In the wake of the Virgo Sun trine Pluto Retrograde in Capricorn earlier in the week, the Virgo New Moon arrives at 4:36a PDT on Thursday, September 5th, to help us starting putting our new plans to work.
The shallow explanation of New Moon in Virgo is that it is an opportunity for you to set plans in motion that help improve your life’s functionality.
The deeper explanation of New Moon in Virgo is that it is an opportunity for you to set plans in motion that help you to heal old wounds and bring forth solutions to long-standing problems.
It is my observation and experience that Chiron – “The Wounded Healer” –is the ruler of Virgo. That said, when the New Moon occurs this sign, there is an opening for emotional healing to occur. Couple that with the fact that the Moon will also trine Pluto as it approaches its maximum New Moon phase, and there is especially transformative emotional healing potential available during this 2013 Virgo New Moon.
But in true Plutonic fashion, the healing can only occur when something is released or destroyed in order to clear the way for the healing to begin. Transformation is a process of dying in order to be re-born, and in the case of this particular Virgo New Moon trine Pluto Retrograde in Capricorn, there is a phoenix that gets to rise from the ashes of the old standards and transitions of living. This phoenix energy is what is at the core of the intention and/or plan you’ve hopefully created to help you move forward on your life’s journey.
By just solving your problem on the surface, you may ease present tensions, but those tensions are bound to arise again because the root cause of the problem has not been addressed and dealt with. The next time something pokes at the root of the problem or wound, those same old tensions will surface again.
Through the deeper healing and problem-solving process, you are facing, dealing with, and healing the problem at its roots, you can ensure that they will not be able to be triggered again. Instead of it sucking you back into the depths of darkness and/or a disorganized and dysfunctional day-to-day experience of your life, you are able to overcome that past and build a more reliable daily operating system for your life based upon healed wounds and the absence of the problem. You have a clean slate to build upon.
Of course, the phoenix process is challenging to most of us for one major reason: in order to be re-born, a part of us must die. This is where things get complicated.
When considering what needs to go, you may want to consider what Virgo represents. It represents how you go about being of service to yourself and others on a daily basis. It deals with the details of your basic operating systems – mentally, physically, and worldly – and health and wellness are priorities in this area simply because your physical body and your whole being have to be functioning well in order to support your functionality in day-to-day life.
That said, when applying New Moon in Virgo trine Pluto Retrograde in Capricorn to your own life, you may want to look at which standards, structures, or traditions are you living by that are outdated or otherwise no longer serve you well. Especially if you notice that your own physical health and well-being are compromised in your day-to-day life, you may consider withdrawing from things that drain your energy or remain the same despite your efforts to change them. You may also look to some of your emotional issues as your physical health challenges or your difficulties in attending to certain matters in your life may be rooted in those.
Once you identify what is causing the challenge, then comes the hard part – choosing to let go of the struggle. You may be saying, “Of course I want to let it go! It’s holding me back!” Yet when you’ve grown accustomed to living with a particular wound or a problem, it may be quite a task to imagine living a life without it. Releasing it or letting it die can be very confronting when you’ve identified yourself with the pain and suffering for such a long time.
However, is the symbolic death of your old, dysfunctional everyday reality worth the new, healthy, and functional daily life that emerges from it? That is the question you get to answer for yourself as you step into the energy of this 2013 New Moon in Virgo. You may find that the simple and practical plans you have made in order to move forward in your life may well be worth dying for.
Thank you for reading and sharing Signs and Numbers. Until next post…
~ Light, Love, and Blessings,
Grace
