Virgo Season is Right on Time
Sun in Virgo August 22 - September 22
Virgo season is a delight. On one hand, folks whose lives rely on the academic calendar get an extra dose of help. Virgo is all about details and organization and to-do lists. Planning, scheduling and calendaring. She's right on time for back-to-school. If there's something that isn't working about your daily routine, now's the time to tweak it.
Use this past Mercury retrograde as a jumping-off point. Since retrogrades are for review (or remedy--RX), we can look back at the past month and reflect on what this Mercury in retrograde highlighted and what systems we can streamline as we move into Autumn. (Fun fact: Mercury rules Virgo. When it leaves Leo on September 1st and moves into Virgo, it will be in its home sign, or domicile). Mercury is associated with the flow of information: so we hone in on where communication, technology, transportation, and intellectual processes were interrupted. Any SNAFUs related to those areas provide us with intel on how things could run more smoothly: comms patterns that need to be reworked, checklists to be made, data to be backed up, routes to be rerouted, time math that needs re-mathing.
Are there any lessons from Mercury Rx you can integrate now? A new checklist for morning routines? Plans B and C in place for delays, transit troubles, lost keys. What will make daily life flow a bit easier? How can we create ease in our day-to-day? Here in Philly, SEPTA starts new schedules on the first of school. How can we prepare ahead of time?
Meal prepping and planning. Virgo assists us with both nourishing ourselves and getting organized. Is there something we want to transform in this area of our lives?
THIS is the energy we roll into September with.
In the general zodiac, Virgo occupies the Sixth House of Health*. This is why day-to-day routines fall in the Sixth house. Work is there in regards to our toil—how we carry out our work on the daily, not our careers—as is chores, service, and labor. Don’t forget the daily rituals.
How can we rethink the routine and make it ritualistic? Or add in rituals to make our days more sacred?
There's beauty to be had in Virgo season. If we don't get bogged down in the details, the criticism, and the perfectionism, we can lean into the essence of Virgo as an earthly goddess. A healer. She's associated with fertility and the harvest. What have we created? What have we developed that can sustain us through the fallow time?
It's the last month before the Fall Equinox. Take stock. What are the fruits of your labor and how can you relish them?
*The sign that rules your personal sixth house is likely not Virgo, unless you are Aries rising.