Penumbral lunar eclipse in Virgo
. The Snow moon is full at 2°05′ Virgo and passes through the faint outer edge of the Earth’s shadow.
What it brings up
A full moon in Virgo brings the list into focus: the tasks, the small aches, the email you keep moving to tomorrow. Worry runs high, and it likes to hide in details. The body often speaks first under this moon, as a tight jaw or a bad stomach. Finish the one task that makes you flinch, then stop for the day.
The eclipse
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A lunar eclipse is a full moon close to the Moon's nodes, so the Earth's shadow falls on the Moon. Astrologers read it as a strong full moon: something comes to light, and something ends. Feelings arrive with more force and less warning than usual.
A penumbral eclipse is the faintest kind, when the Moon only passes through the edge of the shadow. You may barely see it in the sky. Its effect in a chart is the same story told more quietly.
The planets it touches
- Uranus squares the Moon and squares the Sun, within a degree.
- Mars meets the Moon and opposes the Sun, about 2 degrees off.
- Mercury opposes the Moon and meets the Sun, about 5 degrees off.
- Chiron trines the Moon, about 5 degrees off.
Calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris, tropical zodiac. Updated Nov 6, 2026.
Where does the penumbral lunar eclipse in Virgo fall in your chart?
2°05′ Virgo sits in one house of your chart, and it may touch a planet you were born with. That house is the part of your life this penumbral lunar eclipse lights up. Solstice finds it in your chart and talks with you about it on the day.
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