Virgo New Moon: Discern and Adapt

We look at the world

through our likes and dislikes,

hopes and fears,

opinions and judgments.

We want everyone to behave

as we think they should;

otherwise we get agitated.

But we are here to accept

the world as it is,

even as we work

to make it better.

Eknath Easwaran

The New Moon at 0° Virgo on August 23, 2025, compels us to recognize the realities emerging in a rapidly changing world and discern changes we can make to move with them in a good way.

What once created balance and order in our lives may be falling away and we may need to adjust a goal, value and/or daily habit in response. For the eclipse season, now through September, we have the task of evaluating and determining how to liberate ourselves from select expenses, belongings, activities, or commitments that bog us down or hold us back. We can ask ourself: what can I change to nurture health, balance and wellbeing so that I am more flexible and adaptable? In addition to letting go of something, we can also look at what skills, methodologies or new technologies we can adopt that will help us navigate the emerging world. 

The New Moon is

The Apex of Yod with Neptune, Saturn, and Pluto

Square Uranus

Trine Chiron, Co-Ruler of the New Moon

New Moon CoRuler:  Mercury sextile Mars

Mars in Libra square Jupiter in Cancer

The New Moon is the optimal time each month to set an intention for what we want to see manifest over the next four weeks of the lunar cycle. We are to plant this seed intention in the 24-hour window after the exact moment of the New Moon, when the Moon is still dark and not yet visible again in the night sky.

The house where the first degree of Virgo is located in our natal charts shows us the areas of life where we are ready to make some changes so are freed up to embrace new ways of seeing and living.

I don't know whether

this is the best of times

or the worst of times,

but I assure you

it's the only time you've got.

You can either sit

on your expletive deleted

or pick a daisy.

Art Buchwald

The Eclipse Season begins with the Virgo New Moon, helping us sift through the particulars of our life to ascertain adjustments we can make that help us move well with the changes that are happening.  With Virgo's analytical and methodical tendencies, we enter a mental process of taking inventory, sorting through what works and what doesn't, looking at the evidence and making pragmatic decisions on how to streamline our life to create more wellbeing.

Part of this process is to pinpoint new habits, routines or skills we can nurture or put into place that will help us meet the upcoming eclipses on September 7 and 21. For example, we may look to start a vegetable garden as a way to respond to the world's food insecurities. Or, we may explore ways we can use AI to support our work, so that we can stay competitive and relevant.

Clean Up, Reorganize and Clarify

Two Consecutive New Moons in Virgo

It is atypical to have two consecutive new or full moons in the same sign, so when they occur, we are to sit up and pay attention. The last time this phenomenon occurred in Virgo was August 23, 2006,  exactly 19 years ago, and the last occurrence of two consecutive new moons in any sign was in 2023 in Aries. Just as with those two, the current consecutive new moons conclude with a lunar eclipse. This alerts us to significant changes that are ready to take place.

To consecutive new moons in Virgo point to developmental goals that will help us to make the changes needed to meet the changes happening. Wishing things were different or longing to go back to the way something was will only delay the process we need to engage. Resistance or worry can be amplified over the next weeks, and to address this we slow down and take care of something right in front of us. Virgo gives attention to the details and so we will find our way through if we do the same.

Changes may want to be made in activities associated with Virgo:

Daily Routines that effect our health and well being.

Employment and the ways we make money or serve in the world.

Nurturing Balance - addressing imbalances in our bodies, but also the balance between work and life, between social activity and personal time, between productivity and time to just be.

Maintaining order which would include ways we can streamline, simplify and better organize our time, belongings, and life.  

Virgo values service. Technological advancements are radically changing the job market and the ways we conduct business. Some of us are in jobs that may become obsolete and during the coming weeks of the eclipse season we may know someone who gets laid off. To adapt to the integration of AI into the collective, we are getting a reality check on how it will effect our daily life. Simultaneously we have the potential to receive the necessary insight on changes we can make to adapt to a new reality. We can explore ways of using technology to support how we want to serve in the world.

New Moon Co-Ruler:  Mercury is in its last days of the post shadow period following its recent Retrograde. With Mercury in Leo for an extended period, we have been contemplating how to use our talents and creativity so that we can feel better expressed at home and in the world. We may be ready to move forward with choices we have been weighing over the summer (Mercury sextile Mars). We are seeing ways we can express what lights us up in response to changes that need to be made.

New Moon Co-Ruler: Chiron trine the New Moon. We have been on a journey to heal our confidence and belief in ourselves (Chiron in Aries) and are positioned to trust ourselves to know what works and what does not, what is something we need to deal with and what is something we can let slide, what is essential and what is a distraction. We have the inner strength to meet, respond, initiate and adjust to the challenges and opportunities life dishes up.

The first step in crafting the life you want

is to get rid of everything you don’t.

Joshua Becker

Believe in Generative Change

Two Virgo New Moons in aspect to the Small Grand Trine of the outer planets

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There is a remarkable alignment happening. The Virgo New Moon is in a close aspect to all outer planets (from Jupiter through Eris), and is in a dynamic relationship with the rare small grand trine that involve the four generational outer planets (Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto). The rest of the newsletter will explore the beauty of how these astrological alignments may relate to our lives.

Until 2028, the small grand trine between the outer planets (Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto) indicates wildly innovative and creative forces are streaming into human consciousness, ushering in new ways of living and understanding life. The planets involved occupy the first degrees of a sign indicating that what is to be introduced into our life will be a radical departure from how human society has been living. We are likely to experience a paradigm shift that alters the fabric of how we understand our life purpose and how we move through our day. Not since 325 AD, have these planets all been in a harmonic relationship with each other.

The New Moon, at 0° Virgo, engages the unique small grand trine in

-An exact square to Uranus

-The Finger of God, or apex point, of a yod with Saturn, Neptune and Pluto

What is unfolding in the collective becomes personal and more immediate to our lives as the Virgo Moon is activated by the future potentials that the generational and transpersonal planets embody. The Moon’s relationship with these outer planets is stressful, indicating that we may be resistant to acknowledging changes we need to make.

The eclipse season, now through September, can be a time of startling revelations or sudden shifts in the direction our life is to take. Again, the Virgo Moon brings attention to our health and how we can better care for our wellbeing so we have the bandwidth to make the emotional and mental adjustments that will be asked of us in the coming weeks. 

The Virgo New Moon helps us to focus on what is right in front of us: the clutter that needs clearing up, how to nourish ourselves at mealtimes, ensuring we get a good night sleep, exercising our body, finding a balance between our public and personal lives. Rather than thinking in a grand way, Virgo brings attention to the details and how small adjustments can have large ripple effects. So, if we feel resistant to the idea of change, start small. Start with what is right in front of us.

New Moon square Uranus. Uranus always brings the element of surprise. There can be disruptions, shocks or sudden bolts of insight. We may be jolted out of our routines so we can see what needs changing. It can be in the area of health or our work (Virgo) or in the areas of the modes we use to communicate or travel (Uranus in Gemini). 

Moon in Yod to Saturn, Neptune and Pluto. The Moon is at the apex of a configuration that brings agitation that is not easily resolved. We are emotionally uncomfortable. There is a blind spot that we need to look at. We need to face the dawning realties within human society (i.e., climate change realities, increased surveillance of citizens, the rapid integration of AI into society, an overburdened health system, the fallout of tariffs…) and discern how to re-organize our life to meet the future. We do this by taking inventory of any of the following finance and spending habits, what we own, the pros and cons of the relationships in our life, and where we allocate our time and attention. We are ready to liberate ourselves from what no longer works so that we are more spacious, flexible, and able to adapt to... whatever.

Within the small grand trine between the outer planets

there are some notable alignments between these planets:

Uranus Sextile Neptune (the first of five exact aspects over the next two years) will usher in changes That altar our consciousness and understanding of our relationship to the divine. Inner pathways will open to up a vaster perspective and deepened connection to the unseen and eternal presences. Our enhanced perception of creation's perpetual cycles will provide a new context in which to understand ourselves and why we are here.

Saturn sextile Uranus, bring a value for the ‘tried and true’ (Saturn) into relationship with ‘liberating vision’ (Uranus). These two planets began a new cycle in 1988-1989, and at this juncture, giving us the opportunity to release ourselves from the familiar to embrace a more liberated and authentic way of moving in step with nature and the way the universe works.

Nurture Collaboration for Clarity on Steps to Take

Mars in square Jupiter in Cancer

Mars in Libra asks that we seek collaboration, conversation and relationship with others as a way to move ideas and decisions forward. Mars reminds us that it is best we try not to go it alone at this time, but to seek out and involve others. And let our plans, our ideas, our future goals be shaped to include how we can continue to nurture ourselves and our connection to those we love (Jupiter in Cancer).  We may find that ideas we have been bouncing around now take shape and we can make sound decisions to move the idea into action (Mars square Jupiter). 

The best and safest thing

is to keep a balance in your life,

acknowledge the great powers

around us and in us.

Euripides

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