Virgo 2nd New Moon – 21 Sept. 2025

On humanity’s stormy ocean,
your surfboard is an inner connection to your Self.

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(don’t worry about the astro-jargon – go for the gist)

Let’s do our best – then let go and accept life’s results

.       This New Moon, being on the last degree of the sign, expresses the completion of Virgo’s commitment to the Zodiac wholeness. There is a beautiful phrase that brings peace in any situation for the person who remembers it: ‘Things always happen at the right time.’ One thing that is corrected by this idea is the belief that we have any control over what results from our actions, that we should have been able to make it better. Our insistence that we can control events by our behaviour or desires is purely our small ego endeavouring to be bigger than it is. So correcting this error allows for the sense of something that really is greater moving events in a way that is part of the entire unrolling of life each moment. We can then relax – do our best in accordance with our own lights, of course, but how things turn out is not ours to worry about. How the results weigh in Libra’s scales will come next, but at the end of all the work we have put in, we need first to let go and relax.

Our own experience mirrors the world ‘out there’

.       By the end of a month focused on a Virgo way of being – working away trying to improve things – we have probably grasped that the whole situation is way too complex and unstable for us to get our heads around it all. This is especially true in these times of huge worldwide upheaval. We are all affected by that energy, giving us the feeling there’s just too much going on all the time.

.       The chart for this New Moon is, once again, extraordinary – the planetary arrangements in the two halves of the Zodiac mirror each other almost perfectly: that is, the pattern of planets in the first 6 Zodiac signs, the personal half, is a mirror image of the second 6 signs, the more socially involved half. (Please do look at the chart in my video, and you’ll see the pattern.) Most of the planets are part of this pattern which means that everything is affecting everything else, our personal lives a microcosm of the global picture. It is less and less possible to ignore the rest of the world, even if it doesn’t immediately show in your personal life. Another phrase comes to mind: ‘As above, so below’; and I would add to that: ‘As without, so within!’ The arguments we hear people having ‘out there’ will be mirroring the kind of argument going on inside us between our small self-oriented desires and our altruistic ideals.

Give freedom, rather than sacrificing attachment

.       We need to be careful not to criticise, judge or reject as unworthy the need to take care of our selves. We each are as we are, and our souls need us to be that in order to be in this life at all. So sacrificing oneself for ‘the greater good’ is not the attitude for this time. The middle point between these two extremes is pointed up by Venus sextile Mars in the chart – Venus taking last month’s New Moon position at the beginning of Virgo, relating to each individual you meet with respect and care as another struggling human being; while Mars at the end of Libra is in touch with others, and working to balance everyone’s wants and needs.

.       This care of the other, while staying true to ourself, may find us at odds with the greater issues (Venus square Uranus, Mars square Pluto). Some people will be taking sides, and we need to take care not to get swept into the frustration of not being understood. What may well happen in your relationship picture is that some who seem to have been close to you may choose their opinion or situation over their regard for you, or it maybe you who does that to them. In which case, we will each be examining how to proceed with our previously settled friendships or partnerships. What is most important is to feel what you feel, and not judge yourself or another for how we express that in any one moment, because in the next moment we could feel very different.

.       Sometimes we have to cross a boundary to know that it’s there, we may have to experience life without some previously cherished person or thing to know whether we would actually prefer to have them return, and it may not be possible. If, in the process, the relationship changes irrevocable, just know that ‘things do happen at the right time’ and look for the benefits the result gives you (Venus and Mars both quincunx Saturn/Neptune from their sextile positions). We are not in control of events – and hopefully would not aim to control another person – so people will end up where they need to be, physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Full Moon in Aries – Sun in Libra

.       The focus of the Full Moon chart, 7 October, is towards handling, in the most dispassionate way we can, the deeper issues that will have arisen through the previous two weeks’ focus. Which is to say again, feel what you feel, but make sure you stay focused on your feelings, noticing how much they are telling you about yourself, your past, your conditioning, and your growth. Let the other person, or people, have their process, without interfering just because you hurt (Mercury just into Scorpio at the point of a yod from Saturn/Neptune and Uranus, and squaring Pluto). This approach to your experience will bear valuable fruit, bringing inner strength and deeper understanding in your dealings with friends, family and community.

.       The ability to stand back, the better to observe and listen to others as well as yourself, brings calmness to a situation, and also tunes you in to the wisest and most useful response for the whole. Above all will be the generosity to care for, and assist, those who are struggling. It may seem to many that the pendulum is swinging too far, but balance doesn’t come about without the weight of focus passing the middle point several times. The weight will gradually come to rest on the good of all when every point has been considered, accepted and allowed to settle, rather than giving it another unnecessary verbal push! (Mercury squares Pluto.) Acceptance is a virtue of the heart, approval is a judgement of the mind – and it’s the heart of love that holds the focus at present, however we choose to express that (Venus on the South Node in Virgo). Care for self first is paramount, but care for others is a pretty close second!

Ideally, Virgo’s harvest is harmonious relating

.       The culmination of Virgo’s season is the harvest – put in the work of self inquiry, meditation on life and on love, and the fruit you will harvest in personal inner growth will reverberate through all your experience. We are learning to access the joy and peace that is the natural state of a whole human being. We have been conditioned for so long that struggle and attack are essential for survival that they have become our default approach to life, when survival does not require them in truth. As we are born to be physically healthy, joy and love are the healthy emotions, interest and problem solving are the healthy attitudes of the mind. May we harvest natural health and happiness as we work towards the next New Moon at the end of Libra, so we can share joy and peace in all our relating!

.      Through meditation, we can discover inner peace, and our bodies are grateful! Healthful ways of living help – food, rest, enjoyment. But finding peace is easier if all our levels are at rest, with a quiet inward focus. Once found, inner peace can be recalled during activity, and even in outer turmoil. This would be a good month to practise, and our world will respond according to our state of being. Reflections . . .

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Contemplation for this New Moon at the end of Virgo

Virgo speaks:

“Feed the world with your harvest;
food in mugs and bowls for the dear bodies,
encourage emotional flow with music, sweet pipes,
tanpura, cello and harp;
inspiring words uplift the heart in good cheer and song;
brave gentleness, and courage to be true to oneself;
ideas are food for questing minds that tolerate confusion;
soft touch, kind smile, laughter and tears,
and garlands of flowers
perfume and colour –
food for the soul, for the journey . . .

“Oh, may I feed the world whatever I have,
and may I be strong to stand in the love of the One
until the hunger is only
for heaven
within”

With love.

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