The full moon is exact on March 18, 2022, at 6:17 GMT, with Sun in Pisces and Moon in Virgo. This is the last full moon of the annual cycle, representing the apex of any possible dualism and conflict. Attention! This is an extra virgin full moon, so in the next four days something radically explosive could happen, a climax of falsehood and deception, the ignition spark for consequent immense devastation, as well as, I hope, the exact opposite.
Pisces and Virgo in opposition allow each conflict to emerge in its most pronounced version. Here you have the opportunity to confront ourselves in a meticulous way with the maximum expressions of our shadow side, the part that we repress with absolute tenacity, which we can only see through the projection on others. It follows that to regain awareness of this denied side we cyclically need someone to behave in the most horrible, insane or detestable way possible. What we perceive with the greatest repulsion and hostility, is the maximum expression of our shadow. The strategic function of the shadow is to allow our illusory identity, that is, the ego, to survive. The ego, consensual reality and every aspect of ordinary human life is a radical illusion. When this illusion fails for the ego, terror and destruction ensues.
“Life is illusion, disillusionment is destruction” says Karl Jaspers (philosopher born with a full moon in Virgo). The most evident aspect of human reality is its desperate and obsessive insistence on supporting the illusion of itself. This happens with all kinds of lies, deceptions and perversions. When the illusion goes into crisis at a certain point, the threat of the destruction of the illusion itself arises, which for the ego is terrifying, whereas for our true nature it represents liberation. The ego, rather than admitting the illusory nature of the reality it has created, prefers to destroy it itself, yet each time preserving a part of it, on which it can later continue to support its lies.
Any heated conflict you perceive in life is a pantomime, a staging of consensual reality intended to preserve our separate identities. When the curtain of representation opens, we are usually enraptured and strive to exacerbate the conflict. Pisces and Virgo, however, if on the one hand lead the conflict to a climax, on the other they mix and confuse everything. As a result, the ego gets totally disoriented and lost, at least for a while. It is precisely in these moments of radical confusion of the ego that you have the opportunity to open a gap in consciousness and jump into the void, finding the wings that can finally take you away from the madness of this world. This full moon at first tempts you with conflict and then, if you are awake, shows you that that conflict out there does not exist, and that the only conflict is between your autistic fantasy of separation and the unified reality of existence. Yet this is not a two-way conflict. Separation is opposed to unity, but the latter is not at all in conflict with separation. Unity includes everything, even separation. Unity implies the simultaneous presence and acceptance of all diversity. Unfortunately, the ego has its own idea of unity, which it confuses with single thought and globalization, as well as of peace, in whose name it justifies all wars.