JANUARY 5-6: CHALLENGING VIRGO MOON

MOON ENTERS VIRGO at 3:12pm EST on Friday, January 5 (after being VOID OF COURSE all day) and remains here until Saturday, January, 6 at 9:51pm. LAST ASPECT OF MOON: Moon Square Mercury in Sagittarius. This Mutable Earth sign is conflicted by the Square to Mercury, its natural Ruler. Virgo's attention to skills of analysis, discernment and creating order tend to be undermined. It's least optimum expression of being overly critical - resulting from the expectation of perfection - is more likely to show up. Nit-pickiness and narrow mindedness rarely helps a controversy. Continue to lift your eyes from the details and small stuff now to see the bigger picture: the context, the history, the philosophical or cultural reality... and the Other's perspective. And remember that kindness most often wins the day. Otherwise, actions initiated during this Moon period will tend to have Challenging resolutions.

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VIRGO SCENE FOR THE DAY: Bones, "Mayhem on a Cross", Season 4 Episode 20, 2009: Director: Jeff Woolnough; Writer: Hart Hanson. Forgive me...I've gotten addicted to a mainstream Fox series which concluded this year after twelve seasons. I love these characters! Forensic Anthropologist Temperance Brennan, nicknamed Bones by her FBI partner Agent Seeley Booth, is a Virgonian character to the max. Her discerning attention to the details of the skeletal system makes her the best in her field. Reason is her God and strict Scientific Method is her process. She is overly literal to the degree of qualifying for Asperger's Syndrome. Her brilliance can not be denied. In this partial scene she can't help but correct her colleagues, coroner Dr. Camille Saroyan and Dr. Clark Edison. Though, in the end, Bones is a totally endearing character (for many, not all) this Virgonian trait leaves her team continually dumbfounded. It leaves her alone all too often. An interesting note: Emily Deschanel, who plays Dr. Brennan, is the daughter of well-known and lauded Cinematographer Caleb Deschenal (The Natural, The Right Stuff) and the sister of Zoey (Almost Famous, New Girl)