During September Pluto, Saturn, Neptune and Chiron are all still doing the backwards shuffle. Pluto dips back briefly into Capricorn on the 1st of September, to complete a remedial class in breaking up  old patterns and structures and will return to Aquarius on the 21st of November, where it will remain for a couple of decades.  Pluto in Aquarius can be expected to focus the zeitgeist on community, equality, feminism and liberation after the current focus on plutocracy and traditional patriarchy. Uranus also goes retrograde on the 2nd of September. With Uranus retrograde trust your gut on what needs  to change to better embody your unique and original self in this time of spontaneous change.

The Virgo New Moon occurs at 11:56 am on the 3rd  of September at 12 degrees and is symbolised as:  After the Wedding the Groom Snatches the Veil Away from his Bride. This image speaks to the penetrating and unveiling power of the trained mind.  It can also reference an unveiling of mysteries long protected by secrecy. With the Sun and Moon in the sign of Virgo, our security is linked to service and analysis and it’s a good time to plan to declutter your life and develop healthy habits and routines.  A Mars-Neptune square perfects a couple of hours later bringing an urge to transcend the physical world and while acting on impulse may lift a person up to a state of higher consciousness.

Mars moves into indirect and sensitive Cancer on the 5th of September moving the focus to home and family and making it a good time for physical work around the home. . Meanwhile Mercury will hurtle into Virgo on the 9th of September where there’s a need to discriminate among ideas and put them in logical sequence in order to learn. Mercury is now travelling forward fast and will enter Libra on the 26th of September, suggesting a need to remain impartial and tactful in order to establish communication with others..

The Full Moon is a powerful Partial Lunar Eclipse in Pisces on the 18th of September that occurs at 12:34 pm at 26 degrees, symbolised as: Watching the very Thin Moon Crescent Appearing at Sunset, Different People Realise that the Time has Come to Go Ahead with their Different Projects. Here there’s a keen appreciation of the value of individualised response to any challenge in life and a realisation of the Fallacy of Totalitarianism. (Listen up Trump!) Full Moons  and especially when they hold the intensity of a lunar eclipse are a time to decide what, and how much of something, needs to be purged from our lives. Extraneous responsibilities and unrealistic fantasies will tend to be expunged in order to allow fresh growth into our lives. Pluto and Saturn are moving to forming a half-square at this time bringing a compelling need to understand one’s true priorities and motives at an extremely deep level. With Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune all aspecting the Full Moon this is a powerful and consequential eclipse.

The Sun moves into Libra on the 22nd of September where it radiates sociable, graceful, intellectual vitality  This is the Spring Equinox or time of equal day and night. Venus moves into Scorpio on the next day bringing passionate emotions and generating a healing and transformative energy to our give-and-take with others.