Today is a day to look at what has come full circle.
Tomorrow’s New Moon in Virgo invites us to turn our attention toward what comes next. But before we rush forward, there is something important about acknowledging what is here now—and perhaps what is no longer here at all.
Virgo reminds us that our lives are built through the everyday. Through our rituals, our spaces, our habits, our boundaries, our bodies, and the seemingly small choices we make again and again.
So as we move toward this New Moon, consider:
What do you want to begin building into your everyday life?
Because whatever comes next begins, in some small way, with what we choose today.
Clear your space. Move something that has been sitting untouched. Let something go that you know you no longer need. Make a conscious choice about what you want to keep.
And maybe most importantly, resist the urge to fill every newly emptied space.
Leave a little room for the magic to find you.
Returning to Embrace
This weekend, I went back and looked at the word I chose for 2026.
I had actually forgotten what it was—or even whether I had done the assignment at the beginning of the year.
My word was Embrace.
When I chose it, I wrote:
For 2026, I chose the word Embrace—as a goal, a mantra, and the way I want to move and grow this year.
Initially, I was thinking about embracing change: my own growth, the relationships deepening around me, my family, and the transitions we’re all navigating. Embracing the beauty of it all, even when it’s complicated.
What I hadn’t fully considered was that embracing also means welcoming the hard.
At the time, the hard was very immediate.
On December 23rd, my cat was diagnosed with diabetes after losing his ability to walk and clearly struggling. We tried a medication that can sometimes help diabetic cats who haven’t yet started insulin, knowing he would need to be monitored closely.
Almost immediately, he stopped eating, hid, and seemed to be in significant discomfort. After the second dose, things became worse.
By that afternoon, he was at the vet in diabetic ketoacidosis. I was told he had a 50/50 chance of recovery, potentially requiring three to seven days in the ICU—or I could choose to let him go.
I asked if there was any way I could try to get him through it at home.
The answer was essentially: with prayer.
And somehow, he made it through.
By December 27th, he was cleared from that critical stage.
All of this happened while my family was here for the holidays. I was trying to be present with them while simultaneously holding fear, worry, vet visits, medication, and the constant vigilance of caring for a very sick animal.
I was present and not present at the same time.
Back then, I thought perhaps this was what Embrace was going to ask of me.
To hold space for the hard parts. To be honest about where I was. To allow myself to be imperfect. To tell patients when appointments needed to shift because I had to get to the vet—and then allow myself to receive the extraordinary kindness and support that came back to me.
I began to understand that embracing wasn’t only about accepting change.
It was about allowing vulnerability.
Allowing other people to show up for me.
Allowing life to be beautiful and terrifying at the same time.
But here I am, nine months later, reading those words again.
And Embrace means something different now.
The Tides of 2026
This year has held so many tides and changes.
Sometimes I have been able to float with the current.
Other times, I have been tossed around by it—pulled out to sea, trying to find my bearings and swim my way back.
And there have been moments when I finally made it back to shore only to look around and realize the tide had swept everything away. The landscape I remembered wasn’t there anymore.
Maybe some of you know that feeling too.
Because when I think about the stories many of you have shared with me this year—the changes, endings, beginnings, losses, illnesses, relationships, discoveries, uncertainty, and unexpected turns—I can see how, in our own very different lives, we have been traversing something together.
Maybe Embrace doesn’t mean holding tightly.
Maybe that is what I misunderstood.
Perhaps embracing something is not the same thing as keeping it.
We can embrace a person and still let them go.
We can embrace a chapter while acknowledging that it has ended.
We can embrace who we were without needing to remain that person.
We can embrace grief without making a home inside it.
We can embrace uncertainty without demanding that it tell us what
happens next.
And we can embrace an empty space without immediately deciding what
belongs there.
Maybe there is something sacred about leaving a little room.
The Virgo New Moon
That is what I am carrying into this New Moon.
Not: What can I add to my life?
But:
What am I consciously choosing to build?
What belongs in the life I am creating now?
What am I ready to clear away?
What do I want to carry forward?
And:
Where can I leave a little space for something I cannot yet imagine?
Virgo reminds us that transformation doesn’t only happen in enormous,
life-altering moments.
It happens when we clean the drawer.
When we change the morning routine.
When we prepare the meal.
When we tend to our bodies.
When we stop participating in a pattern.
When we choose what gets our time.
When we decide what we will—and will not—carry into another season.
The life we want doesn’t begin someday.
It begins in what we choose today.
So clear something.
Choose something.
Release something.
Begin something.
And then leave a little space empty.
You don’t have to know what belongs there yet.
Let the magic have somewhere to land.
❤️🩹