Living Being Existing – Virgo New Moon

By Len Wallick

The Moon conjoins with the Sun in Virgo on Sunday night, shortly after 11 pm EDT. That’s a New Moon. It represents what astrologer Deborah Houlding calls a “conception point”, germinating a new lunar cycle. This takes place on the threshold of a new week, the verge of a new month and only days after the Sol’s ingress to Virgo. As such, it would seem that this particular conjunction of the luminaries is especially emphatic, drawing our attention to one of the best things earthly life has to offer, a new start.

We know that the Earth orbits the Sun. We also know that the Moon follows its own elliptical path around our planet. What we see from the surface of the Earth is a relationship of motion between the two. That association follows a cycle that comes about by a difference in their apparent speed. Luna appears to be much the faster. Thus, like the hands on an analog clock, the more rapid one will repeatedly oppose, catch up to, meet, and pass the other.

The Moon is the faster of the two luminaries. When it catches up with the Sun, we cannot see it unless it is positioned directly between the Sun and the Earth. That would be a solar eclipse, which is relatively rare. Most of the time Luna is simply lost in the glare of daylight during the few days each month when it rises and sets on the same schedule as its solar companion.

The Moon’s reflected light diminishes as it approaches the Sun and grows again after Luna leaves Sol behind. That process resembles the cycles of life on Earth where small, often unseen beginnings grow, flourish, wither and disappear to start over again. It is thus reasonable that the luminary conjunction should be called new and represent a time keeping device.

For most of our history that was important because the availability of our nourishment would follow cycles that could be anticipated by patterns in the sky. Now, for many, the New Moon is largely symbolic. Few people consider the lunar phase when taking action. Even fewer keep track of the consequences. Those of us that persist in observation of the sky routinely find correlations that verify celestial cycles, for whatever reason, are still consistent with the course of events in our lives. This should not be surprising. After all that we have done to detach our selves from our natural existence, our lives begin, develop and end much as they always have.

Virgo is a sign associated with elemental Earth, the essential things we take for granted about the ground under our feet. Virgo is also a mutable sign, which means that it is an appropriate time for old patterns to diminish so that a new cycle can begin. In the first days after the Sun moved into Virgo, seismic activity served to make us aware that the elementary nature of life on this planet is change. As the Moon catches up to the Sun it is informing us of where we are in the process of change. This is actually reassuring.

Sudden and cataclysmic disruptions in the crust of the Earth are dangerous and destructive to lives and structures that depend on the ground to remain stable and still. That cannot be denied. It does not mean that all things are ending. As the diminishing Moon approaches the Virgo Sun, the message is the same as our calendar, time to turn a page. The pattern of taking our planet for granted is coming to a close. From that conclusion, a new template of our existence will emerge. It is possible to be in harmony and thrive with that new pattern. In order to do so we must first return to observing and practicing an old one. That would entail choosing to live, be and exist in observance of and in harmony with the cycles of the sky as if we were a part of it. Because we are.

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