Virgo is the sign of self analysis, self improvement and healing. In Virgo, we reach half of the Zodiac circle, it is a completion point where we can define who we are, our values, what we have learned about ourselves, our emotions and creativity.
Virgo is the last personal sign, the last sign of the zodiac dealing with individual matters, with self and how is the self developing in its perception through the experiences of life. And it is in Virgo that we finally start to purify everything in ourselves that no longer serves our soul purposes. We moderate our excesses, clean our body and mind so we can become healthier souls that are able to serve higher purposes.
All transpersonal planets are retrograde during this Virgo cycle of 2022. It means we are able to revisit many issues, and we are given more time to process what is going on in our souls and in the world at large.
August 27th: New Moon in Virgo
Sun and Moon conjunct at 4°03’ of Virgo
This is a time for self-analysis, in the very beginning of this sign. Analyze your thoughts and intentions, and who you are when you are by yourself. This new moon calls for the silence of the mind, so we can start to hear the voice of our souls. This is a time to take care of our personal places, our habits, our body and spirit, so we can develop a more holistic health.
We can start to become the best version of ourselves, and do the best we can. We are supposed to work hard on our soul growth, be constantly devoted to this process, until we become better individuals. Not better than someone else, but better than we were before.
So, working actively with the new moon means that you can actually set an intention for yourself, and tune into this lunar cycle’s energy. Show the universe that you are willing to grow! This is the first step.
Find the 4th degree of Virgo in your own natal chart and take note of the House it’s in. The House points to the area of your life experience where you should improve to be better than you were before, to purify what needs to be purified so you can become the best version of yourself in the matters of that House.
Sun and Moon in Virgo square Mars in Gemini (exact)
Mars in Gemini is in a challenging aspect to the new Moon. This is about the challenge to interact with others at the same time that we are in a self analysis process, wanting to be alone.
So, as much as you need to focus and concentrate on your self analysis and self development process, at the same time, you need to make the effort to interact with other people as well. But Mars requires that you are true to yourself in these interactions. These are meaningful and purposeful interactions, even if they are occasional.
Mars in Gemini is about the willingness to learn something new. This learning comes from daily interactions and life experiences, short travels, messages. And it is supposed to be light and cool.
Yes, maybe we try to convince others of something we believe in with Jupiter in Aries, but we can actually be gentle and diplomatic in doing so, even captivating, with Mercury in Libra. So, it turns out to be a good aspect which prompts us to reach out to others with our ideas.
Mercury, ruler of Virgo and Gemini
Mercury in Libra
Mercury trine Mars in Gemini
Mercury opposite Jupiter in Aries retrograde
We may have been through much thinking, much trying to find solutions, and it can feel overwhelming to the mind. But after all, we can now be more refined in our communications with Mercury in Libra. We can better relate to others, because we have also learned a lot about ourselves lately, about our natural qualities and characteristics, our potentials and where we stand.
The universe has been giving us conditions to be more self-aware and more aware of the people around us. And it has been a delicate time, with separations and endings, but which have all served a purpose, to have more balance and more justice in our relationships.
So, we can understand things now in a more refined manner. We can be detached as well, wanting to appreciate and learn from relationships, learn from our alliances and partnerships. We can better understand now what is truly harmonizing for us in relationships, and express it in a very gentle, but still strong, manner.
This strength comes from all the uplifting energy Mercury has been infused with during Leo season, last month. Our minds have hopefully been able to be very creative and heart-oriented, so now we can use it for something real and concrete in our lives. And the right people for you will appreciate it.
Venus in Leo
Venus square Uranus retrograde
Venus square the Nodes of the Moon
Venus in Leo demands love and appreciation, admiration and even glorification. This energy is pushing us to demand what is best for ourselves. We don’t want to be involved in unhappy unions, controlling and manipulative alliances, or even toxic alliances, or abusive contracts, all of which haven’t done anything other than drain our energy, time and resources. Now is a time to demand true love, real appreciation, happy partnerships and uplifting alliances.
There is a need to be a little egotistical in our relationships now. We want to relate to the right people for us, the ones who will appreciate our essence, our spontaneity and our creativity. We want to be loved now, by just being who we are.
It is so important, especially for women I should say, that we recognize how much we actually want to feel loved and appreciated, not for being what others expect, but for being ourselves, in all colors and expressions.
I mentioned “women”, but it is actually about the female archetype in its relationship to the male archetype. The square between Lilith in Cancer and Chiron in Aries is now activated by the Moon (ruler of Cancer) in a square to Mars (ruler of Aries). This is a process of empowerment of the feminine, and simultaneous healing of the masculine.
Now, Venus is involved in a very tense aspect, a T-square. The opposition to Saturn in Aquarius makes it all feel difficult, heavy and maybe overwhelming. We may not understand why it can be so hard for us to feel loved and appreciated for who we are. And that’s because Saturn in Aquarius wants to make sure that we understand our personal value as souls among other souls.
We must become aware of our true value, the value of our souls, the self worth we have reached through soul growth. And it can be so much different than we imagined when living a superficial life where we compare ourselves to others all the time.
Saturn in Aquarius is challenging us to see our true, authentic, soul commitments and responsibilities to other people in our lives. This is not what others have put on our shoulders to carry, neither what our culture dictates, but what we are choosing to be committed to or responsible for.
Uranus in Taurus has been pushing us to change our self value and self worth, to free it from outdated patterns. So, the revolution and innovation is occurring firstly inside ourselves, when we look in the mirror and feel deserving of something better, of happiness, respect, abundance and love.
As a collective, we feel deserving of a better world. And it is a courageous endeavor to face the opposition of the old values, of the old paradigm and outdated structures inside and outside of us, which are about to collapse (if they haven’t already).
September 3rd: First Quarter Moon in Sagittarius
The first quarter is the phase when we are supposed to make an effort to make that intention set on the new moon, grow. So, take note of the House where this first quarter moon is transiting in your natal chart. This is the area of your life where you can apply this energy efficiently, taking action to make your intention grow. So, what is this energy of the first quarter moon in Sagittarius?
Moon in Sagittarius in opposition to Mars in Gemini
T-Square to the Sun in Virgo
The moon in Sagittarius asks us to move ahead and to take our inner work to the next level. We are supposed to get out of our cave, out of our self-analysis process, and go into the unknown. Although we have a goal, a purpose or direction we want to follow, it is still unknown what lies ahead. So, this is a time to believe, be optimistic and have faith that we are going to be successful in what we are pursuing.
We are supposed to apply everything we have been working on in ourselves, to a purpose, a direction, a goal. We are supposed to expand now. And we may face opposition from others, even aggressiveness in their words, against our need to expand.
This can scatter our energy and focus, generating doubt inside of us. But it really is another test, so we can be more certain and totally aware of our own energy and where we stand.
Jupiter is retrograde in Aries, meaning that it is still revisiting some places of the past to help us understand who we really are on a more expanded level of consciousness. So, we can actually learn a lot from conflicts and arguing, if we are open to expand and grow. This can actually be a positive brainstorm.
Mercury in Libra in opposition to Jupiter in Aries retrograde
Mercury trine Mars in Gemini
The brainstorm and the arguing, discussing and thinking it through, can actually help us in gaining more clarity to make the right decisions for us. Our minds can be a little bit defensive now, or we can be unsure and unable to make a decision, so it is important that we take the time to make it clearer.
We often gain a lot more clarity around something when we speak it out loud. When we hear ourselves speaking something after being triggered, then we are able to understand what we are really thinking, feeling or wanting out of a situation or relationship.
So it is very important that we pay attention to our words and how we put our energy in our dialogues to other people, especially those dialogues that trigger emotional reactions in us. That will say a lot about what we really need to adjust, moderate or develop in ourselves.
September 10th: Full Moon in Pisces
To actively work with the full moon, we should evaluate our results. Take note of the House where this full moon is transiting in your natal chart. This is the area of your life where you may see something change or be revealed in a new light. There can be fulfillment or greater clarity around our emotions and true needs in the matters of that house.
Moon conjunct Neptune retrograde in Pisces
This full moon can open up some wounds inside of us, releasing energy that may have been pushing us back. This is actually a result of our self-improvement, and it is good for us although we may be fearful of what’s next. It may feel intense, but it is a healing process, a spiritual process of releasing and letting go, so just breathe and relax!
As much as we feel it inside, the energy we release actually goes outside, to others and what is around us that can connect to it. So, we are actually offering our energy from our heart center, to heal it. We are supposed to allow the energy to move through us, allow our feelings and thoughts to dissipate. And this really makes us lighter to reach higher realms of existence.
So, in Pisces we face endings. This is the final letting go of something, opening our hearts to a new reality. It is supposed to help us begin a new journey without the ghosts of our past haunting us. So, if there are still things that you need to let go and transcend, this is the time to honor this need.
You can literally stay under the full moon light, taking some deep breaths, trying to exhale from yourself what you need to let go and transcend. Exhale all the sorrow, sadness, heaviness, fear, attachments. Be willing to become lighter by freeing yourself from these emotional chains.
We are supposed to just let go of the past, transcending it and even turning it into an epic journey of love and soul growth. Seeing things from this romanticized angle can actually be positive now, so we can turn our life experiences into a masterpiece, so to speak.
Sun and Moon T-square Mars in Gemini
Still, there may be some work we need to do to liquidate the ghosts of the past. We need to make the effort to liquidate whatever is in our minds and hearts which can block us from the release of energy, and consequently, from our soul growth.
There may be things that we feel we need to speak about with someone. This is a time to use our voice and communicate what needs to be communicated. We should make it clear that, in doing so, we really want to let go and move on.
Maybe there are things we need to learn, in order to move on. We may realize that we need to improve our skills, or develop new ones, so we can have better results.
Moon sextile North Node in Taurus
Being sensitive will help us move ahead. There are new realities we need to accommodate and adapt to inside, so we can better accommodate and adapt to the changes outside of us. So, use your imagination, be willing to see the beauty of life, of nature, and imagine a better life for yourself, and a better world for all. Visualization of what is possible will help us make the best out of these times of great changes.
Venus in Virgo
After the tension between Venus and Saturn, we may now feel a little empty and undervalued, unappreciated. Maybe we have received a lot of criticism, or been too critical ourselves. We may feel that we can’t avoid some subservience after all, in order to accomplish something. And it can be frustrating to submit, to step back and be denied what we want.
The issue here is to understand that there can be things that still really hold us back, hold us from fully embracing who we are. Try to see it from a different perspective. Whatever holdbacks and rejections we may face have served their purpose to show us who we really are, and who we are not.
This is actually providing us with more accuracy and discrimination to understand our true worth and to understand the mechanism of our relationships, how we embrace others and relate to them. This can actually help us be more practical and devoted to our self-improvement, so we can have relationships that are more fluid. We should concentrate on ourselves, because we can only improve and heal ourselves, not others.
Mercury stations retrograde in Libra (ruled by Venus)
This is a time to revisit things we have been analyzing and thinking through in ourselves and in our relationships lately. There are adjustments to be made, maybe a reorientation that is needed in order for us to be true to our souls.
Being true to your soul means that you recognize your soul through the experiences of life. Our life’s events are not coincidental or aleatory. They are taking us to our destiny, but we need to grasp the continuity of our soul growth. We are constantly changing and learning, there are many possible paths to reach that destination point. But if we don’t have continuity in our chosen paths, we can get lost.
So, with Mercury retrograde in Libra, the universe is offering us time to make considerations on our soul growth, to better understand what we are getting from our life experiences and if they have continuity. Our results and reactions we get from others can help us in understanding if the paths and people in our lives are really the correct ones for us, for who we have become. Are we continuously growing with them? Are they really resonating with us, with our soul?
September 17th: Last Quarter Moon in Gemini
Sun and Moon T-square Neptune retrograde in Pisces
This can be a confusing time, and we may feel lost, not knowing what we have gathered until here and what we are supposed to learn. After all, we may feel unsure of who we are and where we are going.
There is a need to simplify and make things practical. Return to the essentials, focus on your priorities. Don’t let your imagination be excessive to the point it never stops you from wandering. This is a time to be aware that we may scatter our energy and waste precious time. We really need to have more control of our thoughts during this phase, so we don’t lose track of where we are going.
This last quarter moon in Gemini is presenting us with the challenge to analyze our thoughts. Some of them just don’t have any utility and may even hinder our plans. Acknowledge where you have been deluded or maybe too self-sacrificing or self-sabotaging. This is not serving you at all, and now is the time to be totally aware of it!
Mercury retrograde in Libra opposite Jupiter retrograde in Aries
We should reorganize our beliefs about who we are or should be. We have for sure learned things, maybe from our parents, our teachers or others in our lives. There have been people passing on their knowledge to us and we should remember this knowledge now. It has contributed to forming our identity. Even in the differences and arguing, we may have learned important lessons that have made us who we are.
But not all that we have learned is actually supportive of who we want to be. Not all resonate with our souls. And we may still have beliefs about who we are that have actually limited us greatly. So, we need to balance this, by questioning our beliefs. And we may come to realize we must let go of some of these beliefs about who we are and what we are capable of in this life.
Venus square Mars
Venus trine North Node
Mars sextile Chiron
We are supposed to be the ones to define who we are and what we are capable of in this life. We should be the ones to know our worth and what we truly deserve. Our relationships will trigger that questioning in us, maybe through painful experiences that generate deep wounds. These wounds need healing, and although healing is never painless, it’s what we are given the opportunity to do in this cycle and, especially during the waning moon.
So, gathering everything we have learned from Virgo Lunar Cycle of 2022, we should now be able to:
Understand the importance of our interactions and exchanges with others in our self-development and healing process.
Use what we have learned about ourselves and our self-worth, applying it in our relationships and interactions with others, so we can heal and balance our relationships.
Let go of the past and understand which are our true responsibilities and commitments to others, releasing self-limiting beliefs and emotional attachments.
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