precious child's breath

Mahala celebrates her birthday on September 1 - this year I will be with her in London to celebrate together. Can't wait to be with my one and only spawn and favorite being of my life.

Issa’s digital decoupage of Mahala’s art

Numerology charts claim being born on the first day makes you a self-starter with very innovative ways of creating opportunity. Never afraid to be the first to try something new. 

Determination and endurance are powerful and a great help to get through times of struggle to reach success. As solar systems are aligning in the Universe our planets are aligning with our sun. So too are Mahala's life years and numbers lining up - 1, 2, 3, 11.

Mahala birthday girl - Earth angel? NYC bug!

Then there's the astrological aspect to it - in all of constellation mythology, few legends are as misunderstood as the Virgo myth.  

By most accounts, the typical interpretation of Virgo mythology is a series of goddesses from various cultural mythologies that combine to create the myth of Virgo the Virgin.  

This is inaccurate and misleading. The word virgo is Latin and means self-contained or self-sufficient - the proverbial pure vessel. 

Astraea, star maiden, Virgo goddess, Fernando Gallego

Virgo is the sixth sign of the zodiac - from August 23 to September 22. Its symbol is the Maiden, its element is Earth. It is ruled by the planet Mercury. 

The Thunder, Perfect Mind - a gnostic text, states:

‘For I am the first and the last.
I am the honoured one and the scored one.
I am the whore and the holy one.
I am the wife and the virgin.
I am the mother and the daughter.
I am the members of my mother.
I am the barren one and many are her sons.
I am she whose wedding is great,
and I have not taken a husband.' 

Virgo between the constellations Leo & Libra (image credit: StellariumWeb)

As Abraham Lincoln said, "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count - it's the life in your years."

In the words of the saints and sages, "It's not the number of breaths we take that count but the moments that take our breath away."

Breath of my being, thank you for being born to me. xoxo