Pure Mind + Pure Heart = Pure Potential

I have to say…I’m pretty picky about my eclipses and I really love this one!

Tonight the Moon will rise into the sky, big and bright and beautiful, and as the hours creep into the deep of night, she will turn a reddish hue as she is eclipsed.  This is an incredible initiation. This eclipse holds incredible potential for clearing away limiting beliefs and self-deprecating stories that no longer serve the highest vision of who you are becoming. With this Full Moon so close to the South Node, there is a tremendous opportunity to review and release patterns of thought and emotion that lead you to continually question your inherent value and self-worth. The Pisces-Virgo axis is the axis of healing and service, a place where the ideal vision flows into the details of reality. So, if you’re not currently living your dream, what’s stopping you? The way you answer this question will reveal so much. If you have an entire list of reasons, get really curious about each item on the list. How many are external blocks? How many are internal blocks? Start exploring the inner world first.

Virgo is Mutable Earth, Yin in Nature

More than anything, Virgo wants to do an impeccable job at any task, down to the tiniest detail.  However, that can lead to tremendous internal pressure, so much so that it can sometimes be hard for this Moon to relax and feel satisfied.  Because eclipses bring up shadow material, it is important to name the harder qualities of the sign as the potential for release with the Full Moon-South Node combination is very high.

A core challenge for Virgo is an underlying dissatisfaction or anxiety, often fueled by internalized judgment and criticism. As a mutable yin sign, the internal environment often shifts and adapts in response to the external world. This can result in being hypersensitive to criticism, looking for even the tiniest cues of approval or disapproval from the environment. This can reinforce a "not good enough" narrative and tie self-worth to the perceptions of others. Consequently, Virgos may struggle to feel genuinely good about themselves and their achievements, feeling they are inherently lacking in some way, perhaps in the material realm, or they may over-serve in an effort to make up for their inherent sense of lack. When praise or approval is given, the toughest audience still remains within.

Even in their self-care practices, there is a tendency to perpetually focus on flaws or weaknesses where something has to be removed, refined, or transmuted for the sake of improvement.

But what if this is all unnecessary? What if the purity of self is unwavering? There is no thing to add or to take away. The inherent nature of Self is pure, whole, and abiding, no need to fix or change anything.

As Frans Steine, author of The Inner Heart of Reiki, tells us, “The essential self is already pure. The only thing to purify is the confused mind.”

And as a Mercury ruled sign, the nature of the mind is a very significant consideration as we move through the eclipse of this Virgo Full Moon.

Ruled by Mercury in Aries

This Full Moon Eclipse is ruled by Mercury at 9-Aries, which is pausing to station retrograde the very next day. This suggests a pause for an internal review of words, language, ideas and stories in the mental realm. How do you talk to yourself?

Let go of thought streams that feel demanding and/or judgmental in nature.  This may initiate a process that leads one to realize that internalized authority figures and fear of mistakes or failure still hold significant sway over the inner environment. Allow these things to flow away from you to create space for your dreams, your visions, and your highest calling.

If these thought streams are taking up a certain amount of bandwidth inside of your mind and heart, and they are suddenly cleared, an empty space will remain. What would you place inside the newly cleared space? Name it. Claim it. 

Mercury is the Messenger of the Gods, bestowed with the special role of carrying our prayers, wishes, and thoughts up to the Heavens, while also carrying the whispers of the Gods back to the human realm, ensuring that the right information comes at the right time.  However, Mercury is also a trickster and can deceive, trick, and confuse. You get to choose how you want to relate to this planetary energy.  It is up to you where you allow your thoughts to rest. It takes incredible discernment to sift, sort, and organize the mental realm, but this is where Virgo thrives. Use the Virgo Full Moon, ruled by Mercury in Aries to separate the wheat from the chaff. 

How would you describe yourself to another person? Listen to what you say about yourself.  Everything you say is a reflection of your own mind and the stories you have about yourself.

Do you allow yourself glory? Do you allow yourself to be amazing and remarkable and wonderful?  Or do you repeat the same self-limiting stories again and again? 

Listen to yourself.  Both in meditation and in conversation. Let it be a practice of curiosity. Let it be revelatory. Let it be a process of reformation.  In this way you realize both the limitations of language and the mind and the essential nature beneath all of it.

The mind is so powerful that the self thinks it is the mind. And yet, it is just the mind.

Sun Conjunct Saturn in Pisces

The Sun is the essential self. And just yesterday the Sun had its annual meeting with Saturn. Saturn is intimately tied to this eclipse.  This is the last time the Sun will meet Saturn in Pisces for 29 years or so. When planets come together in this way, I imagine they have a long talk over tea.  The faster moving planet, in this case the Sun, receives all of the wisdom, knowledge and information that the slower moving planet has to offer, in this case Saturn. It is like an incredible download of information, and that download is part of this eclipse.

I imagine they talked about how one’s sense of self can be rooted in the rules and requirements of the world, or in the judgments and opinions of others, especially authority figures. Maybe they talked about hard work, discipline and the determination required for accomplishment. Maybe they talked about the passage of time, and all that has happened since the last time they were together in this way, and all that will happen before the next time they meet here. That all makes logical sense.

However, I also imagine that they had an incredible visioning session in which they came up with a long term plan for the highest expression of the Pisces Sun. The North Node and Neptune lingered in the corners as they talked for hours, chiming in from time to time with dreams of ideal future scenarios. Maybe Saturn let the Sun know that the only way to accomplish these things is to really believe in yourself and then follow it up with step by step growth over time. I love this version of imagining Saturn’s reality in Pisces with the North Node and Neptune- visioning a future filled with hope and compassion and peace. If you can dream it, you can do it.

As Dr. Joe Dispenza reminds us, “The more you know about who you want to be in the future, the more it’s possible for you to arrive there. If you can connect with that person, and believe in that person, and feel what it feels like to behave as that person, you can become that person.”

Mom & Dad & Old Boxes

With the Moon and Sun/Saturn opposition, this eclipse presents an opportunity to reflect upon shadow material sourced in early childhood dynamics with the Mother (moon) or Father (Sun and Saturn) that either continues to create an internal environment of feeling unlovable, or has the potential to be completely transmuted in the light of love. Or maybe something in between? There is always the option of sticking with the old familiar boxes that reinforce patterns. Of course that option is always available. Do you really want the old box? What stories are in the old box? Maybe the story itself wants out of the box?

There is so much you could do with the current astrological weather as far as looking back at how you came to believe all that you believe about yourself, about love, about life. And as it becomes more and more clear, you can choose to let go of anything that is no longer serving your highest vision of who you want to become. This is absolutely an opportunity to reinvent yourself. or probably better to say…to realize yourself.

You don’t have to carry the past around with you. You can do anything you put your mind to, but first, you have to study your mind and understand how you are reinforcing the very patterns that are limiting you, without even realizing it. I have total faith in you. I celebrate you! and I have complete confidence in your ability to sift, sort, and organize to such a high degree that the old box completely disappears.

A Few Announcements

Eclipse Consultations & New Hours

I’m offering eclipse consultations until April 10, 2025. These 60-minute sessions focus specifically on how the current eclipse season is moving through your life. I also added more evening hours to my availability. Monday and Wednesday evenings at 6 and 7 are now available as I noticed a trend that my Tuesday and Thursday evenings kept filling up.

Illuminate Bowie

I’ll be giving a presentation at Illuminate Bowie on Saturday March 22 at 12 noon. The presentation is called Venus Retrograde: Planting Seeds of Love. Please come visit me at my booth and check out my presentation! The address is Comfort Inn Conference Center, 4500 Crain Highway. More information can be found at illuminatefestivals.com

Enjoy this beautiful Full Moon Lunar Eclipse!

Many blessings,

Ally