The earthzodiac sign of the Virgin is the one that hosts the moment of the New Moon on Thursday, September 17, 2020 marking for each of us a new beginning,new projects, thoughts and ideas imprinted by a strong sense of duty, responsibility and perfection.

Even if the New Moon signifies the "samanta" that we are currently planting, through the thoughts and projects we do, the things that we have not completed in the previous cycle or emotional problems can influence for better or for worse, the new cycle. In this case, the new cycle could have the express role of solving unfinished things.

It's time to be present, to project positively, to trust and to start those actions that we really find ourselves in.

The detoxification capacity of the body is maximum on the day of the New Moon.

Anyone who makes a rule of having a fasting day every time the Moon is New will benefit from many advantages in preventing ailments. Also this day is perfect to start a new activity such as the unlearning of bad habits. Often bad habits are the outward expression of inner energies that need only a new goal to become useful and valuable to us and to other people.

Shiva Ratri

The night that precedes this phenomenon of the New Moon, in our case the night from 16 to 17 September 2020, is celebrated in the Eastern spiritual tradition under the name Shiva Ratri.

The night before the New Moon is a night of divine transcendence

and if we engage in spiritual activities we can achieve exceptional results that equate to the results obtained after a year of assiduous spiritual practice.

In order for this new beginning to "establish" better in our being and to make the most of this astrological aspect it is advisable to perform a short meditation of about 20 minutes, in its maximum period, 10 minutes before and 10 minutes after it takes place, i.e. between 13:50 and 14:10.

How we meditate:

Sitting on a chair with your back straight and your hands resting on your thighs with your palms down, we aim to completely relax our body, especially the muscles of our face.
It is necessary to feel the physical body abandoned and immobile. After we've done the "parking" of the body, we turn our attention inside the body, into the middle of the chest, and imagine that we're adimensional at that level.
Throughout meditation, we aim to feel the complex influence of this astral moment, of the New Moon, when the luminaries, the Sun and the Moon participate in the "cosmic wedding", by dividing the same zodicacal degree. Now the male and the female merge into a perfect unit.

Due to the conjunction between the Sun and the Moon there is a special complementarity of yin-yang energies in nature

If we now seek to find a perfect agreement between our will and God's will, our consciousness will go through exceptional spiritual transformations that will lead to the acquisition of the state of harmony and inner peace.

Through the state of consciousness cultivated by various Abheda Yoga techniques, certain unfavorable astrological transits can be transcensed.

Apart from these methods to be practiced systematically, it can be said that the destiny of men is written in the stars and it is relatively difficult for the ordinary man to manifest free will, independent of the influences of celestial bodies.

Specific astrological aspects

Thursday, 17 September 2020 – 14:00 – marks the moment of the New Moon in Virgo by the perfect conjunction between the Moon and the Sun in Virgo at the 25:01 degree dinamizing the ix house of this astral moment namely the house of religion and spirituality.

The degree of this moon, namely the lunar grade 25, is a solar degree, governed by Raphael, the solar face of the moon. This degree prints the New Moon with much clarity, the conscious is close to the unconscious, facilitating the retrieval of all that has been lost or lost, everything that has been diverted can now be solved. The quality of this degree is represented by the spiritual balance it brings, being a good time for each of us to establish our priorities by following spiritual laws and not those dictated by the human mind. Everything we intend to begin with this New Moon is indicated to follow the rules of the cosmic order that demands from us the retaking of the unity of our being by destroying all negative tendencies.

This unit we aspire to is now accessible to us

by discovering that part or aspect of ourselves that by integrating it, we will feel complete, and this reintegration is about that area in our own map where we have the 25th degree in the zodiac sign Virgo. Self-education, by our own will put in the service of the Divine Order, will bring to each of us the "recognition" that our soul needed in its process of evolution.

A New Moon in the zodiac sign Virgo will surely accentuate our practical side

also amplifying the sense of duty,so that each of us will seek to make or be as "good" as possible in what it does, perfectionism being one of the most important themes of this sign often marked by anxiety.

Virgo being a sign governed by Mercury makes us extremely cerebral

analytical and pay attention to the details, helps us to create a symbiosis between matter and intellect, observing aspects that could once easily escape us and that we can now analyze with more precision, and even with more balance and diplomacy I would say, since the governor of the New Moon, Mercury is now in Libra. We are amplified by our discerning power and we can intuit what should be eliminated and what should be kept in that area where we have the Virgin in our native map, we feel that we need order or a "reordering" of those aspects that do not contribute to the health of our being. Virgo is a sign of work and duty, it is a sign of the one who can put himself in the service of an ideal that he will follow to the end if he considers it a precious one. Perhaps with this month in the sign of the Virgin the time has come to see clearly in whose service we have put ourselves so far and if we want to continue in this way.

It can be a relationship, regardless of its nature, a job, a project, a diet or eating habit, our daily routine, where we now have to clean up. In this place we have either sacrificed ourselves, forgetting our deeper needs and desires, or we have misused it to gain certain advantages. Regardless of our past actions, the time has come to reap what we have sown, the moment of awareness and evaluation, a moment that precedes a new beginning in that field.

Instead, we must be careful so that we do not develop the overly critical side of the Virgin

let's not fall in extreme obsessive and unnecessary analysis,let's not blame others for our helplessness, not to hurt by our "analyses" but to seek only to restore harmony and cleanliness, let us not become slaves to our minds but seek to be centered in the soul so that we follow His principles and calling in whatever we want to "clean" at this moment. Another important aspect is not to criticize ourselves, not to blame ourselves, not to be harsh with us about our own powerlessness,but to be firm and persevering in correcting them. Let's not forget that at every moment of our lives we did everything we knew best according to the level of evolution at that time.

It is important that we assume everything we have at the moment and clean up our being at all levels.

mentally, emotionally, physically and most importantly, the spiritual one. It is the impurities of a spiritual nature that hinder our evolution the most and it is goodto take care to always maintain our purity and mental, soul and physical hygiene.

The concept of "Truth" is a very delicate matter that we must pay attention to at the moment

Because each tends to defend his own truth without taking into account that there is only one Supreme Truth to which, most of the time, we do not have access. Let's be wary of the tendency to criticize the other, to judge or correct him according to his own thinking, to refrain from abusing the other with our truth which may be a totally incorrect one,and more than that, to give up the role of judge for the healer, much more necessary and more beneficial in the present conditions.

The New Moon in Virgo is housed in House IX, a house associated with the higher mind and high studies

a home that now helps us to gain a higher perspective on what we want to clean and eliminate from our lives. It is the home of spirituality, of great journeys, undertaken physically or mentally, foreignness,also being inscribed the desire for exploration, visionaryism, everything related to the evolution and changes of being. The ancient Egyptians referred to this house as the home of good genius, because it represented the domain of spiritual guidance and Divine Grace.

Saturn in Capricorn, the master of Time is now the one who now sustains our new beginnings

giving them endurance, ability to persevere, determination and chances of achieving them over time but with a lot of effort and commitment on our part. Where Saturn joins, experiences mature you, empower you but most importantly make you wiser, bring you that knowledge of the man who has acquired the necessary experience to perceive reality at a higher level, regardless of the giving up strapping strapped he has had to go through.

House IX gives us the best environment to clean and order our own principles or philosophies of life

reconnects us to much higher aspects of our being, reaming ourselves to our role and purpose here, to faith in the Divinity that can bring us the deepest healing and purification as long as we are sincere and humble. Last but not least, we can use the priceless quality of the Virgin sign, to put ourselves unconditionally in the service of someone or something, and if we really want to bring value to this life, we are now reminded that we can put ourselves in the service of the Divine, through every relationship we maintain, through every job that resonates with the talent and equipness of each , through the food we provide, both physical and mental, for the true purity and cleanliness we seek come from the connection with the Divine Self.

Virginia Olteanu - astrologer