Full Moon in Virgo: The Wake Up Call

 

Art by Rachel Olynuk

Full Moon in Virgo:  The Wake Up Call

Moon opposite Sun- 2/27/21 @ 2:17am CST

 

Often, the Virgo Full Moon feels like a moment of clarity during Pisces season…where the dreamy light of the Pisces Sun is reflected in the Moon with some Virgo discernment.  It’s a bit of a wake up call…or sometimes more than a bit.

Virgo is the sign of the Priestess, and when the Moon is in this Mercurial Earth sign…she illuminates our habits, rituals, and practices that either serve or no longer serve.  Virgo Moon seeks to cut away what is extraneous and no longer useful, and throws it in the compost to become useful in another way.

This Virgo-Pisces axis we’re feeling now is essentially about service.  It highlights both the mundane (Virgo) and mystical (Pisces) sides of Sacred Service on Earth.  For those who consider themselves spiritual…Virgo Full Moon will invite us to process our beliefs with a critical eye.  This is not a self-serving axis we’re dealing with, so we may be called to examine how our spiritual path is really helping the whole (or if there are pieces that can be extracted from it that are unhealthy in some way).  The way of Virgo, after all, is to find what works and doesn’t work…and to clarify the most efficient way to grow.

For those who don’t consider themselves spiritual in any way (and for those that do as well), there are some very practical things to consider about your own habits and how that effects whatever service you do provide.  What may feel like a ‘nagging’ feeling about what needs to be refined in your life is now seeking some tangible expression.  Virgo Moon gets down to ‘brass tacks’ about things and tends to focus in on what needs some dedicated maintenance.  It’s not the most comfortable feeling, because it usually points out what needs work.

This Full Moon is in harmonious aspect to Uranus in Taurus, amplifying the benefits of engaging with something new and forward-thinking.  At the same time, the sextile between Saturn in Aquarius and Chiron in Aries point the ‘Finger of Gaia’ right at this Full Moon (through 150 degree quincunxes).  This is a call to integrate some structured healing of societal wounds through an uncomfortable growth process.  For those who hear this call, we are more likely to engage in a personal purification process that extracts something that has been perpetuating woundedness in our society.  It may have gone unnoticed for some time.  It may still be difficult to see the whole mess of it.  And yet, the Virgo Moon will highlight a key piece of it for each of us that can be extracted and discarded. 

With Uranus’s influence on this Full Moon, we are drawing up plans for the future.  There is a subtle and beneficial hint here that what we are being called to express now is both original and useful for more than just ourselves.  We might sum it up by considering it as a call for ‘radical integrity’.

 

Love and Gratitude,

Felina Lune Kavi