#the virgin

[calistos-muse]

The Virgin

Ligier Richier (1500-1567)

National Gallery of Ireland, March 2026

[the-grim-peeper]

3rd March, 2026

"Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating." - Carl von Clausewitz

The first Eclipse season of 2026 draws to a close beneath a contemplative Lunar Eclipse in Virgo - a silver lantern of discernment suspended in the sky. Across the heavens, a Pisces stellium gathers opposite - Sun, Mercury, Venus and a newborn Mars at 0° - like a tide of dreams swelling against Virgo’s careful shores. Clarity stands opposite confusion; precision faces poetry. The heart longs to dissolve, while the mind seeks to define.

Yet above and around this polarity, Jupiter rises exalted in Cancer, a benevolent guardian in the waters of memory. With gentle hands, it weaves supportive threads between both ends of the opposition, softening edges, blessing tension with meaning, and reminding us that wisdom often grows in the space between certainty and surrender.

This Eclipse answers to Mercury in Pisces - retrograde and in detriment - the messenger walking backward through the mist. Thoughts drift. Conversations echo with nostalgia. Meanings blur like ink in water. And yet, this is no barren fog. Mercury is touched by two benefics: Venus and Jupiter, both radiant in exaltation, pouring grace into the haze. What feels tangled may yet reveal hidden treasure. What seems uncertain may carry quiet reward if we pause to rethink.

Artwork is "Virgo" by Heather Dunaway Smith

[xanaxfarts]

Yoshitaka Amano: The Virgin (2004)

[ichikapurinpurin]

[gosly]

[natalyalu]

Triptych of the Madonna della Misericordia c. 1415 Tempera on panel, 86 x 113 cm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

JACOBELLO DEL FIORE

Italian painter, Venetian school (b. 1370, Venezia, d. 1439, Venezia)

Триптих был написан между 1415 и 1436 годами, причем наиболее вероятной представляется более ранняя из двух дат, учитывая сходство этой работы со стилем «Историй Святой Лючии» в Пинакотеке в Фермо. Если облик боковых святых — Иоанна Крестителя и Иоанна Евангелиста — все еще несколько отталкивающий и если они все еще кажутся прочно связанными с миром 1300-х годов, то в центре находится Дева Мария, представленная как чрезвычайно изящный божественный идол, окруженный толпами верующих, костюмы и физическое положение каждого из которых переданы посредством чрезвычайно тонкого использования света и цвета. The Triptych was painted between 1415 and 1436 with the earlier of the two dates the more probable given the affinity of this work with the style of the 'Stories of Santa Lucia' in the Pinacoteca at Fermo. If the appearance of the lateral saints - St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist - is still somewhat forbidding, and if they seem still to be firmly part of the world of the 1300s, the centre is occupied by the Virgin presented as an extremely elegant, divine idol, surrounded by crowds of devotees, the costume and physical attitude of each of which is rendered through an extremely subtle use of light and colour.

[2001hz]

Yoshitaka Amano: The Virgin 'Someone to Watch Over Me' (2001)