28/08/2026
Happy Full Sturgeon Moon in Pisces. In the early hours of this morning, around 93% of the Moon passed through the darkest part of Earth’s shadow during a deep partial lunar eclipse. The eclipse reached its maximum at 5.12am BST, giving the Moon a deep red or copper appearance, before it reached its fullest at 5.18am.
Full moons are traditionally associated with illumination and reflection, whilst an eclipse can bring an even stronger sense of completion. This eclipse ends a two-year cycle across Pisces and Virgo that began in September 2024, a period concerned with balancing intuition and trust with clarity and practical action. As that cycle closes, old feelings, patterns or questions may return to our awareness, allowing us to understand them differently and recognise what we’re ready to release.
Pisces is intuitive, compassionate and deeply feeling. Its influence encourages us to loosen our grip on needing every answer and listen more closely to what we already sense beneath the noise. This moon asks us to recognise what’s reached its natural end, release what we’ve outgrown and trust what begins to emerge when we stop trying to control every step.
That connects beautifully with Jñāna, the yogic path of knowledge and self-enquiry that shaped this week’s practices. Jñāna asks us to look beyond our familiar stories and distinguish what’s true from what we’ve simply carried for a long time.
Under this Pisces full moon, maybe the reflection is simply this: what can you see more clearly now and what are you finally ready to release?
