Mindful Refocusing: New Moon in Virgo 2024

New Moon @ 11 degrees Virgo 04'

September 2, 2024

6:56 PM PDT

9:56 PM EDT

With the onset of September synchronizing with Mercury direct and a New Moon in mutable Virgo, we are in definite transitional territory that can feel a bit liminal and uncertain. If you're in the northern hemisphere, there is that natural onset of the seasonal shift that might amplify all of this.

Yet, this New Moon points to more than a mere season change, especially as it serves as our onramp into the final eclipse season of 2024. More broadly speaking, the encroaching Saturn-Neptune alignment also touches on some major global shifts, and with the t-square alignments of the past weeks, the astrology is a little edgy.

Virgo is often caricatured as the archetype of the perfectionist, and this does emerge in relation to it. Yet, pursuing perfection is always mixed up with heavy idealism and a focus on the transcendental. Paradoxically, as an earth sign, Virgo is also highly pragmatic, and therefore seeks to ground the transcendent in the everday world.

Such can be our focus and struggle to pass through this New Moon, an attempt to integrate and implement the ideal into the real, or noticing the sharp and heavy contrast between what "should be" and what is. From there, we can make improvements that will get us further toward our goals, however big or small.

This Virgo New Moon can reflect an amplification of imperfections and where we've somehow fallen short, so be on watch for excessive criticalness, either from yourself or others. Also, another major challenge here, reflected in Jupiter's square from Gemini, can be maintaining our focus altogether or having to compromise and work between competing objectives and points of view.

Overall, a Virgo New Moon, especially one touched by Saturn and Jupiter can be a time to "get it together," prioritize and sharpen our focus for the remainder of the year. Criticalness can also be helpful in editing and throwing out excess clutter, such as diminishing habits or commitments that no longer serve our highest interests.