Full Moon in Virgo: March 7th, 2023

A Sense of Service (+ Sacred Space)

Virgo is the sign of the Virgin, the perfectionist who loves cleanliness and order. Two main themes of the month are service and sacredness, and these will be affecting your life, so there’s no use trying to swim against the current! Virgo represents service and helpfulness at the highest vibration. Living life with purity, integrity, and a need for sound structures and foundations that can lead to spiritual growth are essential to making the most of this Full Moon.

Strong physical foundations can create powerful emotional, psychological, and spiritual systems and internal currents. In other words, without strong foundations, our emotional, psychological, and spiritual health can’t soar. The material world is a conduit for invisible and intangible energies.

This Virgo moon inspires us to create, be efficient, and be more responsible and dutiful with our practical and material awareness. Fire signs can learn how to be less impulsive and over-excitable, for example, while water signs can benefit from a grounded and organization influence; water likes to “flow,” whereas earth is very structured. As for air signs, this lunar transit steers one towards moving away from laziness and idleness towards making the most of mental gifts, acting as a channel for new ideas and inspiration to flow through. Overall, everyone can benefit from such a practical and structured energy.

Actual service is called for, such as being more mindful of how charity and acts of kindness play a role. Some people excel in this role, whereas others need a little push and guidance. You may want to seek to increase joy in your life through simple pleasures. For example, if you often have a lot of daily chores such as household errands, cleaning, or attending to boring tasks at work, practice mindfulness.

There are many places in the world where selfless service is seen as a healing and self-development act, such as cleaning consciously through seeing cleaning as a way to clear away mindsets, beliefs, and past behaviors that no longer serve you.

If you need to clean or do household or work chores regularly, consider how you can rewire your mind to see the lesson, teaching, or pleasure in such mundane tasks… Creating a sacred space within leads to enhanced productivity and sacredness outside. Simultaneously, retraining neurological structures in your brain during tasks and chores increases a pure and clean mind, as the repetition of this new mindset changes habits and beliefs over time.

Sacredness can be increased through spending more time learning about Goddess archetypes, reading about ancient Hermetic symbolism or metaphysical principles, or engaging in daily yoga or tai chi practice. You might want to set up a prayer or alter space for daily meditation, self-reflection, and spiritual evaluation, or, if you already have one, spend more time sitting by it simply doing nothing. There is incredible power in silence and stillness- nothingness coupled with cultivating inner space leads to everything; the every-thing is found in the no-thing.

Teamwork and collaboration are a big theme linked to service as well. Regardless of whether you have a real career and professional service or work a job solely for money, a need for teamwork and harmony will increase. Collaborative efforts will see big results and progress for everyone involved, so attempt to put aside your ego and focus on the bigger picture vision, i.e the end result. Take your inspiration from bees or ants, two spirit animals that are often overlooked, yet are extremely powerful. They teach significant wisdom regarding the power of teamwork and focusing on the small details, and they both share an affinity with the Virgo sign. Bees, for example, work diligently and devotedly towards maintaining the earth’s ecosystem. They are essential for our and our planet’s continued survival, yet they are small in size. This symbolizes the Virgo moon’s emphasis towards focusing on the details!

Ants are similarly tiny in comparison to most animals (and spirit/power animals), however, they teach us the importance of collaboration, teamwork, and continued efforts. They’re a symbol of hard work, devotion, discipline, and finding inspiration in the small things; the small acts as well as the minor details that contribute to something greater than the individual.

So, spend some time in nature to observe these two magnificent and mighty, yet small in physical size, creatures. Mother Earth can inspire you to embody greater service, sacred self-awareness, and humility that serves the whole, even if your ego doesn’t get recognition instantaneously…