Virgo Solar Eclipse: 50 Shades of Letting Go

It takes a lot of courage

to release the familiar

and seemingly secure,

to embrace the new.

But there is no real

security in what is

no longer meaningful.

Alan Cohen

The Solar Eclipse on September 21, 2025, at 29° Virgo

proclaims that the time has come for our life to function in a different way and there are actions we are to take now to facilitate this. The house where 29° Virgo resides in our natal chart reflects the area of life where endings and new beginnings are likely to occur (i.e., our home, career, relationships, routines, health, spirituality or finances). 

The eclipse calls us draw upon a spiritual maturity to embrace the impermanence of life so we can identify and let go of what is already more connected with our past then our future. Grounded in an awareness of the eternal unseen, we feel the play of life, the shifting sands of time and remember that nothing is meant to endure. We intuit that we are perpetually moving, learning, experimenting, and changing all the time. Understanding that life is not meant to be static and security is an illusion, we can more easily complete and release what no longer works or has outlived its time, so we can be freed up to embrace dawning potentials.

I call this Eclipse 50 shades of Letting Go because the astrology of 2025 in one way or another, with large and small transits, retrogrades or eclipses, announces over and over that this is a time of endings that will lead to grand new beginnings. In different ways, in different shades and from different angles and perspectives, the message is the same: Let Go. And there many ways to let go, and different layers of letting go. If we can end what is ready to end and not try to hold on or go back to reclaim what is already leaving us, then we can move with the transformative change that humanity is undergoing that will impact each of us in some form.

Saturn/Neptune oppose the Solar Eclipse

The Solar Eclipse trine Uranus and Pluto

Eclipse Co-Ruler: Mercury conjunct the Eclipse and in Air Grand Trine

Eclipse Co-Ruler: Chiron in Cardinal Grand Cross

Venus square Uranus

A Solar Eclipse marks a turning point that yields fresh beginnings accompanied by timely endings. When this occurs at the last degree of a sign, the potential shifts come with an intensity and urgency. The 29° point represents completion. It provides a bookmark that notes where a chapter of life is closing and where we are turning of a page to embark in a new direction. But to turn that page, we must leave something behind.

A Lunar Node conjunct the New Moon creates a Solar Eclipse. The lunar nodes stimulate the karmic past to be resolved and future potentials we are ready to embrace. The Solar Eclipse is a South Node eclipse indicating that there is something to let go of so we can reach for the new beginning that is opening.

The Eclipse Path moves across New Zealand, Australia, the South Pacific Islands and Antarctica. While the eclipse has the potential for greater impact to these areas, its effects are global and mark a time when powerful shifts may happen in our life.

The second consecutive New Moon in Virgo. The Virgo New Moon in August at 0° introduced the process of cleaning house, re-organizing our life, and courageously sweeping the old out of the house of our life. The Solar Eclipse is at the last degree of Virgo: 29° - degree of finality - signifying that something is ready to leave our life.

It can be as simple as releasing possessions that clog our home, saying goodbye to an old friend who exhausts more than supports us, or it can be as life changing as giving notice at a job or deciding to move across the country. If this time is about saying "Yes" to something new like a relationship or the launching of our own business, then perhaps what needs to be released is psychological or behavior patterns that diminish us. Virgo has us desire greater health and so there may be a habit that compromises our health we are ready to drop once and for all. We are being called to surrender something that no longer serves us or the future we wish to build.

Holding on is believing

that there's only a past;

letting go is knowing

that there's a future.

Author Unknown

'The Times, They are a Changin'*

I feel like a broken record.

In one more newsletter this year,

with one more New or Full Moon,

with one more set of astrological alignments

That seem to scream: Let Go. Release,

I write about how a chapter of our life is ending.

A new chapter is ready to begin, which

may be a radical departure from what we are living.

Unprecedented change is at our doorstep.

We need to move with the current

So we don't get pulled under or left behind.

2025 is about Big Endings.

It has happening collectively and individually.

We are to recognize what no longer has life for us.

It can be something tangible like a job, person, or home.

It can be something intangible, like an past hurt

Perceiving ourselves as a victim,

or not believing in ourself.

It is human nature to want to hold onto what we have,

To be wary of the untried and the unknown.

Yet, here we are, together,

On the precipice of seismic change,

and we are being encouraged to take a leap of faith.

This is a time that will featured in tomorrow’s history books.

So, this Solar Eclipse post is in a different format.

Rather than just repeat myself over and over, one more time

In response to what the planets are reflecting to us –

I am going to let go of the way I usually write,

and in the spirit of the Eclipse,

offer my words in a different way.

What signifies that ware in a time of endings

that bring us to the brink of a new beginning?

The Eclipse occurs at the last degree of a sign,

a degree that denotes endings.

Saturn has retrograded back to the last degree of Pisces.

The sign of Pisces, as the last sign in the zodiac, is about endings.

Pisces is about the dissolution of forms and what we know.

The last degree of Pisces (29°) is Final Big Endings.

Autumn is About Slowing Down and Backing Up

So we can bring something to Completion

Saturn and Neptune together crossed over

From Pisces to Aries late spring...giving us a taste

Of the new beginning.

And now...

Saturn has turned Retrograde,

returning to Pisces until February 12, 2026.

Soon Neptune will retrograde back into Pisces

And hang out at 29 Pisces from

October 22 – January 26, 2025.

We must go back to go forward.

There is something to be done that is still incomplete.

Before the new dream can take off,

There is work to recognize

what needs to be turned over

and become part of our past.

We are to release what weighs us down

So we do not become entangled in the past,

holding onto something

that keeps us from being present

And embracing who we can become.

Saturn opposes the Eclipse,

Brings a weightiness and seriousness,

Slowing us down to review and get clear

On what does not work,

On what we have lost that we cannot get back,

On what we are to say goodbye to.

Saturn oppose the Eclipse says:

If we want a different result, change out

a routine or habit that diminishes or robs us of vitality;

Release an old burden or system that has gone on too long;

We may need to leave behind something solid that

We built over time and thought would endure,

But now have the clarity to see will not

Endure as we once thought. 

Virgo rules

Health

Service / Employment

Order

Mental Discernment

Ask ourselves

What could I release to gain better health?

What do I serve, and what can I release so I can better serve?

What can I do to create better order and balance in my daily life?

Is there something I have backburnered or shoved under the carpet

That I need to face, deal with, resolve and put behind me?

Anything you cannot relinquish

when it has outlived its usefulness

possesses you, and

in this materialistic age

a great many of us

are possessed by our possessions

Peace Pilgrim

Astrological Alignments Supporting us

to Accept the Solar Eclipse Invitation

Solar Eclipse Co-Ruler: Mercury

(in an Air Grand Trine and conjunct the Eclipse)

We are not alone. 

We are not meant to go it alone through

The passage of endings and beginnings.

We are to find ways to reach out to others,

connect and make joint plans

towards common goals.

Solar Eclipse Co-Ruler: Chiron in a Cardinal Grand Cross

Chiron shows us what we are healing –

In recent years we are healing self-esteem and confidence.

The Grand Cross with Chiron indicates we are at a crisis point.

To resolve inner conflict,

we must - first and foremost -

value ourselves

And have the courage to rock the boat

To assert what is important to us.

We desire to make others happy,

To serve and to keep the peace,

But we have reached a point

Where we can no longer do this

at the expense of denying the truth

Of who we are and what we are about.

We may need to take a stand that may result

In saying goodbye to something we thought would endure.

We are willing to take a risk because

There is no longer any value in investing

In something that keeps us small

and zaps our self-esteem.

Air Grand Trine with Pluto and Uranus –

Our mind is invigorated with new ideas and

A depth of thought that has us perceive truths.

We are subject to flashes of brilliant insight,

Receptive to thoughts about the future

Open to progressive future-oriented views,

That offer a different way of doing things

That may include new people and partnerships.

Be receptive to unexpected Messages

That arrive through Insights, emails, and communications,

that might give our mind a jolt.

Powerful thoughts can come crashing into our consciousness

About what needs to be reset and changed.    

Keep our minds open.

The Shadow of the Eclipse

If found when we give way

to anxiety, worry and overthinking.

When this occurs, relax and open to receive

What is ready to flood into our consciousness.

Virgo is about rational discernment and in doing something.

The North Node is Pisces reminds us

This needs to be balanced with

 trusting intuition and receiving.

Venus square Uranus –

If plans or routines are disturbed,

This may be beneficial, jolting us

out of an automatic way of operating

Compelling us to be on our toes, to adjust and flex.

The habitual, which was once comforting,

May have become deadening.

A cosmic alarm clock maybe

Waking us up, so do not sleepwalk through our days.

We feel more, are aware of more,

And we look to those in our life to do the same,

And not just engage us in a habitual, automatic way.

The Fall Equinox on September 22.

A new season arrives in the wake of the eclipse;

The Moon enters Libra an hour after eclipse

followed by the Sun a day later;

A new balance is sought

In how we show up with others.

Relationship dynamics and communications

Are elevated as we look to align

Those we care about with

What matters to us now

And the decisions we are making

so that our relationships do not pull us

Back into an old version of ourself

or into something that once mattered

But no longer holds our interest.

We will look for ways our current relationships

Can evolve with us

And discover new people and connections

That share a future dream.

An Analogy: The Virgo Solar Eclipse

I am reminded of a massage therapist

That presses their thumbs on a specific point of the body,

Commonly called a ‘trigger point’. 

The trigger point is a complex of muscles and nerves

That have become jammed up. 

Pressing on it, releases it.

We are to welcome the increased discomfort

As the cosmic thumb of the universe

Presses on what is bound up in our lives

So it can release the energy

And open us to greater flow and ease.

It is not only passive;

We need to bring our awareness to the pressure point

And make some decisions

So that the release point doesn’t simply return to its current state

After the New Year when the eclipse energies reside. d

*As I edit and this post to send, '

the song The Times, they are A-Changin by Bob Dylan

is playing on a loop in my head:

Come gather 'round, people, wherever you roam

And admit that the waters around you have grown

And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone

If your time to you is worth saving

And you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone

For the times, they are a-changin'

Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide, the chance won't come again

And don't speak too soon, for the wheel's still in spin

And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'

For the loser now will be later to win

For the times, they are a-changin'...

Full Lyrics to the Dylan Song

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