About every nine years, the Mean Black Moon crosses Virgo for a little under nine months. I would like to say what this passage awakens, for everyone, and where each person can read its echo in their own chart.
What a transit of the Black Moon is
A transit of the Black Moon announces nothing. I want to say this before anything else, because it is the first question I am asked. The Black Moon is not a body that acts; it is a void that moves, and for a few months it stands at one place of the zodiac and of the chart. What it does there is make a lack audible: the Call, which I described on the page Lilith, the Black Moon, makes itself heard where the Black Moon passes.
When it passes through Virgo, this lack takes on the quality of Virgo: discerning and serving. It makes itself heard for everyone, but not at the same place in life: each person receives it in the house of their chart that the sign occupies. That is why I give the collective reading first, then the way to bring it back to oneself.
What this passage awakens
During this passage, what is missing collectively is the rightness of the gesture: seeing what is wrong and serving it, without making imperfection a fault. One feels it in the air of the time as an endless correction, a concern for detail that becomes surveillance, a weariness of bodies. This is not a period of pettiness; it is a period in which the intelligence of detail seeks to put itself in the service of the living.
Where the answer is sought
I recall the rule I hold from the birth chart, and which holds in transit: each Black Moon has its respondent opposite it, Christos for the Mean, Apollo for the Corrected, Priapus for the True. When the Black Moon crosses Virgo, its three respondents therefore cross Pisces at the same time. The answer, during these months, is sought in what acts out of sight: withdrawal, the gesture without witness, what works behind visible forms.
The dates of the Mean Black Moon in Virgo
The Mean Black Moon advances about forty degrees a year and takes a little under nine months to cross a sign. Its passages through Virgo, computed from the mean lunar apogee:
- from October 4, 2023 to June 29, 2024, past
- from August 8, 2032 to May 5, 2033, upcoming
- from June 14, 2041 to March 10, 2042, upcoming
These dates hold for the Mean, which sets the course of the period. The True Black Moon, for its part, comes and goes: it can enter Virgo, leave it and return several times around these dates, up to about thirty degrees away from the Mean. The Corrected follows an intermediate curve. The application displays all three.
And in your chart
The sign tells the quality of the lack; the house tells where you hear it. To know in which house of your chart Virgo lies, and therefore which area of your life this passage awakens, see the worksheets Lilith in transit through the houses. And if you have a natal Black Moon in Virgo, this passage is a return: the Mean Black Moon comes back to its natal position about every eight years and ten months, and that is one of the moments when the Call makes itself heard most clearly. The natal worksheet: Black Moon in Virgo.
Frequently asked questions
How long does the Black Moon transit in Virgo last?
A little under nine months for the Mean Black Moon, which returns to the same sign about every eight years and ten months. The True oscillates around these dates and can enter and leave the sign several times.
Is the Lilith transit in Virgo a bad period?
No. A transit of the Black Moon causes nothing; it makes a lack audible, here discerning and serving. What one makes of it depends on the answer one gives it, and that answer is sought opposite, in Pisces.