September Horoscopes
With the sun shining in Virgo until September 22, we start the month focused on organizing our lives. We want to eliminate distractions, clarify the next steps, and create structures to support the goals we have in place. It’s also a time of discernment when we weed out what no longer fits in our lives. We do the work of setting boundaries, prioritizing our wellbeing, and bringing our lives into order before Libra season starts on the 22nd.
The Virgo new moon on September 6 features a trine with Uranus, the planet of surprises and sudden insights. Be open to the magic at work in your life. New ideas may take time to implement, but we have a newfound vision for how events might unfold with this lunation. We can catch a glimpse of possibilities we weren’t able to see before. Because this new moon touches Uranus, it also pulls us away from any rigid beliefs and rules we’ve internalized. It gives us a hunger for freedom and helps us see a path toward it. A gentle Venus trine Jupiter could bring people into our lives to support us in surprising ways. This new moon offers us the chance for a fresh start.
Venus enters intense and passionate Scorpio on September 10, helping us solidify financial or relationship commitments. We feel more compelled to follow our hearts and more led to go deeper in conversations with others, falling in love, and experiences of pleasure. Venus in Scorpio reminds us love is a spiritual force. Loving others allows us to access the divinity within ourselves. Loving ourselves helps us receive the love of others.
Mars enters Scorpio on September 14, and we feel motivated by the pursuit of justice. It is a time when your inner activist comes out in full force, speaking out on behalf of others who need your support. It’s also a time when you might seek peace in conflict situations in your life. We are more apt to mediate than fight during this time.
September 20 brings us the Pisces full moon, a time of spiritual reflections, psychic awareness, and mystical dreams. It could be a more emotional time as realizations about yourself and others shine forth from hidden places in our psyches. That day, Mars trine the North Node activates our path of purpose and reminds us to take a careful step beyond our comfort zone. We have to make peace with a painful event from the past and integrate that experience in a way that lets us know it’s all going to be okay.
We come out stronger as we move out of Virgo season and into Libra time on September 22. The Libra sun helps bring us out of a time of organization and work and into a time of connection with others. We want to talk, share ideas, and relate with others in ways that inspire collaboration. It’s also a time of romance for our relationships, but Mercury stations retrograde on September 26 as a teacher nudging us to improve communication with one another. The urge for partnership might meet the frustration that comes when you don’t see eye to eye.
Mercury retrograde also brings us back in time, questioning relationships from the past and asking either, “Why did I become involved with that person?” Or, “Why did I leave that relationship?” Reconnection is possible with friends, family members, or lovers from the past. Be careful, though, in going back. It’s easy to idealize the past because memory casts a hazy glow around our view of how things were. Try to remember the details to balance the urge to move back into familiar territory with the expanded vision of what you’d like your life to be right now.