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Virgo Season is always a beautiful time of year. I think it’s a vastly underrated sign.
It’s more than just going back to school. Virgo is the last sign before we get to Libra, when day and night are in equal proportion.
But we are no longer in the peak sunshine days of Cancer and Leo season.
The light is waning, and so we become more reflective. We think back with nostalgia—and look forward to the time when even today will become a dreamy memory.
Welcome to the Wonder Years: not just our childhood, but right now, as if we are looking at the present through amber-colored glasses.
Ah, the golden season. Alchemical. It gives such depth to the moment.
Naturally, the Full Moon every September falls in poetic Pisces—a messy energy that naturally balances the hyper-focused stimulation of Virgo.
Pack lunches, get kids to soccer practice, knock out that work assignment. Vigorous Virgo, tending all the “crops” in our life.
On the other hand, Pisces is wet, watery, slippery. When a Full Moon falls here, it’s one last flush of rain to push our “crops” to a state of ripeness.
This is the last harvest for awhile. This is the last big influx of water energy until we get to a crazy eclipse season around Halloween—watery Scorpio time.
And so we must embrace the trade-offs that come with rain.
Rain makes us think of tears. Nostalgia becomes regret. Remembrance becomes a memorial service. The past is gone. Where did it go?
Indeed, the Full Moon is closely fused with Neptune, the ultimate master of deception—but also the source of divinity.
It’s high tide, and the past is returning, to remind us that we are connected to it. Since it never leaves us, we never have to over-worry (classic Virgo pitfall).
This is how we will grasp the ultimate meaning of the 9/10 Full Moon:
Reunions involve errors—we can never fully remember everything. Plus, reconnecting with people from the past, or simply renewing our vows with current partners, can be messy.
But without this redemption, there is no reason to persist.
Let’s dive in.
Force Majeure
Amazingly, Mercury is going retrograde at the time of this Full Moon.
Typically, the Full Moon should resolve things for us, especially anything set in motion at the 8/27 New Moon.
But, in line with the theme of error, this Full Moon leaves us with more questions than answers.
This goes double, because Mercury rules that Virgo Sun, which is supposed to help us see the message of redemption in a Pisces Full Moon.
But I think, despite all that illumination, we may be like Goldilocks—constantly sending our porridge back for a slightly cooler, slightly warmer dish.
We find Mercury in Libra, the sign of relationships. A retrograde there implies that we were perhaps expecting a redemption in relationships—but don’t immediately see one.
The reason for our frustration is because Mercury is opposite Jupiter, who sits in the feisty sign of Aries.
Jupiter, too, is retrograde.
This is an intense tug of war between our subjective notions of what relationships should be—and the objective actions that will bring us happiness.
I think this face-off is destined to show us that we have silly notions of what relationships should be—primarily because we don’t spend much time as a culture deciding what we really want for ourselves, in a personal sense.
We derive our wants from whatever keeps resources close to us, and then when our relationships go south, there’s no true personal foundation to work on!
This retrograde at a Full Moon is introducing FORCE MAJEURE, i.e. a legal term indicating that a contract is nullified due to an act of God or unforeseeable circumstance.
Both parties are free to go, no harm, no blame.
This will allow them to re-approach each other and re-instate the relationship contract. But the parties can no longer build on fabricated notions of how to be in a relationship or illusory senses of independence.
And that cuts both ways. What I mean is, while this may free us from co-dependency, it’s also out to destroy notions of, “I’m so independent, I don’t need ANYONE.”
Let’s keep going.
Frothing at the Mouth
Mars is slowing down. That feisty planet who would really like to be hanging out with Jupiter, in his home sign of Aries.
But no, he’s slowing down in Gemini, the sign dealing with discussion, dialog, talk.
Restrained like a pitbull, Mars is creeping along, frothing at the mouth.
Who hasn’t seen extra snark out there lately?
How ironic, too, that Mars in Gemini is ruled by Mercury, who’s bringing up memories of relationships, good and bad, as we just described.
He can go over there and cut the cords of co-dependency.
Or he can go over there and get impatient that the other person isn’t freeing themselves, too. . .or didn’t in the past.
“Ok ok, you’ve had your life review with the Wonder Years! Let’s get this show on the road!”
Oof.
Meanwhile, Venus is also connected to this Mercury story.
She’s in the other sign ruled by Mercury—in picky Virgo.
In essence, she’s the voice of weighing things out, perhaps trying to (helpfully) micro-manage this Martian anger to the point of exhaustion and forfeiture.
It’s a good stall tactic, but zero drive is just as bad as too much drive.
That’s the thing: I think this Pisces Full Moon near Neptune is saying, stop pushing AND stop lingering.
It’s neither. It’s about surrender.
Everything has a process right now. Go into a reflective state, but don’t be surprised if that gets you dialed into your instincts.
Or go knock out some tasks—but don’t be surprised if you stop halfway, because some sight or scent takes you back 10 years into the past.
We have to stop fighting processes when they give us a different result than we expect.
The current astrology wants us to really grasp this.
Mars and Venus are even harshly square each other in this Full Moon chart, bickering between the path of impulsive action and the path of dithering on every little detail.
Furthermore, they are the rulers of the nodes in Scorpio and Taurus, respectively—the lighthouses of what we need to let go (Scorpio compulsiveness) and what we need to embrace (Taurus abundance and calm).
The astrology only gets crazier this fall, and we have to let the abundance into our lives now.
Surrender to the personal growth coming at you now. Dance between the opportunities for freedom and the need to hold tight.
After all, Pisces takes things out with the tide…then brings them back in.
If you really want something and it goes away, the best way to “hold tight” is to follow the flow.
When it washes up in new form, add that relationship to your permanent collection.
You can do that confidently because you’ve accessed a deeper relationship—one with yourself, accessed through reflection on all the steps you took to get here.
Question the current processes around you, inspect assumptions about where they’re taking you, but make sure you dive into some flow eventually.
You can always course correct, but a journey never started is a journey never finished. That’s what memories, reunions, makeups and breakups teach us.
You close one life chapter so you can start writing a new one.
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