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Where are you Devoting Focus? Virgo New Moon
Sign Ruler: Mercury - Exalted Ruler: Mercury - Decan Rulers: Sun and MercuryKeywords: Careful Tending; Observation; Quiet Competence
Tarot Correspondence: 8 of Pentacles
The guiding question for this New Moon:
What could flourish if you committed to the smallest daily acts of devotion?
We are invited to turn our attention to thoughts of delayed gratification as we approach the Virgo New Moon on 23rd August 2025, 6.06 am UT at 0°23’. Imagine entering a quiet, sacred workshop. This is a place where the hands move with skill and care, time flies as the mind holds focus, and this is where the heart learns patience.
Here, under the shared decan rulership of the Sun and Mercury, every action, every stitch, every note, and every word becomes an offering to something greater than the self. There are no grand gestures, performances or instant rewards. It is quiet tending and nurturing, a time when the smallest, thoughtful acts become the golden thread that binds you to your purpose. Over time, that thread can be woven into a tapestry. Under this New Moon, you begin weaving, but what will you create?
Join me to explore the astrological threads of this new moon, through the symbology of Virgo and New Moons, Moon Families, the storytelling of the first decan of Virgo as well as its corresponding tarot card, 8 of Pentacles, not forgetting the astrology of this New Moon. I include some ritual, and reflection suggestions to help you align with and co-create with this Moon.
The New Moon in Virgo I arrives on 23 August at 0°23’ Virgo (6:06 UT), offering us the first seeds of a story that will unfold, in its own, natural time, maybe in 2 weeks to the Pisces Full Moon, 6 Months to the next Virgo Full Moon, both also Lunar Eclipses carrying intense, unpredictable Lunar power, or over years in the Moon Family.
This lunation sits in the very first degree of the sign, where Mercury is at the peak of their power, as ruler, exalted ruler, and bound ruler, and the Sun shares its light with Mercury as decan rulers. It is a meeting of the quicksilver mind and the sovereign heart, the craftsman and the king, calling us to exacting work done with humility and maybe duty. It is the greatest focus of Mercurial energy we find in the zodiac.
In the Seasonal calendar, this is harvest season in the Northern Hemisphere, a time when the light begins to wane, the darkness is growing, and symbolically we begin to measure what has grown and assess if it can last us through the cold and dark months of winter. The mutable earth quality here encourages sorting, editing, and preparing for the next season, while the yin nature draws us inward to work quietly on the essentials.
Mutable Ground
Virgo is Mercury ruled, The Messenger Planet, the Trickster, the Psychopomp who crosses boundaries, the God of Astrology and the Quicksilver King is in their own temple and the place of their exaltation. Mercury’s gifts of precision, discernment, and craft thrive here.
Virgo is mutable earth, a paradox in itself, offering solid, tangible and material results, while adaptive, teaching us how to work with shifting conditions without losing that inner stability. It grounds our thoughts and actions in the fertile earth that can adapt to what is planted, and create a harvest, when tended with the best care.
Virgo’s yin or feminine nature brings a receptive, integrating quality, drawing energy inward for refinement rather than outward for display. This makes it receptive and responsive to external forces while carrying a precision that can cut through chaos and disruption with its focus on the small details that bring joy and comfort. Virgo’s will often have a plan and a process for all eventualities.
This is the optimum experience of Virgo, the shadow side can be paralysing overthinking, anxiety
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