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ARIES ♈ | TAURUS ♉ | GEMINI ♊ | CANCER ♋ | LEO ♌ | VIRGO ♍ | LIBRA ♎ | SCORPIO ♏ | SAGITTARIUS ♐ | CAPRICORN ♑ | AQUARIUS ♒ | PISCES ♓
At this South Node eclipse, you're confronted with the remnants of old behavioural patterns that, for far too long, have shaped your approach to relationships and personal connections, particularly in their subtler, more insidious forms. The placement of Libra on the cusp of your 12th house casts a long shadow, one that has, until now, allowed you to hide behind the illusion of harmony while sidestepping deeper emotional truths. In the past, there might have been tendencies to suppress your own individuality for the sake of peace, to mould yourself into whatever shape you believed others needed, all the while erasing your inner compass. This eclipse cracks that façade wide open, forcing you to disentangle from the comforting yet deceptive patterns of self-abandonment.
The desire for balance, for relational peace at all costs, has been your undoing. In your attempts to maintain fairness and objectivity, there’s been a constant undercurrent of self-sacrifice, where your personal needs have been sublimated beneath the expectations and demands of those around you. You’ve become hyper-attuned to the emotional and psychological climates of others, absorbing their moods and reactions as if they were your own, and in doing so, you’ve dissolved your own boundaries. This eclipse will act as a catalyst, bringing to light the ways in which you have diluted your sense of self, and exposing the spiritual exhaustion that comes from endlessly seeking equilibrium in relationships where imbalance reigns supreme.
There might have been tendencies to idealise relationships to a degree that left you perpetually disappointed when reality failed to meet your lofty expectations. The rose-tinted lens through which you’ve viewed partnerships allowed you to ignore the fundamental flaws in the people you connected with, hoping that by maintaining peace, you could also maintain the illusion of perfection. This eclipse will tear away those illusions. No longer can you afford to paint over cracks in the foundation, hoping that a bit of charm, intellectual discourse, or emotional detachment will patch things up. You are being called to acknowledge where your ideals have failed you—not because you were wrong to have them, but because they were misaligned with the messy, imperfect nature of human connection.
With Libra on the 12th house cusp, there has also been an unconscious tendency to retreat into intellectualisation as a way of distancing yourself from the emotional chaos that relationships so often bring. You’ve hidden behind reason, behind the cool detachment that Libra can provide, using fairness and logic as armour against the vulnerabilities that come with true intimacy. But this eclipse will make it clear that such defences, while once useful, are now stifling your growth. The fear of emotional messiness, of rocking the boat, has left you in a stagnant position, unable to fully engage with others in a way that is honest and raw. The cosmos now demands that you face the disarray head-on, that you stop retreating into the shadows of the 12th house and confront the emotional entanglements you’ve tried so hard to avoid.
There may have been a tendency, too, to place blame elsewhere when relationships inevitably fell short of your ideals. You might have found yourself cast in the role of victim, feeling wronged when others failed to live up to the standards you quietly set for them. This eclipse will reveal the futility of that mindset. It’s not that others were always at fault, nor that you were wholly to blame—it’s that the dynamics you participated in were rooted in illusion, in a desire for harmony that never truly existed. The blame, the victimhood, the endless cycles of disappointment were symptoms of a deeper problem: your refusal to confront the uncomfortable truths of your own emotional needs and desires.
This eclipse will bring to the surface all the ways in which you’ve allowed yourself to become emotionally dependent on the approval and validation of others. There might have been tendencies in the past to structure your identity around how others perceived you, bending and twisting yourself into a version of what you thought they wanted. But in doing so, you’ve lost sight of your own desires, your own emotional centre. The dissolution of the Libra South Node pattern is a call to disentangle yourself from these dependencies. It asks you to stand firm in your own sense of self, to let go of the compulsive need for external validation, and to release the fear of conflict that has kept you bound to situations and people who do not nourish your soul.
This is a spiritual and emotional reckoning. The sensitivity you’ve developed over time—your intuitive understanding of others’ needs and emotions—has been a double-edged sword. On one hand, it’s allowed you to form deep, empathetic connections; on the other, it has left you vulnerable to emotional manipulation, whether self-imposed or enacted by others. The eclipse shines a light on this vulnerability, showing you where you’ve sacrificed too much of yourself in order to maintain those connections. It asks you to stop hiding your emotional and spiritual gifts behind a veil of rationality, to stop denying your deep need for true emotional and spiritual fulfilment, even if it means upsetting the fragile balance you’ve worked so hard to create.
The eclipse is relentless in its demand for change, and the karmic disentanglements it prompts are non-negotiable. The patterns of self-effacement, of intellectual distancing, of sacrificing your emotional integrity for the sake of external harmony—these must be left behind if you are to evolve. This is not a gentle release; it’s a severing of ties with all that has held you back from fully stepping into your power, your individuality, and your emotional truth. The South Node in Libra has kept you locked in cycles of avoidance, where fairness was prioritised over authenticity, where peace was valued more than progress. But the time for that has passed. The eclipse brings a reckoning with all that is false, all that is defunct, and all that is no longer aligned with your highest good.
You will be asked to confront the deepest parts of your psyche, the shadowy realms of the 12th house where secrets and unresolved emotions lie. There is no escaping this inner work, no intellectual justification that will save you from the emotional purging that this eclipse demands. But in that confrontation, in the acknowledgement of your own emotional needs and vulnerabilities, there is also immense liberation. You are being given the opportunity to release the outdated ways of relating that have held you in karmic bondage for far too long.
In the end, what must be let go is not just the old relational patterns, but also the version of yourself that was complicit in those dynamics. This eclipse asks you to step into a new chapter of self-awareness and emotional honesty, where you no longer hide behind politeness or intellectual detachment. It is a call to reclaim your own emotional sovereignty, to stop playing small in your relationships, and to allow yourself to be fully seen, even if it means dismantling the carefully constructed façades you’ve maintained for so long. Only through this deep release can you truly evolve, free from the karmic entanglements of the past.
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