Partial lunar eclipse in Pisces 2024: Everything you need to know

Look up and let it out, folks: a partial lunar eclipse is coming.This eclipse falls in Pisces, the sign of poets, escape artists, illusionists, dreamy deceivers, and gentle conmen.

Eclipses have long been associated with fate, reversals of fortune, and points of no return.The word itself comes from the Greek ekleipsis, meaning “to abandon, to forsake a usual place.”In this sense, we can begin to understand the energy of this eclipse as disembarkation, shedding skin, and wading/walking/stumbling raw and renewed into our next stage of being.The partial eclipse in Pisces is happening on Tuesday, September 17th, at 10:34 p.m.

Eastern Time, but we will feel its effects for several days before and after.Aiding and abetting our understanding of this week’s lunation is the brilliant astrologer Evan Nathaniel Grim, founder of Inner Worlds Astrology.

Grim imparts, “Eclipses are essentially energetic resets.Slightly fated events will go down and unfold that we don’t expect to happen but are meant to really steer us in the direction that we’re meant to go in.

Eclipses can be associated with wake-up calls and uncomfortable truths that break us out of our comfort zone.”A lunar eclipse transpires on a full moon when the Earth stands between the Moon and the Sun, cutting off the latter’s light.A partial lunar eclipse happens when the Earth stands between the Sun and the Full Moon, but they are not perfectly aligned.Because this eclipse is happening in Pisces, the sign of cumulative release, universal healing, and escapist tendencies, these themes are surfacing around and through this lunation.

Grim explains, “A full moon in Pisces is an amazing release valve.I would argue if you can’t let go of something on this Pisces moon, then I don’t know when you’ll let it go.

I think it’s a really healing full moon that can help people recover.”Grim expounds, “There are a lot of opportunities to release during this eclipse.Maybe you release a belief sy...