This month’s New Moon occurs on the 8th at 5:31 AM, EST. Thus, all day and night on Wednesday, the 8th, is the best time to compile your written wish list for this month.

Virgo is associated with the Hermit, a major arcana card in the Tarot. When it shows up, it conveys that the situation is seeking resolution by the private Self. It represents a retreat from distractions and sociability. When the Sun is in Virgo, you can come back to yourself for a breather, after all the hoopla of summer.

Taking time to be alone gives you the chance to hear your own thoughts. You cut off the outside noise. You are able to then analyze the state of your health, relationships, and work life from a clearer point of view. Virgo is all about looking at the pieces of the whole. And when you're by yourself, you can ruminate on the pieces until practical solutions come into focus.

What is your body telling you? Virgo is the sign of the healing, since it's tuned in to the nuances of the body and it's processes. Virgo's analytic energy helps you to see where there's disharmony, and come up with your own path to wellness.

It is believed that many modern diseases, including depression, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, endocrine imbalances, and other immune-based illnesses reflect a separation from our soul's path as well as a reluctance to let go and trust the inner wisdom of the Virgin."

Coming home to rest in the center of the self allows you to tune in to the root causes of your ailments. You can see the body as an interdependent system, and come up with practical strategies to resolve what's ailing you.

This is an ideal time for new beginnings in health and service to others, and is also great for getting organized and creating or improving new habits and methodologies. With Venus semi-square the new moon, check in with your important relationships to make sure that they're based on equality!

New Moons represent new beginnings -- fresh starts. When the dual forces of the Sun and Moon join hands in their monthly cosmic dance, they create an ebb and flow of opposites -- the conscious versus the unconscious - action versus receptive intuition. This is the Dark Side of the Moon and the energies of the Moon are now at a subconscious level. We probe deeper and review our innermost needs and desires, and we plant seeds.

New Moons are about balance of these opposing forces -- the cosmic balance of the male and female energies, the Yin and the Yang -- both in our individual selves and in the universe. The fast moving Moon moves through the 12 signs of the zodiac every 28 days. The energy of each New Moon takes on the qualities of the sign the Sun and the Moon come together in - giving us the full kaleidoscope of energies.

The New Moon in Virgo has potent lunar energies. Not only do we have the Sun and Moon holding hands in Virgo, we also have Mars and Venus in close conjunction with each other in Libra. Mercury, ruler of Virgo is retrograde. Later, in the day, Venus moves out of Venus into seductive and passionate Scorpio. This is also a Super New Moon, which occurs when the Moon is at its closet approach to the Earth.

Each month the NEW MOON offers us a fresh opportunity to take charge of our lives by using the magic present in the atmosphere to manifest our dreams. On each new Moon POWER DAY, a window of opportunity opens that we can use by writing down a wish list (ten wishes maximum each month) of what we want to have come true in our lives.

Because this month’s New Moon will occur in the sign of VIRGO, at this time you may want to include wishes concerning one or more of the following Virgo-ruled categories on your wish list: organization, creating systems, order, health, diet, routine, exercise, systematic approaches, service, job, and pets.

It’s a good time to plan and organize, yet stay calm and continue breathing even if your progress seems endlessly stuck in re-do’s and details right now. You may need to do something twice, meet with someone again, reorganize something. The extra-strength Virgo effect can seem like nothing is ever going to be perfect enough to satisfy the critics, including your own inner voice.