The Full Moon in Virgo: What to Watch For!

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Happy Friday, everybody. Today, we are going to take a look at this weekend's Full Moon in Virgo, and I'm going to tell you about three key features that you should keep in mind for the full moon as it comes through this weekend. So that is our goal for today.

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Okay, well, on that note, today, here's just a brief preview of the Full Moon in Virgo so that everybody is ready for the weekend. All right, so here we can see that the full moon is coming through about five degrees of Virgo opposite this little log jam of planets in Pisces, which we've been spending some good time with this week and you'll notice that that full moon is coming through February 24. That's tomorrow, Saturday, at about 6am Central time. But that's depending on what time zone you're in.

It's Friday night into Saturday that you're really going to be feeling it, and the full moon will carry over into Sunday, the 25th, as the moon will still be in Virgo.

So I'm not like the world's biggest full moon, honestly. But there are some really interesting significations that we can notice in this full moon and that's what I want to point out today so that you are equipped for the weekend.

So, there are three key features of the Full Moon in Virgo that I want to draw our eyes to the very first one up. So, there are three key features of this Full Moon in Virgo number one. My God, it's all about Mercury. How do we know that?

Well, look at the dignities: we have the Moon in Virgo, the Full Moon in Virgo, which is the domicile and the exultation of Mercury, and wodi dodi, we have the moon also in the bounds of Mercury. So bound domicile and exultation of Mercury.

Well, the moon is a guest in all of these powers of Mercury, and the full moon opposes Mercury. Oh, that's rough, so what does that mean exactly? The reason that is rough is because the opposition to the host when the host has so much power over the full moon suggests a polarization that is going to be very strong during the full moon. It's like on the surface you look at and go, oh, it's just a Full Moon in Virgo. It doesn't look like anything's really going crazy. Look at the dignities, and you get a totally different story when considering that this Full Moon and all of these powers of Mercury is opposite Mercury, and Mercury is badly debilitated.

Mercury is in its detriment in Pisces in its fall in Pisces and is combust the sun right now in Pisces. So imagine that you're a house guest in Mercury's home, and Mercury has just imagined something ridiculous. Mercury has taken LSD but has never had LSD before. It doesn't know how to handle him or herself on LSD and is not going to be the most available. Helpful, sane, stable. Host if you're like, Hey, where's the bathroom? You know?

So now that's just a, you know, I'm just creating a fun, vivid example of why this might be troubling or problematic. But the truth is that moon Mercury opposition's where the moon is so reliant on Mercury and Mercury is just drunk under the table. That creates a lot of tension. So what kind of tension? Well, first of all, Moon Mercury opposition's have long been associated with mental and emotional health breakdowns or instability.

Whether that's anxiety or depression, melancholy, an inability to keep boundaries or an inability to see things clearly, or the tendency of the rational mind to lose its grip on a situation and to exaggerate or to lie or deceive, or to be taken in by false information. Basically, the tendency to pit the rational against the emotional in ways that are very polarizing, so you have that kind of mind mental and emotional dichotomy being amplified and polarized. Okay, so that's what makes this full moon a little bit gnarly; you have the potential to not be at your best when it comes to the weighing and balancing of rational and emotional factors together at the same time; you could put this differently and think about it through earth and water.

Earth is practical, formal, structured, and solid; water is fluid and movement-oriented. So, are you able to navigate between the practical and formal, as well as the fluid-changing dynamic and relatively unstable elements in a day in a relationship and an environment? This opposition suggests that it could be rather difficult.

So let's say you're someone who tends to get fixated on control over the details, and there's all of this fluidity and chaos and change and moving parts; you're going to experience that as more chaotic and polarizing at this time. If you're someone who does well with those kinds of situations, maybe you have the disposition to be better with those kinds of situations, and it's reflected in your birth chart that you probably may not even notice it reversed a significant amount of people, you're going to notice that the moon in all of these powers of Mercury with Mercury so banged up and opposite.

It doesn't make for the greatest, most stable conversation between mood, mind, environment, body emotions, speech, intelligence, and sensitivities. It's like they're there; it's more like up the tendency to be extremely reactive to subtle stimuli that, you know, create an allergic reaction in your body. There's more of that in the air this weekend.

So that's the first thing to keep in mind is that this opposition is not always easy. You'll find, for example, that people who have the moon opposite Mercury in their natal charts may be interested in human psychology and emotion, they may be very moody people, they may be writers or romantics, but maybe at some point in their life, they had to overcome various instabilities in, in you know, in mind and mood and it's like a challenge that they have to go through. Not always, but like that's a very real thing.

I was born with the moon opposite Mercury in my own chart in my early 20s, when that access was getting activated through some very powerful transits. I went through a period of substance abuse and addiction and then had to go through recovery and used entheogens of highly, you know, otherworldly, destabilizing mental and emotional experiences that were ultimately very healing and grounding. But required I work through various family karmas when it came to mental and emotional health; I mean, that's the kind of thing that moon Mercury brings up.

So don't be surprised also if there's a sort of secondary layer of looking at mind, mood, environment, family, or ancestral history and mental health or intellectual health or communication patterns that can all come up. So it's all about Mercury number one. I apologize; I've got a scratchy throat. I'm almost three weeks into dealing with this cold, and it's almost gone, but I've still just got stuff. Anyway, I apologize.

So, let's go to part number two. It's all about Mercury versus Venus. This is a secondary layer to the exact same thing. So, let's take a look at that full moon again. Moon is in the fall of Venus, while Mercury is in the exultation of Venus and the bound of Venus.

Right, so we have the classic Mercury-Venus dichotomy. A being sort of echoed here in the dignities. Moon in all of the powers of Mercury and Mercury in the powers of Venus is a way of saying that the classical opposition between Mercury and Venus is highlighted. So we already talked about Moon and Mercury as an opposition. But one of the ways that ancient astrologers had of explaining the signs of Pisces and Virgo, respectively, had to do with the exultation of Venus and the exultation of Mercury in those signs and their fall in the opposite signs. So they basically said, look, the reason that Venus is in its fall in Mercury's exultation, and Mercury is in its fall in Venus's exultation, is because the rational and the sensual also carry the tendency for polarization.

So that's just something you have to be aware of with these two signs that they can polarize with each other, and the reason that they one of the reasons that they polarize is also because mental energy and sensual energy are not often they sometimes clash, you know, think about if you're going out dancing, and your dance partner wants to sit down and talk about, you know, politics or, you know, algebra, you know, it's like, that's kind of Mercury and Venus. So we also have this tension in the air during the full moon, not only between the mental and, let's say, emotional but also between the sensual and the rational.

So, same thing, a slightly different way of putting it, that is there in the dignities based on the power of Venus, that Mercury is in both bound and exultation while opposing the moon was totally reliant upon that Mercury and also in the fall of Venus, where Mercury tends to be stronger. So we also have that tension.

Then, number three, we also have the very potent upcoming square really from both Mars and Venus, but I'm just going to focus on Venus today over the weekend. The other thing that's happening is Venus is squaring Jupiter. So you'll see that square come through between Saturday, February 24, and Sunday, February 25. Now, you know, to me, this is not bad. Really, this is not a bad thing. You have Venus in her own bound in Aquarius, squaring Jupiter, who's in her sign, and so you have some reception here. Interestingly, Jupiter is also in the bounds of Mercury; I find that fascinating.

So Mercury is still playing a role in the difficult passage that Mercury is going through, and it can't help but affect everything right now. But Venus square Jupiter is nice because the two benefic are getting together in a square with Venus in the overcoming position.

It suggests to me an accommodation or an adjustment of mental intellectual organizing more abstract energies in order to accommodate the goals or visions or hopes or wishes or desires of Venus, and that tracks when you think about what the moon opposite Mercury might mean, or what Mercury's transformation and all these powers of Venus might mean. It's as though our intelligence, the organizing patterns in the mind, the blueprints on the table, again, which we've been saying a lot lately, need to adjust or change, a change of mind, intellect, rationality, maybe it needs to accommodate Venus more, maybe we're being too rigid. Mentally, we need to open up to make more room for Venus.

Or maybe, on the other hand, we're being too wishy-washy and boundaryless; our desires are not realistic or rational, and so there needs to be some grounding of the Venusian or have the emotional within a more rational construct a plan, something that's a little bit more structured, but still it doesn't negate what the emotional or Venusian qualities are trying to establish right now.

So I see that Venus Jupiter square is really helping this Full Moon to be less chaotic and more organized and sort of bringing some harmony between mental, rational, and emotional or sensual energies together over the weekend. Venus in Aquarius and Air sign Jupiter in Taurus Earth evolution sign the exultation of the moon. So, to me, that's just like a silver lining that I thought was worth mentioning.

Anyway, okay, that's it for today. Quick video. I'm hoping by Monday, my voice will be better, but holy cow and it's funny because, you know, I went, and occasionally, I see a chiropractor. So I went and saw this chiropractor, and she was like, she'd lost her voice, and she'd gone through like three weeks, and I was like, it's just going around like in Minnesota is just like the virus of the year, I guess. But it's like this double whammy of laryngitis. Anyway, I hesitate to say anything because as soon as I do, there'll be at least 30 people offering me unsolicited advice about what to drink or whatever. So anyway, I hope you guys have a great weekend, and we will see you again next week. Bye.