The New Moon at 0 Virgo emerges at 07.06BST Saturday 23 August.
Virgo is the Earth sign of our alignment to natural wellbeing, body-mind-spirit. It holds the Priestess energies of the zodiac, awareness to the subtle states of imbalance in any whole system. Think about the habits that support your wellbeing or not. That’s Virgo focus. Does meditating daily make a difference to your day? It does mine. Does that small slice of cake lead to a sugar binge, or what you eat for breakfast set up patterns for the day? What are the smallest potential shifts in your daily life that could make a huge difference? How might they serve your wellbeing? How might they honour your body as one with nature, as coming from our beautiful Earth? This Virgo New Moon’s calling is to refine your routines, to bring more balance & wholeness, that your physical life may act as a mirror for the purity of your divinity. That it may reflect an inherent deep connection to nature.
Virgo’s way of being is subtle awareness of interconnection, yet its shadow is perfectionism. Have you ever tried to reach perfection? How about ‘good enough’? How about making a false start then recommitting without self-criticism?
Virgo is one of the most misunderstood zodiac signs. Her sensitivity to disorder may express as nit-picking or perfectionism in the mundane world, yet it arises from an innate knowing of alignment & unity. Virgo simply has to rearrange what is out of sync. As an earth sign, with a focus on natural harmony, Virgo notices the smallest elements of disorder as an irritation within her own system. Whether it’s with health & wellbeing, a manmade system such as accounting, or the desire to organise the shed, Virgo is awake to the fragments that are calling for a return to wholeness. It pleases Virgo to serve, to organically organise for the purpose of unity. It expresses her natural knowing. In her inner world, as Priestess, she knows that to align with one’s evolving self is service to Life, to the whole, a flow towards the purity of divinity.
Virgo is ruled by planet of the mind Mercury, hence its shadow association with ‘what’s wrong’, criticism, & worry, with the hamster wheel that simply churns thought rather than act. Virgo’s mutability tends towards being scattered rather than focus. This is a challenge in a constantly changing world. For if we seek to improve or refine something, if we are called to evolve, there is a need for presence, there is a requirement to act. With Virgo, key focus needs to be on the smallest aspect that has the biggest potential. Awareness that energy precedes form is useful here. Everything starts with energy, with the smallest subtlety of thought or impulse. Before we can act, awareness of our mental habits is necessary. Ever had that thought “Yes, I’ll give it up…. oh, maybe tomorrow”? Then you’ll see what I mean.
At this New Moon, noticing your default habits: procrastination, justification, what could go wrong rather than what’s possible, is a key requirement. Noticing them without judgment.
Thought habits are the filters through which we create our lives. This Virgo Moon (especially at 0 Virgo) suggests exploring what mental patterns need refining, purifying, uplifting, to become awake to the consequence of the smallest movements of mental energy on your whole system. Tiny shifts of perception lead to grounded change, one moment at a time. The calling is simply to this moment. What’s the mental/emotional shift needed to be more present? Starting small? Prioritising your wellness in a grounded, practical ways? Maybe going to bed 30 minutes earlier, drinking more water, meditating for 10 minutes every day.
Recognising the emotional implications to your default thought patterns is also vital at this New Moon time. Your thinking may change, but emotional resistance may not. How does your mind-emotion-physical system operate? In growing alignment or seeming failure? Where do you habitually self-sabotage if you do? Thinking about it? Committing but not acting? Getting caught in emotional comfort zones (not rocking the boat, constantly picking up the pieces for others)? Or self-criticising for ‘failure’ after one attempt to change? Key question: what is it you most need right now? When aware of that, ask yourself: What habitually stops me? There’s the fine-tuning needed.
As Virgo is an Earth sign, support from the natural world is Virgo’s go-to prescription for wellbeing: healthy food, flower essences, the garden, trees, energy medicine, yoga, qigong & other alignment practices. As Virgo sensitivity aligns with multiple frequencies of the body-mind system, healing support is well utilised both through energetic & physical practices or remedies. For instance, homeopathy working from the subtle through to physical, or yoga moving from the physical through the energy bodies.
In these intense times, nervous system regulation is essential. We are under assault from so much that is unnatural. Deep rest is essential, not just through sleep, but through awareness and placing clear boundaries on what you give energy to. Being rooted in your deep still presence is vital and profoundly healing. The calling to self-response-ability is priority over these next few months. With Eclipse season starting at the next Full Moon and another Virgo New Moon (Solar Eclipse) in September, your wellbeing is primary. In a world of increasing complexity, bad news, and information overload, fine-tuning the smallest elements of how you live your daily life is where it’s at.
The Astrology
New Moon 0 Virgo conjunct Fixed Star Regulus & square Awakener Uranus at 1 Gemini
Moon Ruler Mercury at 12 Leo, just coming off its retrograde shadow, quintile to Uranus & opposing Pallas Athena Rx at 11 Aquarius
