Clear the way for order, balance, and wellbeing during this Virgo New Moon cycle.
The Virgo New Moon is the perfect time to reset your space, your habits, and your energy.
This year, the Virgo New Moon is this Saturday, August 23rd. (Also, hey, this is my birthday!)
Virgo energy loves creating order in the physical world and restoring health in our bodies, minds, and spirits. This lunar gateway invites us to release clutter—both tangible and energetic—and create fresh patterns that truly support our wellbeing.
If you’ve been craving a sense of clarity, calm, and intentional structure, this ritual will help you align with Virgo’s healing energy and set the stage for a vibrant moon cycle ahead.
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Step One: Light a Flame
Begin by lighting a clean-burning candle in a central location of your home. As the flame flickers to life, take three slow breaths. With each inhale, invite in divine light; with each exhale, release all that no longer serves you.
Call on the Divine—whether you connect with God, Goddess, angels, guides, or the intelligence of the cosmos. Ask for assistance in creating order, harmony, and radiant health in your life. (If you can’t light a candle due to pets, children, or safety reasons, use an electric candle or simply visualize a golden flame glowing at the heart of your home.)
Step Two: Clear Physical Clutter with Intention
Choose a space—big or small—and begin clearing. Even 5 or 10 minutes makes a difference. As you tidy, declutter, or reorganize, repeat inwardly:
“As I clear my space, I clear my body, mind, and spirit. I release all that I no longer need and make way for clarity, health, and joy.”
Donate, recycle, discard, or simply reorganize items as you feel guided. Notice how the energy shifts as you move into the rhythm of clearing. This process is a ritual in itself—an offering to Virgo’s love of order and healing.
(Feel free to clean out just a small area, like your junk drawer or medicine cabinet. But if you want to declutter your entire closet this new moon, here’s how to clear closet clutter.)
Step Three: Cleanse the Energy of Your Home
Before beginning, open a window or two so the old energy has somewhere to go. Then, employ one or more of the following tools:
1. Selenite Wand
Cleanse your wand first by placing it in sunlight for a few minutes or passing it through sage or incense smoke. Walk counterclockwise through your space, gently waving the wand to absorb and neutralize stagnant energy.
2. Dried Sage Bundle or Palo Santo Stick
Light your sage bundle or Palo Santo stick so it smolders, not burns, and carry a dish or plate beneath it to catch any burning embers. Move counterclockwise through your home, letting the smoke waft through each room. Visualize heaviness lifting and dissolving. When you’re done, fully extinguish the bundle in water or by sealing it in a jar.
3. Rose Water
If you’ve cleared with selenite or herbs, now move clockwise as you mist, infusing the space with sweetness, love, and harmony. If you haven’t cleared with either tool, move counterclockwise with the spray to clear lingering heaviness. Visualize and intend that the air and energy in your home are filled with beauty, order, and peace.
4. Chime or Bell
Stand in the center of each room and ring your chime. Imagine the sound waves sweeping away residue, lifting the vibration, and filling the space with uplifting, sparkling energy.
Step Four: Anchor Your New Moon Intentions
Return to the candle or central location. Place your hands in prayer position at your heart, close your eyes, and breathe deeply.
Bring to mind your Virgo New Moon intentions—especially those related to health, clarity, order, organization, and healing. Feel these intentions as already true. Feel the harmony, joy, and ease they bring.
Open your palms outward and imagine your intentions radiating through your home as golden light, blessing every room and every corner with fresh, vibrant energy.
Offer gratitude—for the moon, for your home, for the clarity you’re stepping into. Extinguish the candle, knowing your ritual is complete.
Why This Virgo New Moon Ritual Works
Decluttering your home during the Virgo New Moon doesn’t just create physical order—it creates spiritual spaciousness. Virgo’s energy helps us align small, everyday actions with greater purpose, so that even simple acts like tidying a drawer or misting with rose water become magical methods of summoning the life you desire.
When your space is clear and your energy is balanced, your intentions have fertile ground in which to grow.
✨ Will you be trying this Virgo New Moon Ritual? Do you have your own favorite tools for space clearing? Share your thoughts in the comments—I’d love to hear.
For more new moon ideas, here are 9 Things to Do on the New Moon.
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Happy birthday! Mine is 9/22 , Virgo too. And I see there is another Virgo new moon 9/21. I wasn’t aware there could be two new moons in the same sign in a row like that, so cool , I guess the dates just lined up. The Virgo full moon in March was so powerful this year. I’m glad you posted this because I didn’t realize it was Virgo season so soon since I’m at the end! Thanks!
🫶Beautiful, Inspiring read! I will be doing this Ritual🤗
So informative and very much Appreciated 🥰
Happy Birthday for the 23rd Tess and pray you have a Fabulous, Magical Day🎂
Robyn, glad you like the post and thank you for the birthday wishes!
Happy birthday! I hope you have you best year yet to come! Blessed be and Namaste!
P.S. Tell the Colorado mountains I lovd them and miss home!
Mandy, thank you for the birthday wishes! Re: the mountains, I would greet them for you, but I have moved back to my hometown, which is in the Central Valley of California. Where are you from in CO, and where do you live now?
I live in North Western Tennessee now not far from the Kentucky state line. I used to live in Nederland and Longmont
Oh, I lived in Nederland! What a cute and unique little town. (And cold!!!)
Yes it was! I really miss home.
Hi
Just a quick one – I’m in the Southern Hemisphere, but I would really like to do this ritual.
As we are on the opposite side of things, would it work for me, or do you have something that I could do for the Southern Hemisphere?
Thank you, I always get good advise from you, and happy birthday for Saturday.
Lorainne
Lorainne, yes, it will work for you! The sabbats are opposite because of the position of the sun and the length of the days, but the astrology is the same. So I would go right ahead and do this one!
Thank you
I am definitely going to do it, however, I will do it on Sunday, while my husband is at church! I hope it will still work just as well, the day after?
I have another ritual I will do on Saturday night.
Lorainne, most definitely Sunday will work!
Hi
I can’t wait for Aug 23 rd. So excited to practice this ritual. Oh and have a stellar peace filled birthday.
Cheers,
Kevin
Kevin, thank you!