Full Moon in Virgo

February 24, 2024| 4:30 am (PST) | Keyword: Elegance

Changes occur in financial matters and activities related to shared resources, budgets, loans, taxes, insurance, wills, or investments. Shift in sexual desire or activity. May face a fear, recover from loss, or deal with emergency or crisis.

The Moon is cautiously gliding through the sign of Virgo granting the time to plan in advance to carefully analyze situations and find solutions. Those with a sharp, critical mind and the exceptional ability to get to the heart of any problem may take a non-nonsense approach to tasks requiring precision and thoroughness to develop greater efficiency. Some may seek to play a role in the local community or influence society through their work. This is the person who brings relief or makes the breakthrough in complex matters and the energy will highlight leaders by either placing them in position for power or putting them under scrutiny. Situations that occur are likely to include persons with strong Virgo in the natal chart (sun, moon, rising) as well as persons with prominent Capricorn placements.

The Part of Success sits at the midheaven, and for those motivated to be in the public sphere, there can be strong confidence in self and abilities, yet also the belief that success requires a price of physical or emotional sacrifice to achieve goals on a practical level. The events that unfold before the public emphasize members of the establishment and those who instinctually understand the world of money and power and seek its pleasures. On an individual level, the quality of life is profoundly linked to the world at large with mass karma and human interest stories galvanized by excellent researchers or scientific investigators. You may have an acute awareness that the crime rate, the ecological health of the environment, the economy and large corporations or power structures are factors which impact personal destiny.

With the Moon in Virgo and in the eighth house, concerns can also center on health and routines–physical, mental and sexual. Additionally, the focus may include service providers related to tax preparation and insurance.

Health and well being could be a prevailing factor if someone in your immediate circle is in need of counseling or care, and you may find that you’re better equipped to handle these situations because of greater insight into your own psychological make up. For some, this awareness comes through the formal study of psychology and the role of therapist or counselor. Alternatively, it may be as a practitioner or shaman who probes the hidden meaning or sacredness of life in the desire to explore places, spiritual beliefs and ideas. For others, perception comes through exposure to persons who are disturbed on some level.

Your own need to relate on a deeper level attracts intense situations and encounters that demonstrate various manifestations of emotional power struggles and manipulation. A range of unresolved and complicated emotions will tend to complicate relationships while prompting you to carefully consider decisions that impact persons you may feel a responsibility toward. Heightened intuitive awareness will guide your approach in touchy situations that demand discretion and delicacy.

While Venus stimulates the willingness to make personal compromises if necessary, the desire for peace may cause you to avoid conflict altogether. Venus can soften your demeanor to the point that you may be unwilling to defend your personal rights, but you may need to protect yourself from the demands, intrusions and opinions of others.

If assertion is not a problem, you may withdraw because there’s value in doing so, particularly if you wish to escape from a situation you find difficult to control. Perhaps you’d like to pursue your own interests and needs or withdraw from superficial or unnecessary contacts in order to work on a creative project. This can be a period where great effort is applied to further your own interests in the drive for achievement and the opportunity to show the world your skills and talents with the goal of fame, recognition or acclaim. The preference for working alone puts the emphasis on self-actualization and developing strengths that were previously unrealized that hold the possibility for future reward and benefit.

However, you could overtax your strength through conflict or activities that scatter your attention in too many different directions. The rapid tempo of life coupled with over-scheduling and increased contacts contributes to the inability to adequately handle all of your activities which may lead to a state of crisis management. Feeling overwhelmed suggests the need to prioritize and delegate responsibilities.

In spite of a hectic schedule, this is an excellent period for learning whether formally enrolled in school or through self-study. Opportunities may present for advanced training or in other instances you may be teaching, developing plans or writing for some type of publication. Although you may feel stressed when trying to retain information, communication skills enable you to say what you need to effectively.

If you can’t reconcile the balance between personal and professional goals, you might feel angry or resentful about having to surrender your will or meet the needs of others. Though you’re not particularly aggressive, anger can provoke you to defend your rights or become more vocal. However, it can also serve to undermine the ability to accomplish your objectives. The challenge is in seeking the middle ground that prevents either the use of anger as an excuse or a lack of defense that allows you to be exploited.

In some cases, you may attract people who come to you or make excessive demands on your time. An interception in the relationship axis signals a complication in receiving notice because others view you as the nurturer and look to you for emotional support instead of giving you the attention you inwardly long for. The cautious, conservative persona concerned with public image can eventually give way to a building pressure that erupts through the extreme and inappropriate. Aside from unexpected spikes of enthusiasm and adrenalin rushes, the interception internalizes the energy or elicits the selection of unusual tactics for self defense or revenge. The need is to learn to direct anger and effort at the appropriate target or goal.

With two stelliums of energy surging through areas that link to personal independence and resources, you’re developing a value system by which you measure yourself as well as others with attention on what you value in life, materially, intellectually or spiritually. In some case, you may be grappling with moral or ethical dilemmas that deal with sexuality, questions of loyalty, spirituality or reproductive concerns. This may be prompted by situations where you’re living alone for the first time or separated for one reason or another from a loved one. False beliefs and principles will fail to improve your circumstances and add additional stress when they prove unrealistic for your life.

Asteroids Fiducia and Juno are linked to this Moon both of which can indicate matters involving a trust fund, adding up the costs, accounting procedures and/or fiduciary responsibilities. The Part of Real Estate is intertwined with Scheat which could connect to a property bound by some type of tragedy. Unfortunately, financial matters can incite powers struggles, possessiveness and territorial behaviors motivated by the desire to have more control over jointly held assets or shared funds.

With regard to intimate connection, the effect on relationship can be an influence that suggests a partner who needs a “mommy” more than a mate due to the inability to relate as equals on an emotional level. Non-reciprocated emotional demands and feelings keep the relationship off-kilter through efforts to keep the score, get even or one-up. Repressions or blockages in love and different tastes in entertainment that affect recreational activities with loved ones can also create a sense of distance. It may be necessary to find pleasure in ones own company, through friendships with other age or ethnic groups, or a creative outlet to express love.

Fluctuations in personal resources and debts can bring change either positively or negatively. Regardless of the situation, you’re making monetary decisions that affect your immediate financial needs in consideration of expenditures, income or household budgets as you look for ways to manage, budget, save and invest. This might include an assessment of the nature and importance of your purchases. In some cases, a greater sense of self-worth and completeness allows you to limit overindulgence with the clear and conscious choices to eliminate the unnecessary, both materially and otherwise. This includes excessive behavior that affects your health and the well being of others such as the decision to stop smoking, drinking, using drugs or participating in detrimental habits.

The choices you make shouldn’t be dictated by limited funding, although you may need to make adjustments in order to realize your dreams. Perhaps you’re saving for a major expense or purchase such as a home or car. As a result, you may be living within a restricted budget by choice or necessity. If you’ve exceeded the budget or poorly planned you may have to tighten your belt.

On the other hand, your priorities may override concerns about financial limitation, and you might make a conscious decision to pursue a lifestyle change that results in a decrease in salary. You may be returning to school, starting a business, having a child, retiring, moving, devoting time to a humanitarian cause or becoming involved in a long-term project that currently yields little if any monetary reward. Under these circumstances, you probably have the ability to cope with the necessary adjustments, especially if long-term goals and personal satisfaction are more important to you than short-term compensation.

In the positive, previous creative projects may begin to yield an increase in financial revenue. At any rate, the concern is about the amount of money you earn in relation to the quality of work you put out. You may decide that you deserve more money. If so, you’ll need to do a great deal of planning and consideration to gather the factual data that firmly supports a renegotiation of your salary. If you’re self-employed, you may find it necessary to raise your fees.

This period encompasses the dichotomy of desire and deprivation and the realization that, in essence, one cannot exist without the other. A Venus/Mars conjunction stimulates the fulfillment of longing through the impulse to love, pronounced sensuality and the desire to become one. Despite the Moon’s placement in a sign not exactly known for passion, the influence encourages you to unleash yours in love and erotic union. But the auspicious influence extends beyond love and sex to boost the prospects of achieving heartfelt desires and the start of creative projects.

The keyword for this cycle is elegance which suggests the presence of grace and style in appearance. More importantly, it might indicate the manner in which you execute a plan that provides a pleasingly ingenious and simple approach to reaching a solution.

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