Dutiful Drudgery or Divine Dancing: September 2025 eclipses
It is not often I feel called to expound upon eclipse energy beyond covering them in my monthly astrology forecasts. The eclipses of September 2025, however, are an exception. They are part of a remarkable lunar cycle. How we move forward now is vital to our future experience. Any progress we make or goals we achieve are rooted in the mundane: the simple practices and routines that we establish and adhere to going forward.
Some astrologers lean toward dire predictions about eclipses. I am not one of these. Eclipses are doorways, portals to possibilities and opportunities. Certainly, if you are off track in any facet of your life, an eclipse impacting a point in your astrology chart can be painful and feel like a setback. But if you are in alignment with your soul contract and path, eclipses emphasize and magnify where you are headed.
September 7th and 21st mark the final eclipses of 2025. They are rooted in the New Moon of August 23rd at the starting point 00 degrees Virgo; while the following New Moon on September 21st occurs at 29 degrees of Virgo, the final degree of this earthy sign. Symbolically, then, both Alpha and Omega are represented in this lunar cycle. The August 23rd New Moon gives us a blank slate and the next New Moon on September 21 seals our fate being the final eclipse of the year.
Virgo is the ninth and middle earth sign of the zodiac. She is the work horse, logical, dutiful, regimented, and committed to service. Her key phrase is: I analyze. She rules the future through grounded work, health and wellness practices, systematic planning and preparation. Virgo is a mutable sign, meaning adaptable, flexible and versatile. She doesn’t shrink from tailoring or changing up habits to be more useful.
In ancient lore, Virgo the Virgin derived from the vestal virgins keepers of the eternal flame. This sign is rooted in ceremony and ritual. These are not lofty but humble, workaday routines moving us from dawn to dusk. Hygiene, exercise, eating, work, service, rest and sacred schedules are her wheelhouse. Line by line, step after step, Virgo yields practice into perfection. There is no harder worker. Think of a master in any field, art or industry. Virgo knows the very fabric of our lives is woven from the daily habits that turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.
It is important to mention animals here and the role they play in our lives. Virgo governs animals and the animal kingdom. Why? Because Virgo rules service and animals are in service to humanity, whether actually or modeling how to live in accord with nature. Pay close attention to how animals figure into your life through eclipse season. Are you adopting a new pet? Saying goodbye to a much-beloved pet? Taking care of an animal, yours, another’s, or adjusting the regimen of an animal friend?
With our blank slate, the August 23rd New Moon at 00 degrees Virgo asks us to look at our daily habits. Are they healthy? If not, we cannot be of optimal service to ourselves, let alone others. Healthy routines begin with our mental and spiritual wellbeing. Ruled by Messenger Mercury, Virgo says: You become what you think. The New Moon starting point of Virgo offers a fresh page to create practices charting a brand new future.
To make sure we change up the regimens of lives, Radical Uranus figures largely in this lunar cycle from August 23rd to September 21st. The great change agent insists life won’t become stale by running rote around a hamster wheel. Uranus precisely challenges the August 23rd New Moon. In communicative Gemini, Uranus asks us to be flexible with our words and thoughts, to speak and write differently…
Dueling with the Virgo Sun and Moon, we are tasked with changing how we think, speak and write, beginning with how we talk to ourselves. Watch your inner monologue. What are you saying to yourself? Now is the time to use affirmations, or try new and different ones.
Practice makes perfect and Virgo IS practice, dedication, commitment, rehearsal. Your dreams and desires are great and all that. But how will you achieve them? Virgo is the how of the zodiac, the through line from beginning efforts to end results.
Uranus persists on flipping the narrative. As we enter September, the month of back to school and work, fresh from vacation, we are invited to create new lives born out of fresh routines. Only days into the month, Radical Uranus turns retrograde on Friday, September 5th. This happens to be just two days before the Full Moon eclipse on the 7th. A Full Moon is energetically laden to begin with. A Full Moon Lunar eclipse even more so. Add quake-and-shake Uranus shifting directions to the mix, and we have quite a combustible situation.
Uranus is known as the Great Awakener, aka, the great pot stirrer of the zodiac. It is the older sibling, or higher octave of Messenger Mercury, ruler of Virgo, tied very closely to the Sun at the time of the eclipse. Hear ye, hear ye: Get your house in order, no excuses, clean up your own life and back yard before you worry about or criticize another. Instead of issuing purity tests, this eclipse demands you scour and purge your own imperfections.
No one, not a single one of us is perfect. Yet all of us are divine. With the Sun in Virgo and Moon in Pisces, eclipse themes are control vs. surrender, detail vs. unified whole, analysis vs. belief, service vs. suffering. Virgo is the epitome of efficiency and optimal system function. She keeps the trains running on time; while Pisces is transcendent, completely immersing with the divine, and flowing with the unknowable.
In short: we are commanded to control what we can about our lives and surrender the rest. Give it up.
Do you get the message now? If you refuse to heed the call, Radical Uranus has other plans for you, otherwise known as a cosmic two-by-four. Surprise, shock, sudden and striking events that seemingly occur out-of-the-blue to wake you up (hence Uranus’ moniker, the Great Awakener). Our soul is a segment of the Divine, a slice of the Spiritual pie so to speak. It knows best. When we deviate too far from our soul path, the contract that we co-created prior to incarnation, Uranus is tasked with bringing us back to our soul commitment.
And no, this is not always fun. Think of your car getting out of alignment. You bring it to the mechanic to have the steering straightened out. Uranus is the mechanic in this case. Humanity always has free will. So if you choose to drive away from the shop and revert to your old habits, expect a bigger wake-up call next time around.
Between eclipses is a notoriously energetic black hole. As I mentioned in my September astrology forecast that dropped last week, a plethora of planets shift from one sign to another. This makes for an unsettled two week stretch leading into the final eclipse of this year on Sunday, September 21st.
Just as the September 7th eclipse was remarkable, laden with unpredictability of Uranus’ change in direction, the September 21st eclipse at the very last degree of Virgo is unusually pronounced as the Sun enters Libra the very next day, marking the Autumnal Equinox. Virgo rules health and regimens; Libra rules balance. Through healthy regimens, we are called to bring into balance the various facets of our lives: health, work, social, play, service, family and rest.
The caution is the drive for perfectionism and forgetting our own needs in the quest to please others. Balance what pleases you in equal measure to being of service. If we get lost in life’s minutiae and details, Virgo’s dutiful drudgery, we neglect the divine dance awaiting us.
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