Virgo is the farmer. Up before dawn. In uniform. Callused hands around a warm cup. Mind lost in contemplation of the day.
She is the Hermit. Alone and wise. Calm and self-advised. Caressing the natural world in its raw vulnerability while marveling at the wonder of its very existence. At home in the woods. Lost in a crowd. Quiet. Withdrawn. Listening.
He is the mechanic who intuitively knows where that weird sound is coming from and how to fix it. Dirty boots. Clean heart. Willing to help on a moments notice. Sometimes trying a little too hard and giving away a little too much. But, believing that one's harvest is best when shared as is love, humility and tenderness...that may or may not fall on the shoulders of something that feels like tough love. Or persnickety preferences and advice merely meant to help you heal to assist you to prune away the unhealthy in effort to uncover the fruit. Virgo worries--sometimes most about what is not good for you.
New Moon in Virgo 2021
Our New Moon comes forth in the rich pitch of night on the East Coast (9/6 at 8:52 PM). The dark Moon heralds fertility with Mars in Virgo and Venus in Libra both aspecting Pluto. Yet, our chart ruler, Mercury has an iron fist in a velvet glove armed to gracefully but efficiently remove that which is not conducive to growth of the whole. The crops are bearing fruit but there are deadened and diseased petioles clogging the air flow to the plant. There has been plenty of rain bringing signs of late season molds and fungi. All this must be cleared away.
It's dirty work though. Libra doesn't enjoy dirty. Yet with the grit of Virgo and tenacity of Pluto forcing her hand, she can find purpose and justice in the removal of debris that serves only to block or steal precious nutrients from what is soon to become the abundantly yielding field she has tended to all year.
New Moons are for new starts. With Mercury entering his pre-retrograde shadow just after this lunation, we know there will be some reworking and realigning of the details as we move forward. Most important rewiring taking place within the framework of our own perspective and mental realm. Thankfully, a common sense and practical Earth trine from Uranus in Taurus can help us bring evolution to our methods and sharpening to our skills. That doesn't make the path forward easy. But, it does make it promising if we are willing to remain flexible and open to new methods.
It's ok to start with one step in the right direction. Taking our time to carefully consider our options is actually a recommendation of this Moon. Then, we take the next step. And, the next until the new is just as well worn as Virgo's work boots.
Our Guide for this lunation is the 8 of Swords. Advice from this card always includes some sort of entanglement in the information realm. It could be that we have been misinformed or that we have become trapped in a web of our own making. The fix for that is to remove the blindfold while carefully and precisely extracting yourself from the enmeshment one thread at a time.
Find the facts. See where you've been blinded or bound. Develop a new awareness for your surroundings employing all of your senses...not just what you see. Or think you know. At this point, things are so befuddled and entangled that Virgo's humility demands we understand that we know nothing. But we can learn. We can do better.
Once the mental pruning begins, the truth of the path ahead gains clarity. As piece by piece the debris and clutter are removed, the beauty of what we've really grown is allowed to shine. Flourishing in freedom from the loss of what was unhealthy, cumbersome, complicated or impractical. Detoxified and glowing in its pristine maturation.
Untended and the weeds persist. The mental thorns thicken walling out sunlight and air. Persisting musty darkness overtakes the year's efforts yielding only the products of neglect. Reaping fruit of shame led by initiatives immobilized by fearfulness and hindered by self-doubt. Dis-eased.
The endurance we need is present. The focus and grit accessible. We are the only species audacious enough to challenge the call of the seasons birthed in the natural world. And, right now, the Great Mother calls for a sharp sickle and a hard prune.
New Moon Symbolism
15 Virgo
Sabian/Rudhyar: A FINE LACE HANDKERCHIEF, HEIRLOOM FROM VALOROUS ANCESTORS.
KEYNOTE: The quintessence of deeds well done.
Root strength produces beautiful flowers. The neophyte who acts with determination, courage and discrimination while following “in the footsteps” of his predecessors receives a symbolic prize from the Brotherhood ready to welcome him when he has fully proven himself on the battlefield where he meets his past, which tries to block his way. The mystic Beloved hands him what she has woven for him out of spiritual threads. This is the last stage of the thirty-third sequence which also ends the eleventh scene, “Characterization.” This scene began with the revelation in a portrait of salient features in a man’s face. It ends with symbols which bring out the ultimate validity of the many efforts of generations of men toward the building of a beautiful and significant CULTURE. The Man of Culture is, in the deepest and best sense of the term, the Aristocrat. He is the flowering of a line of ancestors who have accepted responsibility for a group or community. Likewise, the true “disciple” is the blossom that crowns a long series of incarnations
Chandra/Lonsdale: A man inherits a vast fortune.
Aristocracy takes many forms. Whether by karmic predisposition or by bloodline or both, being granted the ultimate pedigree for serving effectively. Those who have ruled can serve. Those who have mastered can give themselves over. Those who have attained can extract the essence of what they have come to before and utterly discard the rest. Showered with blessings. Filled to overflowing with the streams of your background, you are yet definitely motivated to use all this as a springboard and not to lean back on it. You feel the impulse to renew gifts, treasures and mysteries--to revitalize the old streams, to make relevant and essential what has previously proven to be steady and enduring. And most of all, endowed with a fluency in drawing from the well something fresh and new, and being so at home in bringing it all through that you become an individual here in the midst of things, who just happens to know and be familiar with just about anything you need to access from the well that never runs dry.
The Chart Ruler:
Mercury at 11 Libra
Sabian/Rudhyar: A PROFESSOR PEERING OVER HIS GLASSES AT HIS STUDENTS.
KEYNOTE: Problems attending the transmission of knowledge in a special cultural setup. This is a rather peculiar symbol for this phase of the process, and it reveals a rather humorous approach to what man’s mind can accomplish at this stage. However, there seems to be no valid reason to make the image into some kind of a caricature, or to sentimentalize it by referring to a “kind old professor.” Rather one should analyze the picture in order to discover its basic elements. The professor has dealt so much with books that he has greatly strained his eyes; in days when bifocal lenses were not widely used, he had to peer over his glasses in order to see his students. The symbol thus simply reveals two aspects of the condition of “professor-ship” — that is, of being able to transfer to the young generation the vast sum of knowledge accumulated by the past. The need to absorb this enormous amount of book knowledge affects the mind as well as the eyes; in order to meet the demands of the turbulent youth, the teacher in a sense has to look above this knowledge and to see his students simply as human beings. This is the first symbol in the thirty-ninth five-fold sequence. It deals at the intellectual level with the teaching of accumulated collective knowledge, and the problem posed by the acquisition of that knowledge. This is what INSTRUCTION means — a process not to be confused with “education.”
Chandra/Lonsdale: Tea leaves that form a pentagram.
Destiny openings. Carte blanche to enter upon fresh directions. A child of destiny. Offered by spirit protection and guidance, encouragement and empowerment. You are the exception to the rule, the special exemption for future purposes extracted from the old regular patterns and given the chance to follow the inward instincts and sensibility completely. A distinctive quality of being marked out for destiny-acceleration beyond what is reasonable or set up. The start of something big. Granted permission to make mistakes, make a fool of yourself, and still come up as the one everybody knows can and will do astounding things, just because down the road somebody is calling you onward, who cannot be refused.
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