If you ever get close to a human / and human behaviour / be ready to get confused / there’s definitely no logic / to human behaviour / but yet so irresistible
— “Human Behaviour,” by Bjork
Have you ever watched yourself behave and thought, either in the moment or in hindsight, “What the hell am I (or was I) thinking?” And then maybe you realized that in all honesty you weren’t thinking; your mind really did not factor into the equation at all? Today might be a little like that, as the last quarter Virgo Moon squares the Sun and a slew of tricky, shadowy, often reactive centaur planets and the polarizing force of the Great Attractor.
Now, don’t freak out. Really. No one is saying that today will be a train wreck. It just might be a very interesting day to truly observe yourself. Actually pay attention.
Heck, you might even take notes — that way if you do go off like a TSA dog sniffing suspicious baggage in an airport, you can follow the trail back to what triggered you and learn something from it. Not right there in the airport (or in the moment), but a little later. You can unpack your bags at home. Today is just an observation day.
The Moon in Virgo can be a little particular — critical, even (of self or others) — due in part to its Mercury rulership, which governs the mind. It’s a fantastic Moon if you have to organize your workspace, clean the house or dig into a project calling for precision and dedication, especially when it’s waning as it is now. The last quarter Moon is generally when you want to think about wrapping up projects. Situations that have been evolving since the Full Moon (or last New Moon) may encounter a turning point of some sort.
But the Virgo Moon is not the most emotionally sensitive or empathetic Moon. And Moon square Sun can some with a sense of inner tension, of needing to move something in a clear direction. With the Sun conjunct the Great Attractor — that massive deep-space object pulling us toward it as fast as it is pulling away — the frustrating sense of reaching for the unattainable may be palpable. You may be tempted to locate the source of that frustration, longing or pull outside of yourself. That’s a great setup for emotions to get polarized and lend themselves to reactions rather than responses.