This Virgo Lunar Eclipse Will Turn Your Imperfection Into Power (and Success)

The March 2025 Virgo Lunar Eclipse on March 14th 2025 is about to shake you awake, and Uranus in Taurus is leading the charge.

This isn’t just another eclipse. This is a cosmic invitation to drop perfectionism, embrace awkwardness, and own the power of imperfection. Why? Because the aspects of this eclipse, especially Uranus’ connection, are pushing you to stop hiding behind polished performances and start living from raw, authentic truth.

🌕 In this episode, I share how this Eclipse is asking you to:

• Release perfectionism (Virgo) and surrender to the unknown of being your authentic self (Pisces)

• Let Uranus in Taurus awaken you to the power of simplicity, presence, and your beingness

• Recognize how silence, presence, nurturing your inner world from the inside out, and imperfection can unlock deeper success

• Stop over-editing, over-performing, and start letting your truth and energy speak for you

I also share my personal journey: how facing awkward silence, embracing my imperfections, and releasing the pressure to “perform” during conversations completely shifted my relationships, my business, and my sense of self-worth.

🌙 This Eclipse isn’t about appearing perfect or figuring out the "perfect plan", it’s about how deeply you’re willing to be seen in your truth

If you’re tired of hiding, tired of chasing perfection, and ready to align with the deeper cosmic energies shaping your next chapter, this episode will show you how to trust your presence, own your truth, and finally unlock real, lasting success.

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Transcript

Rachel: 0:44

I am just gonna start this podcast with what's on my heart, because if there's anything I've learned these last few weeks as we've been in the Eclipse portal, it's that speaking from here, speaking from my heart, is the only place I wanna speak. And when I tap into it, I could cry. So I'm just getting a little emotional right now. I want this podcast to to be a place of truth and to serve as a permission slip and a piece of inspiration. And I never want you to think that I have everything all figured out, but I do want you to be seen. I want you to feel seen and I want you to know. What's possible for you that you're not doomed to being stuck? That if you had certain things happen when you were younger, you were born a certain way, maybe you feel like you're socially awkward and maybe you're feel like you're autistic or something. I say that because my boyfriend jokes that I'm autistic all the time, and I wouldn't be surprised if I was, because I've never been diagnosed, I also don't believe in labels. I believe we all live in on a spectrum, but. I've told this story on my podcast before, I didn't talk really until I was in high school. I didn't really know how to connect with people, and up until now, these last few weeks, I've realized I have still had some masking that I put on me that yes, I've gained a lot more confidence over my life and I take really big risks. But part of me has been masking myself to, to, to perform, to get validation. And it's directly related to this Pisces, Virgo Eclipse. Because the last eclipse cycle was in Aries and Libra. That's our awareness, consciousness, awareness of us versus other. The Pisces Virgo Axis is the embodiment of you versus other. It is the energy you've learned to embody because of your wounds, because of what you think you need to behave like to be perceived as perfect based on society, based on your family, based on things you've subconsciously picked up through the news, through movies, through. marketing and, you know, we're, we're constantly being shaped and bombarded by information. That's what shapes our subconscious and that's what Pisces rules. And at this eclipse, the sun is shining a light on that subconscious. All of these energies we've embodied into our being. All of these energies that shape us and then make us behave a certain way in our day to day. That's Virgo. Virgo is how then. The energy that's influenced us, molds us, and then impacts how we show up in our day to day. And then it impacts how people respond to us because we're showing up a certain way in our day to day. And so back to my story, I, I learned certain. Societal constructs for what it means to be social and what it means to be social is to talk and to carry the conversation and to ask people a lot of questions and I learned this when I was younger from my mom because I didn't have many friends, but I did have a couple friends and I remember there was this point where the couple friends I did have didn't wanna spend time with me anymore. And they said it's because all I wanted to do was play video games and they wanted to go out and play and be loud and do all these different things. And I was a very different kid. And so I remember my mom sitting me down and saying, Rachel, this is how you make people like you. And I'll never forget that conversation because I absorbed it deeply into my being as, if you wanna be successful in this world, if you wanna survive, you have to put on this mask and be social. So I observed people and I knew exactly how to be social. I knew how to make people feel safe. I knew how to be open with people. I even used to describe to people what I would do. Like, you know, when you're at a dog park and a big dog will roll on its back. In, in order to allow the little dogs to feel safe to play with it. I used that as an example of what I would do in conversation. I would purposefully make myself seem vulnerable or make myself seem weak in order to make the other person feel safe. I knew how to make people feel safe. I knew how to carry a conversation. Yet, I wondered why Every time I'm then around people, I get this extreme tightness in my chest, extreme tightness in my throat, and I wondered why I could appear and know how to act so confident but not feel confident. And this is something a lot of people might be reckoning with right now, is. You don't feel like things in your life are you, but you don't exactly know how to be you because you are shaped to be this other way. Just like for me, I was shaped to be fake, confident, not by my mom. Well, I mean a little bit by me observing. And then I wondered why I felt tight, why I didn't feel safe to be me around anyone, even though I knew how to make people feel safe to be themselves around me. At least that was a story I told myself. So these last couple of weeks, anxiety for me on high fucking alert. And luckily for me, I know astrology and I knew that this upcoming Virgo eclipse. Was directly on my lith and Pisces, which is my exact wound that I have around being overlooked, around being misunderstood, around not being seen for my gifts and my depth of wisdom and my intuition, and who I truly am not being seen for just being me. And that was that wound when my mom told me, if you don't want people to leave you, you have to be someone else right there. That taught me. You cannot be seen as you. It is so fucking unsafe. People will leave you and so I've been sitting with that. It's why I didn't release my podcast episode last week. I really wanted to sit with why I'm expressing myself when I express myself. Am I expressing myself because I want validation and I wanna prove that I'm wise and I know things. Am I expressing myself a certain way?'cause I'm deeply afraid of being misunderstood in that moment. So I repeat my same point again and again and again to make sure people understand me. Am I express, like I, I, that's what I've been doing. So what I came to was I've always known what my authentic voices and my authentic self-expression is. And my authentic voice and authentic self-expression has a lot less to say than most people, or it's not constantly talking. It only has things to say when it has things to say yet, because I made that a wrong thing. I, I fill in space and I overtalk. And I overexplain. And so this past week I faced my deepest fears. I reminded myself in every conversation I had that my power is my presence. I showed up to my calls and I only talked to the extent that I had something to stay, and then I stopped and I allowed the silence to get as awkward as possible for me and for them, and I wouldn't I, I held. To not filling the space and you wanna know what happened. My throat shocker was going like this. It was convulsing. It was like, it's even doing it right now. It was like, this is not safe. You're not making them feel safe. You're not feeling safe.'cause you're not making them feel safe. That was the voice going on in my head. It was freaking out, but I kept breathing. Uh, and returning, returning back to presence. I'm getting to my point for this eclipse because we have an awakening aspect at this eclipse. The one major aspect we have going on is we have Uranus in Taurus. Aspecting the moon in Virgo at the Eclipse, Uranus and Taurus awakens us to our higher self. It awakens us to authenticity. It awakens us to truth, and when it's in TAUs. It wants to awaken you to your nature to the present moment. It wants to awaken you to your senses and to trust that what your body is feeling is telling you something and you don't need to bypass it. And so in conversation before when I'd get anxious and I felt like I needed to talk to still fill the space in that moment, my body didn't need me. To be more because the highest expression of Taurus is just being, it's worthy. Because it's being, that's why Taurus is the slow earth present, sensual earth sign, and it's about self-worth. It is about your worthy just to be. You don't have to prove anything. But what happens is when we're shaped by society and our upbringing and conditioning and all of these subconscious ways we're shaped to not be ourselves, but to see what is actual perfection, and we're told we have to act this way. For me, I was told you have to be this way. If you wanna be liked by people. Maybe for you, you were told you have to be responsible and make sure everyone's okay so that you can feel safe. Maybe you were told. I have to stuff my truth to keep the peace because if I don't keep the peace and I speak my truth, I could be exiled, I could be abandoned, I could lose love. There's some thing that's been programmed into your subconscious that is impacting your energy and it's impacting how you show up in micro detailed ways throughout the day, and it's blocking you from living in alignment. With your, your soul's truth, with magic, with the limitless possibilities that are available to you when you are truly you. When you are authentically connected to the present moment, when you are authentically connected to your beingness, when you are authentically connected to the senses in your body and you don't allow them to push you to overextend yourself. But instead you breathe into them. Ah, you allow, you allow them to be there. You allow them to give you information.'cause you wanna know what happened to me this last week when I practiced sitting in awkward silences and not feeling the space and I breathes into my body. Instead, I had. Much more deeply embodied, grounded insights for my clients. We had much deeper, more impactful conversations. I felt more grounded and embodied even though it was fucking terrifying for me. And that's what this, these Pisces Virgo eclipses are pulling out of you. They're wanting you. To stop needing to show up as perfect Virgo. Stop being so critical of yourself and editing yourself and needing to show up a certain way. Needing to word how you say things a certain way. It's not about how you word things. It's not about you showing a perfect. That's what this Virgo Eclipse is trying to bust you out of. It's about you owning what is true and authentic in the present moment. You owning what you're feeling right now. And if you have nothing to say, you say nothing. Even if it creates awkwardness. If you're feeling anxious as fuck, maybe you say it, even if it creates awkwardness. Because you are learning that there is value in your authenticity. That's the Uranus and Taurus wind opportunity at this eclipse. Again, Taurus is values. Uranus is authenticity. We are learning. There is value in your presence, value in your authenticity, value in your being. There is more value in you being and staring at someone and being present than any fucking thing you have to say. Virgo is how we communicate Virgo edits. Virgo wants to make things perfect. Virgo thinks that if it just changes this and changes that and changes this, Virgos in the lower expression. Virgos not even looking at the energetics. It's literally just looking at the moving logical earthly pieces. We're too far into Virgo right now. We've gotten too far into the how, too far into the logic, too far into the perfectionism. It's not about what you have to say anymore. There is a mass awakening that's been happening. The earth has been rising to the heart shock or consciousness. People can feel things now. They wanna feel your heart in it. And when we're acting from the mind Virgo, and we're being a perfectionist and editing our life through tinkering and just doing things logically or just doing things on the earthly realm without addressing the energy behind it, the fear behind it, why are you needing to edit and show up perfectly? Why are you over talking? Why are you not speaking up when you have something to say and you don't agree with someone? It's because we have a fear of being misunderstood, a fear of being overlooked, a fear. That we need to put on a mask and show people I am perfect in order for me to find success, in order for me to be loved. But really we're moving into an age where that doesn't work anymore. People want to feel you, and the only way to get to authenticity and to embody your true magnetism is to go through that Pisces fear. Realize why you're making yourself act perfect. And consciously shed it consciously. Create the awkward silences like I did. Consciously. Connect to your body and allow for awkwardness and put yourself first. Put how you're feeling first. I was just in an introduction call for a leadership program. we're all facilitators in this leadership program, and it was like a networking call for all the facilitators, and I was eighth in line to introduce myself or I don't know, I was somewhere down the line towards the end. I hate being at the end to introduce myself because my anxiety is building every person who talks. I'm the person who usually likes to go first because then my anxiety didn't have time to build and I. Uh, because speaking and formulating my deep thoughts into something that I actually have to say is very scary for me and new for me in this lifetime. I told you in the beginning of this podcast, I didn't talk most of my life, so me talking and communicating is new for me. My north node, which is a new area for you in this lifetime, is in the third house of communication. Speaking out loud is new for me in this lifetime. I'm used to just being a deep thinker, embodying wisdom thinking, thinking deeply, embodying it and greening it. I'm not used to speaking it. And so when it came time to share, I was so nervous. And I was telling everyone what I did and I realized in the very beginning, I have to tell everyone I'm nervous right now because if I don't, if I hide this truth, this nervousness, I am going to feel like I'm gonna wanna vomit. My throat's just gonna get tighter the whole time I talk. And so I spoke it, I said, I am, I teach people truth. And I said, and my truth right now is I'm really nervous. And I said, I wish I went first. Ah. And I like let it out. And then I felt grounded and I could actually tell people what I did. But if I didn't address that truth, that thing that was building fear in me, that thing where I want people to know that I'm a human and waiting to go eighth makes me really nervous. If I didn't do it and then say it out loud and allow that emotion to move through me, even though it was very scary for me, I wouldn't have come to that grounded place of then being able to talk about what I do'cause I would've been hiding a truth. What happens is when we hide who we really are, Pisces, in order to seem perfect, Virgo, we do the opposite of what we want. We think it's going to give us success. We think it's gonna give us power. We think it's gonna give us long-term inner stability, confidence, and um, that inner foundation that we're looking for. But really what it does is it affirms. See, this is why you can't be you, and you have to be perfect. And so there is an ask at this full Moon. Be willing to be imperfect in order to heal yourself, in order to come into safety with who you really are. And it might require you to do things that are scary, that are embarrassing, that could cause a massive argument that you don't wanna be a part of, but that. Is the portal that's available to you. And here's the thing, the more intense, in my experience of a portal, the more scary something is when you go into it and you face it and you allow yourself to do it, and you hold yourself through it, and then you do it again and again and again. you're opening yourself up to finally getting validated from who you truly are. Wanna know what happened to me last week as I was creating these awkward silences with all of my clients? Is. A lot of them would end up eventually talking and carrying the conversation and asking me questions, and then we'd go into deeper layers of their birth chart in the conversation and unlock even bigger things. If I didn't allow that to happen, by being willing to make it awkward and allowing that space, I would've never been shown that it is safe to create that space. That it's safe to shut up when I have nothing else to say that it's safe to allow people to rise to meet me. And you wanna know another thing that happens is as I've been doing practices like this,'cause this is just one example, this has been partly how I've transformed so many layers of my life. Is through going into truth, going into the darkness, going into the unknown. It's why I talk about truth in so many of my podcasts.'cause it's everything. It is your greatest liberator. It is your greatest teacher. It is everything. Everything. Everything is your truth. and it's the scariest thing in the fucking world, but also where all of your power is on the other side.'cause here's the thing, now that I'm okay with silence or I'm learning to be okay with silence, I can talk to anyone. Now that I'm learning, to be okay to telling people exactly how I feel, I can feel however I want around anyone. We only sabotage ourselves when we consciously and consistently hide the truth from ourselves. We only project an energy that's not super magnetic to people and doesn't get us what we want. We are not completely connected to ourselves. Truth is the longest lasting form of of success.'cause here's the other thing. There are people who are successful, who are not in truth, but they don't last truth lasts. And there's many things about this Virgo Eclipse that are wanting you to shed perfectionism, shed what's not truly you, so that you can align with an energy, with an anchoring point in your authenticity that creates something that lasts, something that's authentic, something that humanity needs over these next 20 years of Pluto and Aquarius. Pluto and Aquarius is bringing the death and rebirth of the old way of doing. We are completely dismantling old structures. That's what Aquarius does. Aquarius is ruled by Saturn. Saturn builds structures. But what Aquarius, the Aquarius version of Saturn. It breaks down old structures in order to rebel and build towards the new. And in order to build towards the new, we need authenticity. We need the real ones. We need the people who are willing to look like freaks, the people who are willing to say the things that are terrifying. The people who are willing to just be so radical in their authenticity, they're not afraid to say it because those are the only things that are gonna move us forward. And the two things happening at this Virgo Eclipse, we have Saturn. So Saturn I just told you, it builds long-term structures, Saturn's with the sun at this Virgo eclipse. And the sun. That's illuminating your self-sabotaging behavior. The sun that's illuminating. Where you learned that you could not be yourself because you have these fears. You project onto the world. Saturn's helping you put boundaries around that shit so you can cut off those energy leaks. Stop leaking your energy. You leak your energy when you try to be something other than who you truly are.'cause Saturn wants to build long term. It wants to connect you with. Your new day to day, and then Uranus and Taurus. Taurus is also about the long term Uranus. That's awakening us to your authenticity. It's because it also wants something long term to be birthed out of this. If you are going through a portal right now and it feels scary, it feels like you're facing some of your biggest fears, it feels like you're taking this mask off and people don't even know this version of you, and you don't even know what's gonna happen. If you step out tomorrow as this version of you, you will be rewarded for being that version of you. That is you flowing with the energetic flow of this eclipse, flowing with the cosmos. Saturn always rewards in the long term because Saturn work is not easy. It's not easy to face your biggest fears and to stop leaking your energy and to go against everything you've been trained to be in order to be authentic or in order to just release everything that's not yours so you can figure out what's authentic. For some people, you're gonna be shedding jobs that feel terrifying for you to shed. For others, you're gonna be shedding relationships that feel terrifying for you to shed. For others. You are going to be shedding behaviors and social ways of being that are gonna feel terrifying for you to shed, and Saturn will give you the karmic rewards. Something that's really interesting at this eclipse is Venus is retrograde. In Aries, so we are reflecting on ourselves. Aries is ourselves. It is your identity, and Venus is your self-worth. How you go about receiving your standards, your values, the worth you hold yourself at. When you hold yourself at your truth, that's you holding yourself in your highest worth, your highest beingness, because truth is beingness. And so when you are in your highest truth, you open yourself up to the most abundance and ability to receive. But here's the thing with Venus is when you don't think you're worthy to be in your truth and you lower your standards to meet life. You contort yourself to meet life so that you can be perfect and live the perfect day to day and look badass or whatever. Whatever story you tell yourself. I told myself many stories reflecting on those things. Right now, Venus is saying, is this really the life you wanna receive? Is this really your way of being in relationship? Is this really the way you wanna be in relationship with the world? Because the level at which you allow yourself to be you is the level at which you're allowing the universe to meet you, and you're gonna get to receive from it. And one final thing I wanna talk about at this eclipse is Mars in cancer. Is trining Saturn in the sun in Pisces. This is giving you energy of being able to tap into why you take certain actions from certain emotional states. So for example. I use this a lot'cause this is how I was, have been able to heal a lot of my money wounds. So I like to use it as an example if getting a bill usually causes this big scarcity emotional reaction in you. Just like, for me, getting awkward silence made me wanna fill the space. Right. Mars and Cancer, it's highlighting how we take action from certain emotions. So let's say you got a bill, it terrifies you, then it springs you into working harder. Virgo,'cause Virgo in the lower expression will slave itself away. It thinks more is more. Really we're learning these next two years that it's not. More is more, your energy alignment is more. Anyways, so what's happening is because Mars is making a direct link to the sun, which is highlighting your self-sabotaging behavior, it's showing you, if you take action from that scarcity feeling, is that really getting you what you want? Because with the North Node and Pisces, we are learning that the place you take action from the place you speak from the place you do anything from is what you get back. Which is why if I race to fill the space out of anxiety, I get a closed off, anxious experience back. But if instead I allow the space and I stay present and I focus on how I feel in giving my body true emotional safety, true emotional fulfillment, not a false sense of emotional safety, a false sense of emotional safety would be get the bill, react scarcely, do everything I can to make the money. That's a false sense of safety, but it's, it's an old way. You might have learned to build safety. It was an old way I learned to build safety was to react to the scarcity. The way I, for example, have healed a lot of money things is I stopped reacting to that scarcity and instead I started giving the scarcity what it needs, which is reminding myself of my value, which was getting calm, which was getting into my body and clearing the energy out, and then getting back into a present worthy state and. When I learned to, um, give myself emotional safety from inside as opposed to needing to control outside of me to make it better, that's when I started making more money and my income just has gone up and up the more I've done it. That's the another opportunity. You have this eclipse notice where you react emotionally to things and it's coming from an upregulated state and ask yourself. What does this feeling really need right now? What does this feeling really need to know? How can I make myself feel safe first and get myself into presence, into my worth, into my values, and allow enough trust in my beingness, the worthiness of my beingness. So that is going to give me my next best step that I will be taking care of as long as I come back to my worth and my value. It requires going into the unknown. That's the north node in Pisces. We're being pushed into the unknown, these next 18 months but it's in the unknown that you find your power. It's in the unknown, that you unlock your magic and it's in the unknown that you unlock your gifts. Pisces is where all of your gifts lie. Every time you. Stop reacting to a situation from a lower vibe emotion because you wanna control your external reality every time you come back into presence and you're able to nurture yourself from within and then allow that to guide you forward is every time you unlock a spiritual gift that's been hidden to you your whole life. That's why Pisces is the sign of our hidden gifts as much as it's the sign of our self-sabotaging behaviors. So that's the opportunity you have at this eclipse. I'm really excited to hear how this shows up for you guys. If you would like support of this eclipse. I don't take many readings these days. I only have a few days that I take readings now a week. So you can book a reading below. I do have one spot open for one-on-one coaching. The requirements are you had to have gotten a reading with me before in order to apply for one-on-one coaching. So if you wanna explore coaching with me using the stars to unravel these deep layers'cause that's what I'm the best at. I'm the best at helping you get to those deeper layers of yourself, the things that keep you in the patterns, the things that are super raw. I just had a client who, she's had this pattern her whole life and in the last five months, we've completely removed it from her body. She said it to me the other day. Wow. It's weird to even look at myself that way anymore.'cause that seems like lifetimes ago, but it was literally five months ago. I bring you using these principles into the type of healing where you get that deep and profound embodied body level healing that you normally get in 10, 15 years in like a five, six month span. It's because we do a lot of the things I talk about here. So if you wanna apply the applications down the show notes as well, and I will see you guys on the next episode.