New Moon in Virgo: Golden Joinery
Your Astrotoolkit™
0º zero point of Virgo - ouchie, sharp
Uranus □ Moon - seismic shift
Yod to Moon- fated discomfort, automatic writing
Starting this evening, we enter the winter of our summer and transition into Virgo season. You might be feeling intense pressure under this new moon, made even more strange by the fact that new moons seldom feel this way! Full moons are usually the ones to up the intensity; with new moons clearing the space. Frequently, new moons create a blank page to start writing the next chapter of our story and we get about 12 chapters a year. Your story is advancing and you might sense the solar wind kicking up dust as we lead into the upcoming eclipse season. You're on the precipice of major changes, but it feels like discomfort right now, like a void, like an opening that hurts. Like a wound.
Something cosmic is sticking its finger in that wound. You might be sensing a void in your life, or an unanswerable question. Next gen Zen koans, meditative blind stares, and even anxious stims abound. You are a lil' lost at the moment. Particularly with Uranus involved, a sudden change or realization will make you aware that a shift needs to happen but you don’t know how to get from A to C. Where is B? Enter the eclipse in two weeks to provide the necessary Zephyring to your next phase. It can feel confusing because you're just not quite there yet.
A Virgo moon ushers in tender awareness of the cracks in your life so that you can gently fix them one at a time. This new moon cycle (one of two new moons in Virgo this month) will guarantee a deep look into the minute tune ups needed in whatever area of your life it touches. Virgo calls us to investigate our rituals and routines and look for areas where they break down or where we are not totally "wholesome" or whole. I've been researching Feng Shui a lot lately, and a common principle is that broken items ruin your chi and disrupt the flow of space in your home. One way around this is to go through each item that is missing pieces and throw it out. Another way, is to go through and fix it. The Japanese art of Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, comes to mind here. You are attempting a surgical alteration of a situation that is not working so that you can restore wholeness.
During the next two weeks, you will be highly attuned to new information that could change your course, paying attention to details and inconsistencies that you would normally gloss over to get to that next thing. You're slowing down and inspecting the evidence. If something does not compute or seem logical during this time, it's urgent that you trust this.
Lastly, just a note about the super rare planetary configuration this moon is in. Yods are the "finger of god" urging you to action, but not consciously--think automaton. You're undergoing a track switch. A stable path is now opening to reveal a golden window of opportunity but you may not understand it's happening until much later. This new moon is the prologue to fulfilling a higher (read: more challenging) purpose during the coming eclipse season.
Read: So Much Synth - Brenda Shaughnessy
Watch: Beau Travail
Listen: Lazy Jane - Jennie O