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Thursday’s Eclipse: What Are You Ready to Release?

By August 26, 2026Reiki

Thursday’s lunar eclipse carries a strong completion and clearing energy. It marks the end of a two-year astrological chapter, and the invitation is to notice what has run its course—internally or externally.

You may find old emotions, patterns, relationships, identities, or ways of living coming up for review.

Not necessarily because you need to fix them, but because you may finally be ready to stop carrying them.

This eclipse is in Pisces, which brings the focus toward the deeper, less tangible parts of ourselves: intuition, emotion, dreams, longing, spirituality, and the things we often feel before we can explain them.

And there’s an extra wild-card quality this time. Uranus is strongly involved, which can bring sudden realizations, unexpected shifts, breakthroughs, and a feeling that something needs to change—now.

How to work with it

Rather than trying to predict what will happen, use this eclipse as a moment to listen.

Ask yourself:

  • What am I ready to release?
  • What do I already know, but have been avoiding?
  • Where am I staying out of habit, fear, or obligation?
  • What makes me feel more alive—and what consistently drains me?
  • What is asking to emerge now that there is more room?

You don't need to make every decision this week. You don't need a five-year plan.

In fact, one of the most powerful ways to work with this energy may be to follow the next clear step rather than demanding the whole roadmap.

Pay attention to the little flashes of knowing. The conversation that lands differently. The idea that keeps returning. The feeling in your body when you imagine one direction versus another.

And remember: release doesn’t always mean something has to disappear. Sometimes what is being released is your attachment to an old story, an old fear, or an old version of yourself.

Make room.

Let what is finished be finished.

And listen for what has more life in it.

The question for this eclipse:

What becomes possible when I stop carrying what I'm already done with?

And remember, this doesn’t just happen on one day. The eclipse energies will carry on for the next three months or more. If this energy is stirring things up for you, consider joining us in Taos for a two-day plant medicine retreat, October 3-4. The plant medicines are incredible teachers and healers to help guide the way. Click here for more info.

We will be able to see this almost total lunar eclipse, so get outside and see it, 9:12 PM MDT -11:13 PM MDT.

 

~ words inspired by Sabrina Lyn