The Biggest Dos and Don’ts for the August 28 Pisces Lunar Eclipse

If the last couple of weeks have felt a little strange, you’re in good company. Eclipse season has a way of bringing plot twists, and this one isn’t finished with us quite yet.

The Lunar Eclipse in Pisces arrives on August 28, closing the chapter that began with the Solar Eclipse in Leo on August 12. Leo put the focus on what you want and where you’re ready to take up more space. Pisces brings the feelings underneath all of that to the surface, along with a reminder that moving forward sometimes requires leaving something behind.

What to Know About the August 28 Pisces Eclipse

The Moon is full in Pisces on August 28 at 12:18 a.m. EDT, bringing a partial Lunar Eclipse at 4 degrees of Pisces. The Mutable signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces, may feel this eclipse especially strongly, particularly if you have personal planets between 0 and 10 degrees.

This Eclipse Is Part of a Bigger Story

Eclipses don’t happen as isolated moments. They connect to a larger cycle, and this is the sixth eclipse along the Virgo-Pisces axis that began in September 2024 and continues into February 2027. Think back to where you were in September 2024. What was beginning, ending, or asking for your attention? There may be a clue there about what this eclipse is bringing back around.

The Important Dos and Don’ts for This Pisces Eclipse

Don’t: Go Overboard With Manifesting

Be careful about trying to manifest your way through this eclipse. Dreamy Pisces might seem ideal for calling something new into your life, but a Full Moon is traditionally more about culmination and release.

Instead of obsessing over what you want to attract next, look at what you’re ready to let go of first. Clearing some space might be exactly what helps the next thing find you.

Do: Let Go of Your Insecurities

What did you start or realize around the Leo Solar Eclipse earlier this month? This Pisces eclipse gives you an opportunity to look at what might still be standing between you and that path.

Affirmations, journaling, or simply sitting with yourself can help you sort through the insecurities that keep telling you not to move forward. You don’t have to solve your entire life overnight. You just need to stop letting the same fear make every decision.

Do: Break the Pattern

Confront things head-on during this transit. A lot of the friction bubbling up now may have more to do with unresolved feelings than whatever just happened five minutes ago.

Journal until you untangle your inner monologue. Talk to a friend or therapist. Scream, if that’s what gets it out. Personally, I love screaming in a train station as the train rolls in because there’s enough noise for cover. The point is to stop pretending the feeling isn’t there.

Don’t: Distract Yourself From What’s Actually Happening

It can be very easy to get off course when there’s so much happening around you. This is not the time for six straight hours of doomscrolling because you’d rather think about literally anything except your own feelings.

Distracting yourself from pain doesn’t make the problem disappear. If you want to move forward, you eventually have to clear the pathway. It’s a lot harder to start fresh when you’re still tangled up in something from the past.

What the Pisces Lunar Eclipse Is Really About

This Pisces Lunar Eclipse is steeped in imagination, idealism, romance, and escapism. And after an eclipse season this intense, the temptation to quit your job, disappear, and drop out of reality for a while might be extremely real.

But the Leo Solar Eclipse earlier this month was already pushing you to take up more space in your own life. Now Pisces asks what you need to release so you can actually do that.

It’s time to let go of what isn’t serving you and make room for the life you’re trying to create. That can include people, patterns, insecurities, or old versions of yourself you keep dragging forward simply because they’re familiar.

Relationships may become especially revealing. Pay attention to who is genuinely in your corner and who seems committed to keeping you attached to an older version of yourself. You don’t have to make dramatic cuts just because an eclipse is happening, but you should pay attention to what becomes impossible to ignore.

Full Moons can already bring emotions to the surface, and an eclipse can add another layer of intensity. Don’t take on everything at once. Stay the course without gripping so tightly that you exhaust yourself. Pisces knows how to move with the tides. You can too.

A Simple Pisces Eclipse Ritual

If rituals are your thing, grab a small bowl and some salt. Place the bowl beside you while you journal, meditate, sleep, or simply take a little time to yourself. Let the salt represent whatever you’re ready to clear out as this eclipse cycle comes to a close.

Then repeat this mantra:

I am grounded. I am focused. My dreams are my reality.

Come back to it whenever you need it over the next couple of weeks, until the next New Moon gives you a fresh place to begin.