The Sabian symbol for the Moon at 19* Virgo is: A swimming race. Swimming takes us into the watery realm of feelings and the unconscious, psychic dimensions of life. As in all competitions, we ultimately come up against ourselves, testing our own endurance, speed and skills. The race gives us a community to interact with, a group that is engaged in the same efforts as we are. We help each other be the best we can be when we put ourselves to this friendly test. It's not about winning; it's about playing well.
This Virgo full Moon takes in the mystical light of the Pisces Sun and reflects back to us the transformative light of discipleship. The Master passes on his tradition; it is in the swimming race that the disciple if tested. Pisces opens our perceptions to unseen realities; Virgo strives to understand and discern how those realities shape us. Pisces' energy unites us to Cosmic Consciousness, which Virgo's energy helps us incarnate that higher Wisdom in body, mind and spirit.
But it takes discipline to be a disciple. The words disciple and discipline both derive fromdiscere which means "to learn' or "to teach'. The function of a disciple is to focus a stream of energy of some special kind upon the physical plane where it can become an attractive center and draw to itself similar types of ideas and thought currents, feelings and visions . I am not suggesting that the Virgo within us needs to find a guru and become her/his disciple. What I do suggest is that we need to become the disciple of our own Soul purpose. We need to take this time to learn who we are and teach what we are. We have to occupy our world with our authenticity. Know who you are and choose well what you want to be a focus for.
I saw this painting by Raphael at the Vatican and was awed by it. He depicts all the ancient philosophers, including the great female philosopher, Hypatia of Alexandria. They were all teachers - and at one point, disciples.If you've been following the astrological news, you know that the big "background' energies for the next few years are the Pluto/Uranus squares and Neptune in Pisces. We are all participating in the revolutionary energies of Uranus in Aries, which is our cosmic wake-up call to become the heroes/heras of our own stories amidst the breakdown of our patriarchal culture -- Pluto in Capricorn. We are blessed by the outpouring of spiritual and creative energies which are more easily available to us now that Neptune has returned to its own sign of Pisces. The Waters of the Cosmic Ocean are rising up. You might be experiencing this through tidal wave dreams.
With these background energies supporting us, now we turn to the smaller details of our own lives. This year we have to look into our hearts (Venus), our minds (Mercury) and our desires (Mars) and discover what really nurtures (Moon) us. Not what we've been told we desire, but what we really desire. Three of these personal planets go retrograde this year, helping us to re-align their energies. Mars is retrograde in Virgo from January 23 to April 13. Mercury goes retrograde about three times a year, and is about to go retrograde on March 12 until April 4, blending Aries and Pisces energies. Venus will go retrograde in Gemini on May 15 until June 27, passing in front of the Sun on June 5th. Take these retrogrades seriously. We are being given a cosmic boost to help us re-align our desires, our love nature and our ability to speak our Truth. We will be fine-tuning and honing ourselves for the hard work of attuning to these next years of cultural change.
Once we know our own minds, hearts and desires, we have to use our Will (Sun) to "make it so'. We've begun the process by grounding in our relationships (Saturn in Libra) with justice and balance and by returning to an awareness of the important things that sustain Life (Jupiter in Taurus). Now we begin the task of making the changes we've imagined concrete.
As above, so below. As within, so without.
Discipleship is the discipline of staying true to our beliefs and goals. Virgo wants to be of service and Virgo wants to do it her way. Virgo is the Virgin, the woman who belongs-to- herself. She is the feeling source of Life and yet she also has to discern what constitutes appropriate nurturing. She is the Mother of our new Piscean visions, and needs to focus all her resources into nurturing that vision-child. This takes the discipline of motherhood, of nurturing the potentials for this new life rather than controlling its outcome. Believe me, the only way to become a good Mother is to know yourself, so that you don't unconsciously cause the new life to repeat your old patterns.
In the Gospel of Philip, Mary Magdalene is described as Jesus' companion and partner. "And the companion of the Saviour was Mary Magdalene. [Christ loved] Mary more than [all] the disciples, and used to kiss her [often] on her [mouth]. The rest of the disciples were offended by it and expressed disapproval. They said to him, "Why do you love her more than all of us?" The Saviour answered and said to them, "Why do I not love you like her?""
Mary Magdalene poured her love, her wisdom and her passion into being the partner and disciple of Jesus. The disciple of love uses the discipline of mystic vision and wisdom to commune with the Risen Lord. Our discipleship to our own destiny needs the love and encouragement of this visionary part of ourselves.
The Virgo/Pisces full Moon asks you to dedicate yourself to your awakening purpose by letting your soul guide you to a fuller, deeper, richer life.
Mercury is slowing down to turn retrograde on Monday March 12 at 7* Aries: A Man succeeds in expressing himself simultaneously in two realms. This suggests a union of spiritual and physical energies, using both sides of the brain, thinking holistically. Mercury joins the asteroid Vesta, channeling Vesta's fires to warm you and bring you home to yourself. Express Yourself! On this full Moon, Mercury becomes part of the Uranus/Pluto square energy, so talk about what you want to do, how you want our world to look, how communities work together. Mercury retrograde in Aries, contacting Uranus in Aries three times, opens us up to new ideas and a new sense of ourselves, and when it backs up into Pisces again, gives us another chance to open the doors of perception and fine-tune our visions of the future
.http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Cosmic-Story-Virgo-Fu-by-Cathy-Lynn-Pagano-120305-252.html
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