Virgo New Moon: A Quiet Truth in a Season of Noise

In a world that clamors for certainty, where headlines and hot takes roar louder than hearts and uninfluenced minds, this is the moment to pause, breathe, and ask: what is real for me? What nourishes my spirit, and what clouds my clarity?

All year, I have been asking and making an attempt at answering how to live in this vast, beautiful, messy world without bypassing it or collapsing under its weight. Numbness may feel protective, outrage may feel like power, but there is a better path between them, and the universe and God will always offer guidance. To tend your inner truth is to hold a steady point while the world spins in chaos, to align your heart with clarity even as the outer story shifts.

When trust in institutions wavers and every corner of the culture seems to be shouting, the question is no longer which article is right, which talking head is right but how do we keep our own hearts clear. This is the kind of truth-seeking that does not chase headlines; it is the slow, inward work of remaining unclouded when the outer world is storming. Eclipse season has pulled back the veil, and the balance of the Autumn Equinox is approaching, followed closely by a rare second Virgo New Moon. Now is the time to come back to your own truth.

The weeks just behind us were shaped by a dramatic eclipse and a news cycle in relentless motion. Eclipses are famous for pulling back the veil. They accelerate events, surface long-buried truths, and force collective conversations we might prefer to postpone. They reveal the shadow for what it is and put it right in our view. Stories we tried to ignore returned with insistence; conflicts we thought settled demanded a second look. This is the signature of an eclipse: it does not create problems so much as illuminate them, circling us back to the places where we have avoided responsibility or resisted change.

In the public sphere the pattern was unmistakable - headlines breaking faster than they could be verified, hidden dynamics revealed, leaders and institutions called to account. Perhaps some of us felt similar pressure: old habits and self destructive behaviors knocking again at the door, relationships asking for honest dialogue, decisions deferred now arriving with a deadline. Eclipses are not gentle teachers, but they are precise ones. They show us what can no longer stay in shadow.

On September 21st we meet the second Virgo New Moon of 2025, a rare encore following the first Virgo New Moon at the end of August. Two lunations in the same sign at the first and last degrees act like a cosmic underline, a double emphasis that the lessons of Virgo are not finished with us. Virgo is the earth sign of discernment and sacred service. Its medicine is quiet but exacting: clean the clutter, separate wheat from chaff, choose what is truly nourishing. After a hectic eclipse season, which has truly been a period of revelations, endings, and chaos, this double Virgo call is almost startling in its clarity. The collective energy seems to say, now is the time to sort and to serve, again, and more deeply.

Virgo’s symbol, the Virgin, is not about chastity but about sovereignty. She belongs first to herself. She stands in the field holding a sheaf of wheat, offering it in service because she has already done the careful work of separating seed from stalk. This is the posture the times require of us.

Outer facts like who did what/etc. are arranged and exist only for the present, possibly to be changed later. They are shifting with every new revelation.

Inner truth is different. It is the quiet steadiness of integrity, the unshaken knowing that we are aligned with what is real and good. We can remain rooted in that even as the surface story changes.

This New Moon arrives, ending eclipse season only two days before the Autumn Equinox arrives, that perfect in between when day and night balance for a movement before the year tips toward darkness and winter. Equinox is the great teacher of equilibrium. It reminds us that wholeness is not found in extremes but in the meeting of opposites: light and shadow, outer fact and inner knowing, action and rest. To have the Virgo New Moon follow so closely on the Equinox is to receive an unmistakable message about balance and purification. We are asked to gather the harvest of a tumultuous year and to place each and every grain of it in its proper basket.

Practicing this kind of discernment is not about constant judgment; it is about presence. When a story breaks and outrage surges, we can pause and breathe. We can ask: Is this verifiable? Do I need to let this into my heart right now?  We can give ourselves permission to say, I don’t know yet, and feel the strength in that admission. In an age where information travels faster than verification and algorithms always reward anger and fear, restraint becomes a radical act. It is a Virgo act.

The double New Moon urges us to examine the habits that cloud our clarity.

What do we consume that keeps our nervous system on high alert?

Virgo teaches that purification is both physical and spiritual. It may mean cleaning a room, but also cleaning the mental and emotional diet, creating small daily rituals that return us to the ground of being. Morning silence before any screen. Writing what we know to be true about our own day. Simple acts like lighting a candle or pressing bare feet to earth when the noise feels unbearable. These are not escapes; they are the steadying gestures that allow truth to root.

To live this way is to hold complexity with compassion. We acknowledge that systems and people are imperfect without collapsing into cynicism. Reality is neither a tidy hierarchy of heroes nor a single web of conspiracies. Complexity need not taint us. Rather it can deepen empathy and humility. We remember the agency we do have: to decide what enters our attention, how we meet others, whether we harden or remain porous and curious.

This season invites us to embody steadiness rather than to shout louder. The eclipses have shaken the branches; Virgo asks us to gather what has fallen, to sort the fruit from the husks. The Equinox reminds us that light and dark need each other, that our task is not to choose one over the other but to dwell in their meeting. In that balance we find a truth that is not a headline but a practice, a quiet center we tend daily so that outside chaos cannot take root.

This season asks us to be our own anchor. The eclipses have shown what cannot stay hidden; the Equinox reminds us of balance; the Virgo New Moon calls us to discernment and service. Truth begins not in headlines but in the still, attentive center of your being.

Tend to it. Learn about it. Nurture it. Let it guide every action, every word, every breath.

I try to to return often to my own truth: that the world is more complex than any short narrative can capture.

I cannot control others, geopolitics, or the unfolding of history, but I can choose how I meet it.

I can choose to honor my shadows, hold my light, and return again and again to a grounded heart center.

In that alignment, even amidst upheaval, I try to be steady. I try to be present. I try to be real.

And from that quiet center, I can hopefully serve, discern, and act with clarity. Because in order to serve I have to calm the hell down and think.