Cosmic Rhythms: Last Quarter Moon in Virgo
November 13, 2025
Final Aspect: Yod from Neptune (29° Pisces) & Pluto (1° Aquarius) to Moon (29° Leo → Virgo)
Moon Phase & Sign
Last Quarter Moon in Virgo
Theme: Reorientation, discernment, refinement, intentional release
Element: Earth
Modality: Mutable
Polarity: Yin
Ruler/Dispositor: Mercury
Keywords: discernment, integration, adjustment, clarity-through-detail, purification, wise release
The Last Quarter Moon marks a time of letting go—the gentle dispersal of the Full Moon’s harvest. This phase asks for release with intelligence, not intensity. It’s a moment of closing, refining, and integrating what’s been learned so that you carry forward only what still resonates.
With the Moon in Virgo, discernment becomes the guiding light of this process. Virgo helps you separate wisdom from weight, ensuring you don’t discard something valuable out of emotional exhaustion or over-correction. Instead, this phase encourages you to retain the insight and let go of the residue.
Think of it as spiritual composting:
keep the nutrient, release the husk.
Final Aspect: Yod from Neptune & Pluto to the Moon
Neptune 29° Pisces (double dissolution / illusion release)
Pluto 1° Aquarius (undeniable truth)
Moon 29° Leo → Virgo (emotional experience → discernment)
This final aspect forms a Yod, often described as a fork in the road—a configuration that gathers pressure, insight, and subtle tension until a turning becomes impossible to ignore.
How it feels (emotional hook)
You may sense a rising clarity or emotional truth surfacing, even if you weren’t consciously seeking it.
Something clicks. Something lands. Something becomes unmistakably visible.
At the same time, the double quincunx creates a slight inner friction — just enough to signal that something is out of alignment and ready to shift.
Not dramatic.
Just real, and impossible to un-feel.
You might notice:
“I can’t keep pretending this old pattern fits.”
“I know exactly what this means now.”
“This truth is asking for acknowledgment.”
A quiet shift that changes everything once you experience it.
The Energetic Storyline (with Neptune’s Double Dissolution)
Pluto in Aquarius reveals the truth.
Not loudly, but unmistakably.
It brings the kind of clarity you can’t un-see.
Neptune at 29° Pisces dissolves illusion — twice.
Because Neptune is:
retrograde (internal dissolution), and
at the anaretic degree (collective dissolution),
its function operates like a double release, washing away not only the illusion itself, but the attachment to the illusion.
This is the final sweep of a 14-year Neptune-in-Pisces cycle —
the last clearing before the shift into Aries.
The Moon at 29° Leo expresses the emotional truth.
This often comes as:
a recognition
an emotional release
a sudden clarity
a shift in identity or expression
a moment where the heart speaks plainly
The Moon becomes the focal point where truth is felt, not just understood.
Integrated Flow: Dissolution → Truth → Emotional Experience → Discernment
As the Yod dissolves illusion (Neptune) and reveals undeniable truth (Pluto), the Moon in late Leo becomes the emotional release point — the moment you experience what is real. Once the Moon enters Virgo, that emotional clarity shifts into discernment. Virgo helps you separate wisdom from residue, ensuring you don’t discard what’s valuable out of exhaustion or overreaction. This phase isn’t about wiping the slate clean — it’s about spiritual composting: keeping the nutrient, releasing the husk.
Personal Themes: How This May Show Up Individually
1. A truth about yourself becomes clear.
You may suddenly understand what a relationship, pattern, or expectation actually means now.
2. A long-standing emotional pattern loses its hold.
What once felt familiar may feel outgrown.
3. A shift in identity or expression.
The Leo apex Moon highlights what your heart is ready to express — honestly, bravely, simply.
4. Virgo helps you refine the path.
Emotion becomes insight.
Insight becomes clarity.
Clarity becomes a course correction.
Gifts & Challenges
Gifts
Emotional honesty
Discernment
Integration of wisdom
Subtle but powerful redirection
Clarity about what truly matters
Challenges
Feeling slightly “off”
Emotional responses you didn’t expect
Releasing an illusion you leaned on
Avoiding overcorrection
Archetypes & Tarot Symbolism
Virgo Moon
Archetype: The Healer
Tarot: The Hermit
Prompt: What becomes clear when I pause and look gently?
Leo Apex Moon
Archetype: The Inner Fire
Tarot: Strength
Prompt: What honest feeling is ready to be acknowledged?
Neptune + Pluto
Neptune: The Mystic (The Hanged Man)
Pluto: The Transformer (Judgement)
Practical Tips & Rituals
Gemstones
Amazonite • Labradorite • Citrine • Black Tourmaline
Essential Oils
Rosemary • Lemon • Frankincense • Ylang Ylang
Mini-Ritual: “The Discernment Reset”
Place hands over the solar plexus.
Ask: “What truth wants to be acknowledged?”
Keep what has wisdom.
Release what is complete.
Affirmation
I release what no longer aligns and carry forward the wisdom that remains.
Subtle Collective Lens (with Neptune’s double action)
Because both Neptune and Pluto are outer planets, this Yod may echo through the collective field.
Neptune retrograde at the final degree of Pisces can dissolve a long-held illusion, narrative, or collective projection — both internally and externally.
Pluto in Aquarius may shift public perception or reveal what had been glamorized or hidden.
Not as scandal or judgment, but as a softening of illusion and an increase in clarity.
Some may feel a myth they relied on dissolving.
Others may find it harder to hide behind the illusions of others.
As the Moon moves into Virgo, this shift settles into discernment, reflection, and grounded accountability.
Sacred Insight
This is a threshold moment — a fork in the road marked by truth rising and illusion dissolving. The emotional honesty of Leo softens into Virgo’s clarity, offering a chance to refine your path without abandoning what still holds value.
Let what dissolves fall away.
Keep the wisdom.
Refine the rest.
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