Mimi Truong

This Virgo season, I’d like to write about the power of rituals and how it is connected to Virgo’s energy. Virgo rules the sixth house, which governs daily routine, work, and small maintenance tasks. That's the house of habit almost by definition, the part of the chart that handles the repeated, unglamorous mechanics of a life. So Virgo season lands as a natural seasonal prompt to look at what's actually running on repeat. But Virgo's deeper nature complicates the "just build better habits"...

On September 10, 2026, at 8:26 PM Pacific, the Sun and Moon meet at 18 degrees of Virgo. That exact conjunction is what makes a New Moon: two lights on the same degree, at the very start of a new cycle, before anything has taken shape. New Moons Are for Planting, Not Harvesting A New Moon is what happens when the Sun and Moon meet at the same degree of the same sign, dark and invisible from where we stand, and it marks the seeding point of the lunar cycle. It's a moment for setting something...

Almost ten years ago, my desk was always a mess and told a story I wasn't proud of. Four Post-it notes stuck to the edge of my monitor, a phone number written on the back of a receipt, a work notebook flipped open to a page from two meetings earlier that I still hadn't transferred anywhere. Somewhere in my bag was a pocket notebook with a website name scrawled in it from a conversation I'd had that week. I knew it was in there, but I just never knew exactly where. That wasn't a new problem...