This week’s astrology: the Sun enters Pisces today! And then Mercury does Friday—both celestial bodies making an opposition to the Full Moon in Virgo which culminates in the sky on the 24th. Thursday, Mars and Venus make a conjunction in Aquarius starting new cycles for both planets. Then both these planets begin to form an exact square to Jupiter—perfecting next week: Venus first and then Mars as she picks up speed and takes the lead.
“You are color. You just need someone to be your lines,” said someone giving me dating advice. Oh my god, I thought, I am color, the poet in me had never felt more validated. Having lines would reform my softness into shape and definition—a red blob becomes a tomato.
Pisces is color. Pisces is more spirit then self. Pisces is nebulous. It’s the filling. The last sign of the zodiac, Pisces energy is more familiar with the soul’s form than human. And here on Earth a form is required. Which means, the evolved Pisces has integrated their polarity. For Pisces that is Virgo. Virgo is lines. And the sign in which we have a Full Moon.
The imagination has no limits—this is very Piscean. But when Pisces puts their imagination into a form, into limits, into lines—we get music, film, poetry, art. Lines provide clarity. Lines define our color, give us precision. Lines are guides.
Virgo functions by upholding the line, living to a standard. Virgo is the metrics of our daily life, our grind, our 9-5 schedule. It corresponds to the 6th house, which represents our routines, our health, our earthly experience. Opposite is Pisces in the 12th house: which represents the subconscious, the spirit world, the ether.
You can’t make a number be anything than what it is. You can’t change a number to be what you feel it should be. And there is security in that which Virgo is excellent at maintaining. Numerology adds meaning and symbolism to numbers—but math and measuring systems are linear. There is little room for fantasy when it comes to Algebra. 2(1+4)=x doesn’t leave room for debate but it does give us a goal. Find x.
The problem is when we don’t live up to those numbers. Or can’t find x. “I wasn’t as productive as I should have been”, says a Virgo, “I didn’t utilize the hours I had efficiently enough”. And when Virgo energy doesn’t live up to the framework it upholds, it will respond with shame, with self-punishment, with low value and worth—by thinking it is imperfect. But who or what said we had to be?
That is what the Full Moon in Virgo invites us to release and question. How authentic are the lines, the frameworks, the metrics we are using. The Full Moon in Virgo is a completion, a release of and opportunity to reevaluate the systems we use to determine our worth, our productivity, our organization.
For example: I’m actually not a tomato—I’m a strawberry. If I only valued myself by how well I function as a tomato, I will never feel the satisfaction that comes from being covered in chocolate. I will see myself as a messy sticky failure, when in reality, it is a delicious upgrade. Unless you hate chocolate.
The benefit of Virgo is that again it won’t be full of fantasy. Virgo is realistic, Virgo is numbers. So what we are measuring is material. How much we have to cut off or add on will be specific and nameable. The Full Moon in Virgo is an upgrade in our authenticity. Which means we may rearrange how much value we put into numbers at all. Like, is my worth based on how many subscribers, friends, money I have? Or do those systems only exist to make myself feel like shit? Because maybe there is some subconscious belief I have that I am shit.
The universe comes to our aid with Mercury in Pisces also opposing the Full Moon in Virgo. Communication with our embodied self will prove to be intuitive, if we ask and listen. Journaling, writing poetry, meditation, listening to music would be practical ways to plug in to your own insight; to make conscious those subconscious narratives.
Oppositions help us to face ourselves. An opposition is two planets staring directly at each other—so whatever messages we need to receive will be right in front of us.
Thursday, also aiding us in all of this reevaluation is the Mars and Venus conjuction. If we are talking about lines, this is having a backbone—a spine. Mars conjunct Venus is a force. It’s confidence. Having this aspect in your natal chart gives you appeal. It’s an extremely attractive aspect—making your embodiment the magnet.
Mars conjunct Venus in Aquarius is sapiosexual. It increases magnetism through intellecutal pursuits. Logic becomes attractive. We will have more passion for thinking, reading, knowing things. We will be devoted to these pursuits. We will be connecting to others by what they think and what they make us think rather than how they make us feel. Mars in Aquarius is going to make smart choices—logical ones. Venus in Aquarius will only accept logical choices.
This new cycle for Mars and Venus will introduce us to new people, groups, and mentors. And as we decide who is for us we will be using our head as much as our heart. We might use the metrics that look like: Yes, I like this person, but do they make me feel like I am myself, that I can be myself? Are they in alignment with the person I am becoming? How much do I have to adjust my authenticity to be around this person. If there are adjustments then they probably are not for you.
Then, Mars and Venus begin to square Jupiter. Venus square Jupiter is a plant based diet. Technically, like Jupiter—nothing is off-limits. According to Harvard Health in a plant based diet you can have meat, fish, dairy—but the main foundation of the diet is plants. Discipline comes through devotion to your values—assuming you value health and eating mostly vegetables and unprocessed food. The diet is not restrictive in the variety of what you can eat, but limited in the percentage of distribution.
Mars square Jupiter is like, when you’re in child’s pose and you want to get your tailbone closer to the ground, and you use force. But that actually doesn’t work. What does work is relaxing the mucles in your hips. The result is the body’s compression. Force, assertion and aggression doesn’t work in the way it normally does when Mars squares Jupiter.
A square aspect is an opportunity for growth. Astrology is a tool. There are no good or bad aspects, in my opinion. And squares can be challenging, but within challenge is the word change. And that’s exactly what this energy helps us to do—enact change with wisdom, confidence and with a renewed sense of our values.
The Aquarius Mars Venus conjunction gives us the confidence and intellect to be our radical selves. It will also make us better critical thinkers as we reevaluate our metrics. This week articulates the difference between isolation and individuation. An authentic self will live in alignment with their values and that will automatically connect them with their community. Someone living inauthentically will call self-isolation self-protection. This is a selfishness that disempowers our community.
This Full Moon in Virgo is about revolutionizing our frameworks, our metrics. It is also an opportunity to examine the lines, the standards with which we judge something—ourselves—our communities—our government. This week is an invitation for analysis of what is working and what isn’t, through observation of the framework itself.
There are consequences for not respecting the line. We are praised in kindergarten for coloring within them—but with all the Aquarius energy still very much in the sky, we will really be examining which side of the line we want to remain—and which lines need to be broken and reformed. The planets still in Aquarius question the lines—push them—radicalize them—rebel against them.
Because for an Aquarius the lines are there to serve the collective. We could think of lines as law, for example. If you break the law, there are consequences because that threatens the security of community. However, if the line itself does not serve the group, then we must question the lines—reform them, change them so that they do. Also, lines need to be crossed in order to expand, to innovate and to revolt. We might even abandon lines all together for something more flexible and less binary.
The week opens us up to recognize the frameworks we are not seeing clearly. To observe how living in our authenticity confidently is a gift for the collective. How being fully sovereign is of service. Be color and be the lines. Be yourself. Easier said then done. But this energy is encouragement and the urgency to follow through. That is the gift we give to others. We are a gift to others.
With this Full Moon in Virgo is renovation. As we reframe, as we search for X, Aquarius says, don’t even look to the old standards. Don’t involve them in defining the new. We won’t find solutions in what already exists.
The Age of Aquarius is here. Spring is coming. Let’s breakthrough our shells.
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The Poet Witch
I'm a Pisces and this season feels different. I feel more powerful and in tune with myself. Your analogy about a tomato vs strawberry resonated!
Thank you so much for sharing these valuable insights, much appreciated.