Waning Moon in Virgo

Today's Moon aspects are simple yet significant: She flows energy with Mars and Venus in Scorpio. These sextiles come exact at 1:01pm (Venus) and 2:42pm (Mars) this afternoon. The Moon in Virgo is detailed and analytical. Mars and Venus in Scorpio are deep and incisive. This powerful combination offers alternatives.

As Mars and Venus in Scorpio continue to uncover what's really going on in our relationships, creative lives, and actions, we've possibly been brought face to face with some less than lovely truths, or issues we'd stuffed way back in the drawer, and had our buttons pushed a few times. Adding Virgo's devastating talent for critique to that mix could take us to a place where we see exactly where things went wrong and are ready to point that out in excrutiating and excoriating detail to the person or persons we hold responsible, which could be us.

Let's agree to step back from that one, if possible.

Moray eel

A fascinating alternative presents itself in an AP story picked up this morning on Yahoo! News: A worldwide census of the deep oceans reveals that marine life is far more interconnected that previously thought. Key species have a much wider distribution than we knew, and the DNA overlap among species is tremendous, despite their apparent diversity.

Imagine the Moon in Virgo as a careful scientist diving deep into Scorpionic oceans, studying each species in detail, analyzing data step by step. Her work is an act of service that she hopes will bring healing through a greater understanding of the ocean world. Yet as she works on one piece of the data, she can't see the whole picture.

Now, as Mars and Venus combine action and values, desire and relationship, into a creative whole, the gifts of Virgo are illuminated. We see the overall pattern of dark and light, predators and prey, the beautiful and the grotesque, and yet everything within these vast depths is intricately and intimately connected. Just like us.

The Sun in balanced and harmonious Libra sits right between the Virgo Moon, and Mars and Venus in Scorpio, creating semisextiles to each. The additional solar light helps us appreciate the marvelous wonders of Scorpio's depths, revealed by the detailed research of the Virgo Moon.