the full moon in virgo for writers

what is being born

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The Full Moon arrives at 5* of Virgo at 7:30am Eastern on Saturday, February 24th. Honestly, I love a Virgo Full Moon: it’s a burst of analytical, head-clearing fresh air during emotional Pisces season, a moment of clarity where we are absolutely done with the bullshit. This makes it a great day for cleaning your house, purging your office, and initiating any tough conversations you’ve been putting off. Big fire sale! everything goes! energy.

But it’s not entirely devoid of the compassion and creative energy that Pisces is so known for. In fact, this particular full moon is extremely grounded in spiritually nourishing, if boundaried, potential, with both Mercury and Saturn — both in Pisces — sitting very, very close to this lunation. If you’re feeling particularly inspired to work at your desk, there’s a veritable well of creative structure that is available for you to tap into. 

The moon, in her fullness, wants to bring something to completion. And Mercury, in their intellectual wisdom, is especially adept at helping the ideas to travel the information highway of our brain. In watery Pisces, Mercury is especially good at helping us put the unsayable, the unknowable, into words: at dislodging the stuck story from the body.

Consider what you were up to last September, especially around the last New Moon in Virgo on September 14, 2023 — what you were beginning, or planting, or ideating. What seemed to be your desire, then? What were you hoping for? What has shifted, these six months or so? What has grown? What has changed? 

It can take a moment (or many) to process, to remember, to re-member the journey of the body and of the creative self over months. We change so often; our desires change so often. We may not be able to sit at our desk in able to do this; we may need to speak aloud in a voice memo, or dance in the shower, or go for a run in the rain. There may be a somatic component necessary to find the rhythm, this moon: for us to be able to organize and make narrative of the New Moon to Full Moon journey in Virgoan fashion. 

But remember this also: once Mercury has helped the moon articulate the idea that is coming full in your life, Saturn will be there to support the newborn’s neck, to swaddle it and to support it, to ensure it has everything it needs to thrive. This is a truly supportive creative structure for what is being birthed, what is coming to fullness in its cycle. 

Our job is only to show up to ourselves. To bear witness. To be. To create. To make. And to then show up again tomorrow, and do the same. 

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What I’m up to this moon: 

Listening to: Enya

Reading: The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova, although I just reread The Red Dreaded Spindle: An Astrolater’s Guide to the Stinger Stars of Scorpius by Sasha Ravitch this morning 

Playing: my third play-through of Baldur’s Gate 3 (we have renamed our PS5 “the Baldur’s Gate machine”)

Watching: Traitors

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