Your Cosmic Forecast for Aug 29 - Sep 11

Astrology

Aug 28

Moving it

It’s Virgo season and we’re being ushered into the throes of busyness. The long lazy glimmer of summer is fading, and it’s now back to school, back to work, and back to the routine maintenance of life.

Sometimes maintenance is repair, sometimes it’s routine cleaning and clearing of excess. Mostly it’s distributing attention where it’s needed. This Virgo season, commit to maintenance.

This time often feels like a pressure to reorganize and declutter our lives. To focus on assembling what’s necessary while there’s still ample light, warmth, and energy to do so. As days grow shorter, so does our capacity to make room for everything.

Be open to paring down what doesn’t serve your practical needs, or what doesn’t improve the quality of your life. Assess what matters not only in your mind but also by listening to your body’s wisdom—which includes your heart.

Here’s what the next two weeks have in store:

Sunday, August 29th

Sun in Virgo squares the north node in Gemini and the south node in Sagittarius. This is known as a nodal bending, which means things are kicking up and we’re being pushed into a phase of acceleration. You might already be feeling this in the week leading up. There’s a sense of amplification to otherwise ordinary events and interactions, and a feeling like important choices need to be made amidst a plethora of options. Try not to overwhelm yourself. Changing your mind is always on the table.

Monday, August 30th

Mercury enters Libra and begins to bolster our conversations with cordiality and charm. For the next few weeks, you might find yourself being more thoughtful and considerate of others in the ways you communicate. It’s a good time to practice speaking with compassion, honesty, with the intention of supporting your relationships and establishing clarity within them.

Thursday, September 2nd

Mars in Virgo opposes retrograde Neptune in Pisces. Boundaries may feel blurred today, as may our sense of what we can accomplish. There may also be a feeling of confusion around your actions or the actions of another. Try taking it slow today and not rush whatever you’re doing. Our attempts to bring order to a situation are being subject to an influx of chaos. Try to temper any reactivity that may arise—the time will come to straighten things out, accept that today is not the day for it.

Friday, September 3rd

Mercury in Libra trines the north node in Gemini. Today might be a day for having some important conversations, potentially ones that alter your course forward in a major way. It’s a great day for settling miscommunications and creating harmony in your relationships where it may have been lacking.

Saturday, September 4th

Mercury in Libra trines retrograde Saturn in Aquarius. Following yesterday’s theme, we are still working on ironing out some kinks in communication threads. Today the focus is about longevity. What do you want others to know you care about? How are you willing to communicate the ways you’re committed to staying in integrity? It could be a great day for expressing your boundaries in a relationship with ease and clarity.

Sunday, September 5th

Venus in Libra squares retrograde Pluto in Capricorn. A Venus-Pluto aspect hits hard and to the core. It can surface some ugly and uncomfortable feelings—notably shame—and highlights the ways we’re suppressing our own authority and succumbing to narratives that manipulate our worthiness. Remember that the lure of likeability exists to assert the dominant oppressive paradigm. You are inherently gorgeous and worthy of the most satisfying connections. Don’t sell yourself short, or convince yourself there is something wrong with you. Today is a day for harnessing your inner courage and leaning into your desires with grace and conviction. Trust that you will be loved and admired just as you are.

Monday, September 6th

Mars in Virgo trines retrograde Pluto in Capricorn, Venus in Libra trines retrograde Jupiter in Aquarius, and the Sun in Virgo trines retrograde Uranus in Taurus. And it’s a new moon in Virgo! This should make for a very interesting day. A new moon that’s great for purging unhelpful patterns of action, as well as a bountiful day for setting your sights on the kind of relational blessings you’re hoping to call in. There might be surprises in store too—the pleasant kind.

Wednesday, September 8th

Mercury in Libra opposes retrograde Chiron in Aries. Today it might be easier to perceive your relational wounds and attachment patterns more clearly. Particularly, how do the choices you make in a relationship get in your way of accessing selfhood? How do lodged memories of grief and rage keep your heart from opening in the ways it longs to? Today, consider which relationships in your life help bring you closer to yourself. And which gives you the opposite experience now or in the past. What do you need from your relationships to feel more connected to yourself? Oftentimes this looks like some communicated reassurance.

Friday, September 10th

Venus enters Scorpio. Oh finally, it’s that time of year again to get deep and secretive. Or really, it’s time to get radically honest about our relational needs, our desires (specifically the sexual kind), and begin moving with the intention of fostering raw and authentic connection. Things are about to get sexy, and a little uncomfortable. Let them.

And that’s a wrap for this first half of Virgo season!

I hope these next two weeks have you embracing the diligence of preparation and enjoying the experience of ease it allows.

If you’re interested in locating the complexity of your current narrative in space and time—in a language you can understand and relate to—I would be honored to hold that space of questioning for you, and offer my support in its translation.

I’m currently in the process of restructuring the format of my offerings on my website—as well as the website itself.

That said, my books are open for September and the link to schedule an astrological consult with me can be found here.