Living with the Stars

  Good morning y'all! Let's all bid welcome to the Virgo New Moon. New Moons are a time when we set our intentions for this lunar cycle, so be sure to have a think about what it is you want to manifest.  We have just left the zodiac sign of Leo, a time when the emphasis was on creativity and finding your inner king. But like all kings, they need their subjects who recognise them as king. The keyword here is recognition and therefore, in other words, the essence of Leo is about knowing who you are, what you're about and what you stand for. It is the myth of Parsifal.  After completing the journey through Leo, when we go in search of ourself, we move into the next sign, Virgo, where, knowing who we are and all that, we separate the wheat from the chaff; we evaluate and sift through our experiences. That is why Mercury rules this sign; this Mercury (as opposed to the curious, information-chasing Merc we associate with Gemini) has a more discriminating and discerning nature w...

  As promised, we'll take a look at the chart of the Lunar Eclipse on the 14th March 2025 and what story the sky was offering at that point in time. Lunar eclipses are said to bring closures, revelations, and transformative shifts. This particular eclipse in Virgo encourages the letting go of perfectionism and outdated systems that no longer serve you. It’s a moment to declutter both mentally and physically, creating space for sustainable growth and harmony. The Virgo-Pisces axis, activated during this eclipse, highlights the need to balance practicality (Virgo) with intuition and spirituality (Pisces). That's the gist of it. But wait, there's more.  One of the first things one notices about this lunar eclipse is that many of the planets seem to be on one side of the chart, and indeed they are splayed between Pisces and Aries. If you think of it as a bus, with the front wheels and the back wheels, it looks like (with the exception of the Moon) Mars the warrior is leading, p...

  Welcome to the Virgo Full Moon of the 24th February 2024 at 5 degrees. The exact moment of the Full Moon occurs during the day, so you will have to wait until after sunset to see that fabulous moonrise in the east.  As always, the Full Moon is the culmination of all those intentions set at the New Moon fourteen days earlier. These past few weeks have been nothing short of explosive: Mars, which travels faster as it has a smaller orbital path, met Pluto on its travels around the Sun on the 13th February, just nine days ago. This Mars-Pluto conjunction at 0 degrees Aquarius combines the fiery energy of Mars with the harbinger transformative energy of Pluto. So if any one of you celebrated your birthday around the 13th February, this year you may find yourself making changes. What type? Anything that involves you.   The real star of the show is the 'heavenly lovers' i.e. Venus and Mars who are meeting in the sky for a little tryst. Although this is not a rare event, i...

  The New Moon in Virgo occurs on Saturday, 27th August at around a quarter past ten in the morning. When the moon is new, it isn't visible, apart from the fact that it occurs during daylight hours.  The Moon changes sign every two and a half days, and will make an aspect to the Sun roughly every 14 days, either as a conjunction (New Moon) or as an opposition (Full Moon). Women's mensis  was called their 'moon time' as, before the days of artificial light, women's cycles would have been more in tune with lunar cycles. Attitudes towards women's mensis vary around the world, depending on the prevailing culture; some saw it as a time when women had to withdraw (read 'The Red Tent', by Anita Diamant) from their community whilst others saw it as a time when women came into their power.  The zodiac sign of Virgo is represented by a maiden holding a sheaf of wheat. Across many cultures, the Virgo maiden is associated with the harvest, including the process of s...

  Good morning all! There is a terrific amount of news bombarding us at every moment. Each person I meet comments that their lives are terrible busy (including mine) and that everything seems to be happening at once, and that they cannot keep up. Ditto. Let's have a look at a few things happening in the sky.  First of all, there is a Full Moon tomorrow. Full Moons are the culmination of seeds sown at the New Moon. Looking back at that, the New Moon on the 3rd of March was dominated by the Venus/Mars conjunction in Capricorn. The Virgo Full Moon has Venus and Mars still travelling together in the sky, though Venus is moving faster than Mars, and both of them have moved into Aquarius, away from earthy Capricorn, where Mars held more power and stability. Uranus is rising in this Full Moon chart, so expect surprises!  Aquarius is a sign that is traditionally ruled by Saturn, and in the Full Moon chart, one can see that Saturn is at home in its domain. Thus, both Venus and Mar...

  On the 7 th September, at 2:51 am, the Sun and Moon will line up together in the sky in what we know as a New Moon. Anyone who likes plants will know that sowing seeds happens between now and the Full Moon – such is the knowledge that has been handed down to us by our forefathers, who in their wisdom paid attention to the night skies. New Moons mean new beginnings, a time to plant seeds, and, metaphorically, a time to set a new intention. This New Moon occurs in the zodiac sign of Virgo. Virgo is the sixth astrological sign of the zodiac, and is the only female represented in the zodiac. The Ancient Egyptians represented her in the famous Denderah Zodiac at the Temple of Abydos, and they saw her as the goddess Isis [1] , the wife of dead Osiris and mother of the god Horus. Virgo, which means ‘maiden’ in Latin, was seen by the ancients as carrying a sheaf of wheat in her hand. She is the archetype of the goddess of the harvest; the early Arabs called her the ‘Innocent Maide...