Release illusions to activate the essential dream!

On By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Astrology

Hello friends,

I’m writing to you about the Lunar eclipse event coming up on Sept 7, 2025, in Pisces. The places to view the eclipse are Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, not North or South Americas. Here’s the eclipse path from spaceandtelescope.com.

This eclipse is tied to the solar eclipse on Sept 21, also in Virgo/Pisces axis, but this time in Virgo at 29 degrees. The real theme that will come forward here is linked to the February Saturn/Neptune exact conjunction: February 20, 2026, at ‘0 Degree’ Aries. I’ve spoken about that in a previous post. Here are the dot points on the Saturn/Neptune conjunction:

  • Dream vs. Reality
  • Making dreams into Reality
  • Feeling forced to give up dreams by Saturn limitations
  • Uncertainty about what is fantasy and what is real
  • Saturnian discipline helping to parse out and work out Neptunian dreams and ideals: Vision to Form
  • Daydreams and escapes of fantasy— and Saturnian consequences!
  • New forms of artistic inspiration (Neptune) with different forms (Saturn)
  • Saturn/Neptune conjunct is asking: “What really is possible here?”

Here’s that chart for the Sept 21 eclipse that I’ll talk about more in a post that is closer to the date:

The reason why I think these eclipses, and especially this Sept 7 eclipse in Pisces, are linked to the Saturn/Neptune conjunction is because:

  1. This eclipse is immediately followed by the Aquarius eclipse in Februrary 2026— signaling the beginning of the end of the Virgo/Pisces series (It’s not the last one, but it’s the beginning of the new series, marked by Aquarius/Leo).
  2. This Sept 7 Lunar eclipse comes right on the heels of Saturn’s retrograde back into Pisces for a final pass (Sept 1.). Saturn originally entered Pisces on March 7, 2023 and transiting into Aries on May 24, 2025: leading to an ALMOST conjunction with Neptune. But since it retrograded back, it’s also not going to be re-entering Aries until February 13, 2026— just days before the great Neptune/Saturn exact conjunction. An exact conjunction means that the energies are potent and have matured!
  3. The Saturn/Neptune conjunction will happen in February while Neptune (the Modern Ruler or Pisces) is still its retrograde zone, after just have spending time in its original home: Pisces.
  4. Saturn in Pisces is going to be closely opposing the Solar Eclipse in Virgo on Sept 21, 2025 at the anaretic degree of Virgo 29. This is a very potent point. Saturn will be at 28 degree Pisces which is a pretty close/tight orb. Anything below 3 degrees has the strongest potency. The tighter the orb, the stronger the impact.

So, overall, there’s this very interesting story going on in the sky to help you to release illusions and sort out what is real. It might not be very easy (it might FEEL impossible), but it will be worth it. With Saturn’s influence, not much is easy; there’s often restrictions and redirection. You really tend to utilize your blood, sweat, and tears, when moving through life during intense Saturn transits.

So what is an essential dream? Why is that a part of your title?

The word essence means (https://etymologyworld.com/item/essence):

  • The fundamental nature or core characteristics of something
  • The concentrated or pure form of something

Etymologically it comes from “esse” the latin meaning “to be.” Inside of us is all of creation, the potential to make or create anything in our experience. That potential extends from our essence.

No matter what is going on in the world right now (and I know, it’s grim: war, politics at their worst, and the divisions and misinformation is up more than we would like), we still have a certain amount of time to enjoy whatever freedoms we have. It’s our freedom to create, to bond with one another, and to learn from our experiences and also to tie these experiences to the “bigger picture.” Neptune and Pisces are very spiritual. This symbolism is rich (and for some of us, it is more than symbolism) but for you, take it at whatever level is one that ‘works’ for you.

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Notice we are each the architect of our own dreams. Every dream is unique. Some dreams reflect unfulfilled desires, repressed impulses, and incomplete experiences, or serve as a substitute for and pointer toward realities beyond them. The symbols we project in waking life are part of the story we weave for ourselves. Symbols we project into our experience are like ghosts. They offer insights into the true self by revealing our conditioned beliefs, how connected or disconnected we are to our heart and the Earth. We each have the power to rescript our symbols, shift energy we receive, decode and transmit to transform from the core.” —Liara Covert

I don’t know if I tied this message together well enough for you all. But, if you are feeling shaky and disconnected at times and other times *very* connected and then doubting that, it’s all normal. What you are experiencing is really in the stars. Each and every single person is going to experience it differently– some will think life is “just the same.” Our perception is really what matters, but I want to encourage you to connect yourself with a greater vision, magick and dream, one that really fills and fuels your soul. It’s here, and its available: AND ABSOLUTELY NOTHING can reduce the essence or make smaller the importance of your dream. So I ask you now: What can you let go of? What is standing in your way of realizing your own potential, right now? Virgo is all about the details. Those details are going to be completely unique to each one of you, but Virgo carefully crafts. Your craft in life is definitely tied to your essence. Like a kite in the sky, your kite is your craft (how it flies) but the essence of your kite is the WAY it connects with the unique weather pattern at any given moment. How will you build, fix, and fashion your kite?

Love you all, so much! Use the comments to reflect on anything I’ve written here.

With gratitude,

Ka

38 thoughts on “Release illusions to activate the essential dream!”

  1. Dreams.

    I’ve been thinking a lot about these, lately.

    Because I dared to dream. To investigate the hidden dreams, the almost mrmories, that Lethe hides for a purpose.

    And they hurt. Like reopened wounds.

    But how can a dream be relinquished? They are what makes us ourselves, remembered or not.

    And when uncovered, when they bleed the fire of millennia and make today seem so unreal – how can they be denied, resolved, without leaving beside our deeper selves?

    Without us becoming the husks we left behind in dreaming?

    Without forgetting that dreams and reality are one?

    I’m rabbiting on in semi-poetic terms. Sorry if I’m too incomprehensible.

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        1. Birds of a feather 🪶
          Writing is so very, very nourishing.
          Yes the metaphor can go places and the “literalness” of words can be left for a short while. We communicate through so many means, to ourselves. We need the mirrors to help us penetrate the unseen within. Plus we are constantly creating through this process! Who’s to say which came first? This is a long lasting philosophic question. I find philosophy stops us short and poetry, is the voice of the heart, so often it can help us transmit beyond the words. Thank you for your sharings!

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    1. Yay!!! That title took a bit to come around to, but it felt it was the energetic I was going for. I mean, I’m “in it” too! There’s the invitation to really start sorting…

      But first before diving in:

      You do have to clear your senses as you need to reorient yourself to the invitation 🙂 like clearing your pallet before tasting something…

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      1. The chocolate always flows here kind lady 🤣 And you wouldn’t believe it, I was distracted as my mom had had a fall so I was helping her then I got distracted again as an old friend turned up I hadn’t seen for ages…and I forgot to take my coconut juice (it replenishes the potassium the cortico steroid strips out for emphysema), and it hit me pretty hard so I missed the eclipse…but…was told by a friend the moon was a delightful pinkish red. I kept thinking what would it be like to actually be on the moon and see it from there as the earth crossed the sun. Have to get one of the astronauts to take a picture for us 😂❤️🙏

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        1. Wow, take care, Mark! 💗💗💗 You have had a lot to be busy with. I hope your mom is okay. It must have been nice to see your friend! I hope you got the take the coconut juice, and eventually and restored yourself. That level of intensity is difficult eclipse-worthy energies. I wish you much peace and equilibrium restored! Sending love, 💗 Ka

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          1. Well, it keeps me off the streets and out of trouble apparently 🤣 And yes, mom is okay, thank you. My friend was down here because his brother collapsed with a lesion on his brain. I’m actually wondering if the eclipse was for literal healing. I’m still wobbling as the low potassium is very dangerous and takes some time to adjust again in the body.

            Lots of healing happening with it my friend 🤗❤️🙏

          2. Dear friend, Mark
            Sending you lots of healing support energy for your wobbly body. Looking forward to your check in where you are rebalanced. I’m sorry for our friend’s brother. That sounds scary for all involved. I hope that the lesion is diagnosed so that his condition gets to be controlled and reduced, to his highest and best for his healing. I’m glad that your mom is Ok. Also glad you aren’t on the streets! 😌🛌🏡💕 Yes that would make a lot of sense for this eclipse! Virgo-Pisces axis and everyone’s house affected would be different, but often it’s a very “busy,” “intense,” or “eventful” time.

          3. Thank you Ka, healing gratefully received kind lady. I shall balance and restore all the new bits as I release the old my friend and become something more lovingly open as I heal 🤗🥰❤️🙏

  4. This eclipse is teaching me so much about listening and nourishing my body and my dreams for the future! Always love the information you share with us Ka. It helps me align and understand the current path 💕💞💕💕

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    1. Hi Karen,
      I always appreciate your feedback! Thank you! Your words well-illustrate the Virgo/Pisces axis of the eclipse! Thank you so much for sharing. There’s so much profound wisdom coming from the body as we choose to tune in deeply and listen to it. It’s amazing how, despite that we aren’t the body, its messages are more “knowing” or telling of our needs than we often realize! I’ve been catching up on some of my Buddhist classes (since I was away) about the non-inherent existence of the I, and of the body. 🤗🙂😍🥰
      Realizing the dependency of existence even extends to the dependency of emptiness. May your dreams flourish with your growing wisdom in body awareness and with your careful tending and awareness. Much love, Ka

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  5. Thank you very much for this encouraging message, especially the encouragement to “connect yourself with a greater vision, magick and dream, one that really fills and fuels your soul.” I’ve been working on a painting for a fundraiser where I volunteer with homeless dogs. I had resisted starting the project, maybe out of fear of it not being good enough, etc…. but it’s coming along, and I know making art (along with singing and nature) is something that fills and fuels my soul.

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    1. This is the perfect description of what it’s like to work with the soul’s dream in Neptune/Pisces (your art, volunteering) and Saturn – fears, obstructions… these themes will be even stronger when in Aries in February, but so much will already have been worked through and so much release already in the works!!! The courage that is developing will be so worth it!
      Love you, JoAnna!!
      Thanks for being here with me on
      my journey. Your sharing your journey is within the heart of my own. It gives me joy to be encouraging and supportive in any way I can!

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  6. “…we still have a certain amount of time to enjoy whatever freedoms we have. It’s our freedom to create, to bond with one another, and to learn from our experiences and also to tie these experiences to the “bigger picture.” 

    I love the idea of being the architect of our dreams, of our lives. I’m late for the lunar eclipse, but your message is inspiring for any day of the year, Ka. Thanks for the positivity and empowerment in this post. Much needed these days. Hugs, my creative friend.

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    1. Hi Diana,

      Thanks for chiming in, and also for letting me know what spoke to you. Empowerment is needed now more than ever. As you can see intense events occur in our world around these “human-defined calendar,” celestial, events. I talk about that more at the end of the reply. We can thank our ancestors for paying attention to the night sky and dutifully writing history in the event that we can learn from it.

      I absolutely believe that we are in co-creation; and yes, within that, we can be the architect of our dreams. Astrology can sometimes help us navigate with a mirror: to reflect on how events in our lives correspond to the events celestially. I would not call it a relationship of causation, but much more complex and poetic of an experience in relationship with the unfolding of the universe as it’s creating; and, it’s not a closed system but some consider entropy from the Big Bang. What I see is that LIFE itself thrives in organization and networking of sympathetic energies. I enjoy enhancing and working with nature in a dance that helps me with the mirror to see and even sometimes anticipate my steps. Like weather, we have an abstract notion of the celestial. Eclipses are very regularly understood and repeat in Saros cycles. In astrology, they repeat around certain archetypes. Approximate every 18 years the theme of a “set” of opposing or dualistic signs (two sides of the same coin) repeat.

      As for missing the Pisces Lunar eclipse with your point in commenting: you really didn’t. I also wrote above to look for the link and relationship between the Solar Eclipse in Virgo on September 21, 2025– and then to consider how these (from Earth’s perspective) events will strongly relate to the February 2025 events at the Saturn/Neptune conjunction at ZERO Aries.

      I wish you a wonderful navigation through all things fantastical and real, and the merging of the two! I am delighted you dropped by for a visit. I appreciate you!!! 💗

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  7. Thank you for this post! I’ve been feeling off ever since that first eclipse and am just hoping after the second one on the 21st I’ll start to feel better. Although really, I think I’ll feel a bit off until Saturn fully leaves Pisces next year b/c as soon as it reentered my sign on Sept. 1st, challenges emerged all over once again. This fish is very over Saturn’s visit!

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    1. Awh, I hear you. And with that re-entry of Saturn into Pisces, and it being so near to that Lunar Eclipse in Pisces, well that as a large dose you got if that’s your Sun’s natal location.

      I’ll be writing about the Sept 21 eclipse/Libra equinox hopefully soon as I have some expressions to share that are gonna come up for sharing. 🙂

      Sending love!! 💕 more peace ☮️

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