Leo Moon Moving into Virgo

This note covers the Moon's transit through Virgo, today through Sunday afternoon.

Yesterday's post explored this morning's Leo Moon, so today we join the Moon resting in her afternoon void of course time, watching as she steps carefully into Virgo at 6:10pm. Virgo is mutable Earth, grounded, practical, watcher over details, caretaker, and healer.

After the exuberant passion of Leo, and the heady communication with powerful outer planets, this evening is likely to feel calm and quiet, offering a chance to check in, regroup, and get organized. Virgo wants to make sure everyone is ok after the last few day's wild ride.

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A friend posted a comment yesterday, sharing a dream of the Cowardly Lion that got me thinking about Oz. If the impulsive, passionate Lion is Fire, and the empathic, sensitive Tin Man is Water, the Scarecrow is surely Earth with more than a little Virgo in the mix. He's the one who calmly makes sure everyone keeps going through poppies, snow, and flying monkeys; the one who asks, "What about Dorothy?"

Virgo has a humility that veers easily into self criticism, never feeling it can do enough. Every transit from Leo into Virgo can bring up feelings that we missed the boat somehow. A happier, more productive expression of Virgo's energy is to check in gently with ourselves as well as with those we care about. How are we feeling today? What healing might we need?

Today's Moon in Virgo offers support for self care, as well as care of others. She forms a flowing trine with the North Node and an inconjunct angle-of-adjustment with the Aquarian Sun, connections that offer information on where we are on our path. We can use this information to make course corrections, compassionately.

Overnight, we move into transformational territory as the Virgo Moon forms a flowing trine to Pluto in Capricorn and an inconjunct to Mars in Aquarius. The focus shifts from where we are, to what we need to do. Watch for dream messages about alchemy and action.

Action and energy abound Saturday as Jupiter enters fiery Aries just after noon, beginning a new twelve-year cycle through the zodiac. Jupiter entered Aries back in June, part of the amazing Cardinal Cross of the summer. But then he slipped back into Pisces, giving us a chance to revisit, revise, and revitalize our dreams and visions. Now's he back, ready to surge forward, reaching out.

It's time to check your chart, to see where Jupiter's transit will energize you. Cafe Astrology offers an overview of Jupiter's impact, with extra notes for each sign.

The Virgo Moon moves into a flowing trine with Mercury in Capricorn, opening a window for practical, organized thought and communication. If you've got editing to do, Saturday afternoon is a great time to complete it, or any other tasks that require focus, determination, and analysis.

Venus is sailing through exuberant Sagittarius these days. A challenge in square from the Virgo Moon Saturday night can provide a check-in, making sure we're not overextending, or engaging in behaviors a little too risky.

Sunday, the Moon continues her steady pace through Virgo, reaching the last degrees in midafternoon. Here she will conjunct Juno, the asteroid of partnership, as she forms an opposition to Uranus and inconjuncts to Neptune and Chiron.

These challenging aspects remind us that sometimes it's hard for Virgo to accept intuitive guidance and healing. Virgo can too easily demur, saying, "Oh no, you can't mean me, this message must be for someone more worthy. I'm not the one, there are others more qualified and deserving."

Sunday afternoon, we open to possibility that our guides know what they're doing, that the intuitions we receive are for us and not anyone else, that we're each the hero of our own lives.