Harnessing the Magic of the Waning Virgo Moon, Feb. 7th & 8th

Let's talk working with lunar cycles and transits - in real life, everyday terms.

In this post, I'm going to break down working with the moon in daily life, and specifically how to harness the magic of this particular waning Virgo moon, arriving on the heels of Sunday's intense rut-buster of a Leo full moon amped by change-bringer and liberator, Uranus.

I'm going to do it in four sections:

1) "Lunar Cycles & Transits - The Basics,"
2) "Waning Moons & the Waning Gibbous Moon,"
3) "The Moon in Virgo," and
4) "Harnessing the Magic of This Particular Waning Virgo Moon," (happening February 7th and 8th, 2023). 

​Whether you no nothing about working the moon, or are more interested in this particular Virgo moon and how you can use it in within the bigger picture of what's happening currently astrologically, I've got you covered.  So let's dive in!

1. Lunar Cycles & Transits - The Basics

Let's quickly go over the basics of lunar cycles and transits first. 

The lunar cycle is 28 days - what our months are based on - and it is the time it takes for the moon, as viewed from earth, to move completely around the zodiac.

The lunar cycle begins at the new moon, when the moon and sun are conjunct, waxes for two weeks, climaxes at the full moon, when the moon and sun are in opposition, and then wanes for two weeks.

Waxing moons are times of growth, action, and cultivation.  Waning moons are times of integration, release, and rest.

Astrologically, we view the sun and moon as the two luminaries - the difference being that the sun generates light and the moon only reflects.  The sun is the light of consciousness, and the moon is the subconscious - even at the full moon, when the moon is fully illuminated by the sun - we only ever see half of it.

Thus, new moons are times of planting seeds and really when we are most inward turning and in touch with the subconscious, and full moons are times of culmination, graduation, fruition, illumination, and/or realization.

Lunar transits refer to the moon's movements through the zodiac.  It changes signs about every 2 1/2 days, and from each sign, it makes aspects to all of the other heavenly bodies.

Because the moon is our subconscious, it is strongly linked to our everyday moods, feelings, and intuition.  The moon is tied to our sense of emotional security and belonging, so by looking at the moon's phase, sign, and even current aspects (quickly passing - and it's important to note in general and to your natal chart), we can better understand where to direct our focus and energies on any given day to feel best about ourselves and life.

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The waning gibbous moon is the time to focus on easing up, practicing appreciation, and giving ourselves the necessary space to fully integrate and become aware of whatever has come to light with the full moon. 

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2. Waning Moons & the Waning Gibbous Moon

This Virgo moon comes on the heels of Sunday's Leo full moon (February 5th).  

The full moon was the climax.  It isn't just this month's lunar energy climax, it is the point of completion or graduation for what began with the Leo new moon six months ago.  What began in your life in August that you are now "harvesting?" (Either getting insight and illumination around, or bringing to full completion, or graduating to the next level?  Knowing what house or area of life Leo rules in your natal chart will give you further insight.)  

The waning moon covers the two weeks from the full moon to new moon each month where, just like it sounds, the lunar energy wanes.  We are done with the growth, cultivation, and action from the waxing moon.  Now it's time to take stock, ease up, and appreciate the fruits of our labor.  

The waning gibbous moon is specifically the week from the full moon until the last quarter square moon.  The last quarter moon is a choice point where we decide what it's time to release before we cross the threshold of the coming new moon.

The waning gibbous moon is the time to focus on easing up, practicing appreciation, and giving ourselves the necessary space to fully integrate and become aware of whatever has come to light with the full moon.  

3. The Moon in Virgo

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The moon in Virgo can feel challenging because the moon's wants connection but Virgo's nature is to refine, perfect, organize, and sort. That doesn't feel so good to the emotional body, the moon's domain.

Virgo moons are wonderful times to schedule medical and surgical procedures, and a great time for anything that requires focus, organization, and precision.  This could be editing, or it could be cleaning house.

Virgo is mutable earth, ruled by Mercury.  It can have a nervous, critical, and perfectionist quality - it wants to refine, so it's important to channel the energy of the Virgo moon productively and in ways that feel supportive.

Keywords: attention to detail, routine, health, diet, desire to sort, separate, and organize, desire to be of service, devotion, perfectionism, criticism.

Harness it: get organized, find sacred in the mundane, devote yourself to daily routines, perform acts of service, fine tune and perfect things (with love).

Affirmations: "I release myself and others from the condition that I need to be perfect to be loved. I find joy in being of service. I take this opportunity to focus and streamline my life. I am tolerant of myself and others."

Body Sensitivity: Watch for sensitivity in: pancreas, small intestine, cecum, colon, digestive tract, duodenum, rectum, sense organs: eyes and ears.

4. Harnessing the Magic of This Particular Waning Virgo Moon, 2/7 & 2/8, 2023

First, a bit about the current astrology to give you the big perspective....

This particular waning Virgo moon falls in the middle of some very transitional astrology.  As of late January, all planets are in forward motion (til April). 

March is a huge energy shift with Mars, Saturn, and Pluto all changing signs - that means big changes in our lives as these heavy-hitters move from one area of life in our natal charts to another.

...the dust is settling, and as we land with this waning gibbous moon in Virgo, and Mercury leaves its retrograde post-shadow and prepares for its final meeting with Pluto while in Capricorn for the next couple of centuries or so, things are clearing out indeed, and quite possibly deep things having to do with your experiences over the past decade.

To put it in perspective, Mars usually only spends about 2 months in each sign, and retrogrades every two years (the least amount of any planet), and it has been in Gemini since late August, and retrograde - in review mode - late October to mid-January.  Mars activates and agitates wherever it is in our charts, and it has spent an extraordinary amount of time focusing in Gemini.

Saturn changes signs every 2 1/2 years.  It moved into Aquarius in March 2020 - same time as pandemic lockdown really began for most of us.  It's transition into Pisces mid-March is going to likely be a welcome shift for us collectively.

Pluto entered Capricorn in January 2008, and the event that marked this was the Global Financial Crisis.  On March 23rd, it will begin it's year-long transition into Aquarius.  (It retrogrades back into Capricorn for a clean up round June til January 2024.). This is a monumental energy shift for us - Pluto will be transiting Aquarius and the house it rules for each of us personally until 2044!

Saturn is the Roman god of the harvest.  It's about the actions and discipline that get the results we want.  While Saturn is the task-master and it "crystallizes" - either helps us make our fears real, helps us make our dreams real, or shows us where we need to show up and be responsible, Pluto in transit first strips and exposes. 

Pluto is the cycle of death and rebirth, so many times Pluto transiting sensitive points of our chart will show, often through power dynamics, abuse, stripping, and exposing, where we need to let go fully.  Because Pluto rules the underworld.  It's about the buried, hidden, subconscious - all of our fears and insecurities that our personal power is wound up in.  

Uranus meanwhile is in the middle of its 7 year cruise through Taurus.  It's the "change-bringer."  Uranus is like a catalyst.  It can work through out of the blue insight or sudden knowledge, or events that disrupt - either way, it wants to shake up the status quo and help us innovate and move into the future.  

While Saturn rules the third dimension of conditions, Uranus rules the 4th dimension, and the way to access it is through appreciation.

Uranus has been near the north node of increase and destiny in Taurus for a while now - these two together means what we desire and are moving toward is all things Taurus.  Taurus is a Venus-ruled earth sign concerned with values, resources, abundance, material possessions, and living life with pleasure through the five senses.  Uranus here since 2018 means we are being asked to innovate the way we feel secure, especially through material possessions and resources.  We've seen that get challenged through the pandemic, and especially from February 2021 to October 2022 as Saturn (lack, limitations, and restrictions, fear and doubt) challenged Uranus four separate times.

However, as of Uranus stationing direct in late January, it did so for the first time in two years WITHOUT Saturn waiting to challenge it.  

Now that's a good feeling, but after how long we've been dealing with the other dynamic, it can also feel a bit unsettling - and Uranus IS an unsettling energy.  It's unpredictable, and it brings change.

So as we arrived at the Leo full moon on Sunday, February 5th, we arrived at a big energy full moon already high in intensity, in square to Uranus, in its full power.  

You may have noticed the big energy over the weekend, possibly experiencing upset or at least anxiety and nerves/agitation/irritability, or maybe an actual upsetting event.  Maybe it was a big breakthrough, new ideas, or realization, or a release of really old pain and trauma.  Maybe the full moon brought all of these things into your realm.

But now, the dust is settling, and as we land with this waning gibbous moon in Virgo, and Mercury leaves its retrograde post-shadow and prepares for its final meeting with Pluto while in Capricorn for the next couple of centuries or so, things are clearing out indeed, and quite possibly deep things having to do with your experiences over the past decade.

Now ~ what to do with this Virgo moon....

Time to clear the air, and everything else while you're at it.

Optimizing the waning Virgo moon energy means clearing space both physically and psychically to truly integrate whatever has come up and come to light with this past full moon.  This one had Uranus fueling it, so it was a rut-buster.  Uranus with the north node wants to move us out of the old, the outdated, the stale, the status quo, and right into the new, and what most likely was coming to light was whatever needs to go before we move into March and all the big changes it is bringing.

1.  Clean up, pick up, declutter, and organize - first things first.  With moon, emotions, in Virgo, refinement, order, and perfection, organizing your physical realm will organize your mental and emotional realm.  Make sure a couple of doors or windows are cracked to let in fresh air (and let out other things) and that shades are up so sunlight can get in.

2.  Clean.  Dust, vacuum, do the laundry, wash the dishes - whatever needs doing to get your nest feeling sparkly. ​

3.  Start making your magical floor wash - put sea salt (moon, sea, cleansing, rebirthing, banishing, grounding, and balancing) into a bowl.  Add rosemary  (cleansing, purification, healing, and protection), and rue (Diana, moon, purification, protection, and uncrossing).  Pour boiling water over the mix and begin stirring counterclockwise.  State out loud your intentions for this mixture: to cleanse, purify, and to remove any and all negative energy or energy not in alignment and in support of your spirit, truth, and highest good, across all time and space and all dimensions, within and without, as you continue to stir.  Then stop stirring.  Now add bay leaves (solar, sun, Apollo, Leo, protection, success, victory, releasing and manifesting), sage (Jupiter, protection, wisdom, as well as lunar, clearing, cleansing), and nettle (the herb of consent, sense of self, thresholds, boundaries, and coming into clarity after winter).  Now stir clockwise, stating out loud what you are calling in and creating:  strong sense of self, strong protective boundaries, knowing where you begin and end, what threshold you are now crossing, what you are calling into being, what you are awakening to, or choosing to awaken, abundance, expansion, success, love, happiness, high, bright energy.  Add lavender oil for Mercury, calmness, happiness, and high vibration, and add geranium oil for balancing.

4.  Let the floor wash sit while you smudge.  Make sure you have a couple of doors or windows cracked.  You can use basic sage, or maybe you prefer yerba santa or palo santo, but in this case, after such a big energy full moon, at this highly transitional time, as we are releasing a lot of stuff around the past decade of Pluto in Capricorn (because of Mercury's recent retrograde - it's just leaving the post-shadow 2/7), I recommend going all out with loose mugwort on a charcoal round.  Go to the left (counterclockwise around your space), setting your intention to clearing out anything across all dimensions that is not in alignment with the present moment and your highest good.  This includes stagnant energy, arguments, anxiety, etc. that's hanging around from the weekend or before.  This is especially important if you had a big emotional release over the weekend with the full moon.  (You might play Schumann resonance or music you like, or drumming while you do this - I like to follow moving clockwise burning something like lavender or dammar resin focusing on what I'm bringing into the space like happiness, love, and laughter, and then follow that with a 528 hz tuning fork.). ***I know this full moon was actually on my Leo sun and the past decade of Pluto in Capricorn involved a lot of trauma and abuse for me as Pluto opposed my 1st house Saturn and Venus, bringing on a full rebirth of self and identity.  It was challenging to say the least.  Interestingly enough, over the past couple of weeks I've been doing somatic exercises for releasing trauma stored in the hips, as well as taking a custom blend of flower and gem essences I made for myself (I've started making these for clients) focusing on releasing deep grief and anger.  Everything came out at the full moon!  In a healthy way, not sideways in triggers.  Full body shaking, crying, release.  So it feels really right and natural to use this waning Virgo moon to take it all in and clear the space on every level.

5.  At this point, now you can burn any incense you like or frankincense to "set the space."

6.  Now strain the floor wash you made - add vinegar or borax to it for extra cleaning power, or you can mop first with a stronger cleaner, then follow with the floor wash.  As you mop, remember all of the attributes of the mixture you just poured your energy, intent, and love into.

7.  Get your favorite flowers, play music, be of service, and enjoy your clean, beautiful, healing space!  I also like to wipe all the door and window frames and thresholds with rosemary oil, and wipe wood with sandalwood oil - especially in the bedroom.  Take an alchemical bath.  (I did a detox bath this time personally, with sea salt, bentonite clay, and activated charcoal - I also added some of the floor wash to it, and then extra geranium oil for balancing chakra, emotions, and masculine/feminine and easing anxiety, and lavender for peace, calm, high vibes, happiness, and harmonious communication.). Sink into your warm, cozy, clean and clear space and journal and nourish yourself!

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