The Virgo New Moon August 27^th puts your powers of discernment to the test regarding what you think, say or hear. Someone or something may burst your thought bubble. Any news, gossip, rumors or hearsay during this phase deserves scrutiny as this New Moon is in a critical degree. 

Matters of Health and Healing or Healthcare professionals will also be front and center. 

Mars in Gemini is also in a critical degree, triggering this lunation, making it a busy time with lots of news, information, visitors, calls, questions, plans, ideas, deals, documents, paperwork, reports and negotiations. Your mind will be racing. 

Both Virgo and Gemini are ruled by Mercury in Libra, putting an extra emphasis on messages, media, details of complicated stories, plot twists and turns, narratives, links, connections, comparisons and alternatives or other lessons and teachings. There’s a steady stream of communications and information to keep track of and to sort out.

Your head may be spinning as this influence has a way of speeding up the tempo of things, activating communications, initiating conversations, bringing constant comings and goings, and enabling you to speak directly.  There’s a lot of mental activity and multitasking while going over plans and organizational systems in your mind. 

On the other hand, you could feel impatient and agitated, your mind may be full of ferment, your tone could be sharp and argumentative, and your words could be cutting and harsh as you speak your mind, unwilling to pull punches any longer and going on the offense. Or you may be the one on the receiving end of this type of energy expression.

 Take note and shift gears when necessary to shift the energies. Also, take care when driving and being too much in a hurry. 

This is a continued theme as Mars will tour Gemini for an unusually long period - all the way into late March 2023 due to a retrograde phase. Mars retrogrades October 30^th – January 12^th. During that period, you can expect some back-pedaling on narratives, discussions, debates, reports, articles, and stories of the past. You could give a once over to plans that have been on the backburner for a while and make revisions to put them in play.

You could also run into people you haven’t seen in quite some time. You’ll be covering old ground in some area of your life. Additionally, as a general rule, it’s best to avoid scheduling surgery during a Mars retrograde phase if you can.

This lunation sets off new routines regarding matters of health and healing. You could start a new diet or exercise regimen, find a new doctor, healer or practitioner, or there are new protocols, procedures and guidelines.   

This phase is good for rolling up your sleeves and getting down to the nitty gritty, cleaning house or purifying your vessel.  You want to feel fit, productive and efficient, creating organizational systems and programs so that things run smoothly. 

Mars in Gemini provides plenty of motivation to get you moving. It may be difficult to keep still. Walking, biking, running, skating or boxing, etc. are a good use of this phase, while helping to focus the restless scattered energies. 

This phase also brings up your mental loops and programs and how that triggers certain complexes, thoughts and feelings of not being perfect enough, of not being enough or too much of something, etc. Time to clear the mental clutter and to reprogram your thoughts.   You may become aware of these programs and patterns during this period and willing to do the work to correct and change it. Yay YOU!

Jupiter in Aries also connects to this lunation enabling you to make bold moves and get beyond certain situations, to branch out, make corrections and adjustments, shift your views and your programming impacting your everyday world, giving a new understanding, enabling you to encompass and embrace more. 

Additionally, this influence brings up legal actions at directives dealing with medical care, healthcare workers, employees and military service members.  

As if things kicking into overdrive isn’t enough to keep you busy...

Meanwhile, there’s another major pattern operating, adding to the backdrop, and creating considerable tension where your relationships and finances are concerned.

Venus, the planet of beauty and love is in passionate, fiery Leo, getting the squeeze from the square between Saturn in Aquarius and Uranus in Taurus, while the Nodes of Fate are also intricately involved in this configuration.

There’s a desire for love and affection, attention and appreciation, beauty, luxury, fun and creativity, generosity, and spontaneity, and all those things that get your heart pumping, triggering the desire for something different, to be free and independent, to shake things up and to shake things off, to get unstuck and find new and less worn paths, daring you to burn  bridges of the past, putting on the pressure and pushing your security buttons, while at the same time, you’re facing limitations, reservations, responsibilities, detachment or disinterest. 

What once was appealing may have changed, you’ve changed, the world’s changed, everything has changed.   As your senses awaken, you have the realization that things are not what they were, bringing you to a crossroads. 



Financially speaking, there’s market instability, risk, speculation, caution, vigilance and fluctuation.  There may be changes to earnings, payments, costs and currencies, perhaps involving gold and digital currency. 

On another level, synchronously happening, there are awakening senses and a new awareness stirring your heart’s desires, while activating and anchoring a new heart and love vibration, triggering the purging and healing on a collective and ancestral scale, of sexual trauma and abuse, or issues of power, control, trust and intimacy.   

New Moon Blessings and Good Vibes to All!