Hi Lovelies,It officially feels like fall in the Pacific Northwest. The time has arrived to reap the season’s harvest, process it and store it away for the colder winter months ahead. I often feel like a squirrel this time of year, witnessing so much bounty on the vines and in the orchard that I want to harvest the sweet nectar of summer into as many bottles as I can fill. Right now, my tiny kitchen is overrun with a bounty of pears (gifted by my children’s school) and basil and tomatoes (from my neighbor), as I turn them into thinly sliced dried pear treats, tomato-basil sauce and soup, and as many caprese salads as my children will eat. I simply love the feeling of shared abundance and how this will come full circle as I feed friends throughout the winter months. ✨It’s Virgo season, time of the divine goddess Vesta, tender of the sacred flame and hearth of our homes. Virgo archetype is all about attention to detail, orderliness, efficiency, while also honoring the natural balance and laws of nature. There is a deep knowledge held witin this archetype that understands how we can work in harmony with the great Mother Earth through the cycles of nature that are always churning and interdependent. Virgo isn’t about extracting resources for their own sake, but rather utilizing them in balance with something greater than ourselves. As we honor the close of the summer season in the northern hemisphere, it is a reminder to find balance in all that we do. Virgos know how to put work at the forefront, heads down, attuned to the finest details of the task at hand. Together, let's listen to the whispers of the season, gently and quietly reminding us to slow down, lift our gaze, and take in all that was created in beauty and grace. Take time this season to share the harvest of your work with your people (in whatever form resources are created in your life). It is a healing and sacred offering at this time to share your abundance with those closest to you (Venus opp. Chiron sq. Pluto). But be gentle with yourself in doing so. There is no need to overextend yourself to others at this time. Offer up what feels in balance and harmony with your emotional and physical bodies. It will be enough. Perfection is not the name of the game. This Virgo New Moon is about supporting the Mars energy (Mars in Cancer ♋︎) that drives us to complete tasks and to launch something new into our daily rhythm. We are in a sweet spot right now. We are just coming out of eclipse season where openings were created within us, while we simultaneously began to release what was no longer serving our highest timeline. We are stepping onto firmer ground and out of the liminal space eclipses create. Can you feel that? It is time to call in what you want, begin something new and use it as a launching point for your new work project, health practice or ritual. October will bring in some reset and reprocessing time with Mercury and Venus in retrograde, hence the sweet spot of September. Though there is nothing to fear of the upcoming retrogrades. They are simply opportunities to reassess and realign ourselves. Likely we will all need that in some area of our lives (I personally welcome it). For now, let’s focus on what has inspired us over the last few months. What project or routine have you been wanting to launch, but haven’t yet. Now is the time. Write it out, voice it, post it and press send. Let’s collectively launch something new and beautiful out into the world this Virgo season. Cultivate what is in alignment for you at this time. Maybe it’s a new health or ritual practice you want to cultivate for yourself or your family. Nows the time to start it. ✨Harnessing the Potency of this moment. During this New Moon, Mercury and Venus are both at the potent energetic points of Libra (Mercury at 0 degrees ♎︎) and Scorpio (Venus at 0 degrees ♏︎). This is a signal of newness that heightens this new moon in Virgo. Mercury is looking for balanced communication that reaches out in harmony and builds relationships, while Venus is deep diving into the underworld and willing to love all the parts of ourselves and society as a whole that feel a bit darker and maybe at times less lovable. While Pluto is asking this new moon, and the divine feminine energy represented by Virgo, to transmute and transform our daily work habits and routines (eating, sleeping, exercising, etc.), to lift our gaze to the horizon and see the need for a collective vision. Having this new moon in Virgo while Mercury and Venus are also immersed in the signs of Libra and Scorpio is saying something clear to us. There is a message here: to call back the divine feminine within us all, to create space for the wisdom that she carries that includes the intuitive knowing, the whispers from across the veil between the seen and unseen realms of life. The sacred goddesses once worshipped by men and women alike, are asking for their rightful place. Roman goddesses Ceres, Pallas Athene, Juno and Vesta are all alive within us as their particular archetypes. This is the Magic of this Virgo season and in particular this Virgo New Moon. It highlights an opportunity to live towards collective conciousness. To breathe in the human longing to belong fully to ourselves and within the collective. A reminder to embrace both our masculine and feminine sides as humans, particularly as we move towards a collective consciousness that is inclusive of all beings. ✨Dare to Smile. How can you share the bounty of the season in your community to take a step towards this collective call? Let’s harness the magic of the season by creating bridges to each other, to fully witness and see one another as we lift our gaze from our daily tasks and dare to smile. A single smile carries immense amount of care and joy that can easily be shared with earnest intention. Try it out. Smile at someone you don’t know. Witness your inner feeling and notice theirs as well. You may just change someone’s day, week or year with your momentary presence. ✨Wisdom from an Elder. I will close with one of my favorite teachings from an elder named Vi Hilbert (taqʷšəblu) of the Upper Skagit Tribe in Washington State. She once said that one of the most important things in the world is “Acknowledgement”. How often we need to be acknowledged, that we are here, seen and known. You Exist. Use this Virgo New Moon to begin something new in your life and take the time to lift your gaze and smile at someone in acknowledgement. This simple act contains immense loving power.
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