Full Moon in Virgo: Cleansing and Clearing Moon

Today, we have a Full Moon in the mutable earth sign of Virgo, sign of purity. This is an important supermoon lunation, in which we are given ample opportunity to cleanse our inner and outer worlds.

If we haven’t been doing so already, the words of “tidying up” expert Marie Kondo may start to reverberate through our ears and become like a bullhorn. For the next two weeks, we are coaxed to tidy up our affairs. Little by little, we are asked to update what resides in our minds, our living spaces, our paperwork, and our bodies so that we can handle the changes speeding our way.

Now, if you’re like me and the idea of going full-speed ahead to pare down your entire life in one go, or “Marie Kondo-ing” your life feels like a perfectionist depression waiting to happen, or the idea of giving up your beloved books, clothes, mementos feels like a torture, take heart. This Full Moon is not the uptight variety of cleansing, it is meant to be easeful.

Virgo is the ruler of spiritual hygiene. I love the term spiritual hygiene because it makes it so much easier to do the needful. It is not punitive motivation stemming from judgment, criticism, or obligation. Cleansing, cleaning with the intention of raising consciousness is motivated from a much deeper place: peace, solace, strength, courage, joy, and spaciousness.

Gustav Klimt's Hygeia

Let us not forget that the Sun, our life force, has just entered the dissolving and oneness sign of Pisces. Virgo’s full moon supports us right now to experience a deeper union with All That Is, through clearing, thus helping facilitate a release from needless suffering.

"Let Go" vs. "Being Lifted"

I’ve recently been contemplating a new twist on the adage “Let Go and Let God/dess.” I am experiencing “surrender” as “This is being taken.”

“This is being asked” is a gentler form so use it if you prefer, though I personally feel the resonance with “being taken” is higher. You may also try on: lifted, released, or offered.

No longer need it be a struggle to hold on, white-knuckling it, forcing oneself to pry the coveted material possession, fantasy, habit, addiction, objet d’amour, from your own grasp. Now, it can be like a knife cutting through butter.

Okay, maybe not that easy... but oodles easier than it has been in the past!

It is easier to let go, because it is actually being lifted from you. It is no longer yours. Simply seeing that this situation or material item or habit is incongruent with Today’s You of You, you’re on your way. It will actually require a much smaller effort to relinquish that extra weight, that drug of choice, that worn-out pipe dream – you name it. And that "effort" is simply: heightened awareness.

This Full Moon in Virgo shines a light on the areas of our lives that we need to dust off, to clean up, in order to embody the subtle vibrations of consciousness, streaming in as the current thrust of evolution. Take time over the next month to see how you can clear the decks. Notice how easy it is once you see what is necessary to relinquish. It is no longer “Let Go or Be Dragged.” Realize, it is being taken from, asked of you, now.

May your purifications be smooth and spacious.

Erin Reese is an author, spiritual guide, astrologer, and modern psychic reader based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works with clients all over the world. For readings and spiritual counseling by Skype, phone or email, contact her directly. She can be reached at erin@erinreese.com.

“Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye.”
― Beyonce Knowles, a Virgo