🐍🐭 Isis, Wadjet, and the Mouse: Small Signs and Sacred Details for the Virgo New Moon ♍🌑✨

Two New Tarot Spreads

Happy Sunday, Soul Family!

This week has been full of synchronicities. Only hours after invoking Wadjet, the great cobra goddess of protection, I was bitten on the little toe by a field mouse in my kitchen. I’m fine (no infection), but this is such an unusual synchronicity that it got me thinking… How could I feel so powerfully protected and still get bitten?

🐍 Wadjet and the Mouse

Wadjet guards against the formidable forces of chaos. The mouse, in contrast, represents the small, unseen disruptions that slip in through cracks. In ancient Egyptian writing, Mouse had the hieroglyph E263 (also catalogued as U525)—written with the word pnw. The fact that the Egyptians gave Mouse a distinct hieroglyph of its own demonstrates the importance of this little creature in daily life, particularly as a symbol of hidden consumption and gnawing forces.

How perfect, then, that this tiny creature should appear just as I had been working with Wadjet. She doesn’t mollycoddle those under her serpentine wing, but teaches us to remain alert and humble.

Mouse medicine reminds us to pay attention to detail. It whispers:

• Pay attention to what’s overlooked.

• Don’t despise the small things.

• Hidden currents shape our paths.

Being bitten by a mouse felt a bit like an initiation. It was certainly a new experience for me and a reminder that spiritual lessons arrive not only in visions of the divine but also in the nibbling surprises of everyday life.

♍ Virgo, Isis, and the Purifying Vessel

This theme flows beautifully into Virgo Season. The new moon arrives on 22–23 August, right at zero degrees of Virgo. Virgo is often associated with Isis/Iset/Auset—the divine priestess, healer, and purifier. Just as Mouse calls us to notice the small details, Virgo asks us to refine, purify, and attend to the sacred vessel of body and soul.

I’ve written a full blog post with tarot spreads and horoscopes for this New Moon in Virgo. You can read it here:

👉 New Moon in Virgo Tarot Spread + Horoscopes

🌹 Working with Isis: Purification and Magic

Isis teaches us that purification is about preparing ourselves to channel divine magic. She calls us to tend our vessels, clear what clutters, and live in alignment with truth.

If you’d like to explore this further, I’ve shared a Tarot spread and practices here:

👉 Working with Isis: Purifying the Vessel for Divine Magic

✨ Virgo–Isis Correspondences

Here are a few keys you can weave into your practice this week as Virgo season begins:

• Tarot: The Hermit, The High Priestess (Isis), 8, 9, 10 of Pentacles, King of Pentacles

• Colours: White, silver, indigo, soft green

• Crystals: Moonstone, carnelian, sapphire, lapis lazuli, peridot

• Herbs/Plants: Myrrh, wheat, lavender, chamomile

• Focus: Purity, healing, service, attention to detail, stewardship, grounded abundance

🏺 The Hermit and the Hermetic Current

The Hermit card is the Major Arcana’s Virgo archetype. He carries the lantern of wisdom into the dark, much as the initiate carries a spark of divine light through times of solitude and testing.

It’s no coincidence that we call the body of esoteric wisdom that carried the Egyptian Mysteries forward into the Greco-Roman world “Hermetic.” Rooted in teachings attributed to Thoth–Hermes Trismegistus, this current preserved Isis’ mysteries in coded form—alchemy, astrology, numerology, sacred geometry, and theurgy.

So when we contemplate the Hermit during Virgo Season, we aren’t just thinking about retreat or analysis. We’re stepping into a lineage of seeking light in the hidden places, from the sanctuaries of Egypt to the mystery schools of Alexandria and beyond. The Hermit reminds us that purification and attention to detail are not about perfectionism but about creating a vessel capable of holding divine wisdom.

🔑 Suggested Practice for the Week Ahead

1. Notice the Mouse. Pay attention to small details, habits, or cracks in your routine that need tending before Virgo’s new moon.

2. Invoke Isis. Ask her to guide you in purifying your vessel. This may mean clearing clutter, fasting gently, or simply making space for silence.

3. Contemplate the Hermit. Meditate on where you are being asked to withdraw, seek wisdom in solitude, or carry light into dark places.

4. Set Your Intention. As the Dark Moon approaches, consider: What do I need to release so that I am a clearer channel for Light?

🌌 Closing Reflection

From the Great Goddess to the mouse at the threshold, Spirit teaches us through paradox. Protection is both cosmic and minute. And as Virgo season dawns with Isis as our guide, we are reminded that holiness is found as much in the small, daily details as in the great mysteries.

🕯 Affirmation

“I attend to the small things with love,
in service to the Living Light.”

Watch out for the next edition of Magdalene Moon Musings on Thursday (paid subscribers) in time for the New Moon in Virgo!

Love,
Lisa
angelorum.co

PS. Let me know in the comments if you’ve ever been bitten by a mouse!