Month: September 2026

From muzziness to action

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This Full Moon is conjunct Neptune, so many of the feelings surfacing now may not actually be ours. There can be a sense of emotional fuzziness, heightened sensitivity, and a feeling of being more porous to the energies around us. With Neptune involved, this Aries Full Moon may carry a distinctly spiritual quality, but it can also bring moments of lethargy, confusion, or difficulty clearly identifying what we’re feeling and why.

The Full Moon is also in a near-exact sextile to Pluto in Aquarius, drawing our awareness toward the collective and the unmistakable changes unfolding on deeper levels. We may be more attuned than usual to the undercurrents moving through the collective field, making it especially easy to “pick up” on energies that aren’t necessarily our own.

This is a powerful signature for pausing, grounding, and asking: Is this mine, or am I simply sensing what is moving through the collective?

Some of us are really purging and others are experiencing elevated higher dimensional frequencies that are increasing spiritual awareness and vibration, heightening special senses and bringing that boundaries between disenchantment for many to ecstasy and new levels of merging with the universal mind.

Wherever you are on the spectrum (or maybe all the above and everything!) may you be brave and fearless with the changing times. The ruler of Mars is in Leo and tuning into that courage and inner-knowing continues to be essential for moving through it all. From the ecstasy card, “Energy is renewed by bathing in the cosmic life force of exultant and sincere ectasy.” Neptune can point to drugs and medications, escapism and loss of direction, so make sure to slant the energy towards the highest spiritual vibration and prayer.

Venus Retrograde in Scorpio: Darker steps leading up to the light

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Hello Friends,

In my last post, I wrote about the New Moon in Virgo. I had already given you the theme, and that theme continues (Making good decisions about relationships). Click the link to re-reference. I really aimed to simplify that particular New Moon (September 10/11, 2026) and the Venus retrograde *together* so that you could SEE how it all came together under the ‘relationships’ and ‘communications in relationships’ “theme.”

Venus retrogrades approximately every 18-19 months and it lasts approximately 40-43 days. In the next couple of days I might reblog my previous Venus retrograde post. However this current Venus retrograde is very specific to our current time. My previous posts aren’t very relevant in this case.

And to rhyme with “theme,” here’s a meme (quote) that I think covers the THEME most simply:

I have not actually read the book from the text quoted above. Now I definitely want to read it! If you’ve read it, share it in the comments!

Below are the correspondences

Venus had already been in the pre-shadow phase of its retrograde journey, so I saw the connection to the Virgo New Moon as the “directive energy” for this Venus retrograde. There were many other relevant aspects at that time, for example: Uranus was stationing retrograde. A Uranus retrograde would have us considering our freedom and enlightening us in new ways where we can break chains and disrupt anything from abuse to bad habits from within our lineages.

Uranus is considered to be the higher octave of Mercury. Mercury is the ruler for that New Moon in Virgo, and Mercury transited into the beginning of Libra on the same day as this New Moon. Venus rules Libra. Libra asks us to find balance and mutuality in our relationships. Scorpio asks us for honesty and purging (territory that Venus will be moving through). Scorpio and Libra together can be asking for more accountability in relationships. Venus literally moved into Scorpio on the same day of the New Moon in Virgo, just like Mercury moved into Libra that SAME day. These are all the clues.

Virgo is also about service and applying functional methods for healing and wellbeing. So, building better working relationships, that are functional, mutually respectful and supportive, is the key to this Venus retrograde, while purging and freeing oneself from old relationship habits and no longer accepting mistreatment or unbalanced, non-reciprocal connections. This retrograde will have you getting very honest about your actual needs for your wellbeing and mental health. Special note: the reciprocity need not be literal, but each party ought to agree and consent with mutuality.

What’s more is that this Venus retrograde is heavily aspected with multiple “dance steps” and they all center around building and refining healthy and nourishing relationships–again, that directive from the Virgo New Moon–where the ruling planet for that new moon moved into Libra (relationships, balance). Here’s the data based from an ephemeris, based on astrology software, at astrotheoros.com.

Below are the steps/details/aspects

Oct 6- 7
☿ Mercury conjunct Venus Rx ~8° Scorpio
Revisiting conversations, feelings, relationship questions; thinking/talking about what has been unresolved


Oct 10
♀ Venus Rx square ♂ Mars 7° Scorpio/Leo
Desire vs. frustration; attraction, conflict, sexuality, assertion

Oct 16
♀ Venus Rx quincunx ♅ Uranus
5° Scorpio/Gemini; Restlessness, needing to adjust expectations or relationship patterns

Oct 17
♀ Venus Rx quintile ♃ Jupiter
5° Scorpio/Leo; A subtler creative/social opening

Oct 20
♀ Venus Rx square ♇ Pluto
3° Scorpio/Aquarius: The intense one: power, attachment, control, intimacy, values, deep relationship examination

Oct 21
♀ Venus Rx quincunx ♆ Neptune
2° Scorpio/Aries
Reality vs. idealization; adjusting expectations

Oct 23–24
☉ Sun conjunct Venus Rx
0°45′ Scorpio
Venus cazimi/inferior conjunction — central turning point of the retrograde

October 24 Mercury stations retrograde at ~21 degrees of Scorpio.

Oct 25
Venus Rx enters Libra
29° → Libra
The emphasis shifts from Scorpio/intimacy to partnership, fairness and relational balance

Oct 27
Venus Rx biquintile Uranus
~29° Libra
Unusual insights or changes in how you approach relationships

Oct 28
Venus Rx opposite Chiron
28° Libra/Aries
Relationship wounds, vulnerability, autonomy vs. partnership

Oct 30
Venus Rx trine North Node
27° Libra/Aquarius
A supportive-looking nodal contact; revisiting relationship/social patterns

Nov 4
Venus Rx sextile Jupiter
24° Libra/Leo
Expansion, warmth, generosity, social connection

Nov 13
Venus stations direct
22°52′ Libra
The review phase turns forward

November 13 Mercury also stations direct @ ~5 degrees Scorpio.

Venus leaves the post-shadow on December 15.

Hopefully this information is helpful for you. I may return with more narrative as the story continues in December, after that Venus leaves the shadow. I may return with poetry or art, or other writing. I really don’t know yet!

Please feel free to share your experiences in the comments section. The comments end up being more important than the article because the experiences of all the readers are what really shows how we are all navigating these transits and life experiences.

There’s a future for me writing more about remedies and ways to engage with the information, but I think we serve ourselves truly first with introspection.

We each experience all of these transits differently, based on our individual life trajectories, our learnings, early environments, and of course our own natal charts from which all other charts are developed and referenced from to interpret the on-going stellar environment that mirrors and corresponds to our growth and development while living.

Astrology is like this: correlation and not causation.

Have fun. Enjoy this next chapter of your development! By the end of it, things are going to be very different. Journaling is always helpful. Let’s aim for the highest and healthiest beauty unfolding.

Virgo: Good Decisions Re: your own wellbeing

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I feel like I can easily simplify the message for this Virgo New Moon. Yes, Mercury is moving into Libra on the same day. Yes, Venus is moving into Scorpio on the same day. This is all about purging and relationships. It’s about cutting out/editing and (sometimes) making the (tough) choices that are best for one’s own wellbeing. Each person is responsible his/her/their own life and circumstances. Our decisions begin very early on in our lives and the accountability begins there, even before we knew what we were doing. Our brain waves are in theta state for the majority of our childhood. We inherit perceptions and behaviors that we later have the responsibility to edit if we want our lives to perform differently than what that subconscious programming and the environment at the time allowed. Do we have a responsibility to know what we are doing? I think, yes. Being mindful of how actions affect others, perse if one lashes out at another in judgement and believes so righteously in one’s own narrow view, it doesn’t mean the other party has to participate or even agree with your perspective or identified reality. The thing is, no one is forced ‘into’ relationship. Relationships are like most working arrangements: “AT CHOICE.”

If someone wants to lash out to you due to their own delusions, let them, and merely remove yourself from the line of fire. You do not have to suffer the attacks of others because they “think” they love you, when in reality, their actions are their verbal abuse (Mercury movements) and misapplied projections. Virgo is not the same as its opposite sign of Pisces, which is more in the expression of “unconditional love” and has “trouble with boundaries,” and quite frankly: seeing clearly. That’s not to say that Pisces is wrong and Virgo is right. Absolutely not. It’s far more nuanced than that. Don’t make astrology into rigid blocks and definitions or caricatures.

Virgo uses an active discretion to carve out the healthy life one deserves to live, with people, who not only respect one’s boundaries, but one’s authority over oneself to be self governing, self-discriminating and aware of what is inherently good or bad for their given moment on this planet. In other words, Virgo helps us understanding alignment and proper situational service. It is a sign of mental awareness of one’s body and current conditions. You can destroy your body with your mind, or vice versa. The mind has that power over oneself.

Back to relationships, which is more appropriate for the specifics of this New Moon in Virgo and the imminent Venus retrograde. Look at the flags, red and green.

People who are willing to speak sensibly will not lash out when you protect your own space. That’s an easy red flag. One usually shows concern for the other when a boundary comes, respect is offered in healthy relationships. Do not confuse a boundary with a demand. I have heard toxic people try to insist that their boundary is that you behave a certain way; and it’s usually those people who still insist on the relationship in the first place, as long as it conforms to their toxic reality and perspective. Usually there is a sense “you owe me” in those relationships. It’s really easy to spot. If you place a boundary they will get mad. Overtime if you have grown up in such a toxic environment, you learn that self-protection is wrong. It can be very hard to live in a world with that false belief.

Lasher-outers, in fact, most likely lack self-respect themselves, and think you ought to help them continue such a program, unchecked. In your ultimate compassion, you still should not be in their line of fire. They will make you think that if you are their target, you’ll heal them, or be good for them in some way. Do not fall for it.

You are free to “slice” yourself free from toxic cords and open yourself to the life you are designed to live from your heart of sincerity. Virgo comes after Leo, a sign of the heart, but the Virgoan nature can be true, or harshly and destructively inaccurate–if it operates without heart at all (awareness, knowing, loving). Accuracy matters with Virgo. If someone doesn’t understand the harm they caused after one or two explanations;and shows no interest in understanding anything besides their own position, you can most likely figure that no amount of energy you invest in them or in the communication attempts will lead to more understanding. They are not interested in understanding. They are only interested in being “right” in your “wronging of them,” because you are not conforming to their expectations of how things should go. You are not conforming to their reality as they know it. That confuses them, because they cannot comprehend that they are wrong–there isn’t an inkling of doubt in them, which is a bit odd.

At this Virgo New Moon, it’s time to release the victim and focus on those healthy relationships that I know you have; and if you don’t have any, it’s likely you need even deeper self examination, and more personal accountability. Love will never be a scorecard; and people who are loved, when it is true, will simply feel respected. The will FEEL loved. They don’t need to be convinced that you are the right, and loving one. That’s how simple it really is.

Now go build your schedule and your health around the people, work, and relationships that truly have your wellbeing in mind; they will always be willing to listen and collaborate, or negotiate–especially if they were momentarily in their feelings and got a chance to reflect and make amends, or are interested in repair.

Anyone else, is simply asking you to negate them from your field, and stop allowing them to be the energetic vampire. You are NOT serving them if this is what they are doing. You are contributing to the problem if you don’t free yourself.