So… are we all becoming different people at once?

eclipses, synchronicity, and the collective pivot

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Everyone around me, including myself, has been stepping away from the self they’ve always known and moving into a new direction entirely. I’ve seen it online and in my actual life. Hell, even the local library did a bit of changing up over the weekend and it’s been the same for many, many years. So, what gives?

I think it’s safe to assume that some planetary fuckery is happening right now and we’re all on the same exact wavelength. It’s actually insane to witness such things and know exactly what’s happening. However, for the average person with no cosmic awareness whatsoever, perhaps this change can feel unsettling. Are we all drinking the Kool-Aid? What the hell is going on!?

Lately these Virgo & Pisces eclipses feel like they’re stripping things back layer by layer. I keep seeing people (myself included) suddenly questioning the roles and habits we’ve carried just because they’re familiar. Friends are switching directions, rebranding, dropping projects that used to feel central. There’s a collective push and nobody’s really standing still right now.

On September 7th and 21st, we hit the thick of eclipse season. With the North Node in Pisces and the South Node in Virgo, the collective tone has been one of letting go. Dissolving old habits, clearing out systems we’ve clung to for security but that no longer serve our purpose. There’s been a stripping-down everywhere, and under it all, a pull to come home to ourselves. Everyone’s trying to figure it out. Everyone’s in the middle of rearranging their inner furniture.

Yes, I wrote my before-the-date eclipse articles (you can read them here: Lunar eclipse in Pisces, Solar eclipse in Virgo), but what’s surfaced since then has changed the picture. While us astrologers can make assumptions based on planetary alignments from historical facts and delving into the archetypes of specific natures, we truly don’t know how something is going to show up until it has shown itself. So I’m writing on them again because eclipses don’t just arrive and vanish. They unfold over weeks and months. With the way these September eclipses hit, I can’t help but reflect on what’s already shifted in myself and in the people around me.

Take the Virgo Solar Eclipse, for instance. I’ve witnessed multiple people leaving their jobs or brands behind because it felt stagnant and they needed a change. To be honest, I fully support it. I love to see it. I’ve been in my own process too, changing how I approach my work, how I share my writing, how I publish. With these eclipses hitting my natal 3rd/9th house axis, it’s no surprise my voice and my platforms are being rewritten. But it’s not just me. The sheer number of people I’ve seen changing everything at once is what blows my mind. The synchronicity is too strong to ignore.

Also, before I begin this delineation, something in my psyche just came to me. Maybe you’ve experienced and witnessed something else entirely with these eclipses. Maybe you’re not noticing people changing themselves but there’s another repetitive pattern among the collective you have seen. Perhaps this is an ironic synchronicity as my own reality is being mirrored back to me. So maybe this article will not be as objective as I hoped for when I first began typing. But I’ll continue anyways, granted you keep in mind that this is what I’ve witnessed and noticed about these eclipses myself.

The Lunar Eclipse in Pisces on Sept 7th was the first gate.

Technically, we’ve been in this Virgo/Pisces cycle since September 2024, when the first eclipse on this axis gave us a preview of what’s to come through 2027. March 2025 brought another hit with a Virgo eclipse, and September re-opened the portal.

What I noticed around the Sept 7th Pisces eclipse was a purge. A dissolving of what felt mechanical or lifeless, paired with a longing for something that felt real and spiritually aligned. For some, it may have brought fog and confusion.

Pisces has a way of blurring things before clarity sets in. But even in that fog, there was a sense of desperation. An undeniable hunger for truth. For something beyond the ordinary grind. The eclipses have made it clear that you either surrender the mask or sabotage yourself trying.

Perhaps that desperation was necessary. Many of us have been running on autopilot, serving roles that no longer fit. A Pisces eclipse calls for surrender.

Yes, this can absolutely lead to self-imposed sabotage, but it can also be an awakening to something ethereal within the psyche. Jung might say the unconscious was insisting on individuation, pushing what’s been buried into awareness. That hunger you feel is an archetype moving through you.

Which is quite interesting to think about, considering that the Lunar Eclipse in Pisces aspected no other planet than Jupiter itself. This is Pisces ruler, and Jupiter is exalted in Cancer where it’s at now.

Beautiful connections of energy flowed to the great benefic in its sign of highest praise, suggesting a deep emotional connection to the philosophy and beliefs we live by. The Sun in Virgo’s ruler is in its own domicile and exaltation of Virgo, so certainly there was a supportive influence beneath what otherwise may have initially felt like chaos.

Then came the Virgo Solar Eclipse on Sept 21st.

This eclipse was a South Node purge. We began leaving behind what’s outdated, choosing what stays, and weaving new systems for where we’re heading. I saw it everywhere. People cutting ties, stepping into new paths, birthing new routines. For me, it showed up directly in how I work and what I’m willing to pour myself into. With a South Node eclipse, you can feel the release almost physically, like an exhale you didn’t realize you’d been holding.

This eclipse sat opposite Saturn in Pisces giving us a more disciplined approach when it came to letting go. For some, it may have felt nerve-wracking, like a severed tie meant no going back. But discipline was Saturn’s way of saying, “if you want the new, you have to responsibly close out the old.”

Also the kite in the chart too. Though I would argue that had more of a collective, mundane influence than personal, as it was the generational planets aspected… but also Jupiter still in exaltation, unaspected but steady. This has all hinted at talent being born in the process. A subtle but powerful push that supported us. It was telling us that the skills and wisdom are there, even if you can’t see the endgame yet.

What I keep coming back to is that eerie synchronicity with so many people changing all at once, not in the same way, but with the same undertone. A collective urge to stop clinging to structures that don’t serve. But also, I know that not everyone can drop everything and pivot when they want. People with families, financial pressures, or heavy responsibilities might feel the eclipse not as liberation but as fatigue and overwhelm.

Maybe your shift has shown up in smaller ways altogether, something as simple as choosing a new route to work because the old one stopped feeling alive. Or maybe you’ve also seen the same bigger changes I’ve been noticing everywhere.

Either way, we’re in this together, and it’s only the beginning. Lean into even one choice that matches who you are becoming, not who you used to be, and notice how that collective shift starts to take root in your own life.

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