Moon into Virgo: Reading the Fine Print

Wednesday afternoon through Friday afternoon
Eastern Standard Time

Wednesday, February 8
Moon enters Virgo 12:32pm

carrying water

Moon opposite Neptune (Pisces) 12:50pm
Moon inconjunct Venus (Aries) 1:36pm
Moon inconjunct Uranus (Aries) 4:09pm
Moon trine Jupiter (Taurus) 6:45pm
Moon opposite Chiron (Pisces) 7:33pm

Thursday, February 9
Mercury (Aquarius) inconjunct Mars (Virgo) 2:08am
Moon trine Pluto (Capricorn) 3:07am
Moon square the North Node (Sagittarius) 6:56am
Venus (Aries) conjunct Uranus (Aries) 9:29pm
Moon inconjunct Sun (Aquarius) 11:36pm

Friday, February 10
Moon conjunct Mars (Virgo) 12:12am
(begin void of course)
Moon inconjunct Mercury (Aquarius) 3:42am
Sun (Aquarius) inconjunct Mars (Virgo) 6:30am
Moon semisextile Saturn (Libra) 2:30pm
Moon enters Libra 2:53pm
Moon inconjunct Neptune (Pisces) 3:21pm
Moon opposite Uranus (Aries) 6:37pm
Moon opposite Venus (Aries) 8:25pm
Moon inconjunct Jupiter (Taurus) 9:30pm
Moon inconjunct Chiron (Pisces) 10:02pm

The Moon enters Virgo just after noon today, peering cautiously into a world that seems to look rather different after the blazing Leo Full Moon. We move into the waning half of the lunar cycle, in which we first share our gifts with the world and then shift into releasing and preparing for the next New Moon. This Virgo Moon wants to be sure everything's ready, everything's right. This will call for some adjustments, a Virgoan specialty.

Today's Moon opposes visionary Neptune and healing Chiron in Pisces––Virgo finds Neptune and Pisces to be, well, a little vague. She's also forming awkward inconjuncts with Venus and Uranus in fiery Aries––these two are just a little impetuous. This Moon feels most comfortable with patient, grounded Taurus, and so forms a supportive trine with Jupiter.

taking stock

This is a day for checking the details on anything that feels too opened-ended, or leaves you feeling rushed or pressured. With the Moon and Jupiter in grounded Earth, give yourself the time to make sure.

Tomorrow we see a similar mix of pushing forward and pulling back. In the early hours of Wednesday, Mercury in forward-thinking Aquarius is inconjunct Mars moving backwards in careful Virgo. Embracing new ideas without making any mistakes is not usually possible, but these two will wrestle it out.

The Moon flows energy in trine with alchemical Pluto, while challenging the North Node with a square. Maybe the message here is to make sure we've undergone the required initiations before taking that next step on the path.

Thursday evening, Venus reaches her exact conjunction with Uranus, lighting fires of change in our relationships, values, and creative lives. Meanwhile, the Moon forms the same inconjunct with the Sun that Mercury and Mars formed earlier,. We try to balance strong forward movement with keeping all our ducks in a row.

And again on Friday: The Moon and Mars in Virgo move through the same dance with Mercury and the Sun in Aquarius. We're living surrounded by strong currents of change. Aquarius is entranced with the beautiful new ideas, and committed to a vision of a better, more just future. Virgo is concerned with the everyday: we can't build that new world without our health, without tools and resources, and without the detailed knowledge we need.

The early morning conjunction with Mars opens a void of course time that lasts through the Aquarius–Virgo connections, and an edgy semisextile with Saturn, until the Moon steps into graceful Libra on Friday afternoon.

During this Moon transit through Virgo, we look for the balance between grand ideas and ordinary details. We might feel anxious if the pendulum swings too far into "big picture" territory, and calmer when we can focus on chopping wood and carrying water. We find the value in ordinary things.