Virgo New Moon: Saturday, August 23
For those of you who are astro-curious, you likely know the popular astrology meanings of the signs. For Virgo, it’s a brilliant, albeit maddening personality - someone who uses their analytical, service-oriented, and observational superpowers to follow you around the house with a coaster because they know you always leave coffee rings on flat surfaces. It’s a person who cannot accomplish anything meaningful because they can’t stop rearranging the furniture. It’s a person who is hard to be around because they would micromanage dust particles if they could… Why did the Virgo cross the road? To tell someone else what to do.
Of course, this is not the highest octave expression for Virgo. This is a stressed Virgo, and frankly, Virgo often gets a bad rap. It’s time to turn the tables and see Virgo in a different light. A more accurate light. Click below to learn some of the lesser known, more amiable - even admirable qualities of Virgo that you can use now for powerful manifestation during this New Moon:
1. Mentorship - Virgo rules the harvest, which is an abundance in its own right, but Virgo knows that winter is coming and that food will need to be rationed and preserved for everyone to make it through the winter. Virgo wants others to succeed. In order to help others succeed, it is very important to develop a skill and be known as competent at it. This competence inevitably leads to mentorship. If you desire to be a mentee, or if you know something that you love and have spent time learning about that can help others, set your intentions now and see what develops.
2. Service - Virgo ascendants are great people to know. They are amazing helpers and are great problem-solvers. In order to be of service in the most productive and enjoyable way, it helps to know what you love and what you’re good at. This discernment can help you know what kind of service is your jam. Also, in challenging times, it is always good to build community and be part of the help. You could be knitting hats for immigrants or delivering food to the local food bank. Do what you love, and love others doing it. Be humble and watch the effects of your contribution grow smiles for miles.
3. Submitting to larger principles - when resources, whether mental, physical or psychological get threatened, it is easy to batten the hatches and focus on self-preservation. This impulse means you have a desire to survive and protect what you care about and need, but it will not move you out of your fear. It will also not move your spirit. Hold on tight to that which really matters and see how you feel held even when the handbasket to hell is a bandwagon of catastrophic proportions.
4. The most refined version of one’s potential - “How can I help?” So many people ask. Others ask, “huh?” as in “I can’t get involved.” But you are involved. And, with Virgo being the last of the personal signs, if you’ve successfully traversed Aries through Leo energy, you should know thyself well enough to apply thyself with grace. Everybody has superpowers. Take some time to write about things people have complimented you on, times when you felt most proud of yourself, or the thing that maybe no one notices that that you know comes quite easily for you. Refining and purifying that potential energy and making it kinetic is the Virgo virtue. It is the sifting of the personality until all that’s left is the goodness that is one’s purpose, one’s love, and one’s joy - all ready for the harvest - wheat already separated from the chaff.
5. Intuitive Discernment - like a sprout finds its way out of the dark and to the light, if we could just suspend our judgment of self, others and situations, our intuition would lead directly to the sweet source of sustenance - a life well-lived. Virgo rules the gut, as in “gut feelings.” And a feeling is not an emotion. It is prior to and purer. It has not passed through the brain to decide which chemicals should be released. It is an impulse, a knowing, a subtle nudge. Gotta practice keeping the ol’ wet computer (brain) out of it if you want to tap into this fountain of serendipity. Good luck, set your intentions and pay attention to your innards. Literally. Virgo rules the intestines. Digestion is a great stress-o-meter. Lower the stress - it’s just lizard brain, not a T-Rex, it has good intentions, but not always good outcomes.
6. Learning to love oneself - Whitney Houston said this was the greatest love of all. And she had me until she said it was easy to achieve. Do you give yourself the grace, the kind words, the encouragement of a good friend? Or do you have a raging asshole dictator living between your ears? Is your heart only pumping blood, or is its vibration reaching out into your world? Meditate on the things you love. Take your time. Then realize how low on that list you actually are. Now shuffle the order. You’re number one! Really you are. Think about what that would look like, or moreover, what it would feel like and spend some time breathing into that. And really, knowing what the hell that even looks like. A lot of us will say we love ourselves because it’s so arbitrary sounding and also sort-of a no-brainer, “of course I love myself.” Actions speak louder than words, eh?
In the following blog posts, we will delve more into why the New Moon is a great time for setting intentions, how the heck this even works, and a bit about the Full Moon as well (aoooooo!) If you haven’t joined the Level Up Astrology email list, subscribe now and get this delicious info without having to scroll on social media! And welcome! I’m glad you’re here!
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