Earth, mutable, feminine, energy inwards
As we head into eclipse season, this Virgo lunar eclipse kicks off the process of betterment. The inner nature of Mercurian energy infuses this intense moon to critically analyse what needs work. Whether that's our health, our relationships, our working life or our family connections.
As the sign of service, Virgo allows us to give to what is greater than ourselves. As a transitional energy, self-work shifts into work for others. Where Virgo is in your chart will dictate how this service is channelled - greater good for humanity (11th house), a cause (12th house), personal appearance and attitude (1st house), the psyche (4th/8th).
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Virgo embodies a meticulous and precise nature. That critique is designed to state what requires improvement. What is not 'perfect'.
Common Virgo traits
Detail-Oriented: Virgos excel in focusing on the finer details, ensuring that every aspect is accounted for.
Reliable: As an earth sign, Virgo is inherently dependable and trustworthy, known for their consistent work ethic and commitment.
Practical: Virgo's practical mindset allows them to make sensible decisions and handle resources wisely, ensuring they are always prepared for whatever comes their way.
Service-Oriented: Virgo is often seen as the sign of service, focusing on how they can help and improve situations through practical means.
Health-Conscious: Virgo is associated with health, routines, and practices that maintain physical well-being.
The shadow side of Virgo
Ever heard of 'analysis paralysis'? Totally invented for Virgo. While critical thinking can be useful, it can also be detrimental. Over-thinking delays action. It can create a situation where nothing is perfect enough, leading to a negative self view.
Giving to others is great. Not giving to ourselves at the same time .... not so great.
Whilst Virgo favours a healthy lifestyle, ill health is just as likely to rear it's head. If the mind and body feed each other, then what we think and say to ourselves effects our physical health.
The Virgo-Pisces Axis
The Virgo-Pisces axis represents one of the six polarities in astrology. It balances the practical, earthy energies of Virgo with the intuitive, watery energies of Pisces. Here’s a closer look at how these two signs complement and contrast each other:
Service vs. Sacrifice: Virgo is often seen as the sign of service, focusing on how they can help and improve situations through practical means. Pisces, on the other hand, embodies the theme of sacrifice, often giving of themselves selflessly and sometimes losing their own boundaries in the process.
Detail vs. Big Picture: Virgo is meticulous and focused on the details, ensuring that every aspect is accounted for. Pisces, however, thrives on seeing the big picture and understanding the broader, more spiritual or artistic implications of a situation.
Health vs. Healing: Virgo is associated with health, routines, and practices that maintain physical well-being. Pisces, meanwhile, is linked to healing, often in a more emotional or spiritual sense, providing comfort and understanding.
Reality vs. Dream: Virgo is grounded in reality, valuing facts, order, and tangible results. Pisces, in contrast, floats in the realm of dreams, imagination, and the subconscious, where creativity and intuition reign.
Integration of Virgo and Pisces Energies
Balancing the energies of Virgo and Pisces involves integrating the practical with the mystical. This axis encourages us to find harmony between our day-to-day responsibilities and our spiritual or creative aspirations. It’s about using the detailed, analytical skills of Virgo to manifest the dreams and visions inspired by Pisces.
When significant astrological events, such as eclipses or planetary transits, occur along the Virgo-Pisces axis, we are called to examine and reconcile these themes in our lives. This eclipse may prompt us to release habits or routines that no longer serve us, while embracing a more holistic, compassionate approach inspired by Pisces.
Let's look at the chart for the full lunar eclipse in Virgo
We see that the moon is joined by the South Node in Virgo and opposite there is a stellium of planets in Pisces (Saturn, Sun, North Node and Neptune). Neptune being at the critical 29th degree of the sign of rulership.
Aspects at this full lunar eclipse in Virgo
Opposition to the Sun in Pisces: This aspect emphasizes the balance between practical, detail-oriented Virgo and the dreamy, intuitive nature of Pisces.
Opposition to Saturn in Pisces: Saturn crystallises/makes physical and Pisces releases/fades/dissolves. While a tricky combo, it can create dreams, induce faith and solidify chaos states.
Conjunct the South Node/Opposing the North Node: An activation in our collective evolution. Themes of health and healing and endings are highlighted.
Trine to Uranus in Taurus: This harmonious aspect can bring unexpected changes and innovative ideas, particularly related to material resources and personal values.
Square to Mars in Gemini: This challenging aspect may bring tension and conflict, urging us to find a balance between assertiveness and adaptability.
Ask yourself
1 What you are analysing with a view to becoming 'better'?
2 If you sense healing is possible, how can you hold onto faith and trust the universe?
3 What are you letting go of to make room for Aries and initiating the new?
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