A Spider Story. Virgo New Moon
A SPIDER STORY
NEW MOON 4:16 am EST 8/27 at 4°Virgo
We often describe Virgo as wanting us separate things into boxes. Put labels on them, and then neatly organize the boxes on the shelf. We say Virgo is about “Discernment” (and in some ways, it can be seen as exactly that)
But for me, I think the story of Virgo is a bit different.
I see her as Grandmother Spider. Who knows that no part of creation is a mistake.
How do we do Virgo Discernment, Grandmother Spider’s way?
Grandmother Spider is in awareness of the many threads she’s holding. And asks herself how each thread is in service to the tapestry she is weaving.
How does this add strength, vitality, Eros, beauty, nourishment, etc?
How does the ugliness add strength, how does the wretched reinforce?
How does the off color add vitality, how do unexpected textures produce Eros?
How does pain nourish?
Where do we unwind the warp, the frayed & dying threads, that make better compost than they do string for the loom?
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Discernment that involves duality, good, bad, right, wrong; discernment that wants to “label”, inherently leads us into perfectionist tendencies.
When the Priestess separates the wheat from the chafe, she doesn’t waste the chafe.
The orientation isn’t that the chafe is bad.
She doesn’t need to “fix” or change the chafe into something better.
She doesn’t need to sever her connection to the chafe.
No, she simply returns it to the land. Because it isn’t part of the harvesting story she wants to share.
So as we seed this Virgo New Moon Cycle. Keep in mind, It isn’t that we are discerning just from a mental perspective. We aren’t using disembodied logic, with right or wrong answers, to clean out the closet.
The discernment of the priestess is in understanding that ALL threads, every single one that shows up has done so FOR her. To serve her incarnation. She can use some for her tapestry, and some may become compost, to serve a different story, perhaps not even her own. But she knows, that not one of those threads is a “wrong” thread.
Even the threads that cause friction, have shown up for her refinement.
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Virgo tends to be enamored with the Mystery. She wants to probe the mechanics of the sacred. Has a love affair with cycles and seasons. And is deep devotion to the natural world.
Virgo is a systemic thinker. She can often see and feel how the whole tapestry comes together before other people. She understands how to make things work more efficiently.
I have my North Node conjunct Jupiter and the Asteroid Goddess Urania in Virgo. Which has made me enchanted with Large Overview Patterns. Archetypes if you will. And the strong desire to “read the collective”. I believe it’s where my love affair with Astrology comes in.
Our traditional understanding of Virgo tends to place them in a nit-picky light. Portraying them as obsessed with details and perfection.
The lessons for Virgo is to see that….
1. It’s all perfect. No thread in creation is mistake.
2. Friction that frustrates or challenges our ideas of purity, is showing up for our own refinement. It’s not about getting rid of the impure. The out of place. But integrating it somewhere. Even if it’s just to squeeze gnosis from before retiring it to the compost heap.
