Virgo New Moon

The Virgo Moon asks us to refresh our sense of what it means to show up with the humility, and the clear thinking, that we need to be a healing presence in our world.

Our lives are incredibly complex and each moment offers an infinitude of layers, of multi-dimensional options. Yet sometimes we get caught in one or two of those layers and lose touch with our spaciousness. 

How I love Virgo for it’s analytical precision, but our moon cautions us to watch for the anxiety we can generate when we over-work a thought to the point where we can’t find our way out of the mind-loop. And yet when we accept our confusion, our overwrought mind relaxes and moves fluidly into the solution we couldn’t access when we were caught in the dizzying mind carnival.

This is an energy flow that grounds us. It reminds us to return to the quiet and essential rhythm of our days. Virgo loves lists. So our moon offers a few suggestions to help us feel more ‘ordered’ as we leave the wilder ride of summer. 

1. Find the humility to acknowledge that you don’t know everything—lol.

2. Remember that you are responsible for the sacred human body that your soul has partnered with and do your best to make that body comfortable: Nourish it with rest. Take it for a walk or float it on in a lake. Make sure you’re offering it plenty of green food; some berries and nuts and lots of water. The health of your fine mind depends on the health of all your cells. 

Your body and your soul made a pact to carry you through this life and they need you to spend as much time in the garden and wandering near wild things as you spend in meditation. 

3. Notice how driven you might be to “help” . . . everyone, everything. Virgo is absolutely gorgeous in its capacity to show up, without any need for applause, and offer itself to whatever is going on: a flooded basement, a broken heart, an overly-stressed parent, a community torn apart by racism, a lost dog dodging traffic, a country torn apart by cruelty, a bird with a broken wing. But as you feel yourself propelled once again into the helping mode, allow for the times when the situation isn’t yours to fix. Sometimes, counsels our moon, sometimes no matter how much we ache to help, the situation is not ours to solve. And other times, a situation is so daunting that our better angels help us understand when we’ve done all we can and need to rest awhile. 

4. MOST IMPORTANT item on this list: Whatever you do, dear human, please please please listen for that misdirected inner voice that shames you into thinking you haven’t done enough. You are enough. Your very choice to incarnate now, in this time, with your fine-tuned mind and heart . . . this is more than enough. 

We have entered into the time of year when we want to harvest our tomatoes and our basil and make soup and pesto. We look at that peach and realize it’s a miracle: a flower that somehow turned itself into a gorgeous plump late summer gift. We notice that thing that for months we’ve wanted to repair and somehow, now, we find the patience to get it done. Virgo offers us a return to taking things one step at a time. It helps us sort through the many threads of our days with a sense that everything is interconnected, everything is sacred and nothing is ordinary. 

Cherish all the bits and pieces of your lives, encourages this quiet and helpful moon. All of it. You are the miracle you seek. Your every breath is invaluable to the re-membering of the world.

Wishing all Beings peace.

Deborah

To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; that is to have succeeded.      

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear and sadness.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien