You can expect your mental landscape to zing and your emotional waters to bubble this week, along with a beautiful opportunity to ground everything so you don’t feel off center. On the roster: Mercury conjunct Uranus in Aries; the ingress of Venus into Taurus; and finally on Thursday, the Virgo Full Moon.
The Moon — currently in Leo, as of Sunday — is waxing toward the full phase. Because the Sun is in Pisces, the Moon-Sun opposition (also called a Full Moon) will be in Virgo. That will happen Thursday at 4:39 am EST. As with most Full Moons, this translates into a culmination of energy and possibly tension, since it is an opposition of the Sun and Moon. It’s the Moon phase when our emotions and interpersonal situations can tend to feel the most polarized, like we’re at opposite ends of any given situation or emotional spectrum, and we’re pulling whatever material is connecting us to each other into some tension. But this can be useful; the Full Moon is a time to resolve situations that seemed stuck. It can be a great creative time, though many have some difficulty sleeping with all the vibes in the air.
Currently, retrograde Mars in Virgo is just a little past its opposition with the Pisces Sun, and the Virgo Moon conjoins Virgo Mars the day before the Full Moon. So Mars is in the mix, adding some edge and heat to the buildup this week. Be aware in the next few days of any tendency to turn on yourself if your emotions get the better of you. Watch out for that strange thing called ‘passive aggression’, which is really veiled aggression. Judging yourself won’t get you anywhere productive, though one way you might know you’re doing that is if you’re angry at others (that’s the nature of an opposition — we can see the obstacle as being outside of ourselves).
Noticing the tendency to judgment, anger or projection (should these arise) and taking time to follow it in to its roots could yield some useful information. It could reveal ways you may be prone to cutting yourself off from full emotional expression and self-understanding. This lunation blends the mental realm of Virgo with the emotional realm of Pisces. They’re not as different as we think, especially now.