The New Moon in Virgo continues this year's pattern of powerful Moons; this SuperMoon takes place with the Moon at perigee, her closest approach to Earth. As the Sun and Moon align, the electromagnetic effect is stronger on the Earth and on us. Wherever this New Moon falls in your chart, its impact is intensified.
Virgo is one of the practical, reliable Earth signs. Ruled by Mercury, this sign applies the mind to solving problems, excelling in research, analysis, and detail work. Committed to service, Virgo uncomplainingly takes on difficult chores, leaving the world a little cleaner and more orderly as a result.
The New Moon is in a wide conjunction with Mercury, still retrograde in Virgo, and to the Nodes of the Moon. We find Sun, Moon and Mercury in the sign of thoughtful analysis, during a reflective retrograde time, as the Moon comes as close to the Earth as she can, as if to see us more clearly.
Simone Butler describes Virgo as "our inner GPS, synchronizing body and mind." This New Moon happens at 15 degrees of Virgo, exactly in the middle of the sign. At this moment, in the midst of swirling energies of change, we find a brief time of stillness and reflection. What do we see?
There is a Taoist tale of a village experiencing a terrible drought. Nothing would grow, and nothing they did to propitiate the spirits seemed to help. In desperation, they begged an old sage to help them. He agreed, and they eagerly awaited his arrival. He came to the village and locked himself away in a small house, saying and doing nothing. With mounting irritation, the villagers waited.
Three days went by. Suddenly, on the fourth day, the rains came. As the thirsty earth opened to absorb the waters, the sage emerged. "How did you make the rain?" the villagers asked eagerly.
"I cannot make rain," the sage replied. "When I came here, I found all things out of balance. I needed to bring myself back into balance. When I was once again in the Tao, the balance was found. Then the rains came."
The Tao is the path, the way. When we are in balance, life unfolds gently before us, without striving or strife. The Virgo New Moon applies her practical analysis and points us to exactly where we are out of balance.
New Moons are turning points, an ending and a beginning. With Virgo, we are invited to look with great clarity and precision at where we've been, where we are now, and where we're headed. If we don't like what we see, we can slip into the shadow of Virgo's devastating self criticism, decide everything is a hopeless mess, and give up.
The balancing act with Virgo is to apply her mental acuity to locating the key issues, and then stopping. This can be difficult, as analysis, once begun, takes on an energy all its own. But Virgo's ultimate goal is effective action is service to practical goals. Realizing that criticizing our failings and the failings of other will not help in reaching a balanced solution, Virgo can stop, recalibrate, and find a better way.
Once there was a great ocean liner, ready to make her maiden voyage. All were aboard, the huge ship about to pull away from the dock, when one of the engines made an odd knocking sound. Clearly, things were not right; an immediate fix was needed.
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The captain was overjoyed until he received a bill for a thousand dollars. Summoning the engineer, he said, "Why are you charging so much? All you did was tap!"
The engineer took the bill, made some notations on it, and handed it back to the captain. The bill said: Tapping, $5.00; Knowing where to tap, $995.00. The captain paid the bill.
This New Moon in Virgo offers us the precise tools we need to analyze and understand our situation. Then, if we listen and are wise, we will know where to tap.
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