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The essence of this very strange, very erratic Virgo Full Moon is accuracy.

But accuracy in unexpected ways. Like hitting a bullseye after your arrow swerves wildly through the air.

If we can embrace this, or surrender to it, the next two weeks actually offer up a lot of stability and security.

And isn’t that why accuracy is so highly valued? You get the bullseye, you get the goods. No trash, no waste, just stability and security.

A chapter closes and a new one opens. What a nice “spring cleaning” vibe.

Again, though, there’s so much in this lunation that resists the neat, tidy borders of Virgo.

We should tap into that Virgo organizational energy through opposite means: messiness, glitching, swerving, surrendering, riding the wave.

In that way, we see that a flow state and meticulous craftmanship are basically mirror images of each other.

All those notes on your sheet music blend into one melodious line as soon as tempo and rhythm are applied to static black dots.

This is the key now: to overcome what feels like sludge and slog by discovering the symphonic flow inside our devotion to something.

Virgo is pure devotion. The virgin, if you will. Wholly committed, wholly virtuous. Everything superfluous falls away, and contrasting with the void is the gold that remains. Our devotion.

Which is why Virgo relates to the craftsman, the alchemist and most importantly, the apprentice.

The apprentice is a rambling fellow. He’s not yet master but on his journey to becoming one. People know him by his good heart. Even if he is a bit rustic, we can’t say he is totally naïve. Virginity is there to be lost, after all.

Through penetrating the deep mystery of patience—applying himself time and time again—he becomes a man. This may be a bit different for female apprentices, and I have a section on that in my Patchwork Manifesto.

We men can take a cue from the feminine apprenticeship journey now, though. The female apprentice surrenders, opens up, learns to discover the layers of self-preservation within her.

A balance of masculine and feminine apprenticeship is important now.

We must aim for something and be intentional, direct, focused, masculine. But we must also release certain expectations as we let the arrow fly. We must surrender to the waves of pleasure and doubt that wash over us as we await the result, and find strength in that enduring receptivity.

Let’s dive in and explore this some more.

Sideways to Success

In the air, there is a sense of doing the impossible. Equally, there is massive doubt, even defeatism.

These are the natural extremes one would face when they know there isn’t a straight line plotted after they release their arrow.

“What’s the point when results won’t match my intention?”

But watch this “Robin Hood” clip. Even though Little John and Friar Tuck are gasping each step of the way, Robin Hood is captivated with joy by the spectacle of absurdity, having integrated his masculine and feminine sides.

This is how Robin Hood knows he has already won—that he has passed his Final Exam.

By the time the world throws another test his way—the royal archery tournament—he already knows what to expect. There’s no pressure, it’s just like practice in the woods.

“Ooh, a perfect bullseye,” the king coos as Robin Hood nails his first tournament shot.

“That’s what you call pullin it back and lettin it go,” Friar Tuck says nonchalantly to the king.

But there’s more.

As others watch Robin Hood succeed, they become suspicious and jealous. You may notice instances of sabotage at the micro or macro level now. Deception, cheating, sleight of hand.

But attempting to sabotage perfection—especially perfection mostly guided by the universe’s will—is a recipe for karmic backlash.

What happens is that Robin Hood’s competitor cheats to get a bullseye. He then also trips Robin Hood when it’s Robin’s turn to shoot.

The universe intervenes, and rewards Robin not only for his faith, but for his courage and risk.

As his first shot goes sky high due to being tripped, Robin (who’s in disguise) plucks another arrow from his quiver, shoots the first one down and achieves a bullseye more perfect than perfect. His opponent’s arrow is destroyed in the process.

That is to say, his Final Exam has taught him to expect the unexpected, and so he walked into his next stage of life with that lesson. In a split second, he knew what to do. Let’s watch the clip:

Indeed, Virgo is the quintessential perfectionist, the scorekeeper. Letting go isn’t a strong suit. But that’s how we can make some bullseyes now, long as we do our due diligence, i.e. practice with a spirit of play.

Fly, fly into the future—and don’t be afraid if you’re still sorting through your past. The arrow is pulled back before it flies forward.

Scoreboard Malfunction

Let’s stick with the tournament metaphor. Another way to understand this Full Moon is the image of a scoreboard.

Scoreboards are interesting because the results are posted for all to see. There is a public, collective element to it.

But imagine now a scoreboard flickering in/out. Glitching.

What’s happening is that the world at large hasn’t caught up to the people it represents.

In other words, the collective hasn’t caught up to the individuals that compose it.

Individuals may seem like they’re on the backfoot, or ignored, overlooked, in the trenches. The true Virgoan apprentice. Just a grunt, clocking in, showing up.

Again, this condition that we are experiencing individually is because the turning tide hasn’t been registered at a collective level yet.

Many individuals have changed greatly this winter and stepped into their power. But there’s no collective, definitive scoreboard we can all point at and say, “Well, covid’s over, life’s resuming now.”

The world scoreboard is constantly glitching, or even better, constantly sorting (Virgo is the assembly line).

Numbers are going up—“Hooray, liberation!”—and then back down (“Shit, we’re so screwed.”)

Up and down constantly, like when judges wave their scorecards along a line after the archer shoots his shot: 8, 9.5, 7, 8.5, 6…

It feels like total chaos, like an anxiety attack. What will the average turn out to be? A win or a loss?

What’s happening is that the world is haywire because it’s being fed with data. It’s having to account for all the individuals who’ve leveled up, post-Final Exam. Nothing’s fully baked yet, it’s all emergent, blipping.

So the job for the individual right now is to just be patient, just show up. Get into a flow, don’t make a chore out of it.

Yes, that flow will be erratic—zing, ping! You get the bullseye with finesse, not a sledgehammer.

Don’t aim for something and think “Where’s the immediate result on the grand scoreboard? Why is Biden still in office, ugh!?”

Don’t get mad that the collective scoreboard isn’t reflecting your individual change and power. You’re just giving your authority away.

You may be the apprentice in the world’s eyes right now. But only the apprentice is on the way to becoming master.

So in some sense, you’re already at your destination. A master simply for showing up.

The rest are merely spectators.

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