Green and Gold Redux
Greetings from the cusp of Virgo season
Hi, doll.
I’m up in the Berkshires again, where I’ve been conducting readings outdoors, feasting on local farm bounty, tromping through woods and up mountains, watching the sun rise over the local lake, and reading by a river after perusing the local book mill (literally an old watermill, repurposed as a wonderful antique book shop).
Once upon a time in the Northeast, August was the cruelest month—the meteorological equivalent of being repeatedly flogged by a boiling, filthy towel. But over the last few years, once mid-August arrives, the nights cool, midday temperatures settle into something just warm enough to facilitate swimming and swanning, and the world glows every shade of green and gold.
No matter how broken my heart is, no matter how much this country is breaking everyone’s heart, I am in my happy place.
For that reason—and also because technically I’m on vacation until next week—I’ll keep the rest of this Ruby Report relatively short.
The headline is a Virgo new moon, exact at 2:07am EST Saturday (Aug. 23), that is perfectly squaring lightening-bolt Uranus. Also a rare second new moon in Virgo arriving September 21 in the form of a galvanizing solar eclipse.
In laylady’s terms, over the next eight works, the multiverse is putting our houses in order after that colossal mess of a just-completed Mercury retrograde in Leo. With the sun also entering work-horse Virgo on Friday (Aug. 22), we are being laser-focused on steady service and bird-by-bird improvements—the joy, yes joy, of being of use.
Naturally, with this weekend’s unlit night sky and mischief-maker Uranus running amok, we’re bound to run into a wall or two—but only as a course-corrector to cajole us into coming super correct. Think of it as back-to-school preparation. Better yet, think of it as the bossiest person in your life bustling into your home with cleaning gloves and a bevy of garbage bags.
Just know that whatever health, hearth, and heart initiatives you begin over the next week will likely yield a significant harvest by late October.
If we want a different life, we gotta start doing and learning different things.—Jane Kenyon
Last year, I embraced the opportunities of this lunar cycle by tackling the Kafkaesque tax issue I’d inherited in a bad breakup. Now that the tax issue (and said breakup!) is finally cleared, I’m free to pursue the house goals I’ve long been harboring —namely, to rehab my rent-stabilized city apartment and to find some land up here. (Perhaps by the 2026 Virgo lunar cycle, I’ll be ready to build upon it.)
Now is the time to ask: What have you been emotionally, physically, and psychically hoarding? What can you streamline? What small fixes can you make that will cement a stronger foundation for your dream?
My office is closed this coming weekend but I am looking forward to making the most of these Virgo vibes in next week’s readings, including over Labor Day weekend. I also am adding Thursday to the schedule.
Book a reading for yourself or a loved one to clear out obstacles, align with your best service, and fine-tune rituals and tools. Or try a Whether Report to answer specific questions about how this astrology is intersecting with your personal path. (I’m so pleased more of you have been sampling these Reports lately. They can really stabilize a wobbly moment.)
If you find this newsletter or my readings to be of use, please share, like, subscribe. More than ever, I long to serve more of what is mine to serve.
I always say that seeing is sowing. Virgo season reminds us that sewing is sowing, too.
With waggling eyebrows and slow feline blinks,
