☾✩☽ Guest Luminary ☾✩☽
Susan Quirke is an Irish meditation teacher, a leader of mass meditation experiences, and a musician.
She has led mass meditations for thousands of people around the world. She loves creating powerful spaces that support people in connecting with the deepest part of their Being.
Susan is also a multi-award-winning social-changemaker for her work in the field of mental health and well-being. A singer, songwriter, producer, and recording artist, she believes deeply in the power of meditation, music, song and ceremony as transformative forces for healing and change in our world.
☾✩☽ Astrological Resources ☾✩☽
Here is a selection of some of our favourite Astrologers you can tune into across 2025.
↠ Blue Rose School https://www.andrewsmith.ie/introduction/
↠ Mystic Mamma https://www.mysticmamma.com/astral-insights/
↠ Chani Nicholas https://chaninicholas.com/about-chani-nicholas/
↠ Virginia Rosenberg https://virginiarosenberg.com/about-virginia
↠ Lorna Bevan https://www.hareinthemoonastrology.co.uk/lorna-bevan
↠ Paramatma Siri Sadhana https://spaceweathertransmissions.com/paramatma
↠ Matthew Stelzner https://www.youtube.com/channel/
↠ Jennifer Racioppi https://jenniferracioppi.com/
☾✩☽ Other Recommended Resources ☾✩☽
↠ Learn to meditate with Susan here
↠ Listen to Susan’s music here
↠ Listen to Home by Susan Quirke here
↠ Jon Hopkins with Ram Dass, East Forest - Sit Around The Fire - listen here
↠ Susan’s Instagram here
↠ Susan’s Website here
↠ Angela’s Substack here
☾✩☽ Cosmic Intel + Teachings ☾✩☽
Astrology is like a language of consciousness, which uses archetypes and symbols. Every sign is contained within us. The zodiac is a story of the unfolding of human consciousness.
Every full moon is an opportunity to experience both sides of an equation and month by month we live through the entire mythic journey.
This September Full Moon rises as a Harvest Moon or Blood Moon. Falling in mystical Pisces and aligning with the Sun in Virgo, this Blood Moon is steeped in emotional cleansing, revelation and spiritual release.
☾✩☽ About Pisces ☾✩☽
Placed in Pisces, the water sign of intuition, compassion, and transcendence, this eclipse carries potent spiritual currents. Pisces dissolves boundaries, reveals hidden truths, and breaks illusions. As the veils thin, what has been concealed may surface as dreams, intuition reveals insights rising from the depths.
Looking at the symbol for Pisces, with one fish swimming downstream and another swimming upstream, we can see this as an invitation to enter into the power of experiencing life beyond duality by incorporating both the inner and the outer realms, the light and the dark, the highs and the lows, the ups and the down, your inner masculine and feminine, and synthesise these creative powers of polarity.
Pisces is the Mystic, the Dreamer, the Alchemist.
Pisces is the watery sign that ends the zodiacal cycle. If life were a movie, Pisces would be the last scene and credits. This full moon awakens our subconscious minds to the things we need to surrender and release. It illuminates and shines a light on things we can’t see.
This is the last sign of the zodiac so naturally has to provide the foundation for the next cycle, which will begin as it ends. It is a responsible position and in a way it is the summary of the entire zodiac belt. It is completion in every way.
☾✩☽ About Virgo ☾✩☽
The sun is currently in analytical, grounded Virgo, so many of us may be feeling driven to clean up any messes, get down to business, and re-organise various areas of our lives. Virgo season is a productive time to wrap up our summer fun and start buckling down on our goals. It's the back to school vibes.
Virgo is the Priestess, Earthly Mystic, the Virgin.
It’s an archetype of service, healing, and nurturing, often focused on improving the lives of others and bringing order out of chaos.
Virgo energy can emerge strongly in those who have experienced instability, chaos, or unpredictability in childhood. The archetype often seeks control, order, and perfection as a coping strategy. Working with Virgo consciously means transforming vigilance into service, attention into nurturing, and hyper-awareness into embodied wisdom.
But this full moon, in ethereal, dreamy Pisces inspires us to rely more on our intuition than our knowledge & to spend our days in a daydream rather than focusing on our responsibilities. Thus, we'll be feeling the classic full moon friction as our bright star and its counterpart occupy opposing astrological spaces.
☾✩☽ Axis of Opposition ☾✩☽
With the Moon in Pisces and the Sun in Virgo, this eclipse activates the Virgo-Pisces axis—the meeting point of heaven and earth. We are called to balance soulful imagination with grounded structure, and tender care with visionary flow. If you’ve been clinging to old patterns, self-doubt, or rigid ways of being, this eclipse invites you to surrender, soften, and trust the unfolding of your path.
Virgo-Pisces axis outlines complementary perceptions with which to experience life.
· Virgo’s knowing is grounded in details you can see and measure, whereas Pisces’ knowing is based on feelings and intuition.
· Virgo uses facts and linear thinking (e.g. logic) to solve problems, while Pisces relies on parallel processing (e.g. visualisation) and leaps of intuition.
· Virgo excels in a field where correct answer is already available, while Pisces tends to do better in a field with no clear-cut definitions of right or wrong.
· In terms of problem solving, Virgo is interested in improving the current situation – no improvement is too small. Pisces is more interested in a universal solution that resolves big problems.
· Left alone, Virgo’s focus tends to become too narrow and rigid, whereas Pisces’ focus tends to become too broad and impractical.
☾✩☽ Journal Prompts ☾✩☽
Emotional Release + Journaling - Prompt Flow (allow free writing):
What old patterns, attachments, or illusions am I ready to release?
What emotions have I avoided or suppressed and what would it feel like to fully acknowledge them?
What stories about myself, others, or life no longer serve me?
Where do I feel fear, scarcity, or control? How might these energies be transformed into wisdom or compassion?
Tip: Write without censoring. Let tears, ink smudges, or messy pages be part of the release.
Intuition & Vision
Place your hands on your heart or belly. Close your eyes.
Ask: "What is the next aligned step for me? What guidance is emerging now?"
Notice images, sensations, words, or feelings that arise.
Journal freely: visions, ideas, or guidance from your intuition.
☾✩☽ Moon Medicine Rituals ☾✩☽
Create an altar. Create a sacred space in your home - see our guide in aftercare.
Connect with the Moon. Whether or not you subscribe to astrology, the moon is always in the sky, and attuning yourself to the moon's cycle can guide self-care.
New moon: At the beginning of the lunar month, the moon is a new moon. Metaphorically, it's a time to plant the new seeds of goals, intentions, and actions.
Waxing phase: Her growth from new moon to full moon is the waxing phase. This the Warrior Phase—where we gain momentum in our actions.
Waning phase: The Sage Phase happens as she wanes from full, —where we gradually power down, restore ourselves, and integrate lessons learned.
Dark moon: The last few days before the new moon is called the dark moon. Here's when we retreat to our proverbial caves to rest and reflect, preparing for a new cycle ahead
Cleanse. Sage your Home, Bedroom, Chariot & Office. Energetically cleanse the energetic wombs of your life, where you find yourself “creating”.
Observe. Select a journal, and record your dreams, thoughts, insights, experiences and observations.
Collect items: pen, paper, tarot cards, candles, incense, herbs, symbols to represent Luna: mirror, mother, water, seashells, etc.
Have Patience. Have patience with yourself and the journey you’re embarking. Allow yourself the emotional space to process, release, learn, develop and heal.
Lavender Oil. Have lavender in your home, bed or altar. Lavender can bring stillness, and calm an overactive mind.
I Feel. Acknowledge your emotions and journal with what emerges.
Breathe Deeply. The pull of The Moon can bring up strong sensations and emotions – and sometimes this is uncomfortable. However it’s a prime opportunity to feel more and allow the emotion to unfurl. A very practical and grounded way to do so is to focus on the breath and breathe a little deeper than you would normally. Place your hands on your Womb and Heart and take a few deep breaths and feel.
Go For A Moon Walk. Walking in the lunar light in nature can be particularly magical.Watch how the trees move and interact; with The Moon, the wind, with you, and listen, really listen in to the sounds of nature. Moon Bathing can be a truly magical and intimate experience.
Take A Long Luxurious Bath. The Moon affects the tides, the Oceans, the water in our body.
To get in touch with this aspect of nature within and around us – take a long bath.Add in Epson Salts, your favourite essential oil, play some soothing music, light candles and relax.
Tending to your Temple: BodyLiving consciously starts with taking care of your body; the temple that houses you, here on this planet. So, scan yourself from head to toe. How does your body feel? Give yourself all the O2 and H2O your body needs.. Your body will thank you for that.
Ground, Ground, and Ground
The magnetic pull of The Moon is strong so Grounding is super important. If you do nothing else at The Full Moon – ground. It’s especially helpful just before bed as being rooted in the body aids a better sleep.
Beannachtaí 💚
from Kathy and all at The Trailblazery xo