Virgo Full Moon
The Virgo Full Moon prompts us to find balance between practical, down-to-earth tasks and emotional, spiritual connections. Sometimes it’s difficult to access the deeper, subtler sides of life experiences, but when we become attuned — working from feelings and intuition — we can find the handling of ordinary, mundane affairs distressing! The focus on the Virgo/Pisces axis during this Full Moon challenges our sense of reality and urges us to work out our true priorities.
Examples include: someone fighting through a difficult divorce for economic reasons, staying in an unsatisfying job, or remaining in a less-than-ideal domestic situation. But ultimately, an untenable point could be reached and prompt us to step away for mental health reasons. Managing such extreme situations can be trying — but it doesn’t have to be that way!
This lunation shows the Sun in between Neptune and Mercury and the Moon in direct opposition to them all. These aspects are slightly wide for a typical “allowed orb” of eight degrees — but when the Lights are concerned, we may allow a few extra degrees for major aspects. With the Moon in Virgo, a range of options are offered through Neptune, the Sun, and Mercury. Some physical, mundane actions or connections, informed by choices related to Mercury and Neptune, could be important.
Mercury typically plays devil’s advocate, which means that even where we think we have no choice, our thoughts present another option! With Neptune, we may need a temporary escape: our job has to be done, so we build in a break with a walk through the park or woods, or by the stream or sea. Or we connect with music, poetry, fluid physical movements in exercise or dance — or any other activity with a flowing, freeing Neptunian quality that raises our sense of consciousness above the harsh moment of “now.”
Thus, we may be able to talk or write our way through something: anything from plotting out dialogue between characters in a novel to a straightforward text conversation with a friend — even in short-form and symbols! Or maybe we journal our thoughts — “I feel ‘X’ about what happened with ‘Y’ …” and, before we know it, we connect with feelings that reveal how a recent incident is rooted in memories of a more distant event. Instead of feeling stuck in a loop or flummoxed by too many choices, we find clarity — and some sort of release.
The closest aspect of the Moon is a trine to Uranus in Taurus, helping us connect afresh with the real world. Often, when Uranus plays a part in our affairs, the universe has our back and sweeps us forward with little effort of our own! We may hit snags or get messy here and there, but surely we’ll have something up and running quickly under this transit, and we’ll be supported by other people’s efforts. Jagged edges can be smoothed later.
As Taurus is Venus-ruled, a new opportunity promises pleasure, or at least basic satisfaction and fulfillment. Even if we experience slight shocks or over-excitement dealing with the unknown and quick developments, we can trust that something good is coming!
This article is from the Mountain Astrologer by Diana McMahon Collis