life. read for your rising sign for a much-needed permission slip for this intense moment.

aries rising: virgo lives in your 6th house of daily work, health, routines, and the daily grind.

your permission slip: you are allowed to stop running your body like a machine that exists to be productive. the eclipse is asking you to release the habit of pushing through. rest is not laziness. it is, in fact, the whole assignment right now. what routines are draining you instead of filling you up? let one of them go. just one. start there.

taurus rising: virgo lives in your 5th house of creativity, pleasure, romance, joy, and self-expression.

your permission slip: you are allowed to make something with zero intention of it being good, finished, or shared. you are allowed to play. the eclipse is shedding the perfectionism that has kept you from your own joy, the inner critic who says your creative output has to meet some invisible standard before it counts. it doesn’t. doodle. dance badly. let fun be enough.

gemini rising: virgo lives in your 4th house of home, family, roots, emotional foundations, and private life.

your permission slip: you are allowed to stay home. you are allowed to say no to things that pull you away from your own sanctuary right now. the eclipse is asking you to release what’s been weighing down your private world…old family dynamics, inherited patterns, a home environment that doesn’t actually feel like rest. your roots deserve tending.

cancer rising: virgo lives in your 3rd house of communication, local community + coven, daily rituals, and your immediate environment.

your permission slip: you are allowed to not respond. you are allowed to let the conversation be incomplete, the text unanswered, the thought unshared. the eclipse is releasing old communication patterns, the ones where you over-explain, over-apologize, or tie yourself in knots trying to be understood. say less. mean it more.

leo rising: virgo lives in your 2nd house of money, self-worth, values, and everything you consume and call your own.

your permission slip: you are allowed to stop measuring your worth in output. the eclipse is illuminating what you truly value and inviting you to release the things you’ve been holding onto out of financial fear or misaligned obligation. what have you been consuming (food, content, relationships, work) that actually depletes you? you’re allowed to just… stop.

virgo rising: virgo lives in your 1st house of identity, physical body, vitality, and how you show up in the world.

your permission slip: you are allowed to not have it together right now. the eclipse is landing directly on your sense of self. and that can feel rattling, but it is also a full permission slip to shed the version of yourself you’ve been white-knuckling. you don’t have to perform competence. you just have to be.

libra rising: virgo lives in your 12th house of rest, retreat, solitude, hidden things, and mental health.

your permission slip: you are allowed to disappear for a bit. this eclipse is doing deep, quiet work beneath the surface, work you may not even be fully conscious of yet. do not force clarity. do not perform being okay. rest. withdraw. let the integration happen in the dark. it will make sense later.

scorpio rising: virgo lives in your 11th house of community, aligned networks, hopes, dreams, and what you offer the world.

your permission slip: you are allowed to quietly audit your circles. the eclipse is asking you to release the communities, friendships, and group dynamics that no longer reflect who you’re becoming. you don’t have to make it dramatic. you don’t even have to announce it. just notice where you feel genuinely seen and where you’re performing belonging for an audience that isn’t really yours.

sagittarius rising : virgo lives in your 10th house of public image, reputation, career, visibility, and what you’re known for.

your permission slip: you are allowed to let your public image be a little blurry right now. the eclipse is shifting what you’re becoming known for, and that requires a period of not-quite-knowing. release the pressure to be perfectly positioned, to look like you have it all figured out, to appear like you’re thriving. you’re in a transition. that’s allowed to show.

capricorn rising: virgo lives in your 9th house of beliefs, philosophy, higher learning, spirituality, and meaning-making.

your permission slip: you are allowed to not have your worldview figured out right now. the eclipse is dismantling old beliefs. ones you may have been carrying since school, since church, since your family’s version of how the world works. you don’t have to replace them immediately. sit in the not-knowing. it’s actually kind of holy.

aquarius rising: virgo lives in your 8th house of shared resources, deep transformation, the psyche, fear, entanglements, and yes, occult shit.

your permission slip: you are allowed to stop managing your shadow and just let it be seen. the eclipse is moving through the deepest, most private parts of your chart. the fears, the entanglements, the things you don’t post about. something is being released at the root level. you don’t have to control how that looks. trust the process, even when (especially when) it feels like a lot.

pisces rising: virgo lives in your 7th house of relationships, partnerships, contracts, and significant one-on-one connections.

your permission slip: you are allowed to release a dynamic that is no longer mutual. the eclipse is illuminating your relationships. what’s working, what’s one-sided, what’s been quietly draining you. you don’t have to blow anything up. but you are allowed to tell the truth about what you actually need from the people in your life. and then see who shows up.

for everyone: rest is the assignment. the integration is already happening. you don’t have to do anything except get out of your own way and let it. you’re exactly on time. 🌕 p.s. my MARCH BOOKS are open and filling fast. if you’re looking to go deeper into astro time with me you can book here.

send this to ya bestie

i pulled a card for you…

cause like i said the signs, symbols and omens IMHO are the best ways to understand this time. words don’t quite suffice but archetypal language helps. take what resonates and leave the rest.

ARIES: Jack of Clubs
You are initiating something, Aries. It would appear there is something you abandoned that is now ready to revisited and brought forth into the world.

TAURUS: 8 of Hearts
I need you to believe in your power, Taurus. There is a matter of the heart, a matter of your heart being de-throned in your past, that is now integrating and asking you to come out stronger.

GEMINI: 2 of Hearts
Some sort of historical relationship/relational issue is coming back up for you, Gemini. There is a choice to be made and the key to answering it is integrating both who you used to be and who you are becoming.

CANCER: 3 of Spades
There is some beautiful blossoming in your brain, Cancer. It’s time to catalyze it into creation, even if it’s just talking about it aloud for the first time ever.

LEO: 3 of Hearts
There is an emotional patterning you are growing out of, Leo. What will you plant in the fertile soil of your heart?

VIRGO: King of Spades
Your desire to hyperfixate is begging you to adapt this skill to take in new message forms, Virgo. You are on the path of mastering the art of decoding subtle messages.

LIBRA: Jack of Spades
Your inner peace keeper is being challenged to grow towards a new way of being, Libra. There is a new worldview waiting to be initiated and blossom under your tending.

SCORPIO: 4 of Spades
Now is the time to root into your personal North Star, Scorpio. Ground into what you know to be true in order to integrate all that is confronting you at this time.

SAGITTARIUS: 4 of Clubs
There is stability to be found in your innate magick at this time, Sag. Tap into some of that magic to integrate all that is coming at you.

CAPRICORN: Queen of Diamonds
Go towards joy and pleasure with all your heart. This is what will provide you sustenance at this time.

AQUARIUS: Queen of Spades
Whatever is being presented rn is providing a new level of mastery over your mind. Lean in, it benefits not only you, but the greater good.