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The sky has just unfolded a rare cycle. Two new moons were born in Virgo, both between eclipses. This seldom seen two-fold beginning marks a labour that cannot be resolved in one attempt. The firmament ponders that the question bound to the sign involved requires more than a single seed, more than a single gesture. Placed together within a single sign, both new moons have compressed Virgoan doctrine into one arc of time: discernment, separation, craft, purification, loyalty to the small thing that makes the whole clean. Virgo belongs to the feminine and nocturnal sect; and, at night, the Moon holds rulership of the triplicity of Earth signs, which gives her quiet authority over this terrain in the zodiacal sixth, cadent house of Misfortune.
The first eclipse occurred on August 25 at the very entrance of Virgo, in the first degree, within the bound of Mercury and the solar decan. It was an immaculate point, but it carried no body. The Moon received almost no aspect apart from an applying square to retrograde Uranus in Gemini, a mark of instability and sudden rupture in the sphere of thought. Ruler of the lunation, Mercury was in Leo in Saturn’s bound, inflamed and theatrical, attached to applause rather than to the earth it was meant to serve.
That new moon became silent, premature, abstract, a gesture of order without incarnation. The seed was sown, but the field slept; there was a promise of word and clarity that had not yet found a conduit.
Only fourteen days later the cycle thickened. On September 7, the full moon at fifteen degrees of Pisces rose as a total lunar eclipse, tied to the North Node – Caput Draconis – and under the mutual rulership of exalted Jupiter in Cancer at the Nadir. The light promised by such a plenitude moved in a uterine tide that dissolved the boundaries of thought into shadow and absence. What had been sown without flesh in the first lunation was now dissolved in the baptism of eclipse. Pisces diluted it and the ruler Jupiter governed from the depths of the zodiac, drawing the motion of the tide back into origin.
The eclipse became a harvest of ghosts where the Sun in Virgo acted as a scalpel cutting through matter, but the Moon, figure of soul, was drowned. The lesson was severe: thought alone could not endure, only the descent into death could open a true voice.
The second seed was cast on September 21 in the anaretic degree of Virgo, this time within the bound of Saturn and the mercurial decan. It unfolded under a partial solar eclipse, one day before the Autumn equinox, conjoined with the South Node – Cauda Draconis. This was the true act of sowing. The final degree of urgency carried the weight of completion, last moment of the sign of harvest. The aspects multiplied; exact opposition to retrograde Saturn in Pisces demanded renunciation; trine to Uranus retrograde in Gemini offered liberation of language; trine to Pluto retrograde in Aquarius opened a power of collective regeneration; conjunction with the ruler Mercury newly in Libra, sober in Saturnine bound, gave measure to the word.
This was a ritual cut. The heavens closed the circle; the weeds had to be uprooted and the contract rewritten. The new moon became a vow, an offering that carried blood. Language returning as a sharp sword. The cadent, somber axis of Virgo and Pisces revealed its shadow, as the work of houses six and twelve is always secret, bound to servitude, illness, silence, and Spiritual sacrifice. The eclipses marked that subterranean road, revealing that every harvest must pass through the places of exile before it can be offered.
The culmination of this rare scenario in the heavens will arrive on March 3, 2026 with the full moon at thirteen degrees of Virgo, a total eclipse, a blood moon of immense power. The harvest announced by the two seeds will then reveal itself at last, scarlet and indivisible.
This liturgy took place two days after the second new moon in Virgo, on the day of Mars, under sage incense and having read Psalm 91 beforehand.
I. North – What Ancient Pact Must Be Recognised So The Double Lunar Seed Does Not Remain Barren?
The Three of Wands in Binah of Atziluth opens the root with the image of the first new moon, when the seed was placed at the immaculate gate of Virgo, but remained without incarnation. Binah is the womb of form, the matrix that waits for the Word, and this card speaks of the patience of Spirit before the harvest is visible.
The eclipse at the first degree of Virgo was silent, a gesture without flesh, yet its barrenness was not emptiness but hidden gestation. The fidelity demanded is to remain faithful to the vision even when the soil seems inert. The unseen labour belongs to the cadent sixth, house of service and misfortune, where fruit ripens away from the eye. This fidelity holds the image of the promise until it descends. The North speaks of trust in the invisible current, since the seed that appeared sterile carries a future that cannot be seen until it is born through time.
II. South – What Work Of Spirit Is Demanded Now So The Lunar Word Finds Flesh?
The Seven of Wands in Netzach of Atziluth embodies the second sowing, made at the anaretic degree of Virgo under eclipse with the South Node. Where the first seed lay silent, this second carried urgency and blood. Netzach is Venusian victory, but, in the highest world, it is victory over forces that seek to extinguish the flame itself. The eclipse opposed retrograde Saturn in Pisces; it demanded renunciation and discipline, not triumph in the world but loyalty against dissolution.
The Seven of Wands speaks of a solitary figure holding ground against multitude. This is the image of Spirit labouring under eclipse, when resistance itself becomes consecration. The work required is endurance, defending the fire at the edge of extinction so that the Lunar Word may be born in flesh. The South reveals mission as struggle, the battle of the vow, where harvest is only granted through sacrifice in the houses of exile.
III. West – How Must This Process Be Shared Or Offered In The Encounter With The Other?
The Ace of Wands in Kether of Atziluth emerges from the total lunar eclipse in Pisces, where the Moon was drowned in shadow and thought dissolved into silence. Out of that sea, the spark of origin appears. The Ace is the first fire, indivisible, untouched by form. Placed in the house of the Other, it speaks of encounter as altar, where the primal spark is transmitted without possession. The eclipse dissolved what had been sown without body; in its place, the Spirit offers the spark that needs no shape.
The gift in the West is an ignition; what passes between souls is the flame that awakens without belonging. This is the Sacrament of the eclipse: dissolution as baptism and encounter as ignition. The card proclaims that sharing is revelation, the passing of first fire that remains whole even when given.
IV. East – What Form Must Presence And Gesture Take To Align With The Lunar Vow?
The Eight of Wands in Hod of Atziluth points to the culmination ahead, the blood moon of March 2026. Hod is language and form, but, in Atziluth, it becomes fire rushing in perfect clarity. The arrows in flight mirror the eclipse that will come, sudden, absolute, scarlet.
Presence must become vessel for this descent, transparent enough for the fire to pass without distortion. The gesture of embodiment must be clean, swift, exact, like a vow written in flame. The card reveals that what was begun in silence and sealed in struggle will be completed in speed and certainty. The East speaks of incarnation of the vow, when the Word no longer waits but also pierces. It is the descent of fire through body and voice, the final arc of the seed ripening into the scarlet harvest.
The four points reveal only minor arcana of Wands, all in Atziluth, the world of pure emanation. This is also a rare pattern, much like the double new moon. The fire is currently withdrawn from the visible sky and yet it is burning in the hidden world, waiting to descend. The heavens hold almost no planets in signs of fire as we speak; but the Tarot answers with nothing but flames. The labour marked by the two new moons in Virgo is not to be worked in the outer elements but in the highest flame of Divine Will. The absence above and the presence within reflect one another. What seems lacking in the sky has been placed in the Spirit. This cross of Wands proclaims that the vow of these eclipses belongs to the primordial, divine, and empyrean Fire, awaiting its hour to be made flesh soon.
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