Virgo Lunar Eclipse 2026

Blood Moon lunar eclipse

The Virgo full Moon (and lunar eclipse) is exact at 12°53’ on Tuesday, March 3 at 5:37 am CST. We’re full-on in eclipse season, with this lunar eclipse following the Aquarius solar eclipse of two weeks ago. What sorts of things have come up for you personally since then? We can look around in society and see how some things have come to light in the past few weeks, and how the mighty have fallen from grace, or have been forcibly removed as the case may be. Maybe not the mighty ones that we know or were hoping for perhaps, but mighty nonetheless. Again, let’s remember that the “we the people” vibe of Aquarius encompasses a lot more of us than it doesn’t. If you like to see how the archetypes play out on the world stage, you can really become fascinated with this eclipse season. While I’m not immune from that sort of fascination - I do follow the news, but I’m just not interested enough to look up the charts of people I frankly find abhorrent. I have one colleague in particular who is SO adept at doing deep dives into the natal charts of prominent people, and how they are being impacted by timing and the transiting planets, and I could listen to her findings for hours, they’re so fascinating! And she is an excellent mix of intuitive, compassionate, and deeply penetrating, so I can listen to the findings through her lens without getting the ick that I might get if I ventured into that morass all by my lonesome. I will, however, most definitely look up the charts of inspiring people - Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu for example, is a beautiful, shining example of her natal chart. If anybody has a birth time for her, please let me know! And also, Jordan Stolz as well! He has SO many similarities to a chart of somebody that I sat with, and they are both extreme athletes - too cool! Not necessarily the sign placements you would automatically go to for that extreme athleticism, either. But let’s get back on track here. 

While it can be fascinating to see the archetypes play out on the world stage, I like to focus on how I (and you!) can work with these energies on a more personal level. I’m not here to dazzle you with my seeming ability to translate the cosmic energies into foreseeable events, I’m here to suggest ways to work individually with the cosmic energies playing out around us. Now, if you are a despotic leader or perhaps a very powerful person who may have cavorted with a certain disgraced financier, Imma tell ya, you better get yourself right with your god ASAP! It seems that heads are rolling, and that nasty business with the disgraced financier is finally, finally coming into the light of day for all to witness. And if you are one of these folks, what the hell are you doing here? Put down the Ambien and go to bed, you’re wandering and lost.  

At this Virgo full Moon/lunar eclipse, we have a great big ole lineup of planets and points in Pisces - Mars at 0°42’, North Node at 08°59’, Sun at 12°53’, Mercury retrograde at 20°20’, and Venus at 26°18’. We also have Neptune and Saturn at the beginning degrees of Aries, 01°08’ and 02°01, respectively, meaning we have a multitude of planets plus the North Node all together in a line, opposite the Moon in Virgo at 12°53, who is sitting next to the South Node at 08°59 Virgo. With both the full Moon and the South Node in the sign of Virgo, we have repeating themes of releasing what no longer serves. Virgo is the sign that separates the wheat from the chaff, adept at discerning what is useful and what needs to go. The full Moon will often shine a light on what needs to be released in order to bring more fully into form what wants to be created, ideally based on the intentions that were set at the previous new Moon, or will be set at the forthcoming new Moon. The South Node is a point in the chart that can indicate gifts that we come by naturally, that if utilized properly can assist us in our journey toward our highest, most authentic self, a sort of tool kit that we have at our disposal. The challenge is to not rely too heavily on that tool kit that we seem to come by naturally, simply because it’s what we’ve always done, or what comes easiest to us. The reason for this is because many times that tool kit can then become less a tool kit and more just baggage that we’re simply schlepping around out of habit, and many of those tools in that kit have become obsolete - like having a drawerful of chargers that no longer fit any device in use. So at this full Moon, what drawerful of chargers can you empty out, figuratively or literally? This similar theme is echoed by the ruler of the Virgo full Moon, Mercury, who is currently retrograde in Pisces. I love to utilize Mercury retrograde as a time to revisit areas of my life, to clear out what is unnecessary, and rearrange what is necessary so that it is accessible, visible, and available. Clearing out my email inboxes and unsubscribing to addresses I don’t read is a must-do during Mercury retrograde. Recently I cleared out all of my teas, and rearranged my tea and coffee set-up - it is SO much more efficient and aesthetically pleasing now. This is a simple, daily example of how to connect with these energies that are available to all of us right now. Seriously, the tea and coffee set-up seemed to rearrange itself - it was a joy to follow that energy!

In this full Moon chart, we also have Jupiter retrograde in Cancer at 15°11’, trining this line-up of Pisces planets and points, and sextiling the full Moon in Virgo, creating a flowing conversation between Jupiter and all of these planets in play. Jupiter is about vision, faith, optimism, philosophy, and expansion. How can you expand your vision or philosophy to increase your faith and optimism? Venus at 26°18’ Pisces is sextile Uranus at 27°47’ Taurus, providing an opportunity to shake up or liberate our values, or perhaps our concepts of beauty, connection, creativity, and abundance. At our most recent monthly meeting, one of my beloved astrology colleagues suggested we go around the Zoom and say what our most ideal vision of the future would be. We’re a radical bunch, so it all centered around a pretty common theme - that of care for humanity, the Earth, and all of her inhabitants; that the Earth and every living that she supports has their basic rights respected and their basic needs met: protection, food, housing, health care, child care, etc. In this more perfect world that we envisioned, healing for the Earth and her inhabitants could begin to occur, and everybody would then have the opportunity to thrive and to step into their most authentic self, rather than to stay trapped in a desperate reality of having to focus all of their energy on daily survival. Other offerings around the Zoom included thriving local economies and systems, and the courage to see the truth of our own reality, integrating the freedom that that truth can bring into our lives once we have the courage to see and accept it. Good stuff! What is your ideal vision, and what sorts of steps can you take to begin to bring that vision into reality?

With Pisces being the last sign of the Zodiac, there is this idea of transcendence, as if the mysteries of the Universe are available to us somehow here in Piscesland, Pisces being an interstitial world between worlds, the nascent, womb-like floating container where all life and creativity begins to form. With Saturn and Neptune having completed their recent foray through Pisces and having moved into Aries, what can that possibly signify? Since Aries is the first sign of the Zodiac, which corresponds to the Spring equinox in the Northern hemisphere, when life begins to emerge and become fully of this world, moving from the potential realm to the actualized realm, how can we can imagine into this placement? Perhaps as indicating that esoteric knowledge is available not to just a select few, but to all who have the courage to seek it and to bring it from the realm of potentials into the realm of actualization?  

If we think of this full Moon on a more interior, perhaps deeper level, what are some ways that you can release whatever is keeping you from stepping into your own spiritual authority, and from actively participating in life as part of an ensouled Cosmos? With Neptune and Saturn in Aries, there seems to be a trail that is being blazed for us all to embrace our individual spiritual authority, knowing that we are in fact an integral part of an ensouled Cosmos, and we do in fact have a direct line to the Divine; that we can call on that divine support at any time, we don’t need permission or intercession from a hierarchical structure or perceived outside authority. Can you allow for this full Moon to highlight for you any outgrown or outdated beliefs, any resistance that seems to be holding you back from trusting that you are an integral part of an ensouled Cosmos? Is there anything that is keeping you from trusting your intuition, that is keeping you from allowing yourself to step into your own spiritual authority and into your own dialog with the Divine? Can you release whatever resistance is being highlighted, and view yourself as an integral part of a divine, ensouled Cosmos?