2009 Virgo Full Moon

by Stephanie Azaria

February 28, 2010

11:38 AM EST / 8:38AM PST/4:38 PM GMT

9 Virgo 56 / 9 Pisces 56

The Virgo Full Moon brings issues of healing, boundaries and intactness into the interconnectedness that we have been experiencing from of the Neptune-influenced Aquarian New Moon and predominance of planets in Pisces. Matters that have been in process always come to some sort of fruition under a Full Moon. This month’s shows what’s come of all the heart healing, flashes of insight and boundary-realigning we’ve been undergoing. The Virgo Full Moon facilitates emotional and mental processing, allowing us the distance to review and discern what we have been experiencing and also giving us platforms (or excuses) to vent emotions that have gone unexpressed.

This weekend sheds some light on the miraculous and downright weird twists and turns we’ve been through in the past few weeks. Yet its culminating characteristic stretches farther back in time, to the Pisces New Moon of last August. Since then, we have been through one Saturn/Uranus opposition, two passes of the Saturn/Pluto square and a lunar eclipse in Cancer. Relationships, agreements, situations, attitudes and priorities have been tested, shaken, rattled, knocked loose, plumbed, pruned, excavated, routed, imploded, renegotiated and restructured. This reworking of our realities has left each of us with a much clearer awareness of, appreciation for and commitment to our own nurturing, security, emotional needs and emotional, physical and financial bottom line. We know more instinctively what’s our business and what belongs to someone else, and many of us have lost the impulse to spend our energy on someone else’s business without being invited or asked to do so.

All of this is in keeping with another characteristic of this particular Full Moon. It is the first in Virgo since Saturn left the sign for Libra last fall. Status reports are coming in now on how we are faring with all the lessons we learned while Saturn was in Virgo from the fall of 2007 to the fall of 2009 — tending our own garden, making healthy choices, setting up and maintaining appropriate boundaries and ensuring that we are safe and stable first before assisting others. Saturn is currently in a growth aspect to the Moon and an adjustment aspect to the Sun. It’s appropriate to embrace the healthy Saturn in Virgo lessons and move into a new level of emotional intactness and well-being, even though the ego will have to choose one path and turn away from another. Choices should come easily and organically, though our emotions will have a less complicated time with them than the mind will. The difference comes from the aspects that transformational Pluto is making to the luminaries: a smoothly flowing, grounding trine to the Moon and an opportunity aspect to the Sun, an offer that must be reached for and grasped to come into effect.

Even with the culminations, choices and boundary-drawing, this Moon has the promise of a pleasant and personally satisfying experience. The Sun is conjunct Jupiter, both in Pisces. Though Jupiter has a way of expanding anything he contacts, good or bad, desirable or not, he has the potential of a benign to beneficent impact on this weekend’s event. His current mode blurs the harshness or hardness of the ego, opens hearts into compassion and good will and injects an “all for the best” vibe into the atmosphere. Developments under this Full Moon should feel right, whether we can consciously articulate why. Venus, the ruler of what our hearts desire and value, also has an impact. Having met with Neptune, Chiron and Jupiter in recent memory, she is moving into a conjunction with Uranus. Venus in Pisces is the epitome of compassion and spiritual love, inclined to perceive everyone and everything in the best possible light. Her approach to Uranus jolts us into seeing all our connections with refreshed eyes and hearts and unleashes changes in perceptions, possibilities and pairings. Her sextile to the North Node opens the door to shifts as well within the collective mindset and in our individual relationships to our communities. Doing what’s right and healthiest for the self does not diminish the love and affection we have for others in our lives. In fact, that approach makes our love clearer, cleaner and more powerful. We are learning to love without smothering and controlling, as individuals standing side by side rather than mutually dependent beings.

The Sabian Symbols for the Sun and the Moon both speak in Neptune terms of shadows and fog and point to individual and collective ways of moving beyond them.
Here is Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the Sabian Symbol for the Moon at 10 Virgo, reprinted with her kind permission from her book The Sabian Symbols As An Oracle, the Special Edition:
TWO HEADS LOOKING OUT AND BEYOND THE SHADOWS.

The Commentary: ‘Two Heads Looking Out and Beyond the Shadows’ is a Symbol of duality of thought and observation. This Symbol shows people looking at each other from a ‘Shadowy’, hidden perspective, as though they are checking each other out. The “Two Heads” can illustrate groups of people having different perspectives, or occupying different camps, ‘Looking Out’ and trying to understand, or investigate, what the “other” is doing.

The Oracle: At the moment you may need to be able to see things from more than one side. While what’s happening may not be entirely visible or obvious, it is necessary to look beyond the ‘Shadows’ and into the light. If you feel stuck in a situation because the details of what’s really happening are unclear, try making some type of plan. Mapping out what alternatives there are and the outcomes of possible scenarios will be beneficial. The right plan of action can lead to light being shed and things being revealed. As there are ‘Two Heads’ two people observing the same thing can come to very different conclusions. There may be arguments, bickering and stalemates as they find it hard to agree with each other. Their observations can be quite different, but this can lead to interesting and useful solutions. The ‘Two Heads’ duality can exist in just one person’s thoughts, and seeing both sides of a situation can result in difficulty in making up one’s mind. The loss of the ability to make firm decisions and distinctions and the loss of faith can open the door to fear. Regardless of potential confusion, it is beneficial in some respect to look at every possible aspect of the situation you are in. This can provide more of an understanding of just how another person may feel or react.

The Keywords: Duality of observation or thought. Being able to see both sides of a situation. Fear being the opposite of faith. People peering and peeking. Secret service and government agencies. Gunfights of the old west. Trench warfare. The media, the press, paparazzi, spies, private detectives. Conspiracy theories. Crossed eyes.

The Caution: Confused by duality of thought. Failing to see the integration and cohesion of more than one perspective. Schizophrenia. Fear freezing up positive attitudes. Debates. Stalemates. Making assumptions without the relevant information. Quarrelling.

Hearing both sides brings enlightenment. Believing only one side brings obscurity. Wei Cheng

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. Helen Keller

I don’t understand you. You don’t understand me. What else do we have in common? Ashleigh Brilliant

Do I contradict myself? Very well; I contradict myself. Walt Whitman

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. Anon

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. James Branch Cabell

That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us. Ralph Waldo Emerson

We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are. Anais Nin

Know that you are your own greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend. Jeremy Taylori

Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the Sabian Symbol for the Sun at 10 degrees Pisces is:
AN AVIATOR IN THE CLOUDS.

Commentary: ‘An Aviator in the Clouds’ is an image of a pilot in his plane flying at such an altitude that he is amongst the ‘Clouds’. Flying high can lead to feelings of being cut off and separate from reality and the real world. It must be exhilarating to be up so high and observing this wonderful other realm. It is only a matter of time before the ‘Aviator’ must come down out of the ‘Clouds’ as the constraints of his more earth-bound existence eventually kick in.

Oracle: There may be a need to transcend what’s going on and to rise above difficulties. You may find that you have to rely on your intellectual or emotional skills to take you above and beyond your current situation. Just be aware that you may not be seeing the complete picture very clearly at the moment. Alternatively, you may be actively evading the real truth. If you take special notice, you will be able to see through illusions, to see through surface appearances to observe things that others may miss. Where are you sailing in the sky? Is it too high up to be able to really “see” anything? Do you feel the need to disconnect with what’s going on and to simply observe instead of becoming involved? What will happen if you keep flying without watching how much fuel you have at your disposal, and you run out? Whatever the situation, put your energy into enjoying the journey. Watch, observe and learn.

Keywords: Elevated views. Always seeing the best in people and things. Peace and tranquility. The longing for transcendence. Not seeing limitations. Being in a refined “head space”. Mastery. Flight, planes, pilots. Avoidance of time constraints. Pollyanna attitudes. Free flights of fantasy and escapism. The need for accurate navigation. Being in charge of the controls. Seeking higher truths. Maps. Compasses. Global satellite positioning.

The Caution: Sailing through difficulties or missing what’s really going on. Escapist use of alcohol and drugs, etc. Lack of grounded energy or reality. Being unearthed. Escaping responsibilities. Isolating oneself. Completely missing the point. Feeling high and mighty and above everyone else, particularly with intellectual skills. Wrong turns. Missing the signs.

Here’s a riddle for Our Age: when the sky’s the limit, how can you tell you’ve gone too far? Rita Dove

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. William Blake

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. Amelia Eberhardt

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris … [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping. Orville Wright

As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside. Sonia Johnson

Don’t “over-control” like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it. Donald Rumsfeld

Let your soul be your pilot. Let your soul guide you. Sting

*The excerpts from Lynda Hill’s book The Sabian Symbols As An Oracle, the Special Edition, © Lynda Hill 2002, have been reprinted by permission of the author.