This morning there is a New Moon in Virgo and a Solar Eclipse. As usual, I turn to my favorite source on the subject for an evaluation, Cafe Astrology:

A New Moon Solar Eclipse occurs in the sign of Virgo this morning at 8:45 AM EDT. Its effects can be felt up to six months after the actual date of the eclipse. In the sign of Virgo, work and health matters will be a major focus on a personal level. This eclipse is about new beginnings regarding work, attention to details, fitness, health regimes, and daily routines. The eclipse squares Mars and opposes Uranus, suggesting dynamic change and unexpected events. This is a time when we should build our powers of healthy, constructive discrimination; learn to be more pro-active; start a new health and fitness routine; set up specific routines that will help us manage our lives in positive, mindful ways; and learn the "power of now" and of mindfulness. We can learn to master the "little" details of our day-to-day lives in a more organized manner so that we can free our minds of clutter. For some of us, circumstances are such that we need to pay more attention to our work and health routines. Flaws in an important system in our lives are revealed around the time of the eclipse, prompting us to redo or to start fresh. We may find ourselves completely re-working this area of life. Read more about this Solar Eclipse.

Image: Phases oppositions. Copyright © Kmye Chan, 2006.

Change - the "redo" and the "fresh start" - is a funny thing. Most of the time it's good for us, but early this morning, lying on an air mattress as I woke to unfamiliar morning noises in my new apartment, I started thinking about the nature of change that we do not choose but that is forced upon us. My mind went to The Wheel of Fortune. It's an interesting card because for all that it's about luck it's really more about the idea that change is an unending part of life, whether we like it or not, plan it or not, see it coming or not. Does the "fortune" in The Wheel of Fortune mean that this change is for our own good, our destiny if you will?

In the excellent discussion about eclipses, Cafe Astrology has this to say about change:

Eclipses are tied to changing circumstances. However, we are usually the ones to precipitate or to attract changes because our "inner guides" know that we need it. Human beings are progressive by nature, and although we might stay in situations that are making us miserable for longer than we should, deep down inside we know that change is necessary for growth.

It occurs to me that if you, like me, are feeling a bit discombobulated by the effects of the turning of the Wheel, with things turned upside down and personal belongings (material or spiritual) spilled all over the place (literally or metaphorically), then perhaps this New Moon in Virgo with a Solar Eclipse is just the influence we need to bring some order to the chaos. Virgo's power to make us mindful of details will be helpful in putting things to rights and with the eclipse giving us six months to feel its effects, we can take the time we need to make this fresh start work for us.

Posted by Angela-Eloise at 7:12 AM