Full Moon in Virgo Amazing Grace

Full Moon in Virgo
Amazing Grace
By Molly Hall, About.com


The Full Moon in Virgo is on February 28th, 2010 at 11:38 am Eastern U.S. time, and 4:38 pm GMT.


Daily Devotion

This Full Moon is in Virgo, the earth sign that's flexible (mutable), always striving for wholeness. Virgo is process oriented, focused on the broken bits and pieces. In this time when many of us feel shattered and dis-illusioned, Virgo energy guides us to the healing balm for what ails us. And the overall cosmic players this Full Moon hint at a spiritual remedy.

Virgo is the hermit that lives by its own inner light, and sense of morality. In an irreverent world, Virgo can seem downright old-fashioned. We can reclaim what's wholesome and pure this Full Moon, and resolve to protect ourselves from any kind of polluting influences.

Out of this drive for purity comes the drive to strip away everything fake and unnatural. Virgo reveals workable daily practices, that can give us some sense of order and stability. It's about establishing a rhythm that you're devoted to, but that's flexible enough to adapt to the rapid changes in society.


Some Virgo (Moon)-Pisces(Sun) themes:

•Searching for soul food through art, literature, music.
•Committing to daily practice, to bring shape to what's in the imagination.
•Establishing habits that integrate spirituality into your daily life.
•Devoting your time or talents to a higher cause.
•Marrying technique with the transcendent.
•Analyze your dreams.


The Time of Tribulation?

In his latest post, Robert Phoenix ponders the fact that many of us are going through the "soul wringer." And though he says he's not big on the biblical Revelations, it dawned on him, "We are in the time of tribulation." It's a timely insight, since Full Moons are about revelation. And also since what's happening is showing us how interdependent we are, as part of the social web. Writes Robert of the trials and tribulations, "Add them all up and the world is going through it. Even though we cannot see it clearly, we’re all going through it together."

And Robert says circle the 28th, as a "day where a divine sense of grace can really enter into our affairs." Against a backdrop of cruel world realities, there's a Sun-Jupiter conjunction (in Pisces) to give us the eyes of a mystic. Writes Robert, "If we surrender our fears and our limitations, place them at the entrance to our higher selves and leave them behind, while ascending into the “upper room” we can see our spiritual expression as being greater and having far more power than our circumstances and the world that wants to limit them."


Waking up to Love

The other remarkable aspect this Full Moon is Venus-Uranus in Pisces. We may have moments of empathy, compassion and love that shock us, and quicken our collective healing. It can dissolve the artificially created barriers that keep us polarized. It a sentiment expressed in the Rumi poem, "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."

Making it Sacred


The Sun (Pisces) and Moon (Virgo) make supportive aspects to Pluto (extreme change) this Full Moon. We can find spiritual courage now to do what must be done (Pluto), and face things as they are. Virgo-Pisces are signs of devotion, that understand the power of surrendering to a greater force. This Full Moon puts us closer to divine guidance, so we can face these trials and move through the dark moments with more faith.

It may become clear that there are things, people, habits, attitudes that you've got to give up. In the letting go, you're sacrificing who you are, for who you're becoming. And the original meaning of "sacrifice" is to "make sacred." The flexible mutable signs Virgo and Pisces invite us to trust the moment, and surrender to being changed.

We had an awesome Full Moon meditation at my new office space

Nice Moonie And it sounds like the planets are aligned to help your business be a success too.

Very interesting summary of Virgo's influences Solane. I am often amazed to come in here and read your posts only to find they directly relate to my thoughts or actions. This time is no exception. I have been thinking of how to turn my talents to higher causes. And art and literature are at the top of the list. Uni has also restarted and the Virgoan influence on processes necessary to meet our goals very much defines this. I feel that even though in a sense my days are filled with 'doing nothing' that so much more is happening beneath the surface. There has been a lot of shedding of my old skin and making way for the new - especially on a mental level. Physically the bits and pieces part is so true - how much longer will my tooth pain remain? I had the damn thing pulled out and now it is even worse! Oh well, back to the dentist today