New Moon in Virgo
The upcoming New Moon at 18° Virgo, occurring on September 11th 2026 (4:27am BST), will close the Eclipse Portal and initiate the beginning of the Harvest Season, calling on you to reap what you have sown.
With only a single aspect to the Sun and Moon - a harmonious sextile from Mars (in Cancer - the Moon’s ruling sign) - this lunation will primarily call for you to take conscious action towards the creation of nourishment and security in your life, working from a place of emotional self-awareness.
With Mars square to retrograde Saturn (in Aries) since late August, previous efforts towards this may have felt blocked or restricted, leaving you feeling frustrated or pessimistic. However, as Mars will be transitioning away from Saturn during this period, forward progress will finally begin to feel more accessible, likely generating a renewed sense of confidence in the process.
This shift won’t be entirely without challenges though, as a tense T-square involving Venus (0° Scorpio), Pluto (Rx Aquarius), and Chiron (Rx 0° Taurus), will request that you tend to your deepest wounds - specifically those impacting your sense of self-worth, along with your ability to love, trust, and form healthy attachments.
Whilst this energy may feel somewhat intense, it offers you an opportunity to gain a transformative new level of awareness, one that allows you to recognise how past experiences are still influencing present-day choices.
As such, can you reconsider how you relate to yourself, others, money, and security, discovering new ways to balance vulnerability with self-protection and merging with another whilst remaining rooted within yourself.
Chiron will also be notably activated by a yod involving Pluto (Rx Aquarius) and the Moon’s ruler, Mercury (0° Libra), creating tension between what you currently understand and what you are ultimately being asked to learn, drawing deep-seated wounds to the surface - especially those tied to feeling unheard or misunderstood. Asking, are you willing to adjust the way that you communicate and contemplate in order to heal.
Regardless, with Mercury’s influence further emphasised due to its location at the apex of a kite - involving all the retrograde transpersonal planets (Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto) - you will be supported when it comes to breakthroughs of perception, accessing new insights, and opening up to life beyond form. Although, an opposition to Neptune may at times make it challenging to integrate this broader awareness.
With Mercury, Venus, and Chiron all situated at 0° of their respective signs, there is a strong initiatory energy attached to this lunation. Yet in order for a new chapter to begin, you are asked to create space for it to emerge, whilst releasing the need to force proceedings or impose a timeline.
Thus, as you stand on the threshold of a future that has yet to take shape, can you refine your routines, habits, environment, and daily choices to align with the life you truly want to build. Accepting that whilst change may be gradual, even small adjustments can have meaningful consequences.
By February 20th 2027, at the Full Moon/Penumbral Lunar Eclipse at 1° Virgo, what you have discerned to be valuable and where you have invested your time, energy, and attention will become apparent by the fruits of your labour.