Starcodes September 3, 2021 Heather Roan Robbins

Labor Day is the industrious Virgo holiday where we celebrate our ordinary labors by taking a last delicious break before summer’s end. This Labor Day brings a new Moon in Virgo and a new request for us to examine what we need to be on track with both our personal and professional work. After a relatively lazy weekend it’s time to find a new sense of purpose, whether we decide to focus on a big existential or political Gestalt or choose a temporary project.

But first let’s get back to that lazy weekend. With Mercury and Venus now in beauty-appreciating, Venus-ruled Libra, all this week we can look for the poignant beauty of early fall, a leaf turning in golden light, birds gathering for the great flight south.

The waning Moon enters Leo Friday morning and asks us to center ourselves and really look at what we love, what feeds our life force, and see how we can maximize that in our life. Mars lingers in an opposition to day-dreaming Neptune over the weekend, dissolving anger and outworn ambitions, but can leave us temporarily unsure or foggy-headed. Though it can eventually help us dream up a more relevant direction.

Even though it can be tempting to put our problems into a melodramatic format to give ourselves permission for self-care in these dire times and under all these Virgo planets, we don’t need to. That’s not the point. We have a lot…