A Solar Eclipse in Virgo — What to Watch For and Tips for Tracking

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

Today we're going to take a look at the upcoming solar eclipse that's happening in the sign of Virgo. This is coming up this weekend. I will give you the timeline for this eclipse.

I'm going to give you five things to watch for today. Given the emphasis on the sign of Virgo that is present, we'll talk a little bit about the meaning of a solar eclipse in general. But later this week, I'm going to spend more time talking about what it might mean that we have the combination of the south node and the solar eclipse happening at the same time.

We'll also have some horoscopes with my friend and colleague, Ari Moshe Wolf, coming up later this week. So today will be a way of sort of exploring five things. I'm going to give you five things to watch for given some of the general archetypal themes of Virgo that could be at play.

I'm also going to give you the history of the most recent eclipses in the sign of Virgo from both the North Node and the south node, dating all the way back to 1987 so that you can compare and contrast different periods of your life. I find that kind of tracking really useful, so I'll throw that in there today, in addition to a little deeper exploration of the eclipse in Virgo. So that's our agenda for today.

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So on that note, let's turn our attention to the real time clock and a lot of things happening this fall. So take me a minute to get through them. Now let's I'm going to bring up my epic pen if it will show up. Okay? And what I want to focus on is, first of all, just giving you an like a kind of up to the minute astrological update.

Mercury is opposing Saturn today. Mercury will then oppose Neptune. Mercury will then trine Uranus, and mercury will trine Pluto. I spent the first two days of this week covering that opposition between Mercury and Saturn and the total sequence of Mercury, which is a vital part of what's happening this week, because Mercury is the ruler of our upcoming Eclipse in Virgo.

So that being said, if you have not yet looked at Monday and Tuesday's content, the coverage of Mercury, which is happening fresh to today and tomorrow and Friday. I highly encourage you go back and look at those two videos where we do some really nice coverage of these Mercury aspects. Because if you're watching this today, Wednesday, September 17, that's in the sky right now, it might be really helpful if you haven't seen those to go back and check them out.

Because what we're doing today is we're sort of assuming that you've already, you know, taken a look at that content, and we're skipping forward to the end of the week, on Sunday, where we will have our solar eclipse. This solar eclipse in Virgo is a major event that we also need to sort of get out in front of, and is going to take up our going to take our attention for the rest of the week.

But as we're looking at the solar eclipse, these powerful aspects from Mercury are coming through right now. And so it's very important, if you haven't yet again, to just check out that content from Monday and Tuesday on the major sequences of Mercury this week. I did a video yesterday exploring the planetary friendship of Mercury and Saturn, which is kind of a, kind of a secret that a lot of people feel, feels like a, kind of an esoteric little secret in astrology that not a lot of people know about.

So that may also be important for us today, as we're experiencing a Mercury Saturn opposition in the sky. So go back and check that one out, especially if you want to learn more about the very interesting affinities that Mercury and Saturn share with one another.

Okay, well, anyway, on that note, I want to give you five things to watch for, given the solar eclipse in the sign of Virgo. These are thematic. These are archetypal, and they are unique to a solar eclipse, which is a very powerful version of a new moon in the sign of Virgo.

But before we do that, I want to give you some tips for tracking the history of eclipses in the sign of Virgo, because one of the things that can be a tremendous benefit to you right now in trying to understand what this eclipse might mean in your life, how it might be showing up as a powerful symbol, is to look back on the previous times that eclipses have occurred in the same place of the Zodiac, the sign of Virgo.

So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to take you back in time and just give you some basic tips for tracking always the house position is going to matter the most, which means that, you know, in a whole sign house format. You want to get a feel for what whole sign house Virgo occupies. Once you know that, then you can sort of you're really cooking with fire, because you know what themes and topics to consider alongside of, say, the themes we're going to cover today.

You can think about the house topics and then really get a feel for how previous time periods may be connected thematically to what's happening now or what will happen in the months to come as the sort of effects of the solar eclipse in our life play out.

Okay, so what I want to do is, let's go back to the most recent eclipses, and what I'm going to do is, I'm just going to eliminate everything from our perspective, except for the nodes of the moon. We're going to take them back in time, and we're going to go to, oh, here we go. So here the nodes of the moon are changing signs in October of 2015.

In October of 2015 the north node of the moon moved into the sign of Virgo. That's the part we want to track. The nodes of the moon move always backward through the Zodiac or retrograde. And you can measure their movements by either what's called the mean node or the true node. In what follows, I'm using the mean node. It's not, I don't think it's a huge difference. Some people will, you know, die on a hill over it, not me.

But anyhow, when we look at I'm going to advance this now month at a time we're seeing that eclipses are forming between October of 2015 and all the way until the nodes leave the signs of Virgo and Pisces, that takes us to April of 2017. So during that period of time, north node was in Virgo.

Now let me just give you a brief example. You guys know, one of the ways I like to show you is just by, just by something super, super simple, like, let's just take this back, and I'm a Taurus rising. So if I wanted to track that period between October of 2015 to April of 2017 when the North Node was in the sign of Virgo.

That means similar eclipses. The north node, South Node distinction. I'm going to take a look at that with you guys on Friday of this week. But that North Node, South Node distinction makes some difference, but largely you can just think, Okay, the last time I had eclipses in Virgo was during this period this house. House. The same topics are being activated now that we're then.

So for me as a Taurus rising, that's my fifth house, a place among other things, connected to childbirth and pregnancy, also topics like creativity. It's really interesting actually, the history and background of why this house is connected to creativity. I won't get into that right now, but fascinating part of what I looked at during my masterclass series this past year of 2025 anyway.

So between October 2015 and April 2017 while there were north node eclipses taking place in the fifth house, I became a parent. My wife gave birth to our daughter, who turned out to be a Virgo rising. I thought that was kind of fun, but these eclipses in my fifth house coincided with a period of time in which the eclipses mostly pertained to the birth of a child and becoming a parent. Very appropriate for the fifth house.

Now my point in doing this is to say, look at that whole sign house of Virgo between October 2015 and April 2017 for the last period of time in which you're likely to see some major life changes, changes of direction, changes of circumstance, events and themes that will pertain to the topics of that house and the themes of Virgo.

Now, for the themes of Virgo again, just hold tight. I'm going to give you five things to watch for, and then you could actually pair some of those themes. Some of those themes within this house. But yeah, so that's an example from my own life. So consider that first period, October 2015, to April 2017.

Now let's go back to the previous period, which is going to take us back in time the move in about nine to 18 year cycles through the same signs, 18 years for the North Node, let's say, to come all the way back around to the same sign of the south node to come back around the same sign, and half of that length, about nine years for them to come back.

But in flipped order, the North Node versus the south node. So that's called a flip nodal return happens every nine years. We're going to go back now all the way to 2006 and I'm going to just advance this to the month of June. In the month of June, 2006 the nodes moved into Pisces and Virgo, with the South Node now in the sign of Virgo.

So now the south node of the moon would have then spent all the way until January of 2008 in this space, that fifth house in my chart, that's the fifth. But whatever chart, or whatever house it was in your chart, so from in during that time. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to put Taurus rising up. So I can just show you how I did this exercise for myself.

What was taking place for me between June of 2006 and January of 2008 while the south node of the Moon was in the fifth house in my chart, a place at, you know, during this time where we have creativity, right? And things like children, childbirth and so forth. Well, I wasn't having a child back then, but I was in during these two years. I was in, I went to graduate school and did a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing.

And during this time, was processing and writing about the path to sobriety that had come into my life through ayahuasca and so very south node in Virgo in the fifth I was writing creatively about process of purification, just very Virgo, that creative project would eventually become a published book. And so the South Node in that fifth house was during that those two years, for me, coincided with art school.

So again, go back to June of 2006 to January of 2008 consider the whole sign house, topics of Virgo in your birth chart, and pair that with some of the themes we're going to talk about in a minute from the sign of Virgo. And now again, you're you're cooking, you can really think about the connections between those themes, those topics, those timelines, and what might be happening right now.

All right, we're going to go back once more. This is getting older, and so depending on your age, this may or may not be effective. I found that the younger you get, sometimes the harder it is to notice these things, and you may end up feeling like the best and only way to notice them is through maybe what was happening in your family or in the kind of the bigger world around you, because it's sometimes harder to remember exactly what was happening for us psychologically, or to make connections to some of the houses when you're just a kid might be harder.

But anyway, let's some of. You watching may have been born, you know, like me, if you're in your 40s, or even if you're older, then this is going to be taking place when you were a little bit older. And so there's probably things you can remember. But anyway, the North Node was back in Virgo from February of 1997 and it was very late February of 97 but either way, late February 97 all the way to September of 1998.

So we're gonna move this to September of 98. Okay, so it was again like, or the exact transition. I didn't put the exact dates, but it's about the middle of September 98 that the nodes move sign. So late February to mid September 97 to 98 that was another period of time in which the North Node was in the sign of Virgo.

So I find that to be pretty interesting in again, like when I look at my own chart. Now, I was in high school, and so for me, you know, I can't say that the world's most i It was not like as I wouldn't say. I can't recall that period as clearly, let's say, as I can the last two that I showed.

But one thing that was happening during this time was that at the outset of this period, I had won a creative writing award in my School and was developing a journaling practice, and Creative Writing was basically becoming a thing for me as a very daily kind of artistic practice. And I also during this time was pretty deeply immersed in playing my guitar and taking musical lessons.

So when I look back at this period of my life, there were a lot of things happening, but one of the most critical things that was happening was I was writing poetry and journaling pretty much every single day. And that practice of daily writing, even though it was not yet short stories or memoir, the forms that I would come to love later, it was journaling and it was poetry and writing some music and playing a lot of guitar.

But this period was absolutely dense with that kind of activity. For the first time in my life, that was another north node period in in my fifth so take a look at this period between February of 97 to September of 98 if you can remember it, what was going on and how does it correlate with the topics of the house?

All right, I've got one more period for you guys. And this one, the south node was in Virgo. Notice how they're alternating every nine years. We're going to go back to 1987 and going to push this ahead just slightly. November of 1987 the nodes entered Pisces and Virgo again, with the south node of the moon in the sign of Virgo.

Now, as those eclipses occurred, we were taken through a couple of years. So they end up leaving Virgo and Pisces in May of 1989 here they are. It's like late May of 1989 so now for me, what's really interesting about this is okay. So this, for me, is the youngest period that I can remember. And I was born in 81 right? So I was, what, six to eight years old, around around roughly six to eight years old.

So between, between six and eight years old. The only thing that I could remember that was really significant that happened during this period of time was I switched schools and my family moved and I like, there's literally nothing else I can really remember so much other than all of my childhood playmates were suddenly gone. The i was i We moved. I was going into second grade, so I had built some friends in kindergarten and first grade those two years, and then we moved, and I didn't have any friends.

And even as a very small child, I remember starting to deal with so. Social anxiety in the second grade. Being a new kid might sound cheesy, but to me that's interesting, because the Virgo fifth house themes sometimes have to do with things like pleasure and happiness, and this period of time, for me, was one of a major social adjustment that involved a lot of social anxiety.

I don't know if that is the cleanest way of reading what was happening at that time. There may be other things that were happening that I can't remember, but certainly to me, those were the things that stood out. So check it if you were around and you were a little bit older, it might hit or resonate a little bit more November of 1987 to May of 1989.

Okay, so again, to me, the reason that it's it's so helpful to do that is you can see when periods are recurring cyclically, and topics and themes are coming back up that there's a weave happening throughout our lives. It's and I like the image of, I think it might have been Ken Wilber, sort of like a spiral staircase that you're moving up, and as you grow and learn and evolve spiritually, let's hope you come around to a place in the spiral staircase, where three levels down you can see where you were in previous parts of your life.

And the idea is that we're learning and growing, but we often come back around to the same things with a little bit more awareness, or maybe a little bit more virtue or creativity or openness, I don't know. So anyway, I hope that's useful for you.

What I want to give you now are five things to watch for, given that we have a solar eclipse in Virgo, and again, I'm going to talk more about the pairing of the nature of a solar eclipse with the south node at the end of this week. Today, I just want to give you themes that are related to Virgo and what it might mean that just very basically, a solar eclipse tends to be about the starting points of new cycles, as opposed to lunar eclipses, which are often about the fruition or the closure or resolution of things, the fruiting of a karmic cycle that has history, as opposed to the planting of the seeds of a new cycle, which are more common for the solar eclipse.

So what themes might we see from this moment, not just this linear moment, but this moment in time, moving forward, spreading out throughout the months and years to come, knowing that these also carry nine and 18 year cyclical dynamics with them. They're very long, powerful cycles that get started around these points.

So here are the things to watch for with the sign of Virgo. Always, we have themes of surrounding the topic of purification and forgiveness. Virgo the harvest maiden is an image that speaks to something pure, something chased something virginal. In a way, it's something untouched by the darkness or impermanence of Earth. You can't ever really lose your innocence. You never really lose the child within. You never really lose the feeling of being a beginner.

How many traditions have spoken to the importance of beginner's mind? How many therapeutic moments or experiences do we have where we say, well, the I had some trauma in my childhood, but the child is still there. It's still with me. So the sign of Virgo, because it sits on the cusp of the autumn equinox and the entrance into the dark half of the solar year, symbolically, there is so much that has to do with how we retain or carry that light, even though we move into darkness?

You're a spirit, soul. You come into the world, you take on a body. How do you retain that sense of the purity of your very being and consciousness, despite knowing you're going to live a mortal life, you're going to experience the interplay of light and dark, morally and physically.

So this sign has so much to do with the retainment of something pure, and you can think about that in so many different ways, again, like a child or beginner's mind or the spirit versus matter. There's all these distinctions. And therefore one of the things that's quite common for Eclipse cycles in Virgo is for there becomes, there's like a need in us when we get lost or entangled to come back to something original, pure, innocent, wholesome.

And Virgo will say, Let's. Get back to something whole and pure and good and sweet and innocent. In order to get there, quite frequently, we have to allow for, tolerate, forgive, and accept that in this world, things fall short. But we, you know, it's it's it's again. It's like that therapeutic insight, oh, the child went through difficulties, but that sweet, innocent child is still in me. It never went anywhere.

And we often get there by rather than thinking, Oh, I lost something. It got messed up. We go through a process of healing and forgiveness, and we find that it was always there. It never, never left. So themes of needing to experience or find purification, getting back to something pure and whole, but needing forgiveness and tolerance and compassion and acceptance to get there, those are dichotomies that come up frequently in this sign.

Number two, we have such powerful themes in Virgo related to children or childhood and the initiation into adulthood. The young girl sits at the cusp of the entrance into the underworld, and there's a natural story that the Zodiac tells about the alternation of light and dark. It's not there's nothing wrong or bad or evil or or out of place, about the existence of darkness, about the fall of the Sun in autumn, about the death of the light in winter, or about the eventual re emergence of light in the spring.

That cycle, and that story is sacred for ancient mystics. And yet, there is a part of us that has to go through the process of descending out of childhood, out of innocence, and we have to be initiated into the darker realities, impermanence, death, loss of innocence, darkness, evil, immorality. We have to be exposed to it somehow. It's a part of life.

And it's often the the I, in my experience anyway, working with Ayahuasca, the Insight was almost immediate that, oh gosh. You know, there are traditions all over the planet that have created meaningful rituals of initiation to expose safely and meaningfully the young psyche to the larger cosmos and the play of light and dark and the initiation into the mysteries and these kinds of things.

And isn't it sad that, like in our culture, I think, for example, of, you know, gun violence in schools, and what a horrific and unguided and and thoughtless and sort of meaningless form of initiation into the darker realities of life that children are experiencing. When I was a kid, it was a tornado drill. You know, my kids have active shooter drills at school.

And I know this is a it's a big topic, but the point is that this sign will often bring up whether you're an adult or a kid. It will often bring up the images of childhood and innocence and the innocence lost and the innocence retained, and the need for initiation. How do you retain that inner child while becoming an adult. Those kinds of juxtapositions are really powerful.

But so too are just anything in Virgo can, broadly speaking, bring up the theme of children and their innocence, the theme of whether it's sweatshops or trafficking young people, some of those very heavy, dark things will often come up when the nodes are in Virgo as like collective topics of darkness to be explored around children. The exploitation of children often connected to the shadows of not being lovingly in touch with the inner child.

That you know we when, when we are motherless, when we're childless, when we you know what I'm talking about. Not being in touch with those things in ourselves, we can then the need for those things can become like shadows, so the themes of childhood become quite you know, can be quite complex with the sign of Virgo.

All right. Number three, improvement and criticism. I. Virgos psychological characteristic, you know, of of complaint or criticism or meticulousness or puritanical perfectionistic. You know, these are well known. They're everyone. You know we have there's like certain stereotypes of the signs when they appear as psychological traits that we all know.

But this sign also speaks to the reality in the solar year of the process of death and judgment and karma and reincarnation, and the evaluation of our actions and the results that come from them, how things are judged and wade in the karmic ledger books, or in the scope of karmic law.

And one way that this one way that this sign has of keeping us aware of the fact that we live in at least partially, at least in some part, a moral universe that doesn't trust me when I say that that's not the whole picture, right? There's something going on that is certainly bigger than what we tend to be able to grasp rationally and morally.

But there is a moral dimension to reality, and insofar as there is any room for improvement of character, improvement of personal defects. Virgo is a sign that, you know, when eclipses occur in Virgo, there's often a strong theme of like, you can get better as a person. You can get healthier, or you can get cleaner, or you can get sober, or you can get better at a skill. You can become a better public speaker.

You know, just getting better at things and saying that there's some sense that, morally, I can get better, but also in a skill, if I put in the practice and effort and work, I can get better. So that beginner's mind, in that sense that I've never arrived anywhere, I can always improve the humility required to keep developing in a skill, and the sense that I haven't arrived. I'm still a work in process, work in progress, and I'm not I'm not going to take offense to the idea that I'm I'm imperfect.

I'm not going to become a perfectionist. I'm just going to do my best to get better, that simple quality of improvement and being able to constructively, caringly criticize ourselves, our efforts, our skills. A good coach, a good teacher, should say good work. And here's what you can work on. Here's some constructive feedback.

So these are themes that often come up in the sign of Virgo. Here's how you improve something. Here's how you edit here's how you refine yourself, your lifestyle, your habits, your health, your digestion, whatever. It does not stop there.

The next one on my list would be themes of sacred anxiety. Just broadly speaking, the sign tends to bring up within us a careful exploration of what is a healthy level of anxiety or concern or care and what is unhealthy. Now, what I want to say is that anyone who thinks that anxiety of any kind whatsoever is bad really hasn't studied our great mystical traditions well enough or deeply enough, because all of them tell us that there are forms of anxiety that are very important.

Let's call it that sacred anxiety that exists in the space of like a performance like, you know, when I was a kid, I had to do piano recitals. You guys, remember those? Do you ever have to do those? And I didn't love the anxiety that I felt getting up to perform. I was in theater, and I had to act in front of people, and there was anxiety, and that anxiety in the moment of a creative act, sacred, you know, it's so beautiful, and the feeling of channeling that anxiety and finding a way of directing it into a creative act like a piano recital or whatever.

Now, let's give a flip example. Anxiety may not be constructive when, you know, I've seen a lot of Virgo clients over the days who had eating disorders, and actually, there's a lot of Virgo clients I've had over the years who were like, you know, dancers in ballet or something. And the amount of control and purity and perfection and fear of failure was absolutely corrosive and terrible and might have led to eating disorders.

You think of that movie, you know, Black Swan, if you ever saw that one, it's like the stress, the anxiety can be debilitating and toxic. So it's not that all anxiety is sacred, it's that there's how do we acknowledge and make room for the sacred, creative tension, the anxiousness that comes with. With things like getting better at something or gaining more confidence, we're doing things that are difficult, but doing them anyway, even if we experience anxiety, because that that helps us grow.

See, like in childhood, there's a lot of vulnerability. Like, I think about my daughter, the Virgo rising when she was there's a farm not far from us that gives like little horseback lessons, a horseback so we took her there for like a summer camp, but she had to learn how to ride a horse. It was so scary for her, but facing that fear and channeling it and learning to ride a horse and learning to love horses and feel safe around them and know how to move around them.

You know that kind of anxiety is, it's part of growing up, right? It's part of the child in us is very, is very vulnerable and innocent. And there's a kind of the vulnerability, the fragility, the the youthfulness. There's a there's a fearfulness in that of like, am I protected? Am I safe? And to kind of hold that tension and move through spaces of having to get better, having to face fears, having to improve, having to face criticism, and dealing with it and meeting that challenge, is a part of how the sacred anxiety of Virgo often allows us to have greater grace, greater acceptance, less, less kind of control, you know, like a problematic try to be so controlled about everything, there's a flow that comes in when we have to face anxiety and sort of let it move through us.

So Virgo often about just that, and also, very clearly looking at what's unhealthy fear or anxiety. Mercury ruled Earth, sign that can look at things and get really scared if I'm not, if I don't do this correctly, I'm going to be judged, or I'm going to fail, or I'm going to, you know, there's a difference between that and someone like, let's say there's a lot of people that I'm watching this as a parent.

I'm like, This is crazy. There are people who have their kids doing things that are highly competitive and and they're, they're they're basically like, okay, what are you you're putting your kids in training for professional sports at age five. You know what I mean? And the amount of pressure that comes with that, and the way that you can see that just stripping a kid of their childhood because they're forced to just dance and dance and dance or perform their violin or whatever, and they don't get to just be a kid.

So you know, there's this real again, there's a real tension in the sign of Virgo between that and then, like, you know, your piano recital, it's anxious, but look how great you felt because you did it and you played it well and you made a mistake. But who cares? It all sounded great. You know, that's a rite of passage.

The other thing is not letting something in us be free, and you can feel the tension then between childlike freedom and innocence and exploration and moving through rites of passage in meaningful ways, and then, like trying to perfect and hold on in ways that are terrible.

All right. Number five would be repression, morality and grace. So broadly speaking, another way of looking at the same tension that I've been talking about throughout the first points in my list here is that there are also, there's like a letter of the law, and there's a level of the law that has to do with checks and balances. Effort and pay off.

Like, if you work hard, you get something good. If you act good, you get a good result. If you don't act good, you get a bad result. If you don't practice you don't get good. And there's, there's a very like lot, clear, logical and almost moral way that things are judged, evaluated, that things progress and develop or get stunted.

And Virgo is very aware of all of the logical ways in which things like effort, work and practice develop success or control of details leads to a good result, or moral behavior leads to safety or success, right? But then there's this other side, and this is can also be represented in some ways, by the by Pisces, the opposite sign, sign of Jupiter, exaltation of Venus.

And some of this even carries over into the comparison I've done recently on the channel with the Shawshank Redemption and the sign of Libra in Pisces. There's a lot in common that Virgo has with Libra. Those two signs are conjunct to one another. But anyhow, there is some other form of there's. Another operating intelligence that's co present with the sort of moral logical.

Let's call it moral and let's call it logical again. Like, if I practice, I get a good result. If I do a good thing, I get a good result. If I do a bad thing, I get a bad result, etc. Like, that's the sort let's call it the moral logical way that the law of the universe works, but there's this other thing called grace.

And the grace is like you make a mistake, but there was no other way to learn and grow than to make a mistake. And that, in a way, is it sort of contradicts the logical nature of things. Well, if I do good, I get good. Well, sometimes if you mess up, you get good, you know. And that's sort of the opposite.

Or another way of thinking about it, is that the it's the interplay of light and dark in a more holistic sense that leads to the soul developing and learning and growing, which is why grace, forgiveness, compassion and tolerance becomes so important, and at a certain point, the only way to learn is to learn by encountering the shadows of trying to be so good.

It's like that Mary Oliver poem, wild geese. You ever heard that poem before? I've read it on the channel before. You don't have to be good. You don't have to crawl on your hands and knees across the desert. You know weeping and gnashing and asking for forgiveness, just let the soft animal nature of your body, he'll love what it loves.

And so there's something that goes beyond morality, even in a universe that expresses the categories of morally. Morality to us very clearly, there's something that goes beyond like, like, failure is often our greatest success. Shadow is often inseparable from light, right? These polar these paradoxes, are so important.

I would say, like, honestly my Virgo rising daughter, her hardest thing is understanding things that where, like two things have to be true at once. And there's something a little bit paradoxical. It's just hard. It's it's hard for an earthy Mercury sign. So there's some larger container of grace where things move and evolve and develop through a play of light and dark, failure and success effort and, you know, surrendering effort, sometimes the times when you go, I quit, I give up, I can't do this.

Suddenly you've made the most progress, far more than had you kept pounding away, practicing at something, hoping it would develop. No, it's the moment of surrender and giving up that suddenly allows you to take this quantum leap forward in your practice or development of a craft or a skill or an ability. When you surrender mentally and intellectually, suddenly understanding comes. So there, there's something about these Virgo cycles that brings this tension up of the things you can control and understand in the universe, in yourself, and how things work and develop and grow and are rewarded or punished, and some other kind of law that doesn't play by those logical rules. This is, you know, like one of the famous examples of this from the New Testament, and that, you know, often cited in the Christian tradition is that there's the letter of the law and the spirit of the law, or there is, like, you know, it's good for you to follow all the rules. But also, do you have a living, vibrant relationship with the spirit itself, which often, strangely, doesn't play by the rules. May even ignore them at times, like doing a healing on the Sabbath, or, you know, whatever you get the idea. So, I all of these dichotomies have been explored as archetypes and themes in every tradition I've ever studied, hermeticism, Taoism, Buddhism, yoga philosophy, even I would say mystical Christianity. So they're there. They're with us. I hope that this exploration of five things to watch for and the previous periods of Virgo eclipses give you a lot to work with. We're going to do some horoscopes with my friend ARRI. I think that'll be tomorrow, and then Friday, I'm going to talk a little bit more about what it might mean that we have a solar eclipse paired with the South Node, because that's a little extra angle that I think will be useful to cover.

So I thought we would do that separately. Break it up a little bit after I sign off right now, there is an informational video about the year one program. Our next course, ancient astrology for the modern mystic, the first year course in Hellenistic astrology begins in November. Early Bird rates are now open and in effect through most of October. There is need based tuition, a sliding scale you can work with so stick around to learn more. Around to learn more about that next, and we'll see you again tomorrow. Bye.