On February twenty fourth, 2024 we’ve a Full Moon at 5° Virgo.
The Full Moon is reverse Saturn and Mercury in Pisces, and trine Jupiter in Taurus. The Full Moon in Virgo is a chance to look at our limiting beliefs concerning the position we play on this world.
Are we simply born to work, eat, and die, or there’s a deeper objective to our existence?
Fortunately, the trine to Jupiter will give us a useful hand to make sensible enhancements to discover a higher sense of success in our lives.
A Full Moon is essentially an opposition, inviting us to combine the dichotomy of the indicators concerned within the opposition.
We’re at present within the Pisces season. To completely embrace the Pisces agenda, we have to combine the other qualities of Virgo.
What’s Pisces’ agenda? To achieve divine consciousness. Pisces’ purpose is in a approach our life’s objective. Once we elevate our particular person consciousness, we elevate the consciousness of the divine.
However we will solely obtain this Piscean divine, 5D mission if we embody Virgo: if we discover significant, 3D methods to contribute. If we do one thing that makes the world somewhat bit higher than we discovered it. If we’re of service to the world.
Full Moon In Virgo – Being Of Service
The phrase ‘service’ oftentimes has a unfavorable connotation. It doesn’t sound as horny as Leo’s highlight.
Being of service is usually related to being burdened with obligations. However that’s not what being of service is about – at the very least, not in Virgo’s books.
Being of service just isn’t about being good, giving issues totally free, or fulfilling an obligation to appease our dharma (or unconscious sense of guilt).
Being of service is a pure side of our individuation.
As soon as we’ve found our true essence within the earlier signal (Leo), being of service – or turning our uniqueness into one thing purposeful – is the pure subsequent step in our evolution.
Once we comply with the pure movement of life, we will’t assist ourselves however flip our skills into one thing that creates some form of worth on this planet. That’s Virgo’s superpower: Virgo simply ‘is aware of’ what one thing is sweet for.
Virgo, similar to Gemini, is dominated by Mercury. With Virgo, we don’t have the Gemini mental, cerebral method. Virgo’s realizing is anchored in nature and matter. If Gemini is our mind, Virgo is our intestine – additionally referred to as the “second mind”.
Now we have trillions of microorganisms in our intestine, all coexisting in a fancy ecosystem, every with its explicit position in sustaining our well being. We might extrapolate and say that being of service is realizing what our position within the huge ecosystem of life is – after which appearing in line with that position.
The Virgo/Pisces axis is the axis of service. Pisces’ approach of being of service is being compassionate, holding area, and even sacrificing particular person wants for the higher good.
Virgo’s approach of being of service is extra concrete. Virgo will assist in methods which might be sensible and measurable. Virgo’s approach of serving to is by bettering one thing in materials, tangible methods.
Virgo can also be related to work and harvest. Doing the Virgo work mustn’t really feel like exhausting work, however extra like reaping the harvest. If one thing seems like exhausting work – if we resent doing it – then it’s possible not rooted in a real intention of being of service.
It’s faking “being of service” that turn into the shadow Virgo qualities: criticism, nagging, resentment, or mental snobbery.
However how can we embody the pure qualities of Virgo, and don’t get misplaced within the shadow expression?
Virgo – The Subsequent Step Of Our Individuation Course of
If somebody is born with a Virgo signature this doesn’t imply that they naturally excel in any respect issues Virgo. Quite the opposite. They have been born to study, and embody these qualities. This goes for all of the indicators of the zodiac.
A ‘child’ Virgo remains to be somewhat little bit of a Leo. When the qualities of the signal are below improvement, there’s a tendency to fall into the patterns of the earlier signal.
We all know that Leo is the distinctive artistic expression of the Self. Leo must be seen and appreciated. So once we attempt to be a Virgo, however we’re nonetheless a Leo, in fact, there will likely be some challenges.
My favourite instance is Virgo’s proverbial “However I’m simply making an attempt to assist” to justify harsh remarks, criticism, or unsolicited suggestions.
Once we say “I’m simply making an attempt to assist” to justify criticism, we’re not actually making an attempt to assist. Extra possible, there’s some mental superiority, “look how good I’m” motivation behind Virgo’s ‘recommendation’ which reminds us of Leo’s want for validation.
Built-in Virgo power is of course useful. How do we all know that? As a result of it fixes an issue, fairly than creates one. As a result of it improves one thing, fairly than damages it.
Virgo power is without doubt one of the most underestimated drivers of progress and well-being.
Because of Virgo, we’ve agriculture and meals on our tables. Now we have cities and sanitation. Now we have public transportation. Now we have organized techniques and environment friendly processes.
In Virgo, we tame our internal lion with self-reflection and self-awareness. Mercury (Hermes in Greek mythology) who’s Virgo’s ruling planet, was the one deity who might freely journey between the underworld and the world of dwelling.
Pondering and communication – that are Mercury’s domains – are facilitated by the method of introspection and reflection. With Mercury, we internalize one thing we understand with our senses. We go inside.
Due to this fact, to harness Virgo power we have to journey into our internal underworld, integrating the aware with the unconscious.
Full Moon In Virgo And The Abduction Of Persephone
This course of is mirrored within the Abduction Of Persephone fable, which is a metaphor for the Virgo state of consciousness.
The parable begins with Persephone making an attempt to select a narcissus flower. As she reaches out to select it up, the bottom all of the sudden opens up, and Hades (Pluto), the god of the underworld, emerges on his chariot and abducts her.
Is it a coincidence that Hades abducts Persephone precisely when she is making an attempt to select the narcissus? Under no circumstances.
What does this metaphor inform us?
The narcissus flower (narcissus – narcissism) is an emblem of the ego-driven qualities of Leo. Leo power has its objective: to bloom, to shine brightly.
However there are things like cycles of nature, cycles of life. Nothing lasts without end – at the very least not in our 3D, materials actuality. That flower will ultimately fruit. We will’t be Leos all our life. Time strikes on. So does nature. So can we.
There comes a time once we naturally outgrow our Leo-ness. And within the Perspephone fable, that is symbolized by the kidnapping of Persephone – precisely when she was about to select the narcissus flower. One thing like “You’re now not a baby”. “Time to develop up and descend into your internal underworld”.
We will discover this Virgo/maiden archetype in fable, fairy tales and folklore. “Sleeping Magnificence” for instance is a metaphor for the Virgoan state of our consciousness (with the combination of the Virgo polarity, Pisces).
Whereas asleep, Sleeping Magnificence goes into the underworld – similar to Persephone follows Hades – to satisfy her unconscious. When she is prepared, the prince comes and kisses her, awakening her. She will now transfer to the Libran state of consciousness.
Coming again to the Persephone fable.
Persephone is taken to the underworld, the place she turns into Hades’ queen. Over there, she eats a couple of pomegranate seeds supplied by Hades. Consuming meals from the underworld certain her to that realm, stopping her from leaving completely.
In the meantime, her mom Demeter, consumed with grief over the lack of her daughter, neglects her duties because the goddess of agriculture.
Zeus ultimately intervenes and because of this, Persephone finally ends up spending half a yr along with her mom on this planet of dwelling, and half a yr within the underworld with Hades.
This association created the cycles of seasons.
Virgo – Integrating The Aware With The Unconscious
When Persephone eats the pomegranate seeds, she will’t return to being an harmless maiden unaware of the underworld. Psychologically, that is when she integrates her aware and her unconscious.
Along with her descent into the underworld and alternate dwelling preparations, the two worlds are united, and the 4 seasons are created.
The earth turns into fertile once more, however in a seasonal, aware approach.
Whereas the parable portrays a distraught Demeter, there isn’t a reference to Persephone being distressed by being Hades’ queen and spending 6 months a yr within the underworld.
She naturally shapeshifts (Virgo is the Mutable Earth signal of the zodiac) between the two realms. This comes naturally to her.
That’s her objective, as a manifestation of pure Virgo power.
This Full Moon in Virgo is an invite to replicate on the Virgo step of your individuation course of.
The place do you should restore steadiness in your life and get in tune together with your pure seasons?
During which space of your life do you should ‘graduate’ from Leo-like self-sufficiency and discover a deeper that means in your actions and contributions?
How are you going to be of service in a approach that comes pure to you and leverages your distinctive expertise and abilities?
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