Meditation for The Month of Virgo

Welcome to the month of Virgo.

In the Gregorian calendar it's called Virgo,

The Virgin if you will,

But in the Hebrew calendar it's called Elo.

Elo is sort of a month of healing,

Of rejuvenation,

Of coming back to stages where we've left before.

It's also known as the acronym,

Ani,

The Chodi,

The Dodili.

I am my beloved and my beloved is mine.

Basically it's talking about ourselves,

The nations of the world,

And the creative energy.

It is a time of unity between the forces of nature and man,

Of God and the people,

Of the sun and the moon.

Virgo in itself has been known to be the sign of action,

Of work.

Virgo is controlled by the planet Mercury,

A planet of movement and action.

It's the communication center of the universe,

Mercury.

And we all know that because we've all gone through the times when that planet was in what they call retrograde,

Was backwards.

As a rule,

Virgos are people that are active,

That are movers,

That are shakers,

That are communicators.

They love to please and they love to feel warmth and respected.

Those are the qualities that Virgo has.

The negative of course is its capacity to criticize,

The ability to stand in somebody else's place and decide on how that person should or should not be.

But there are many different traits and qualities about each one of the months.

Virgo in itself is a time of doing,

Especially now we've gone through the summer months and I'm sure all of us have felt that heaviness that was there during that time.

Now we come into the time of more light.

It sort of becomes easier.

It's the healing time.

Maybe even it's the time for the reaping of the benefits that we have.

I would like to do with you a meditation not only to give you some insight into this month,

But also maybe to help you find a tool that you can call upon to use for yourself when it's necessary.

Remember that it's also a time of forgiveness,

Of being forgiven and to forgive.

Elul comes for us as a gift.

Mercury,

The planet,

Which was there for us,

Is our ability to do communion with ourselves,

Others around us,

But most importantly with our true feelings of who we are and what we want in this future.

What we need to be able to make ourselves whole so that we go to sleep at night and we count the things that we did during the day and we figure the things that we didn't do.

It is those things that give us the guilt in the evening,

Not that which we do.

It's telephone call we didn't make.

It's the letter that we didn't write.

It's the ability to tell a friend,

You know,

Things are tough but it's going to get better and I'm there for you.

Those are the things that give us that ache in the evening.

Maybe as an exercise we just write down for the next ten days,

Just till the first ten days of Virgo,

What is it that I hope to accomplish in this time?

What are the benefits I hope to reap from it and what is the things that I will avoid not to do?

How am I going to be more attentive,

To be more attuned to people that need my help?

Remember we have the Yud,

The letter Yud which is the smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet,

But it's the largest at the same time because every letter starts with the Yud.

Every letter starts with the capacity to draw the energy of Elo,

Of healing,

To draw the capacity of the light into ourselves and for all of us,

For our friends,

For our families,

For our communities and God knows the world needs our healing.

So if you will please just lie your feet flat on the floor,

Your arms at your side,

Lift your eyes a little bit above the field of vision and close your eyes.

Allow the face and your head and all the muscles to relax.

Take a few deep breaths in and out.

Again,

In and out.

And with the breath,

All those cares,

All those things that have occurred on this day leave you.

The aggression,

The anger,

The jealousies and the small things.

You know it's usually those little,

Little things that cause so much difficulties.

Go down through the spinal column from the top of the spine vertebrae and allow the spine to relax.

Go to the top of the shoulders and allow.

Shoulder blades,

Clavicle,

Your arms down to the tips of your fingers.

Relax through the internal organs and enter your hips and your thighs to the bottom of your feet.

And now for a moment,

I'd like you to find for yourself a place.

Visualize a place that at one time in your life you were there and in that place you felt very warm,

Content,

A place that you needed to be nobody else but you.

And go to that spot.

It could be in the confines of your home or any place in nature.

I'd like you to visualize the color gray,

Quicksilver,

The color of the planet mercury.

And I'd like you to take that light and move it around your head.

Let it circle the top of your head.

And now inside,

I'd like you to take that light circle and see it move across the room.

Follow it as it vibrates in circles above you.

Walk and feel your feet and your body as if they're nonexistent.

But all there is is this spirit inside of you which moves.

The body itself is just a mechanism,

A breath,

The thing that allows the being that is true inside of us to be.

Follow this bright,

Beautiful light,

Gray but gray,

With light coming through it,

Like lightning spinning.

Go with it.

Go towards it and feel the energy of it.

Raise your hand towards it.

Feel its spin and feel its power and bring it towards you.

Now bring it like a frame in front of you and develop it and create it into a being.

Whatever being your mind sees,

Whatever gender your mind sees,

Create it into a guide.

Make it feel.

Feel its warmth near you.

Give it a heart that beats.

Make it celestial if you wish.

And then take this being,

Call it what you will,

And ask of it to be your messenger in this month of Virgo.

Have it.

Guide your body.

Feel its power embrace you.

Allow this being which you have created in your mind's eye.

And tell it.

Ask it that whenever you would need its energy that it would come to you.

If you can apply the letters of this month,

Then apply the letters.

But if you cannot use letters,

Then imagine the celestial being.

It is your channel,

Particularly yours.

If not,

Take the rish and the yud and put it into the being.

Feel the energy of those letters engulf this being.

Make this angel.

And maybe if we can call to it in the evening as we visualize it now,

Ask it to be there to guide from the negative things that we do and to protect us in all the positive areas that we need.

This month is a time of climbing the ladder and becoming closer to our spiritual abilities.

It is a time when the doors start to open.

Well,

We can see that light that was difficult perhaps for so long.

But remember,

Whenever one door closes another opens.

Always.

All we need is the eyes to see the entrance.

And sometimes it's even difficult to see the end.

If I am true to that which I believe,

If I do the actions that prove that as a truth,

The kindnesses that I remember,

The letter that I do write,

The phone call that I do make,

Then I can ask in return for those kindnesses.

Because we cannot ask for what we don't do.

We cannot expect what we don't give.

Especially in a time of healing.

This is the month of that.

It is a gift.

Between the powerful yut,

Which is the beginning and the end,

And the reish,

Which is like a boomerang,

It goes out with all of your positive actions and brings it into a failure,

To that bank that we all have of our actions of positivity.

And who knows,

Sometimes we go bankrupt because the other end that we do is maybe worse than the positive.

This is the month to fill the bank.

Remember that.

It's our bank.

And if we want those things that we need to grow,

To be there for us,

We need to put in and fill our bank,

Charge that battery.

Because if we run without charge,

Battery dies.

We need the energy and the power of Virgo,

The workaholics of this world.

We need to be the workaholic for the light.

We need to go above the petty things that are around us and go for the target,

Because this is the month we can make it.

Take,

If you will,

This entity that you've created,

Give it a name,

And hold it close to you,

And feel it surround you.

Ask for it to come when you call it,

And be glad that you can visualize such a wonderful event.

And then allow it to go.

The planet of Mercury,

Of communication,

Of caring,

Of words that allow two people to know they love each other,

Or the opposite.

And so,

With that,

We bid farewell to those entities,

To that entity which is ours in particular.

We send it back,

With the hope that when we call upon it,

It will come again.

And we walk,

Slowly,

Back to the place from whence we came,

To that spot which is only yours,

Wherever that might be,

Or whatever that might be.

For another moment in time,

We sit and just feel the atonement.

Listen to the harmony of the universe.

Imagine that there isn't anything here,

Anything left,

But you and your soul.

And now,

Allow that voice that's yours to communicate what it needs to make it the best light it can be.

I will count from one to five,

Five,

To come back to the here and now,

To start our journey in this new month,

With new light,

New energy,

New rejuvenation.

One,

Two,

Three,

Four,

Five,

Six,

Seven,

Eight,

Nine,

Ten.

And five.

Thank you.

Have a wonderful month.