1st Quarter Moon in Virgo: Bringing up the Past

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.

May 13, 2024 | 10:18 pm (PST) | Keyword: Violence

Although the Moon is slow in pace moving through the sign of Virgo, the tempo of life picks up considerably intensifying personal affairs and motivating you to analyze situations in service of the quickest solution. Finding resolution may rest on the visionary who can see the connections between ideas and philosophies or the potential in new ideas and technologies. This can bring into focus those gifted in teaching, lecturing, editing, administration, mathematics, science, design or graphic arts. The mind of the inventor or researcher may spark technological breakthroughs or the advance of science in the news. Events are likely to center on Virgo persons (sun, moon, rising sign) as well as those with significant Capricorn placements.

Mercury’s pronounced influence underscores good writers, especially those skilled on subjects like health, food, clothing, art, and hygiene. Stimulated by the moon, you can be emotionally committed or responsive to the needs of the collective. This is especially Important for any field that lends import to the spoken word such as advertising and public relations. For some, these endeavors involve working with charts, diagrams and graphic illustrations to arrive at insights that marry theory with practical experience.

On the whole, emotions are running high in the public fueled by blind or angry obsessions, and actions can have far-reaching effects, for better or worse. This may be in relation to circumstances that are governed by those who instinctually know and understand the world of money and power as represented by members of the establishment.

Likewise, on a personal level heightened feelings cause you to assess the adequacy of your emotions and those of others. The need is to experience deeply through emotional encounters that provide an opportunity for you to understand power struggles, manipulation and the subtle psychological motivations behind behaviors, This understanding may be the result of formal study, your work as a professional therapist, or through interactions with someone in need of counseling in your inner circle. If you feel a responsibility, intuition guides a conscious response of sensitivity to address issues of jealousy, guilt, unexplained anger, or helplessness. This is also a good time to focus on the needs of your children and their mental health, educational needs and intellectual functioning to assist in decisions concerning their future and your relationship with your child could improve at this time.

Unfortunately, despite brilliant insight, you may be struggling with the darker side of human nature—your own or those around you. A dictatorial persona promotes strong identification with beliefs and affects the ability to compromise, especially if you’re a person who believes you know what’s best for others. As a result, negotiations tend to be extremely direct with a “take no prisoners” attitude. The tendency can be to lose your temper if you’re still angry about the past or currently in a dispute. Prone to rash decisions, you can act without gathering the necessary information or jump to conclusions and react without thinking.

On the other hand, if you’re involved in a situation where you must defend yourself or respond to attack, you’re verbally prepared to meet your opponent, take a stand or confront others. But in order to gain insight into past patterns of inappropriate responses to difficult situations, you may face a repeat of a crisis or trauma reactivated by a present situation for the purpose of handling it better this time around. Those involved will surely know your trigger points and the best ways to use them to gain power over you. What you don’t claim with authority as your own can be claimed by lovers, friends and even enemies. You’ll need to master your own psychological make-up to deal with self-defeating behaviors and free yourself from bondage to others. A grand air trine allows you to deal with these difficult situations by becoming detached and rational or drawing on thinking skills.

For some, the source of tension relates to personal resources and changes that provoke dependency, a sense of inequality and conflict concerning debt. The desire may be to seek the pleasures of power and money or simply to achieve goals on a physical and practical level. However, present conditions might mean you have to live on less, either because you want to or because you have to. If you’ve overspent in the past or poorly planned for a major expense, you’re now forced to take action to reign in spending and restructure your finances. Perhaps there are changes in the health and/or independence of a family member and you need to provide assistance. Other factors might include surprise pregnancies or unemployment that impacts independence.

Alternatively, you may have other priorities that transcend concerns about limitation because of a conscious lifestyle choice—saving for a major expense, a return to school, starting a business, having a child, retiring, or moving. Other options might be volunteering for a charitable endeavor, travel, or a leave of absence. If so, you’re coping with restriction as you examine what’s really important and what you really value, and a fundamental change in attitude toward material possessions correlates to your change in values. If long-term goals and personal satisfaction are more important than short-term compensation, the attempt should be to adapt without allowing your choices to be dictated by limited funding.

If the issue is one of low self worth, you could place yourself in situations where you’re undervalued or unappreciated, but deprivation will compel a reassessment. In other cases, monetary uncertainty is attributed to the fluctuations of self-employment or working on commission. You may be in the process of opening a new business or promoting a product or service for which the demand and success of has yet to be realized, although may be very successful later. You may need to trust that you can live on less, take risks and still survive while furthering new opportunities.

The degree of financial uncertainty may not equate to actual loss, yet a pervasive sense of anxiety exists. Worries can be triggered by rumors of pay cuts or delays in promised raises. If presently unemployed and financially dependent on someone else, you may worry about his/her income. On the other hand, you can sacrifice your own financial security to assist those in need and end up depleting your resources in the process. If the present lack of financial accountability limits your progress or threatens your security, it signals the time for you to explore more structured options.

In some cases, help arrives through a boost from a person of compassion with the objective to empower others or assist the weak and victimized in gaining strength. Their role may be as an angel of mercy or one of devotion to service in the political or spiritual arena.

In the positive, Jupiter is making a solitary trine aspect to Pluto which indicates major changes that offer benefit through relocation, publication or higher education and could bring financial gain through someone of prominence. In fact, there can be an unexpected and beneficial turning point through unusual circumstances that brings the possibility for greater power or improvement in work efficiency. A strong need to express yourself can manifest in situations that offer you creative license as personality development and greater confidence extends to artistic or creative pursuits. However, you must be able to maintain faith in your skills.

You’ll also need to practice discipline to follow through on projects, and good health supports those efforts. A delicate nervous system suggests you need adequate rest and proper diet to function at your best. With that in mind, you may decide to lose weight, quit smoking or overcome any detrimental habits.

On a lighter note, the ability to relax and be yourself makes you very attractive, and this can be a period of fun and entertainment heralding the possibility of romantic involvement. Perhaps you’ve recently walked away from a difficult relationship to enter a more fulfilling one. You may feel greater sexual freedom and new relationships tend to be light-hearted and characterized by good verbal rapport and intellectual stimulation. Your thoughts may center around romance and sexual encounters with a great deal of time spent assessing your interactions. A romantic preoccupation or strong infatuation can make it difficult for you to concentrate on work or studies.

However, situations also bring a reminder of the transitory nature of great passion and the fine line between love and aversion. While the influence can be auspicious for romantic love, it may also signify conflict. There’s a positive indication if you wish to end a relationship, leave a job or move house.

The key word for this cycle is violence and warns against the impulse to fight with those whose temperament is at odds with your own. The challenge arrives through power situations that provide the chance to recognize your ability or inability to assert personal needs and rights when interacting with others. You’re also learning to deal with power and self-control through the confrontation with self, and suffering may force you to understand that conquering self is far more important than attempting to overpower others. The better course may be to remove yourself from an uncomfortable situation that goes against your nature.

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