WATER
In the direction of the West we surrender to the elemental power of water in the waning cycle of the moon. After stoking the Fire we surrender to the alchemy that is born by combining these elemental forces. We invite the intention to purify, clear and soften ~ releasing what has been shown to us in the apex of the moon cycle.
Ho do you relate to this element within this season?
Shedding
The moon is now in her last quarter lunar water phase in Gemini
Following on from the watery, emotional depths of this piscean blood moon I have no doubt that you may be feeling T I R E D, W I R E D and overwhelmed. Recalibration can be a dance
We have travelled with the opening of this eclipse season at the first new moon in Virgo and now we are waning back down to the new moon - again echoing in Virgo in a partial eclipse. Like a huge mirror we have dived into we will sit and glance back at what transpired. Perhaps only in hindsight will we receive the fullness of the journey. One that shakes us and brings it all to the surface. Like soil preparation for new seeds to be sewn.
In Virgo Season we are in mutable earth - that is shifting and moving - beneath our feet during the eclipse. The topsoil has been turned. Ready for your seeds to be sewn for the next cycle in the spring or perhaps even sooner if you are sewing onwards for the winter.
In the zodiacal wheel, Virgo sits at the threshold between the upper and lower world - from the personal to the interpersonal one (astrologically the house 1-6 tend to be more personal in nature and 7-12 more relational and collective).
Virgo Season offers a powerful opportunity to end cycles of healing on a personal level and on an interpersonal level can lead us to question how we serve
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 and to bring the ripe fruits to the earth.
~ Invitation ~
How do I speak to myself? What spells am I bound in of my own making?
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 reflect on your service. To finely tune. To clear, release 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 (restore) 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
As we move towards the fruits of Autumn Equinox 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. Summer is wild and exposing, fun and freeing but also fire depleting!
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
May you be blessed by the reflection of your own inner Autumn Queen
Next Steps on the pathway
As the moon goes dark you will be sent a link to the EARTH content