{"id":54156,"date":"2012-03-07T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T05:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=54156"},"modified":"2012-03-06T23:06:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T04:06:16","slug":"the-practical-imagination-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/the-practical-imagination-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Practical Imagination’ Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today the Virgo Moon makes a conjunction to Mars on its way to the Full Moon overnight Wednesday into Thursday (at 4:39 am EST). The Sun, moving a little slower, is almost in position to oppose the Moon from Pisces. Since the Moon is like a big receiver and amplifier for the energy it picks up from the other planets it contacts, we can expect the Virgo-Pisces axis \u2013 the \u201caxis of practical imagination\u201d — to feel especially alive over the next couple days. <\/p>\n

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Photo by Anthony Ayiomamitis, who writes that while the Moon is generally characterized as black and white, there are hints of color -- and even the Apollo astronauts reported such. This is image has been enhanced digitally to bring out colors created by various elements in the surface geology.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What is \u201cpractical imagination\u201d like? Eric described it in a January subscriber issue<\/a> like this: \u201cVirgo expresses the technical side of nearly anything, based on its tendency toward integrated or applied knowledge. Pisces expresses the imaginative side of the psyche, which can often inspire the more practical modes of expression.\u201d <\/p>\n

The two modes have to work together for any real innovation to occur. If all you see in any situation that needs a new solution are the facts, it may be hard to envision a way to go beyond \u2018what is\u2019 in order to create \u2018what can be\u2019. At the same time, if you\u2019re so caught up in fantasy that you can\u2019t see the facts of the reality you\u2019re starting from, it can be hard to take any meaningful first steps.<\/p>\n

Most people are oriented more toward one end of that polarity than the other \u2013 either the creativity or the practicality. But to get anything done, whether you\u2019re an artist, a scientific researcher or simply trying to figure out your own psyche, you have to engage the side of that polarity you\u2019re less comfortable with.<\/p>\n

Despite the inherent tension and edginess that generally comes with Full Moons, the Virgo Full Moon may actually be a way to exercise your practical imagination. For one, oppositions \u2013 which Full Moons are \u2013 respond well to negotiation. That is, first you work one end of the polarity, then you work the other, and so on until you come to some form of resolution. It\u2019s an active process and it requires listening fully to each side. This sounds like an external exercise \u2013 which it may be, if you find yourself in this kind of oppositional situation with another person. But remember that we each embody our astrology within ourselves. If you feel polarized toward another, do an internal check to see if you\u2019re also polarized toward some aspect of yourself. Chances are that other person is a stand-in for something within asking to be recognized and resolved.<\/p>\n

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This is where Mars retrograde may actually be useful, along with all of the Pisces and Taurus energy in the sky right now. As Eric wrote in that January issue linked to above, \u201cMars retrograde in Virgo is a reminder to check the facts, to check your logic and to test your perceptions against some other metric.\u201d Chances are, if you have been reading along for the five-plus weeks Mars has been retrograde so far, you have been using this transit to move forward with some sort of therapeutic, healing or inner-investigation process of some kind. If you have, and you\u2019re feeling the Full Moon tension at full strength, you likely have new insights to work with. If you\u2019re seeing your antagonist \u2018out there\u2019, take a moment to check your facts and perceptions.<\/p>\n

As mentioned, Pisces and Taurus<\/a> are offering some fluidity to the situation and some grounding as well. Venus in Taurus is aspecting Neptune and Chiron in Pisces, lending access to higher octaves of love, spiritual healing and creativity. It\u2019s a little extra boost to the \u2018imagination\u2019 part of the equation. Venus is also conjunct Jupiter in Taurus. That pair expands our ability to be present and grounded in our senses, but it doesn\u2019t get us stuck in seeing the limitations of practicality. Rather, Venus-Jupiter in Taurus opens us to beauty, to perceiving our world viscerally, and to moving toward our truest goal. <\/p>\n

By all means, this is not to suggest this Full Moon will be any less charged than others. Rather, know there is some tremendous support in bridging the Virgo-Pisces polarity right now. The caution to beware<\/a> of combining alcohol and heavy machinery (courtesy of a square from centaur Pholus in Sagittarius, a reactive influence) still holds. This is \u2018practical imagination\u2019 during a Full Moon we\u2019re talking about, after all \u2013 not fantastic abandon.<\/p>\n

If you enjoyed reading the subscriber issue linked to in this post, “Scratch Some Virgo, Find Some Pisces,” consider subscribing to our premium service if you are not currently. You can try it for a month free here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today the Virgo Moon makes a conjunction to Mars on its way to the Full Moon overnight Wednesday into Thursday (at 4:39 am EST). The Sun, moving a little slower, is almost in position to oppose the Moon from Pisces. Since the Moon is like a big receiver and amplifier for the energy it picks … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}