How to Read and Understand your Chart

The wisdom gained by reflecting on your astronomical chart will help you realise your inner potential, gain profound self-awareness, and receive invaluable guidance for effective communication.

Each of us is blessed with unique gifts and challenged by specific obstacles that are intricately tied to the astronomical sign under which we were born. These signs, rooted in the sacred teachings of Kabbalistic astronomy (mazalot), serve as spiritual compasses, illuminating the obstacles we must transcend and unveiling our sacred life purpose. The ultimate aim is to empower yourself to rise above the celestial influences and seize control over the direction of your life.

Virgo – The Month of Elul

The month of Virgo is the sixth month of the astrological year. This month corresponds to the sign of Virgo, which is an earth sign and is ruled by Mercury. The sign of Virgo is connected to practicality, working and serving others; people born in this month feel the need to achieve financial security and a desire to serve society.

Virgos find success in careers as doctors, nurses (or any healing profession), as social workers, service technicians, bankers, accountants, and in professions of beauty and fashion.

Virgos need to check and assess their actions. Like a businessperson that reviews the year-end profits and losses, it’s easier to criticize others than it is to see what is wrong with one’s self.

When they learn to love, honor and accept others as they are, without criticism, judgment, or trying to change them, this is when the Virgo correction is complete; once the Virgo experiences unconditional love, they have finished their correction.

Financially, Virgo is not an easy month. Many important changes might happen, including the need for new business ventures with new consciousness.

There is a large incident of immigration in this month, where more people find the need to leave their homelands in order to go new places, looking to change their luck.

In personal relationships there are more international connections and meetings, which means there is more openness to go out of the family circle to meet new people.

This is a month to contemplate the meaning of life, both in the personal and global realms.

Letters of the Month – Resh and Yud

According to the “Sepher Yetzirah”, the Hebrew letters are spiritual frequencies that created the universe. A different Hebrew letter controls or influences the constellation and planet of the month. By connecting to these letters through meditation we can draw down specific energy to empower and enlighten us. The letters for the month of Elul are Resh and Yud.  Resh created the Planet Mercury and represents poverty. The design of the letter Resh looks like a person who is bent over – a poor person, and the word resh is from the root “rush” – to be poor. The numerical value of Resh is 200. The Talmud states that a poor person can collect charity until he has 200 “zuz”. Once they have more than 200, they are no longer considered poor.

The letter Yud created the constellation of Virgo and symbolizes richness and the highest level of consciousness. It is the first letter of G-d’s holiest name, the 4-letter tetragrammaton. Yud represents thought before the act of creation. Likewise, Elul is the month when the “thought of creation” took place, an unadulterated state, before actual creation which occurs in the following month of Tishrei. We have the opportunity during Elul to balance the opposing energies of poverty and higher consciousness within the Resh and Yud to examine ourselves, purify and make a spiritual correction.

Days of Connection in Elul

Moses carved the second set of tablets and ascended Mt. Sinai on the 1st and 2nd days of Elul indicating that the Israelites had been forgiven and granted mercy for the sin of the golden calf. The shofar is sounded daily in the morning (except Shabbat) during Elul from Rosh Chodesh to the day before Rosh Hashanah. The Shofar announces that these are special days of compassion when our prayers can be received and to awaken one’s spirit. The gates of compassion are now open for us and for teshuvah – returning.

We also recite the 27th Psalm from Rosh Chodesh Elul through Hoshahah Rabbah on Sukkot and we recite Selichot – penitential prayers during Elul which include a passage from Exodus with the 13 Attributes of Mercy. Ashkenazi say Selichot for 4 days prior to Rosh Hashanah while Sephardim say it for entire month of Elul. It is customary in Elul to extend wishes of a good year by including “K’tiva V’Hatima Tova” (a good writing and sealing of judgement) in all letters and greetings

Ruling Planet – Mercury

The controlling planet is Mercury, in Hebrew – Kochav. Kochav’s numerical value is Caf Vav = 26 (the same numerical value as Yud Hei Vav Hei or the Tetragrammaton) and Caf Bet = 22 letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, together creating the most powerful and energetic combination.

Birth Qualities of Mercury

Mercury is the planet of communication, which means it is like an electrical cable, telephone wire, a teacher, an adviser, a story teller – basically anything that can transfer any information from point a to point b.

Birth Stone – Amethyst – Purple

Gad’s stone was an Amethyst – achlama. It strengthens the heart and provides courage. Therefore, it is called achlama from the language of recovery and strength. It eases fears, provides a sense of courage, intuition and creativity. It may help those who do not sleep well and decrease nightmares.

Amethyst Qualities

Amethystprovide; Spiritual protection, calming energy, intuition, mental clarity, healing, and connection to higher realms.

• Amethyst has protective qualities, guarding against negative energies and psychic attacks
• Creates a shield of energy
• Calming and soothing energy 
• Enhances intuition and spiritual awareness
• Strengthens mental clarity and focus
• clears away mental fog and confusion
• Promotes physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being
• Facilitates communication with angels, spirit guides, and divine beings

Av – Virgo (Betula)

A person born during Elul is ruled by the intestines. This sign has a strong analytcal process of thought. Details matter, and Virgo’s strive for prfection. Perhaps this is why billionares are Virgo’s more often that any other sign. Aiding digestion through the consumption of proper nutrients is important. 

Virgos would do well to eat fresh vegetables and properly raised and fed meats. instead of food that has been treated with pesticides and/or hebicides or verly processed or packages for a long shelf life.

The Month of Elul

The month of Elul is considered a month of repentance, a time to reflect and clean the slate ahead of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in the following month of Tishrei. It is a period of introspection and self-review where we have the opportunity to go back in time to our “virgin” selves and take stock of people we’ve wronged or errors we’ve committed during the past year which have brought any chaos into our lives. Elul is connected to the astrological sign of Virgo which means virginity or purity in both English and Hebrew.

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A day of concealment. The day of judgement, the sounding of the Shofar 100 sounds, the confusing of the Evil. Inscribe us for life. The ten commandments.

Significant Events of the Month

One of the most powerful months of the Hebrew calendar, Elul is the last month of the Hebrew year and is a month of reconnecting to the Creator and starting anew. Similar to the word “search” in Aramaic – it is a time to search and draw close to God in advance of the Day of Judgment and Atonement during the High Holidays in Tishrei.

The Talmud says Elul is an acronym for “Ani L’dodi V’dodi Li” – I am to my Beloved as my Beloved is to me, an allegory to our eternal relationship with G-d. Elul is a month of accounting and preparation where we have an opportunity to account for past and prepare for future. It is customary to increase charitable giving during Elul in order to expand our vessel and help us return to our original state. In ancient times it was considered the “New Year for Tithes”. 

The New Year 

According to the Zohar, the Hebrew New Year is a time, which the Universe returns to the day of its Creation; this, in order to give us an opportunity to ease the Tikun process.