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New Moon Virgo: What's Getting You Through the Day?

It's the New Moon in Virgo today (6:30 am EDT), with its potent effects lasting for the next few days. How are you really doing these days? With Mercury in Retrograde, this question is up for many. It's a review of how we fill our days, and how we coped in times past, and now. Yesterday I saw a post from Evolver, that many on this social network are reporting things like "body aches and scary dreams" lately.

What gets you through the day, and even enhances your well-being in these chaotic times? One poster at Evolver advised, "sleep...meditate a lot...drink lots of lemon water..chant...embrace your pets, write...make art...do anything to break the "spell" of heaviness..."

On the other hand, I saw a lot of myself in April Elliott Kent's New Moon Virgo article, "Less Than Perfect." It's a poignant recollection of coping mechanisms of the past, and how they might make us judge ourselves or cringe even. But with acceptance, she writes, "Perhaps, sometimes, what looks like imperfection is actually a creative, practical response to the hand we've been dealt."

The New Moon Virgo is a great day to plant those seeds (literally and symbolically) for what we want to grow big in our lives. But life is, as April writes, a "grand mess" and there's a beauty to that. So often the real healing begins when we let go of how we think things, other people, or we ourselves should be. So no matter how you're coping, honor yourself for the little things you do to keep going.

What gets you through the day? Even though it's hot and I don't feel like doing it, I walk 2 miles at sunset, while Virgo man rides his bike. Other lifters are dark chocolate, short massage exchanges with my man, a brewski or two, movies of all kinds, being in the forest or garden.

New Moon Virgo: What's Getting You Through the Day? originally appeared on About.com Astrology on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 at 12:33:19.

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Sacred Days

The Moon is in Virgo, in its holy time of the lights going out -- at the Dark Moon. Last night, in this very rural place, I turned off my flashlight, and it was pitch black. I couldn't even see the dirt road. That kind of dark is vast and disorienting. At the Dark Moon, we enter that open psychic terrain.

There's a threesome in Virgo now (Sun, Moon, Mercury), and with the latter's retrograde, there's a real watch your step vibe. I've been hearing of setbacks, minor accidents, and low-grade health problems coming to the forefront in a bigger way.

The Dark of the Moon is a time to slow down, and many like to meet the moment in a reverent way. You might rest more, or make a New Moon Collage. Like with a flashlight, we lose our usual sight, but gain access to a mysteriously infinite landscape. Though it's dark, we're able to see with the intuitive eye, what we missed before. What comes through, with Virgo, are messages about how to heal, purify, or simply live (work, living arrangements, access to clean water/air/soil).

The New Moon in Virgo is September 8th at 6:30 am Eastern US/ 10:30 am GMT.

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Sacred Days originally appeared on About.com Astrology on Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 at 08:44:10.

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New Moon in Virgo

The next few days is the Dark Moon phase, when less is more....and we are rewarded bigtime, when we go within. If you were born at the Dark Moon, or Balsamic Moon phase, you have a contemplative nature, at home in the chaotic cauldron where endings overlap with beginnings.

The next New Moon is the 8th, in the mutable earth sign of Virgo. At the New Moon in Virgo, less is more. Less talk, less noise, less of everything artificial. It's a great time to go natural, and get closer to your own natural self.

• Chart for the New Moon in Virgo
• New Moon Rituals

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New Moon in Virgo originally appeared on About.com Astrology on Sunday, September 5th, 2010 at 11:40:46.

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Redemption from Dirty Business with Everyday Choices

"The hour is ours. It is time for each and every one of us to ask the important questions, to search our souls for our own answers, and to take action." These are the words of John Perkins, author of the bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. He's the ultimate insider who spent decades in what his corporate groomer warned him would be a dirty business. After helping corporations plunger entire countries and enslave them to debt, he's a man seeking redemption and a better world for his grandson.

Now, he's an inspired speaker on the topic of bringing values back to business, as well as a workshop presenter on shapeshifting! If you want to know why entire economies are being played like pawns in a bigger game, listen to his recent interview on Veritas. He's the ultimate Pluto Capricorn bridge, bringing the skeletons out of the closet of big business. He's knows who really holds power in the world today. Capricorn is about legacies -- what's passed down to the next generations -- and in Pluto, we strip away what's diseased and corrupt, to get to the vital core.

He's also digging deep into earth-compatible ideas sturdy enough to build on -- his site has great links to people doing amazing things to turn things around.

His message is actually a hopeful one -- that we hold the power in our hands, if we realize it. And it has to do with putting our money where our values are. It's a time of reviewing small decisions that add up, with Mercury retrograde in Virgo. And how these pieces make up the whole. We can start by buying from companies that do good, and aren't evil. These small everyday decisions are in our control, and a way to slowly but surely change the world.

• A Time of Purification: with Native Wisdom

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Redemption from Dirty Business with Everyday Choices originally appeared on About.com Astrology on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 15:28:38.

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September: Libra and the Colors Within

Writing of the crisper air in Vermont, Mark Borax' September report makes me wistful for one of nature's most artful displays -- New England autumn colors. His Cosmic Weather Report, is a rich read, especially for Libras and those with Libra challenges. That means everyone, since we're all under Saturn's master tutelage, in the school of relating.

In a poetic analogy to the changing leaves, Mark writes, "Libra's difficulties are compounded out of the discord that results when life and love languish in trapped, withheld stages, rather than blossoming into their full colors." Mark writes as a Libra Sun himself, so you won't want to miss these wise words -- about the energy of Libra -- from a master astrologer.

September: Libra and the Colors Within originally appeared on About.com Astrology on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at 12:57:44.

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Half Moon: What's Essential?

The Moon is waning, creating the sense of lunar descent. From now until the New Moon in Virgo (on the 8th), the energy is on the wane, and we release what's non-essential, to be ready to plant seeds of the new.

It's the Third Quarter or waning Half-Moon today. That means the Moon is in mutable Gemini, in a square (tension) to the Sun, in mutable earth. The Full Moon in Pisces (mutable) opened the floodgates of emotion, and now some of it is lingering as standing water to be transformed. This Half Moon is a time for a second hard look at the mind-emotional body connection. How do we get stuck in patterns of crazy? What habits of thought pile on the stress, and affect our health?

The mutable signs are about the magic of shifting shape, from the many pieces that make of the whole of who we are. We're at the point in the cycle, to adjust the course, to loosen the grip on what's not working, and let it fall apart. It's being flexible with the pieces, so something wholly new can be created.

• Making changes to your schedule.
• Look at foods and supplements that have a calming effect.
• Making time to come down from the day.
• Giving your brain a rest (away from the computer).
• Healing negative thought loops.
• Finding strategies for de-stressing.
• Cutting distractions that work you up into a frenzy.

• More on Moon Phases

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Half Moon: What's Essential? originally appeared on About.com Astrology on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 at 08:01:42.

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Wake Up Chaos

This morning, I came across an article written one year ago on 2010 predictions, that I think rings true. What caught my eye is the phrase wake-up chaos that temporarily de-stabilizes us and our relationships. From the article: "The people in your energetic sphere of influence are facing similar challenges you face-great uncertainty, sweeping changes, economic reconfiguration, ongoing chaos, and strained relationships."

The theme of the article is transparency, and how veils are dropping, so we see through deception. The facades of conditioning crack open, and it can be unnerving. A whole new way of seeing life and ourselves -- turns everything upside down.

It reflects the cardinal t-square, as what's illuminated has the potential to restore balance (Saturn Libra). It reminds me of the video of 2010 predictions from Sedona Magazine, one saying, "The world is full, fat and overly ripe now with juicy secrets." And that, "These will seed, pop and explode onto the world stage this year." In the awakening, there's a new beginning (Uranus Pisces/Aries) for us all, and this threatens the status quo, as the old ways of living have to die (Pluto Capricorn). In the cauldron of this mix-up, we discover what's authentic and true, and find Pluto's promise of renewal there.

The channel Selacia predicts that many will remember that there's a spiritual force at the core of each being. "This is the Divine spark that is within all life. The early stages of this remembering typically manifest as a general discontent." It's a kind of divine discontent, then, that leads us to question how things are, and how they could be.

What I take from this is that we are all beginners now. We can see with the wisdom of a child, but draw on our eternal spirit self, who has likely seen many winters here on Earth. While Uranus retrogrades back into Pisces to March 2011, we can revisit the many lives we've lived, and experience miraculous healing. This prepares us for the spring rush, when Uranus is back in Aries, and we move ahead lighter and even more awake to who we are -- divine sparks of life!

Wake Up Chaos originally appeared on About.com Astrology on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 at 12:19:25.

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Virgo Wellness Rx

Living with a Virgo, I'm familiar with the ace traits of Virgo -- like close observation, constant striving, and self-critique. And how this pressure to do good and be good can itself become a source of stress. In her Virgo Wellness Prescription this month, Stephanie Gailing of Planetary Apothecary reminds us that the Virgoan striving can inspire, but that "perfection" is not a human reality.

Stephanie writes, "It's important that when our focus turns to remedying, that we cut ourselves--and others--some slack and watch out for the slippery slope from critique to criticism, from attentiveness to abject worry." Mercury's retrograde in Virgo can compound any relentless mental loops. So Stephanie's tips this month are well-chosen, for relaxation, good digestion and self-acceptance. They're also all-natural, in keeping with this 100% organic sign.

Virgo Wellness Rx originally appeared on About.com Astrology on Monday, August 30th, 2010 at 12:52:08.

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