Everything you need to know about the volatile new era of the dark femme.
Batten down the hatches, because there’s a new power in town, and she’s going to destroy it. Lilith, the primeval archetype of exiled female sexuality, avenged gaslighting, and demonic retribution, enters Virgo, the sacred temple of the body and its boundaries, from October 3, 2023 to June 29, 2024. Woof. Lilith commands retribution and revenge wherever she appears in your natal chart, and as she enters the realm of perfection and judgment, she is poised to bring everyone down with her.
Lilith has roved and ravaged Sumerian, Hittite, Egyptian, and Israelite mythology since at least the third millennium BCE, a dark phantasm wandering the back alleys and latrines. Some saw her as a wind spirit, while others, such as the ancient Israelites, saw her as a “wanton night hag,” stealing men’s seed in order to raise an army of demon spawn. Absolutely, girl.
Every patriarchal society, in the age of what social scientist Riane Eisler refers to as “dominator cultures,” requires a female villain, an effigy of the unrestrained whore-fatale-crone-harpy to fear and condemn. Lilith is the name. She is portrayed in biblical mythology as Adam’s first mate in the Garden of Eden, demanding equality with her male mate only to be ejected from paradise and cast into the hostile wilderness.
Astrologers call it the Black Moon. Lilith as the moon’s farthest point of orbit — or apogee — when the feminine archetype is thrust into the void. The moon reflects the sun’s light and bears our history and emotions… But where does all that suffering end up? Lilith, according to the Zohar, bears “the resentment of the moon’s diminishment,” reflecting and refracting those abject feelings, forces, and histories that have been banished from the light of day.
Virgo Essentials
Virgo derives its name from the virgin archetype, which dates back to the vestal virgins and high priestesses, women who served as divine vessels, their bodies revered as sacrosanct temples of the gods. Even in our complicated modern world, virgins — and, really, all women — must negotiate their worth based on gender, economics, and culture. Are you available for purchase? Who makes the rules? What is your worth? Virgo reconciles our self-worth with our society’s ideals and expectations. Perfectionism looms, resulting in oppressive standards, unforgivable self-recrimination, and glorious retribution for those who can embrace an outsider identity.
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo
If you are a living person with a talent, service, or creative gift to offer the world, you have been exploited. You’ve been tossed to the wolves of the gig economy. You’ve been forced to sell your wares on social media, transforming yourself into a zoo animal in exchange for the illusory promise of a following — whatever that is. You were underpaid, overworked, and ignored. While whoring yourself out, you have sold yourself short.
You have been violated if, for example, you are a living person who wishes to assert autonomy over your body. The state is threatened by your gender, reproductive rights, and sexual expression. Under the enigmatic standards of a multibillion-dollar wellness industry, your appearance is constantly subject to revision, transforming body fascism into capitalist self-care.
Lilith is curious: how are you going to fight back? Virgo is a sign filled with complicated, often self-defeating icons, great talents who suffered like martyrs at the mercy of a cruel world or at the hands of their own demons. (Consider Amy Winehouse, Keith Flint, or Michael Jackson.) And yet, this is a sign of great mavericks, of hardasses who endured rejection and debasement in order to set the terms of their power, to make the industry kneel for them, to erect boundaries that would become monuments.
Fiona Apple, Shirley Manson, Aimee Mann, Joan Jett, and Florence Welch are Lilith’s Virgo incarnations, elemental powerhouses who wield their flaws as flaming swords, who rip their hair and twirl with madness and dance with agony. In Set It Off, Lilith plays Jada Pinkett Smith, a woman who chooses the truth of annihilation over the illusion of a happy ending. In “Get Back,” she’s Ludacris, tearing through the streets with a posse of pink ladies, demanding that his boundaries be respected — or else. Put her down, and she’ll drag you into the molten lava of the underworld. She can withstand the sweltering heat of rage and the freezing cold of rejection, bracing herself for her next comeback, and her next. Can you?
Your Work With Lilith
It’s time for an unappealing accounting. Where and how were you sold into bondage or sold for a fraction of your worth? How have you sacrificed your inherent, divine gifts for the sake of public consumption? Only those who have restored power to their bodies will have the will and authority to endure as the media continues to cave in and our social reality is further negotiated. Do you realize you’re a machine, a force, a work of art?
Saturn is in Pisces, prompting discussions about boundaries. If you believe the deluded wisdom of the moment, you are the victim, and anyone who crosses a line is toxic, to be avoided and exorcised. However, by succumbing to this reactivity, you transform yourself into a judgmental God, and anyone deemed imperfect into a new Lilith. Don’t be taken in by it. None of us are slaughtered lambs; we all consume as much as we are consumed. You’ll have to reckon with any contracts of self-betrayal you willingly entered, as well as own your roles in mutual harm. What personal or interpersonal pain have you suppressed in the name of productivity or perfection? Fiona Apple’s and Florence Welch’s complex musings will be crucial here.
This isn’t something to argue about. It calls for a thrashing. Take Keith Flint of the Prodigy, Shirley Manson of Garbage, Liam Gallagher of Oasis, and even Kim Petras with her Halloween album Turn Off the Light as your initiatory masters, and get your head banging. Virgo’s domain, feel the rage in your body. Sweat it out, let it erupt, and don’t bother turning it into a lovely post for others to enjoy. Allow yourself to be miserable.
If you embrace Lilith in Virgo, you’ll be able to accept responsibility for your actions in the past, confront others for their actions, stand up for what you’re worth, and know you have the courage to bite back when they try to silence you. And you’ll be done pretending to be perfect in order to gain approval. You’ll be genuine and unleashed, and we’ll all fall to our knees to witness your might.
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