LONDON, Aug. 28 -- Something that has been building since February arrives at a conclusion today. The Pisces full moon at 4 degrees of the twelfth sign peaked at 4:12 this morning UTC, drawing 96 percent of the lunar disc into Earth's shadow in one of the deepest partial eclipses the current 19-year cycle will produce. The effect, for those who track the inner weather of things, is not so much dramatic as it is final.

Pisces rules endings, surrender, and everything that cannot be controlled by effort alone. An eclipse here does not force events the way an Aries or Capricorn eclipse does. It forces acknowledgment. Something you have known at some level for weeks, possibly months, becomes today impossible to keep setting aside. The door th...