What You Should Release During This Week’s Lunar Eclipse (9/17), Based On Your Zodiac + Tarot
ARIES
Your Card: King of Cups, reversed
With the Lunar Eclipse in Pisces landing in your spirituality and closure sector, it’s time to confront the emotional wounds that you’ve been suppressing, so you may finally release them. This Full Moon is forcing you to face your feelings head-on, overwhelming you with emotion. Let yourself feel what you have to, Aries. You’ll gain more wisdom by acknowledging and understanding your feelings. The King of Cups in reverse encourages to retreat from the world and go within. What pain from your past do you need to heal? In what ways could you better nurture your emotional and mental well-being? How can you connect more to your intuition and inner world? Could you be doing more to foster deeper bonds with others? Is there a fear that stops you from embracing vulnerability? Make changes accordingly.
TAURUS
Your Card: Death
The Death card is all about change, letting go, and paving the way for new beginnings. This Lunar Eclipse is affecting your zodiac sign’s eleventh house of friendship, networking, and long-term wishes. You’re being urged to turn your attention to your social circle and to your big picture aspirations. This means examining your relationships under this Full Moon. Are there any people in your life who no longer serve you, make you happy, or help you grow? Has a certain group been making you feel excluded? Let them go so that you may make meaningful new bonds and invest more in the connections in your life that provide you with a true community. You must also release any procrastination, distractions, self-limiting beliefs, and self-sabotaging behaviors that get in the way of making your longtime goals a reality.
GEMINI
Your Card: The Moon, reversed
The reversal of The Moon invites you to let go of your fears and anxieties, especially as they pertain to your long-term goals and professional aspirations. Your tenth house of ambition is being activated, calling on you to step into your power. Use this Lunar Eclipse to release all the self-limiting beliefs and hesitations that disable you from reaching your full potential. What holds you back from presenting your ideas? What prevents you from putting yourself out there? What stops you from being bolder and taking bigger risks? What are you so afraid of? Leave behind all the ways in which you deceive yourself into believing that you’re not capable of more, that you’ll fail, that your ideas aren’t worthy, that your dreams are too big. Don’t allow past mistakes, failures, and criticism to continue to cloud your self-perception. Instead of thinking about the worst that could happen, start thinking about the best possible outcome of “what if.”
CANCER
Your Card: Seven of Wands
The Seven of Wands calls on you to let go of the fear of asserting yourself. This card wants you to express yourself fully and freely—for you give yourself permission to be your most authentic self. Allow your individuality to shine. Express yourself how you want—creatively, vocally, emotionally, stylistically. Stop silencing yourself and let your voice be heard. This means standing strong and proud in your convictions, as well as demanding that your boundaries be respected. Release situations and relationships that force you to compromise your values, beliefs, or desires. Stop making yourself smaller just to be more palatable for others. If someone makes you feel like you have to sacrifice your needs or be any version other than yourself, then that’s not a person worth keeping. Honor your truth, Cancer. With this Lunar Eclipse activating your ninth house of expansion, you should challenge yourself to explore outside your comfort zone. A new perspective might shed light on what exactly would bring more meaning and fulfillment into your life, as well as on what you find worth standing up for. At the very least, it’ll force you to trust yourself more.
LEO
Your Card: The High Priestess, reversed
Let go of self-doubt under this Lunar Eclipse in Pisces. The reversal of the High Priestess is a sign that you need to have more faith in yourself and in that inner voice that guides you. Learn to trust your intuition, Leo. Stop pushing your instincts aside, they’re the lights marking and illuminating your path forward—your deep inner knowing. Taking the time to be still and listen to what your gut is telling you can lead to profound enlightenment. Don’t look outside of yourself for confirmation or validation, you carry within you the insight to uncover any truth and navigate any circumstance. Don’t ignore any feeling that tells you something is off, nor any that tells you to wholeheartedly proceed. This Full Moon electrifies your eighth house, so tune into your inner guidance for truths regarding intimacy, your emotional bonds, changes you need to implement, that should be left in the past, and joint resources.
VIRGO
Your Card: Knight of Swords, reversed
Slow down during this Lunar Eclipse in Pisces, and take some time to rest and replenish. The reversal of the Knight of Swords indicates that you need to let go of stress in your life. While you recharge under the Full Moon, think of ways to better manage life’s daily demands. Are you juggling too much? Do you need to prioritize certain things and let go of the rest? Can you delegate others? What practices can you implement to nurture your inner well-being? How can you avoid burn-out in the future? In what ways could you be incorporating more balance into your life? Take care of yourself, Virgo. With this lunation falling in your partnership zone, this card is also a sign to be mindful of how your words and actions could be impacting your one-on-one relationships, as well as a warning to not allow other areas in your life to make you lose sight of those connections.
LIBRA
Your Card: The World, reversed
You’re haunted by a void in your life—a sense of emptiness that you haven’t been able to shake for some time. The reason you don’t feel whole is because there’s a loss you’re still carrying around that prevents you from finding true fulfillment. It’s time to let it go and finally seek closure under this Lunar Eclipse. If you want to live a meaningful and thriving life, then it’s important that you release your unhealthy attachments to the past. While you mourn what could have been, the world keeps spinning and the clock keeps ticking. Stop wasting precious time grieving certain endings, and get out there and seek new beginnings. Holding onto old heartache and disappointments is making you miss out on wonderful opportunities, connections, and experiences. Take advantage of this Full Moon moving through your sixth house of healing, self-improvement, wellness, and routine. Heal, rid yourself of the baggage you no longer need, and move forward as an improved version of yourself who’s willing to embrace the joy in the present moment. Focus on aligning with your purpose, not on yesteryear.
SCORPIO
Your Card: The Lovers
The Lovers want you to consciously make choices that come from the heart and are aligned with your truest self. This card acts as a pleading to be completely honest about who you are, what you want, and how you feel. It’s an especially important reminder as the Lunar Eclipse touches your fifth house of creativity, romance, self-expression, pleasure, and matters of the heart. Use this lunation to release any situations or relationships that aren’t in alignment with your heart’s truest desires. Leave it behind if it makes you feel unfulfilled, unhappy, out of harmony, confined, silent, or disempowered. Make room for deeper, more meaningful connections. Allow more joy and fun into your life. Break free from what holds you back from fully expressing yourself. Let go of what robs you from your inspiration and creative impulses.
SAGITTARIUS
Your Card: Four of Wands, reversed
Drawing the Four of Wands in reversal is apt with the Full Moon transiting your fourth house of emotional foundations, sense of home, and family connections—the sector that influences emotional security and harmony. This card indicates that you need to take stock of what situations, patterns, or relationships invite instability into your life. Let go of the people that make you feel emotionally insecure. Cut the ties with people who don’t reciprocate, who you can’t depend on, who make you feel alone, who don’t make you feel loved and accepted, and who don’t contribute to true community in your life. Leave behind the spaces that make you feel like you don’t belong. Clean house, so that you may nurture and make space for the bonds that feel like home. Surround yourself with those whose values align with your own. Invest in the people and the things that give you a strong foundation to stand on.
CAPRICORN
Your Card: Six of Wands, reversed
Lately, you’ve been feeling underappreciated or neglected in one (or perhaps more) of your closest relationships—it could be at home, work, in your relationship, or in a friendship. Your efforts are going unreciprocated or unnoticed. It’s wearing down at you that you’re not getting credit where credit is due. Resentment has been building, and you need to let it go under this Lunar Eclipse. The only way to release it is by addressing the issue before it becomes bigger. Do it now, as the Full Moon triggers your third house of communication, immediate environment, and how we connect with others. Express your frustrations. Be honest and don’t hold anything back. The reversal of the Six of Wands can also be an indication that you’ve failed others close to you in some way. If this is the case, then surrender your pride and make amends.
AQUARIUS
Your Card: Three of Pentacles, reversed
You need to let go of your lack of commitment to your financial growth. Perhaps you are working at it in some ways, but the truth is that you could be doing better. This is where your focus needs to be with the Lunar Eclipse moving through your second house of the material realm, values, personal finances, income, possessions, and self-worth. You need stronger plans when it comes to saving and budgeting. Cut out bad spending habits and overindulging in the frivolous. Get to a place where you feel financially comfortable and secure. Clear out your debts. Start by making small and realistic goals, then work your way up from there.
PISCES
Your Card: The Emperor
During this Lunar Eclipse in your sign, you need to release everything that holds you back from taking charge of your own destiny. Your fate is in your hands, and your hands only. The Emperor beckons to take note of the long-term goals that you’ve set for yourself and examine the ways in which you could be more self-disciplined in achieving them. Take action confidently, Pisces. Trust in your judgment when it comes to making decisions. This Full Moon can be a turning point when it comes to living out your dreams, as it’s landing in your first house of self, identity, new beginnings, focus, individuality, and personal ambitions. So, release all the self-sabotaging behaviors, fears, and self-limiting beliefs that keep you from pursuing what you want. Stay determined. Pulling this card is also a calling to assert your boundaries—with yourself and with others. Let go of your tendency to make choices that center the happiness of other people—prioritize your own joy and peace of mind.