🌕»♍ A Full Moon of Societal Transformation and Responsibility

A Full Moon of Societal Transformation and Responsibility By Henry Seltzer The Virgo Full Moon that takes place on Tuesday morning, February 19th (afternoon in Europe and points east) is another very interesting configuration with some potent outer planet activity, especially in connection with personal planets, such as Mercury and Venus. This is indicative of the transformational times that we find ourselves embroiled in these days, at both societal and personal levels. Additionally, the Moon in the very first degree of Virgo opposes the Sun in the first degree of Pisces, fully emphasizing these contrasting signs. The Virgo-Pisces axis represents the spectrum of polarity that exists from the mundane, nitty-gritty details of every day material life, represented by Virgo, all the way to the outermost expanses of consciousness, trans-personal awareness and cosmic, immaterial beingness that is the province of the astrological sign of Pisces. As the culminating energies of the Full Moon occupy this axis, the invitation is that we seek to conceptualize how we might build better bridges for ourselves from the very substance of our experience in this physical world to our spiritual understanding of that vast and somewhat nebulous connection. How can we call in the vast wisdom of the cosmos while engaging in simple activities like making breakfast, driving to work, or tidying up?  On a more collective front, we are faced with a much larger conundrum, of how do we, as a society, invite the wisdom of natural law and spiritual understanding into places within our societies that have become atrophied by greed, both personal and corporate, and political corruption, resulting in the many errors that we see all around us: over-consumption of resources, polluted oceans, plus the very real risk of unchecked global warming with the accompanying rise of sea levels that threaten to create millions of “environmental refuges.” On one level we feel powerless to do anything about these ills, and yet on another, as astrology can help to reveal, we are totally empowered to make a real difference... Read more about the Virgo Full Moon »