September 1 - 8, 2010
Your week ahead with your baby
After a tumultuous August, September comes in quietly this week. Retrograde Mercury will join the Sun in Virgo on September 3, allowing for deep inner reflection: We’ll see ourselves from a new perspective and perhaps be able to break through debilitating habits and patterns. Keeping a journal is a great way to enhance this time of self-discovery. Here’s how this transit will affect your baby:
Your Virgo baby this week
The Sun and Mercury in Virgo’s sign will give your little one a green light for learning - a very exciting state of affairs. Newborns arriving under this transit will be unusually sharp and won’t need as much sleep as you’d expect. (Music and stories are great tools for calming this very aware child.) Your Virgo toddler will take a seemingly early leap into the world of language; you’ll be amazed at how easily she acquires her ABCs.
Your Virgo baby in 2010
Baby Virgo is ready for a dynamic year. As the T square (the alignment of Saturn, Pluto and Uranus ) transits out of your baby’s sign at the beginning of the year, you’ll notice her relaxing in a way she hasn’t been able to before. You’ll both breathe a big sigh of relief as her nervous nature gets a break. Sleepless nights will turn into peaceful ones, and your little one will display signs of contentment on a regular basis – how lovely! Virgo toddlers may show signs of a breakthrough in potty training, so grab the opportunity when yours is asking.
Happy birthday,
Baby! Here are some other important Virgos with birthdays this week:
September 1
Actress Lily Tomlin and Bee Gee singer Barry Gibb
September 2
Actress Salma Hayek and actor Keanu Reeves
September 3
Pro skateboarder and Olympic snowboarder Shaun White, and socialite Kitty Carlisle Hart
September 4
Singer Beyonce Knowles and comedian Damon Wayans
September 5
Queen frontman Freddie Mercury and actress Raquel Welch
September 6
"Saturday Night Live" star Jane Curtin and Kennedy patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy
September 7
The Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde and Marge Simpson voicer Julie Kavner
September 8
Comedians Sid Caesar and Peter Sellers
(Illustration © 2008 Sue Broude)