virgo Ii - blackberrying

Mutable earth: blackberries, ripeness and rot, thresholds, brambles, boundaries.

• Atmosphere: Blackberrying

• Sign: Virgo

• Plant: Blackberry

• Planet: Saturn + Venus

• Dates: 4 September - 13 September

• Tarot: 9 of Pentacles

Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries,

– Sylvia Plath, ‘Blackberrying’.

Virgo II is about late summer slipping into autumn. Melancholy and heavy ripeness. Delicious fruits that mark the end of the harvest.

It is fantasy and terror.

It is something sour and sharp. Deliciously tart.

A blackberry on the edge of ripeness, a season turning from summer to autumn.

Appetites sharpened by urgency.

Fruit clotted like blood and rich as wine.