8/23 - 9/22 VIRGO SEASON
Ruled by Mercury, Virgo as the 6th Sign marks the half-way point in the Zodiac year. The Earth Maiden has roots in Health and Environment and is assigned to the 6th House of Wellness and Service.
Virgo’s rulership of the digestive system, which provides energy in its process of nourishment and schedules our habits, dictates our day-to-day. A Sign of Systems and Structure, Virgo takes the base factor of what it is to live in the Body and observe our intake, whether it be during different Seasons or in the case of illness... carrying this methodology into everything else it is interested in.
Mutable Virgo sees nuance in NEEDS. Whether physical, emotional or spiritual, the art of actively caring for oneself and others comes with observation, trial and error.
A conduit for the knowledge of the Earth, Virgo’s journey begins with Apprenticeship and their delight in documentation is a favored pastime. Though she may be a rigid planner and overachiever, she’s also an adventurer, too, and loves to connect the dots (though weary of being hazardous… a great pop culture example of a Virgo is Harry Potter’s Hermoine). Virgo’s reputation as an organized lover of learning also leans heavily on a sentimental want to help, rooted by creature comforts and intentional rituals.
Classical archetypal Virgo as the Virgin and pop cult studious curator were both showcased in our Virgo Moodboard, a fun frivoli from our usual musings. As much as Virgo holds her cards close before opening up, when she feels safe with someone she is quite the solid character to have on your side.
Virgo is the last Sign of the first half of the Zodiac, rounding out the “self-development” sector, refining its priors. Virgo’s polarity is the final Sign Pisces, the ascension of all human experience. Pisces looks back through the Zodiac and says, okay, “now let it meld together”. Virgo’s preference to organize and label is somewhat in opposition to Pisces’ sum-of-things primordial soup.
The Pisces Full Moon clashes yet caresses Virgo Season as we inch towards Autumn, bringing tension between NEEDS and WANTS.
8/30-31 FULL MOON IN PISCES
The Blue Supermoon in Pisces closes out August, a powerful end to a sweltering month of climate chaos and rowdy retrogrades.
With the Aquarius Supermoon on August 1, coinciding with Lughnasadh, the ways in which we need to free ourselves from perceptions was a pervading pressure. Supermoons are often overwhelming, the heaviness of our cups overfull, stressors spilling over and out. Now that we are in Virgo Season and Mercury Retrograde in Virgo, the placement of Pisces in this rare Blue Moon (2 full moons in a month) may be extra emotional and bring up adolescent dreams and disappointments that have cemented some of our reactions in our current adult lives.
Closest to the Earth than any other Full or New Moon this year, the lunar pull deeply affects those moon-sensitive, particularly potent for those with Pisces or Virgo in their Big 3. Like many Supermoons or even the erratic Eclipses of 2023, consider this time better for reflection instead of ritual, a chance to feel it all, as Pisces is known best to do, and release considerately with Virgo responsibility.
Retrogrades don’t work well with emo vomit after all.
Virgo is, without a doubt, the Sign of All Signs to embrace their own company, protecting their time/energy/space in some capacity. Pisces floats through life sometimes directionless, knowing that the “everything” is all encompassing.
Virgo doesn’t vibe with this free-form approach as they like to be able to categorize and understand fully. The Pisces Supermoon is a reminder that we DO NOT KNOW, much to the dismay of straight-A student Virgo who loathes to see too many subjects added to the syllabus at the last minute. Pisces is, in this way, frighteningly open and the Oracle that stands before orderly Virgo is a Nightmare of Unknown. Pisces is too spastic to predict and Virgo finds this easily-led-astray quality aggravating. Virgos like to be tethered, kept safe, much like Earthlings, but the vast Universe has other plans for us most of the time. What a practice in patience, acceptance and even grief!
This Pisces Supermoon throws what we know in a spiral. We NEED to go with the flow in this sink-or-swim environment even if it is not what we WANT.
Additionally, this is a metaphor not just for the many retrogrades that are affecting our personal lives, Uranus recently added to the list, but this is the unfortunate state of emergency we are washed over with. The onslaught of hurricanes, the unethical political chaos of spectacle, the sharp COVID cases of late summer being totally ignored by the media… Summer 2023 has grown to be anxiety-inducing to say the least. What we wanted for our Future is no longer possible, but Pisces energy urges us to redirect, find the inner child spirit who wants to Love and the Virgo vivaciousness to problem-solve the best that we can.
Virgo and Pisces are so similar in their commitment to care and when we remember the ways that they are NOT always at odds, we can learn so much about our Past, Present and Future.
Additionally, I want to talk about the factor of loneliness in our screen gate-kept lives. Pisces as an Eeyore in Venus Retrograde, hell hath no pout like a Pisces put in a lonesome goldfish bowl, looking out over all the images but not “being there”. The discerning Virgo is ultimately careful in choosing partnerships and pathways. Independent in every way, Virgo would rather forgo than join. The Virgin as a loyalty commander, the Fish in a polyamorous pond party - and how the two concepts are not mutually exclusive - is a current challenge in our approach to vulnerability and sharing, whether it be romantic, sexual, social or energetic.
This Pisces Supermoon may tick off FOMO while the Virgo Sun finally caves about the ways in which it is too difficult to be an island. Virgo’s privacy - that some may see as loneliness - is in actuality a ritual of one-ness, imposed on their own accord as a means to find fullness. But without community, this false sense of safety becomes a cage. Knowing that to love yourself, to know how to be alone, not lonely, is the key to ever truly loving another person, but we can sometimes take it too far. Pisces coaxes us to change the ways in which we avoid “risk” and questions if it's really just a locked door to not let anyone in.
As the Moon switches from Aquarius to Pisces on August 30, it will be fully in the Sign of the Fish for the 31st and the 2023 Pisces Supermoon may linger for the week, bringing up unresolved issues around reality vs. imagination, especially in relation to our child and teen selves, a big focus as we move forward into the Aries-Libra Axis and the Autumnal Eclipse Season.
Sitting close to Saturn, pausing to show us that our dreams take discipline, but above all, lessons on how to be hopeful without solid proof that “everything will be okay” is important for this Virgo-Pisces polarity.
The Pisces Blue Supermoon reminds us that sometimes we need to ask for the help of others to heal & sometimes we need to get lost to find our own way. Choose your own adventure!
Rest well and be kind to yourself, Moonies! We have a long journey ahead.