Embracing Transformation: Tarot for Neptune Direct in Pisces

Neptune is turning direct at 29Pisces on December 10, 2025. This day has the Disseminating (sharing) Moon in Virgo, in the early waning (releasing) phase of the Scorpio Lunation. The lunation is the background. The heart of the 3-day period of Moon in Virgo is — 

The Opposition Dynamic of Pisces and Virgo:
The Earthy Healer and the Dreamy Mystic

As Neptune turns direct at 29Pisces, the emotional needs of the Moon in Virgo center on order, health, service, and tangible routines. It finds comfort in clarity, analysis, and “doing things right.”

Neptune in Pisces dissolves boundaries, attunes to dreams, compassion, and mystical currents. It pulls the psyche toward surrender, imagination, and transcendence.

Moon and Neptune are very compatible. Since they are both considered to be psychic planets, they have the potential to become a tad too “woo-woo” when they are paired. This encounter is in the waning half of the Scorpio lunation. This places the Moon/Neptune event in the Scorpion’s intuitive and transformative landscape. How can we blend the Pisces/Virgo/Scorpio energies on this day to benefit us? What can they teach us–not just about this snapshot moment of the year–but about life in general?

The Stress comes from the Virgo Moon wanting to fix and refine and Neptune in Pisces wanting to dissolve and merge. This can create tension between needing control and needing to let go. Emotional overwhelm or confusion may arise when Virgo’s critical lens clashes with Pisces’s boundlessness. The potential for hurt feelings or fear of being led astray is high. We are trudging through soggy ground and it’s exhausting.

December 10-12 really does carry a psychic triad energy: Virgo Moon (earthy healer), Neptune in Pisces (mystic dreamer), and the Scorpio Lunation (transformative depth). Together, they can form a blend of clarity, devotion, and spiritual intensity if we can keep our feet out of the mud. It’s not “easy,” but it’s profoundly rich.

Here’s how they weave together at this pivotal point:

This triad asks:
How can we honor the sacred in the ordinary, dream without losing grounding,
and transform through devotion?

Shuffle your deck and pull one card for each position.
Journal or meditate on how the three answers weave together — detail, dream, transformation.
(If you prefer, you can select the card for each position instead of drawing the cards.)

Come back to this spread as Neptune continues its goodbye to Pisces. Neptune is gone for good on January 26 of 2026. The Moon will once again be a Disseminating Virgo Moon January 6-8, 2026. The Lunation will have changed from Scorpio to Sagittarius with the New Moon on December 19. Instead of the Death card, we’ll be encountering Temperance. How might an exciting, mind-expanding, adventuresome landscape change and benefit or challenge the Virgo/Pisces opposition?

As the cards remind us, every cycle carries its own rhythm: something to release, a dream to clarify, a transformation to embrace. This simple spread is not just a reading — it’s a symbolic doorway, a way of listening to the waning Moon’s call for release and preparing for a new Neptunian cycle.

I hope your week is guided by clarity, eased by release, and emboldened by transformation. And when the next lunation arrives, return to the cards again — they will meet you where you are, ready to accompany you into the next chapter of your story.

If this spread resonated with you, join me each week for more pondering in the moonlight. Together, we’ll keep weaving the threads of astrology, tarot, and everyday magic into a living, breathing practice.