Why The Universe Is Calling Bullshit On Our Collective Manifestation Hustle (and how to call bullshit back)
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." — Carl Jung
If you’ve spent the last few weeks feeling like you’re frantically trying to defuse a bomb with a pair of tweezers (yes, if you’re me, the bomb can also take a shape of your mother) while the world you’ve known and loved to hate, melts away outside your window, welcome. You’ve correctly identified the astrological weather.
We are in the final, twitchy moments of Virgo season & the universe is about to serve up its grand finale: a Solar Eclipse at the very last, most chaotic degree of the sign.
A Solar Eclipse is a supercharged New Moon that rips a hole in the fabric of reality, creating a portal for fated endings and shocking new beginnings. Are you a fool like me and clicked on the last very few News outlets that still report facts in the last few days? Then you know. And your nervous system feels under attack too. Congrats, we’re idiots for doing this to ourselves, but also - we feel exactly how this astrological birthing canal intended for us to feel.
Now, Sunday’s eclipse says: “Pencils down. The test is over.” What we’re left with is a profound, unsettling silence. A clearing in the woods where something old has just been razed to the ground, making way for a new, strange kind of order to emerge.
Graduation Day in the Asylum: The 29th Degree & The South Node Purge
Think of the 29th degree of any sign as the final boss of a video game level. It’s the culmination of every lesson, every battle, every inventory item you now need but dropped three levels ago, every side quest you skipped, every misstep you’ve made throughout that sign’s territory.
It’s where mastery is tested and karmic stories are concluded, for better or for worse.
To make things even more intense, this is a South Node eclipse. In the cosmic saga of your soul’s evolution, the South Node represents the patterns & habits that are draining out of our story - either by a conscious act of unplugging the tub.. or a violent suction tube extraction.
It’s our comfort zone, our default setting: that well-worn trench of familiar bullshit. A South Node eclipse is a cosmic decluttering of the highest order. Think of Virgo here as your always oh so reasonable friend showing up with a dumpster truck to finally help you throw out the haunted anitque furniture you’ve been clinging to.
The Sobering Saturn’s Opposition
As if that weren’t enough, this eclipse is staring down the cosmic taskmaster himself, Saturn, who is sitting directly opposite in the dreamy waters of Pisces. If the Virgo eclipse represents the undeniable, meticulously documented facts of our lives, Saturn in Pisces represents our spiritual ideals, collective fantasies & our most cherished illusions..including the rapidly dissolving dream of a functional democracy.
The opposition between them is a gut-wrenching crisis of faith. It’s the universe holding up a mirror and asking:
“Does the life you are actually living (Virgo) bear any resemblance to the spiritual and ethical values you claim to hold (Pisces)?”
It’s the sickening cognitive dissonance of watching democratic norms and basic human rights get dismantled in real-time on your doomscroll, while simultaneously feeling paralyzed, like our hands are cuffed behind our own backs by convenience, by fear, by the sheer overwhelm of it all.
This stare-down is forcing us to confront the hypocrisy, the spiritual bypassing, and the convenient blind spots we’ve all been cultivating.
This is where the outrageous examples become our daily reality. It's posting a black square for a genocide you’re funding with your taxes. It’s passionately advocating for climate justice while adding three more useless gadgets to your Amazon cart. It’s screaming for bodily autonomy while silently judging the choices of the people next door.
It’s like trying to get a word in at a family dinner that has alarmingly turned into a far-right echo chamber, and then crying in the toilet later because you didn’t manage to stand up for what you authentically believe. If you have a family, you know.
This is now a global experience. You are either with us, or against us, there’s no in between. We’re taking places on the only two available positions on the chess board and this Saturn influence is a cosmic demand to close the fucking gap between our professed ideals and our daily, complicit reality.
The Beautiful Lies & Mercury’s Fog of War
The ruler of this entire shitshow is the planet of information Mercury, who will be in “diplomatic” Libra, sitting directly opposite Neptune, the planet of illusion, deception & conspiracy rabbit holes, in a MMA brute-like Aries.
This is a recipe for a full-blown information war, both externally and internally. Expect propaganda machines to be working overtime. Expect fake peace treaties, contested narratives, and the kind of political spin that could make you physically dizzy.
On a personal level, this is the feeling of trying to have a fair, balanced conversation with someone, only to realize you’re both operating from completely different, mutually exclusive realities. It’s the exhaustion of trying to find a clear signal in a world saturated with beautiful lies and ugly truths. It’s a time when, as many are waking up to, the truth behind our leaders and their ideologies is becoming terrifyingly clear.
The day after the eclipse, the planet of action and aggression Mars dives into its home turf of Scorpio and immediately squares off with Pluto, the planet of power & secrets in Aquarius.
This is the aftershock.
The tension that was building all week finally snaps.
This is a brutal power struggle.
It’s the fight over the inheritance after the will has been read. The hidden dynamics of a system (Pluto in Aquarius) being violently exposed by a secret, strategic move (Mars in Scorpio). Expect buried truths to be unearthed in a way that is confrontational and deeply destabilizing.
Don’t F*ck With Eclipse Magic
We have looked closely at this in expectation of the previous total lunar eclipse in Pisces, but being still inside the eclipse corridor, it bears repeating…I get this asked all the time.
Just why oh why should I not be manifesting during eclipses?
It's like a compulsion to keep piling up spells upon vision boards upon subliminals upon scripting..throwing the magical spaghetti at the wall of our reality hoping that one of them will stick and become it. Well, here is why...
Manifesting during an eclipse is like trying to perform delicate surgery in the middle of an earthquake while on acid. The energy is too chaotic, too unpredictable & frankly, not yours to control!
Eclipses are not your friendly neighborhood New or Full Moons. They are fated portals that the universe uses to enact swift, often jarring, change. Your job isn’t to tell the universe what you want - your job is to shut up and listen.
For thousands of years, our ancestors weren’t exactly lighting abundance candles during an eclipse. They were hiding, praying, banging pots and pans because they thought the world was ending. In ancient China, they believed a celestial dragon was eating the sun. For the Vikings, it was a sky-wolf. In Vietnam, a giant frog. The common thread? A monstrous celestial being was trying to destroy a primary life source & the vibe was decidedly apocalyptic.
Eclipses were seen as profoundly ill omens, especially for rulers. In Mesopotamia, they were so terrified that they’d install a temporary “decoy king” to take the hit of any bad juju, and then usually kill the decoy afterward just to be safe. The death of kings, the start of wars, plagues, famines..all were historically linked to the sky going dark.
An eclipse is a moment when the natural order is suspended. The life-giving light of the Sun or the steady glow of the Moon is temporarily extinguished. It’s a glitch in the matrix - a moment of pure chaos where the normal rules of reality..and therefore, magic.. don’t apply.
The signal from above is jammed. You’re trying to upload your intentions, but the server is down, the connection is unstable, the line is flooded with karmic static. Trying to force a manifestation through that is inviting chaos into your life.
So, what are you supposed to do with all this chaotic, confrontational energy? The answer is profoundly, radically Virgoan.
The most rebellious act you can perform right now is not to start a new revolution, but to meticulously clean up the one you’ve already got. This is the time for the sacred, unglamorous work of weeding your own garden.
What if we commit to taking a brutally honest inventory of our own life: our habits, mind, integrity. Doing the work that no one sees, the work that doesn’t get you any likes, the work that is simply about creating a small patch of order and truth in a world drowning in chaos and lies.
This is your chance to build something that will last, not on a foundation of fantasy, but on the bedrock of reality.
As the great Patti Smith said: "People have the power to redeem the work of fools."
Start with yourself. The world will follow.
Your Sign-by-Sign Celestial Roadmap for the Virgo Solar Eclipse
This Sunday’s eclipse is a full-throated command to gut the inefficient parts of your life. It’s a solar pandemonium and something has to burn. That’s why I’ve drafted a sign-by-sign schematic for the demolition.
We’ll pinpoint the exact sector of your chart being dragged to the pyre and where the stone-faced Saturn is demanding you build something real from the ashes. But it’s not all brute force. We’ll also tap into the live wires of Uranus and the subterranean power of Pluto, showing you how these planetary renegades offer a glitch in the system aka an escape route.
This is your guide to walking through the fire without getting torched.
Potent audio medicines for navigating the pandemonium in real-time.
Feeling the psychic hum of the Sunday’s eclipse demolition yet?
Over here, the pressure is definitely at its peak, although I suspect I might be coming down with Covid, which somehow - same as fascism - keeps coming back for our consideration.
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If like me, you are just about done with this eclipse shit, sit down, pinch your nose and take a shot: I’ve uncorked three audio potions for you.
Find your path:
Ⅰ. For the shadows being dredged up.
Ⅱ. For your fried nervous system.
Ⅲ. For the jarring void between control & chaos.
Choose your remedy and let's walk through the fire together.
Kuba Vitek-Girard
