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Virgo season continues this week, bringing us a nourishing new moon, the end of Mercury retrograde, and a lightness that invites us forward again.
Virgo (Illustration: ProVectors | Getty)
New Moon in Virgo
As the moon goes through its lunar cycle, the new moon occurs after it has exposed itself in its most recent full phase. Here it begins again and is born again into the world.
We have been traveling through Virgo season for several weeks. Virgo has the wonderful gift of seeing the highest potential in all things, including themselves. With this clear vision, every step is conscious and serves that potential. Be it by taking care of our bodies through food, exercise or a self-care routine. Be it through learning our thoughts and peeling back layers through therapy. Be it through the teaching of organization and order, through habits that hold us, or through structured plans that move us forward.
Part of Virgo’s innate mission is to encourage our conscious and continuous refining, analyzing, stripping, building, repeating and integrating. It is what we need to become on the outside who we are on the inside.
September 14, 2023 brings a New Moon in Virgo, blessing us with an invitation to begin anew in its realm of refinement and purpose, direction and clarity, self-analysis and integration. Its sole purpose is to realize the truth of who we are, the highest potential that lies within us.
This new moon asks us to reflect on a new chapter. How we would like it. How we would like to start with that. It reminds us that we have the opportunity to decide what develops in our lives, our bodies, our minds and our aura. And it invites us to lovingly care for ourselves, weed out what is not a reflection of who we are, plant what is, and continue to nurture and nurture the beautiful potential within us.
Mercury’s orbit completes in a shorter time than Earth’s orbit, causing occasional retrograde periods. (Illustration: Getty Images)
Mercury direct in Virgo
One day after the Virgo New Moon, Mercury ends its retrograde motion on September 15, 2023 and begins moving forward again in the grounded sign of Virgo.
In astrology, each planet has one or two zodiac signs that it rules. Mercury rules Virgo. Mercury also rules our spiritual realms. It shapes the way we absorb, process and share information. As an archetype, it represents learning, logic, communication, information, technology and planning. Mercury and Venus have the same intentions and desired directions and their energies harmonize well.
Mercury entered Virgo on July 28, 2023 and will remain in the earth sign until October 4, 2023. Although Mercury is a fast-moving planet, we have been offered an unusually long period of time with Mercury in one sign, a temptation to delve into the intentions of its energy.
While Mercury was and remains in the zodiac sign Virgo, there is an invitation to delve deeper into the details of our lives. Start by breaking down any plans, wishes or visions into small, easily digestible and conscious steps. We also need to build a new relationship with our everyday actions, routines, habits and rituals so that they can begin to truly support and serve ourselves and our desires.
Your invitation
This week brings two invitations for a new beginning in Virgo. Mercury and with it our spirit have crossed the underworld, retraced our steps and relearned how to find our way in life. When the new moon hits us and Mercury moves direct, we have the opportunity to take care of the Virgo within us.
While each new moon can feel like a beautiful opportunity for a fresh start, the fact that Mercury begins its direct motion hours later only adds to that momentum. It’s an energy that opens doors.
What if you were offered a new beginning, an opportunity to start over with the divine mission of expressing the person you are on the inside in every aspect of your life experience? The way you express yourself and the narratives you have about life, your relationships and the way you contribute to the world, the way you meet each other every day and the steps that Do you always take action, the way you deal with your feelings and the way you approach yourself? Feet touch the earth? If every moment and every area of your life was a reflection of who you are, what would that say? And more importantly, what is it supposed to say?
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Jordane Maree is the founder of Girl and Her Moon, a platform and community that explores the soul through the lens of astrology, tarot, and energy healing. She is an author, intuitive astrologer, energy and spiritual guide, and host of Girl and Her Moon, The Podcast. She is inspired every day to be the mirror for you, to see all that you truly are, you in all your infinite abilities, in full unfoldment, in infinite possibilities and love.