Esoteric Astrology as news for week August 20 – 26, 2025

Virgo – Sheaf of Wheat & Shimmering Stars

On Friday this week, August 22nd, the sun  shifts from the fires of Leo (the Light of the Soul) to the earth sign of Virgo (sign of the Mary, the pregnant Madonna – symbol of the Earth as the source of intelligence, wisdom and love). The Sphinx too symbolizes Leo/Virgo – the body of man, the head of a woman. The Sphinx is a symbol of the two principles, male/female, equal and standing side by side in Aquarius. Something yet to be and wrought out in the crisis and difficulties of our present times.

So Sun enters Virgo on Friday afternoon (1:34pm, PT). And then from late evening to after midnight, the new moon appears in the sky at 0 degrees Virgo. This new moon is joining Regulus (kingly), the blue-white royal star of the Persians. It sits right on the elliptic in the center of the zodiac (pulsing like a heart). At 29 Leo and 0 Virgo.

The new moon will be in Virgo, sign of the Mother in all world religions. She is Isis of Egypt, Ishtar of Babylonia, Minerva of Greece, Maya of India and Mary of Bethlehem. She is the feminine teacher and leader of the Virgo Hierarchy, the cosmic mother of the planet, supreme feminine principle. She bears a sheaf of wheat and holds a shimmering jewel (insignias of power), signifying the blue white first magnitude star, Spica (meaning “sheaf of wheat”). The ancients dedicated their Mystery temples to this luminous star. When Spica is known and contacted by a more spiritualized humanity, a deeper understanding of the divine mother will be cultivated.

Virgo’s task is to guide humanity into the ways of purity and to quicken humanity’s higher mental and spiritual vehicles by means of etheric currents. Then humanity will have the ability to understand the reality, purpose and significance of the Immaculate Conception (which is not divine conception of the Holy Child, Jesus). So what is the Immaculate Conception?

ARIES: Have patience and be very careful with loved ones and with all encounters with those close to you, intimates, partners, close friends. You (or they) may feel irritated, estranged, separate, unloved and uncared for and yearn for contact (which releases Love). They may miss the magnetic charms you usually lavish on whom and what you love. You are to remember to “be of love a little more careful than of anything.” (e.e. cummings). Our response to all of life.

TAURUS: Each day may feel more and more challenging, taxing, testing and difficult. There could be extreme tiredness, pain and exhaustion. There is a need to tend to health and well-being. Perhaps choices you’ve made in the past five years need re-assessing. What are the consequences of these choices and should you make new ones? It is good to ponder upon what paths you want to choose in the future. Maybe you don’t know yet.

GEMINI: Do you feel your creative process is seeking a new form? Do you recognize what your creative process is? The Soul is our source of creativity. And, what you actually have, when aligned with the Soul, is a “prophetic imagination.”s both like and unlike that of Pisces. Our imagination is a tool that conjures hope for the future with a clear understanding of present-day dilemmas humanity faces. Mercury the messenger is your personal help mate offering you visions, future wishes and dreams. Share them.

CANCER: You are able to nourish new ideas that eventually begin to appear in form and matter. This occurs through your communications which often impress those around you. With this potency, perhaps you can begin to help humanity envision a new and vibrant way of life. Not the old materialism as we have known it, but the new materialism that responds to world/humanity’s need. This is Soul work shining like a shimmering emerald in the night of time. You illumine that night light.

LEO: I’m wondering, is there’s a sadness or grief and/or lamentation for things that occurred in the family long ago? Perhaps there’s a lament for one or more deaths in the family. It would be good to express yourself more in depth about any secrets, hidden family mysteries, which includes all things on your mind. Sharing will help you trust yourself more. The more you talk the more that’s hidden within you emerges. This is healing for you. And liberating. Your masks removed.

VIRGO: It would be good to hang crystals in windows and mirrors too, everywhere. It would be good to look into the mirrors, pondering upon your image and asking yourself who you are, what your identity is (then, now and in the future). Assess and re-assess everything about yourself including what you value. Create an “I Value” book. Set it alongside your “Retrograde,“ “Astrology” and “Esoteric Quotes” journals. Back to values. Write down everything you value. Begin with yourself as valuable.

LIBRA: When you think of your life as a child, what do you remember? What areas in your life, successful now, can be traced back to what you were taught as a child? What values were instilled in you? What books were read? What beliefs do you carry in your life now based upon resistance? How do you see your parents, in what light, and are you able to understand the 4th Commandment? Do you know what it is? It’s a serious spiritual law. Love underlies all these questions.

SCORPIO: It looks like a new daily schedule is needed in your life. Something completely different in the ways you live each day. It’s important to explore, plan, create and encounter new ways of being that bring  you to a greater sense of not only self-identity but also a greater sense of health. You understand the necessity to bring the depth of yourself forward, even while also protecting yourself. Through you, everything reorients toward the light. Scorpio is the sign of discipleship.

SAGITTARIUS: Sagittarius is the professor, the teacher, the philosopher, the musician, the chef. Sagittarius is the archer, the bow and arrow, the rider on the white horse. Sagittarius is the rider leading humanity to the foothills of Capricorn, eyes on the mountain tops. Sagittarius is the traveler, a cultural critic, the sign of truth and fellowship and pilgrimages and the light of the mind that soars in the stars. You set a table and invite seekers to the Great Table.

CAPRICORN: You’re on the brink, the edge, the precipice, at the border, the boundary, the periphery and perimeter of moving into the center of your own and yet everyone’s world. This is both inviting and not, exciting and scary. You’ve tried to open many doors and felt so often they were closed. Now as they open, you peek inside, realizing the choice offered you to walk through the door or return home. For a while you rest, remember, retreat, reassess and review who you are. Revelations then happen. You sew a golden garment for later use.

AQUARIUS: You want to travel, but you don’t, not at this time. You want to build and make things new, but something holds you back. You decide to move forward but things fall apart. You seek relationships but experience conflict and chaos instead. I want to remind you to tend to your health and well-being first. And also that conflict and chaos are creative energies in their infancy. From and through conflict a new harmony arises. Know also that for what you want in life, you must consider all the ways of cooperation and goodwill.

PISCES: Something within relationship shifts, changes, transforms, reveals and then returns to an original place (or person). As this occurs it’s quite tumultuous and the unknown beckons. You’re called here and there, by necessity or by desire (of others) and you remember to stand still, quietly and in truth, within your own needs. Not just wants, but needs. It seems every once in a while you stop praying, bordering on having no hope. Sometimes we must do that. Something lovely your way comes. Quietly, in the still of the night.