Starcodes August 23, 2019 Heather Roan Robbins

Virgo season kicks in full time this week as the Sun joins Mars and Venus in Virgo today, Friday morning. Virgo is the last sign of summer, a time when the weather mutates and shimmers between seasons. It brings the industry of seeds and harvest, a time to step back from the cultural richness and emotional extremes of summer and step into the real work of fall.

Virgo is connected to the nervous system and the intestinal tract, the part of our body whose job is to sort the nutrients from the waste, and absorb the goodness, a wonderful metaphor for the work of Virgo season. It’s time to sort our seeds, to decide what we want to plant this year, what to eat, and what to feed the animals.

While our concept of the fall semester doesn’t really kick in until after Labor Day weekend, and doesn’t officially begin until the Autumnal equinox, this nervy industriousness kicks in early this year and we need to organize ourselves for the opportunities ahead.

Virgo loans us the superpower of sorting, it rules the intestinal tract whose job is to sort the nutrients from the waste, its symbol is a woman holding a sheaf of wheat whose job it was to separate the wheat from the chaff. It’s time to sort our seeds, the consequence and harvest of our days, to know what we want to plant this year, what to eat, and what to compost.