Like A Dream, Glides Away…

The Femme Moon
5 min readAug 23, 2022

Blissed out on cooler mornings and breaks of breeze, the Northern Hem Virgo Season prepares its golden goodbye from Summer to Autumn. Reminiscent of childhood’s grade year beginnings, eager to learn, a love of books and (admittingly) routine, we make plans for our favorite season, bracing for the occasional hellish hot days that try to hang on. Dabbling in a new project (very Virgo), we present the first of our Femme Film Astro Archetypes, set in the swelter of Australia following students of an orderly, perfectionist academy. We look forward to our ongoing exploration of astrological and elemental symbolism in movies of yore! Note that the text ahead will contain some spoilers for our Virgo film pick.

In the fade, as the weather makes its change, the words of Sarah Helen Whitman resonates:

“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, And, like a dream, glides away.”

Picnic at Hanging Rock is an ethereal and enigmatic tale about a group of schoolgirls seduced by the strange powers of Earth, an environment becomes a character of…

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The Femme Moon

Pop culture as it relates to archetypes and personas, ancient/modern. Moon Magick, healing, femme expression, art, astrology. Muses by Sun.