The Virgin
August 23 to September 22
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Element: Earth |
Glyph: Greek symbol for containment |
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Quality: Mutable |
Anatomy: Abdomen, gallbladder, intestines |
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Polarity: Yin/feminine |
Colors: Taupe, gray, navy blue |
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Planetary Ruler: Mercury |
Animals: Domesticated animals |
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Meditation: I can allow time for myself |
Myths/Legends: Demeter, Astraea, Hygeia |
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Gemstone: Sapphire |
House: Sixth |
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Power Stones: Peridot, amazonite, rhodochrosite |
Opposite Sign: Pisces |
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Flower: Pansy |
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Key Phrase: I analyze |
Keyword: Discriminating |
The Virgo Personality
Strengths, Spiritual Purpose, and Challenges
For you, life boils down to one thing: How do things work? You have to know that, or else life is meaningless, without a sense of order or consistency—both of which are deeply necessary to how you function in the world. You simply cannot move forward without knowing the various steps required to achieve your goal. This is mirrored both in your spiritual purpose and in your motto. The former is to process; the second is to be prepared. You will go to the ends of the earth to honor both, so much so that you often get tied up in knots of insecurity because you have difficulty understanding that the best-laid plans often go awry—not because you failed to do anything but because life just isn’t as predictable as you prefer.
Being prepared means developing your natural skills so you can draw on them in any situation, not anticipating all eventualities so things go off without a hitch. The irony is, even though you don’t like to make adjustments, you are good at handling crises. While everyone else is panicking, you are cool, calm, and collected, surveying the situation quickly and effectively and moving forward confidently to take care of business. This is the definition of you being perfect: handling whatever comes your way without hesitation, without self-consciousness. It’s only when things have settled down that you fall to pieces, often beginning the inner drama of asking yourself how the whole thing happened in the first place and completely overlooking just what you did under trying circumstances. This is not only counterproductive but is also harmful to your self-esteem.
Your penchant for self-criticism ignores the reality that growing as a human being doesn’t come from being perfect but from taking on life’s challenges, mastering them, and using the wisdom that is gained to create a life lived more effectively. So accept life’s vicissitudes. You’ll like yourself more and it’ll be easier to release yourself from the analysis paralysis to which you are prone. Getting so caught up in the whys and wherefores makes it difficult for you to make decisions or move forward, which in turn undermines your self-confidence. It’s a vicious circle. Instead, take your experiences and find the wisdom in them.
Relationships
You are profoundly sensitive to anything you perceive to be criticism, which can often make relationships a minefield for you. Because you are so invested in being perfect, you have difficulty understanding the difference between a comment and a critical remark. So in order for relationships to be a positive experience, you do need to learn how to discern the difference. That means moving outside your own reality and paying attention to the cues you are getting, being able to express how you feel about what has been said to you, and working at being kinder to yourself. All these are necessary so you can move beyond your automatic assumption that if something is off kilter, you must be to blame. This makes it so easy for others to use you and even abuse you, which, in turn, makes it hard for you to trust that you are worthy of love, respect, and even basic courtesy. The solution is to remember your innate commitment to being the best person you can be, not to being the best person other people want you to be. The only standards in life that truly matter are your own. So be clear what they are, trust yourself, and weigh everything that people say to you about you very carefully. It really is easier to connect to others when you are authentically connected to yourself.
Career and Work
Working hard comes naturally to you, so provided you are doing something that is purposeful and practical, you have no difficulty succeeding. Your biggest challenge in this area is determining what success for you truly is. It begins with your need to be of service, which is completely different from being a servant. Too often you get these confused, and it can make you resentful if you feel you are consigned to a menial position with no respect or appreciation for the effort that you put in. You will always feel like a failure if what you do is taken for granted or not valued at all. The antidote to this begins inside you. Set aside the thoughts and attitudes of others and recognize that you doing something automatically makes it valuable.
Money and Possessions
You really have no difficulty using money to take care of the necessities of life. That’s a given. Your challenge is recognizing that you can use it to value yourself by spending it on things that are not practically necessary but are emotionally satisfying. In fact, you make sure everyone else’s needs are met before thinking it might be a good idea to treat yourself, something you so richly deserve. Taking care of life means taking care of yourself, something you are certain wasn’t included in your operator’s manual. This is something you need to practice, just as you would practice learning a new skill. As for possessions, you do love beautiful things and you are quite discerning about the finer things in life, so not just any old thing is satisfactory. No sloppiness, no unrefined edges, no flaws, and no cheap-looking things for you. Things must always be impeccable.
The Light Side of Life
The things that bring you pleasure range from anything mentally stimulating to any kind of improvement. In fact, Virgo is the sign that invented improvement, because on a deeper level you are aware that everything is in a state of becoming. This often gets turned into a search for perfection that fuels your drive to improve everything, from your home, to yourself, to your lot in life. It may be hard for others to understand that you love to do this and it makes you happy—which it does as long as it doesn’t become a compulsive need. Instead, do the other things you love: learn new things, have great conversations (you make a great debater), read, master a game, or help someone through a crisis. Remember, everybody’s definition of fun is their own.
Virgo Keywords for 2019
Discernment, objectivity, self-compassion
The Year Ahead for Virgo
Things feel less like you are hanging by a thread in 2019 as Saturn finally takes the reins and gives you the opportunity to feel secure and solid. He hinted at it last year, but he had to contend with Pluto, Uranus, and Neptune constantly challenging your sense of what is real. You are not fond of constantly shifting landscapes, in spite of your tremendous capacity to adapt, and that trio has been creating havoc—at least in your mind—all over your life, taking you places where you questioned everything that holds value for you. Well, with Uranus moving into Taurus on March 6 and Saturn taking charge of Pluto in Capricorn, there really is an opportunity to use all the experiences you’ve had with Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto to start the process of building something worthwhile in your life, instead of feeling that nothing much can be accomplished because you are in a constant state of adjustment. Or is that anxiety? Or is that fear? Or frustration? Or recalibration? Or all of the above? So, as this abates, you finally have a clear sense of where you are going, even if it comes and goes. It’s better than the general feeling of the previous two to three years, when it seemed nothing ever truly came into focus long enough for you to make sense of it. It was like being given only 250 pieces of a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle. The more you planned, the more it felt like things went sideways or didn’t materialize at all. Of course, you thought it meant your plans were somehow wrong. But it wasn’t that, as much as you were plotting a course of action without the remaining 250 pieces.
This year feels quite different because you have the chance to at least shape a framework to guide you through the remainder of the shift symbolized by Neptune and Pluto. These are long-term shifts that take years to put into practice. The year 2019 is a bit of a respite from all this, giving you a chance to catch your breath and begin to put the pieces of the puzzle together, provided you know that you can no longer hang on to the outmoded, outworn, and antiquated aspects of your life. Just know you can create some truly worthwhile, powerful, and beautiful things to fill those spaces.
Saturn
Well, 2018 finally saw you feeling focused and accomplished for a change, although life still felt on the verge of upheaval at its worst and full of niggling annoyances at its best. It’s all down to Saturn, who has done a magnificent job of convincing you that all is right in your world. That’s because he has a tremendous capacity to keep things on the straight and narrow, so much so that you can and probably have been ignoring issues that exist outside the lines he is so good at drawing. For him, it’s all about the job at hand. How could anything else be important? The difficulty is he tends to apply this approach in an extremely limited way, ignoring those things that do not have an immediate, practical solution. He really doesn’t know what to do with feelings, sensitivity, imagination, matters of the heart, or the need for change, so he avoids them or suppresses them. As an earth sign, you understand this attitude. However, you cannot do this in 2019. Otherwise, you will find yourself in the midst of a logjam of confusion, frustration, and resentment. Take care to use Saturn’s energy in clear, positive ways—to find focus for your ongoing journey to unearth your creative self, to include more of the things that bring you joy in life, and to be more loving toward yourself. Use Saturn to build the appropriate framework for these activities. It’s definitely his job to provide structure, but he’s not always the best planet to rely on for content. That will come from the less exact parts of you. But this way you satisfy your desire for something you can depend on while creating space to move your life forward.
Uranus
You are never quite sure who is the bigger problem in your life, Uranus or Neptune. Truly it depends on which one is knocking on your door the loudest on any given day. At least since 2012, as Uranus pummeled you from Aries and Neptune mystified you from Pisces. Well, Uranus is about to make his way into Taurus and you couldn’t be more relieved. Finally, he will stop adjusting your reality, or is that turning everything upside down? Instead, he will offer his support for change from a friendly earth sign and things will settle down. But only if you actually take the awareness he offered you in Aries and use it to actually grow, to recalibrate the things that don’t work for you instead of analyzing them to death. And if you think you can return to the same old, same old, you’ll find things still going bump in the night. So be forewarned: Uranus in Taurus can bring all kinds of rewards only if you are willing to take a look at the things you insist on hanging on to for dear life and ask yourself if they hold value for you. It can be difficult for an earth sign such as yourself to realize that change is inevitable, because you want things to stay put. After all, you need to be able to rely on something. One of Uranus’s strongest messages always is to rely on yourself—not to the exclusion of others, but to know that being who you are is the rarest possible gift you can give yourself.
Neptune
For you, Neptune energy doesn’t make much sense. You just don’t like the wispy, the foggy, the insubstantial. How can you make anything out of what you consider to be nothing at all? So, Neptune’s insistence, since 2012, on playing hide and seek with your basic sense of self, your core, has created a level of anxiety that has often disconnected you from any applicable sense of reality. Normally you can count on your capacity to sort through all incoming data to paint a picture of what’s happening, but when it feels like you are wearing a pair of glasses that cause the world to disappear, you are completely at a loss as to what to do. The key here is to understand that Neptune’s purpose is to get you to turn inward to your imagination, to the source of your own creativity, so you can envision a new beginning in your life. This Neptune-in-Pisces journey is like a vision quest. You must be prepared to empty yourself of any negative ego qualities you have accumulated so you can see clearly what your truth is. Of course, along the way you confront any illusions or fantasies about yourself, created by you or others. And that is quite a daunting prospect. Just know that as Neptune hits the halfway mark of his trip through Pisces, you are on the verge of really understanding the potential offered to you by this process. Even the most difficult experiences offer a blessing.
Pluto
Quite frankly, you aren’t prone to viewing yourself as a creative person. Of course, this ignores the reality that living is a daily act of creativity, because, like most people, your definition of creativity is limited to anything artistic. But humans by nature must create, whether it’s plan something, play something, build something, paint something, write something, theorize something, enact something, cook something, etc. So, since 2008, Pluto has challenged you to get in touch with your creativity and apply all your passion to whatever projects call to you. The key is to do what your heart desires, what your intuition illuminates, not to use your logical brain to chart the course for you. Pluto signals that this requires you dig deep, past your usual modus operandi, to uncover that wellspring of feeling that can fuel how you express yourself and transform your fear of not being good enough. It’s time to release the notion that it’s your perfectionism that gets things done when it’s actually your commitment to always doing your best. When you recognize that, you will see clearly that perfectionism is a trap, and your gift of always doing your best is the very thing that frees you to create things from your heart instead of from your fear of inadequacy. This is a risk, no doubt. However, Pluto doesn’t take no for an answer. So acknowledge the challenge and know you can meet it.
How Will This Year’s Eclipses Affect You?
Eclipses signal intense periods that highlight major growth opportunities for us in the process of creating our lives. They are linked to the lunar phases—specifically the New and Full Moon—and involve the relationship between the Sun and the Moon and the Earth. A Solar Eclipse is a magnified New Moon, while a Lunar Eclipse is a magnified Full Moon. Eclipses unfold in cycles involving all twelve signs of the zodiac, and they occur in pairs, usually about two weeks apart.
In 2019 there are five eclipses, three solar (two in Capricorn and one in Cancer) and two lunar (one in Leo and one in Capricorn). The first Solar Eclipse arrives on January 5 in Capricorn, inviting you to confront any limitations you have at deeper levels that interfere with you loving yourself, appreciating yourself, and embracing yourself with total grace. Not an easy thing to do, as the parts of you that are comfortable with old patterns and old attitudes will question whether this is even necessary, triggering a push to shut down and accept reality as it is. The key here is to recognize that we all accumulate perceptions, beliefs, and thoughts about ourselves that need overhauling, and that maintaining a static view of ourselves is detrimental to our well-being. No one needs to understand this more than you do.
You are not the sum of your past choices, behaviors, and experiences. What you did says more about you than what happened to you. So this eclipse combined with the Lunar Eclipse on January 21 gives you a chance to enroll and participate in the School of Self-Appreciation. Strip away any automatic, self-critical responses that surface when you look at yourself. Self-examination is a useful tool only when you use it to make your life work for you. Otherwise, it becomes an exercise in self-torture and self-condemnation.
There isn’t a single person on the planet who can be harder on you than you are on yourself. All the eclipses of 2019, including the Solar Eclipse on July 2, the Lunar Eclipse on July 16, and the Solar Eclipse on December 26, offer you the opportunity to deal with this and to put a halt to your compulsive need to put yourself in an emotional chokehold, the one that says you are always one breath away from making a big mistake. Now’s your chance to define what healthy self-nurturing looks like by stepping outside your insecurities and asking for insight and support from the people in your life, especially your friends. You’ll be shocked by how much they are there to help you.
Virgo | January
Overall Theme
The year begins with a mixed bag of emotions. On the one hand, you feel hopeful and optimistic, ready to tackle the new year with gusto. On the other, you are cranky and out of sorts because you are convinced that something or someone is waiting just out of sight to rain on your parade. The best thing you can do is trust yourself to do your best, no matter what happens. It’s your greatest strength.
Relationships
If anyone comes knocking on your door looking for any kind of a handout, whether it’s support, the answer to a problem, or even money, you find yourself not particularly receptive. The reason? There is a push from inside you to be free from the responsibility for fixing everyone else’s life and ignoring your own well-being. Bravo! This is the beginning of a yearlong process of nurturing yourself first. Just remember to be polite.
Career, Success, and Money
Your intent is simple: to rid yourself of duties and obligations that not only drag you down but weren’t yours in the first place. You understand that this is an important step in valuing yourself and what you do. Doing this opens the door to the kind of success you dream of. It’s hard to accomplish what you are truly capable of when you are busy cleaning up other people’s messes.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
Expect, at the very least, to second-guess yourself continually this month. It’s your natural state, even when life isn’t asking you to shift gears and change the very ground you stand on. The challenge is to avoid getting caught up in a spiral of overthinking by constantly revisiting every potential outcome three or four or five times. That will only wear you out.
Rewarding Days
14, 15, 29, 30
Challenging Days
4, 5, 12, 13
Virgo | February
Overall Theme
You feel a deep shift that you can’t quite explain. Just let it percolate, because that’s the most effective thing you can do. Any effort to quantify or even qualify what’s happening only leads to frustration and anxiety. This amplifies your worry quotient all out of proportion. As hard as it is to accept, all you need to know is that nothing is broken or needs to be fixed.
Relationships
Don’t be surprised if the communication between you and everyone else has entered some sort of twilight zone. No one, including you, seems to be speaking clearly or listening or understanding. This, combined with unspoken demands and expectations, results in bad tempers and questionable behavior all around. To circumvent this as much as possible, try writing down what you want to say.
Career, Success, and Money
Stick to the boundaries you set last month. Otherwise, you find yourself yet again taking care of other people’s responsibilities at a time when new opportunities for advancement present themselves. A new project comes along offering you the chance to flex your creativity, and you definitely don’t want to be bogged down and unable to rise to the challenge—and reward—it promises.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
It drives you crazy when you can’t get a handle on what things are all about, so this month is a definite challenge on two fronts. First, new things are sprouting up in your consciousness, but they have no definition. Second, there’s a push to wrap up some old subconscious beliefs and attitudes that have been blocking your path. On the surface, they don’t appear to have much in common, but their intent is the same: moving you forward.
Rewarding Days
10, 11, 19, 20
Challenging Days
1, 2, 17, 18
Virgo | March
Overall Theme
You know change is in the wind. You can feel it. Of course, this means you are stubbornly trying to keep yourself at a standstill. Your preference is always the devil you know—at least you know what you can expect. However, resistance is futile. Uranus changes signs on March 6, bringing a whole new set of opportunities for growth. Take the risk. It won’t hurt as much as you think.
Relationships
Well, you probably emerged from last month thinking relationships are nothing but a quagmire. That may be true, at least some of the time. However, it’s best to set that opinion aside in favor of detachment. You’ll need it to work through the misunderstandings created by the fuzzy, incomplete, and inaccurate communication that typified your connections with others in February.
Career, Success, and Money
Again, it seems that your forward momentum is stalled. Step back from that hasty assumption and realize there are some things that need to be recalibrated before you will be able to institute the larger changes you want. It’s major cleanup time, not just when it comes to your career and future success but in financial matters, too.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
You don’t mind taking time to reexamine all aspects of your life. It comes naturally. What creates turmoil for you is not being able to gather any useful information from that process. Well, when Mercury, your planetary avatar, is in retreat in Pisces, it’s time to follow your hunches, not your rational meanderings. You’ll be astounded at how much is revealed to you and how much you truly know.
Rewarding Days
9, 10, 27, 28
Challenging Days
5, 6, 17, 18
Virgo | April
Overall Theme
Your usual patience and adaptability are in short supply for much of April. Quite simply, you are ready to move forward and the rest of the world is on a coffee break. Instead of clenching your teeth, see this not as a delay but as a pause. The timing is not quite right to take the steps you envision.
Relationships
Now that a state of equilibrium is restored in the most important relationships in your life, you are content and happy. So get out and enjoy yourself. Gone are those testy moments when you were convinced that the only function others served in your life was to let you know how inadequate you were. It really is nice to know you are loved and accepted.
Career, Success, and Money
Time to take care of financial matters, including asking for a raise or seeking a promotion. Money is a reflection of how much we value ourselves, and you need to step up to the plate and be clear that it’s not inconvenient to ask for what you deserve. Also be wary of any requests to invest your money in other people. Your emotional and intellectual support is sufficient.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
It feels like Uranus lit a fire under you. Once reluctant to make any change without considering the ramifications for what seemed like a millennium, you are now more than ready to rush headlong into the future. Relax. Realize that even though you don’t want to wait any longer, you need more time to rejuvenate your body, soul, and spirit. After all, you exhausted yourself fighting the need for change.
Rewarding Days
6, 7, 21, 22
Challenging Days
10, 11, 17, 18
Virgo | May
Overall Theme
You find steady ground for the first time this year. Once again, life feels dependable and reliable and you flourish. Gone is the apprehension, lurking just under the surface. In its place is a wellspring of newfound confidence, built on mastering all the ups and downs you’ve experienced over the last seven years.
Relationships
Things settle into a comfortable routine, something that truly nourishes your whole self. This restores your trust in others, which has been in short supply lately. You always struggle when you don’t understand what makes other people tick. Your challenge is knowing that caring about others doesn’t mean you always understand them.
Career, Success, and Money
The keyword in May is satisfaction. No big messes, no big challenges, and no major irritations crop up, leaving you with a whole month to truly get things done. You are in your glory, not only because work is going smoothly but because you have an increased sense of your own worth.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
There really isn’t a lot that’s going to upset your apple cart this month. Even the usual stuff that irritates you doesn’t even make a blip on your radar. This, in itself, may make you wonder if you’re okay. Only you could find a reason to be worried about being happy. Just enjoy the experience. You deserve it.
Rewarding Days
12, 13, 26, 27
Challenging Days
8, 9, 19, 20
Virgo | June
Overall Theme
New pathways for creating the kind of future you desire open up, but not without some deep soul-searching on your part. You can’t ignore any deep insecurities you keep hidden to hijack your forward movement. Whether you realize it or not, you’ve been preparing for this for a long time. And you are prepared. Just trust yourself.
Relationships
Think before you speak. It keeps you from saying things you’ll regret. It’s true that there’s a lot going on emotionally for you right now, making you deeply aware of any anomalies in the way others respond to you, either through words or actions. However, you are in the midst of a powerful shift in the way you think about yourself, so don’t derail this process by putting any emphasis on how others treat you. It’s not important right now.
Career, Success, and Money
You want everything in this part of your life to be clear, organized, and on point. So do it. Forget about what everyone else is doing. Take care of your responsibilities and you’ll find yourself on the receiving end of some unexpected praise as well as a big opportunity for advancement. Oh, and keep an eagle eye on any spending connected to your home. You might overdo it.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
There’s no really polite way to say this: You find yourself in a highly reactive state this month, and almost anything is likely to trigger hurt feelings, insecurity, and inadequacy. Trust that this is old stuff you’ve kept buried for a long time. Allow it to surface, but don’t act on it. Instead, find some healthy ways to nourish yourself. This reveals how much you believe yourself to be imperfect. Time for a makeover.
Rewarding Days
8, 9, 22, 23
Challenging Days
4, 5, 17, 18
Virgo | July
Overall Theme
The battle between old patterns and new hopes makes you wonder if you know which end is up. The pull of the familiar is so deeply ingrained that it’s a big challenge to realize the time has come for you to set aside any definition of what you are responsible for and create a new life template where your number-one priority is you.
Relationships
You find yourself taking a long, hard look at just what you need in relationships. The result is you are surprised to discover just how many relationships you have in which you are giving a lot and not receiving much in return. Refrain from getting caught up in trying to balance the scales. Respect your choices at the same time that you decide how you are going to alter this imbalance.
Career, Success, and Money
The more things change, the more they stay the same. This describes just how you feel about your job and your workplace. Mostly it’s the people you work with. Once again you are reminded that the only person you can take charge of is yourself. Otherwise, trying to fix someone else’s problem gets you in trouble.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
It takes a lot of heavy lifting to shift patterns that you’ve lived with your whole life, so you are overwhelmed. Just don’t turn this response into another way to find fault with yourself. You may believe that if you really knew what you were doing, you wouldn’t feel this way. Well, overwhelmed is not the same thing as inadequate. Accept that life has a habit of stretching us all beyond our limits, and that includes you.
Rewarding Days
6, 7, 25, 26
Challenging Days
2, 3, 15, 16
Virgo | August
Overall Theme
You feel a lot of fire in your soul. However, it doesn’t translate into much outward action, as you aren’t quite sure where to put all that energy, partly because one minute it’s larger than life and the next it vaporizes. Recognize that you are awakening your intuition, your imagination, and your dreams so a vision can emerge. This removes the need for you to do something.
Relationships
Your softer, fuzzier side takes center stage. This makes connecting to people a more attractive proposition than it has been recently. The key is to remember to apply this to yourself as well. You need compassion and a cuddle as much as anyone. Remember, being kind to yourself—which doesn’t come easily to you—shows everyone just how you desire to be treated. Plus, you set a new standard in your relationship with yourself.
Career, Success, and Money
It’s hard for you to seek attention, or even accept it when it shows up. Why? First, because you aren’t sure you deserve acknowledgment. In your mind, that symbolizes perfection, and you know perfectly well you haven’t achieved that, or ever will. Second, because then you run the risk of feeling less than, no matter what accolades you get. Well, this month everyone notices you. Embrace the attention.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
As your connection to life shifts at ever-deeper levels, welcome the experience. That’s all that is required. Hard to believe, right? What exactly does that process look like? And where’s the set of directions? Yes, it’s difficult to function without answers to those questions. But you must. You are creating a new path by being open and vulnerable rather than organized and structured.
Rewarding Days
9, 10, 30, 31
Challenging Days
1, 2, 11, 12
Virgo | September
Overall Theme
All systems are a go. The time to take action finally arrives and you are ready, willing, and able. The interesting thing is you are much more interested in taking a risk than managing the outcome. You’re drawing on your burgeoning awareness that being able to adapt to whatever life serves up is definitely your gift.
Relationships
You are more at ease with yourself and, consequently, with others. Too often you spend time on high alert, trying to figure out how to protect yourself from any possible slings and arrows that you are sure are just around the corner. Or you are compulsively focused on making sure that whatever you do in relationships is correct. Becoming more comfortable in your own skin takes the pressure off and gives you the chance to truly be yourself.
Career, Success, and Money
Your increasing self-assurance reaps huge benefits this month. First, you create a solution to a long-term work problem that demonstrates your profound ability to understand complexities. Then you get a sudden insight that not only inspires you but causes you to see yourself in a whole new light. You don’t always have to be the support person. You can be the initiator.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
There’s no doubt that you are on the verge of creating your own brave new world. After all, you are taking the first steps toward it. Be aware that the old, worn-out, not-very-effective parts of you, parts that have definitely outlived their purpose, are deeply ingrained and you will experience them again. That’s not bad or good. It just is. So don’t judge yourself. Not even a tiny bit.
Rewarding Days
3, 4, 7, 8
Challenging Days
10, 11, 15, 16
Virgo | October
Overall Theme
Don’t be surprised if you find yourself taking a step back from all the things you initiated in September. Life is an ebb and flow, and although you pushed forward without overthinking anything or getting in your own way, you naturally need to take time to examine what you created. You are not retreating, just sorting and sifting. That’s how you do life.
Relationships
You are deep inside yourself, so people may wonder where you went, both physically and emotionally. It’s not that you are ignoring anyone. You are busy observing all the changes you created in your life and creating a new framework for who you are becoming. So let your partner, family, friends, and peers know you really are available. They just have to ask.
Career, Success, and Money
This area of life is the least of your concerns, not because you are neglecting anything but because there is truly nothing you are worried about. Everything is humming along and you are content to support what you’ve set in motion, instead of micromanaging it—another step forward in reinventing the way you do life.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
What this month brings is a chance to relinquish the notion that easy is bad. And you can’t help going there, because things went so smoothly last month. Life doesn’t always need to be hard. It really can be easy—and that isn’t a sin or a problem. Accept that this is part of the process of creating a life more lived than planned. It’s okay to be present and let life unfold.
Rewarding Days
9, 10, 24, 25
Challenging Days
12, 13, 19, 20
Virgo | November
Overall Theme
Your focus shifts to refining and smoothing out any rough edges that accompany the major changes you’ve embarked on in 2019. Much to your surprise, there’s not much to do, partly because your attention to detail is legendary and partly because following your heart didn’t turn out to be as undisciplined as you feared. Time to celebrate. Growing yourself is worthwhile.
Relationships
You definitely feel new and improved. Buoyed by your own optimism, you check in with those most important in your life for their input. The key here is not to play games or camouflage your intent because you are afraid you won’t get positive reviews. Be clear and direct. Be prepared for what you may hear. This isn’t as much about what people think as it is about you knowing who you are, no matter what.
Career, Success, and Money
This is a time for clear, written communication because the potential for misunderstanding what is needed on a very important project runs high, leading to an unnecessary and expensive redo. Even though the problem isn’t on your end, take the initiative in establishing the procedure that avoids the issue entirely.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
As you review your 2019 journey, be careful not to nitpick yourself to death. Examining your life’s experience to find what is more effective and useful is healthy and nurturing, as long as it doesn’t lead to slicing and dicing every little thing you could, should, or might have done differently. That nullifies the whole purpose of the process, which is to gain valuable awareness.
Rewarding Days
3, 4, 20, 21
Challenging Days
11, 12, 26, 27
Virgo | December
Overall Theme
The biggest gift of 2019 is opening up to the reality that purpose and passion can occupy the same space. You now understand that passion is a source of energy, not a threat to your stability. Of course, this required that you let go of your reluctance to be vulnerable and open. But now that you’ve crossed that threshold, you are reenergized, inspired, and truly enthused.
Relationships
Your new boundaries in relationships really take hold as you work to let go of old patterns in dealing with others. No more feeling that it’s okay for others to guilt you into doing things you don’t want to do. Now that you feel you have a choice, your irritation and resentment begin to disappear. And as you change the dynamic, you notice that some people shift with you while others don’t. That’s their issue.
Career, Success, and Money
All in all, you feel very positive about what 2019 symbolizes in this area of life. There were far more good things than negative, leaving you feeling satisfied and eager to get to the next chapter of your life’s purpose. Not only that, but you know you are better equipped to make the most of any new opportunities.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
The eclipse on December 26 again calls into question whether structure is more important than content. Avoid the trap inherent in that question. True, you can have structure without content, but if this year has shown you anything, it’s that you need both. Otherwise, there’s an emptiness that drains you deep in your core. For you, structure is not the end result. It’s just the container for what’s really valuable.
Rewarding Days
3, 4, 17, 18
Challenging Days
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Virgo Action Table These dates reflect the best—but not the only—times for success and ease in these activities, according to your Sun sign. |
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FEB |
MAR |
APR |
MAY |
JUN |
JUL |
AUG |
SEP |
OCT |
NOV |
DEC |
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Move |
2, 3 |
15, 16 |
30, 31 |
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Start a class |
15, 16 |
17, 18 |
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27, 28 |
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Seek coaching/counseling |
4, 5 |
1, 2 |
3, 4 |
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Ask for a raise |
21, 22 |
6, 7 |
24, 25 |
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Get professional advice |
19, 20 |
2, 3 |
13, 14 |
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Get a loan |
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1, 2 |
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2, 3 |
19, 20 |
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New romance |
10, 11 |
15, 16 |
7, 8 |
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Vacation |
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10, 11 |
20, 21 |
11, 12 |
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16,27 |
8 |
20 |
27 |
31 |
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