
I got a new tattoo yesterday!! I am so excited :)
It was custom-designed for me by the beautiful Sarah Flores, and while I obviously love how it looks, its purpose goes much deeper than that. I wanted something permanently placed on my body to help me ground the cosmic wisdom I channel, specifically my connection with the asteroid goddesses, as I begin writing my book.
There is something about taking what feels invisible, intuitive, cosmic, or spiritual and giving it physical form that feels incredibly powerful and much needed with all the air and fire in my birth chart.
An idea becomes words on a page. An intuitive message becomes something spoken aloud. A vision becomes a business. Cosmic symbols become ink permanently etched into skin.
The invisible becomes embodied. And isn’t that manifestation?
We talk so much about manifestation as calling something toward us, but I think there is another part of the process we don’t talk about enough: becoming a physical participant in what we are asking to create. At some point, the vision has to leave the energetic realm and enter the body. We have to write the first sentence, make the appointment, create the ritual, send the email, sign up for the class, or take whatever physical action tells the Universe: I’m ready to meet you here.
That feels especially important as we approach this week’s New Moon in Virgo.
Virgo reminds us that spirituality isn’t separate from the physical world. The body can be an altar. Your routines can become rituals. The way you prepare your morning coffee, organize your desk, nourish yourself, tend your home, write in your journal, or sit down at the same time each day to work on something meaningful can become part of your spiritual practice.
We don’t always need another profound spiritual experience. Sometimes we need to ground the wisdom we’ve already received.
For me, this tattoo feels like part of that grounding. I know what I’m being called to write. I know these goddess stories want to move through me. The tattoo isn’t going to write the book for me, but every time I see it, I am reminded of the commitment I’ve made to give this wisdom form. And perhaps that’s the invitation of this Virgo New Moon for all of us.
What wisdom are you ready to embody?
What vision needs a container? What dream needs a practice? What intuitive knowing needs action? What would happen if you stopped waiting for another sign and began creating a ritual around what you already know you’re here to do?
Manifestation is devotion to yourself and your purpose.
Card Pull for the Week
Turtle — Ancient Soul Wisdom
Turtle returns with the medicine of ancient wisdom, grounded truth, trust, and being deeply at home within yourself.
Turtle doesn’t rush. It carries home with it.
There is something beautifully Virgo about that. When we are grounded in ourselves, we don’t have to frantically search outside ourselves for direction. We can move slowly enough to hear the deeper wisdom that has been traveling with us all along.
Turtle asks you to trust what your soul already knows.
This week, instead of asking How quickly can I get there?, perhaps ask:
How deeply can I inhabit the life I’m creating?
Four of Swords — Rest Before Renewal
The Four of Swords came through this week with a simple message: rest.
As we move toward Thursday’s New Moon, we are traveling through the darkest phase of the lunar cycle- a natural time for retreat, reflection, and allowing our energy to turn inward. Before we plant new seeds, there is an invitation to become still enough to recognize which seeds we actually want to plant.
The Four of Swords reminds us that rest is not separate from the work. Rest is part of the work. You don’t have to constantly produce, push, heal, improve, or figure everything out. Sometimes the next breakthrough comes because you finally gave your mind and body enough quiet to receive it.
As the Moon disappears into darkness, let yourself disappear a little too. Sleep more. Create space. Turn down the outside noise. Let something incubate.
Because Thursday’s Virgo New Moon will ask you to begin again, but you don’t have to arrive there exhausted.
Rest first. Then create.
Motherwort — The Lionhearted One
Our plant ally this week is Motherwort, an herb connected with Venus and the energetic and spiritual heart.
Motherwort brings strength, creativity, inner trust, and confidence. There is a softness to her medicine, but softness should never be confused with weakness.
She is called the Lionhearted One.
And I love that image for this week. Because bringing something you love into physical form requires courage.
It takes courage to make the art.
Write the book.
Begin the business.
Open your heart.
Trust your creativity.
Let other people see what has been living inside you.
Motherwort reminds us that creation doesn’t only come from the mind.
Create from the heart.
You can also work with Motherwort energetically this week by burning it as part of a cleansing ritual for yourself or your space.
The Astrology of the Week
Monday, September 7
Moon enters Leo
Moon trine Neptune in Aries
Moon opposite Pluto in Aquarius
We begin the week with the Moon entering Leo, bringing our attention toward creativity, expression, confidence, and the heart.
Its trine to Neptune opens the intuitive and imaginative channels. Inspiration may arrive easily. You may feel particularly creative, spiritually connected, or pulled toward something you can’t completely explain.
But the opposition to Pluto can bring something deeper to the surface.
Where are you afraid of being fully seen?
Sometimes the thing standing between inspiration and manifestation isn’t a lack of ideas.
It’s the vulnerability required to give those ideas form.
Work with it:
* Create without worrying about the outcome.
* Follow an intuitive idea.
* Notice fears around visibility.
* Let yourself want what you want.
* Ask: What wants to move through me?
Tuesday, September 8
Moon in Leo conjunct Jupiter in Leo
Go BIG! The Moon meeting Jupiter in Leo expands emotion, confidence, generosity, creativity, and our desire to express ourselves.
This feels like a beautiful Motherwort day.
Let your heart take up some space.
What would you create if you weren’t worried about whether anyone else understood it?
What would you pursue if you trusted that your enthusiasm was enough reason to begin?
There can be a tendency toward excess with Jupiter, so enjoy the expansion without promising the entire world before breakfast.
Work with it:
* Celebrate yourself.
* Make something.
* Share an idea.
* Do something playful.
* Let yourself be enthusiastic.
* Ask: What would I do if I trusted my creative heart?
Wednesday, September 9
Moon enters Virgo
Moon conjunct Nyx
The energy turns inward as we approach tomorrow’s New Moon.
And the Moon meets Nyx, primordial goddess of the night.
Nyx existed before the world had fully taken form. She reminds us that darkness isn’t necessarily emptiness.
Sometimes darkness is gestation.
Not everything needs to be revealed yet.
The seed spends time underground before it becomes anything we can see.
Today is a beautiful day to get quiet, clear your physical space, listen to your body, and create room for whatever is preparing to emerge.
Work with it:
* Spend time alone.
* Clean your altar or sacred space.
* Journal before bed.
* Pay attention to dreams.
* Let an idea gestate without forcing it.
* Ask: What is forming in the darkness?
Thursday, September 10
NEW MOON IN VIRGO
Mercury enters Libra
Venus enters Scorpio
Venus opposite Chiron in Taurus
This New Moon is an invitation to create rituals around the life you’re trying to manifest. Give the vision somewhere to live.
Virgo understands that intentions become powerful when we give them structure.
Don’t only write down what you want.
Ask yourself:
What practice supports it?
If you want to write, when will you write?
If you want to feel better in your body, how will you tend to it?
If you want deeper relationships, what behaviors create intimacy?
If you want more peace, what needs to change in your everyday environment?
Meanwhile, Mercury enters Libra, and Venus enters Scorpio, shifting conversations and relationships into deeper territory. Venus opposing Chiron may expose tenderness around worth, trust, intimacy, receiving, or feeling safe enough to desire what you truly want.
Don’t let an old wound determine what you’re allowed to create next.
Work with it:
* Set New Moon intentions.
* Create a ritual around one intention.
* Choose one sustainable habit.
* Tend to your physical space.
* Notice where receiving feels uncomfortable.
* Ask: How can I physically participate in what I’m asking the Universe to create with me?
Friday, September 11
Uranus stations retrograde in Gemini
Something about the way you think may be ready to change.
When Uranus stations retrograde, the revolution turns inward.
Gemini rules information, language, ideas, communication, and the stories through which we understand our lives. Over the coming months, you may begin questioning beliefs or narratives you previously accepted without much thought. You may be revisiting something that you never acted on.
Pay attention to the strange idea.
The unexpected realization.
The thought that seemingly comes out of nowhere.
Sometimes breakthroughs begin as interruptions.
Work with it:
* Question an old belief.
* Write down unexpected ideas.
* Change how you approach a familiar problem.
* Give your mind space to wander.
* Ask: What if there is another way?
Saturday, September 12
Moon in Libra
Mercury in Libra trine Pluto in Aquarius
Mercury opposite Neptune in Aries
Today asks for discernment. Mercury-Pluto wants to go beneath the surface and uncover what’s really being said, while Mercury-Neptune can blur the line between intuition, projection, fantasy, and fact.
Not every thought is truth.
Not every fear is intuition.
And not everything meaningful can be logically explained.
This is where embodiment becomes useful.
Instead of endlessly analyzing something, notice how it feels in your body.
Does it create expansion?
Contraction?
Peace?
Urgency?
Your body may have information your mind hasn’t figured out yet.
Work with it:
* Have a meaningful conversation.
* Listen beneath someone’s words.
* Avoid making assumptions.
* Check intuitive impressions against reality.
* Come back into your body before deciding.
* Ask: What feels true beneath the story?
Sunday, September 13
Mercury in Libra trine Uranus in Gemini
Moon in Libra void most of the day
Mercury trine Uranus can bring fresh ideas, surprising conversations, new connections, and a completely different perspective on something you’ve been contemplating.
But with the Moon void for much of the day, you don’t necessarily have to act on everything immediately.
Receive the insight.
Write it down.
Let it breathe.
Remember Turtle - wisdom doesn’t need to rush.
Work with it:
* Write down new ideas.
* Have interesting conversations.
* Let yourself think differently.
* Avoid forcing decisions.
* Create something simply because you’re curious.
* Ask: What new possibility am I ready to make room for?
The Message for the Week
I keep coming back to the image of putting ink into my skin and realizing that what makes the tattoo meaningful isn’t simply the symbols themselves. It is the intention I am choosing to attach to them. I am giving something invisible a physical home. Every time I look at it, I will be reminded of the wisdom I have received, the goddesses whose stories I want to tell, and the commitment I am making to actually sit down and write them.
And I think there is something in that for all of us this week.
We receive so much information. We have insights. We pull cards. We listen to podcasts. We read books. We journal. We meditate. We ask the Universe for signs. We collect wisdom constantly. But eventually, wisdom asks to become embodied. It asks to change the way we live.
That is the magic of Virgo.
Virgo takes what is sacred and gives it a practice. It reminds us that manifestation isn’t only imagining the future we want. It is creating an everyday life capable of holding it.
Your dream needs somewhere to live.
Your creativity needs somewhere to go.
Your intuition needs your participation.
And your future self is being created through the small things you choose to do again and again.
Turtle reminds us that we can move slowly and still be moving toward something meaningful. Motherwort reminds us to create from the heart and trust ourselves enough to give our creativity form. And the Virgo New Moon asks us to turn that wisdom into ritual.
So this week, choose something you already know.
Not something you need another reading, another sign, or another confirmation about.
Something you know.
Then create one physical act that honors it.
Write the page.
Clear the desk.
Light the candle.
Make the appointment.
Begin the ritual.
Take the first step.
Let your body become part of the manifestation.
Because perhaps the question isn’t only: What am I calling into my life?
Perhaps it’s also: Am I creating a life that can hold what I’m asking for?
love & stardust,
Ashley
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