Virgo Full Moon

The Virgo Full Moon brings perfectionist and nit picky tendencies to the fore, which can emerge in so many different settings. Virgo typically orients towards OCD neatness and order, while the Sun in Pisces, has a more fluid, chaotic feel. Interestingly, both signs can be effective on the creative front, but we might argue that Pisces provides a sea of opportunities and Virgo is uncompromising about which to move forward with. Pisces and Virgo working as a team can derive significant meaning and form by drawing disparate elements together, like the poet presenting unrelated words tighter in tidy rhymes. Planets and the Lights (Sun and Moon) in opposition may seem to be working against one another but can possibly find common ground nearer the center where their differences are not so polarized. Here, we may even find crossover; the seriousness of heavy words lands in a gentler yet still resonant way when the right container appears to manage and hold their weight, for example.

Added to the mix is Venus in Virgo conjunct the Sun and opposite the Moon. Venus and the Moon are traditionally thought of as the main “feminine” bodies in the solar system and may literally represent women (or those embodying typically female types of qualities) with very different roles, attitudes, or approaches to life. At a more personal level, the different planetary energies in opposition may represent people-pleasing versus addressing our true needs. Perhaps we feel we must present a happy face or try to keep the peace in a conflict when there is something else going on, underneath, which we feel too vulnerable to reveal.

Virgo sometimes struggles with confidence and an anal approach to projects and can get hung up on a need to get every detail right and present a perfect end result. Yet, who is to judge what perfection is, given that tastes and standards can be so different in varied contexts? Venus might be so obviously present as a reminder that it can be all right sometimes to just do what feels nice and brings a sense of happiness or satisfaction! Let’s try and make the must of Venus’s loving and pleasing energy.

The Moon has also just separated from a trine to Uranus in Taurus, suggesting that it has been fine welcoming in a little bit of innovation, even if this may have altered the expected outcome slightly. Harmonious Moon–Uranus aspects can represent being happier in one’s own company and less troubled by isolation — possibly bringing more space to relax into one’s own way of being, thinking, and doing.

This article is from the Mountain Astrologer, written by Diana Collis.