🌕 The Worm Moon Eclipse: When Purpose Howls Louder Than Rest

A Total Lunar Eclipse in Virgo ♍ | Tuesday (Mars Day) | 6:38 a.m.

🌕 Right now: the phase we’re in

It’s Wednesday.
We are approaching a Full Moon total lunar eclipse in Virgo ♍, peaking early Tuesday morning at 6:38 a.m.

This means:

  • pressure is building, not releasing yet
  • the body is already responding
  • cravings, restlessness, detox urges, and clarity are ahead of the peak

If things are coming up now, it’s because the Moon is already pulling on them.


🪐 Planetary alignments shaping this moment (plain language)

You don’t need to read charts to feel this.
Here’s what’s active energetically.

☀️ Sun opposite 🌕 Moon (Full Moon)

This is the core alignment.

  • The Sun represents conscious direction
  • The Moon represents the body and subconscious

Opposition creates awareness.
That’s why you can’t ignore what your body is saying right now.


🧱 Saturn pressuring the Moon (discipline + fatigue)

Saturn is active in this eclipse window.

Saturn brings:

  • responsibility
  • boundaries
  • “finish it before you rest” energy

This is why:

  • sleep feels delayed
  • patience is thin
  • nonsense is intolerable
  • completion feels urgent

Saturn doesn’t punish — it prioritizes.


🌊 Neptune opposing Virgo energy (intuition + sleep disruption)

Neptune blurs:

  • sleep cycles
  • time
  • mental clarity

This is why:

  • music loops in your head
  • intuition feels loud
  • dreams feel close even when you’re awake
  • exhaustion doesn’t feel panicky — just… suspended

Neptune says: listen below logic.


🔥 Mars trine the eclipse (action that flows)

Mars is in a supportive trine to this eclipse — and that matters.

A trine means energy flows without force.

This is why:

  • work is getting done
  • decisions feel clean
  • action feels aligned instead of aggressive

This isn’t chaos.
This is momentum.


♍ Virgo + Solar Plexus: why detox urges are happening now

Virgo rules:

  • digestion
  • gut health
  • daily habits
  • discernment

The Solar Plexus Chakra governs:

  • personal power
  • boundaries
  • self-trust
  • follow-through

Together, they ask:
What no longer belongs in my system?

Detox doesn’t mean extreme.
It means removing what drains.


🪐 Planet + zodiac pairings (so nobody feels overlooked)

If you’re feeling this eclipse in your body, routines, or patience — you’re not imagining it. Different planets speak through different signs.

  • Virgo / Mercury → mental clarity, routine shifts, health awareness
  • Aries / Mars → urgency, restlessness, decisive action
  • Pisces / Neptune → disrupted sleep, intuition, emotional processing
  • Gemini / Mercury → racing thoughts, need to organize ideas
  • Sagittarius / Jupiter → questioning meaning, purpose, direction

What I’m experiencing, others may too — just through their own planetary language.


💎 Crystals by zodiac (one is enough)

You don’t need all of them.
But if you know your Sun, Moon, and Rising… I won’t stop your go.

  • ♈ Aries — Carnelian: focused action without burnout
  • ♉ Taurus — Green Aventurine: grounding, heart–body balance
  • ♊ Gemini — Blue Lace Agate: mental calm, clear communication
  • ♋ Cancer — Moonstone: emotional regulation, lunar attunement
  • ♌ Leo — Tiger’s Eye: confidence with discernment
  • ♍ Virgo — Citrine or Smoky Quartz: Solar Plexus clarity + grounding
  • ♎ Libra — Rose Quartz: balance and relational harmony
  • ♏ Scorpio — Obsidian: deep release, protection
  • ♐ Sagittarius — Sodalite: truth-seeking without overwhelm
  • ♑ Capricorn — Black Tourmaline: grounding, nervous system support
  • ♒ Aquarius — Amethyst: intuition with mental clarity
  • ♓ Pisces — Lepidolite: emotional regulation, sleep support

🥬 Foods for this Virgo eclipse (detox + balance)

Detox-supportive foods (gentle, not extreme)

  • leafy greens
  • lemon water
  • cucumber
  • celery
  • beets

These support liver + digestion — Virgo territory.

Balancing, grounding foods

  • sweet potatoes
  • brown rice
  • lentils
  • oats
  • warm soups

Balance matters more than restriction.🌱 The plant for this phase (beginner-friendly)

For those who want to start somewhere:

🌿 Snake Plant (Sansevieria)

This is the eclipse plant.

Why it works:

  • grounding
  • protective
  • low maintenance
  • thrives in low light
  • cleans energy quietly

Snake plant energy matches Virgo — steady, resilient, unfussy.

Place it:

  • near your bed
  • in your workspace
  • by the front door

It holds boundaries so you don’t have to.


🌿 Chronic pain, anxiety, depression — this is for you too

Fibromyalgia is my lived experience, but this eclipse energy applies to anyone navigating:

  • chronic pain
  • anxiety
  • depression
  • nervous system fatigue

Virgo doesn’t ask you to push harder.
Virgo asks you to listen better.

During this phase, the body speaks first — through cravings, exhaustion, clarity, or discomfort — and the mind catches up later.


✨ Self-Reiki for this eclipse (gentle + accessible)

Place one hand on your upper stomach (Solar Plexus) and one on your lower belly.

Breathe slowly and repeat:

“I release what my body is done carrying.”

No forcing.
No fixing.
Just permission.


🧘🏽‍♀️ Yoga poses for chronic illness, anxiety, and pain

These poses are supportive, not performative:

  • Child’s Pose — grounding, nervous system calming
  • Seated Forward Fold — digestion + gentle release
  • Legs Up the Wall — circulation, anxiety support
  • Supine Twist — gentle detox, spinal release

These honor where the body is — not where we think it should be — and support those living with fibromyalgia, chronic pain, anxiety, or depression.

You don’t push during eclipses.
You listen.


✍🏽 Journal reflections (arriving naturally)

If you feel called:

  • What am I ready to stop carrying before Tuesday?
  • What does my body need less of right now?
  • What feels complete, even if I didn’t plan it?

No pressure to answer perfectly.


Closing

As this Full Moon approaches, the body is already responding.
The lights are dimming so instinct can lead.

This Full Moon didn’t overwhelm me emotionally — it reorganized me.

I’m not forcing release.
I’m noticing what’s already done.

Tuesday doesn’t start the work — it reveals it. 🌿

🌑 The Six-Moon Echo

Six months ago, under a different moon, I wrote about:

🌑 New Moon in Virgo: Reset, Routines & Real-Life Magic

Back then, the message was simple and firm:
stop circling the idea of getting organized and start — without guilt, without rushing, without performing productivity for anyone else. Virgo reminded me that real magic is built brick by brick, day by day. Quietly. Consistently.

Reading it now, what stands out isn’t the advice — it’s the honesty.

I knew what I needed to do.
I just wasn’t including myself in my list of priorities yet.

What’s shifted since then is unmistakable.

  • The curriculum I’ve been working on is finally coming together.
  • I’ve sacrificed sleep these last few days — not out of burnout, but because completion was asking for my attention.
  • My routines are no longer aspirational; they’re embodied.

The difference between then and now isn’t effort.
It’s inclusion.

👉 Read the original reflection here:
🌑 New Moon in Virgo: Reset, Routines & Real-Life Magic


With grace, grounded power, and moonlit truth,
La Trecia Doyle-Thaxton
Positive Inner-G Coach | Reiki Master Teacher
Curator of Healing Dreams & Moon Magic
🌿 www.SomethingNuBian.com

Leave a comment