WATER

In the wheel of the priestess, Virgo is the Healer of the Zodiac. Tapping into Mercurial realms they can intuit and communicate well. Their aptitude for detail makes them inclined to have a well researched and stocked medicine cupboard and they are trusted with their detail oriented approach.

In the season of the Healer, how is the healer within apparent for you?

What is being asked of you to get clear? Virgo stands with her scythe ready to separate the wheat from the chaff.

~ Invitation ~

How do I speak to myself?

PRACTICE

Be present with all the mercurial winds that arise and notice where your thoughts have sabotaged your health and relationships

MOON

As the moon wanes, contemplate how you are in service and what needs to fall away in order for this to be achieved

ALTAR

Dream the Medicine Woman you wish to be in service as into your Altar. What is the Altar at which you serve?

GLYPH ♍

The Virgin (or Maiden) - Virgo is the Virgin - in the original meaning of the word - a woman fully unto herself - the tail of the glyph turned in and protective. This is the opposite to the Glyph for Scorpio - with the sting in its tail

RULER

Mutable Mercury - air realm - moveable, quick thinking and adept at communication and tuning into energy

JOURNAL

What are my gifts? How am I being called to bring them into service?

INCANTATION

“I serve …”

(Insert and chant, incantate, call to the stars whatever feels true for you)

RITUAL

It is time to be diligent in your service. To finely tune. To clear and be clear.

ARCHETYPE

Temple Priestess in service and devotion

I felt very called to speak about Black Moon Lilleth in conjunction with Virgo season. If you aren’t aware - find out how Black Moon Lilleth shows up in your star chart (the star map of you). BML is a point in your chart (not the asteroid) where you alchemise your poison into power. Find out what sign that falls in for clues to support how you can call your inner healer forward. This is the place you feel shamed - and likely links to deep ancestral shame that you carry for your lineage - for your desires. Chain breaking this is a powerful healing for your star line

In the legends of Lilleth, she is Adam’s first wife, before Eve. From the Earth and equal to him. Refusing to be repressed. She is a powerful totem for the liberation of women and their earth mother goddess healing powers. Of course in the stories she is demonised and outcast. It is the re integration of our Lilleth aspect that can be a powerful part of reclaiming our healer within

So perhaps consider where you carry shame - particularly about your needs, about material or sexual ones especially. How are they preventing you being seen. Can you alchemise them into being the most incredible healing powers for yourself and others?

Calling you forth Medicine Woman

Do you need to create space for a shedding and a new way to form in the fertile darkness before you arise from the ashes of your old being

These lunar, feminine archetypes speak from our womb spaces ~ they are not linear and they can not be commanded upon. They are deep truth that goes beyond conditioning and sometimes their medicine calls us so deeply to their truth that we can feel a sense of shame or sadness when we drop in. Our job is to witness that energy and to restory it. Instead giving thanks for the lessons and blessings.

*** Be aware of Virgo’s potential for over criticism ***

Plant Allies

Astro Herbalism with plant kin

Notice the fruits as they start to become and ripen

The Elder Mother has given her flowering and now turns to her fruiting phase. Notice where once there were delicate white flowers, there are tiny dark red berries beginning to form.

Let the wisdom of the Elder - the tree that is the medicine chest of the people and earth kin serve you to support your health. Let her call your wisdom forward in self healing. Soon her berries will become ripe and it is time to create a potent elixir to support us over the transitional seasons to winter and beyond

As we move towards the fruits of Mabon in the Northern Hemisphere, notice what is no longer flowering. Imagine if we were only able to actually get hold of it when it flowered - to be in relationship with at that time. Take a pause to consider how precious the cycles of life are. It is a deep blessing that we have so much ability to get things out of season but it comes at a price. How can you create a deeper relationship with the seasons and the gratitude for the harvest to support you and sustain you through the following months. How can you harvest deep gratitude for what is in your life?

In the Northern Hemisphere be so grateful for the relationships you have cultivated in this plant cycle and savour the fleeting time with what is left. In the Southern Hemisphere prepare to connect deeply with the plant kin that abounds

Autumn (or Spring) Equinox will set us once more into a sense of balance in a few weeks - perfectly pitched with Libra season

Expansion

You cannot expand if you are not first willing to contract ~ to notice all the ways that you are resisting coming into truth with what is present. Take a pause after an expansive summer season and drop into the internal underworld current

Gratitude for the Journey

Pour the nectar gathered from the flowers on your own path to sweeten it as we descend. Take responsibility as to how you will meet the underworld and offer the richness of the spectrum of your being to its altar

How do you receive everything and everyone that comes. Can you see each and every interaction in the field of your perception as being a mirror for your highest good?

Can you find deep gratitude in moments of sweetness and breathe deeper with an acknowledgment of expansion or safety in that awareness

Soften your heart and receive all that you are