The Cosmic Story: Virgo New
Moon 2018
What New You Have You
Birthed This Year?
Virgo, the Virgin
As we leave the summer and
creative, playful Leo behind, we begin to shift our attention inwards
to see what we have harvested this year.
Mutable signs signal that
their season is about to shift. Just as Gemini balances the shift
between Spring and Summer, Virgo balances the shift from Summer to
Autumn. After the fertility and growth of summer, we look at the
abundance of our harvests. To do this, we have to slow down and use
our discernment to really see
what kind of life
we’re living. And
how well that’s going for us.
Virgo brings us back to our
center, to our essence. This is where we weave together the strands
of our life, where we create a whole picture of who we are. Once we
know who we are, we can begin to know our purpose.
This is the Virgin who belongs
to herself. She offers us self-knowledge and self-ownership. But if
you look at the constellation of Virgo, the Virgin holds in her hands
the harvest or her Child. This
symbolizes the realization of her potential. It
is not enough to belong to yourself – you
have to develop your potential to be truly virginal.
Isis & Horus
Virgo is the energy that helps
us develop our fullest potential. Virgo’s gift is to look at and
evaluate our harvest, our health and our wholeness. Virgo’s
favorite virtue is integrity
(soundness,
wholeness, completeness- Lat.
Integritas).
Each
year we cycle through the task of growing older. Every year, we have
the chance to grow and change (or choose to diminish and lessen).
Virgo’s service to us is to give us that chance to re-organize
ourselves as we finish up the lessons of the past year. Who have we
become this year?
As
we approach the balance of Light and Dark at the Autumn Equinox, this
Virgo New Moon is a call to once again analyze, understand and
integrate the changing components of our body, soul and spirit for
another year.
Why? To prepare us to go out
into the world again. As we enter the sign of Libra, we begin the
seasons of darkness and social intercourse. We band together in the
darkness to create a brighter light.
So,
what do you have to offer? That’s your Virgo New Moon assignment.
Know
yourself
is Virgo’s motto. Who are you and what new integration are you
undergoing? And how will you bring it into our world? (I’m
offering a workshop on that very subject.)
We
are called to heal our world, especially those of us who have healed
ourselves.
This is Virgo’s gift of service and humility. We need a more
awakened society to heal and help the future. So
please, share yourselves and your knowledge and wisdom with
your
community so we can change how our world operates.
Begin
with the feminine values of community and cooperation and the
masculine powers of focus and reasoning. After all, we are all in
this mess together. If we want to leave war and destruction behind
us, we have to live it out with our neighbors.
Virgo New Moon 2018
The Virgo New Moon occurs on
Sunday, September 9, 2018 at 11:01am PDT/ 2:01pm EDT/ 7:01pm GMT.
The
Sabian symbol for the Sun and Moon at 17* Virgo is: An
Ouija board.
Ah! Ouija boards! How we
let the magic and message come through our fingertips. It’s a
great symbol for grounding in our ‘psychic’ or right-brain
abilities so we can listen to our senses, speak with the elements,
imagine the future. Often feared as an instrument of ‘evil’, we
have to learn to embrace the unknown rather than vilify it. It’s
time to open ourselves to other possibilities if we’re going to
ground in a different future.
This Sun and Moon dance with
three other planets – Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto. These energies
can bring in divine revelations of a new order of living or create
more illusions and delusions about hidden conspiracies and agendas.
So choose the clear light of your own beliefs rather than the fog of
collective misinformation.
A
New Moon unites the solar light of consciousness with the lunar light
of the unconscious. It’s an ah! ah!moment. A moment when a new
seed possibility is created.
Into
this Virgo new seed is poured the easy trine energy of Pluto in
Capricorn. Pluto as Lord
of the Underworld
is a great candidate for the energy using the Ouija board. What is
Pluto telling us about our society and how we’re affected by it and
how we can affect it? We need to take his messages seriously.
Jupiter
in Scorpio sextiles the New Moon, offering us an opportunity to
incorporate what we’ve discovered about our shadows into our new
potentials. As Jung said, our shadows are 99% gold if we work on
them. Lots of extra energy and light becomes available when we do.
With
the groundedness of Pluto and the emotional awareness of Jupiter, the
opposition of Neptune rx in Pisces to this Virgo New Moon should help
us rather than harm us. Neptune stretches this very grounded Virgo
New Moon to incorporate that Ouija
board’s
messages. Opposites are complementary – they fit together if we
don’t let them pull us apart. Our Piscean vision works through
Jupiter to deliver the goods – the imagination and hope that this
new me
is viable.
The really big gift of this
Virgo New Moon is the grand trine that incorporates Virgo’s ruling
planet – Mercury.
Hermes Trismegisthus
A
grand trine has at least one planet in each of the element’s three
signs. Along with the New Moon we have an earth grand trine between
Uranus Rx in Taurus, Mercury in Virgo and Saturn (SD) in Capricorn.
This resonates with the last Pisces Full Moon grand earth trine of
Virgo Sun along with Saturn and Uranus. Hopefully we got the picture
of how we’ve changed, or mean to. Now we get the mental
blueprint.
Grounding
in the chaotic (out
of chaos comes new form)
energies from this summer’s multiple retrogrades, Mercury here
takes on his alchemical role of Mercurius,
Hermes Psychopomp – Guide of Souls, Hermes Trismegisthus or the
Egyptian Thoth – healer and teacher of magic. During
those two months of summer, Mercury went through the alchemical fires
of summer in the sign of the hot summer Sun, Leo. Our old ways of
thinking have been tempered in the fires and we’re ready to see
the world in new ways. Our brains are opening up.
With
our alchemical guide, Hermes
Trismegisthus,
our rational
mind
can entwine with our imagination
and our physical
skill
for greater and broader vision, understanding and action.
Virgo’s
Mercury operates differently from Gemini’s Mercury. Virgo’s
earthy nature gives this mind the patience and concentration it needs
for serious healing and transformative work. It’s an alchemical
mind that can let go of what no longer serves our nature (the dross),
and that purifies our physical, mental/emotional and spiritual bodies
to bring us wholeness.
Virgo’s
qualities of patience and purity, her industriousness and attention to
details and procedures, and her humbleness and service can all be put
to good use now. We need to pay attention to the details, in our
work and in our visioning of the future.
It’s
time to ground in the magic and re-create your life.
Especially if you’re a Virgo and/or have planets at 16-19* Virgo,
Capricorn or Taurus.
Venus
has moved into the sign of Scorpio and is opposite Uranus Rx in
Taurus. It seems like we’re due for a wake up, shake up. Just
roll
with it. Venus in the Underworld is like Circle, who looks in the waters and calls up the dragons for answers about the future.
Circe ~ John William Waterhouse
Both planets square the Leo/Aquarius Nodes. We’re supposed
to shine our light out, not
stand back in the mob. Our Venus has been compromised by patriarchy.
She needs to go into the underworld and be reborn. She’ll
disappear from the evening sky on October 22nd
and go on her Underworld Journey to become a new Morning Star in
November. She
goes to reclaim her emotional power and balance.
Venus is also at the head of a kite, an astrological configuration that deals with fate. Her dance partners are the earth trine energies of Uranus, Mercury and Pluto. Venus can ground these revolutionary and evolutionary plans. But she has to love and desire them. They have to come from the heart. Venus will go on her underworld journey in the coming months to make sure she knows what she loves.
Venus is also at the head of a kite, an astrological configuration that deals with fate. Her dance partners are the earth trine energies of Uranus, Mercury and Pluto. Venus can ground these revolutionary and evolutionary plans. But she has to love and desire them. They have to come from the heart. Venus will go on her underworld journey in the coming months to make sure she knows what she loves.
Mercury
finished his long summer journey through Leo (June 29 – September
5) and entered Virgo on September 5th.
Now
we have to temper and shape our renewed Mind. Mercury
is a morning star for the next few days and then becomes an evening
star from October 4th
– November 21st.
Venus
has
entered Scorpio! Watch how she navigates the dark watery depths.
She goes retrograde at 11* Scorpio from October 5th
to November 16th
back to 26* Libra. This Venus retrograde asks us to give up our
resentments, our wounds and our old stories and go back and make
peace with our lives. The learning is over. Hopefully, you see how
meaningful all those experiences were – how
they led you here, right now!
Now we have to live with the life that’s in front of us.
Use
this Venus Rx to go on Psyche’s
Journey to
ground yourself in Love and self-awareness.
Mars ended his retrograde on August 27th at 29* Capricorn and will reenter Aquarius on September 10th. Hopefully, our actions will be more aligned with our being now.
Jupiter
is moving forward in Scorpio, finishing up his emotional
transformation there on November 8th
when he gets home to his own sign of Sagittarius.
Saturn
just
stationed to turn to direct motion on Thursday, September 6th
at 3* Capricorn. The
Sabian symbol for 3* Capricorn is:
A
human soul, in its eagerness for new experiences, seeks embodiment.
That
says it all. Go embody!
Blessings,
Cathy
Alaska ~ Jennifer Shippee
Preface
to Leaves of Grass
Love
the earth and sun and the animals,
despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
stand up for the stupid and crazy,
devote your income and labor to others,
hate tyrants, argue not concerning God,
have patience and indulgence toward the people,
take off your hat to nothing known or unknown,
or to any man or number of men,
go freely with powerful uneducated persons,
and with the young, and with the mothers or families,
re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,
and dismiss whatever insults your own soul;
and your very flesh shall be a great poem....
despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
stand up for the stupid and crazy,
devote your income and labor to others,
hate tyrants, argue not concerning God,
have patience and indulgence toward the people,
take off your hat to nothing known or unknown,
or to any man or number of men,
go freely with powerful uneducated persons,
and with the young, and with the mothers or families,
re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,
and dismiss whatever insults your own soul;
and your very flesh shall be a great poem....
~
Walt Whitman ~
(from
the Preface to Leaves
of Grass,
1855 edition)
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