🌑 Eclipse Season: Shedding Old Identities and Stepping Into Freedom

Eclipse season is never subtle. It arrives like a cosmic storm—shaking loose what we cling to, surfacing the shadows we’ve ignored, and asking us to see ourselves without filters.

This recent lunar eclipse was no different. The collective has been moving through fear, scarcity, survival wounds, and deep questions of identity. And I’ve been right there too.

🌕 My Personal Struggle

Over the past week, I felt myself in freeze and fight mode. Old pain rose up in my body—especially in my hips and lower back, the places I’ve always carried fear, abandonment, and unsafety. I felt the victim energy running through me. I even caught myself returning to an old mental story: that success in my life means being in partnership with a man I deeply love and a career that proves my worth.

This belief has been lodged in me for years, and even through so much healing work, I realized I was still pushing myself into this traditional mold. Career wise, relationship wise and lifestyle I have been living in the . I was still measuring my worth against an identity that doesn’t feel like mine anymore. Possibly never was, but never would have known if i didnt choose to love illuminating my shadow and knowing breakthroughs are on the other side.

The eclipse cracked it open. It showed me where I was holding myself small.

🌌 What the Eclipse Is Asking Us Collectively

• Release outdated identities. The eclipse highlights the masks we’ve outgrown—roles, relationships, beliefs, even definitions of success.

• Examine the shadows of safety. Where are we chasing external validation instead of rooting in self-trust?

• Let go of perfection. Eclipses remind us that endings and chaos are part of the cycle. We don’t have to control the void; we only need to trust it.

🌿 Empowered Awareness: How to Work With This Energy

1. Notice the identity stories. Ask yourself: What “shoulds” am I still carrying? What roles no longer feel alive for me?

2. Allow the grief. Releasing an identity—even one that limits you—can feel like loss. It’s okay to grieve the version of yourself you thought you “should” be.

3. Choose expansion. Eclipse portals are invitations. Instead of focusing on what’s leaving, ask: What is the spaciousness making room for?

4. Anchor in sovereignty. Success doesn’t live in someone else’s hands. It lives in your authenticity, your gifts, your freedom to be fully you.

✨ Closing Reflection

Eclipse seasons aren’t easy. They are initiations. They strip us bare, not to punish us, but to show us the weight we no longer need to carry.

For me, this eclipse illuminated how I was still attaching my worth to "traditional career", when I am built to be of service and community, and partnership, when the truth is—my success is my sovereignty. My love for myself. My ability to live heart-led and free and choose to express it daily without expectations of monogamous traditional "til death due us part" when this doesn't even have a foundation in my now belief system.

And for you? The question this eclipse asks is:

🌑 Which old identity are you ready to release so that your soul can breathe free?

Take this portal as a chance to honor your shadows and choose expansion. We are all in this together, each shedding, each rising, each remembering.