Cosmic Style Guide: Virgo Season 2024
The official sign of back-to-school energy
Happy Virgo Season!
No matter where Virgo lands in your chart (or the planets you may or may not have there) when the sun is here, you have the opportunity to work with its magic in your own unique way.
As a Mercury-ruled Earth sign, Virgo is about the practical, IRL changes we can make and the efficient and useful ways in which we can make them.
This mutable (changeable) sign is connected to the ways we transition from the height of summer and its extroverted full bloom to the shedding and renewed focus of the autumn.
(It’s no wonder Virgo season aligns with back-to-school energy in the Northern Hemisphere.)
In Virgo we prepare, process, and refine our magic in new and astute ways.
Let Virgo guide you in reconnecting to the Earth and its rhythms, your body’s natural rhythms and the systems, rituals, and routines upholding your life.
Make changes and edit as necessary. And remember: Keep it mutable, my babies. Rigidity be gone.
The Editor Archetype
This is the time to use your story, unique style, and heart and take purposeful steps in service of others.
During Leo season you were called to to get up close and personal with your core self — a lit up combo of your inner kid, your delightfully weird parts, and your passions.
Virgo uses their signature superpower of discernment to help you process your self-love and self-expression in a way that can be healing to both yourself and others.
Embody your personal editor archetype —mine wears a red lip, chic glasses, is a thought leader, and takes no shit — to cut through the nonsense and superfluous stresses in your life and realign with what’s most nourishing and supportive to you at this moment.
Edit out what’s not purely you and aligned with your values.
Virgo Season Astro Overview:
Sun in Virgo from August 22 - September 23, 2024
Mercury stations direct August 28 - What have you learned about yourself? How has your self-expression been affected or changed? What are you ready to devote your thoughts, words, and actions toward?
Venus enter Libra August 29 - Ya girl is back in one of her gorgeous home signs, ready to help us align with what we love, value, and find beautiful. Use this time to reflect on how you can show up in relationships in a new, more loving way and seek justice and balance.
Pluto reenters Capricorn on September 2 - This is the last chapter of the Pluto in Capricorn story in our lifetime. Pluto will stay at 29° Capricorn (it was here from Dec 19, 2023 - Jan 20 2024 and Feb 11, 2023 - March 23, 2023) until mid-November. A time for endings and transformations in the collective and personally.
New Moon in Virgo on September 2 (9:55PM Eastern at 11° Virgo) - What are you ready to devote yourself to? What do you want to grow long term? What are the conditions you need to set to do that?
Mars enters Cancer on September 4 - The warrior planet finds themselves in the sign of the nester. The crab tends to move sideways, around the edges, while Mars likes to be direct. This time could signal some frustrations or passive aggressive tendencies, but this can also be protecting mama bear energy that serves a greater cause. What are you trying to protect?
Sun opposes Saturn Rx on September 8 - Self-criticism could flair around this day. Choose to take responsibility and practical actions to correct your confidence levels and put in the work (Saturn loves to see it!).
Mercury reenters Virgo on September 9 - Another planet coming back home (like Venus in Libra). Merc is retracing their steps from their retrograde, helping you see things more clearly and chart a new course.
Full Moon (Lunar ECLIPSE) in Pisces on September 17 (10:34pm Eastern at 25° Pisces) - Yup, it’s eclipse season again! Get ready for abrupt endings, obscurities, and big time release. Don’t fight it, ride the wave.
Virgo Themes
Pick three themes to focus on this season:
Discernment
Analysis
Organization
Integration
Editing
Refining
Intentionality
Details
Self-mastery
Rituals
Routines
Mundane magic
Order
Inner work
Processing
Service
To put on your radar:
Nit picking
Criticism
Perfectionism
Being a Judge Judy
Virgo Style:
She’s giving capsule wardrobes, closet clean outs, and wearable spells.
Earth tones, camel, crisp white, greens, blues
Classic patterns and prints
Neutral and tonal outfits
Covertly sexy
Transitional
Day to night
Work to play
Summer to fall - dresses with sweaters, sweatshirts and sandals, mixing linen and wool
Put together
Practical
Structured but soft
Could go quiet luxury, coastal grandma and/or cowgirl, or earth mama
Quality > quantity
Less is more
Self-care for Virgo Season
These will look different depending on what feels right to you:
Routine reset — try dropping some routines, try new ones, see what feels aligned.
Social media/phone boundaries — (it’s the time of the Hermit after all!) do less, try not to look at your phone for the first hour of the day, delete your most-used apps for a weekend, choose airplane mode.
Earth magic — adorn your home with flowers and plants that hold meaning to you; tend to gardens or house plants with extra focus and care; make infusions, teas, and potions; get your hands in the dirt - make offerings to it, use it in spells.
Kitchen witchery — closely tied to Earth magic, you can use plants in dishes for specific healing or magical properties. Imbue the dishes or drinks you make with intention. Set you intentions, focus on them and speak them as you chop, stir and taste.
Hearth magic — do a deep clean of your home and spaces. Use salt to energetically and physically cleanse. Set up your space to support you.
Mercury magic — write spells, use tarot cards, candle magic, plants or oils to aid you in Mercurial pursuits like editing (of all kinds), speaking, writing, or traveling.
The Hermit card says:
“Step into your solo witch era.”
Craft your own spells, honor your inner rhythms, re-learn the language of your intuition and guides.
P.S. Sorry (especially to the Virgos!) for any typos. This was written by a human and not AI. Don’t worry, I’ll likely find the mistakes later and be upset about them :)