This week’s astrology has been marked by the sense of needing to make a decision — possibly about speaking your truth to an authority figure (that includes any internalized authority). Have you been feeling a sense of pressure in that regard — or possibly noticed how you express your own power in your life?
That situation, if you experienced it, correlates to Mercury in Aquarius in a square to retrograde Saturn in Scorpio earlier in the week. We just saw this astrology exemplified by California Senator Diane Feinstein’s speech on the senate floor Tuesday. She called the CIA on the carpet regarding the illegal search of computers belonging to the committee that oversees the CIA, ultimately to cover up the CIA’s failed torture program.
You might not have experienced Mercury-Saturn quite so dramatically in your life, but chances are you felt it.
That aspect is now separating (that is, weakening as the planets move along). But as whatever situation Mercury-Saturn represented for you is resolving by virtue of some decision you’ve made, a source of relational tension is just beginning to build: the Virgo Full Moon, exact Sunday at 1:08 pm EDT.
For this Full Moon, we have the Sun in emotional, empathic, clairvoyant Pisces being opposed by the Moon in mentally oriented, particular Virgo. Both of these signs have strong affinities for service, but even that good intention can come under some strain during a Full Moon.
The Moon in Virgo is great for reorganizing your physical environment. Interpersonally, however, it tends toward being overly critical. If you’ve ever had an intimate relationship, you know how quickly the joy and fun can get sucked out of things if you (or your partner) always point out what isn’t ‘good enough’ or isn’t working right.
The Sun in Pisces is fantastic for deeply creative work, psychic contact and inner exploration. But it comes with a kind of permeability to its emotional boundaries — great for spiritual connection, problematic if one is not able to discern lighter and darker influences from each other.