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Total Lunar Eclipse in Virgo: The Legacy We Leave Behind

Allow me to explore for you some of the astrological threads of the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Virgo, maybe we can even begin to weave some together by sharing and breathing life into them.

With this Lunar Eclipse in Virgo, we are invited to consider our legacy, we are offered karmic universal support to release habits, material possesions, overthinking or our quest for unattainable perfection. Has this ever supported you, or has it harmed you and held you back? Where do you find your legacy? Maybe in your family and the memories and ways you have contributed to family life, your friends and wider circles, your work, your fortune, what you have built, or removed, or ways you have helped others? What legacy would you choose if you could?

As the Sun and Moon oppose each other in a supercharged full moon at 23° Virgo conjunct the South Node in Virgo and the North Node and Saturn in Pisces, the reflected light of the Moon becomes temporarily blocked by the earth as the alignment forms and then separates. You can find out exactly if this is visible and at what time for your location at TimeandDate.com

The Significance of a Lunar Eclipse

Lunar Eclipses can be powerful turning points, especially when they impact on natal planets or points in our charts. They may bring moments of clarity, revelation, and completion, or begin a process which unfolds slowly. Chris Brennan of The Astrology Podcast, who has conducted extensive research on eclipses tells us they usher in great beginnings and great endings. A Full Moon, especially an eclipsed one, marks an ending, culmination, or release. These lunations can be intense, often pushing us toward decisive action, breakthroughs, or necessary closures. However, events may often be seemingly insignificant at first and grow into greater endings to create room for significant beginnings, over time.

As the Earth moves between the Sun and the Moon, for the Lunar Eclipse, they come into a perfect alignment in the sky, casting the Moon into the Earth’s shadow. This creates a temporary loss of reflected light (Moon), a moment where something once visible is obscured, only to return with deeper insight once the shadow passes. Once the light returns, like a bridge being crossed into new land, you can never go back, you cannot unsee this new land that is different to what you knew before. Something has permanently shifted within you. This particular eclipse is on the Virgo-Pisces axis, balancing themes of material reality vs. the unseen world and practical legacy vs. spiritual surrender.

Three Ways to Work With This Lunar Cycle

Monthly Cycle: Reflect on what is culminating now from the New Moon 2 weeks earlier and what new structures need to be put in place.

Six-Month Cycle: This Full Moon connects back to the New Moon in Virgo (3 September 2024). What was initiated or which seeds were planted for you then, and what results are emerging now?

Two-Year Moon Family Cycle: This Eclipse is part of a larger Lunar arc that began in September 2023 and will conclude in December 2025. Consider what long-term changes might have been unfolding. The Moon Families are a longer sequence of interconnected lunations that weave a narrative over 28 months. This practice of connecting and linking the hidden threads of Lunar Cycles is outlined by Dietrich Pessin in Lunar Shadows III.

Understanding the Virgo Moon Family Cycle

This two-year lunar family cycle began with the New Moon at 21° Virgo on September 15, 2023, the story then unfolds in phases until the Last Quarter Moon on December 11, 2025. Each phase builds upon the last, revealing key developments in a longer story.

This Virgo Moon Family is most felt by those with planets or angles in the mutable signs, Virgo, Sagitt