Final Ten Days of Virgo Lunar Month

 

We are in the final ten days of the Virgo lunar cycle.   Of course, Mercury is retrograde.  Take your time, don't rush, get clarity, you don't always have to hit 'send'.    Use the last quarter moon to push on any seeds you planted in new moon.   Make sure your calendar and schedule match your values.  Never forget that the solution to any problem or goal starts with your time and focus---bit by bit. 

Last Quarter Moon Phase

September 28, 2021

6:57am  PDT

   

 

Last Quarter moon:  Now we do the final adjustments to the seeds we planted on new. The final call, the final letters to send, we follow all the trails that came up that still make sense.  And we let the other parts lay fallow. It is a time of action but wise action.  It is a time for living “The serenity prayer” 

 

God, grant me the Serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change Courage to change the
things I can, and the
Wisdom to know the difference.

 

 

 

Focus on:

How are your actions connected to your family?  How are your actions connected to your personal history?  How are your actions connected to your childhood?   How are your actions connected to your mother?  

 

 

Special focus 

9/29: Venus trine Neptune.   Feeling in sync with the universe.  A universal salve applied to wounds on the psyche.  

9/29: Sun trine Saturn.  Support for relationships may come from group effort.   Saturn in Aquarius brings new technology that is supportive. 

9/30: Venus square Jupiter.   Personal desires versus group goals are challenging.  

10/1: Mars opposition Chiron.   Finding independence through letting others do more work and get exhausted.  

10/1: Mercury square Pluto.  Round 2 of this aspect.  Between 9/22 and 10/1 Mercury gets into it with Pluto.  Dark thinking, communication that is strained, thoughts that feel extreme.  What thoughts need to be jettisoned?  How is thinking holding you back?  10/31 is the final round of this aspect. 

 

 

Balsamic Moon Phase

 

October 1, 2021

4:35   PDT      

 

Balsamic:   We let go.  By releasing we can prepare for the new.  

 

 

Focus on How are you releasing your drama?  How are your releasing your creativity?  How are you releasing your ego?   How are you releasing your pride?    

 

Special focus: 

10/3: Mercury trine Jupiter – Mercury trine Jupiter.  Thinking broadens.  Finding a way to get mental balance perhaps learning from a teacher or spiritual advisor. Group thinking supports expanding opinions that help relationships.  This is the 2^nd of 3 hits. 

 

 

Libra New Moon October 6, 4:05am PDT  13 Libra 25

Mercury Retrograde: September 26

 

Mercury Retrograde

 

9/6:    Mercury Shadow begins 

9/26:  Mercury retrograde (25 Libra 28) 10:10pm 

10/18: Mercury stations direct (10 Libra 07) 3:17pm 

11/3   Mercury Shadow ends 

 

About two hours after the Virgo New Moon launched, Mercury the ruling planet of Virgo crossed its first shadow point.    When a planet turns retrograde it will cross one shadow point before the retrograde and another shadow point after the retrograde.   

The best way to explain shadow points is to imagine you are driving a car from NY to CA.    When you get to Joplin, Missouri you get out of the car and stretch your legs.  Somewhere around Oklahoma City you realize your phone is gone.  That’s when you realize your phone fell off your lap when you got out of the car, so you turn the car around and drive back to Joplin.  There on the side of the road you find your phone.  Relieved to have your phone, you get back on the road and you head west and you sigh when you pass Oklahoma City again because you now feel you are free from all the drama.  Perhaps you feel a bit wiser.    

The two shadow points are Joplin and Oklahoma City.     The drive backwards is the retrograde.   Once Mercury stations retrograde on September 26, we will be hitting some issues that may have been on our radar and our minds since September 6 or come up between September 6 and September 26.   Once we get to October 18, we complete the retrograde but then finally get free of all the cuckoo on November 13.    

 

This Mercury retrograde at 25 Libra, suggests a lot of our drama is about relationships and partnerships.    What is our mental angst around relationships?  There is a push pull around power due in part to a square between Mercury and Pluto.  Pluto demands a death and rebirth in thinking.   This square will happen three times, but the tension will be magnified between September 22 and October 1.  Much of our thinking about relationships is centered around feeling out of balance or under appreciated.   God help any of us if we feel any of our relationships are not reciprocal.    There will be legitimate complaints that will need to be addressed.  There also will be cobweb thinking that needs a good vacuum.   How is your thinking about and within relationships based on old knowledge?   There may be a case of just doing too much and a lopsidedness in relationships that gets our attention.   Mercury will get three rounds of a trine with Jupiter, so it is not all 24/7 drama.   Jupiter in Aquarius supports Mercury to help expand knowledge and form a new opinion.   Perhaps an advisor shows up with wisdom.   Take a lot of breaths this retrograde.   Give yourself a lot of time for any appointments where you need to show up.   Expect delays.  Information that you thought was accurate may turn up to be something less than accurate during the retrograde.  Make sure your facts are indeed facts.  Research like crazy during the retrograde.  Take care with your purchases and any signing of contracts.   Of course, you should mind your communication.    The snappy response you do during the retrograde may not be well received.   Think twice before you send THAT email because you may not be able to repair what gets broken.   Unless of course, that is the goal.    

Astrology of This Week: September 20 - 26th

 

Full Moon Phase –  

28 Pisces 14

September 20

4:54pm PDT 

  

  

 

Full Moon:  We make the needed adjustments on the things we planted. Usually, emotions are up and running and for those people who perhaps did not utilize the new moon and the rest of the waxing moon, this is when emotions can get the better of us.  There can often be a big emotional break, for no other reason than to get back on track.   Some partnership will offer up some balance.  The moon is bright and full and there is no room for shadows, what is reflecting on you?  

 

Focus on:  

See Separate Post.  

 

 

Special focus 

 

9/20: Mercury trine Jupiter.  Thinking broadens.  Finding a way to get mental balance perhaps learning from a teacher or spiritual advisor.  Group thinking supports expanding opinions that help relationships.  This is the 1^st of 3 hits. 

9/22: Mercury square Pluto.  Between 9/22 and 10/1 Mercury gets into it with Pluto.  Dark thinking, communication that is strained, thoughts that feel extreme.  What thoughts need to be jettisoned?  How is thinking holding you back?  The 3^rdround is Nov 2. 

9/22:  Sun enters Libra.   Happy Season change!  

9/23: Venus oppose Uranus.  A sudden change in values.  Control around money, sudden changes in love, values and stability.  

 

  

 

 

Disseminating

September 24, 2021  

6:57 pm PDT   

 

Disseminating: Share information; find a teacher or someone who has more knowledge. Perhaps there was a big ol’ blow out on the full and one feels in need of support and help, this is the phase to reach out to one who knows more. This is when we find a rabbi or a minister or therapist who gives us more insight.   And of course, you too may be ready to teach and share your own information.  

 

 

Focus on:  How are you sharing your practicality?  How are you sharing your tenacity?   How are you sharing your patience?  How are you sharing your discipline to take things one step at a time? 

 

  

 

 

Special focus:

 

9/25 Mars trine Saturn.  Mars who is not warring to his fullest right now gets help with new structures and support perhaps from someone older. 

9/26: Mercury retrograde (25 Libra 28) 10:10pm (separate post) 

 

 

Pisces Full Moon: September 20, 2021

 

In the middle of a crack, something wonderful grows.  

Pisces Full Moon

September 20, 2021 

4:45pm PDT 

28 Pisces 14

 

Welcome to the Harvest Full Moon.    The full moon closest to the Equinox, where we change seasons, is the Harvest Moon.   Some years it is the full moon in Aries and other years it is in Pisces.    This year our harvest moon is Pisces, suggesting that our intuition is our guide for the next three days. 

 

Like all full phases, the Sun is in opposition to the Moon.    In this case, Virgo who is forever focused on facts and flaws that are up close and, in our face, opposing Pisces who wants to dream its reality.      With every full moon the goal is to find the place in the middle between sun and moon. However, in this chart, arguably the thumb is on the scale for Pisces.   Neptune the ruler of Pisces is closest to the Moon in Pisces’ home sign.    Neptune, God of the sea dissolves what it touches, from sandcastles to concrete pilings, the ocean will eventually break it down.  Pisces speaks to universal love and compassion.     What concrete barriers do we have in our hearts and psyches that block love and compassion?      

 

Virgo understands every dot has importance.   The forgotten appointment, the skipped item on the To-Do list, the task we said we would take care of but neglected creates a crack in our goals.    However, Neptune and Pisces may ask us to deepen our knowledge of self.  Perhaps there is another goal that is bigger and under our To-Do list.    If we want to pay our phone bill before it gets shut off, okay, that makes sense.  But is there a bigger goal under it, do we need more income, or a job change or a location change to expand our resources?    What is our intuition telling us?   Whatever is the crack in our lives, Neptune and the Full Moon in Pisces may be asking us to let the space just ‘be’ for a moment, perhaps there is a dream forming.  

 

My own experience is that sometimes the “Universe” gets our attention through maybe a random encounter or thought.   Consider what crosses your brain or path during the three-day phase.    Or maybe some curious component of nature. I remember driving through a canyon in Los Angeles and my husband and I were blown away when we turned a corner and there was a huge buck with crazy big antlers.  A buck is not a usual sight for me in a mega city.    He seemed a wizened, old guy, I was so moved by his presence when we got home, I looked for my old medicine cards.   I read about Deer Medicine, and it was a reminder of finding gentleness.   At that time there was something that needed me to find gentleness.   I do not even remember what the issue was but the connect about the deer and leaning into gentleness stayed with me.     The universe has its way of getting our attention.

Just before the full moon, Mercury forms an exact trine with Jupiter.   This is interesting because it speaks to both Virgo who is ruled by Mercury and Jupiter who long before Neptune was discovered was Pisces’ ruler.  

 

Mercury and Jupiter are supporting each other on this full moon.   Mercury in Libra is focused on finding balance and communication in our relationships.   Jupiter in Aquarius reminds us that our values and goals are benefited when we share them with our community.   

 

During these three days, lean into your community.  It is a great moon to volunteer.   

It is also an important full moon to find abundance (Jupiter) and quell the negative critical (Virgo) voice.   It is good to bring practicality to where there is confusion and stay on details but if your intuition says to leave something alone, do it.   Maybe something new is supposed to grow a crack.     

Astrology for the Week of September 6 - 11.

 

This week begins with Virgo New Moon.   Week’s that start off with a new moon give us a little extra kick in our step.    

 

The new moon lasts from September 6 – 10, this is the time of the waxing moon when we plant seeds.  On the Virgo lunar month our focus is on our daily actions.  What does our to-do list say about our values?   Are we just checking things off a list?   Are we doing enough to goals that are more authentic to our goals?   Is the life want in our calendar?   Plant seeds that lead you to daily actions towards your goals.    A fabulous new moon to launch a diet and exercise plan.    

 

On 9/10 Venus moves out of Libra and into Scorpio.   It is as different as day from night.   For the last month Venus has been in her home sign of Libra.  She is comfortable in light as air Libra, leaning into gentle encounters.  Looking for optimistic moments and kind moments, love flows easily.   In Scorpio, Venus is intensified as encounters are deep, dark and extreme.  Sex and jealous and issues around shared resources including money and loans will get our attention.   Love of power and power of love will be in our sights for the next month.    

 

 

 

Virgo New Moon 

14 Virgo 38 

September 6, 2021    

5:51 pm PDT 

 

 

This focus:     Where do you need daily discipline?  What actions do you need to improve your health?   What does your calendar say about what you value?  How are your daily actions building something new in your world?  

 

 

Special note:

 

9/6:  Sun Trine Uranus.  Shortly after the new moon, look at what blows in that is weird and odd but strangely helpful.  

9/7: Mercury oppose Chiron.   Thinking and communication may be stretched and uncomfortable but there is a healing that can come from it.  

 

 

 

Crescent Moon Phase

September 10, 2021

4:03am PDT

 

 

Focus on: What are you learning about your power?  What are you learning about your sexuality?  What are learning about letting something die for something to be report?   What are you learning about the power of digging deep?  

 

 

Special Focus

 

9/10: Venus enters Scorpio.   A whole other megillah.   Venus is deeper and darker in Scorpio.   Sex, death, rebirth, values centered around black and white and all or nothing. 

Virgo New Moon. September 6, 5:51pm PDT

 

Virgo on my ceiling by Sky View APP. 

September 6, 2021

14 Virgo 38

5:51pm 

Virgo New Moon is UP.    I almost was tardy which would not be approved by Virgo.    It is an interesting 28 days.  There are opportunities within tension.   The good news is the tension allows us to open up to some surprises by Uranus.  Will we do it?   

You will find my write up HERE. 

By the way, Happy New Year to all my Jewish friends!  

August 30 - September 6 Astrology

 

We are in the final days of the waning moon.   Take a moments to consider your strength, your joy, your ability to give and receive love and your creativity   See what comes up between now and September 6 that touches on this final Leo energy.  

August 30

12:13am PDT 

   

 

 

Last Quarter moon:  Now we do the final adjustments to the seeds we planted on new. The final call, the final letters to send, we follow all the trails that came up that still make sense.  And we let the other parts lay fallow. It is a time of action but wise action.  It is a time for living “The serenity prayer” 

 

God, grant me the Serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change Courage to change the
things I can, and the
Wisdom to know the difference.

 

 

 

Focus on:

How are your actions connected to your communication?  How do you walk your talk and how does it speak to your vitality?   How is your communication an authentic voice?   How are you vitalized by your connections within family and neighborhood?  What do you read and write and how does it bring you joy? 

 

 

Special focus 

8/2: Mars oppose Neptune.  Laser actions versus faith and spirituality.  What actions can be taken that access intuition?  

 

 

Balsamic Moon Phase

 

September 3

1:28am   PDT      

 

Balsamic:   We let go.  By releasing we can prepare for the new.  

 

 

Focus on How are you releasing your emotions?  How are your releasing your feelings?  How are you releasing your roots?   How are you releasing your family? 

 

Special focus: 

8/5: Venus square Pluto.  Power of Love and love of power are on the fritz.  Go back to values.  What is important and what is not?  Where is the battle?  

8/6: Mars trine Pluto.   Actions that align with practicality.  Actions that may seem small have longer impact down the road.  

8/6: Venus trine Jupiter.  Expansiveness of love.  Values blossom.  New people, new dircles come into focus. 

 

 

Virgo New Moon September 6, 5:51pm PDT