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the eclipses may be behind us, but their stories are still unfolding.  the revelations, endings, openings and course corrections continue to unfold in layers.  september is giving us time to understand what august set in motion.  last week was about integration. this week, something begins to move.

on thursday, we enter an especially potent stretch of planetary activity.  at the center of it all is thursday’s new moon at 18°26′ virgo - the first new moon since eclipse season.  and that matters. the eclipses revealed what was changing, what had reached completion and where a new evolutionary chapter was already trying to emerge.  now the new moon asks: what steps are you going to take with what you know?  begin where you are. 

 

virgo understands that transformation doesn’t happen all at once. it happens step by step through choices, habits, practices, conversations. the small adjustments we make because we finally understand that something needs to change.  this new moon isn’t asking you to have the entire future figured out. it’s asking you to set something in motion.

saturn in aries brings commitment, discipline and personal responsibility.  neptune in aries reminds us that we also need faith in what we cannot yet fully see but somehow know is possible.
 

bring the dream down to earth.  what can you consciously direct through your will, your choices, your commitment and your faith?   you don’t need to build the whole road. take the first step.

coinciding with the new moon is uranus, the planet of awakening and change, stationing retrograde for a 5 month journey in gemini. awakening turns inward...  allowing us the time and energy to assimilate and integrate the changes that have taken place in our lives since april. 

 

mercury deserves our attention because mercury rules this virgo new moon and on the very day of the new moon, it leaves earthy virgo and enters airy libra.  there’s something important in that elemental shift. virgo has been sorting, analyzing, discerning, editing and gathering the information. libra breathes air into what virgo has discerned. it opens the conversation. it introduces another perspective. it helps us step back from the details and begin imagining what else might be possible.

mercury connects with uranus, and pluto and neptune in a kite formation at this new moon. something can click.  a missing piece of information may arrive.  a conversation may change your perspective.   an idea that has been forming beneath the surface may suddenly become clear. something that felt grounded in possibility may begin to take flight.  but libra can also linger between possibilities. it wants to consider every perspective and make the choice that preserves harmony.  sometimes, when trying not to disrupt the balance, we can hesitate to choose at all or lose touch with what we ourselves know to be true. 

 

that’s where the aries energy in the sky becomes so important. libra considers.  aries chooses.  the invitation isn’t to abandon discernment or rush the decision. it’s to allow what you’ve learned to open new possibilities and then have the courage to move when something feels true.  let the air open the possibility.  let the fire give you the courage to begin.  you may not know steps three, four and five yet. just take step one.

 

what conversation needs to happen? what decision can you make? what practical action moves you closer to what your soul has been showing you? 

 

sometimes that first courageous movement changes the energetic field enough for the next step to reveal itself.

the new moon isn’t an isolated moment. in the days following it, mercury continues activating pluto, neptune and uranus, keeping the story moving.  pay attention to conversations, information, changing perspectives and unexpected insights. mercury opposite neptune reminds us that inspiration and confusion can sometimes arrive through the same doorway.  stay open but stay discerning. not every thought is truth.  not every possibility needs to be pursued.  then mercury’s flowing trine with uranus can bring a breakthrough, unexpected information or an entirely different way of seeing something you thought you already understood.  while mercury travels through libra this entire month, conversations and information may help clarify what your soul is asking you to engage with next. pay attention to what arrives.

there’s another important shift happening at this new moon.  venus enters scorpio, beginning to move through the territory of setting up for her upcoming retrograde cycle.  a deeper story begins.  venus will station retrograde at 8° scorpio on october 3, eventually returning to libra before stationing direct on november 13.  we are already traveling through her pre-retrograde shadow, which began monday, august 31st, so listen to your life.  notice the venusian themes beginning to surface. they may be the opening lines of a much longer conversation - the relationships, desires, values, financial patterns and questions of self-worth that venus will ask us to revisit and understand more deeply during her retrograde journey. 

 

venus governs relationships, values, money, desire, pleasure, self-worth and receiving. scorpio takes those themes beneath the surface into intimacy, trust, vulnerability, sexuality, attachment, power and desire.  scorpio isn’t interested in surface desire. it wants to know what lies beneath it.  what do you truly want and why do you want it?  what do you deeply value and what are you willing to commit to? 

 

relationships, financial patterns, questions of worth and receiving or unresolved dynamics and relationships from the past may begin surfacing now for deeper examination and resolution.  we don’t need to resolve the venus story yet.  we’re just entering it.  for now, notice what begins to emerge. we’ll explore this important retrograde cycle more deeply in the weeks ahead.
 

august revealed. now september asks us to participate.  the virgo new moon doesn’t require a dramatic leap into the unknown. it asks for a conscious beginning.  a choice.  a commitment.  a first step.  pay attention to what suddenly makes sense. the idea that won’t leave you alone.  the conversation that changes something. the possibility that begins to feel more real.  then ask:  what can i do with what I know now?  evolution doesn’t always arrive as one enormous breakthrough.  sometimes it begins with one small, courageous action that tells your soul:  i’m ready to participate in what comes next.  let virgo show you the next step.  don’t rush the becoming. 

 

but when you know it’s time, dare to move.