WORK IT!
The
Moon trudges through Virgo until 6:38 pm ET (GMT-4) tomorrow.
Key
words for favored ways to spend time (other things being equal) include...
... work, mental activity, and details.
TELL US ABOUT IT
How are you spending your time
today, while the Moon is in Virgo?
Post below to let us know!
FOR FURTHER IDEAS ABOUT HOW TO SPEND YOUR TIME...
... each month, while the Moon is in Virgo (for two or three
days, each time ... such as today and much of tomorrow), here's what you can
do:
1. Get a copy of your birth chart.
(If you don't already have a copy of
it, then you get a free copy of it by going to www.astro.com and entering your
birth date, time, city, and state/country in the appropriate form.)
2. With a copy of your birth chart in hand (or in sight, on
your screen), figure out which house (or houses) contain the sign Virgo.
(For an example of how to do this,
see the section "AN EXAMPLE: MY BIRTH CHART," below.)
NOTE: Depending on technical factors
(which I won't go into right now), Virgo may occupy one, two, or even three
houses (or "pie slices") of your particular chart.
3. For each of the houses that Virgo occupies in your chart,
combine
(A) one or more of the key words that I noted above for
Moon in Virgo (i.e., work, mental activities, and details)
with
(B) one or more key words for whichever house(s) in your
chart contain Virgo.
NOTE: For a house-by-house run-down of what each of the 12 houses
of your birth chart symbolize, see my article at http://www.proudphoenix.com/houses.html
Feel free to "mix and
match" the way that you combine key words for the Moon in Virgo with key
words for the house (or houses) that apply to your chart.
Yes, part of astrology is
technical/memorization kinds of stuff, but another part of astrology (and,
hopefully, it's a much larger part of it!) is
creative/intuitive/experiment-and-see-what-works-for-you kinds of
stuff.
So let yourself be creative. Experiment and see what works
for you. And if something comes to you intuitively, then consider it at least
as much as you do anything that comes to you through logical reasoning.
AN EXAMPLE: MY
BIRTH CHART
Take a look at my birth chart.
In my chart (as in every person's
birth chart), each section (or “pie slice”) represents one house.
The houses are numbered from 1 to
12, starting with the section that is immediately below the horizon line (the
horizontal line, which is located on the left side of the chart).
The houses are numbered in a
counterclockwise direction around the circle.
Therefore, if you start at the 1st
house (the house that lies immediately below the horizon line,
on the left side of the chart) ... and you count from 1 to 5... then you should
find yourself ending at the 5th house.
Here's how you'll know if you landed
in the 5th house or not:
The 5th house lies in the lower
right-hand quarter of the chart. It contains numbers and symbols, including the
symbol for the sign Virgo--twice--and the symbols for the planets Uranus and
Pluto.
(Fortunately, if you are using a
birth chart from astro.com for yourself, the houses are numbered in their charts.
To identify a house by number, just look toward the middle of the circle to see
its number.)
I'll say more about what the
houses mean in a moment. For now, though, let's continue with getting to know where
the houses are in relation to other parts of the circles.
Specifically, let's consider where
the houses are located in relation to the signs of the zodiac (in relation to
the sign Virgo, to be exact).
If you look at the outer edge (or "rim") of the
circle, somewhat toward the lower-right-hand side of it, then you should see
the symbol (or "glyph") for the sign of Virgo there.
(Virgo's symbol looks kind of like the a cursive letter
"m" with an extra "hump" toward the right-hand side of it.)
If you look at the
numbers near that symbol, you should see that they are "04" and
"38." The first number ("04")
refers to degrees, and the second number ("38") refers to
minutes.
Virgo (like each of
the 12 zodiac signs) is 30-degrees long.
(A circle equals 360
degrees, right? And there are 12 zodiac signs. So if you divide 360 by 12, you
get 30. Each sign equals 30 degrees of 1/12 of the circle.)
Now, since there are 30 degrees in a sign, and 4 degrees 38
minutes (or 38/60 of a degree) Virgo lies at the "doorway" (or
"cusp") between the 4th house and the 5th house of my birth chart...
... that means that most (but not all) of Virgo lies in my 5th
house.
To be more specific about that:
The first 4 degrees and 38 minutes of Virgo lie in my 4th house,
and the rest of Virgo lie in my 5th house.
Now then, let's return to the matter of what the houses of a
birth chart mean.
Each house is associated with a certain set of issues and
activities in our life.
Depending on whichever houses are emphasized in our charts, we can
expect for a higher power (or God, or Goddess, or Spirit, or the Cosmic Wow or
destiny, or ... whatever power you believe in) to present us
with certain existential or moral questions--questions that are related to
those houses.
How we answer these questions and what we learn in the process of
coming up with our answers are up to us.
Again, for a quick-and-dirty version of what I consider each of the 12 houses to mean, see http://www.proudphoenix.com/houses.html
WHAT ABOUT YOUR EMPTY HOUSES?
If you're concerned about the fact that some of the houses in your
chart are empty, worry not!
With 10 "planets" (i.e., the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, ...
Neptune, plus Pluto) to go around, we all have some empty
houses in our birth charts. That's just the mathematical facts, ma'am.
;-)
Even though some of your houses are empty, they still matter in
your life. You still have work to do ... experiences to have ... live to live
... and songs to sing ... in those parts of your life.
(We astrologers use techniques other than
planets-in-signs-in-houses to get at the details of such matters.)
