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The Finger of God Points to Virgo

A Season of Sacred Adjustment

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Daljeet Peterson
Aug 20, 2025
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Virgo Season Begins on Holy Ground

On August 23rd we will begin Virgo season in medias res—no slow crescendo, no gentle tapering in from Leo’s solar theater. Just a sudden stillness. A clean, precise cut.

At 0° Virgo, the Moon conjoins the Sun mere hours after crossing the cusp. This New Moon at the very gateway of the sign feels less like a beginning and more like a summons — a kind of quiet pressure in the air, not loud, not dramatic, but unmistakable. Like walking into a room that was just prayed in.

You’ll feel it, even if you don’t yet understand what’s being asked of you. And that’s very Virgo: sacred work, invisible to the untrained eye. The kind of labor that’s only noticed when it’s absent. The quiet magic of systems that hold, until they break.

But this New Moon isn’t just a seasonal mood shift. It arrives as the activation point of a larger cosmic tension—a yod, or “finger of God” configuration, with Pluto in Aquarius and Saturn-Neptune conjunct in Aries forming two tight inco…

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