Virgo energy is always testing our ability to accept the process of life. There is no perfect. The perfection is in the day to day learning through our choices and possible blunders. This is how we all learn. And what is good for one person, may not be the right thing for someone else. There is no one way to see things or one way to be.

Discernment is one of Virgo’s greatest assets. So, this is the perfect time to look at your life and decide what truly adds to it, that you want to manifest more of, while letting go of what may be toxic or detrimental. What lessons have you learned recently that need to be integrated to become a more effective steward and servant?

This New Moon is in opposition to Chiron (the wounded healer) in Pisces, magnifying our sensitivity to collective suffering and intensifying the wounded healer in each of us. Chiron’s message asserts that our wounds embody our most powerful gifts. This pain births the medicine we’re meant to use to help restore the world. To access our unique gifts, we must look within, without ego, and acknowledge our pain. Virgo’s perfectionism can block us from reaching out and sharing our gifts if we feel we have to be free of our pain and wounds before helping others. The higher vibration of Virgo energy is to use what is available, start where you are, and develop your skills on the fly as you move forward without self judgment.

Saturn in Sagittarius squares the opposition between Chiron and the New Moon, forming a mutable t-squareand adding pressure to the themes of healing and service. Now that Saturn is direct, it’s moving toward its third and final square to Chiron (exact on November 2). Saturn is the principle of necessity and structure, and its square to Chiron in Pisces can push us to come out of denial and turn toward the things we’re afraid to see in ourselves and in the world and to find structured ways to serve. Saturn–Chiron can make it apparent that it’s actually more painful to stay in illusion than to face reality. When we soften our defenses and open up to the pain we’ve been avoiding, we’re able to access gifts and powers we didn’t even know we had.

There are five planets in Virgo now, the Sun, Moon, Mars, Venus and Mercury. Mercury is the ruler of Virgo and as such pushes our thoughts toward Virgo ideals. With all of this Virgo energy we have everything we need to expand our intuition and our ability to tune into the big picture. Mercury is the Magician, and we can change our reality through our thinking, our words and actions, and through our awareness each and every moment.

Written by Wendy Cicchetti

PLAN YOUR OWN NEW MOON CEREMONY. Give yourself some quiet time in meditation to see where you need to seed new ways of becoming. List these areas within your life you want to change. What areas do you want to break free from the norm and become more productive and discerning? The NEW MOON is the time to manifest the personal attributes you want to cultivate as well as the tangible things you want to bring to you. Possible phrasing: I now manifest ____ into my life. I am now _______ . Remember, think, envision and feel with as much emotion as possible, as though you already have what you want. Thoughts are things and the brain manifests exactly what you show it in the form of thoughts, visuals and emotions. The Buddha said, and I am paraphrasing, “We are the sum total of our thoughts up to today. ” If we want to be different then we must change our thoughts. “If you always do what you’ve always done then you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” CONSCIOUS CHANGE is the key.