Sun in Virgo

Purify, purge, cleanse -- it's a good time to whittle down your life to the absolute essentials. The Sun is in Virgo, forming a cluster with Saturn, Mercury and Venus, and this amplifies the need to feel more productive. Virgo is a flexible Earth sign, able to make lots of little changes on the neverending road to perfection. The tough love teacher, Saturn, can bring sobering realities, or just show you where you're out of balance. The next few weeks, there's a lot of earth energy, and that keeps you grounded, and able to handle whatever comes up.

There's a big spotlight on health, and the body's signals about what's wrong grow louder under the Virgo stellium. It's timely to come back to the basics, and look at core issues like nutrition, exercise and stress levels. Virgo's season is the harvest, and busily getting your house in order in preparation for the darker winter days ahead.

• Maya Del Mar on Virgo