September is a dynamic month with the arrival of the must discussed Mars Retrograde on September 10th AEST. Before this we have a beautiful Full Moon in Pisces opening the month on the 2nd of September at 3:23pm AEST which forms a gentle sextile to the planet of surprise and innovation Uranus from the sign of Taurus. Uranus in aspect to this Full Moon offers the delivery of some form of surprise or change in emotion allowing more independence or emotional freedom and liberation. This will under lay the Moon’s tone and cycle as it wanes down to the New Moon in Virgo later in the month. This Full Moon in Pisces gives good distraction to the Cardinal Crush which sees the following planets in difficult or challenging relationship to each other Mars in Aries, Venus in Cancer and Saturn & Pluto in Capricorn on September 2nd.

Later on in September, the New Moon in Virgo, occurs on Thursday 17th of September at 8:58pm AEST and forms an exact trine aspect to Saturn in Capricorn. Saturn’s influence at this New Moon, is offering a foundation and stern support at the foundation level of this New Moon cycle. Saturn can be cold and stern and unwelcoming at times, but it also creates longevity and great success if worked with and given the gifts of consistency, application and commitment. Like wise any simplifications and downsizing at this New Moon would have strong support from Saturn, who likes to strip things back and to invest time and effort in simplicity. This in turn helps with longevity of the things you are trying to re-set or set at this time.

Below is a breakdown of where these energies are occurring in your chart in large brush strokes.

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Sign by Sign Horoscopes for September

ARIES / ARIES RISING

Keeping track of your health is important in September since Mars will retrograde in your vitality and energy sector, risking burn-out. Be mindful not to over commit or exert yourself as you adjust to Mars’ new settings. Mercury works wonders for relationships as communications and ideas spring to life through engagements with others. Mercury creates harmony, bringing together lovely connections and interactions, offering wonderful mental stimulation and rejuvenation.

TAURUS / TAURUS RISING

Venus gracing your home and family sector is the perfect opportunity to beautify, redecorate, or re-arrange your living space. Connection with family will be more pleasurable than usual. Mercury at the same time will be streamlining your day-to-day activities, so you have more time to enjoy the activities you cherish most thanks to Mercury’s genius insights.

GEMINI / GEMINI RISING

September delivers radiance and nourishment as the Sun activates your home, family hobbies and passion sectors. Offering a remedy to the Mars retrograde which will be activating your social groups and community networks. Focusing on home and hobbies will provide a welcoming offset as Mars’s retrograde creates tensions and disputes within your wider network. Home and Family offer up the strong anchor points against for Mars’ volatile stirrings.

CANCER / CANCER RISING

Venus offers up some real eye candy and treats as she activates finances and possessions. Some attractive purchases or offers are likely to show up. Mars turning retrograde in your career and reputation sector, maybe bumpy. Ride it out and expect some surprising pressure or aggression. Identify the threats, proceed with caution, especially if baited as the full picture will not be apparent. Take the higher ground if confusion reigns. 

LEO / LEO RISING

The Mars retrograde creates tensions and hostility in your belief and travel sector. Any travel is expected to be disrupted, and long held beliefs or philosophy will come under scrutiny and be challenged.  Shed self-limiting beliefs or update your values to allow for a well-formed paradigm to support your beliefs and values. Helping support and strengthen who you really are.

VIRGO / VIRGO RISING

Innovations around money how you earn it, how you spend it what you value is stirred this month thanks to Mercury as it puts the microscope to your financial sector. New purchases that invest in communications or intellectual pursuits are especially hot this month. Keeping an eye on all borrowed resources is vital right now, Mars is a very tricky energy this month so be actively involved in your money, loans and investments during September. Use your eye for details.

LIBRA / LIBRA RISING

Relationships with others are entering a new and active phase, with Mars creating some un-usual hijinks in this sector. Be composed, don’t take the bait, but do be on high alert for micro-aggressions or any new hostilities. Instead lean on your broader network of friends and community for support. Your tribe has your back, while certain individuals may play up; inflaming relations with you.

SCORPIO / SCORPIO RISING

As Mars decides to throw some strange hijinks in your day to day routines and with your health, don’t be to be thrown by it. Navigate it with your usual smarts and insights; expect the unexpected. Venus will be working her magic in your career and reputation sector, bringing together pleasant exchanges and situations, despite any small hiccups that may pop up.

SAGITTARIUS / SAGITTARIUS RISING

Communication and connection to your social networks or local communities will be advantageous this month. New ideas and insights are supported. Challenges to creative pursuits or in relation to children are expected with Mars’ retrograde; this will pass. Expect such disruptions.  Remembering to that it takes a village to raise a child and know that your community sector is strongly supported this month.

CAPRICORN / CAPRICORN RISING

Work, career and reputation are supported by Mercury delivering strong ideas and insights. Moments of genius may strike; be ready to catch and deliver on them. Mars beginning its retrograde, creates volatility on the home front, so be prepared for disruptions, which feel like delays or hostilities. Use awareness to mitigate your response and manage the situation accordingly.

AQUARIUS / AQUARIUS RISING

Relating and connecting with people will be especially on point this month.  Venus loves bringing people together and having her grace your relationship sector allows for the smoothing over of relationships after some challenging times. Mercury in your belief sector complements this by helping you glean the real gold from the fool’s gold, when it comes to relationships

PISCES / PISCES RISING

Mars’ retrograde in your financial sector highlights issues, annoyances and frustrations around money, earnings and possessions. Keep an eye on this and like all things, it will subside. Beware though that it’s a potential trigger point, so you can manage it. Investing or any new big expenditure may not be the most advantageous outcomes from Sept – November. 

Mars is just 13 days away from its retrograde in Aries and is currently just 2° away from the point it retrogrades at.  Meaning, Mars a fast-moving planet whose purpose is to move, energize, activate, inflame and assert its will; is basically standing still in the sky unable to enact any of his normal traits or activities. Moving only 2° in 13 days takes away the ability for Mars to do any of its normal significations, which essentially creates frustration, stagnation and pent up energy beginning to build, and build and build, until the Mars retrogradation on September 10 (AEST).

Interestingly at the time of the Mars retrogradation the Moon will be a waning in Gemini applying to the north node, and in a tight sextile aspect, giving the beginning of this retrograde a more inflated and fiery quality thanks to the North Node, and the waning cycle of releasing of an air sign moon and its emotions. If there was a match, to strike Mars and the jacked up moreish quality of the north node (rahu) this could well be a potential hotspot, or a cautious date to keep an eye on (September 10th).

Saturn has been and will continue to square Mars. A difficult or challenging aspect in Astrology, a square aspect adds friction to the relationship between two planets, whose general natures are opposing. Both Mars and Saturn are in rulership – meaning they are equally as strong and matched in the fight. Mars moving into a retrograde cycle, makes mars more volatile and un-predictive.

Mars is basically unable to express itself and goes rogue, whilst Saturn is operating as normal, and is all about asserting consequence, restriction, government power structures and control.  The Mars Saturn square has been “on” since the 18^th of August and begins to cool off at the beginning of October. Returning again in early 2021.

Saturn is the stern parent, and Mars the hyperactive child however this is a Mars whose energy has been so pent up that it’s become unpredictable and is ready to set a light all that is frustrating it. Resistance to Saturn will be strong, however Saturn is all about the long game, and looks to have the upper hand in this scenario. This is the dynamic that is playing out over the next couple of months, so stay tuned in and be on the look-out !  The next couple of months is a bit of roller coaster of a ride. 2020, the year that keeps giving !  Interestingly enough, this all begins to take shape, just as Melbourne is meant to come out of Stage 4 lockdown.

Rules of engagement 

• Know where theses energies are activated in your life (link here for sign by sign large brushstrokes)
• Be mindful of overdoing it or underdoing things, the frustration or burn out from either are unpredictable and real, so is being accountable for it
• Understand this is the energy we are operating in, expect aggressions or over handed control mechanisms to be more obvious in your life along with the jostle between the two. Your role is to look after yourself within the bigger pushes and pulls or activations.
• Know that this time will pass, but if something pops up don’t brush it aside. Attend to it.  Ignoring it for later, isn’t a solution when you’re dealing with such frictive energies. 
• Being overly aggressive or hostile yourself won’t help; it just draws you into something that will become larger than you initially anticipated. 

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Le soleil’s transition into Virgo marks the shift away from heights of summer or the depths of winter as we find ourselves transiting into a mutable yin earth energy. The Sun moves away from the surety and centring offered by the fixed fire of Leo that has warmed us over the past month. We are entering into a space of more critical thinking and discernment, with Virgo’s energy. We now focus on the analysis of potential problems and look to create improvements to things we are pulling apart for better understanding of the various components. The Sun’s focus in Virgo is to assist in getting these balancing acts in order from the ground up, bring attention to a more grounded and methodical approach as we prepare for the point of equal light and day with the September equinox.

Mercury, Virgo’s ruler entered Virgo just days before the Sun, making this particular Virgo season more aligned thanks to Mercury’s strength and empowered capabilities. We have a strong Mercury in its rulership & exaltation in Virgo, able to work to its highest function and capacity.  This is allowing us to look at the small details, iron out all the information; to get a clearer idea and understanding of the processes and how to implement changes to them, which is one of Virgo’s strengths as a sign. The Sun and Mercury in Virgo together supports what we are growing and nurturing through strengthen and evaluation in a more clinical and objective way.  Helping better shape and grow the things we wish to take with us, from the Sun’s time in Leo.

Virgo energy shows us through small expressions, the large impacts they can have in the larger cycles both physically and energetically. Much like the mental clarity that can be gained by a big spring / autumn clean. Strong and simple baseline work, can create and inspire new environments by creating order and room for things to grow and evolve in. Mutable earth is secure and solid ground, yet it informs us that even things we know are solid must change, evolve, adapt and shift to survive. It is with these small yet vital changes and adaptions that allow us to continue on our path, evolving with the situation rather than being stubborn or fixed in our intent or wills.

Whether it be a shift towards the warming of the earth evident by the buds sprouting with spring, in the southern hemisphere; or the cooling in the air and the reddening of the leaves on the trees in the northern hemisphere the Sun’s time in Virgo is to assist with preparation for change, reflected back at us through our environments. Virgo season offers us the ability to ground down, be attentive, be innovative, be present and be able to engineer with strong support, so our plans are focused with the time and attention they deserve, even within the larger scale distractions occurring globally in 2020.

SUN IN VIRGO THROUGH THE SIGNS 

ARIES / ARIES RISING 

I adapt and evolve my health and daily routines with genius insights and increased efficiency. 

TAURUS / TAURUS RISING 

 My creative passions and true loves are given a boost by pulling apart and experimenting with the methods and structures around how I’m creating. 

GEMINI / GEMINI RISING 

My home and family are my anchor, cleaning, re-organizing or re-arranging helps shift energy and makes for a more stimulating environment.

CANCER / CANCER RISING 

Pulling apart my schedules and making them more efficient helps create more time for the things i love, along with making journeys from a – b, quicker and more stimulating. 

LEO / LEO RISING 

I put the microscope to my money & spending and see where savings can be made for summer.

VIRGO / VIRGO RISING 

I fine tune my physical health and how I present to the world as I get ready for spring and summer.

LIBRA / LIBRA RISING 

I explore and examine my communication & speed dial connection with my deepest thoughts and feelings after a long winter. 

SCORPIO / SCORPIO RISING 

My communities and networks can support me in helping create and engineer more supportive channels around my hopes, goals and wishes. 

SAGITTARIUS / SAGITTARIUS RISING 

 I am the architect and engineer of my career and reputation, I can innovate how this is communicated as well as streamline my environment within these spheres.

CAPRICORN / CAPRICORN RISING 

My philosophies, beliefs and learnings can get great benefit from analysing there base and structure within my life. Do these still hold? Are there new learnings and teachings to integrate?

AQUARIUS / AQUARIUS RISING 

I focus on a cost benefit analysis to all my external forms of money and resources. Are they efficient and tight as they should be? Resources saved here, could offer great benefit in other places.

PISCES / PISCES RISING

I make more time and prioritize my communications so I can understand and support people I am in close and important relationships with. 

 The New Moon in Leo on August 19^th at 12:37pm AEST comes just after Mercury’s conjunction with the Sun seeding two new cycles in Leo energy, within two days. Leo energy is heartfelt, brave, creative, leadership driven, warm and centring.  Mercury’s conjunction with the Sun, burns off all the residue from the previous cycle and rejuvenating Mercury who is tired and worn out at the close of its last cycle.

The Sun in Leo bestows on Mercury the gifts of creativity, artistry, leadership, confidence, positivity and an assuredness rivalled by none. From its connection with the fires of the sky, this is a fantastic time for all creative explorations or being able to access the fun of communication, words, arts, truth and meaning. Be brave and be open to exploring new ways of presenting and communication. Don’t shy away from being seen.

This fiery baptism from the Sun begins a new synodic cycle for Mercury, instilling the qualities of a more creative and heart-focused communications and presentations. Initiating communications will feel more honest and centred around your own personal desires, along with the influence of a childlike curiosity to see things through fresh eyes.  Don’t shrink to fit in.

The New Moon follows this lead on August 19^that 26° degrees of Leo.  The Sun and Moon align for their yearly conjunction much like the Mercury cycles these Leo themes are now being applied to the Moon for a 2-week cycle; until she reaches full light at the opposition in Aquarius where these new themes may be challenged, or evolve in some way. The Moon’s embodiment of this energy differs from Mercury, as it’s a more internal process offering nourishment and emotional re-alignment to Leo themes, allowing our re-identification with them.

Leo energy is bold, its brave, its leadership, it’s the spotlight, it’s the gravitational pull, it’s the attraction, it’s the creativity, joy, and child like curiosity and investigation of things. The Leo new moon seeks to bring this into the emotional sphere to create more sovereignty and autonomy with regards to our health and our emotional wellbeing and prioritizing it.  Paying extra attention too or looking at heart health is also good at this time.

The new moon, like the last full moon is the first un-aspected new moon to the eclipse points, new moon in Cancer which was opposite Saturn and conjunct these eclipses points was noted for its heaviness and feelings of intensity and even depression. At this Leo new moon, it’s the opposite. Leo energy is supportive leadership and it’s not afraid to shine, and this new moon along with mercury’s new cycles helps to creates a new connection with your relationship with this…. Enjoy x