Brad Berg's Basics and thoughts -
Extracted directly and paraphrased
from Esoteric Astrology, by Alice Bailey

 

VIRGO FULL MOON
 

 

 

Exoteric ruler: Mercury - 4th Ray
Esoteric ruler: The Moon - 4th Ray

 

Rays 2 and 6 are transmitted through Virgo.

 

The symbology of Virgo concerns the whole goal of the evolutionary process, which is to shield, nurture, and finally reveal the hidden spiritual reality. The mother protects the germ of the Christ life. Matter guards, cherishes and nurtures the hidden soul.

 

The keynote which most accurately embodies the truth as to the mission of Virgo is:
"Christ in you, the hope of glory."

 

Eve is the symbol of the mental nature, and of the mind of man attracted by the lure of knowledge to be gained through the experience of incarnation.

Isis stands for this same expression on the emotional plane. Mary carries the process down to the plane or place of incarnation, the physical plane, and there gives birth to the Christ child.

 

In these three Virgins and these three Mothers of the Christ, you have the history of the formation and the function of the three aspects of the personality through which the Christ must find expression.

 

The sign of Virgo itself stands for a synthesis of these three feminine aspects.

Virgo is the cosmic mother because she represents the negative pole to positive spirit.

Virgo is identified with the 3rd aspect of divinity.

 

Virgo - The Hidden Light of God

 

Virgo symbolizes depths, darkness, quiet and warmth. It is the valley of deep experience wherein secrets are discovered and eventually brought to light.

 

Virgo stands for the "womb of time" wherein God's plan is slowly matured and (with pain and through struggle) brought into manifestation.

Virgo - Gestation

Capricorn - Labor

Pisces - Birth

 

Mercury signifies the versatile energy of the Son of Mind, the soul. Mercury is the synthesis of manas-buddhi. It rules the antahkarana. The Moon rules the form and it is the will of God to manifest through the form.

The Moon and Mercury together indicate the activity of the higher and lower mind and are, therefore, related to the 3rd Ray.

 

 

"I am the mother and the child. I, God, I, matter am."