#14: I moved!

We've got a Virgo New Moon, perfect time for our ADHD girls to try out their new coping skills 🌪️

Upcoming Astrology:

There are plenty of week ahead resources out there (the CHANI podcast is a good one), so I thought it might be more fun to read a focused interpretation of one dynamic in the sky.

New Moon in Virgo: I’m looking out about a week for this dynamic, a relatively innocuous one, or at least not unusual one. On September 14, at about 9:45 PM ET, there is going to be a New Moon in Virgo. 

New Moons happen every month (duh, maybe), and they mark the beginning of a new monthly cycle as well as a new yearly cycle. Monthly because in a month there will be another New Moon, this one in Libra, and yearly because in about a year there will be another New Moon in Virgo. These cycles give us a grasp of time.

Each New Moon you have the opportunity to reflect on the area of your chart that it’s taking place in and plant a seed for yourself. In traditional astrology we also look to the ruler of the New Moon and use their situation to better understand the moment -- in this case, that’s Mercury, who has been retrograding within Virgo for a bit and will be just about to sit still before moving back into forward motion. This is a nice symbol for a Virgo New Moon, as Virgo is all about discernment, thorough understanding that allows for nuance and specificity. 

You can use this New Moon as an opportunity to bring a microscope (Virgo / Mercury represent doctors and research) to whatever part of your life Virgo sits in. For me, as an Aries Rising, that means the 6th House, my work life, my daily chores and the routines that keep my body healthy. Basically anything that I have to do but don’t necessarily want to do. It might be in your 4th House, inviting you to look at your home life, your family’s traditions, or it could be your 11th House, suggesting you reflect on how you engage with your friends and broader circle of relationships.

A little less than a year ago I was working with a therapist who helped me see that I have ADHD, so I feel like I’ve been thinking about these kinds of questions non-stop. How can I get a single thing done when my brain refuses? Why am I able to focus on an esoteric, 2,000 year old system like astrology, but I simply cannot make myself care to learn statistics? Is there a TikTok or IG reel somewhere that will finally give me a system that helps me keep a budget?

At the same time, as much energy as I give toward thinking about these things, I don’t often translate the “thinking about” to “doing something about”. That’s what Virgo offers over the other Mercury-ruled sign, Gemini. Virgo is a cardinal earth sign, so what unfolds here wants to be made manifest. An ideal moment for all the neurodivergent girlies to pick something, anything that might make life work better for your brain, and begin experimenting with it.

If you want to put it on a timeline, you could consider sketching out some goals and plans that culminate in about six months during the Virgo Full Moon on February 24, 2024. The bright moon sitting in Virgo at that point will be a nice time to literally reflect on what you set out to accomplish now in September.  

I moved!

I am in a significant moment of change in my life. I moved to Philadelphia on August 1 this year and have been giving almost all of my attention to settling into my house, connecting with old friends here and making new ones, and trying to shift my perspective to understand what exactly is going on in my life. 

I planned to move away from Texas a little over a year ago. I have been saying I was going to for over five years, but last year I felt the shift that said it was really time, whatever it took, to get out of there after ten years in Austin. Something about the 2021 freeze, the lack of interest in preventing future deaths, and the growing animosity toward queer people, with special, poisonous vile toward trans people finally made it untenable to live there. Which is hard, and is something I’ll be processing, because there is something deeply internally aligned for me in the Texas hill country. By accident, I developed a connection with the limestone and the rivers and the live oak and the cedar over the 25 years I lived there. More on that some other time, I’m sure.

just a few spots I will miss

So now I’m balancing the loss of that place with the excitement for my new home, a place I am already feeling right in. We’ll see how that unfolds as the weather turns and I experience my first real winter as an adult. Saturn is going to be flirting with a superior square to my natal Gemini Moon from late September through early January, a depressing aspect. Not too worried at the moment though, I’ve got good friends, some trips planned, good medications from my psychiatrist, and am looking for a new, local therapist. Can happily say that I’ve made several new friends here already and have plans to get involved with some more groups for volunteering and community. 

I don’t want to jinx this, but I am excited to refocus my writing plans, my newslettering, and reconnect with an experimental attitude I’ve always found most enjoyable when writing. I fell into the trap with this project around May/June where I was expecting certain kinds of ideas and certain kinds of progressions for myself. This doesn’t work. I am happiest when I am prolific and I am making a lot of bad work. I’m excited to do that moving forward again.