by Daniel Giamario | April 13, 2025 |
The Spica Full Moon and Venus Direct within less than an hour dominate the weekend. Lesser known is how they mirror and are now magnifying each other. Let’s dive deep.
The Full Moon was exactly at 5:22PM PDT on Saturday, April 12, at 23Libra20. Venus turned direct at 6:02PM PDT, just minutes later, at 24Pisces37. The Full Moon is so close to the star Spica, that an occultation happens for South and Central American observers. Spica, the star of the Sacred Feminine, is located at 24Libra05. There can only be one Full Moon with Spica each year.
The heliacal rise of Venus on March 29 at 28Pisces53Rx marked the beginning of her 584-day synodic overstory, the first in Pisces in over 100 years. As Venus turns direct, her journey of descent to the Inanna Underworld has truly begun, with eight Moon-Venus conjunctions to follow before entering the underworld on November 25 at 24Scorpio10. Here she will meet up with Mars in January 2026. Mars, on the opposite side of the sky, enters the underworld on November 13 at 6Sagittarius42.
5000-6000 years ago, in some parts of the world, the star Spica was a stellar stand-in for the planet Venus. Most now know that the 584-day Venus synodic cycle can be seen as the journey of the Goddess in her descent to and ascent from the underworld. Ancient mythic and ceremonial expressions of this include the Sumerian’s Inanna’s journey, as well the later Greek ordeal of Persephone. Much less known is that the same storyline had been applied to Spica, in her yearly journey, in relation to the Sun and Moon. Several astrological ages ago, the yearly Sun-Spica conjunction happened on August 15. A few weeks later, Spica would be reborn in the morning sky. The Catholic and Orthodox Churches have appropriated this date as the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. August 15, the Feast of the Assumption (or simply “The Assumption)” is widely celebrated all over much of Christendom. This holy day marks the Virgin Mary’s bodily ascent to heaven at the end of her life.
Due to precession, the Sun-Spica conjunction now happens in mid-October, with her rise and rebirth at Samhain. In the ancient Spica Goddess mythos, the Full Moon of Imbolc (the early February cross-quarter) was conjunct Spica 5000-6000 years ago. Due to precession, the Spica Full Moon is now in April. Far indeed from an underworld death and rebirth Goddess, this symbolizes the full brilliant radiance of a sophianic, artistic, creative and consciousness dominant Goddess. One can see the intuitive Fire attribution, as Imbolc was associated with the Celtic and pre-Celtic Brigid.
At the time of this Spica Full Moon, Venus is now at her near maximum brilliance of -4.6magnitude. I think that, even with precession, this Full Moon still holds the same power. I don’t know the last time that Venus, in her just risen morning star brilliance, was so perfectly aligned with a Spica Full Moon. But I’m sure it hasn’t been for a very long time.
The Moon will appear full for three days. Use this time to receive the guidance and Grace of the Goddess. Certainly, this can serve as a counterbalance to the overwhelming controlled-disruption and chaos-engineering currently unfolding at the end of Kali Yuga; when the last 6000 years of deepest descent into materialism is in the process of being dismantled and composted.
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