Virgo New Moon: Are you healing?

Today we have a Virgo New Moon. New Moons always highlight fresh starts, new cycles, and planning for the future. Planning is Virgo's thing! Get out your spread sheets and do the math. Calculate how long it will take to reach your goals and set them. Virgo season in general is a good time to evaluate your potential. Have you been working towards goals that will make you happier, better, smarter, more at ease, and more perfect? Virgo strives for perfection. During Virgo season it is a good time for you to as well!

I ask are you healing? Virgo, at home in the 6th house strives for healing not only their selves, but others around them. If you have planets in this sign you are called to heal and perhaps thrive in healing professions. Virgo is a very healing sign that looks to others that they can assist and they then offer their service up. Virgo does not complain about their helpfulness. They never boast about what they are working on and how bad ass they are. They just set their mind to something and get that shit done! We could all take a page from Virgo's book! Look within and ask, are you nurturing yourself and taking time to do the healing you need to. Physically, mentally, and emotionally Virgo looks for flaws and works their healing magic on them. It is a good time for us all to do this as well so we can work harder, better, and more efficiently in the future.

This New Moon does make a hard angle/square to Mars in Gemini. The Red planet may turn our perfection into criticism, and our attempt to organize into chaos! Mars is the planet of aggression and with a tough angle to the New Moon, we may find ourselves beating ourselves up instead of building our plans for the future. We are all capable of such great self love. It is a difficult time to remember to employee this love with the planet of war stirring our deepest insecurities. Its a good time to notice how we bully ourselves and cut it the hell out! Get out of your head and take a walk in nature. Grounding will help calm the turbulent internal ocean right now.

Taking a look at your physical health is a good idea now. The 6th house does have a focus on health. Getting active will help the restless energy we may all be feeling. Evaluate the changes you can make to be healthier in the future and start making them. Take it slow. One by one. Don't try to do everything at once, as Virgo would push you to. Rome wasn't built in a day!

Sun in Virgo: Where are those cleaning supplies?

The Sun moves out of wild child Leo and into strait laced Virgo later today. The energy shift may be palpable as we go from strutting our stuff to organizing our closet. Virgo is known to be organized and a little obsessive. Ruled by Mercury, they are quite different than their sister sign Gemini. Gemini is scattered, impulsive, and excitable. They tend to display Mercurial traits with curiosity and a quick wit where Virgo uses this communicative Mercury energy to gather information and store it to use. Gemini gathers information but quickly moves onto the next exciting topic, throwing out what they have learned as it is no longer important to them. Virgo is known to be the sign of perfectionism and they are known to be precise. Once you get to know them, they can also be very funny, full of fun facts, and if you get the chance to see them let go, they are a hell of a good time.

Virgo rules the 6th house. This house is associated with day-to-day work and routines, our jobs, and our health. Our pets, who we take care of are found in this house as well as how we interact with animals. This is the house you look to for how you heal your health and any health risks you may face. Virgo is often overlooked for their association with service to others, yet the 6th house where they rule, is associated with this. They are the helpers of the zodiac. With all their orderliness and knit picking, they want to make others better. Changing the world, one criticism at a time.

Virgo is a grounded Earth sign. To think clearly though, they need order. Virgo is the Sun sign that cleans for therapy. When upset you can find them in the kitchen scrubbing the counter. They are stressed when things are cluttered and can only relax when the work is done. Calm and steady, this level headed sign is helpful to their friends and strangers alike. They are who you go to for blunt advice and don’t sugar coat anything. They will give it to you straight. This bluntness though, gets them a bad rep for being too tough and at times cold. Though they like the cleanliness of their indoor environment, Virgo does appreciate their time outdoors. A hike in the forest can invigorate Virgo and is a wonderful way for them to relax.

Virgo the good: Organized, intelligent, honest, grounded, helpful and dutiful.

Virgo the bad: Particular, perfectionistic, overachieving, cold, and stoic.

The month ahead is a good time to deep clean your house and organize your files. We may find ourselves a little more on edge when things are not spic and span.

Mars Enters Gemini

Let’s talk about Mars. Mars is the planet representing our drives, sex, our anger, and our motivation. The red planet rules Scorpio and Aries and is a power house. This planet brings passion to the table and excitement is the language Mars speaks in your birth chart. Mars moves into light hearted Gemini today and will remain there for an extended stay for 8 months. This is due to Mars going retrograde in October. When Mars goes retrograde our motivation can dwindle and our energy levels tank. These next few months will be a little bit of a roller coaster ride.

Gemini is spontaneous, witty, chatty, and of course is the sign ruling communication. When hot headed Mars slams into this sign we can see an increase in heated debates. Words can be used as weapons we all know. Mars is impatient and impulsive and so is Gemini. Mars in Gemini can get our gears turning on an intellectual level leading to some great and unique ideas. The desire for sharing these ideas with others can be inescapable and with this increase in passionate communication, we can see some feathers ruffled. Mars in Gemini can also reveal a source of great inspiration.

Gemini rules the mouth, throat, arms, and hands. I often say when Mars is in Gemini in someone’s birth chart, this is the tinkering Mars. The owner of this placement is always fidgeting, and working on something with their hands. They can create great art or fix things with great enthusiasm. They are as good with their words as they are with their hands. They can be smooth talkers who know just what to say and when to say it. Mars in Gemini can also be a boaster and a bull shitter not knowing when to shut up. We must choose our words carefully when Mars is transiting Gemini, something Gemini does not do well. Gemini often opens their mouth and inserts their foot. Especially when Mars is encouraging such impulsive action.

The Good: Increased sharing of ideas, exciting communication with friends and siblings, desire to learn something new, reading a few good books perhaps at the same time, a good time for short trips.

The Bad: an increase in arguments, not knowing when to be quiet, zero filter, increased restless energy.