posted July 10, 2012 04:06 AM            

The soul with the Moon in Virgo has been dedicated to service in the past, being ready to sacrifice itself to others. This is an analytical, self-critical Moon that wants to keep emotional chaos at bay by keeping things tightly in order.

PURITY OR PRUDERY?
This fastidious Moon carries the archetype of Corn Maiden and Virgin. The ancient Corn Maiden was fertile and fecund. She was closely bound up with fertility and the Earth Mother whom she served. Her purity did not hold her back from sexual expression. She could be the sacred prostitute: the link between the Goddess and man. This figure was replaced by the sterile Virgin, bringing prudishness and chastity into the archetype. Sexuality was repressed, the body became untouchable. The ideal of celibacy exerted a strong pull. In the past, this soul could have retreated into a convent and a vow of chastity. In the distant past, however, it could have been part of a fertility religion, its divine sexuality given full expression. These two archetypes create tension within the soul. The challenge is to regain purity without compromising sexuality. This soul must be virgin in the old sense of the word: whole and intact within oneself.

THE URGE TO SERVE
The soul has the urge to be truly altruistic, to serve humankind. Service can be overtaken by servitude – the soul stuck with the dirty jobs of life – or obsequiousness and false humility. The soul may also serve because, deep down inside, there is a sense of unworthiness that is offset by service. The task is to serve as an expression of the divine Self, to do whatever one is called upon to do without thought of reward or recognition.

EMOTIONAL NEEDS
This soul has learned to put aside its own needs and to take care of others first and this can be a powerfully motivating force in life. The Virgo Moon is uncomfortable with the thought of emotional needs – which are seen as irrational. The fear is that such needs will overwhelm the rational mind. This intellectual sign wants things to be tidy and clean. The need to analyze and rationalize often overrides expression of emotional needs. The desire to keep order can be paramount – to the extent that the soul is obsessively tidy or ritualistic. Emotional needs often suffer from the soul’s high ideals of perfection and the soul’s task is to set more realistic standards both in relationships and for itself.

LUNAR FOOD
The soul with the Moon in Virgo is fed by reward and recognition for all the small services rendered, but is too modes to seek this out. What would nourish this soul is to be deeply in touch with the wellspring of creative energy.

MOTHERING EXPECTATIONS
This soul seeks a mother who is perfect and who provides an orderly, safe, yet creative environment. The expectation, however, can be that the mother will be cold and critical, setting impossibly high standards of behavior and creating an emotionally sterile environment.

ANCESTRAL INHERITANCE
The inner critic is a figure associated with the cold and critical part of Virgo. Such a figure can be passed down through the family line, imposing impossibly high ideals of behavior and service. The child is criticized for breaches of these ideals, and soon learns to criticize him- or herself. This criticism is applied to others if they fail to meet the same high standards. Emotional coldness can be a feature of family life, although there are times when earthy common sense prevails. Virgo also has a connection with the psychosomatic effect of the mind on the body and family may well offer an opportunity to learn about this at first hand: the overly protective mother creating an offspring who has asthma, for example.

posted July 10, 2012 04:27 AM            

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Originally posted by Sorcha:
Now I'm waiting for Taurus *wink wink

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posted July 10, 2012 11:34 PM            

I feel like people have been or really, tried to be overprotective and I have not let them. Especially right now in my life since I have a Uranus-Sun opposition going on. When I am creating and being of help to others by offering them solace and comfort with art, and also in the future serious acts of charity, I will feel like a complete person.

posted July 11, 2012 03:17 AM            

i really liked that part. i don't have a virgo moon, but a virgo venus and always had difficulty in choosing partners. i always picked women that needed "fixing". when it was i that needed to be fixed and be intact within myself and values.