Virgo New Moon Solar Eclipse - Surrender to the Essence of Your True Self
Sunday, September 21, 2025, 3:54pm EDT
New Moon collage by Emily
Approaching Sunday’s Solar Eclipse, the pressure is ON. I’m noticing: exhaustion, lack of motivation, lots of sleep (and dreams!), past events and relationships resurfacing, and big feelings rising up.
We’re deep in the transformational portal, the fertile darkness of the Mystery, the relentless Eclipse crucible of change. Navigating between past and future, we’re challenged to complete and release what we’ve outgrown, while dreaming into new, more authentic, expansive and maybe entirely unexpected potentials.
Eclipses mark turning points, often coinciding with major endings and beginnings. What’s been hidden rises to the surface, prompting changes that have been brewing behind the scenes.
This Solar Eclipse, at the 29th (very last) degree of Virgo AND activating the South Node (karmic past), highlights what’s coming to a close. The Virgo-ruled realms of health and healing, work and service are especially up for change. Old wounds and patterns may reemerge, ripe for revelation and breakthrough, ready to resolve.
The path forward is NOT more doing, fixing, planning, controlling, worrying, and over-analyzing - Virgo South Node. Instead, we’re being called in the opposite direction, into the Pisces North Node: acceptance, trust, rest, spaciousness, seeing the bigger picture, and surrender.
This is a time of UNdoing, relaxing into WHAT IS, being loving and compassionate, and letting fall away whatever is no longer aligned with your deep self, your true essence.
The Eclipse opposes Saturn and Neptune, and trines Uranus and Pluto, activating the ongoing alignment between the slow-moving planets, and forming a rare “kite” configuration. Confronted with the dissolution of reality as we’ve known it, the profound mystery of these times, the blurring of fact and fiction, it can be easy to get lost in the swirl and confusion of the chaotic collective field
Instead, we’re challenged to find our power and stand in our sovereignty - stay present and grounded in our bodies, trust our instincts to discern between truth and illusion, make healthy choices for ourselves, and focus on the world we want to create.
For more insight into what this new moon means for YOU, find the house in your birth chart that contains 29° Virgo.
The areas of life signified by that house are where major change is stirring, there’s powerful energy for a rebirth, and where you’re invited to:
release judgment, control, criticism, worry and anxiety - and lean into acceptance, trust, surrender and forgiveness;
purge what no longer feels aligned with your essence;
reclaim the power of your attention and focus on what you want to create (instead of your fears);
plant seeds for your long-term vision and big dreams.
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!
