ASTROLOGY
Virgo New Moon Newsletter and Horoscope
The dust settles. Can you?
As we cave under work pressures, belittling ourselves as servants for something greater, how aware are we of the machine of efficiency which all but consumes us?
I’ve been reading a lot of Thich Nhat Hahn, a Buddhist monk and bestselling author.
A lot of meditation revolves around the Virgo-Pisces axis.
Though this is Virgo season, we’ve been exhausted by its lower octaves of unrewarding and relentless mental work, depleting and sacrificing our bodies. This is especially so given the ongoing squares we’ve had between planets in Gemini and planets in Virgo, creating anxiety and angst — a pushing and pulling between processes and the speed in which we do things.
All in the name of efficiency, yet we ourselves aren’t machines.
Our brains are tired, our bodies needing a factory reset.
It’s no surprise that Virgo rules not only analysis and routines, but health in general.
It is time for a detox.
Virgo style.
After a three-day holiday weekend, we find a New Virgo Moon in building opposition to Saturn in Pisces.
This is a lesson in control.
There is a natural order to things, but our expectations of this order are being greatly challenged.
As we adapt to changing environments, are we being too hard on ourselves and others in the process?
With a concurrent Venus-South Node conjunction, we may need to let go of unrealistic standards of beauty, for instance. Or, letting go our need to compromise and manipulate situations to get what we want.
Equally, we may need to include some relationships in our detox.
Through this process of elimination, we are controlling the controllables.
Lean toward the purity and perfection that exists within ourselves regardless of the rituals we use or the meditations we chant in our perceived need for improvement.
The conditions don’t need to be perfect for them to be perfect.
For us to be perfect.
And that acceptance is something that can be controlled.
The dust will always be there. Somewhere.
It isn’t settling if we choose not to dust.
Let the dust settle, finding beauty in the imperfections and the time you gain — which is so precious and fleeting and never enough.
Lose track of time, instead, by doing something that renews your body, mind, and spirit — versus renewing your responsibility elsewhere.
You have a responsibility to yourself and are entitled to no one else taking care of you.
Let go of dependence, deepening your commitment to yourself.
It remains easy to be mindless, taking mental or physical shortcuts in an effort for efficiency.
But a lot of the time, as I’m re-learning through meditation science, is that these shortcuts actually prevent us from the growth and improvement we seek.
Such mischievousness and sneakiness inherent in the building Mars-Neptune square will be caught, and eventually, exposed.
Rules are undoubtedly burdensome, if not confusing, contradictory, and hypocritical with Saturn in Pisces.
Jupiter in Gemini, in a separating square to Saturn, is at the apex of a wide T-square with Saturn and the New Virgo Moon.
Optimism looks toward the future; joy remains in the present. Both are Jupiterian by nature.
Such feelings can be lost in translation when we’re in the thick of our struggles. Or, Jupiter can inflate in a more negative direction.
We see this with dogmatism — holding strong to our beliefs once we feel we’ve arrived, without room for further destinations upon our unending journeys.
And yet, there’s some realism that’s challenging whatever goal we’re pushing toward, potentially deflating our optimism and causing us to question the direction we’re taking.
Instead of getting lost in the details, as Virgo encourages, be OK with not having a solid plan yet — or the wrench thrown in your plans.
Knowing, instead, that there is a divine plan at work that will utilize our strengths in due time.
We don’t always have to make ourselves useful.
Instead of using and abusing ourselves and others, might we instead be serving the highest good by acknowledging and embracing that we are enough?
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