Decan: 20°-29° Virgo

Dates 2024: 13-22 September 2024

Ruling planet/luminary: Mercury

Zodiac sign : Virgo ~ Mutable Earth 🜃

Tarot card: 10 of Pentacles

Golden Dawn Title: Lord of Wealth

Associated Major Arcana:

The Magician (Mercury) & The Hermit (Virgo)

Health, wealth…

The 10 of Pentacles is the ultimate card of manifestation. The ‘last’ card in the deck. This card resides in the 10th Sephira on the Tree of Life in the most earthly and tangible realm of Assiyah. It represents our achievements and our accumulated “wealth’.

The 10 of Pentacles embodies the idea of groundedness and security, health and wellbeing. Real, stable, accomplished and complete. Responsibility and family values. Being present and rooted in daily life.

Messenger of the Gods, Mercury rules the flow of information and intelligence and guides the way we process and communicate thoughts and ideas. Mercury is exalted in faithful, hardworking Virgo, one of the planet’s two home signs (the other being master communicator, Gemini), therefore, the mercurial energy is working at its best here! The current is in full flow.

If this energy could be likened to an electrical current, then The Magician is a superconductor. Carrying, and transmuting energy into effect. Thoughts, words, and actions in the real world.

In this Decan we see the perfect manifestation of Virgo energy as the 10 of Pentacles highlights the well-deserved results of hard work, diligence and planning: wealth, stability, health and happiness.

As for The Hermit, another Magician (or Wizard), he is on a journey within, a quest for wisdom and understanding, seeking to integrate the full human experience in the physical realm and create lasting spiritual and material wealth. The Hermit is searching for the meaning, the why, the purpose of the accumulation of wealth and asking what we should do with it for the benefit or the highest good of all.

As with previous Decans, I have found it useful to look at some keywords to see what ideas they may spark about the current Decan of Virgo III

… and happiness

What is happiness? Happiness is a state of being, not having. It is a highly communicable state of being, able to be passed from one to another in community.

“Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth… Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. ”

~ John Templeton, Philanthropist & investor

Prompts for 10 of Pentacles ~ Venus in Virgo

When you consider who you are, what you do and what you have in life…

Ask yourself:

• What grounds you? Where is ‘home’?
• Who or what supports you in your life?
• Who are you supporting?
• In what other ways are you rich apart from money and things?
• How are you manifesting health and wealth in your life right now?
• How are you sharing that wealth?
• How are you sharing happiness?

Observations and synchronicities ~ on Virgo III

I’m making space here to return to over the coming days of Virgo III to add any thoughts, ideas and synchronicities as they arise…

Examining Virgo III and the 10 of Pentacles has led me back to something I posted almost 3 years ago…

Notes on the Decan Walk 2024/25

For more information on Decans, Astrology and Tarot and how they all synchronise please read this Substack article by Rebeka Kulcsar-Kurdi and T. Susan Chang’s 36 Secrets: A Decanic Journey through the Minor Arcana of the Tarot.

And, if you care to join me for this continuing solar return, you’ll find me on Facebook and Instagram hanging out on the corner of #decanwalk2024 and #decanastrology And I will be following @astroco_op and @tsusanchang

Here’s to another trip around the Sun!