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New Moon in Virgo at 21°58’ Virgo. 11:40 AM (AEST); 15th Sept. 2:39 AM 15th Sept.(CET); 9:39 PM, 14th Sept, (EDT).
Features: Mercury stationing direct. A Grand Earth trine. New Moon opposite Neptune in Pisces.
There are times when true magic arrives, so subtly, & without fanfare & hubris that we may overlook the quiet power that it offers.
This clarifying New Moon in Virgo is one such powerful star-seeding moment. A fresh start hatching - tentative, unfolding slowly & delicately. Once the Neptunian fog clears we’ll have an opportunity to harness & flow with some of our most profound planetary transformers.
This NM is asking us to alight from the merry-go-round of endlessly famished FOMO, & nourish ourselves properly - not with the recycled “content” & regurgitating of others’ ideas and lives - but with the soft, rich nutrients of our own perfectly-imperfect dreams.
This Seer’s lunation, ruled by a co-present & exalted Mercury (who has been rx-ing with Virgoan attentiveness & discernment) adds their bright Morning Star punctuation mark following the New Moon. Mercury’s stationing within hours of the New Moon embodies a potent symbolism. The Messenger has been weaving straw into gold in the fields of Virgo, sifting & refining with a calm, clear intelligence. And with the results we’re offered both a promise and an invitation…
Virgo knows that the true magic of manifesting comes not through the flim-flam of sugary distraction, but through planning and practical action. One small step at a time. Simplify & refine, trust your instincts for decluttering and purifying your priorities. At some point we know intuitively when we’ve gathered enough gold to us, & when it’s time to stop gathering the harvest. Because at some point the more we gather the lower the quality will be, and we may be overwhelmed attempting to sift through it all.
We are at that point now, even though we may hear the constant mosquito buzz of multi-worlds luring us, now is the time to weed out the words and images, to sort the “extra” chaff from the wheat. Editing can create powerful storytelling & enchantments, & sometimes less can equal more emotional truth and impact.
This New Moon in the final decan of Virgo is a powerfully magical area of the zodiac. This is where we can see the union of spirit and matter, and the humility to recognise that all wealth & gain, all material beauty and riches gathered will inevitably decay and fall away.
From now, & over the next 6 months until the Full Moon in Virgo, we can create a plan to birth a new project and provide a clear path for the spirit to be made flesh in the world. A book project, or the editing of a book; taking a course of study or building out a well-researched teaching module. A new creative project or a spiritual practice, a medicinal garden, travel plans, or setting health goals with a sensible, sustainable approach. Look to your Virgo House (according to your Wholesign Ascendant) for clues as to the nature of this potent Virgo dijinn in a bottle.
Though this Maiden’s Moon is in an opposition to Neptune, seducing and ensorcelling us with sleepy glamours and magical thinking, we can take a cue from the Pisces realm to remind ourselves not to get lost in the over-thinking details; & allow ourselves space for oceanic forms to gestate. Perfectionism is the disease state of perfecting. And like comparison it’s the thief of joy. An artist’s discernment is knowing when to step back and be done before the ineffable magic of the art is destroyed or dissipated.
However, one of the most potent ingredients baked into this lunation is the Grand Trine with Uranus in Taurus, & Pluto rx in Capricorn…
This is one of the last Virgo lunations (for eons) which offers a trine to Pluto, our Dark Lord of the Compost; and it’s a fairly tight trine between the Moon & Pluto from these signs.* Before we rush onward into a Pluto in Aquarius future (that’s a whole other bag of cats, luvs) let’s take a spoonful of the potent tincture this epoch-making configuration offers us in the here and now.
The Moon is in a close Jupiterian embrace with Uranus in Taurus - a spirit of earthy rebellion, disruption & inventiveness. Even though Uranus is in a turbulent area of the zodiac, it’s a formidable cooperation of Promethean genius with Virgo intel. And our sensitive, magician’s Moon is a profound emotional & bodily instinct meeting similarly with Pluto. Pluto lessons are those we’re often (understandably) averse to: shamanic death-&-rebirth rites, transforming us on a cellular level.
This Underworld god now sits at the mountainous roof of the world in the final kingly degrees of the Mergoat. Pluto has shown us the rot of our systemic foundations & is now overseeing the available resources whilst also revealing to us the gold seam within our deep geologies & ecologies. Ones that may both humble & connect us to deeper nourishments, to the good, rich, wealth-bringing soil of time and old cycles built on the integrity of what came long before. Pluto, the god of skilful means and resurrections in Cap is prompting us to look at these before we try to move on to Aquarian matters.
This is a formidable moon-cake baking in transformative, epoch-making-and-shaking energies. Spirit and matter across all the modalities attempting to manifest something real of high quality…if we take up the invitation with patience and devotion. This is not the astrology that encourages us to take short-cuts, or resort to re-hashed sound-bytes for our Sources.
Lunations are the magnetic touchstones that call us home - to listen deeply to the needs and rhythms of our bodies. A Virgo New Moon is more than perfect for cleansing, purifying and decluttering - baths, spaces, heart, and minds. Make a plan to which you can stay true, but which offers flexibility and adaptability. Give it air and light and water it well with the daily devotion of showing up - which is also showing up for yourself. Take joy in simplified routines and rituals. Make good art. Birth new worlds. Preserve, innovate, and fortify for future resilience. Knowledge is power and wealth, and so is good, rich soil.
Wishing you all a happy and blessed New Moon.
*Like a number of other Hellenistic astrologers, I use an orb of 15 degrees for the Moon. The New Moon will be only 7 degrees away from an exact trine with Pluto.
Thank you, thank you! This is beautiful and wise and so needed.
Lacking the appropriate and intelligent words to respond to this, what I *can* say is that this one hit me square in the Feels. Thank you, dearest one, and a blessed New Moon xo