The 2018 Virgo Full Moon is at maximum phase at 4:51p PST on Thursday, 1st March. This Pisces 5 Sun–Virgo Moon opposition brings forth awareness of the rapidly-changing circumstances not only in our personal lives, but also in the community and world around us. This will also reveal to us just how much progress we are actually making on moving ourselves forward emotionally and spiritually.
This Full Moon will also be a call to own up to what we really want, accept where we are in that process, let go of what does not serve us well, and create space for more of what will serve us well in moving toward and manifesting our dreams. This could bring some difficult reality checks to quite a few people – checks which hold people responsible and accountable for their choices to take on too much or (more likely) not enough responsibility for their current life circumstances.
The Virgo-Pisces axis is “the axis of service”. Virgo is the practical, everyday work and service that is done in order to make the day-to-day of our lives functional. It directly supports our physical and material health and wellness. Virgo represents the “deeds” of service – the pragmatism which encourages our daily work; while Pisces is the transcendental and selfless service which gives us a higher purpose or reason for living. It directly supports our emotional and spiritual health and wellness. Pisces is the “faith” of service – the ideals and aspirations which inspire us to serve.
Many of us have been holding onto to our Piscean ideals and aspirations for dear life, well beyond their ability to serve us well. By idealizing people, things, and ideas about how the world should be – and even idealizing ourselves and our roles in the world – many of us have forgotten to ask if what we’ve been idealizing really serves any pragmatic purpose to any or all of us anymore. In fact, we may have been holding on because we’ve been emotionally invested in those ideals, despite the fact that they’ve had no effect or possibly a negative effect on our everyday lives; and despite the fact that we may have outgrown them.
In some cases, these ideals have to do with expecting others to solve our problems or heal our emotional or spiritual wounds. In other cases, these ideals have to do with our believing that we must take responsibility for solving others’ problems or healing others’ emotional wounds. And in other cases still, “lesser” ideals may simply be excuses for not challenging ourselves to practically pursue bigger dreams than our circumstances seem to dictate is possible, while “lofty” ideals may be a way of giving ourselves permission to maintain our status quo.
Whatever the case may be for you, this 2018 Virgo Full Moon brings the effect of any and all of these ideals on our day-to-day lives into a much-sharper focus. It calls upon us to recognize how much our emotional investment in our dreams, delusions, and ideals have either complimented or detrimented the function of our everyday lives. Moral and ethical conundrums are beginning to surface as people who have stated their ideals in matters as if they were cut and dried fact are now realizing that their positions may have far more complications (for themselves and others) than they once believed.
As result, many of us are finding ourselves becoming more tense and more stressed, some of us to the point of frustration and anger as we have too much pride to admit we may have been wrong about holding on so tightly to our ideals. Some of us have also had some harsh realizations of what happens when people and things don’t live up to our expectations or when hoped-for events don’t live up to their hype (IF they occur at all).
These unfulfilled expectations don’t necessarily signify the destruction of our plans or paths as much as they represent the disillusionment, devastation, and disappointment we experience when we’re forced to let go of the ideals, façades and pretenses that have kept us from seeing people, things, and/or circumstances as the truth of what they really are. Yet it’s that “seeing people, things, and/or circumstances as the truth of what they really are” part which may be the hardest and most painful part for most of us.
Instead of accepting and dealing with the painful truths, some of us want to go into blaming and shaming others, projecting our wounds and pain onto others. We want to run away from our responsibilities, to escape the pain by any means necessary… or we may even choose to bring others into our experience so people “will understand” what we’re going through. Instead of taking responsibility for how we’ve deceived ourselves or allowed ourselves to be deceived by placing our faith in ideals instead of in facts, we’re accusing others of what we ourselves are doing. That, or we’re choosing to avoid the painful facts altogether, either changing the subject when we are faced with positions we cannot find fault in OR cutting people off or out of discussions, or even ending relationships when others push us to face truths that hurt us emotionally.
This self-victimization or self-martyrdom behavior is actually and ultimately what gets many of us into trouble because instead of seeing people and things for who and what they actually are (and instead of seeing ourselves as who and what we really are), we are choosing to see others as either what we need or want them to be OR as what we hope they will become.
This usually results in one of two things:
- More efforts to force outcomes, and when we are trying to force outcomes to align with our ideals or expectations, the reality of the circumstances or relationships we are in can be upsetting and possibly even painful to experience.
- More efforts to deny or flat-out ignore warning signs that our perceptions are out of alignment with reality, and when we are in denial or ignorance of factual truth, the revelation of the facts of the circumstances or relationships we are in can be upsetting and possibly even painful to face.
Yet in taking these actions anyway, we often only go deeper into anger and despair… and we often don’t realize that at some point, we may still be held responsible and accountable for being deceptive and duplicitous in our deeds. It’s only a matter of time before we have to face the emotional and spiritual impact of acting on our ideals.
That all said, as humans, we like to idealize the pursuits of our dreams. We like to believe that we can make anything happen. Yet in order to for us to “make” anything happen – there is an element of faith involved. There is an element of trust involved.
Under this 2018 Virgo Full Moon, we are being called upon to trust and have faith the power of practical self-responsibility. This idea of focusing on self and making sure we have what we individually need to have for our everyday lives function seems to fly in direct conflict with the Piscean ideals of selfless service and compassion for others. Yet when we take a closer look, we may come to understand that we cannot serve others well when we are not well ourselves.
- When we are choosing to play victim to others, we are choosing to give away our power to others. We cannot serve effectively if we are allowing others have power over us.
- When we are choosing to play martyr for others, we are choosing to give away our emotional, intellectual, material, financial, and/or physical health and wellness to others. We cannot serve others well through healing if we ourselves are struggling, suffering, unstable, and/or unwell because we perceive or believe our contributions or ourselves to be so deficient in value and worth to others that we are willing to be sacrificed in position or death.
We cannot serve effectively from deficit. We can only truly serve from wholeness.
And to be whole, we must believe ourselves to be powerfully capable to serve from health and wellness, and we positive contribution to others.
The Piscean ideal is that we are each and all whole and complete – that once we have completed our journey through the 12 signs of the Zodiac, we have completed another level of wisdom. The question under this Pisces Sun and Virgo Full Moon is… what wisdom have you gained over the last year about what is means to serve and be served?
This Full Moon reaches max phase on a numerological 6 universal day for most of the Western world and a 7 universal day in the Middle East & Far East/Pacific world. Virgo is a sign of health and wellness as well as pragmatism and practicality. The Pisces Sun urges this Virgo Moon to look at how well it is serving people emotionally and spiritually through the assessment of the workability and functionality of our everyday lives. The 6 energy very much supports this Virgo intention, seeking solutions to personal and social problems and looking for ways to heal people’s emotional and spiritual wounds through practical and pragmatic means. There may be recognition that the answers we seek may be closer to home than we expect. Meanwhile, the 7 energy may find people seeking to understand what is happening in and around them, analyzing the possible causes of these personal and social problems, in some cases to the point of overthinking possible solutions. It will be important for them to not become frustrated or overwhelmed by the problems and pain, for they may end up throwing their hands up and avoiding the source of the problems altogether which may lead to bigger problems down the road. This is all occurring under the energy of a 5 universal month – an energy of change and adaptability, indicating that changes will be needed because changes will occur. These changes are nothing to be afraid of. Just allow yourself to go with the flow, which can be a terrifying prospect if you are resistant to letting go of your ideals…
… which brings me to the most important thing to remember during this 2018 Virgo Full Moon period is to not mistake or equate your ideals for your values. They are NOT the same!
Your values are often based in reality, while your ideals are based on your hopes and dreams. The temptation to lean on your ideals during this Full Moon will be especially strong (due to the Sun’s near-conjunction with Pisces’ ruling planet, Neptune, at the time of max phase). You’d be wise to allow yourself to look at what is really happening in the practical reality of your life before you get upset about your bubble being burst.
Once you reconnect with your values, you’ll get to realign your everyday life with them. This way, you have a solid foundation from which to earnestly and honestly and self-responsibly pursue your dreams.
The effects of this 2018 Virgo Full Moon will be felt for at least 3 days before and for about 3 days after the maximum phase, meaning from approximately 26th February through 4th March.
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~ Light, Love, and Blessings,
Grace
