The 2024 Virgo New Moon reaches its maximum phase at 6:55p PDT on Monday 2nde September 2024 at 11°04’ Virgo. Virgo is a mutable earth sign, often associated with systems and processes. Think of is like mud. When mud has a lot of water, it Is loose and has some flow to it. When mud doesn’t have a much water, it has less flow and more structure – it’s still pliable, but much less so. We’ll come back to this mud analogy later, but first, let’s look at Virgo’s role in the big picture of the Zodiac.
Virgo is the transition energy of the Summer season in the northern hemisphere (winter in the southern hemisphere), preparing us for Autumn/harvest or Spring/rebirth. Either way, this energy strongly influences how we apply the resources we acquired through Taurus in order to achieve the goals and objectives we determined in Capricorn. In other words, Virgo often represents where, how, and what motivates us to manage our everyday life responsibilities. Of course, where Virgo is placed within your personal chart will help you better understand where, how, and why you do the (daily) work you do. Yet as we discuss this 2024 Virgo New Moon, we’re going to look at Virgo in the context of the message it’s bringing to all of us – collectively – at this time.
At the time this New Moon reaches its maximum phase, there are five planets in retrograde – Saturn, Chiron, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. These are all outer planets, which makes them collective and generational influences. Therefore, we’re experiencing a collective introspective and reflective vibe – a very intense “How are we, as a community/society/humanity, doing?” inquiry right now. And though we’re all being affected by this because we’re all part of humanity, some of us are more aware of this dynamic than others, which is what makes this 2024 Virgo New Moon frustrating for some yet liberating for others. This is where we’ll return to the mud analogy to explain the energies of this 2024 Virgo New Moon.
For those who are frustrated, the 2024 Virgo New Moon is a time for recognizing just how limited we feel, and we’re inclined to play victim to the limitations we perceive. We’re trudging through the thick mud, and not making much headway because we’re also resisting feeling our feelings about our situation. Many of us have been conditioned to “stop whining” or not to “complain”, and to keep our heads down to work. Yet as the type of work we’ve been doing proves more and more futile, more and more of us are beginning to speak up and speak out, and not hold back our feelings. Yet some of us still aren’t wanting to feel our feelings, because we realize what our feelings say about our personal values and motivations, and we don’t like what we’re seeing in ourselves… yet we also don’t want to change ourselves. We want others to change for us, to make our work easier for us. We want the world to accept our wounds so we don’t have to do the work to face them, deal with them, or heal them.
However, for those of us who understand the shifts occurring with this 2024 Virgo New Moon, this is a liberating time – a time to step out and away from the limiting beliefs we’ve held ourselves in, and to step into new or different ways of navigating the well-established systems and processes that may have longevity, but no longer serve us well. We’re no longer “whining” or “complaining” – we’re making choices and taking action steps to change the systems and processes that we used to whine and complain about. As water is symbolic of emotional energy in most spiritual traditions, instead of wallowing in our emotions, we’re putting our “water” energy into our “mud” to make it more fluid, to give it more flow. This results in movement or flow returning to our lives – a structured if not organized flow, but nevertheless, flow.
This creation of flow isn’t easy – it’s actually quite challenging. However, the results may very well be well worth putting the work. The clearing of old beliefs about ourselves and others will bring deep healing and help us find and reap benefits we’ve long been seeking. The only thing is that we must choose to do this work for ourselves. No one can do it for us – no one else can heal us. As individuals, we must make the choice to heal ourselves and to take that work on to our personal benefit before we can truly be of service to the greater whole.
That said, it becomes clear that the work to be done under and as result of this 2024 Virgo New Moon phase isn’t necessarily external. Though there may be plenty of external work to be done, this shift is an internal one which begins on the individual, personal level. This New Moon is calling upon us to do our internal emotional and intellectual work. It’s calling upon us to look at the way we think and speak; how our thoughts and words affect how we feel about ourselves, our lives, and the world around us; and how those feelings influence our beliefs, values, choices, and actions.
The reason so many of us may be feeling tired, burnt-out, overworked right now is because we need to do the work to re-calibrate or re-align our internal with the external… or rather, we need to re-calibrate our internal so we can discern and then consciously choose what truly aligns with us externally.
These choices may result in our letting go of certain interests, projects, commitments, participations, a and/or relationships in order to ease our energetic and emotional burdens, and reclaim the energy and passion necessary to do the work we need to do on a day-to-day basis in order to sustain ourselves, and also the work we want to do in practical service to ourselves and others.
The numerological energies of the day also play powerful roles in this 2024 Virgo New Moon phase, with the Moon reaching its max phase on a 1 Universal Day in the Americas and all points west of them, and on a 2 Universal Day for the rest of the world. This is fascinating because it shows the individual call to healing being sounded in the Americas, while the rest of the world seems to be a step ahead, already discerning and choosing its (healthier) partners for the next phase of their journeys. All of this is happening under the influence of an 8 Universal Month and an 8 Universal Year, revealing the potential of a major shift in power and influence occurring within ourselves, which would likely manifest itself in the collective. As more individuals awaken to their personal power and take on their individual healing journeys, the more the collective will begin to act in synergy. It wouldn’t be surprising to see more individuals, communities, societies, and nation states forming new, different, and in some cases, surprising partnerships and alliances in order to shift the balance of power in their favor.
And what is that favor?
The favor of claiming or reclaiming their power, their sovereignty – reclaiming themselves.
Yes, as people awaken in their consciousness, they’re ready to get to work… on themselves.
The majority of partnerships forming now and from this point on won’t be forming as toxic co-dependencies – more and more of them are and will continue to form as healthy interdependencies. People are realizing they’re stronger together than individually, yet they also know that the partnerships are only as healthy as they individually choose to be. There’s incentive to strength one’s own integrity in order to attract better, healthier partners… and an understanding that one has to do their (internal)work to position themselves in this way.
For a deeper understanding of the energies in play during this 2024 Virgo New Moon, here are the major astrological transits at the time of the New Moon’s maximum phase:
Leo Mercury trine Aries Chiron Retrograde (22-23°) – By speaking and sharing your creative brilliance with others, you may find yourself better understanding what actually needs to be healed with your self-identity. One of the things you may be surprised to learn and understand is that you’ve been trying to heal wounds that we never truly your own. This may be a call to stop trying to heal other people’s wounds – their jealousy and envy is not yours to fix or heal. This will be a very empowering realization for many of us as individuals, and may help us redirect our light toward others who can value and appreciate it.
(Libra Black Moon Lilith conjunct Venus conjunct South Node conjunct Juno) square Capricorn Ceres Retrograde (5-8°) – You may be trying to balance energies with others who aren’t ready or willing to deal with their shadow aspects. Many of these connections may have roots in past-life or karmic connections which can only be balanced with both/all parties involved are willing to face their shadows. These mismatches are likely to show up most clearly when discussing goals and objectives – the ability to balance these energies is found in the willingness to look at the motivations behind those goals – the why someone wants to achieve something. It’s a values conversation, and it’s a moment of truth for many of us in discovering what our own and others values actually are, and what’s really at the foundation of one or more of our partnerships (of any/all kinds).
(wide) (Virgo Moon conjunct Virgo 8 Sun) opposite Pisces Saturn Retrograde (11-16°) – It’s going to be difficult to keep your emotions in check during this New Moon phase, largely because you’re being called to feel the impact of what is and isn’t flowing in your life right now. Where are you getting stuck and why – are you creating the slowdown, or are you allowing yourself to stay connected with one or more others who are slowing you down? Are you resisting the flow of energy in your life through your own actions, or are you
Scorpio Pallas Athena opposite Taurus Uranus Retrograde (27-28°) – As we are called to look within ourselves in regard to our personal and collective/social values, we are also finding ourselves having to look at the deep emotional currents beneath those values. When our values and resource strategies are emotion-driven, we must find and face the shadow aspects of those
YOD: Capricorn Pluto Retrograde quincunx Gemini Mars quincunx Scorpio Pallas Athena (28-29°) – Acting upon ideology becomes a bit tricky when the institutions you’re trying to take action within aren’t operating the way you’ve been led to believe. This is a call to look beyond ideology to see the actual reality you’re trying to navigate, then choose your actions according to fact not fiction.
BLESSING TRIANGLE: Taurus Uranus Retrograde sextile Pisces Neptune Retrograde sextile Capricorn Pluto Retrograde 27-29°) – There’s a powerful call for introspection right now – to reassess our collective values and motives, and to look at how we, as individuals, may shape our individual values around the collective ones. What do you do when your personal values don’t align with the collective values? What do you do if the collective values are evolving in ways which you can no longer stand for or support? How do those possibly discordant values affect your visions and aspirations for your future? If you’re feeling disempowered by these emerging misalignments, recognize the empowerment that can come through realigning your visions and goals with your personal value. Instead of pursuing what you think society wants, rediscover and reclaim your power by pursuing how you really want to serve the world.
Gemini Mars square Pisces Neptune Retrograde (28-29°) – Taking action to pursue your ideology may challenge what you say you believe in. Do you really believe in a particular spiritual truth if your actions contradict that truth and/or your belief in it? Are your spiritual ideals making it harder for you to take the actions your intellectual ideology tells you that you’re supposed to take? Is the “logic” not aligning with your supposed spiritual truth?
Scorpio Pallas Athena trine Pisces Neptune Retrograde (28-29°) – Recognize that your strategy may be rooted in your idealistic vision, and that you may be driven by your emotional investment in that vision, rather than in the practical reality of your circumstances. Once you admit to how you really feel about a situation, you can find power in that truth and you can create a much more realistic strategy that holds just as much passion as the original, but is rooted in emotional honesty rather than idealistic delusion.
The 2024 Virgo New Moon will be felt from Friday 30th August through Thursday 5th September 2024, acting as part reset button, part trailblazer. It reminds us that we have power in how our personal journey goes. We get to choose if we’re trying to trudge through thick mud and finding ourselves stuck in it, or if we’re allowing ourselves to feel our emotions honestly and fully so we can experience flow.
Are you ready to get to work… on yourself? Are you ready to restore your flow?
If so, now’s a perfect time to dive in.
Thank you for reading and sharing Signs and Numbers. Until next post…
~ Light and Blessings,
Grace
