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Oracle & Lantern, Vol. IX

🌑 The Liminal Bridge

On Sept. 7th, we had a lunar eclipse in Piscis. On Sept. 21 we will be having a partial solar eclipse in Virgo… We are standing in a corridor of shadows, a lantern in one hand and a compass in the other. The Virgo–Pisces eclipse portal is a weaving of opposites: earth and water, detail and dissolution, the healer and the mystic.

Virgo whispers: “Tend to the sacred smallness — the body, the ritual, the daily rhythm that keeps you steady.”
Pisces sighs: “Release, dissolve, trust the tide that carries what is larger than you.”

Together, they stretch us between service and surrender, reminding us that wholeness is not found in control or chaos alone, but in the delicate art of holding both.

🔮 The Eclipse Portal as Initiation

Eclipses mark thresholds — they conceal and reveal. This portal is not about instant clarity, but about walking blind for a while, guided by intuition and faith.

Virgo brings the lamp of discernment: asking us to notice what drains us, what strengthens us, what needs pruning.
Pisces pulls the veil across our eyes: inviting us to step into mystery, to dream wider, to let grace undo the knots.

This is the medicine of the axis — order meeting chaos, devotion meeting dissolution. In the portal, our soul learns to breathe in both directions.

🃏 Tarot Spread: The Veil and the Vessel

Use this spread during the days between eclipses, when time feels stretched and uncertain. Light a candle, breathe slowly, and let the cards speak from the threshold.

1. The Veil — What is being concealed from me right now?
2. The Vessel — What can hold me steady as the tides shift?
3. The Sacred Task — What Virgo calls me to tend with devotion?
4. The Sacred Surrender — What Pisces asks me to release into the greater flow?
5. The Lantern — The guidance shining from within this portal.

Journal your reflections without rushing — eclipses work in spirals, not straight lines.

🌊 Closing Reflection

If Virgo teaches us to gather the fragments, Pisces teaches us to scatter them like seeds into the sea. Between the two lies a mystery: we are both gardener and ocean, both lantern-keeper and dreamer.

Step gently. Your roots and your waves are in conversation now.

🌙 With devotion and a lantern’s glow,

Until Next Time,
The Inspired Imaginative | The Devoted Mystic

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