If I were to check the listings of all the U-Haul rentals across The US for this weekend, I bet that I would find that the majority of the movers are Virgos. With the full moon rising in your root cellar, you’re off and running, making tracks for a new place to hang your hat, and in many cases, much further away than anticipated. For Virgos that are moving back home to be with family, this can be a wonderful time as long as you can set boundaries in ways that are healthy for all involved. Praise and give thanks for the new opportunities to dwell in a new place of comfort and connectivity.

We all know how much Virgo loves exactitude and precision and this month, our dead and blessed virgin can find it the higher realms of thought and philosophy. You’re always practical, so your view of the universe must also conform to your own style. This is a wonderful time for making connections, both personal and otherwise that lead you to some very profound, yet simple understanding of how things work on a grand, cosmic scale. If you invest enough of your time, intention and energy, you’ll be amazed by how you’re able to connect the dots and reduce the most complex abstractions into real bits of wisdom that make total sense to you. It’s like plants need the right amount of light, water, earth, etc to achieve maximum potential and you’re able to make such a simple, yet, profound observation resonant and applicable to your life in new and vital ways. It’s not about becoming faster, cleaner or more efficient — it’s about slowing down and taking a much more simple and natural approach to all things. This is the best philosophy that you can expand and make use of in your life.

Seminars, retreats and travel are great for you right now and in fact, single Virgos would likely meet someone that clicks on many levels in those settings. But if you travel Virgo, especially abroad. please don’t be as stubborn as fellow Virgo, Andy Roddick was at The French Open, demanding that he get his way. It worked against him on so many levels. Keep your head up and go with the flow.

You analytical types are in for a big surprise over the next few days. The veil between your rational world and your inner, intuitive world will get very, very thin. There will be moments when your thoughts may not even seem like you own, especially as you here them come out of someone else’s mouth before you have a chance to speak them. This wild and delightful confusion will serve you well. Since you are such a pragmatist, you’ll understand more than ever that thoughts are things and your ability to clearly shape them, consciously craft them and send them out into the world is of utmost importance. How practical is that?

Once you get past the uncertainty that your mind is not your own and is hooked into a larger mainframe and that reality is a cloud of possibilities, you can really get the hang of this new process. Just remember that you are here to serve and this is why this gift is being bestowed upon you.

Mars and Venus are squaring not just your natal Sun, but also Saturn, which is also in your sign. What this is doing is setting off fire alarms when it comes to your identity. Most Virgos have had almost two years to get used to the discipline of Saturn, especially those with a Virgo ascendant who have made their lives a testament to self improvement. All of that measured and detail oriented energy is getting tugged on hard by the maelstrom of Mars and Venus kicking up a dust storm in your sub-conscious. You’re having feelings and thoughts that aren’t as tidy and neat as the rest of your life. From seething anger and resentment to dark eroticism, your psyche is churning and causing you to re-evaluate many of your relationships at a very deep level. Encounters with rude, outrageous and opinionated people are challenging your sense of propriety, what you’re holding in. You’ve harnessed an immense amount of energy and channeled it towards building a foundation for your identity, but this other energy and I mean other, threatens to challenge all that you have worked towards.

You don’t have to explode and cancel out all you’ve worked towards, but you do have to honor this agro dynamic before it blows you sky high. if I were you, I would not shy away from confrontation, however, I would not seek it out. In conjunction with this energy, when Mercury goes retrograde on the 7th, it’s critical for you to hold people accountable in the workplace for agreements they’ve made. If they can’t or won’t, don’t get mad…get real.

It’s okay if you have to, yet again, accommodate the needs of others because, during this full moon cycle, you have no choice. It’s not only on your plate, it’s your destiny, especially as it comes to finances. But the best thing you can do is make sure you get at least 10% for yourself. On a much more personal and perhaps even pressing level, if you ever needed to re-negotiate any credit cards or mortgage rates…do not wait. During this full moon cycle, you can more easily get what you want and cross that bothersome detail off your checklist.

Oh yeah, don’t forget to save a few sweet nothings in reserve, for when you really need them.

There’s a lot of talk these days about The New World Order. Everyone from Gordon Brown to Kissinger are singing its praises as a panacea for the global financial crisis. While they’re yammering on and on about the NWO, you, on the other hand, are about to experience PWD (personal world disorder). Don’t worry though, it’s a psychic function we all go through from time to time. But a sign such as yours, given to almost all things orderly, doesn’t always do well with the internal structures of your life not being in the tidiest of conditions.

Let’s explore some of the things that you might be experiencing throughout most of April. Urges. For an occasionally sober type, dealing with messy urges can be a bit of a problem for you, but you and I both know, you’re certainly no prude. The challenge for you is to find ways where you can really let loose without losing control, even though losing control is recommended occasionally, with other consenting adults. If I were you, I’d find places and ways where I could just let the flow of my inner life manifest through physical activity. Hit a dance floor and move your body until it’s soaked. Find a safe, nude beach and have lovely picnic. Do a tandem parachute jump. Seek out the most authentic ethnic food you can in a decidedly ethnic neighborhood. Dye your hair. Firewalk. These are just a few activities that you can consciously pursue so that they don’t unconsciously pursue you.

Who do you want to be? The hunter or the hunted? As far as Venus goes, please kiss and make up with the person that you used to love and secretly still do. You may never get back together, but some real affection could go a long ways towards healing the crater in each other’s heart.

Your Kosmic hero this month? Doctor Strange.

Of all the signs, you and “The Fish” are probably most impacted by this moon. Your criticism of your self and others is at an all time high, especially as the Pisces Sun works its way through your relationships. There are some things that need to come out into the open, into the light of day, because if they don’t, you’ll be shooting the rapids of that river in Egypt (de nile). I would say let it all hang out. Speak your truth, get it out and then pick up the pieces on the back end. It’s better to be too thorough than not thorough enough and ultimately, you need to deal with the fact that even when you hold it in, people still might be judgmental or critical. Get it off your chest and you’ll feel a whole lot better. But don’t make a steady habit of playing “The Misanthrope” because despite the fact that you might know wheat to do on just about every occasion, the rest of us still need some messes in our lives so that you can define yourself on a constant quest to conquer chaos and insecurity.

This is always a tricky time of year for you as your powers are at the lowest ebb and Venus is calling you down into places, that quite frankly, you’re not real fond of going to. While Libra loves to be in control by always defining the rules of relating, even when they appear to be their most harmonious and win-winnish, you just like to be in control, period, across the board…including relationships. Well this month, not only do you have to confront your lack of control when it comes to relating, but most of what you’re going through will be at a deep, sub-concious, level that will be revealed in dreams, nightmares, passing thoughts, compulsions and obsessions.

So what’s the frequency? For you, it’s a trip down the rabbit hole to better understand your need and motivation to control, make sense of the chaos and defer to some practiced sense of order. I’m not advocating that you become a mushroom eating anarchist in search of nothing, but if you allow yourself the ability to let go and witness how you sabotage your ability to relate and create profound intimacy with others and the world at large, you’ll be much better off for it, especially when it comes to all things that take place in the bedroom, like sleep, dream and…you know.

The one caveat that I will put out there is that it’s important for you to retain some amount of discretion as you peel back the layers. I wouldn’t want you to simply surrender to some free-loving sex cult that is working on some form of group ascension before the poop hits the fan. On second thought…

Your dreams are riveting, compelling and perhaps even a little apocalyptic. Don’t worry, it’s par for the course during these times. You’re working out a collective angst on deep levels for many of us. For that, I thank you. But while your dream space may be turgid and slightly disturbing, it’s your waking life that you need to pay very close attention to right now as power plays behind the scenes can undermine all that you have worked so hard for over the past two years. While the shadowy world of cloak and dagger intrigue is great in a John Le Carre novel, it’s not all that fun in your own life, especially a sign with such a finely attuned nervous system as yours. While we cannot control everything (especially that which we cannot see), it wouldn’t hurt you to do a little detective work on your own so that if you are “backdoored” as they say on “Survivor” you’ll be able to brace yourself for the impending impact by simply…surrendering.

Even Virgos have their limits when it comes to routine, especially as it relates to their chosen profession, or simply what they are doing in the world in order to make ends meet. Well, this month is the psychic cul-de-sac that you seem to have run right into. It’s critical for you to re-invest your life and life’s work with meaning. The Aquarius jackpot is forcing you to raise your aspirations even higher than they have been before.

Virgos, more than any other sign seem to be more concerned with their mission and purpose in life. Perhaps it has something to do with their innately obsessive nature to begin with, or maybe it’s because before the flash of conception, they sat in a room with a burly, camel smoking angel, that constantly referred to the place where losers who don’t take their incarnations seriously go and of course, I am talking about New Jersey (just kidding). But seriously, your alarm clock around why you’re here is sounding and it’s time to wake up and make sure that you’re still passionate and enthused about what you do, especially if it at all has any aspect of service related to it. For some Virgos, they may not even have a choice, since the universe may have the first move and pluck them out of the desultory routine that they have settled into. Thus is the way of Aquarius, the cosmic shit disturber. You don’t have to be nice and play along if this is indeed the case. With Venus in Aries, soon to move into your house of the sub-conscious, I highly recommend that you not back down from any confrontation that is reasonable and fair. Discharge the rage with a sense of re-finding your balance, homeo-stasis and burn your victimhood like an effigy of a self that no longer serves you.

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Normally, the full moon messes with your sense of order that it’s almost a cruel reprieve that God has set aside for you every thirty days, a mixed blessing, depending on the sign it falls in. Luckily, for you, this month’s moon places firmly in the company of others that are similarly challenged. This is truly cause for celebration. Think of this moon as a 48 hour romp in group therapy and shared schizophrenia. From the grocery store, to the gym, to local, you’ll be reminded time and again, that we’re all bozos on this bus. How liberating this will be for you. At some point, someone even crazier and more uptight than you will confirm just how sane you actually are.

If you are a Virgo that is even remotely interested in the healing arts, this is your year. Saturn is still playing the hard mack daddy, the karmic pimp in your chart, making you work hard for your redemption, but when it eventually shifts into Libra, you will be forever changed; stronger, wiser and more solid than ever before. Now, Jupiter comes into play will transform Virgos everywhere into mad scientists, faith healers, hands on healers, psychic healers, you name it. Go far, go deep, delve into the radical nature of healing. With all of the hard work you’ve been putting in with Saturn, this is the reward you’ve been waiting for, the green light from the cosmos to embrace the most cutting edge and far out concepts regarding health and well being.

For those Virgos who aren’t in or interested in the many health professions, this Jupiter will have a very different impact on you. You’ll be looking at your life’s work and ask yourself if it’s really thet type of work you should be doing? If you’ve already been deep in this dialog (with Saturn in Virgo I would expect nothing less), then Jupiter offers up alternatives on a silver platter. The best choice? The best choice is the one that allows you to feel like a maverick while still feeling as if you’re coloring inside the lines, since Saturn is still running your show.

This Mercury retrograde plays a big role in your love life and in dealing with your youngins. Do what you say and say what you do. Follow through is critical for you as it sets the stage for being accountable with lovers and friends, not just for three weeks from January to February, but for a long time after that. Capricorn deals with long cycles of time and the decisions you make, the promises you make, the vows you take will stay with you for a very, very long time.

Your peak months this year include: January, June, July, August, September and October.

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While you might share a communicative closeness with Gemini, that’s pretty much where all the similarities end. You both like and need knowledge, data, information and facts, but Gemini gathers all that info for sparkling party conversation and fourth and fifth hobbies, while for you, it’s always a means to an end. Starting on Friday, that accumulation of knowledge might reach overload, especially as it pertains to your career. Is there such a thing as having too many options? Knowing too much? And can you trust just anyone when it comes to sharing the breadth of your knowledge? The latter is crucial and you need to carefully choose your confidantes starting on Friday, especially if they live with you. Not everyone will treat your insights and privileged position with kindness or respect. So before you cast your pearls before swine, ask yourself if it’s kosher?

December is always a challenging month for you, especially as it relates to family. Virgos and especially people with Virgo rising tend to have families at a distance and this creates an inherent challenge when the holidays are upon us. Invariably some sacrifice has to be made. Either you travel and deal with the fact that each year you know your family less and less or you stay put and miss them dearly, even though they evolve and change in the distance of time and space. This year you also have issues around parents getting older and the parent within you coming of age as well as Pluto will be settling in your house of children, love, creativity and romance for the next 16 years. Being a parent becomes more intense role in your life as you see your children get older, you’ll also see your parents get older, specifically your father or father figures and it is a good time to take their legacy into account. Who is the man that raised you and what kind of lessons did he pass on, both good and bad? What kind of things did you not learn but wished you could have? All of these issues and questions factor into a very potent time for you during the holidays. If you do make that journey home this year, spend a good time of it trying to understand the man who did the best he could to teach about the world and it’s often confusing ways.

It’s time to get serious in regards to your spiritual work. The full moon will offer you some very grounded epiphanies about how the universe works. It’s like getting a blueprint or schemata. This could very easily come to you in the form of a dream or vision. Do not and I repeat, do not take this lightly, even if it is fleeting. You’re going to be given some vital information as to how you can make your own life better through a deeper knowledge of for lack of a better term, “cosmic mechanics.” Write, paint, draw, do whatever you need to in order to ground the realization, emphasis on the real part, since you may traffic in abstraction, unless it’s useful and serves yourself or others, it’s value is ultimately diminished. Older and wiser people in your immediate circle and family will help you realize this, if you already don’t. The value of the experience may not be tangible or marketable in the immediate, but you’ll have enough info to begin to ground the principles of heaven.

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If there was one sign that would be on the medieval stretcher this month, you and Pisces would have real coin flip as to whom would assume that rather elongated position. Saturn is bearing down hard, making you serious and all monk-like, think hair shirts and discipline. That’s what you’re learning now. I know a person that is a Virgo rising and going through AA and having a positively transformational experience, embracing the edifying powers of abstinence and finding that sobriety is a sacred act. This is one form of Saturn in Virgo for Virgos and Virgo rising.

On the other hand, Uranus is pulling hard on the other side, in Pisces, where temptation abounds and relapse is an unguarded moment away. All of this can be triggered by relationships, either old ones that are dying or new ones that blaze across the hearts night skies, challenging old orders, illuminating new ones, sending the nervous system into overdrive. While the Scorpio Sun allows you to go deeper within than other times of the year, Venus and Mars in Sag square your sign, adding some holy fire into the mix–especially on the home front. Pluto arrives just in time to anchor a new level of strength and purpose in your identity. Whatever you take with you on the backside of the Saturn/Uranus opposition will make you unflappable in the face of any forthcoming uncertainty. Venus slides into Capricorn on the 13th which makes you anxious for consummating power plays. Who said that Virgo was the wallflower of the cosmos?

The eighties song for the soundtrack of your life in November; The Church, “Unguarded Moment.”

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Your challenge during this hot Full Moon is to forgive the mother in your life. It sounds cliche, but it’s more true now then ever before. The anger that you have harbored for her can be healed now in very dramatic and rapid fashion, but you’ll have to face the smoldering embers of resentment, frustration, anger and disappointment. If you can get in touch with this anger that you’ve held onto for a very long time, you can express it and let it go into the ethers. Once you do the balm of forgiveness is there for you and the mother in your life. No one is perfect, not even you dear Virgo. Once you realize this, your healing journey takes on a whole new meaning, especially with Mars and Venus, urging you to go deeper than ever before when it comes to communicating from your soul.

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If there’s any sign that’s preparing for the high water mark, it’s you. The powerful combination of Libra and Scorpio energies is forcing you to really assess your resources, especially those that you share with a partner. This is not a time to go deeper or further into any joint negotiations or purchases, slow, down, don’t commit and keep the dialog alive. You need to use extra perceptive powers to understand these types of situations and the motivations of others at large as well. Add the capacity to be shrewd to your already formidable powers of analysis and criticism. When Mars moves into Sag near the middle of the month, you might begin to look at the concept of moving, living elsewhere, perhaps further than you’ve given thought to. Don’t be afraid to entertain such a wild fancy. The opportunity to expand your sense of home and create new roots can re-invigorate your sense of freedom and liberty of movement.

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This pesky moon is back once again, taking you so far out of your logical mind that you question whether or not you’ll ever get it back again, particularly in the realm of the heart in the house of relating. You want to merge badly, deeply and often, but your head keeps getting in the way. Self-talk obstructs the pure and unconditional love you crave, yet push away due to your fear of being swallowed whole by its immense power.

With the Libra stellium in your second house, you can relax. Relating at a deep level brings a feeling of safety, even in the midst of your loving madness. Dive in and worry about it later…much later.

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Happy birthday dear old Virgin. Virgo might be the most mis-understood sign of the zodiac. While it often gets a rap for being the consummate nit picker and prude, a quick scan of famous Virgos reveals some rather salacious characters like Charlie Sheen, Lenny Bernstein, Pee Wee Herman, Ivan The Terrible and DH Lawrence (a moralist in disguise). While no one would ever deny you a romp in the hay, you really need to focus on how partners impact your sense of safety, security and ultimately purpose. This is a critical theme this month as Saturn bears down on your personality, forcing you to either surrender to your inner nerd or burn a reasonable likeness on an altar, you need to ask yourself the following question: “Who am I on this journey with and why?” The follow up, should sound something like this: “Are they really there for my best interests?” If the answer is anywhere near “no.” then it might be time to re-dress the equality in your partnerships, which I have no doubt will lead to greater ease and relaxed attitudes towards not only finances, but your own self-worth. The best birthday gift you could give yourself this month is letting go of relationships that suck your energy and drag you down. Cast off your insecurities and claim your own sovereignty.

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If there was ever a time for you to investigate alternative and radical methods of healing, now is it. With all of the Virgoan energy in your first house, you are all about the purification of body, mind and spirit. Cleansing is a theme you may want to embrace as well for the next thirty-six-hours. A three-day-fast would be perfect for you now, especially with the right supplements and herbs to get you through. If you have any inclination to understand the theories of alternative healers, now is a great time, since you are much more open to such possibilities as your normally critical mind is objective and receptive. All of this intense interest health and healing could easily manifest in new career opportunities as well.

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If there are any signs in the zodiac that really challenge you, its Leo and Sag, both for entirely different reasons. You chafe at Leo’s entitled haughtiness and Sag’s snotty elitism and yet the early part of August can be a real learning experience as deep urges to claim your own personal sovereignty are shaking things up—think active volcano. Own up to the fact that you really wouldn’t mind being the boss form-time-to-time and it will mitigate and balance your natural preference of working behind the scenes to actually telling people what to do. Unease around office psychos can be both healthy and wise and this is a chance for you to take stock of your own powers as you will be the one calling the shot throughout most of the middle of August, right up through your own birthday. Jupiter moves forward on September first and this will signal a new period of creative possibilities to go along with your newfound leadership skills.

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How do you feel about older women or older men? If you’re on the forty+ side of the continuum, how do you feel about youngins longin’ for you? That’s the big question heading into the weekend as you have the opportunity savor the differences in age between you and the object of your desire. The barriers between intimacy and seniority fall by the wayside and the ability to explore and revel in the difference between you and another are highlighted. This may not sit well with Virgo, who normally likes things nice and neat, well defined with predictable outcomes. With the randy goat moon lounging in your house of amore, you’ll have to put any prejudice aside and simply merge with the energies that have brought you gift without the convention or social rules that you’re used to.

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The dynamism of Mars and Jupiter are activated for you around the 20th. This is an auspicious connection, which bodes extremely well for Virgos born in mid-September. Mars transforms the normally mild-mannered Virgin into a force of nature, taking on roles of leadership they normally shy away from. Spock is the archetypal Virgo, eschewing emotion for reason and efficiency. In Star Trek Spock mates once every seven years during the pon-farr and when he does, all reason is cast aside on the whole of Vulcan repression is unleashed. Mars in Virgo in the first house unleashes a similar energy and you might be surprised by how daring and dynamic you are out in the world and behind closed doors. This is a great month for get-togethers and hanging out with people quite different from you. Don’t pass up opportunities to hang out with tribes of different stripes and colors.

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It’s time to get on the phone with mom. Spend the dime, do the time and listen in on her life, honor her in an unexpected way and be prepared for her to reveal some insight and truth to you in ways that you have not yet experienced with her. There’s something about your legacy through her, which becomes clearer although not always easy to hear and digest, but something that fills in the big picture for you in a way that makes sense. This is also crunch time for any Virgos doing real estate deals, especially with Mercury still moving backwards. Sometimes it’s cheaper to fold, than bluffing your way to a pot you know you can’t afford to lose.

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