Welcome to Virgo season.
The Virgo New Moon is here, ready or not, bringing epic clarity. Part of it is about the inherent spiritual nature of the sign. Part of it is the waning influence of this summer’s Mercury Retrograde. And part of it is an elusive quincunx from both Saturn and Neptune in Aries. While there are a lot of impactful transits currently happening, the primary questions I’m hearing from community right now are around the sign of Virgo and its place in the harvest season. So, I will be focusing on that here.
Because we operate on the Gregorian calendar, rather than the Lunar calendar, the exact dates of Virgo season vary from year to year. Virgo season usually begins August 18-23 and runs to September 18-23, depending on the year. This year, Virgo season runs from August 22 to September 22. The grace of Virgo season is that you always leave smarter than you were when you found it. The tricky part is making peace with what you now know.
Virgo is truly a divine star. Driven by elevated ideals, Virgo seeks perfection as a means of sacred service to God and its fellow humans, and as a means of elevating the ties that bind us as souls. Virgo creates experiences that are both enlightening and inspirational, and it shines an eternal light on all that is Grace. As the last sign of summer and the goddess of the harvest season, Virgo is often depicted as a maiden with angel wings carrying a sheaf of wheat. Her archetypes are the Healer, the Servant, and the Virgin.
Virgo is called the Virgin because of its association with the themes of purity, fertility, and the harvest. While the name, Virgo, translates to virgin in Latin, the symbol does not necessarily imply a literal, sexual virginity (though at times and for certain branches of astrological thought it does). For the most part, it reflects a state of wholeness, self-sufficiency, and potential. Exactly the attributes you need at harvest time. Why, you ask? Because harvest season requires three core activities, none of which are easy.
1. Reflection
The first activity required of you at harvest time is reflection on what you intended at midwinter. What was your vision for yourself? What were the goals, resolutions, and plans you made—consciously and unconsciously—for the upcoming year? For the new manifestation cycle?
2. Assessment
The second activity and a hallmark of Virgo season is assessment of your harvest and analysis of how best to proceed. What did you plant—literally and figuratively—and what are you harvesting? What grew, what didn’t, and why? What is the return on your investments of time, money, and energy? What do you need to do with the time, money, and energy you have left in order to salvage this year, this manifestation cycle? And how can you receive more of what you truly want? It is this part of the process that has bestowed on Virgo its defining statement, “I analyze.”
3. Spiritual practice
The third activity is a daily spiritual practice, especially around gratitude. We are profoundly interconnected with all beings. The most important decisions you make in life are not who you choose to be in a relationship with. Rather, it is how you choose to be in relationship and the gratitude you find in each day—with yourself, with others, and with life itself.
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The bedrock of any healthy relationship is open and effective communication. The best way to be in relationship with yourself as a soul and with the organizing forces of the universe is to communicate with yourself and your concept of God on the daily. In whatever way works for you. Everyone is different. The only way to create effective communication is to do so regularly and to have an effective feedback loop. It takes discipline, I know, but Virgo rules that, too. Its support should make creating a daily routine easier now than at other times of the year.
In closing, remember that the harvest season, and especially Virgo’s portion of it, constantly forces us to focus. It especially requires us to focus on and to acknowledge the juxtaposition of decorum and chaos. This puts helpers and helping at the forefront of our consciousness, especially this particular harvest season. When I was talking to a client about this the other day, she reminded me of some of the words of wisdom of one of my generations’ heroes, Mr. Rogers. This Virgo season, when you need help, look for the helpers. When you can help, be a helper. Straight up. Ask your Gods, guides, guardians, angels and ancestors to help you, regardless of where you are with it at any given moment.
And if you get stuck, call me.
We’ll figure it out.
Photograph by Nick Bull
Calendar
Below are some of the dates when your opportunities for wizardry, magic, and alchemy will be the greatest, as will your ability for spiritual connection and spiritual service.
August 22
New Moon in Virgo, Sun Moves into Virgo
August 24
Eclipse Prelude Period begins
August 25
Venus moves into Libra
September 1
Saturn moves into Pisces
Labor Day
Image: Illustration from the first Labor Day Parade, New York City, September 1882.
September 2
Mercury moves into Virgo
September 5
Uranus Retrogrades at 01° Gemini
Mercury Retrograde Shadow Period ends
September 7
Total Lunar Eclipse at the Full Moon at 10:08 AM Pacific Time, the Sun at 15° Virgo opposes the Full Moon at 15° Pisces (also known as the Corn Moon, Barley Moon, Chrysanthemum Moon, or Harvest Moon)
Grandparent’s Day
September 11
Patriot Day
September 18
Mercury moves into Libra
September 19
Venus moves into Virgo
September 21
Solar Partial Eclipse at the New Moon at 11:53 AM Pacific Time, Sun conjunct the New Moon at the anorectic and most powerful degree of 29° Virgo
Fun fact: Technically this is the second New Moon in Virgo in 2025.
