Evolving In The Sign Of...
The Virgo New Moon always graces us at the end of the summer as a gentle reminder to get back into and integrate the deep teachings of the body (Taurus & Virgo), mind (Gemini), emotions (Cancer) and spirit (Aries and Leo).
Since the beginning of the Astrological Year at the end of March, we have gone through all the PERSONAL houses revisiting our journey and objectives, our resources, values and needs, our communication and skillset, our feelings and self-care, our talents and creativity. Now is the time to integrate all of those into our everyday life and make sure that we build healthy boundaries through our routine to attend to what is important to us.
This step is a critical one into making sure we remain healthy, fit for purpose and can be optimally supportive to those we intend to serve.
This is even more necessary considering that:
· we will next start with the six interpersonal signs over the coming 6 months
· we may gently close the summer but we should get ready for a rather challenging fall starting on Sep 21st
· we have just started a nerve-racking and relentless seven-month Mars transit in Gemini on Aug 20
· we are about to be hit by another Mercury retrograde in Libra AND Virgo, highlighting that some of our efforts during this new moon will need adjustments.
But you will certainly have picked up on this energy and felt the need to ground the energy again. You may however require your boundary needs to be met unconditionally now and ready to get in argument to see them respected.
If you are already running to meet your social obligations and do not know what you need, pretending that you haven’t got the time to deal with it, you may soon pick on every domestic detail and grow increasingly irritated, pushing back on others but most likely beating yourself up for it.
The problem is that if you let that continue this way, both your work and your health might end up suffering from it… or so might you soon somatize so too.
Instead of growing angry at you or others, take the time to integrate what Virgo is truly about, define what is important to your wellbeing, build healthy boundaries and integrate your needs in your everyday life.
Showing the flexibility and accountability to adjust to the coming changes others and events will certainly push on you over the next six months, as well as trying new ways through curious and honest communication will be critical to you achieving anything.
6th sign of the Zodiac, ruled by Mercury – like Gemini, but applied to the Earth element – Virgo is traditionally associated to Work, Health, Routine and Pets.
Virgo natives use their very methodical, analytical and logical brain (Mercury) to organize and optimize practical matters (Earth) in a very detailed and meticulous fashion, sometimes obsessively.
They will always be of excellent advice when you need help. Hard worker, considerate, they are excellent planners. They are extremely sensitive to healthy routine and hygiene.
The Virgo archetype is THE PERFECTIONIST. As well as the Nurse, the Slave and the Engineer.
Its shadow side: extremely (self) critical, focusing on details and missing the bigger picture, too cautious, sceptical, conformist, germ phobic, discriminatory, hypochondriac.
All of us have Virgo in one or multiple parts of our natal chart, if only through the 6th house that we all have but also through the planets transiting in the 6th house who bring us that same energy at different times of our life.
Let’s dig a little deeper into its meaning on the spiritual evolutionary plan of the Zodiac.
6th sign of the wheel, it comes to close the individualization of the Self, who in the next 6 signs or house will have to “meet” the Others on multiple fronts.
But what does that exactly mean and what is the role of Virgo?
In the first 5 signs, we are being given to experience unique events, to express unique desires and thoughts, to feel and create uniquely.
The 6th house and Virgo is where all of those things must come together to become whole and be able to SERVE the unique purpose we have been created for and thus humanity.
Virgin is thus not associated to a sexual feature, be it chastity, innocence or naivety, but to THE IDEA THAT WE ARE UNIQUELY WHOLE ON OURSELVES.
Before the advent of patriarchal cultures, virgin goddesses and priestesses were also prostitutes and ruled over the mysteries of sexual union and birth. Virginal means whole, single, possessed by no one and the servant or slave of no one. Mary, the virgin mother, is inherited from this very old archetype and is still celebrated on Sep 8th as a Virgo.
The role of this sign is thus to integrate all the parts that are making us unique to ensure that we are optimally tuned for the unique service (purpose) we are supposed to play for humanity:
The body is a finely tuned mechanism where the different cells work for the good of the larger organism. Each cell is an entity in itself and yet each one is part of a larger system. Each cell serves a unique purpose and is uniquely different, but each must also submit to the demands of the greater whole. In a healthy person (as in a healthy society) each individual component asserts itself and yet works in harmony with the other components.
Traditional labels: ‘health, work, service, and adjustment to necessity” all stem from this body mind connection
Health is a reflection of the body integration of all its components.
Work is also seen as a reflection of this integration and of the service we are designed to deliver in the greater whole of society.
Routines are a reflection of how the expression of all those unique aspirations or talents are integrated, attended to and scheduled during a day for optimal productivity.
Through 6th house we refine, perfect, and purify ourselves and ultimately become a better channel for being who we are. We might be wonderful artists but unless we learn the tools of the craft, we won’t be able to make our possibilities concrete.
Concerns for craftsmanship, perfection and technical proficiency applies to issues of health as well as work. Technique here becomes the liberation of the imagination.
Issues start occurring when:
Virgo consequently invites us to take stock of ourselves, discriminate between priorities, assess the use we are making of our power and capabilities, and above all, to recognize the limits and truth of our own nature and humanity.
It’s all about sticking to our plan and blossoming into precisely what we are meant to be.
The consequences for not respecting the truths of our own nature are stress, frustration and disease: messengers telling us that something is awry and needs to be examined. ‘Reality has both a “within” and a “without”. The 6th house explores the relationship between what we are inside and what surrounds us on the outside – the correlation between the inner world of mind and feelings and the outer world of form and body.
