This Virgo season I find myself wanting to slow the game down, so to speak, because of the intensity of the energy these days, with plenty more to come (hello eclipses!).
Therefore I’m focusing on the image of the Hermit, which is the tarot card associated with Virgo.
This card also helps reminds us of what the word virgin, and the virgin archetype, really mean: a virgin is one-in-herself:
If a woman is one-in-herself, she will be motivated by a need to follow her own inner values, to do what has meaning or fulfills herself, apart from what other people think (p. 36, Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., Goddesses in Everywoman).
Journaling is an excellent way to tune into your inner values and listen to yourself.
Virgo is associated with the listening side of Mercury, per astrologer Steven Forrest, so this is an apposite time for journaling.
Susan Tiberghien says, “Keeping a journal is communion with your soul” (Writing Toward Wholeness: Lessons Inspired by C.G. Jung).
She also quotes Jung, who said a journal should be kept in a “beautifully bound book” and that it “will be your church—your cathedral—the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal…for in that book is your soul.”
James Hollis says,”Keep asking the large questions. Large questions give you a larger life. Large questions restore to you the sovereignty of your soul” (p. 135, Living With Borrowed Dust).
Below are some examples of large questions from Hollis (click here to see these questions on Instagram in case you want to save them that way:
1.) Where is this coming from in me?
2.) Have I been here before?
3.) Does this path make me larger, or does it diminish my journey?
4.) How shall you live in the face of this situation over which you, seemingly, have no control?
And perhaps the largest question of all:
5.) What supports you when nothing supports you?
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