The Lunar Nodes Moving to the Virgo Pisces Axis

Service on a new level

Below is the companion piece to this week’s episode of Maria Luz’s Conscious Curiosities.

Every day, I pull a Tarot card for the collective and write a haiku based upon its energy. As I sit down to write this episode, this morning’s card was the II of Cups, which feels apt. The image on the card is of a man and a woman facing one another with serious expressions, holding out chalices toward one another. Between and above them rises a staff, similar to the caduceus, with two snakes entwined around a staff, of which the terminus is the head of a lion with wings coming from the side of its head.

One could argue that each set of sign polarities is about an aspect of choice, a reminder of our free will as humans. How the very same intention, willed into a different expression, has a very different impact to our physical circumstances.

With Virgo and Pisces, I see higher stakes, because we are now asked to explore not just the impact to our physical self, but to our spiritual self, as well. As the lunar nodes move into this axis (North Node to Pisces, South Node to Virgo) from January 2025 to July of 2026, and with the recent lunar eclipse happening here, I think it is worthwhile for us to explore the energy of this axis. 

It would be helpful for you to know where in your birth chart Virgo and Pisces fall by house and also to keep in mind any planets which reside there. You may notice that some of the themes I raise have significance in those houses/areas of life, or with the particular energy of the planets you have in these signs.

Before we move on, I can’t help but note that when the nodes leave this axis for Leo (South Node) and Aquarius (North Node), it will be a very different world. Have you noticed how time appears to have sped up after the pandemic time warp?! Well, maybe that is just me, but astrologically, July 2026 looks very different. Pluto will be in Aquarius, in retrograde motion when the North Node enters that sign. Neptune will have left its spiritually oriented home of Pisces for action oriented Aries. Uranus will be in the quick air sign of Gemini, trining Pluto. Jupiter will be in Leo, in opposition to Pluto, as the South Node enters Leo. Saturn will be half way through Aries and Chiron will have finally left Aries for Taurus

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With the very Aquarian future in mind, let’s come back to the present. I spent a lot of time talking about the Aries-Libra nodal axis on my YouTube energy forecast, so I won’t spend too much time here. I assume you, like me, took the time to look at how we may have masked out of the fear that our true self would be too raw to be lovable or taken seriously, and how that may have prevented us from taking action toward what we truly desire.

Remember that the lunar nodes move retrograde relative to our position. That in itself makes me think we are meant to be exploring the relationship of past, present, and future. Essentially, aren’t they all happening at once, because we can’t live wholly without at least considering all.

In my view, the North Node is held up as a marker of the energy we are meant to gain experience with for our evolution. That doesn’t mean we wish to abandon all of our South Node skills and forget our South Node experiences. This, I think is part of the lesson of the Virgo Pisces axis. To explore that which we choose to remember, what we edit out, and where the natural truth fits into our chosen construct.

Virgo can be a ruthless editor in its quest for the purest expression. However, Virgo is also associated with the Sixth House and the concept of lineage of a style of craftsmanship. With mentorship, we learn the wisdom beneath the individual tasks that make up our craft. Rather than go through the motions simply because that is what we were told to do, we understand the significance of each individual task in the whole of the craft.

Already, we can see how Pisces is part of this axis, as Jupiter, the traditional ruler, holds wisdom, and Pisces represents return of the individual to the whole. There is also a Piscean timelessness which is felt when one is in the flow of one’s craft. Your hands move as your grandmother’s did when making biscuits just as she did, you hold your guitar the way your teacher did, you lose track of time when lost in the mists of a poem you are constructing.

Indeed, if we are spiritually whole, when we interrogate our practical Virgoan motives, we wind up at Pisces. It may go something like this:

“Why do you exercise every day?”

“Because it’s good for me.”

“Why is it good for you?”

“Because it keeps me in shape.”
“Why does it matter that you are in shape?”
“So I can continue to play/travel/walk with my dog/friends/kids/grandkids.”

“Why does that matter?”

“Because I love them and need connection.” Or maybe, even “Because I am divine and I honor that by taking care of my physical form.”

Having a meaningful Why then allows us to remain in what can feel like drudgery and to stick with work that lacks immediate gratification. But it is hard, and the temptation to escape where it is not hard is always an option, especially in our modern times, where a quick dopamine hit lives in the phone that is always at our side.

Initially, I had spiritual bypass in mind as a risk of moving too readily to Pisces, because historically, this may have been one of the only escapes available, via organized religions. If heaven was on the other side of a day of hard work (or worse, capturing or killing other people), it allowed one to escape the personal accountability that Virgo requires.

Coming from working on our sense of self and how we employ free will while the North Node has been in Aries, we should know how our daily work impacts our sense of self. Which is a good thing, because it is easy to lose oneself on the Virgo Pisces axis to either service (Virgo) or oneness with all that is (Pisces). 

You may still be the hero of your own story after all, but not without consistent and sincere effort and a connection to something larger than self.

In fact, Joseph Campbell, professor of mythology and comparative religion, and author of The Hero With a Thousand Faces, which influenced George Lucas to create Luke Skywalker’s hero’s journey, had his North Node in Virgo and South Node in Pisces. Campbell stated in The Hero's Journey: Joseph Cambell on His Life and Work that when he could not attend graduate school during The Great Depression, he spent five years studying independently, during which he “would divide the day into four four-hour periods, of which I would be reading in three of the four hour periods, and free one of them… I would get nine hours of sheer reading done a day”.

I am actually not holding him up as one who conquered this axis (not really a thing), rather as one who struggled with it, as the rest of us will. There is a fine line between using a strong self in service to others and losing one’s sense of self and getting lost in the collective. He spent many years absorbing others’ teachings and in support of others’ work before creating his own lineage and publishing his first book at age 45.

On the other hand, with my South Node in Virgo conjunct to Pluto and Mercury in my chart, I had a strong pull to remain where everything had to be perfect, obsessively categorized, its right to belong in its place relentlessly scrutinized, not realizing I was being equally pulled to my North Node in Pisces. In my case pulled into an abyss by Neptune and his offer of escape through alcohol.

Even when I switched from a clinical to a spiritual scientist (my friend Georgie coined this term, at least to my ears), initially I was taking a Virgoan approach, as was comfortable. I thought I had to completely separate my old knowledge and experience from the new work I planned to do. Ironically and magically, Spirit waved its wand toward LinkedIn of all places!

On the eve of my business launch, I finally had the courage to add my new credentials and business to my old profile, and quietly updated it thinking it would be there in case anyone wondered whatever happened to me. But overnight a notification went out to all of my 29 years worth of connections, and I found I had accidentally outed myself to my old pharma colleagues as a spiritual entrepreneur, astrological birth chart hanging out as my background for all to see. 

And to my surprise (and despite my unfair bias), I have found that conventional scientists have an interest in what I am doing on this spiritually-forward side of science. Spirit had kindly provided the Virgoan proof I needed that lines can and perhaps must be blurred for the collective to evolve.

Perhaps this axis is like the glyph of Pisces, or the two snakes entwined around the staff in the II of Cups. The signs must exist together, the energies always at play toward harmony and healing for the self and the collective.