Lessons from the Virgo Lunar Cycle

Books That Take Time

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This weekend, I wrote my lunar cycle in review pages. This is a practice I do on the dark moon to see how the lunar cycle went and how intentional I was about working with the energies my divination tools instructed me with. I found synchronicities that I wasn’t expecting.

One of my recurring messages for the Virgo lunar cycle was to circle in, trust your intuition, and and commit to/trust the path you’re on. As I reflected on this, I realized that books are a timely thing for me.

They are things I download, check out, or purchase, but do not necessarily consume immediately. Books are a way that I get messages, that I move myself along in my spirituality, and if I am not ready to hear the message/accept the change, my intuition seems to know and shuts it down. I will ignore a book for 3 years if that’s how long it takes me to be ready for the lesson, the message, the expansion. This happened with The Way of the Rose. I purchased it in March of 2020. I didn’t read it until January of 2023.

About a week before the New Moon in Libra, I started a new book Walking With Persephone by Molly Remer. I was floored by how much it resonates in this moment, as I try to listen to the pull to nature even when I am so exhausted and burnt out that I want to give up on every ritual and routine I’ve built.

My issue now becomes remembering to stretch out to touch the thread of connection even when life is stressful and the house is chaotic. (p.78)

This book is reinvigorating me, helping me be more intentional about my self care (right now that’s making time to read on my balcony each night, even if it requires blankets and layers), my spiritual practice, and tuning in to where the synchronicities are. I feel like I’m being asked to re-evaluate priorities in my life right now, and this book is calling to me.

I want to shed obligation and to deprogram my “could” reflex. I want to soak in my own knowing and stoke my own well-being. I want to learn how to hold my center in the middle of everything and still be ok. I want to tend to my friendships with love and compassion […], but mainly I want to tend to my own weary heart. I am ready to look at what I’ve been carrying and let go of what isn’t mine. I am ready to restructure, rebirth, renew, rediscover, re-evaluate, reconsider, refill, refuel, and rebuild. I am ready to write myself back into being. I am starting from now. I am starting from here. I will rebuild my wholeness, my connections, my devotion, my heart. I want to taste my life and love the flavor. I want to drink deeply of the magic of being. (p. 15)

One of the cards I pulled was The Rose Thread (from The Rose Oracle), and it talks about being soul-led, leading from within, and to me, that says to tune in, spiral in, and listen to your intuition. From that card, and the confirming messages (Trust Your Path, Get Grounded, and Leap) I got from Persephone (using the Work Your Light Oracle), I ended up picking up Walking With Persephone without even deeply remembering the messages.

Something that I love about how I do my new moon messages is that I always look back and reflect. From there, I can see what made it through my subconscious and manifested without me really realizing. I can see where I was super intentional. I leave the 18 cards I pull on my bedroom altars, and that energy sometimes just seeps in. Like, it did for Walking With Persephone.

There have been other books that I have bought that sat for a long time until I was ready for them. Each time I have finally picked up my copy, the lessons and messages were loud and present. They have often been lessons that I would not have understood or not been open to had I read/listened to the book earlier in my life. Walking With Persephone has only been sitting in my Kindle Fire for 6 months, but spring was not the time for the messages I am receiving. Fall and winter are. I am grateful to be able to read, listen, understand what is being said and seeing how I can act upon it.

This Virgo lunar cycle is one that will stick with me. I have learned a lot. I have re-engaged, re-devoted, and I am willing and wanting to continue down this path of self-betterment, trusting my intuition, and filling my cup on a nightly basis.

Are there any books that took you a while to start, but you realized as you read that this message was meant for the current you, not the past you? I’d love to hear some titles!

Wishing you well this week! May your life offer what you need in this moment.

With love,

Aventurine ✨