We've arrived head first in the Virgo season last week. We are still in the midst of eclipses, and I want to share something about the transits, and something about Virgo season in general.

The seasonal meaning of Virgo

What I like to do when I look at themes of zodiacal signs is look at seasonal changes. So what is so significant about Virgo? Virgo is on the cusp of autumn. So we look at the end of summer where all the crops are harvested. So there is an element of harvest. There is an element of discernment and critical analysis to make sure that all crops are divided equally and directed, distributed to the relevant goal or purpose. This is a very significant feature of Virgo.

Virgo is ruled by Mercury - a Mercury-ruled, mutable Earth sign. So a very curious Mercury by nature, mutable, flexible, creative - but also can be scattered. The point is that a Mercury-ruled Earth sign wants to organize, structure, and make an inventory of the crops that are harvested. Crops, of course, is symbolic - it is about making sure that everything is noted, a critical analysis about what is there and what it is serving, how it can serve best, how it can be improved, how it can be restructured and reorganized in a way that is efficient and sufficient to survive the winter season ahead.

So at the cusp of autumn, the last sign of the summer season, Virgo serves the purpose of allowing us as a species to survive winter. So there is a big sense of responsibility, as well as a need for clarity, a need for insight, a need for overview and order. That is something really significant for Virgo. It requires and demands of us to put the dots on the i, to make sure that everything is in place and that all ends and needs are met.

The transits of September

We are still in August right now as I'm sharing this, but we are headed towards September. The fourth of September will be the end of the trine between Jupiter and Saturn. That is significant in that it was, in a way, the prelude of this season. Jupiter trine Saturn retrograde has a similarity to the Virgo season theme, in the sense that the gathered insights and visions we felt through it were made practical through the trine with Saturn - discipline was invited to put into practice what we view as best. That trine will reoccur in the beginning of 2027, at the end of March/beginning of April, going exact on the third of April.

Proceeding into September, there's going to be a new moon on the eleventh of September at eighteen degrees Virgo. That is about having a clear vision of the steps to take in order to survive the symbolic winter ahead - not only the real winter, but metaphorically too. The new moon in Virgo asks: what seeds do we want to plant for the season, the year, ahead?

Just before this, Uranus stations to go retrograde at five degrees Gemini - so all the outer planets, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, will be retrograde at once. The Virgo season is always a transitional period where we tend to become more reflective, more turned inward. We start to gather information that can take us through the darker period of the year - people start school again, and need their affairs in order to make the most of the coming year in terms of processing information, having the right sources, and gathering what supports that path of study.

Uranus retrograde

I'm much more at home reading Uranus psychologically: it is our need to break free from everything that limits us. Going retrograde, we internalize that need - reflecting on how we feel authentic, how we can express our authenticity, whether that really happens in our life, whether we can really break free from limitations and do our own thing. This period of Uranus retrograde will last until the beginning of 2028 - very long, given its slow motion through the zodiac - stationing again mid-February 2028 at one degree Gemini (one degree forty-one arcminutes).

This is about reflecting on authenticity, on structures, and on how we want to emancipate from existing structures that no longer serve us or even limit us. This goes a bit beyond cognition and rational understanding, so we have to allow it to happen. With outer planets, you just have to clear the way, because it is beyond our control. In nine years of receiving clients, I've had a lot of clients with outer planets dominant in their chart - you attract what you find interesting, what you're open to - and I feel a lot of these people with dominant outer planets had a lot of spiritual experiences, and a tendency to be out of pace with society, to go beyond borders and beyond the rational in all kinds of ways in life.

If a personal planet or a sensitive point in your chart is met by these outer planets, the personal planet adheres to the outer planet, because there's a difference in weight - the slow pace, the scale of reach, is much deeper and bigger than the personal planets. It's also less personal, so there's less control.

Neptune-Pluto sextile

Tying into this: on the sixteenth of September there's an exact sextile between Neptune and Pluto - the other two outer planets, involving spiritual experience and the need for deep transformation, a need to experience deep realness in life and a big sensitivity. This sextile has been going in and out of orb for decades, so it's not new - it's significant for our time. Pluto in Aquarius is met by Neptune in Aries, a sign of the times.

These outer planets, being slow-moving, are always felt prior to their exact point, prior to their ingress into the next sign, and long after. The last time Neptune was in Aries, there was a big transition in spiritual awareness collectively - the Theosophical Society was created with Blavatsky and Steiner - and later, once Neptune had moved into Taurus, that first spiritual initiation was made tangible through the Golden Dawn order, itself a child of the Theosophical Society, the next phase of that spiritual awareness movement.

Now, in connection with Pluto in Aquarius, we're going to see a different stage - probably with much more humanitarian emphasis. On one hand, control of groups, society, and societal structures through lies, diffusion, distraction, maybe even poisoning - that's the Neptune shadow. On the other hand, there's an indication of a big humanitarian movement, much more spiritually infused, because of the connection with Neptune. So it's an interesting time - exact sextile on the sixteenth of September.

Chiron retrograde into Aries

I've taken the liberty to add Chiron, which is going retrograde and ingresses back into Aries on the eighteenth of September. I haven't traditionally included Chiron in my readings, since I didn't formally study it during my education - but with almost ten years of practice, I always take it into consideration, even if I don't often share about it publicly, feeling that people need some frame of reference first.

I first started working with Chiron in my teens, through the astrological pocket calendars I used to buy - before I engaged in time cycle research and started using Solar Fire, the astrological software I use now. There was one year with a big feature on the centaurs, and it was super interesting to me.

Chiron is the wounded healer, and it ingresses back into Aries on the eighteenth of September. If you have something sensitive in the first degrees of any fire sign, or any of the first degrees of the cardinal signs, you'll feel this - you'll receive a transit of Chiron retrograde. What parts are there to heal in relation to that will be highlighted.

Concluding this with the full moon on the twenty-sixth of September, at three degrees Aries.