MOON ENTERS VIRGO at 11:22am EDT and remains until Friday September 2 at 6:13pm EDT. Ruled by Mercury this Mutable Earth sign reflects the drive for Order and Perfection. It rules Critical Thinking, Attention to Detail, Purity, Intelligence, The Writer, Speaker, Health, Diet and Daily Work. It also carries the myth of the Vestal Virgin who is in Service to keep the fires of the sacred temple burning. Her emotions tend to be filtered through her mind; she often over-analyzes her feelings before she communicates them. We may find people to be more critical than usual now, as Virgo's need for precision and clarity is present. Use this time well by cleaning your environment, ordering your life and discerning the chaff from the wheat (or the illusion from the real substance)...as much as is possible during Mercury's Retrograde.
SEE JUNE 10-12 POST for detailed description on Virgo.
LAST ASPECT OF MOON: Moon Conjunct Jupiter in Virgo at 6:13pm EDT on Friday September 2. Anytime Jupiter aspects the Moon, this reflects situations or emotions which will be augmented, have profound meaning or be generally Auspicious. Actions initiated during this period will tend to have VERY GOOD results. Again, this would have an EXCELLENT evaluation if Mercury was not turning Retrograde. Be very careful you don't overdo or over-express yourself! Be especially aware of being overly critical and demanding perfection from others and yourself. This would be a GREAT time to edit written work - going back over and correcting or adjusting your words, making them clear and precise.
SCENES OF THE DAY: Howl, 2010; Directors/Writers: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. This is a remarkably creative film about the 1957 obscenity case against Allen Ginsberg's poem, Howl. The legendary piece of writing became a statement for the Beat generation, the precursor to the '60's cultural revolution. These clips demonstrate the medium of poetry as a discernment of words. In the courtroom clip, these words are analyzed to the max (Virgo Moon Conjunct Jupiter in Virgo) by a Prosecuting Attorney bent on judging them obscene. But their Purity of Heart and Search for the Sacred scream louder than their apparent sexual offense to the conservative critic. The Virgonian detail work in the animation clip is just a sight to behold. The movie features an amazing cast which includes: James Franco as Allen Ginsberg, David Strathairn as Prosecuting Attorney, Jon Hamm as Defense Attorney and Alessandro Nivola as the Literary Critic on the stand.
NEW MOON SOLAR ECLIPSE at 9 degrees Virgo on September 1 at 5:03am EDT. (Not visible from North America) This is a VIRGO-FEST! And a potent time! Stay on your toes. This New Moon Solar Eclipse in Virgo creates a Mutable T-Square from the ongoing Square between Saturn (now conjunct Mars) in Sagittarius and Neptune in Pisces. (Neptune is Opposite the Sun/Moon in Virgo and both ends of the opposition form Squares to Mars/Saturn in Sagittarius.) This is an unstable formation, looking for its stability from the missing Mutable sign of Gemini. (Really?) All this mutability in an unsteady T-Square which involves a Solar Eclipse feels like anything can happen. There's a lot of tension which requires resolution. Notice that the midpoint of the Saturn/Mars conjunction (the focal point of the T-Square ) is the 12 degree Sagittarius of the US Ascendant (Sibly Chart). On 9/11, Pluto was on this point at the US Ascendant while Saturn was opposite at 12 Gemini. That the North Node is at 12 Virgo conjoining the New Moon Solar Eclipse just adds to the feeling that this moment in time is...loaded. In any case, the New Moon reflects the beginning of a New Cycle, a new chapter. Let's use our collective Virgo discerning nature to see clearly into whatever is before us and draw on Gemini's ability both to see all perspectives before we act and his levity to lighten ourselves up.
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