Astrology of the Virgo New Moon Sept 9th 2018.

Birthing in the Mud on the Socialist New Moon

The Moon is now in Virgo and waning towards tomorrow’s New Moon at 17˚ 00' Virgo and at 12.02pm MDT.

Today though, as we wane to the New Moon, Venus is in the last/anaretic degree of Libra and squaring off to still out of bounds Mars at the last/anaretic degree of Capricorn.

Ouch!

Venus is powerful in her own sign, Libra, and is slowing to retrograde on Oct 5th as she faces her intense underworld journey beginning at 10˚ Scorpio and returning to this point twice more in the coming weeks. Mars is rogue in the sign of the rules we live by, Capricorn.

The two are going to bring disruption and tension between the yin and yang balance.

Even more when they both move into fixed signs Scorpio and Aquarius respectively and begin to perfect a fixed Grand Cross square with Uranus and Taurus and the North Node in Leo that creates even more tension. But more on that later.

This weekend is all about earth and water because once Venus moves into Scorpio around 3.20am MDT tomorrow we will have none of the main planets or luminaries in air or fire.

Earth and water is yin/’feminine’ energy and very ‘socialist’ to me which is why I half jokingly call it the Socialist New Moon.

The earthy grand trine from Pallas Athena/Mercury in Virgo/Uranus in Taurus/Saturn in Capricorn with Venus in watery Scorpio forming a kite aspect. The 17˚ Virgo New Moon opposing watery Neptune in Pisces and aspecting Jupiter in Scorpio and Pluto in Capricorn makes this intense water/earth and muddy energy.

This takes me back to the beginning of the year where I wrote Slow Down and Sculpt.

As we approach the first New Moon after a crazy summer we get this big opportunity to create the form we wish to work on moving forward, to sculpt the new creations that come from the eclipsing of old patterns and ways of being.

Virgo is a deeply feminine sign that represents service to others and the opposition to…

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