Soul Contracts and this Week’s Leo Lunar Eclipse
This week’s Leo Lunar Eclipse at ‘29 is calling bringing to the surface soul contracts + karmic partnerships
When: 14th of March at 5:59pm (AEDT), 5:29pm (ACDT), 2:59pm (AWST/CST), 12:59pm (IST), 7:59am (CET), 6:59am (GMT, 2:59am (EDT), 12:59am (MDT) + 13th of March at 11:59pm (PDT).
Themes: Unity, Connection, Past Life Bonds, Soul Contracts, Community
Welcome to Eclipse Season.
The Leo Lunar Eclipse marks the start of the first eclipse season of 2025, and adds to the already intense cosmic energy of this month.
This is a period of time where karmic energy is being balanced, purpose can be redirected and people can swiftly come in + out of our lives...if they have finished their contract with our soul's. This particular season starts on the 13th-14th of March and will last 16 days until the Pisces Solar Eclipse on the 29th. By the looks of the astrology, this first eclipse will be a little more gentle than the second. Just remember that this isn't a time to manifest, or to try and control the energy (so no charging crystals or being out in the energy yourself unless you’re feeling brave).
Eclipse are notoriously volatile, and it can feel like time is collapsing in on itself - as events that you thought would take time to pass can come into fruition unexpectedly. This truely is a karmic portal, and the best way to work with it is to surrender to it's energy. If you're feeling a little funky consider doing something nice for someone else (maybe donate to charity, cook someone a meal, pick up rubbish etc). There's something in the act of giving that can help place perspective on our lives, and reconnect us back to the beauty of life.
Here are my tips for Eclipse Season:
Feed the Beast: Be really consistent (as best you can) with sleep, eating nutritious foods, and getting exercise...at the heart of it we have to feed the primal beast within.
Nature: Get into nature and into vast landscapes (even looking at the sky) this can help you see how small you are in the scheme of the world (and make you see the insignificance of your own problems) - as well as regulate your nervous system.
Water Cures: Use the Ocean or a Salt Bath/ Shower to purify. You can find that the energy body is working over time. Particularly before + after an eclipse it can be a great idea to get in the sea to help shift old energy.
Sadhana: Meditate, recite mantra or embrace more of your own spiritual practice . It's said that your practice is intensified during an eclipse. So instead of being out under it's energy consider harnessing it by sitting in meditation, doing japa (mantra recitation), or simply being still.
Compassion: Final tip is just to be really gentle with yourself and with the people around you.
THIS LUNAR ECLIPSE IS ALL ABOUT SOUL CONTRACTS
This Lunar Eclipse at 29'46 of Leo falls right in line with the tail of the Leo constellation in a mansion known as Uttara Phalguni. This is a place where there is the power to give prosperity through union (be that marriage, the fulfilment of a contract or partnership). As such we are sitting in the world of relationships and as this Eclipse will be aligned with the South Node these are the connections that have deep past life foundations. You can find that this is an Eclipse which calls you into partnership in order for a contract to be fulfilled (that could be committing to someone new or deepening an existing commitment). Understanding that relationships are incredible teachers for the soul, they can bring us face-to-face with the ego and our childhood programming that limits our ability to give + receive love. This mansion is ruled by the diety Aryaman, who guards soul contracts - which can be intimate, familial, friendly or business - so understand whoever comes in or leaves your life at this point is a blessing + part of a bigger lesson you are working through. That said it can take time + perspective to often see this blessing.
KARMIC REDIRECTION AND CHANGE
Eclipse tend to call us into facing core issues that live at the heart of this incarnation. They can also help create circumstances to see aspects of the self which have eluded us or been hidden but stem from past life karma..and that are looking for resolution in this life. As such the Moon in this particular part of Leo is calling you to follow (not something we normally assume with Leo) - but this is not necessarily about following someone rather it's about following what is ethical, what is honest and what is dharmic (aka your truth). That means not resisting the karmic energy at play, particularly if it tries to redirect you or changes your life drastically. This is an eclipse asking for you to not focus on the detail, but on the larger philosophy behind it. It can teach incredible spiritual lessons about who you truely are, through your relationships and the deeper partnership you have with yourself.
PAST LIFE ENERGY AT PLAY
This Lunar Eclipse in Leo will aligned with the transiting South Node (and opposed the North Node, Saturn + Neptune). As the South Node represents the energy we are moving from. It holds within it both past life karma as well as soul gifts that we have mastered over lifetimes. As this Moon peaks it can help you see the ways in which you block yourself in partnership, how you might sabotage alliances and even play out old childhood games that don't serve the love within you. Be prepared to see the ways in which the mind can distort love. Added to that some of the lessons you are learning through the presence of others have cycles you have been working with for lifetimes. That said, there is also the ability with this Moon to reap the good karma that has been accrued over past lives particularly through the relationships formed at this time.
THE CLOSING OF AN 18 MONTH CYCLE
For those of you who want some hints of what you can expect with this eclipse think back to what was stirring around you in September 2023 (around the middle of that month). As this was when there was a New Moon in Leo that started the particular line of energy you are now working with. If you can think back to where you were, maybe which relationships were a big focus for you at that time or even what you were learning about soul contracts...as this Eclipse can bring this energy to a close or even bring it into a new manifestation for you to start to work with in the next cycle.
FINALLY MERCURY IS ALSO STATIONING RETROGRADE
It's also worth mentioning that just as Eclipse Season starts, the day after Mercury stations Retrograde aligned with Venus Retrograde in Pisces. He will remain retrograde until the 7th of April, creating a period of time where it can feel like you're taking a trip down memory lane as old conversations re-emerge (particularly ones you thought were put to bed earlier this year) and you get to see the ways in which you block your intuition. As Neptune will also be sitting in on this exercise, there is a lot of ancestral energy that is at play, as you're given the opportunity to let go of very old karmic seeds that distort your ability to express your truth (and some of this can also manifest as the fear that lives within your lineage of fully accessing your psychic gifts). Know that Mercury Retrograde plays a really important purpose in life, to help us learn about ourselves. It can call you to be more present with your inner dialogue, as well as bring people back for your past (where there is unfinished business). Just be careful with retrograde season to not book long-distance travel, buy new electronics or large ticket items, negotiate or sign contracts...and to be careful with what you have to say!
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