Starcodes August 26, 2022

Summer’s flowers slide towards dormancy and the fall plants come into their own, grain waves in the fields ready to be harvested. The natural world has a gift for us this weekend as the Virgo new Moon marks a seasonal turning point.

The symbol for Virgo is a woman holding a sheaf of wheat, once considered the staff of life. To utilize that wheat, that harvest, she had to sort the grain from the chaff, what to keep and what to release. All the ripening apples and golden grain now asks us what in our lives are we ready to harvest and sort.

This new Moon could be a healing time, time to take apart our lives, look at each piece, dust and polish, and put it back together in a new form. Now this Virgo new Moon squares Mars in Gemini and can bring out our brittleness. Virgo and Gemini are both nervy Mercury- ruled signs, and this weekend’s new Moon in Virgo squares Mars in Gemini and sharpens our tools and heighten our awareness, but it can also hone our critical edge and electrify our nerves. We may need to study the fine line between excitement, anxiety, and conscientious awareness. Before we act, let’s ask ourselves whether we’re working from our anxiety or from our curiosity.

To use the gift of this Virgo new Moon we need to work it with a spacious heart, and work on ourselves versus others. Engage our love, spaciousness acceptance, and excitement. If…