A Virgo New Moon and Uranus stationing retrograde highlight the first half of September. Neptune sextile Pluto, Mars square Saturn, and Venus square Pluto add more opportunities!
The written forecast is a highly condensed version of my video and podcast. The written forecast gives you a brief summary of the most important points, while the video and podcast give you the full depth and nuance of my interpretations.
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September 1: Mars Square Saturn
Mars square Saturn can create tension between the urge to act and the need to slow down, adjust, or accept limits. You may feel like you’re driving with the brakes on.
With Mars in Cancer, this can feel especially emotional. You may be strongly motivated to protect your home, family, emotional security, or something else you deeply care about, but responsibilities or obstacles could slow your progress.
Rather than reacting defensively or forcing an issue, use Saturn to discipline Mars. Strengthen weak foundations, establish boundaries, and take the most practical step available.
This aspect favors disciplined persistence over speed. What initially feels like resistance may help you concentrate your energy where it can accomplish the most.
September 5: Venus Quintile Jupiter
Venus quintile Jupiter offers a subtle but potent current of creative and relational magic. Quintiles can reveal unusual talents, inspired solutions, and opportunities to combine familiar ingredients in unexpectedly effective ways.
This can benefit creativity, relationships, pleasure, social connection, and collaboration. Follow what feels imaginative or delightful. A conversation, meeting, creative idea, or spontaneous gesture could open a surprisingly rewarding door.
The opportunity may be easy to miss, so cultivate what feels unusually promising.
September 10: Four Major Events
September 10 is the busiest day of this forecast, bringing Venus entering Scorpio, Mercury entering Libra, Uranus retrograde, and a Virgo New Moon!
September 10: Venus Enters Scorpio
Venus entering Scorpio shifts love, creativity, and relating into deeper and more passionate territory.
Relationships may become more emotionally intense, intimate, or sexually charged. This can support honesty, vulnerability, and deeper trust, but watch out for possessiveness, jealousy, or control.
Creatively, Venus in Scorpio favors material involving emotional depth, mystery, sensuality, healing, and transformation. Financially, it can bring greater attention to shared resources, investments, debts, inheritances, and intertwined finances.
September 10: Mercury Enters Libra
Mercury in Libra favors diplomacy, thoughtful dialogue, negotiation, collaboration, and seeing situations from multiple perspectives.
This can help you resolve disagreements, strengthen relationships, create agreements, and communicate more gracefully. It can also enhance writing and other creative work.
The primary challenge is indecision. Consider all sides, but don’t let the search for perfect balance prevent you from moving forward.
September 10: Uranus Turns Retrograde
Uranus turns retrograde at 5°41′ Gemini on September 10. It remains retrograde until February 8, when it stations direct at 1°40′ Gemini.
Uranus retrograde turns its revolutionary energy inward. Instead of immediately changing your external circumstances, reconsider where you’ve outgrown old identities, assumptions, habits, or ways of thinking.
Because Uranus is in Gemini, this five-month retrograde emphasizes the mind, communication, information, technology, learning, social connections, and your beliefs about what’s possible.
Ideas or changes that recently seemed exciting or destabilizing may require reconsideration. Old conversations can return. New technologies or communication methods may need refinement. Your thinking may become less conventional and more willing to challenge inherited assumptions.
This can be a fertile period for mental breakthroughs. A belief you once considered unquestionable may suddenly look incomplete. A long-standing problem could reveal an unexpected solution. You may also recognize ways your thinking has been constrained by fear, social conditioning, or the desire to fit in.
Because Uranus and Gemini can accelerate mental activity, be mindful of information overload and nervous system overstimulation. Periods of quiet can help you distinguish meaningful insight from random mental static.
Above all, Uranus retrograde invites you to free your mind. What beliefs are you ready to outgrow? What new ideas keep returning that point toward your future?
September 10: Virgo New Moon
The Virgo New Moon (18°25′ Virgo) lines up on September 10 at 11:27 pm EDT.
This lunation offers a potent opportunity to reset the systems that shape your daily life. Virgo supports improvements that are practical, measurable, and sustainable.
This is an excellent New Moon for clearing clutter, refining routines, strengthening healthy habits, organizing your work, and managing your time and energy more consciously. Focus less on perfection and more on becoming a clearer channel for the service you’re here to give.
Ask yourself: What one change would meaningfully improve my life?
Even better, what could many small improvements accomplish over time?
Pluto Sesquare the New Moon
A Pluto sesquare adds intensity and depth. Pluto can expose hidden compulsions, buried emotions, control patterns, unhealthy attachments, or situations that have outlived their usefulness.
A seemingly ordinary problem may have deeper roots. A troublesome habit could reveal an unmet emotional need. An inefficient work situation might expose a power imbalance.
Virgo wants to fix the problem. Pluto wants to transform its underlying cause.
This makes the New Moon especially supportive for purification, releasing dysfunctional routines, and addressing deeper causes rather than merely treating symptoms.
Watch obsessive perfectionism. At its best, Pluto supports empowered self-mastery and deep transformation.
Mars Sextile the New Moon
A Mars sextile adds initiative, courage, and momentum.
Virgo can spend too much time analyzing or preparing. Mars says, “Let’s do this!”
Clean the room. Begin the exercise program. Start the new workflow. Make the appointment. Practice the skill.
This sextile holds great opportunity, but you need to activate it. Once you do, Mars can help transform thoughtful intention into concrete progress.
Pallas Athena Quincunx the New Moon
A Pallas Athena quincunx introduces the need for strategic adjustment.
Pallas represents pattern recognition, creative problem-solving, and the ability to perceive a larger design. Virgo can become absorbed in details, while Pallas sees the bigger picture.
Your first solution may need refinement. If a plan looks brilliant in theory but awkward in practice, redesign it. If you’re drowning in details, step back and look for the underlying pattern.
Observe, adjust, test, and refine.
Sabian Symbol: “A Swimming Race”
The New Moon’s Sabian symbol is “A swimming race.”
This beautifully reinforces Virgo’s emphasis on purposeful effort, training, skill, and improvement.
A skilled swimmer learns rhythm, breathing, efficiency, and how to move through resistance without wasting energy. Likewise, greater effectiveness may come not from using more force, but from improving your technique.
A small change in rhythm, method, timing, or alignment could help you accomplish much more with less effort.
The race imagery can also trigger comparison. Virgo can easily judge itself against others. But someone else’s speed matters less than discovering how you move most effectively through the waters of your own life.
Summary
This New Moon asks:
Virgo: What can be improved?
Pluto: What must be transformed?
Mars: What are you willing to do about it?
Pallas: Is your strategy optimized?
The Sabian symbol: Can you work smarter, not just harder?
Look especially at habits and systems you repeat every day. A tiny inefficiency repeated hundreds of times becomes a major drain. A small beneficial practice repeated hundreds of times can become an enormous source of strength.
Don’t demand perfection. Enter the water. Find your rhythm. Adjust your stroke. And keep swimming!
September 4-17: Venus-Chiron Healing and Transformation
Two overlapping aspect patterns create a concentrated period of relationship healing, emotional exposure, financial insight, and transformation, with Venus and Chiron at the center.
A Mystic Rectangle with Venus, Chiron, and the lunar nodes is active September 4-13 and peaks September 10.
A T-Square with Venus, Chiron, and Pluto runs September 8-17 and peaks September 12.
The strongest time frame is when these aspect patterns overlap, September 8-13.
Venus-Chiron-Lunar Nodes Mystic Rectangle
The Mystic Rectangle is the stronger pattern. At its September 10 peak, all its aspects are within about half a degree!
This supports healing and integration around relationships, money, creativity, self-worth, and long-standing patterns.
You may recognize an old relational or financial script and discover that you now have the ability to respond differently.
Something involving love, belonging, value, vulnerability, or money could feel especially meaningful. The opportunity is to recognize the pattern and make a healthier choice.
Venus-Chiron-Pluto T-Square
The T-Square adds Pluto’s intensity, bringing hidden material to the surface.
Relationships may expose issues involving attachment, control, jealousy, resentment, fear of loss, or buried vulnerability.
There’s also a significant prosperity opportunity. Venus represents money, Pluto can signify wealth and transformation, and Chiron can represent healing or wise counsel.
Expert guidance, an important financial insight, or healing an old scarcity or self-worth wound could increase your capacity to receive greater abundance.
Because this T-Square remains more than three degrees wide even at its peak, it operates more in the background than the nearly exact Mystic Rectangle.
Around September 10-12, relationship, money, or self-worth issues may reveal deeper fears involving rejection, scarcity, abandonment, or powerlessness.
At its best, this period supports healing old patterns and choosing a more empowered path in love, money, self-worth, and your ability to receive support and abundance.
September 12: Mars Semisquare Uranus
Mars semisquare Uranus brings a restless, electrically charged edge.
The desire for movement and freedom may collide with obstacles, restrictions, or other people’s agendas. Impatience can spike, especially if you feel controlled.
This aspect can trigger sudden action, rebellious impulses, unexpected disruptions, and ingenious breakthroughs.
The key is controlled experimentation. Leave room for surprises, avoid reckless risks, and channel excess energy into innovation, physical activity, or constructive change.
With Mars in Cancer, emotional security, home, family, belonging, and protective instincts can become especially activated. Watch defensive reactions and sudden mood shifts.
At its best, this aspect can give you the courage to make an overdue change in your emotional life, family dynamics, or living situation.
September 11-14: Mercury Kite
A Kite with Mercury, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto is active September 11-14 and peaks September 13.
This can make your mind unusually inventive, intuitive, and penetrating.
Mercury in Libra emphasizes communication, relationships, negotiation, and multiple perspectives. Uranus brings flashes of insight. Neptune enhances imagination and intuition. Pluto reveals deeper patterns beneath the surface.
This can be excellent for creative writing, inspired speaking, counseling, brainstorming, strategic planning, and spiritual inquiry.
Unexpected connections may reveal an elegant solution, hidden pattern, or intuitive breakthrough. It can also support transformational communication, helping you express profound or unconventional insights in ways others can actually hear.
Visionary creativity is another strong possibility. Uranus supplies originality, Neptune imagination, Pluto intensity, and Mercury articulation.
The main caution is distinguishing genuine intuition from wishful thinking. Neptune can blur perception, while Pluto can make ideas feel compelling even when they’re wrong. Verify important conclusions.
Around September 13, pay attention to meaningful conversations, synchronicities, intuitive impressions, and sudden breakthroughs. A small insight could open the door to meaningful change.
September 15-19: Venus Aspects the Outer Planets
From September 15-19, Venus in Scorpio aspects all three outer planets, squaring Pluto and quincunxing Neptune and Uranus.
These brief aspects are more likely to produce heightened feelings, useful revelations, adjustments, and short-term opportunities than sweeping life changes.
Relationships
Venus in Scorpio favors emotional depth, honesty, passion, and intimacy.
Venus square Pluto can intensify attraction and bring buried feelings, jealousy, resentment, desire, or control issues to the surface. This can support candid conversations, clearer boundaries, renewed passion, or recognition of a pattern worth addressing.
Venus quincunx Neptune heightens sensitivity, romance, and idealism, but watch out for projection.
Venus quincunx Uranus increases the desire for freedom, novelty, and experimentation. A change of routine or additional breathing room could refresh a relationship.
Creativity
Scorpio adds emotional depth, Pluto contributes potency, Neptune inspires imagination, and Uranus fires up originality.
Inspiration may come through intuition, strong feelings, dreams, or material normally hidden beneath the surface.
The quincunxes favor experimentation. An unexpected adjustment could significantly improve a creative project.
Money and Abundance
Venus square Pluto can sharpen your awareness of financial security, prosperity, and control.
You might identify an unnecessary expense, negotiate a better deal, find a more profitable use of resources, or recognize a financial habit that needs attention.
Pluto can also expose emotional patterns involving scarcity, self-worth, dependency, or fear of loss.
Uranus favors new approaches to income and technology, while Neptune can inspire possibilities involving creativity, spirituality, or healing.
Investigate promising ideas carefully rather than acting impulsively.
The changes created by this brief configuration may be modest, but the insights could remain valuable long afterwards.
September 15: Neptune Sextile Pluto
Neptune sextile Pluto returns to exactness on September 15 at 3°16′ Aries-Aquarius.
This is one of the longest-running astrological influences of our lifetime. Neptune and Pluto first came within orb of this sextile in 1944 and won’t finally separate until 2036. They make 49 exact sextiles between 1950 and 2032!
Neptune represents spiritual awakening, transcendence, compassion, and surrender. Pluto represents deep healing, empowerment, and transformation.
Together they ask: How can your spiritual understanding become something you actually live?
1. Make Your Awakening Practical
Spiritual realization can come through meditation, prayer, dreams, nature, healing work, synchronicity, or sudden knowing.
But insight is only the beginning. The deeper invitation is to let what you’ve realized change how you communicate, work, make choices, respond to difficulty, and love.
Neptune reveals the higher possibility. Pluto helps you become it.
One simple practice that can support this is my Embodied Awakening Invocation. My free video leads you through this and three other potent invocations. Click here to access it!
2. Give Compassion a Backbone
Neptune opens the heart, while Pluto adds strength.
Compassion doesn’t always mean being gentle or accommodating. Sometimes love forgives. But sometimes it establishes a clear boundary or speaks an uncomfortable truth.
You can be tender without becoming powerless, and strong without closing your heart.
3. Bring Spirit Into the Material World
Relationships can become spiritual practice. Work can express life purpose. Finances can reveal unconscious beliefs about worth, scarcity, trust, and abundance.
Even routine choices can become expressions of consciousness.
The spiritual path doesn’t require rejecting ordinary life. It can reveal the sacred dimension already present within it.
4. Discover the Power of Surrender
Sometimes greater power requires releasing something first.
You may need to surrender an illusion, obsolete identity, exhausting struggle, or need to control an outcome.
This isn’t passive surrender. It’s strategic release.
When you stop investing energy in what no longer serves you, that energy becomes available for something more authentic.
5. Respect What’s Happening Underground
Some of the most important Neptune-Pluto changes may initially be invisible.
Old emotional material could be dissolving. Priorities may be reorganizing. A deeper sense of purpose may be forming before you can clearly articulate it.
Think of roots growing underground before a plant breaks the surface. If progress seems slow, it doesn’t mean nothing is happening.
Continue practices that deepen alignment. Follow persistent intuitions. Choose integrity over expedience. Eventually, your outer life will embody the transformation that has already occurred within.
The Shadow Expression
Because a sextile is easy-flowing, it can sometimes encourage passivity.
With Neptune and Pluto, this might look like endless healing, contemplation, spiritual seeking, or preparation without sufficient action.
Inner work matters. But eventually the question becomes less “What more do I need to understand?” and more “What am I ready to embody, create, or change?”
The deepest potential of Neptune sextile Pluto emerges when spiritual insight becomes tangible transformation.
Coming September 16-30
The second half of September brings:
- Chiron entering Aries
- Jupiter aspecting Uranus and Neptune
- A “Gods of Change” Aries Full Moon
- The Fall Equinox chart
- And more!
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