2017 Virgo Full Moon

2017 Virgo Full Moon – March 12, 2017

7:54 AM PDT /10:54 AM EDT / 2:54 PM GMT

22 Virgo 13 / 22 Pisces 13

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Astrology Forecast for the 2017 Virgo Full Moon

Being in your head is not necessarily avoidance. Sometimes stepping back and having a think is a healthy response.

An emotional pause button is one of the gifts of the 2017 Virgo Full Moon. Pressing it might take some effort, given the pace, intensity and emotional riptides of life at present. And they are exactly why this break is needed.

Virgo is prone to analysis, discernment, finding flaws and identifying room for improvement, a bent that is at odds with the emotions that crest at a Full Moon. Those waters are particularly high, alluring and all-encompassing right now, making the Virgo lifeline all the more a cosmic gift.

With the Pisces Sun conjunct Chiron, and Virgo’s ruler, the messenger god Mercury, close by, boundaries dissolve. Wounds and messages and senses of self blur, blend, and pass by osmosis. Aware or not, we’re sensitives, sponges and mind-melders. The potential is equally high for transcendence, bliss, compassion, spiritual healing and communion, and for giving in to a bottle, the voices in our head, lies, delusions or insanity.

Good News about the 2017 Virgo Full Moon

Fortunately, we have a recently restocked toolkit. The Virgo/Pisces eclipses of the last two years put us through the paces of setting healthy boundaries and cleaning up our side of the fence, and challenged us to move from martyrdom and scapegoating to compassion and forgiveness (toward ourselves as well).

Last month’s Pisces New Moon ended that cycle and carried us into a revamped way of coexisting. The Virgo Full Moon is delivering the first status report of how we’re faring — and with it a couple of aids that might just keep us sane, stable and intact.

One is a trine between the Moon and Pluto, lord of the underworld, hidden treasures and the evolutionary processes of nature. With logic and the non-rational working together, monumental focus and personal power are inevitable – if you don’t talk or worry yourself out of them.

This contact deepens the Virgo Moon’s analytical bent and transforms its signature knack for details into coolly and efficiently identifying the ones that matter and discarding the ones that don’t. (Remember this if you find yourself drowning in the news, or other people’s dramas.)

That enhanced sorting and analyzing comes in handy if phobias and other psycho-beasties crawl out of the open channel between emotions and the subconscious. (You’ll see this in others; step into observer mode to check it out in yourself.) The trine lends an organic ease to tackling and embracing hard truths and claiming your emotional power, both of which could take care of any creepy-crawlies, not to mention boundary bleeding.

2017 Virgo Full Moon Experiences to Anticipate

Additional stabilizing comes from Mars, which entered Taurus on March 9. Mars rules how we use our energy and go after what we want. In the first earth sign of the zodiac, he is as slow, steady, practical and tactile as can be. Part of us may be zoning out in a cosmic hot tub, but Mars wants to make things happen in the here and now, on terra firma, very firma indeed.

Physical, sensory, sensual experiences have their place in the Virgo Full Moon process. The mind is not the only part of us that’s chewing. The emotional culmination inherent in a Full Moon always lights up issues of emotional sustenance, nourishment, safety and security. With Mars in Taurus, our bodies are going to participate in the data collection.

Some of that data collection might involve another person or two. It’s likely candidates will appear, what with Venus, the ruler of all we hold dear, retrograde in huntress mode, aka Aries.

The testing could be as no-fuss, no muss as sharing coffee or a meal with a past love and using the contact to assess that relationship’s place in your story. The testing could, of course, be more.

Incorporating Insight of the 2017 Virgo Full Moon

Whichever way your assessment goes, instinctive, immediate impulses follow. Saying no, jumping into your mind and wiping your brow with relief is one scenario. Or following the first two steps with recognizing what you do want and going after that. Or leaping into what’s in front of you.

Treat it all as part of the Full Moon’s status report. With the current celestial line-up, you stand to gain mental and emotional clarity, empowerment, focus and scads of practical backup for your decisions. You may redraw a line or two. You may decide to drop a habit or adopt a new one.

And you will gain momentary breaks from the mad whirl of life. They’ll stabilize your emotions and restore your sanity (or a semblance of it) and send you out back out with a solid, confident core. Think — as the 2017 Virgo Full Moon will so often incline you to do — of the takeaway as your own inner anchor.

Join Kathy’s Facebook Live Astrochat about the Virgo Full Moon on Friday, March 10 at noon EST at the OMTimes Magazine Facebook page.

Learn more about relationships in Kathy’s talk Intro to Understanding Relationships Through Astrology, live at 9 * PM EST Thurs., March 9 and on demand afterward.