The New Moon in Virgo 2018 -- Part 1

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The New Moon in Virgo

As the New Moon cycle moves into Virgo, the buoyant, creative energy of Leo's New Moon formally ends for another year. Leo energy is playful. It's dramatic and self-promoting. Virgo energy is ... different. Leo energy invites you to seek the spotlight, develop your skills and gifts ... and attract attention. You want to satisfy some ego needs and reconnect to your Inner Kid.

But when the New Moon in Virgo arrives, the emphasis changes. Now it's time to put your talents to work, settle into an occupation and generally make yourself useful. Having mapped out some new creative projects, you now must focus on how to make them practical ... and profitable ... and useful. They need to be good for something -- not just art-for-art's-sake.

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Being useful

A Virgo would say that it needs to pay for its space. It needs to give a return on investment. It needs to give back -- and otherwise justify its existence. Virgo can be pretty hard-nosed about the virtue of work -- and insist on down-to-earth goals and constructive contributions.

How can your plans and creations benefit others? To arrange that, you need to settle into a daily routine, put your shoulder to the wheel and do something productive. Virgo energy is primed and ready for that.

In Astrology, each succeeding sign is a reaction away from the highlights and excesses of the one that came before. So if Leo is flamboyant and dashing, Virgo is humble and demure. Leo is proud; Virgo is modest. It's quite a change, I admit. But it has purpose. After all the grandstanding in Leo, this quiet, moderate time can be welcome.

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Giving service

Virgo believes in work -- even considers it a requirement for a worthwhile, fulfilling life. Virgos want to be useful. They want to accomplish things. They run on schedules. They keep To-Do Lists right at hand. You can pretty well see the inborn inferiority complex that drives them, their choices and actions. The question of why hasn't got a good answer. It's just the way they are.

Virgos offer service to others so their lives will count for something. They need to contribute to the orderly conduct of life. So they streamline everything they can by doing the routine, mundane, everyday chores and meeting the ordinary commitments that make life run smoothly.

They ask for nothing but a little quiet appreciation in return, a kind word of thanks, or just the simple knowledge that they have helped make someone else's path easier.

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Being efficient

Virgo energy is remarkably selfless in its methods and tactics, quietly but insistently offering to do whatever needs doing. Virgo gathers up all the self-sacrificing efforts of Pisces -- its polar opposite -- and puts it into physical, practical employment. Without them to grease the wheels, the cogs of life wouldn't mesh nearly so nicely.

Obviously focusing on work, as in the job you do for money, is one thing, and Virgos excel in this. They can be workaholics without equal in their drive to turn in a "job well done." But they are also famous for taking on work wherever they find it ... as in "energy spent primarily for the benefit of someone else."

This means a willingness to take on chores, favors, errands, assignments, duties, tasks, commitments and responsibilities that can keep them in virtual overload on behalf of others if they aren't careful.

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Being there

Virgos are fabulous people to know -- and to have around -- when you need to take on a bunch of unglamorous, distasteful little "jobs" in your life ... from filling out your tax forms, to ironing your shirts, to helping you clean out that god-awful garage.

The Virgos will be there, ready, willing, and able to help. In fact, they may insist on doing it all. You get an awful lot of stuff done when Virgo energy is available ... and are delighted with the tidiness that results.

Virgo energy is meticulous, efficient, perfectionistic, and focused. It does things carefully; it pays attention to details; it ties up all those messy loose ends that other signs are content just to let dangle. Virgo energy is analytical, logical, organized, discriminating and critical.

It catalogs, organizes, concentrates and can always find more to do. It is neat, and fastidious, and loves bringing order out of chaos. It is also patient, unemotional and shy ... convinced, as it seems to be, that no matter how stellar the performance it turns in ... enough is never enough.

Part 2

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