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This New Moon is activating all the major planetary energy that is so prevalent right now, so it could help to prod us in the right direction for our growth. This process may not be particularly comfortable, but sometimes growth involves a certain degree of discomfort as we become aware of what needs to shift and change. We are preparing for Eclipse season now, and Virgo can help us to recognise what is out of alignment and do the inner work necessary to improve things and restore balance. Virgo is the part of us that can be intensely self-critical but can also imbue us with great humility and the capacity to see what needs tweaking so that we can be the best that we can be. Sometimes some critical introspection can be very helpful and growth-inducing, as long as it doesn’t go too far!
Virgo season kicks off with this New Moon, which tends to have a back-to-school feeling to it as we are invited to consider what kind of healthy habits and routines we would like to develop moving forward, and what tendencies and patterns we would like to shift and let go of. We may find ourselves somewhat preoccupied with the parts of us that we feel are lacking or inadequate, assessing ourselves and others with a more critical lens than usual. Virgo is the part of us that has the capacity to discern and discriminate between what is good, healthy and helpful and what is no longer good for us. It separates the wheat from the chaff, so to speak. A Virgo New Moon invites us to leave old, unhelpful habits, behaviours and patterns behind in the dark of the Moon and to replace them with some practical, healthy new habits that help us to feel good about ourselves.
As I mentioned, the New Moon is tapping into the plethora of planets that are at the beginning of the sign they are in, as the Sun and Moon are in the very first degree of Virgo. In fact, the Virgo Sun and Moon are at the apex of a powerful Yod or Finger of God formation, which involves Pluto and the Saturn/Neptune conjunction all “pointing the finger” at all things Virgo. With Pluto involved we might find that we are called to look at some uncomfortable material within us that might not be serving us anymore. Pluto forces us to be brutally honest with ourselves, owning those shadow parts of ourselves that we might more readily criticise in other people. Virgo calls for humility, self-analysis and the willingness to work on ourselves, while Pluto exposes the parts of ourselves that we might usually disown, bury and relegate to the shadows.
It could be helpful to explore whether the traits, habits and behaviour of other people that irk or bother us are actually part of us too. It is so easy to project our hidden, shadow parts onto others and to judge and criticise them, but when we do so we are judging and criticising ourselves too. With the North Node currently in Pisces, we are ultimately being called to find true compassion for ourselves and others, accepting those flawed, disowned, hidden, not so pretty parts of ourselves rather than judging or shaming ourselves and others. As we recognise and send love to these imperfect aspects of ourselves, they lose their power and become healthier and more integrated.
The Saturn Neptune conjunction is now on the wane as they both head back towards Pisces, although it is still fairly strong, and is also part of the Yod, which brings it back into focus for this New Moon. They are both still in Aries, a sign that likes decisive action, so we could find ourselves contemplating what plans we might want to put into action and how to actually make them happen. We could feel torn between what we dream of and yearn for and what is realistically possible. We could struggle with procrastination, fatigue, overwhelm and/or feelings of futility, whereby it is hard to see what lies ahead. Neptune calls for us to trust that we will somehow know what to do and when to act when the time is right. Saturn calls for us to be patient and pragmatic and, combined with the Virgo Moon, discern between obstacles that can be surmounted and any fears, blocks or resistance that we are able to work on within ourselves.
If we combine Saturn and Neptune in a positive way, we can set realistic and tangible goals that can help us to realise our longings and yearnings, combined with the capacity to act upon inspiration and a sense of divine timing. However, the nagging inconjunct aspect to the Virgo Sun and Moon could create feelings of frustration, overwhelm, self-doubt, self-judgement and even self-flagellation, whereby we are a bit hard on ourselves and feel like the way is not clear and that we are somehow not capable, worthy or deserving. This combination of Saturn and Neptune is also calling for us to create stronger, healthier boundaries in order to protect ourselves and feel safe. The Virgo Moon could call for us to discern between what is good for us and what is harming or draining us, and we might have to take off the rose-tinted spectacles in order to do so. However, this could be a tough pill to swallow! Sometimes it feels easier to bury our heads in the sand and avoid the reality of the situation, but this Moon could force us to get real and see things as they really are, rather than how we would like them to be.
The resolution point of this Yod is Pisces, which is where the North Node of the Moon is at the moment. Pisces reminds us that forcing things is futile, and that it is better to let go and flow with the current rather than against it, recognising where we are blocked and where the energy is easy and flowing. It also calls for us to find acceptance, love and compassion for our human frailty and for the flawed humanity of others. The Virgo part of us can easily worry and over think about past and future, while Pisces invites us into the present moment, where there is peace. The Virgo part of us can so easily beat ourselves up and find fault in others, while Pisces recognises that we are all imperfectly perfect and doing the best we can in this crazy world we are currently living in. It is important to be self-reflective and willing to look at ourselves and do the inner work, but we can also be kind and loving around what we find.
With Pluto being in Aquarius and trine its ruler, Uranus, in Gemini, we could find that we experience some flashes of insight, sudden revelations, realisations and clarity that transform us and help to liberate us from old conditioning and patterns that maybe we couldn’t see so clearly before. All it takes is someone saying something to us that helps us to see things from a different perspective, and we can experience profound shifts, breakthroughs and greater understanding of the patterns and habits that have been running the show and holding us prisoner. Uranus can bring a revelation and new perspective that is so simple that we can’t believe we hadn’t seen it before. And this new awareness can make all the difference, enabling us to see ourselves more clearly so that we can make the changes and shift the pattern. This is where the Virgo New Moon comes in, helping us to do the inner work and self-analysis and recognise what we need to tweak in order to grow.
Uranus is also forming a dynamic square aspect to the Virgo Moon, which could mean that the realisations come thick and fast and might be quite unexpected and even shocking. However, ultimately Uranus’s task is to wake us up and liberate us from the past that binds us. Conversations with others could bring some profound “aha” moments, and we could receive insights that jolt us into change and transformation. This Virgo Moon calls for us to look at ourselves with humility and see what might be in need of improvement, and Uranus can certainly bring moments of insight and new perspective that can help us to see ourselves and our patterns more clearly. Virgo then gives us the tools to ground these insights into practical solutions and new, healthy habits.
Venus in Cancer is very present during this Moon, bringing relationships into focus, as well as our own sense of self-worth and value. Chiron the wounded Healer is forming a dynamic square aspect to Venus, which could bring up some insecurities and feelings of rejection within our relationships, whereby we could question our worth and our sense of feeling safe in the world. Venus in Cancer wants to belong and seeks comfort, closeness and a sense of home. Chiron in Aries asks us to be true to ourselves and do what is right for us, even if it means going it alone. Our close relationships, romantic and otherwise, could trigger our sore spots, core wounds and insecurities and bring up feelings of defensiveness and vulnerability, but this could bring an amazing opportunity for healing.
Chiron will square Venus on the day of the New Moon, and the energy will be building a couple of days before. Those of us with personal planets or angles within a couple of degrees of 26° of the sign they are in will feel this energy most strongly, especially in the cardinal signs of Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn.
Venus will then move into warm, creative, expressive Leo on Monday 25, forming a supportive trine to Saturn and Neptune, which will help us to see our relationships in both a realistic and compassionate light. Saturn trine Venus helps us to be grounded and pragmatic around our relationships, possibly finding it easier to create healthy boundaries and draw a line in the sand around what we are willing to put up with. Neptune trine Venus helps us to drop the walls and ego and to relate to each other from a place of acceptance, unity and higher love. We may find it easier to see our loved ones and relationships as they really are, which could be helpful.
Venus will also be opposite Pluto, exact Wednesday, and sextile Uranus, exact Tuesday. This brings the potential for going deep and being brutally honest with ourselves around our self-worth and relationships, while also experiencing insight, clarity, breakthrough and a sense of liberation from old patterns and programming that might be running the show. We may be able to see our relationships and patterns of relating more clearly, which could bring freedom and transformation.
Those of us with personal planets or angles in the first couple of degrees of the sign they are in will be feeling the energy of this Moon and the Finger of God most acutely. Venus will be joining in the party for a little while on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, bringing our relationships into focus. There certainly is an interesting mix of planetary energy at the moment!
The Sabian symbol for this Moon, at 1° Virgo, seems very appropriate indeed: “In a portrait, the significant features of a man’s head are artistically emphasised”, which Dane Rudyar describes as “The capacity to picture to oneself clearly, the salient features and the overall meaning of any life situation. Now we have come in the seasonal cycle of the year to the sign Virgo. It is in a sense the symbol of harvesting, but it is also that of the Path of Discipleship, and of all strongly determined processes of training, or retraining. Flooded with and having enjoyed and released energy, the personalised consciousness now has to learn the lesson of significant form. It must be able to see life situations as wholes of experience, and to discover their meaning by distinguishing their most characteristic features. Implied in DISCRIMINATION is both analysis and intuition. The mind separates and identifies – and unfortunately often exaggerates – what makes a person or a situation different from another; but the intuitive responses of the whole person to what confronts him or her is also essential, for what matters is not only my or your “difference,” but the place and function this difference occupies in the organic pattern of the evolution of “humanity as a whole,” i.e. of Man.”
This Virgo Moon does seem to be calling for us to recognise how easy it is to see the flaws in others and how they are often aspects of ourselves that it might be hard to recognise or own. It can also highlight just how hard we can be on ourselves. However, none of us are perfect and it is so important to bring love, compassion and acceptance to our shadows and imperfections. We are all simply doing the best we can during some unprecedented and somewhat challenging times, as we walk the road less travelled, and so we are called to be patient and trust that the way will show itself. Forcing things is futile, so we must wait, sow the seeds, do the inner work, put one foot in front of the other, surrender and have faith that we will know what to do when the time is right.
Much Love
Amy
xoxo
Artwork – Self Compassion, by Elena Ray
This New Moon is activating all the major planetary energy that is so prevalent right now, so it could help to prod us in the right direction for our growth. This process may not be particularly comfortable, but sometimes growth involves a certain degree of discomfort as we become aware of what needs to shift and change. We are preparing for Eclipse season now, and Virgo can help us to recognise what is out of alignment and do the inner work necessary to improve things and restore balance. Virgo is the part of us that can be intensely self-critical but can also imbue us with great humility and the capacity to see what needs tweaking so that we can be the best that we can be. Sometimes some critical introspection can be very helpful and growth-inducing, as long as it doesn’t go too far!
Virgo season kicks off with this New Moon, which tends to have a back-to-school feeling to it as we are invited to consider what kind of healthy habits and routines we would like to develop moving forward, and what tendencies and patterns we would like to shift and let go of. We may find ourselves somewhat preoccupied with the parts of us that we feel are lacking or inadequate, assessing ourselves and others with a more critical lens than usual. Virgo is the part of us that has the capacity to discern and discriminate between what is good, healthy and helpful and what is no longer good for us. It separates the wheat from the chaff, so to speak. A Virgo New Moon invites us to leave old, unhelpful habits, behaviours and patterns behind in the dark of the Moon and to replace them with some practical, healthy new habits that help us to feel good about ourselves.
As I mentioned, the New Moon is tapping into the plethora of planets that are at the beginning of the sign they are in, as the Sun and Moon are in the very first degree of Virgo. In fact, the Virgo Sun and Moon are at the apex of a powerful Yod or Finger of God formation, which involves Pluto and the Saturn/Neptune conjunction all “pointing the finger” at all things Virgo. With Pluto involved we might find that we are called to look at some uncomfortable material within us that might not be serving us anymore. Pluto forces us to be brutally honest with ourselves, owning those shadow parts of ourselves that we might more readily criticise in other people. Virgo calls for humility, self-analysis and the willingness to work on ourselves, while Pluto exposes the parts of ourselves that we might usually disown, bury and relegate to the shadows.
It could be helpful to explore whether the traits, habits and behaviour of other people that irk or bother us are actually part of us too. It is so easy to project our hidden, shadow parts onto others and to judge and criticise them, but when we do so we are judging and criticising ourselves too. With the North Node currently in Pisces, we are ultimately being called to find true compassion for ourselves and others, accepting those flawed, disowned, hidden, not so pretty parts of ourselves rather than judging or shaming ourselves and others. As we recognise and send love to these imperfect aspects of ourselves, they lose their power and become healthier and more integrated.
The Saturn Neptune conjunction is now on the wane as they both head back towards Pisces, although it is still fairly strong, and is also part of the Yod, which brings it back into focus for this New Moon. They are both still in Aries, a sign that likes decisive action, so we could find ourselves contemplating what plans we might want to put into action and how to actually make them happen. We could feel torn between what we dream of and yearn for and what is realistically possible. We could struggle with procrastination, fatigue, overwhelm and/or feelings of futility, whereby it is hard to see what lies ahead. Neptune calls for us to trust that we will somehow know what to do and when to act when the time is right. Saturn calls for us to be patient and pragmatic and, combined with the Virgo Moon, discern between obstacles that can be surmounted and any fears, blocks or resistance that we are able to work on within ourselves.
If we combine Saturn and Neptune in a positive way, we can set realistic and tangible goals that can help us to realise our longings and yearnings, combined with the capacity to act upon inspiration and a sense of divine timing. However, the nagging inconjunct aspect to the Virgo Sun and Moon could create feelings of frustration, overwhelm, self-doubt, self-judgement and even self-flagellation, whereby we are a bit hard on ourselves and feel like the way is not clear and that we are somehow not capable, worthy or deserving. This combination of Saturn and Neptune is also calling for us to create stronger, healthier boundaries in order to protect ourselves and feel safe. The Virgo Moon could call for us to discern between what is good for us and what is harming or draining us, and we might have to take off the rose-tinted spectacles in order to do so. However, this could be a tough pill to swallow! Sometimes it feels easier to bury our heads in the sand and avoid the reality of the situation, but this Moon could force us to get real and see things as they really are, rather than how we would like them to be.
The resolution point of this Yod is Pisces, which is where the North Node of the Moon is at the moment. Pisces reminds us that forcing things is futile, and that it is better to let go and flow with the current rather than against it, recognising where we are blocked and where the energy is easy and flowing. It also calls for us to find acceptance, love and compassion for our human frailty and for the flawed humanity of others. The Virgo part of us can easily worry and over think about past and future, while Pisces invites us into the present moment, where there is peace. The Virgo part of us can so easily beat ourselves up and find fault in others, while Pisces recognises that we are all imperfectly perfect and doing the best we can in this crazy world we are currently living in. It is important to be self-reflective and willing to look at ourselves and do the inner work, but we can also be kind and loving around what we find.
With Pluto being in Aquarius and trine its ruler, Uranus, in Gemini, we could find that we experience some flashes of insight, sudden revelations, realisations and clarity that transform us and help to liberate us from old conditioning and patterns that maybe we couldn’t see so clearly before. All it takes is someone saying something to us that helps us to see things from a different perspective, and we can experience profound shifts, breakthroughs and greater understanding of the patterns and habits that have been running the show and holding us prisoner. Uranus can bring a revelation and new perspective that is so simple that we can’t believe we hadn’t seen it before. And this new awareness can make all the difference, enabling us to see ourselves more clearly so that we can make the changes and shift the pattern. This is where the Virgo New Moon comes in, helping us to do the inner work and self-analysis and recognise what we need to tweak in order to grow.
Uranus is also forming a dynamic square aspect to the Virgo Moon, which could mean that the realisations come thick and fast and might be quite unexpected and even shocking. However, ultimately Uranus’s task is to wake us up and liberate us from the past that binds us. Conversations with others could bring some profound “aha” moments, and we could receive insights that jolt us into change and transformation. This Virgo Moon calls for us to look at ourselves with humility and see what might be in need of improvement, and Uranus can certainly bring moments of insight and new perspective that can help us to see ourselves and our patterns more clearly. Virgo then gives us the tools to ground these insights into practical solutions and new, healthy habits.
Venus in Cancer is very present during this Moon, bringing relationships into focus, as well as our own sense of self-worth and value. Chiron the wounded Healer is forming a dynamic square aspect to Venus, which could bring up some insecurities and feelings of rejection within our relationships, whereby we could question our worth and our sense of feeling safe in the world. Venus in Cancer wants to belong and seeks comfort, closeness and a sense of home. Chiron in Aries asks us to be true to ourselves and do what is right for us, even if it means going it alone. Our close relationships, romantic and otherwise, could trigger our sore spots, core wounds and insecurities and bring up feelings of defensiveness and vulnerability, but this could bring an amazing opportunity for healing.
Chiron will square Venus on the day of the New Moon, and the energy will be building a couple of days before. Those of us with personal planets or angles within a couple of degrees of 26° of the sign they are in will feel this energy most strongly, especially in the cardinal signs of Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn.
Venus will then move into warm, creative, expressive Leo on Monday 25, forming a supportive trine to Saturn and Neptune, which will help us to see our relationships in both a realistic and compassionate light. Saturn trine Venus helps us to be grounded and pragmatic around our relationships, possibly finding it easier to create healthy boundaries and draw a line in the sand around what we are willing to put up with. Neptune trine Venus helps us to drop the walls and ego and to relate to each other from a place of acceptance, unity and higher love. We may find it easier to see our loved ones and relationships as they really are, which could be helpful.
Venus will also be opposite Pluto, exact Wednesday, and sextile Uranus, exact Tuesday. This brings the potential for going deep and being brutally honest with ourselves around our self-worth and relationships, while also experiencing insight, clarity, breakthrough and a sense of liberation from old patterns and programming that might be running the show. We may be able to see our relationships and patterns of relating more clearly, which could bring freedom and transformation.
Those of us with personal planets or angles in the first couple of degrees of the sign they are in will be feeling the energy of this Moon and the Finger of God most acutely. Venus will be joining in the party for a little while on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, bringing our relationships into focus. There certainly is an interesting mix of planetary energy at the moment!
The Sabian symbol for this Moon, at 1° Virgo, seems very appropriate indeed: “In a portrait, the significant features of a man’s head are artistically emphasised”, which Dane Rudyar describes as “The capacity to picture to oneself clearly, the salient features and the overall meaning of any life situation. Now we have come in the seasonal cycle of the year to the sign Virgo. It is in a sense the symbol of harvesting, but it is also that of the Path of Discipleship, and of all strongly determined processes of training, or retraining. Flooded with and having enjoyed and released energy, the personalised consciousness now has to learn the lesson of significant form. It must be able to see life situations as wholes of experience, and to discover their meaning by distinguishing their most characteristic features. Implied in DISCRIMINATION is both analysis and intuition. The mind separates and identifies – and unfortunately often exaggerates – what makes a person or a situation different from another; but the intuitive responses of the whole person to what confronts him or her is also essential, for what matters is not only my or your “difference,” but the place and function this difference occupies in the organic pattern of the evolution of “humanity as a whole,” i.e. of Man.”
This Virgo Moon does seem to be calling for us to recognise how easy it is to see the flaws in others and how they are often aspects of ourselves that it might be hard to recognise or own. It can also highlight just how hard we can be on ourselves. However, none of us are perfect and it is so important to bring love, compassion and acceptance to our shadows and imperfections. We are all simply doing the best we can during some unprecedented and somewhat challenging times, as we walk the road less travelled, and so we are called to be patient and trust that the way will show itself. Forcing things is futile, so we must wait, sow the seeds, do the inner work, put one foot in front of the other, surrender and have faith that we will know what to do when the time is right.
Much Love
Amy
xoxo
Artwork – Self Compassion, by Elena Ray
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