Virgo Season🌿Bringing Awareness Into Everyday Life
Before you pick up September’s calendar and start filling in all those empty spaces, take some time to first consider, “What is this season actually guiding me toward?”
Virgo Season (Aug 23 - Sept 22) brings our attention toward the everyday rhythms of our lives.
Ruled by Mercury and traditionally associated with 6th House themes of health, daily routines, work and service, Virgo invites us to look a little more closely at what we are creating through the choices we make each day.
Not necessarily to judge those choices or immediately try to fix them, but simply to become more aware of them.
What Does the Life I Am Organizing Reveal About Me?
As a mother of three, now grown children, I used to love grabbing a new calendar every September and planning all the activities that would soon fill our schedules. Dance lessons, social activities, birthday parties, school activities, and somewhere in there, a new fitness routine for myself. On paper, life looked both busy and full of opportunity.
I would even assign a different colour to each child, myself and my husband, carefully compacting everything into those little boxes on the calendar. Somehow, I could turn what might have looked like a chaotic transition from the end of summer into the faster pace of everyday life into a work of art. What I didn’t understand at the time was that sometimes I was trying to make everything look pretty so that it didn’t feel quite so overwhelming.
Eventually, reality would catch up and the calendar would need adjusting. And what was usually the first thing to go? Me. There is no time for that workout—it interferes with dinner. I can’t take that class—it overlaps with one of the children’s activities. The excuses, reasoning and justifications would come fast and furious as I erased myself from the calendar. Then I would sit back, look at the newly opened space, and feel like I could breathe just a little easier.
Many of us learn to put ourselves last, especially when we are caring for others. But sitting now in a place of greater wisdom and looking back through the eyes of a grandmother, I see something different. I see a version of myself who was overwhelmed. A version of myself who was too proud, too stubborn and too independent to simply say, “I need help too.”
Awareness Changes What We Can See
When we admit that we need help, we open the door to receiving, and one of the tools that helped me begin seeing myself differently was Human Design. Learning about my own design sparked a curiosity within me that made me want to understand myself on a much deeper level. That curiosity eventually led me to the Gene Keys and then back to Astrology, something I had once understood mostly through my Sun sign.
I began to see how these three systems could speak to one another, each offering another perspective and another layer to the story of who I am. Human Design introduced me to the energetic Gateways, the Gene Keys invited me to explore the deeper wisdom held within them, and Astrology helped me see the larger celestial story unfolding around it all. And yes, at one time, I thought I was just simply my Sun sign!
What changed wasn’t that I suddenly understood everything. What changed was that I became curious. Curious about myself, my birth chart, how my energy interacted with the world around me and how I, in turn, was influenced by the energy of the collective. I started paying attention to my habits, my routines and my choices. I began noticing patterns I had previously moved through without ever really questioning them.
Perhaps most importantly, I began to recognize that I had responsibility for how I participated in my own life—for what I chose, what I made room for, what I continued to repeat, and what I might be ready to change. I wasn’t judging the woman I had been. I was simply beginning to understand her. And with greater understanding came the possibility of making different choices.
This Brings Me Back to Virgo Season
Virgo Season invites us to bring that same curiosity into everyday life. With Mercury as Virgo’s ruling planet, we can become curious about how we think, process, communicate and make sense of what we notice. Through the themes traditionally associated with the 6th House, we can become curious about our routines, our work, our health, our service and the many seemingly ordinary choices that create the rhythm of our days.
We might begin asking, Where does Mercury show up in my birth chart? Where does Virgo show up? What is happening within my 6th House? These questions matter because we are not all the same. We can look at someone else’s life and wonder, why can’t I be like them? And perhaps wisdom simply smiles and answers, “Because you are you.”
When I started exploring my own design, I started getting to know me. Not the version of me I thought I should be, or the version I had learned to become for everyone else, but the patterns, tendencies, strengths, challenges and ways of moving through life that were actually mine.
And perhaps this is where Virgo’s invitation becomes much more personal. Awareness of our everyday lives eventually brings us back to one much larger question: Who am I?
Who Am I?
As the Sun moves through Virgo Season, it travels through five main Human Design Gateways. Rather than looking at these Gates as something we need to master, we can approach each one with curiosity. Each offers another place to observe ourselves and another opportunity to discover who we are through the experiences of everyday life.
Gate 59 asks, “Who am I when I let myself be seen?” This brings awareness to connection and what happens within us when we allow another person to come closer. We can notice where we naturally open, where we protect ourselves, and what vulnerability and intimacy reveal about the relationship we have with ourselves and others.
Gate 40 asks, “Who am I when I stop measuring myself by what I give?” Here, awareness turns toward worth and exchange, inviting us to notice the relationship between giving, receiving, work, rest and our sense of value. It can bring our attention to how easily being useful, productive or needed can become intertwined with how worthy we believe ourselves to be.
Gate 64 asks, “Who am I when I don’t know?” This brings awareness into uncertainty and asks us to notice what happens when we don’t yet have an answer. Can we remain curious when the pieces don’t make sense? Can we allow possibility to exist without immediately needing to organize it into certainty?
Gate 47 asks, “Who am I when I allow my understanding to change?” Here, awareness moves toward the stories that shape us and the possibility that what we once believed about ourselves or our experiences may be understood differently. Sometimes awareness doesn’t change what happened; it changes the way we understand what happened.
Finally, Gate 6 asks, “Who am I when I meet difference without abandoning myself?” This brings our awareness back into relationship, inviting us to notice how we navigate friction, emotional boundaries and the differences that naturally exist between ourselves and others. Can another person experience something differently without either of us needing to be wrong? Can I remain connected to myself while still remaining open to another?
Bringing Awareness Into Everyday Life
Perhaps Virgo Season isn’t asking us to understand every part of ourselves at once. Maybe it is simply asking us to notice. To notice what we repeatedly make room for and what disappears from our calendar first. To notice where we give and whether we allow ourselves to receive. To notice what happens within us when we don’t have the answer, the stories we repeatedly tell ourselves, and what happens when someone sees things differently than we do.
This is where the wisdom of Virgo can become incredibly practical. Awareness doesn’t have to happen during a profound spiritual experience. It can happen while looking at our calendar. While preparing dinner. While responding to an email. While deciding whether to say yes or no. While noticing that we are tired. While having a difficult conversation. While realizing that something we once believed about ourselves may no longer be true.
Perhaps the invitation is not to create the perfect routine, the perfect schedule, the perfect body, the perfect work-life balance or even the perfect version of ourselves. Perhaps Virgo simply asks us to pay attention to the life we are already living and become curious about what it is showing us.
Most importantly, perhaps Virgo asks us to notice whether the life we are so carefully organizing actually has room for us within it.
Become Curious About You
If you are ready to become curious about yourself, grab your birth information and use the free tools below to create your Astrology, Human Design and Gene Keys birth charts. Each system offers another perspective, another layer and another invitation to see yourself from a slightly different angle. Together, they can help us become curious about both our individual design and the larger energetic cycles we are moving through.
You don’t need to figure it all out. In fact, perhaps that would miss the point entirely. Start with curiosity. Look at where Virgo is inviting your attention right now and explore what becomes visible when you stop trying to immediately change yourself and simply begin to notice yourself.
Because perhaps the deeper question of Virgo Season isn’t, “How can I organize my life better?” Perhaps it is, “What does the life I am organizing reveal about me?”
And from there, we can begin bringing awareness into everyday life.
If you would like support exploring how Virgo Season personally interacts with your Astrology, Human Design and Gene Keys, custom Virgo Season Guidebooks are available to help you navigate the journey. Please message us to inquire: lovingenergyrecharge@outlook.com
Much love,
Lisa Richard
Lightworker Coach & Inner Alchemy Guide
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Owner of Loving Energy Recharge, Lisa is a certified Reiki Master / Teacher, Emotion Code Practitioner, Ancestral Healer / Past Life Reclamation, Lightworker Coach, Human Design / Gene Keys Guide, Intuitive Channel and Oracle Card Reader.
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