Full Moon in Virgo: The Art of Well-Being

Full Moon: March 9, 2020 (10:47 AM PST)

Your Natal Chart & this Full Moon in Virgo

First thing first. If you want to know where New + Full Moons are occurring in your specific chart, you’ll need to pull your chart here if you don’t have it already. You can also learn much more about your Natal Chart through the Intro To Astro Course (included in this membership).

You’ll notice the numbers outside of the wheel. This is the degree of your House Cusps. Every sign has 30 degrees, 0 to 29. Like I mention in the Intro To Astro Course, I use Equal Houses, which means that every House Cusp is at the same degree.

This Full Moon occurs in Virgo at 19 degrees. So, for example, if you have Virgo on your 6th House Cusp at 10 degrees, this Full Moon would fall in your 6th House. However, if you have Virgo, let’s say, at 26 degrees on your 6th House Cusp, you’ll actually have this Full Moon in your 5th House because 19 degrees comes before 26 degrees.

This adds a layer of interpretation for how this Full Moon (and all upcoming lunations) will affect you personally.

Danielle’s Virgo Full Moon Reflection

Paring down to essentials. Virgo purifies. It declutters and detoxifies. Spaces, emotions, thoughts. Virgo doesn’t like fuss. It wants to get the job done and it wants to move on.

Virgo gets a bad rap, Some consider it critical. But, really, Virgo just wants to help. This is the sign of service; it seeks to better the world. Sometimes that involves noticing a flaw or two. Noticing everything is exhausting business and Virgo can run very anxious, its nervous system playing itself out in the digestive tract most of all. Processing isn’t Virgo’s strong suit, so fixated as it is on doing. Virgo can have an almost impulsive desire to get things done. Somewhere to put all of its energy.

This Full Moon awakens our powers of discernment. Virgo’s ruler Mercury is in Aquarius, completing its retrograde, propelling our desire for clarity. Further, Virgo is supported by the power trio Pluto, Saturn and Jupiter in Capricorn. We are not alone. And, much to Virgo’s disbelief, we don’t have to be perfect and we don’t have to do things perfectly.

At this time, the Sun is conjunct Neptune opposite the Moon, lending this lunation its surreality and Venus (money, love, attraction + values) is conjunct Uranus (liberation + disruption) in sensual, physical world reality-focused Taurus. We can transcend and unshackle ourselves.

Virgo is the only sign in the zodiac symbolized by a woman unto herself. Virgo energy is among the most self-contained of the signs. It also has an uncanny ability to tune into the body’s innate intelligence, one of its lesser-known qualities.

If we get still and let our bodies speak, what do they say? Where do we get an energetic yes and where do we get an energetic no, as a yoga teacher recently said during a Sacred Movement class.

And if we’re prone to anxiety (and, really, who isn’t in this day and age?) what happens when we let that nervousness speak? I’ll notice, for example, bubbling up in my chest when something is brewing. Sometimes it has a voice, sometimes it just needs to sob. We don’t have to get to the bottom of the energy we’re carrying in order to move it. Sometimes, it comes later. Sometimes not at all. It’s the moving it that matters, that creates space on the other side.

Because Virgo can run anxious and because we are in a particularly unsettling time, this lunation can offer us a window to show up in service to others as an expression of our truest self.

Virgo is also all about the details. So where is the micro magic in our lives? What small miracles are emerging? These are Spirit’s way of communicating to us, to let us know we’re held. It can be the tiniest, subtlest shift. A meeting is moved and we’re given two hours we needed. A license plate on the car in front of us delivers a message we’ve needed. The song on the radio speaks directly to our soul. Numbers in sequence present themselves on receipts, the clock, and buildings.

Where can bring more compassion and forgiveness to ourselves and others, attuning to the great beyond and unbuckling attachments that arrest our presence?

Of course forgiveness cannot be forced. It’s a process of surrender, of coming to terms with what is. And yet, it’s the forgiveness of self that mosts sets us free. So, in what ways, however small, can we forgive our transgressions and simply allow our humanity?

It is a Full Moon, so an ending, culmination, illumination or release is very possible. Sobbing out the anxiety and fear, bodywork to recenter.

This Full Moon in The Houses

If this moon falls in your first house: Awareness of your identity, how you present yourself. Releasing blocks to greater self-assertion and self-agency. Showing up in service. Forgiving the other in service to Self-hood

If this moon falls in your second house: Awareness of any lack regarding finances, or feel you need to be perfect or over function in work in order to make ends meet. Seeing your service in the world as worthy of compensation. Releasing entanglements that no longer serve in service to one’s own investment in self.

If this moon falls in your third house: Awareness of how you communicate and how you operate as a member of your community or as a sibling. Showing up in service to your community or siblings. Using your voice in service.

If this moon falls in your fourth house: Awareness of how you relate to your home, your family or your roots. Releasing limiting beliefs around emotional security and belonging. Showing up in service to your family or roots. Also, classic for pre-Spring cleaning and organizing of the home.

If this moon falls in your fifth house: Awareness of how perfectionism may be arresting creative or authentic self-expression, dating and how you relate to your inner children and children in general. Showing up in service to children, one’s inner child. Service as creative expression.

If this moon falls in your sixth house: Awareness of how organized your work environment is or isn’t. Awareness of how efficient your work environment is or isn’t. Releasing the need to be perfect at work. Showing up in service to coworkers.

If this moon falls in your seventh house: Awareness of our critical nature of others. Awareness of projected perfectionism in relation to partners, both work and romantic. Releasing the critical nature of the self in relation to partnerships of all kinds. Showing up in service to partners. Forgiving ourselves in relationship in service to the relationship.

If this moon falls in your eighth house: Awareness of how critical thinking blocks intimacy or receiving or a deeper delve into the psyche. Releasing anything that doesn’t serve a deeply examined life. Showing up in service to your own psyche. Also, (on a more practical note: organizing your taxes!).

If this moon falls in your ninth house: Awareness of one’s beliefs and how they have served and also not served growth and expansion. Releasing any beliefs related to a servant mentality, rather than a service mentality. Showing up in service to your beliefs and in guiding others through the broadcasting of your ideas.

If this moon falls in your tenth house: Awareness of one’s relationship to authority both in others and in oneself. Understanding the adage: the best leaders serve. Releasing any limiting beliefs regarding one’s own sovereignty. Showing up in service as a leader.

If this moon falls in your eleventh house: Awareness of how discernment shows up in your friendships, fellowship, and professional image, social media, as an example. Showing up in service. “Cleaning up” these areas of your life. Showing up in service to friends or fellowship, organization or cause.

If this moon falls in your twelfth house: Awareness of how service is retreat or how time is spent in solitude, reading, self-care. Releasing any blocks to allowing oneself retreat. Showing up in service in retreat.

JOURNAL PROMPTS

Where in my life am I critical of myself and others?

How does the criticism serve me? What is it protecting or shielding?

Can I feel the judgment in my body, where I’m holding it?

Can I have compassion for this aspect of myself that craves protection and shielding?

Am I willing to forgive myself?

How can I transform this critical nature of myself into service? For example, if I am critical of my (and others) messiness, can I release the judgment I hold of myself and extend this compassion outwardly to others?

Do I feel the release in my body, the exhale?

How can I continue to anchor in this feeling?