Virgo New Moon - Entering the Eclipse Portal & Tending the Temple of the Mystery

Aug 18

Saturday, August 23, 2025, 2:06 am EDT

The Sun will enter Virgo tomorrow, initiating an unusual and transformational month ahead. This Virgo season is not messing around! If you haven’t already watched the Astro-Priestesses’ overview of Virgo season, with yours truly as a special guest, you’ll want to check it out. The Priestesses shared profound wisdom and practical astro-navigational guidance for riding the cosmic currents.

Saturday’s New Moon is the first of TWO Virgo New Moons, with the second, on September 21, combining with a Solar Eclipse. This first New Moon marks our entry into Eclipse season - a 6-week period of high-pressure, emotionally-charged, accelerated change.

Look back to 2006, when we had Eclipses at the same degrees, and also had two Virgo New Moons. What was happening in your life then, and how might those themes and events relate to what’s going on now? There may be something you started 19 years ago that’s now ready to come to completion, or morph into a new form. Consider especially the Virgoan realms of work, service, health and healing.

The big-picture theme of 2025 is massive endings and beginnings, and the next six weeks will likely be a key period catalyzing those transitions. Eclipse season typically features “fated” completions and initiations, but also, Saturn will retrograde back into Pisces on September 1.

The window of new beginnings that started with Saturn’s move into Aries on May 24 is now coming to a close. During Saturn’s last hurrah in Pisces, until February 14, you’re challenged to complete unfinished business, to close out whatever doesn’t fit into the new dream that will start coming into form early next year. Saturn in Pisces also calls for addressing the emotional and unconscious issues that could block you from bringing your new dreams into reality.

The Virgo New Moon activates the ongoing, rare alignment between the outer planets. The Sun and Moon square Uranus in Gemini, and form a yod - a “finger of God” or “finger of Fate” - with Saturn-Neptune in Aries and Pluto in Aquarius.

Translation? This is a time for revelations, revolutions and reversals in your everyday life - your routines, work, health and self-care. The New Moon’s square to Uranus could bring in unexpected changes and surprising information, and challenges you to flow with change rather than going into control mode or trying to hold on to what feels familiar.

There could be a lot of stress, worry and anxiety - IF you stay in your head, try to figure out exactly what’s happening, default into judgment, and obsess about the details. Instead, this is a time for leaning into the Pisces North Node - tune into the bigger picture and higher vision, accept WHAT IS, trust your feelings and intuition to guide you, and prioritize rest, relaxation and creative expression.

In the body, Virgo rules the digestive system, and this new lunar cycle calls for giving yourself the space and time to digest all the change and growth that’s happened this year - including the collective changes and new frequencies signified by the outer planets. Be discerning about what you take into your being - not only the food you eat, but what you’re taking in on a mental and emotional level. Virgo season supports cleansing, purifying, organizing, simplifying and streamlining.

Virgo is the Priestess, who tends the Temple of her body and the environment, purifying the physical realm in order to create more space for and connect more deeply with Spirit. This Virgo New Moon invites you to tend the Temple of the Great Mystery, to ground yourself in nourishing routines and rituals, while opening to the expansive possibilities of these new frequencies, remembering that reality is fluid and the future is unknowable.

Together, we’re co-creating the future, through how we tend to each moment in the present. Virgo reminds us that the “little things” - micro-adjustments in daily routines, small acts of kindness - can make a big difference. As we each tend to our own Temples, as we each serve according to our unique assignment, we co-create the more beautiful world.

For more insight into what this new moon means for YOU, find the house in your birth chart that contains 0° Virgo.

The areas of life signified by that house are where there’s powerful energy for a rebirth, and where you’re invited to:

purge what is no longer nourishing and realign with your essence;
reclaim your sovereignty and strengthen your self-possession;
make a new beginning in health, healing and service;
simplify, get organized and increase your efficiency and productivity;
and release judgment and perfectionism and start where you are.

I go into all the Virgoan details about how to work with these powerful planetary energies in my 65-minute New Moon transmission, available to paid subscribers on Substack. You can gain immediate access to the recording, and all future New & Full Moon recordings, by becoming a paid subscriber ($16/month or $155/year). Founding subscribers ($185/year) can also join me for a quarterly livestream, and receive my Pluto in Aquarius webinar as a gift!