Today’s New Moon at 14 degrees of Virgo initiates a new cycle of healing, discernment and critical thinking in the mystical project management of our lives. New Moons always represent the symbolic sexual union between Sun and Moon, which initiates new cycles of creative encounter, but in Virgo, it’s more sacred and discerning than procreative.
In ancient times the Virgin was considered a “barren” sign; not because she was sexually innocent, as we now define the word, or unable to give birth, but because as an independent being, unbound by marriage or children, she literally had other things on her mind. Virgo is not only ruled by Mercury, planet of mysticism and the mind but is also the only sign in which its ruler is also exalted. As a doubly Mercurial sign, it’s not only prone to the anxiety of over-thinking but is linked to the mysteries of Mercury/Hermes, guide of souls.
It can be easy to miss. As an Earth sign, Virgo is associated with health and hard work in the service of future abundance. As a Mercury-ruled sign Virgo accounts for the fruit of our efforts and the critical discernment of areas that require improvement. In the northern hemisphere, Virgo is bound by the anxiety-inducing duty of preparing for descent into Winter. In the southern hemisphere Virgo bears a reverse metaphysical burden under the manic workload of Spring: to make the most of fleeting beauty after the grim realities of Winter.
The oldest of the Virgin Goddesses was Nisaba, Sumerian deity of writing, harvest and accounts, daughter of heaven and earth, whose divine influence grew throughout Mesopotamia with the emergence of the written word and the expansion of a civilisation that flourished with mercantile, mathematical, artistic, linguistic, religious and philosophical wealth. So mystically, Mercurially Virgo.
Today’s New Moon in mystical Mercurial Virgo forms a magical trine to Uranus, planet of radical breakthroughs, upheavals and insights. In Taurus, sign of the body, resources and self-worth, revolutionary shifts in awareness regarding rituals of health, wealth, work and self-worth should be ripe for perception in coming days.
Today also, Mars at 24 degrees of Virgo, planet of desires that propel courageous action, trines Pluto, planet of power and the riches we derive from loss at 24 degrees of Capricorn. It fortifies our motivations to build more magnificent civilisations from the rubble of our old loves and lives. With the Virgo New Moon it begins with honouring the sacred in rituals of the everyday and with letting our minds rest in the liminal states between consciousness when over-anxious.
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