Tarot Liturgy: Lunar Eclipse in Pisces
The moment of a total lunar eclipse always cuts deep into the fabric of the cosmos. The Moon, the reflective luminary of Gabriel, who governs the tides of memory and image, is pushed into the mouth of shadow. Yesod, which receives and filters the current of Light descending from Kether through Tifereth, suddenly falls into darkness. The lunar vessel is swallowed by the umbra and offered to the dragon’s mouth.
The eclipse occurred at fifteen degrees of Pisces, within the bound of Jupiter, in the very sign of mutable water. Pisces is tied to the twelfth house, the domicile of the Bad Spirit, the Cacodaimon, where vision falters, the unconscious grow denser and the veil of incarnate life becomes thin. The ruler of this eclipse was therefore Jupiter, who at that same hour was in Cancer, cardinal water, in the subterranean root, the Imum Coeli.
A mutual Moon-Jupiter regency was drawn in heaven, right as she sank beneath the draconian shadow. Saturn had also just moved retrograde into Pisces, sealing the event with the mark of his slow and weighty presence in the same mutable waters. To this was added a separating square of one degree between Jupiter and Mars in Libra, hence creating a sharp angular discord between expansion and contest.
This reading took place after eclipse, with the Moon in Aries, under myrrh incense, Psalms 120 and 121 read aloud beforehand.
Full liturgy at The Mirror of Sienna.
Fiat Lux.