The Cosmic Story: Virgo Full Moon 2021

The Cosmic Story: Virgo Full Moon 2021

Virgo Moon over Pisces Ocean

This weekend’s Virgo Full Moon is the last Full Moon of the astrological year that began last March 19 - 20, 2020. It is the Full Moon that forgives us all our mistakes, all the pain and darkness in us, all our self-loathing. Because Virgo sees the lessons learned and can integrate them into a new wholeness. Virgo can knit all those parts into a new pattern. The darkness isn’t bad – it’s just dark. Once you acknowledge it and work with it,you can see the old pattern and let it go.

This Full Moon grew out of the amazing Aquarius New Moon of February 11^th. Our Aquarian journey is getting underway with the Saturn/Jupiter conjunction at 1* Aquarius last Winter Solstice and now this big 6 planet Aquarius New Moon. But before we get swept into its tidal currents, this Full Moon wants us to realize something. We need to forgive ourselves. We need to forgive life for being hard. We need to accept that we have been through an intense initiation. And that we’ve all passed.

 

 

Virgo is the Divine Mother and Child, Isis and Horus, Mary and Jesus, Demeter and Persephone. Virgo is the creator and her creation. The ancient statues of Mother and Child symbolize the realization Her potential. The Mother herself isn’t whole until she holds her Child, the creative potential manifested in the world.

When we meet the Virgo Mother, she does not berate us for our faults – despite rumors of her perfectionism. The Mother accepts and loves us, not matter what. We are the Pisces child who has stumbled through life without an instruction book, relearning old lessons, recognizing old patterns and healing them. Virgo Mom has the courage to send forth her child to grow in the NOW and become what Spirit intended.

Virgo isn’t about purity or perfection. Virgo’s virginity is about wholeness. It’s about embracing our own darkness as part of that wholeness. Pisces isn’t about losing ourselves in the material world or denying its reality through addictions. It’s about surrendering to the Source of Life. Allowing ourselves to accept what life brings us, acknowledging the lessons it brings, and facing them with ingenuity and creativity.

As the last Virgo – Pisces Full Moon of the 2020 cycle, the Goddess offers us the chance to integrate what we learned in this past year of chaos and change. Our souls are calling. Mother Earth’s World Soul is calling. Can we blossom into her true Spiritual child? Can we surrender to this moment and listen to her Wisdom? Can we become our own unique Self?

Virgo – Pisces Full Moon 2021

This Virgo Full Moon occurs on Friday, February 26^th at 11:17pm in Alaska, and on Saturday, February 27^th at 12:17am PST/ 3:17am EST/ 8:17am GMT.

 

 

The Sabian symbol for the Sun at 9* Pisces is: A girl blowing a bugle. This is our wake-up call. Dane Rudhyar says it is “ A call to participation in the service of the race, as an evolutionary crisis approaches.” The divine Feminine issues a summons to us to awaken and be reborn. We have things to do, changes to make.

The Sabian symbol for the Moon at 9* Virgo is: A five year old child takes a first dancing lesson. Once again, a child shall lead the way. 5 is called the number of humanity, the number of freedom, of courage and of our experiences. At 5 years of age, we begin to understand the world. In the old days, we could say that this child is being taught the ‘rules of the dance’. But today, with the Piscean Sun calling us to awaken, might it be better to say that the dance is dancing the child into place?

 

The Sabian symbol for Venus at 3* Pisces is: Petrified tree trunks lie broken on desert sands. What a great symbol for this time – the past is dead! Patriarchy is broken in the desert of its own destructive tendencies. Venus here will see the message and want to rebuild with beauty, love and wisdom.

The Pisces Sun and Venus are conjunct one of the four Royal Stars of Persia (from over 5000 years ago), called the Guardians of Heaven – the star Fomalhaut, a reddish fixed star, the largest star in constellation Piscis Austrinus, the Southern Fish. The name Fomalhaut derives from Arabic fum al-ḥawt, meaning “mouth of the [Southern] Fish”. In those ancient times, it was called the Watcher of the South when it marked the Winter Solstice.

 

According to Ptolemy, it is of the nature of Venus and Mercury (idealistic, psychic, handsome, neat, lovable, refined, genteel, intelligent). It is said to be very fortunate and powerful for the most part. It is currently at 3*53’ Pisces conjunct Venus and just 4* from this Full Moon Sun.

That gentle, fortunate energy is definitely part of this Full Moon. As a Winter Solstice star of hope, it is a reminder for us to keep faith with life and hold onto hope for a better future. Change is hard for everyone, but this is a necessary change that humanity is undergoing. We are really blessed that Mother Earth stopped everything for this past year so we as a whole world can re-assess where we are going.

As the end note of 2020, this Virgo-Pisces Full Moon brings us a gentle reminder to accept what happened and redeem it by integrating its lessons. The waters of the Pisces Collective Unconscious have been shaken and stirred. Neptune in Pisces is adding a gateway to the Creative Imagination if we can find it. As we leave the Age of Pisces and enter the headwaters of the Age of Aquarius, our work is to accept who we are, forgive ourselves and others for what’s gone before, and acknowledge that our spirits know how to handle living in the material world.

This grounding and centering Full Moon is opposite the Pisces Sun, which is conjunct Venus in Pisces, opening us to our dreams, our artistry and our compassion. The Virgo Moon is illuminated by this gentle, dreamy light, weaving together the lessons learned now that we can look back over the whole year and see, behind the fear of death, the great goodness it holds.

We are no longer locked into patriarchy’s paradigm. We have learned that in isolation we acknowledge our need for each other. We have faced death in many forms – our people dying, our work shut down, our lives stopped. We’ve been forced to look within ourselves and we’ve survived it.

This Full Moon offers us a chance to reweave the story of our life into that new story I’ve been talking about for years now! 

 

 

Virgo is the Virgin who belongs to herself. She is whole – body, mind and spirit – because she has given birth to that part of herself that needed to come into being. That’s why this Full Moon is so important this year. We have really come through the labor of giving birth to our original, spiritual Self – last year was like transition, the part of labor that just keeps coming without much of a chance to catch your breath.

Now is the time to enjoy your new ‘baby’ and give it love and get to know it. Channel your inner mother and take care of the new life you have birthed. The world needs each one of us to help heal it.

We are helped this Full Moon by a beautiful trine to the Moon and sextile to the Sun from Uranus in Taurus, feeding us Mother Earth’s creative genius. Be original. Be unique. Do not hide your light under a bushel anymore.

The Sabian symbol for Uranus at 8* Taurus is: A sleigh speeds over the ground as yet uncovered by snow. This image asks us to imagine what we need to progress as we attempt to find the right vehicle to take us into the future. It requires our unique genius.

Uranus is the planet of electricity. And in Taurus it is helping shift the electromagnetic field of Mother Earth – as well as our own energy field. So with this Virgo Full Moon, check in with yourself and feel the energetic shift within yourself – feel how the old patterns no longer control you. Our energy patterns are being renewed and upgraded. Remember, we are ‘filled with light’ since all energy is a frequency of light. Remember to vibrate at your highest level and be the Light in the world.

On February 17, Saturn in Aquarius squared Uranus in Taurus for the first of three times this year – the other squares are on June 14^th and December 25^th. They create a tension between technology and the Earth’s genius, between how we’ve operated in the past and where we can head in the future. We will have to figure out how to integrate the past and the future. How we get there is created by the push/pull between Saturn and Uranus. It’s the friction that creates the fires of inspiration.

Saturn in Aquarius hits this Full Moon in a wonky way. It might make us insecure about things or stop us from developing our new ideas. Don’t let it! Use the energy to help organize your ideas and structure things to help you grow into your new Self. My 12^th house Taurus Sun, locked away in the ocean of undoing, has a hard time building any structures and it can get disoriented and totally forget those Qi Gong exercises I want to do each morning. Saturn can come down hard on me and fill me with shame, or I can get it to help me organize my days so I don’t ‘forget’! Relate to the planets and get them to help you rather than hinder you.

The Sabian symbol for Saturn at 9* Aquarius is: A mountain climber follows the flight of an eagle through binoculars. Saturn in Aquarius is about our mental constructs, and after the 1^st Saturn/Uranus square last week, some of those constructs have been blown up. This gives us a chance to find a new perspective about what’s going on in the collective mind. People want change – they can feel it in the air. Just knowing that we can find that perspective if we need it is helpful. In the end, whatever we are here to do is for our collective benefit. Use the energy to help you define who and what you are. The collective needs that independence of thought and action.

Now that Mercury is going direct, all the planets (except for the asteroid Vesta in Virgo) are in direct motion until the end of April! Things will be moving ahead now so don’t get swept away by the energy. Harness it and use it for whatever you’re cooking up.

Mars in Taurus and Pluto in Capricorn trine each other to help us move things along in a concrete way. Pluto has almost finished its demolition of patriarchy, so let the old be swept away and start to build in the new.

 

 

Have you noticed how the Light is growing! We are heading toward Spring here in the North.

Late winter blessings!

Cathy

The great affair, the love affair with life,
is to live as variously as possible,
to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred,
climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day.

Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding,
and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours,
life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery,
but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

~ Diane Ackerman ~

("found poetry" from A Natural History of the Senses)

The Cosmic Story: Aquarius New Moon 2021

 

The Cosmic Story: New Moon in Aquarius, February 11, 2021

 

 

All AIR signs are symbolized by wind and movement. Right now with the cold weather settling over most of the U.S., Aquarius could symbolize the equivalent of the polar vortex, (a persistent, large-scale, upper-level low-pressure area, that rotates counter-clockwise at the North Pole and clockwise at the South Pole, i.e., both polar vortices rotate eastward around the poles).

Aquarius, ruled by the Sky father Uranus, reaches into the cold air of the heavens. Because of its fixed nature, Aquarius can be coldly objective, seeing things from the heights of idealism. Like the cold air circulating through the upper atmosphere, Aquarius looks down on Earth with the clarity of a cold winter’s day.

Aquarius likes to share its cosmic knowledge, making sure that information, resources and energy get distributed and shared where they are needed. Interestingly, Aquarius also rules over the circulatory system in the human body with its opposite sign, Leo, ruling the heart. Together they keep us alive.  So connect with the heart of your creative expression so that you can circulate it into the collective mind.

With six planets in Aquarius during this Aquarius New Moon on February 11^th, we are being swept up in a vortex of energy that can take us into the future. Since Aquarius is a fixed air sign, a vortex or tornado are apt images for the power of Aquarian winds. Those cold winds from the upper world are exactly how Aquarius brings us the visions and potentials that Aquarius thrives on.

 

 

The last time there were these many planets in Aquarius was at the Aquarius New Moon on February 4, 1962, when there were 7 planets in Aquarius plus the South Node. One of my brother-in-laws was born a few days later, and I can tell you he is a powerhouse in the world. Back in 1962, both Jupiter and Saturn were also in Aquarius, although their conjunction occurred in Capricorn in 1961. This was the beginning of a cultural revolution against the main stream narrative. President Kennedy gave the first presidential talk on society and social issues and the 1st man, John Glenn, orbited the Earth, which led to a paradigm shift, as humanity saw the Earth from the new perspective of space. There was a spiritual awakening for most of humanity.

And of course, soon after this was the Uranus-Pluto conjunction of 1965-66, which was the beginning of the hippie movement and so much more. We experienced these planets squaring each other from 2012-2015 and since then, we have worked hard to bring those ideals into the world. That big conjunction in Aquarius was a seed point of a new era. 

 

 

And this powerful Aquarius New Moon is another beginning. In 1962, Uranus was finishing up its stay in Leo, so it formed an opposition to those planets, showing us that there were new possibilities available to us. This year, Uranus is in Taurus and is squaring those Aquarian planets, challenging them to do something concrete with all those visions and possibilities so we can bring them down to earth.

Aquarius New Moon, February 11, 2021

The Aquarius New Moon occurs on Thursday, February 11 at 10:06 am Alaska time, 11:06am PST/ 2:06pm EST/ 7:06pm GMT.

 

 

The Sabian symbol for the Sun and Moon at 24* Aquarius is: A man, having overcome his passions, teaches deep wisdom in terms of his experience. This image speaks to the need to 1) find meaning in our experiences and 2) to pass on that knowledge to younger or more inexperienced people so that they have a better understanding of life and how to work with the issues that arise.

Overcoming passions isn’t always the best way to talk about learning from life experiences though. Our passions are the fuel that keeps us searching for life and meaning. I would rather say that we need to not be ruled by our passions but to work with them to accomplish our goals.

On the other hand, this is a great image of how Aquarius works. If you know any Aquarians, they are often coolly objective and rational with their judgments, even when it hurts. And since Aquarius wants to circulate knowledge, what better way than by example.

Aquarius the Water Bearer

 

The image of Aquarius is the Water Bearer, a person pouring out the waters of life, of the unconscious, of the archetypal patterns.The ancient Babylonians associated this constellation because the 11^th month was the time when the rains came.

Since it is an air sign, there is an objectivity about the watery depths and heights. The archetypal patterns of life help us understand our emotional reactions to life. Aquarius describes our humanitarian impulses, our urge for freedom, our ability to awaken to our soul’s wisdom and our need to rebel against constrictive norms.

I imagine you’re all feeling a big energetic shift by now, since all those planets moved out of responsible, demanding Capricorn into this much lighter Aquarian energy. We’ll be in Aquarian energy for decades. We’re leaving behind the old story so a new story can emerge. Jupiter is in Aquarius for most of 2021, Saturn will stay there until March of 2023 and Pluto will enter Aquarius in 2023 until 2044. So this is our chance to ground this Aquarian energy and make some new beginnings for this new story for humanity and the world that will take us into the future.

But with the overload of 6 planets plus the asteroid Pallas, our minds can go into overdrive. So take time to breathe. The best way I’ve found to handle energy is Qi Gong, which circulates and balances both yin and yang, the energies of heaven, you and Earth. If you’re going to do any meditating on this powerful New Moon, I suggest you find some Qi Gong videos and do some moving meditations before you plant your New Moon seeds. 

Alex Grey ~ Qi Gong Energy Flow

Venus and Jupiter meet up a few hours before this New Moon. These two planets bring good luck and success to your endeavors. The Sabian symbol for Venus and Jupiter at 13* Aquarius is: A barometer. A barometer measures air pressure and any change in pressure allows us to know what’s heading our way. It helps us anticipate what the future might hold, which is a big help at New Moon time. Use this helpful energy to intuit what seeds need to be planted for the best possible outcomes.

Besides a nice sextile between Neptune in Pisces and Mars in Taurus, which opens Mars to creative possibilities in terms of actions, the rest of the chart is comprised of the squares between all those Aquarian planets and Uranus and Mars in Taurus. In anticipation of the first of three squares (on February 17^th) between Saturn and Uranus which will dominate 2021, this New Moon holds the potential for those seeds to crack open and grow as the year unfolds. So choose your intentions wisely.

Unlike last year, which saw three new planetary cycles end and begin, and two big retrogrades of Venus and Mars, this year’s drama is pretty much centered on Saturn’s waning square to Uranus.

Saturn is all about structures and limitations and top-down authority while Uranus is about blowing those structures up, about awakenings and bottom-up revolution. Squares are inner tensions that need to be resolved. A waning square, like the last quarter Moon, demands that we make conscious choices based on our values.

It’s interesting that Saturn, which rules Aquarius along with Uranus, is the more traditional, conservative energy in a progressive sign. While Uranus, the radical visionary, is in the most earthy, traditional sign. What to make of this energetic tension?

Uranus is the force of cosmic law that knows when things have to change – no matter what. In Taurus, it becomes Earth’s creative genius. While Uranus remains in Taurus until 2026, we have to break up what is stale and outworn and open up to the energetic push to listen to Mother Earth’s wisdom teachings.

Uranus will bring us leaps in our understanding of reality. We might engage in telepathy as well as access information from the quantum field. Who knows? Our healing ability might grow as our DNA is awakened. Anything and everything is possible now. So use your creative imagination to create your future, now that we’ve been freed from the patriarchal prison of small possibilities. 

 

The Mind of Nature ~ Alex Grey 

 

The tension between these two forces will center around Saturn-control and Uranus-freedom. Since Uranus always wins in the end, Saturn will have to give up its control and offer its gift of form and structure to the Uranian revolution that needs to happen. We have to focus on Mother Earth’s needs and listen to our indigenous people who know how to live in harmony with Her. We need new forms of energy, of food production, of land management. We need to save our animal relations and help them to thrive once again if we are to survive and thrive. These are the tensions I see that we’ll have to face this year. The corporate structure has to let go of its power and control over the world and start to re-shape itself to meet the Earth’s needs and our needs rather than corporate bottom lines.

With Mars in Taurus, we have to dedicate our passions and energy into being stewards of the Earth.

There will be struggles we still have to face. We can face them with fear or with joy. It is our choice. Since Aquarius is closely related to the quantum field, it is important to really understand that what we put our attention on, manifests. Aquarius is a mental energy field, and matter coalesces around our frequency. At this time, our world is descending into the chaotic field of endings and new beginnings. Things aren’t predictable anymore as all the old systems crumble.

So the most important thing we can do right now is to believe in the unseen.

The Sabian symbol for Saturn at 8* Aquarius is: Beautifully gowned wax figures on display. This relates to the fixed mental archetypal patterns we base our lives on. There are new forms of these ancient archetypes being revealed and still being shaped by our imaginations.

The Sabian symbol for Uranus at 8* Taurus is: A sleigh on land uncovered by snow. This seems to be another symbol of anticipation – we have a vehicle to get us where we need to go in this winter time of the world. Or an image of some vehicle we no longer need because the season has changed. Your choice!

Together, it asks us to shape those mental archetypal patterns for a new reality that hasn’t appeared yet but is on its way. It’s time for us to embody this Aquarian energy in our expectations and our decisions to make it happen.

Mercury retrograde is also conjunct Venus and Jupiter and asks us to think outside the box, to think big and hopeful, and to open to new visions of the possible human. Mercury trines the Gemini NN, opening us to new information so we can make new choices and let go of limiting beliefs (Sagittarius SN).

Mercury turns direct on February 20^th at 12* Aquarius. The Sabian symbol is: Life’s broad stairway, each landing a new grade of life. I think this image speaks for itself. May we rise ever higher as we walk into the future.

Use this amazing energy to co-create the next steps in Earth’s evolution. Remember though, this is very idealistic energy so don’t be so hard on yourself. We’re not going to manifest things right away. Remember that we’re not here to be perfect, but to keep going on our quest.

Chinese fortune cookie: This is a time to think big because we have the energy to grow big.

Warm regards during this cold week,

Cathy

 

 

Follow Your Bliss

The divine manifestation is ubiquitous,
Only our eyes are not open to it.

 

Awe is what moves us forward.

 

Live from your own center.
The divine lives within you.
The separateness apparent in the world is secondary.
Beyond the world of opposites is an unseen,
but experienced, unity and identity in us all.

Today the planet is the only proper “in group.”
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.

You must return with the bliss and integrate it.
The return is seeing the radiance is everywhere.
The world is a match for us.
We are a match for the world.
The spirit is the bouquet of nature.

Sanctify the place you are in.

Follow your bliss. . . .

~ Joseph Campbell ~

(Compiled from various writings of Joseph Campbell)