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Void begins at 8:43 AM PST; the Moon enters Virgo at 9:33 AM Pacific. Immediately Luna opposes Neptune and quincunxes Venus, and we either become hyper-critical of those who are imaginative, ungrounded, or who are preferring fantasy to reality, or we lose sight of the details in a need for escape or relief. What we need to see is that this will cost us; how much is dependent on whether or not we are able to adjust our reactions to respect our relationships.

Approaching 3 PM Pacific the Moon trines Jupiter in Earth–and if we want to be generous, we could say this starts a big ol’ sloppy Grand Trine with Pluto–and may set up a kind of push and pull between emotional needs/ material insecurities and big scary change either personally, to what we ‘know’, or on a broader scale, before us on the panorama of the social scene. It’s odd that a Trine would create an energy that is more like an opposition, but in this case it feels like things shake out with wee personal feelings and vulnerabilities on one side and massive, threatening changes affecting whole segments of society on the other.

4 PM PST the Moon opposes Chiron–if it hurts, we’ll find it, and give it a good salt rubbin’! Here’s the thing with this: the pain is almost entirely Self-inflicted; with some emotional discipline and rational perspective (accessible during a Virgo Moon transit) we can separate ourselves from our wounds rather neatly. So try that.

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Void begins at 12:24 AM Pacific time; the Moon enters Virgo at 1:45 AM PST. We kick off the Moon’s transit of Virgo with a trine to Jupiter, suggesting that the entire passage may present us with exaggerated accounting, attention to detail, focus on the harvest and results, and a propensity toward criticism and dissection of situations. Virgo is not a friendly sign, in the conventional meaning, but it does find the breaking of bread and sharing of results worked for particularly rewarding–and this is the way to relate when nitpicking or critique threatens to separate us from one another.

Post-noon Pacific time the Moon trines Mercury, then moves directly after to trine Pluto. This brings emotional awareness to a deep knowing that has been building and moving toward consciousness over the past 4-5 days, and inaugurates a period of radical (and perhaps destructive) honesty and revelation. Some with natal inclinations to use words as weapons may succumb at this point, but for most of us, this is a chance to contact intense and possibly buried feelings and thoughts that will help us to a much greater understanding of ourselves and our world. Note what comes to the mental surface–this is vital and useful information.

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Just after 8 PM PST the Moon squares the Nodal axis, perhaps making us question our life direction, through an emotional perception or intuition. Take care not to jump to conclusions as this feeling is likely ephemeral, and will be gone shortly. This is especially important to know as by 10 PM Pacific the Moon conjuncts Mars and we may be strongly moved to do something, with that critical emotional Virgoan eye fixed on the most recent matter that looks to need fixing. Following the urge can make for bigger consequences than we anticipate, create a mess, and/ or foster a lot of regret as we decide that wasn’t the problem after all.

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