Eclipse Season Collective Tarot Reading

These reflections are offered as gentle guidance. They are a few cards I pulled after a client this afternoon to examine this eclipse season individually and collectively.

I always get body anxiety around a full moon, and eclipse seasons have me feeling positively jagged. Full moon energy tends to heighten the senses, stirring the body, emotions, and spirit. Eclipses amplify this energy even further to shake us out of old patterns and illuminating what is out of balance. This weekend’s full moon eclipse feels particularly intense. Personally, I find eclipses less about mental chatter and more about what shows up in my body, which is jittery, buzzing, and a current of restlessness that doesn’t quite settle. To ground myself after doing a reading for someone else, I pulled three cards for “right here, right now, this place, this space”: The Star, The Lovers, and the Four of Wands.

The Star: Healing + Renewal

The Star comes after the Tower in tarot, a reminder that after upheaval there is always space for restoration. Since the election, every time I pull a card about the state of things, the Star comes up. I don’t quite know what that means in this space and place, but under this eclipse, it encourages us to soften into trust, to soothe our nervous systems, and to remember that hope is not naïve, it is medicine. The Star reminds us to lean into practices that calm and replenish: breathwork, water rituals, or simply resting beneath the night sky.

Hope in chaos. Amid destruction, The Star reminds us that renewal is still possible. It’s the calm after upheaval, the rebalancing after rupture. Collectively, it suggests that while things feel broken, we’re not without light or guidance.

Collective nervous system. The online yelling and constant outrage are like a nervous system in overdrive. The Star asks: how do we re-regulate together? Through care, honesty, and returning to simple human connections.

The Lovers: Choice + Alignment

The Lovers asks us to come back to presence and integration. Eclipse season can feel like a splitting apart, but The Lovers is the reminder that union is possible within ourselves, and in how we choose to respond to the world. This card is not only about love in the romantic sense; it’s about the sacred responsibility of choice. Do we deepen the divisions, or do we choose presence, connection, and integrity?

Choice point. Collectively, we’re at a threshold: do we deepen division and yelling, or do we choose alignment, respect, and integration? The Lovers is not sentimental, it’s about responsibility in choice.

Mirror of polarity. This card highlights the splits we see in society, but also the possibility of reconciling them. It asks: What values are we aligning with right now?

Four of Wands: Home + Sanctuary

The Four of Wands is a card of celebration, community, and safety. It reassures us that even amidst disruption, we can create spaces of joy and belonging. In practical terms, this could be as simple as gathering with loved ones, tending the home, or honoring rituals that anchor us. Collectively, this card points to grassroots connection and the sanctuaries we build together when larger structures feel unstable.

Vision of community. Despite the mess, this card speaks of building spaces of safety and celebration. Small-scale communities, chosen family, and grassroots efforts are where harmony will live, even if the larger structures feel like they’re crumbling.

Temporary refuge. Think of it as the shelter we can return to in storm time. It says: even while institutions break, people can still create pockets of joy, safety, and resistance together.

Eclipse Medicine

This eclipse is showing us the collective split (The Lovers), the need for healing and recalibration (The Star), and the possibility of creating small sanctuaries of safety and belonging (Four of Wands).

We may not be able to stop the destruction at the top levels overnight, but we can choose how we show up in our immediate space. This is our reminder that the antidote to yelling and chaos is not disengagement, but refusing to lose hope and continuing to cultivate community. The eclipse spotlight is harsh, but it’s also clarifying: it shows us where integrity, union, and stability are missing, and where we can consciously choose to plant them.

Individually and collectively, this eclipse is not about grand action but about alignment and containers. Aligning with hope (Star). Choosing integration over fracture (Lovers).

Building safe spaces and rituals that hold us steady (Four of Wands).

Together, these cards paint a powerful picture of this eclipse energy:

The Star calls us to soothe and restore, to remember that healing is possible.

The Lovers highlights the importance of conscious choice and integration, even when the world feels fractured.

The Four of Wands grounds us in the safety of community, reminding us to cultivate sanctuaries of joy and belonging.

Collectively, these cards speak to our current moment. The world feels loud, broken, and chaotic every day, and somehow even more so some days. Leaders sow division, people yell endlessly online, everything is a a distraction, a genocide continues before our eyes and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. But the Star reminds us that hope is still alive, The Lovers asks us to realign with what matters, and the Four of Wands urges us to create safe havens like small circles of connection where celebration, resilience, and love can thrive. This eclipse is perhaps less about dramatic external action and more about the choices we make to align with healing, presence, and sanctuary.

We may not be able to quiet the chaos of the larger world, but we can choose how we inhabit this moment.

Right here, right now, this place, this space: may we soften into hope, choose connection over division, and create spaces that hold us steady.