New Moon in Virgo: Intelligent Design

 

Art by Cameron Gray

New Moon in Virgo:  Intelligent Design

Moon conjunct Sun- 9/17/2020 @ 6:00am CDT

 

This Virgo New Moon reflects a critical turning point in our Collective Soul experience of this year, as it is square to the lunar nodes (at the ‘Northern Bending’).  Something new is seeded here that is expressed in outer events.  With Virgo’s attention to detail and organization…one can hope that whatever we’re all taking in at this time will provide some much-needed discernment (or help us ‘get our shit together’, if you like). 

In many instances, outward choices look pretty grim to most on either side.  How do you separate the wheat from the chaff when what we’re handed is mostly all chaff?  We’re going to need something new to consider.  If everything still looks to be all ‘same-old, same-old’ during this lunar cycle…a shift of perspective may be in order.  After all, both Saturn and Pluto will be stationing direct in Capricorn during this cycle (and Mercury will station retrograde in Scorpio before this cycle ends and the next New Moon begins).

This shift holds true both on the collective level as well as the personal, though it may be more apparent on one level than the other (depending on which you are more focused on right now).  On the personal level, you may be feeling the necessity of making an important choice between what you’ve grown used to (whether you have grown to like it or not) and the unknown new (whether you think you’ll like it or not).  This is where Virgo discernment comes into play to start us off with a well-examined feeling.  What feeling is predominant right now in your experience?  Begin to strip it down to ‘brass tacks’.  What is it made of?  How does it function (or dysfunction)?  And if the need is there, how can you tweak it to a frequency that is more efficient for you?

 

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Sabian Symbol:  ‘A boy with a censer’

 

Art by Elizaveta Galitskaya

This specific degree of Virgo illuminates the purposeful rituals we do in service to what is greater than us.  In performing these rituals, however small they (and we) may be, it acknowledges the sacred within the mundane.  It attunes us to the Cosmic Order.  We are more conscious, then, of how our individual efforts influence the whole…and how the whole influences us.

You can be very literal here, as Virgo does incline that, and light some incense to purify your New Moon intentions.  You can also consider what sensory input you are infusing into your body and mind at this time.  Virgo also inclines holistic health consciousness. 

 

The Seed of the Cycle

 

'Virgo' from Cyril Rolando's Dancing Zodiac

Essentially, Virgo Medicine guides us toward intelligent design.  I don’t mean our anthropocentric (human-centric) ideas of intelligence.  I mean the kind of intelligence you can observe in plants, where it is the root tip that learns the best path for growth.  ‘Down and in’ intelligence.  We humans are a bit backwards with our brains so far from the ground.  We would do well to recognize the many forms of intelligence outside ourselves.

If we are in accordance with the lunar energies, we are seeding something at each New Moon (whether we are conscious of it or not).  If we are seeding something, the first thing sent forth from that seed is the embryonic root (the ‘radicle’)…essentially the nourishing intelligence that moves downward/inward, feeling our way toward what will sustain us.  We are rooting each New Moon seed within ourselves first, before the shoot can sprout upward and grow outward as the Moon waxes…and bear fruit from full to waning. 

To help this New Moon seed along, our luminaries form a trine to Saturn Retrograde in Capricorn.  Capricorn is the nocturnal domicile of Saturn (down-and-in expression of Saturn at home).  Saturn’s Retrograde, already at the degree of the direct station (exact on 9/29), is at the most inward part of the retrograde journey…the very lesson we needed to return to before we can move forward on our commitment to Aquarius expression. 

Saturn’s just making sure we got the point of Capricorn this year.  And much as we’re pleading, ‘alright already, we get the point!’…we actually haven’t, and that’s why we retrograde.  It’s not a bad thing, just a necessary thing.  And now we’re back to whatever Saturn lesson we neglected in February this year.  Perhaps we should commit to it this time around.  Saturn often teaches in ‘shoulds’, after all.

And though Mars and Eris (both retrograde) have been squaring off lately with the Capricorn Council (especially Saturn-Pluto, both retrograde), there is this ease of earthy energy happening between this New Moon and Saturn.   It provides a steady flow of practical magic to sustain us throughout this cycle.  We only need to give it welcoming ground to take root.  What grows from such an invitation is infused with Saturn’s commitment to sustainability and solid structure. 

 

Love and Gratitude,

Felina Lune Kavi