This is another interesting month for you, Cancer, of changing perspectives. In the midst of the significant inner planet retrogrades of Venus and Mercury, you find yourself in an extremely thoughtful and introspective time, when nothing is quite as it seems, and when you must utilize discernment to find your way forward in the midst of a plethora of possibilities and choices. Venus is retrograde as September begins, in your values sector, stationing to direct on the 3rd, while Mercury, in backward motion until the 15th, in your sector of communication and learning, is, in its post-retrograde shadow period, recovering thereafter, right through to the Aries Full Moon of September 29th. This implies an inward turning, when the truest information comes to you from your own internal process. The superficial story of the Mercury Retrograde period as missed connections and mechanical breakdown, and as re-thinking and re-evaluating, becomes when you can look more deeply an enormous opportunity to get clear upon your own evolutionary process. You do best not to expect outward results but rather these internal rewards, measuring your progress by your growth in understanding. Punctuated by the potent Virgo New Moon of September 14th, you are meditating and learning this entire month, when you look at it right.


The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com


September begins in the wake of the recent Leo New Moon of mid-August, with two weeks yet to go to complete its 30-day Leo lunation cycle, which planted a new beginning in your sector of your resources, cash flow, and values. The Uranian electric focus infused into this lunation cycle might help you connect with some far-out ideas regarding your life path and the resources required to make them happen, many choices. You win when you can stay open to possibility and yet also manage the necessary discernment to avoid going over a cliff. There could be unexpected elements into the mix that may upend the best-laid plans or budgets and yet there also shines the potential for a revived sense of power and personal autonomy.

Mercury is also retrograde in Virgo as September begins, meaning that your communicative outreach takes on a distinctly introspective turn. You truest information might come from intuitive sources deep inside yourself. Your outer world performance is active although it might be held back by lack of confidence or awareness of inner wounding that needs to find the potential of a healing pathway toward solution.

On September 3rd, Venus stations direct in Leo. Her six-week retrograde period has emphasized renewal related to your finances, skills, and values and how these influence your self-esteem and happiness. Your time, energy, and attention are valuable resources, and this recent period could have involved a reevaluation of who and what you spend time on, in addition to more tangible material realities of income and expenditure. Venus' slow recovery and Mercury's ongoing retrograde reflect a continuing process of reassessment this month, where significant decisions and action might align with the first or second week of October once both planets have escaped their retrograde shadows.

In the early morning hours of September 6th, ending about 7 am PT, Mercury Retrograde moves through its Cazimi, its journey through the heart of the Sun, in Virgo, signaling a moment of clarity amidst the general fogginess of the introspective Mercury Retrograde cycle. This progresses through the sphere of your chart related to learning, communications, and your daily environment. The Last Quarter Moon in Gemini this same day extends the analytical emphasis of this moment in the lunation cycle, connecting your conscious mental processes and dialogues with those of the subconscious, spiritual, and non-rational. Gemini and Virgo, both Mercury-ruled signs, welcome a flexible attitude and readjustment, possibly calling attention to the importance of rest, solitude, and slowing down to nourish your mental health. With Gemini ruling your sphere of the inner psyche, you might consider the influence of undermining beliefs related to self-worth or your right to experience and enjoy abundance. A supportive trine from the Sun and Mercury to Jupiter in Taurus indicates you might receive good news from a friend or beneficial alliance related to a life aspiration, be recognized for skills you have mastered, or have the confidence to share your ideas with a wider community.

The Virgo New Moon transpires on September 14th in your sector of communication and learning, and opens a new cycle that calls for consideration of details while keeping an eye on your big-picture goals, with the aim of restoring health or refining our approach there. This lunation answers to a constructive and well-dignified Mercury, which stations direct the following day. You do well to harness this shift in the energy over the next two weeks to act on any insights that have emerged since early August, eventually establishing new habits around mental health or information sharing and correspondence, perhaps including phone and internet use. This could also involve editing or finishing past work, implementing structures to support learning and communicative endeavors, or returning to a past curiosity. A trine from the New Moon to Uranus in Taurus connects this cycle to evolution in your community sector and might also imply that you could find unexpected support for articulating and beginning to act on your ambitions. The influence of Venus' ongoing square to Jupiter, which has remained active since August 22nd, also places continued emphasis on your Leo and Taurus sectors of resources and community involvement. Perhaps you might reflect on where your situation was in early June versus where you are now, particularly the way your finances and values relate to colleagues, kinship, collective participation, and long-term goals.

From the 17th to the 20th, the Sun in Virgo forms its annual opposition with Neptune, which may have you feeling mentally exhausted, particularly if you are habitually focused on academic, higher mind, or communicative pursuits. Neptune favors non-rational forms of intelligence connected to the spiritual, philosophical, and imaginative, which could see you reconnecting to dreams, travel ideals, or the pursuit of new horizons of understanding. If you have a lot on your plate, writing down a clear list of priorities and processes or reconnecting to the larger meaning that your work is in service of may help with overwhelm. This transit could also illuminate the need for boundaries relating to communications and social media that are affecting your focus or attention. Supportive aspects from both the Sun and Neptune to Pluto in Capricorn connect changes within your intimate partnerships or attitudes to relating and that of your mental processes or wider belief systems. This might help you to approach past or current one-on-one relationships with more compassion.

The Sun enters Libra on the 22nd, which may draw focus to your home, family, or sense of belonging over the next month.

From the 22nd to the 25th, Mars applying to an opposition with Chiron in Aries could move you out of equilibrium, possibly connecting challenges within your professional life to the on-going problematic influence of early foundational experiences or familial expectations. Supportive aspects from Venus to Chiron and Mars may aid integration or healing around self-worth and how you provide for yourself or your family. With this Libra sector of your chart, representing home and family, balancing the energy you share within your domestic scene with that of your career might be an ongoing project of adjustment.

The Full Moon culminates in Aries on the 29th, bringing in themes related to your vocation and reputation. This lunation is further characterized by Venus making her final square to Uranus, the wildcard factor. Mercury is simultaneously leaving its retrograde shadow, and Mercury is also connecting to Uranus through a trine. These transits suggest a freeing up or a revivification process related to a story that has been unfolding since the beginning of July across your resource and community sectors. This might be aided by the deconstructive and problem-solving influence of Mercury located within your mental sector, which supports changes of mental orientation as you update your values and knowledge.

The end of September supplies emerging cohesion following a period of recalibration. The liberating influence of Uranus in Taurus and the boldness of Venus in Leo could offer you freedom from social expectations, life ambitions, and values that are no longer resonant. This will provide fertile ground for new systems of social and material support that will take you toward a more vibrant future.

This is another month of introspective meditation, Libra, when not only your ruling planet, Venus, is retrograde as it begins, but also Mercury, now moving backward through your sector of dream imagination and unconscious process. The recent Leo New Moon from mid-August highlighted changing perspectives on future plans, existing friendships, and group commitments, while equally emphasizing new ways for you to re-imagine intimacy with others and your own personal transformation. All these factor being in play in the first two weeks of September implies a shifting landscape deep within you of what, for you, truly counts. In this, inner work is greatly featured. This is an excellent time to journal about your changes. The September 14th Virgo New Moon – taking place in this same sector of interior focus – continues this emphasis. This monthly cycle can perhaps be daunting, becoming less so with forewarning, and with placing trust in your fundamental process of growth. It is vital for you to recognize that what goes on at depth within your psyche represents a powerful life factor and can be transformative for your future growth and outer world achievement. In one way, you win when you can hold your head high and just keep on keeping on, taking whatever happens as somehow natural to the moment, being a significant part of your evolution to your next stage.


The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com


As September begins, topics related to community, friendship, and your evolving life ambitions remain a significant focus due to the retrograde of Venus, your ruler, in your social sector and the ongoing effects of the lunation cycle seeded at the recent mid-August Leo New Moon, which continues to unfold throughout the first two weeks of the current month. Uranus in Taurus as a strong feature of this lunation could impart a sense of freedom to go your own way and could relate to unsettling experiences in intimate relationships or in delving down into your own internal workings, leading to intimacy with yourself. With prominent Uranus there, it may be a little wild in that department. This important Leo cycle could also help you let go of certain connections that no longer align with your values in order to seek those that do. This could also relate to changes in your close partnerships and may reverberate into your social sphere.

Mercury is now retrograde as well, in Virgo, corresponding to your sector of dream imagination and unconscious process. This has the effect of conditioning September as an introspective time, all the way through to the end of the month.

Your ruling planet Venus stations direct on September 3rd, signaling the end of its six-week retrograde through Leo, representing the social sector of your chart. This period has emphasized renewal related to life goals, social life, or the way you participate and are seen in a wider community. This could involve connecting to new networks that support emerging ambitions or groups that align with your passions or social conscience.

Venus will remain at the same degree as it slows and turns direct, up to September 11th, possibly taking you back to themes arising in the latter half of June. This energy, combined with the analytical nature of retrograde Mercury in Virgo, may have you ruminating on an issue with frustration or wanting to resolve it quickly. You may be better served to simply observe whatever is coming up and recognize that there are some important things to work through in the coming weeks. In the upcoming month, October 7th could align with more externalized action once Mercury and Venus have both escaped their retrograde shadows. The ongoing square between Venus and Jupiter, which turns retrograde in Taurus on September 4th, could point to beneficial new alliances, benefactors, or collaborative endeavors backed by other people's money or resource-sharing.

On September 6th, Mercury's inferior conjunction with the Sun in Virgo signals the halfway point in its retrograde cycle through your sphere of the subconscious and inner work. This period offers restoration through aligning with the self-balancing rhythms of life, where the inner process, rest, and reflection are just as important as outward productivity. The Last Quarter Moon in Gemini this same day emphasizes the flexible and analytical nature of the final week of the Leo lunation cycle, which might require readjustment related to education, spirituality, travel, or your wider framework of beliefs. This time may align with information coming to light, self-understanding, or clarity related to your social sector due to the Quarter Moon's trine with Venus. The trine from the Sun in this Quarter Moon configuration to Jupiter indicates news may be positively linked to shared resources, inheritances, or contractual matters.

The Virgo New Moon on September 14th begins another introspective cycle related to your internal health and wellbeing. A process of personal evolution is also characterized by the continued square between Venus, your ruling planet, and Jupiter, which lasts until the 22nd. This lunation also features a constructive Mercury, standing still in the sky and in its home sign and exaltation, which stations direct the following day. Still introspective until the end of the month, and moving through your sector of the subconscious, it has the quality of being on the therapist's couch, which supports dialoguing with complicated or hidden parts of yourself that for the moment seem to upend more conscious goals and might require understanding and compassion. This lunation is again colored by the awakening energy of Trickster Uranus, through a trine from the New Moon, which may help you in releasing well-trodden mental loops or emotional baggage that you are ready to shed. You could be grieving an ending, or sudden change within a close connection, and processing its energetic, material, and karmic ramifications. While the Uranian influence could be destabilizing, the cohesive nature of Jupiter in connection with Venus in your social sector suggests that certain endings may provide fertile ground for new growth, be that through intimate or business connections or material resources.

From the 17th to the 20th, the Sun in Virgo forms an opposition to Neptune in Pisces, which could see matters related to physical and mental health come to the forefront. This transit can affect vitality and may bring up anxiety, uncertainty, or dissociative coping patterns, possibly pointing to the importance of cultivating small daily habits that support well-being. Rest and retreat will likely fortify you, as well as communing with nature, meditation, music, or any practice that connects you to the numinous. Supportive aspects between the Sun and Neptune to Pluto in Capricorn indicate that changes around foundational topics, including your home, family, and sense of rootedness, could help or relate to issues arising at this time.

Your solar season begins on the 22nd when the Sun enters your sign, or your first solar sector of personal evolution, identity, body, and self-presentation. This is your time to shine, albeit somewhat internally with Mercury and Venus still recovering from their retrograde motion.

From the 22nd to the 25th, Mars' applying opposition to Chiron in Aries might bring up relational wounding. While you might be reluctant to disrupt the equilibrium, adopting a policy of diplomatic honesty over reactivity or passivity may be healing, with the understanding that you can express complicated feelings like anger, fear, or grief while still holding love. Supportive aspects from Venus to both Mars and Chiron indicate that connecting to a wider sphere of support and friendship may aid healing and integration within one-on-one partnerships. This might encourage more independence within relatedness, with the understanding that one person cannot fulfill all aspects and needs of another.

The Full Moon culminates in your opposite sign of Aries on the 29th, and these relational topics might be expanded upon. There could potentially be a tension needing to be resolved between individual and shared goals. In this Full Moon as well, Venus makes her final square with Uranus, which might advance a story that has been unfolding since the preceding Venus-Uranus square from the beginning of July. This may involve expanding your interpersonal landscape or life ambitions to take you into a different future, which could require a radical reorientation or the release of certain modes of relating and dreams from the past. A productive Mercury could provide insight and aid this process as it finally escapes its retrograde shadow and connects to Uranus through a supportive trine. Surprises and surprise revelations could be part of the realizations of this end-of-month timing.

September has supported an inner recalibration that may have given rise to an emerging coherence or excitement about life after a period of uncertainty, stagnation, or letting go. The transits this month could help you lean into wholehearted self-expression around communicating your inner insights or aspirations with less concern for what others think. This is ultimately in service to your ongoing search for authentic connection, kinship, and community.

This is another month of introspection, Capricorn, with Mercury Retrograde in your sector of higher mind, making for a thoughtful time which lasts all month. That is, when you count the two weeks of Mercury’s shadow period following its station to direct motion on September 15th. Venus will also be straightening out all month long as well, in Leo, following her station direct on September 3rd, and this affects your chart as well, your creative self-expression in particular. Due to the elevated presence of Trickster Uranus located in the sector of your creative self-expression, there are a great many choices that you will likely encounter in exploring your creativity, with opportunities that must nevertheless be tested before going at them full speed ahead. Your communication and sources of information, both inner and outer, are vitally important to you now, as you also attempt to discern whether what you are doing in outer world pursuit makes total sense for you in terms of inner values and priorities. This is a fortunate time, and you benefit from staying open to possibility; however, with the Mercury Retrograde, it is also wise to stay tentative at least to some extent, finding your firmer footing in October.


The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com


The first half of September is characterized by the Leo lunation cycle from the middle of the previous month of August that planted a new seed in your sector of intimacy, shared resources, and personal evolution. The influence of the New Moon square to Uranus in Taurus is deeply imprinted into the current cycle, which might play out through exciting or unstable interpersonal dynamics or other changes connected to your Taurus-ruled sector of romance, pleasure, creativity, and children. The ongoing interaction between this part of your chart and your Leo-ruled sphere indicates that evolution here might leave you with a stronger commitment to yourself and your values, which may act as a compass within your material, energetic, and emotional entanglements.

Mercury is retrograde as the month begins, in your sector of higher mind, where it brings an introspective viewpoint on your ruminations about educational or travel opportunities, or your fundamental evolving worldview. Although Mercury stations to direct motion on the 15th, it does not fully escape its retrograde shadow for another two weeks, until the 29th.

Venus stations direct on September 3rd, concluding her six-week retrograde in Leo. This time may have called your attention to tangible material matters relating to the benefits and losses that emerge through bonds with others, including contracts, debts, inheritances, and business arrangements. Venus' slow recovery, combined with the discernment of Mercury retrograding through Virgo, continues to highlight the reconsideration process this month. Be it intentional or thrust upon you through situations or encounters that bring up pain from the past, this period may have you delving deeply into the archives of your experience and considering how you project this onto your relationship with others and the wider world. Venus' ongoing square to Jupiter, which has remained active since August 22nd, indicates this could relate to deepening ties with a romantic partner or financial negotiations and planning regarding a creative collaboration or children.

Mercury's inferior conjunction with the Sun on September 6th signals the halfway point in its retrograde cycle through the sector of your chart related to community participation, friendship, and life ambitions. The early morning hours of the day, when Mercury traverses the very heart of the Sun, known as its Cazimi, lasting to 7 am PT, could prove clarifying to your sense of perspective on how you see the world around you. Mercury's revitalization reiterates there is self-knowledge to be gained right now through expanding your mind, be that through intellectual, spiritual, or physical questing. This juncture might align with unexpected news or an ah-ha moment of understanding or proficiency, possibly involving editing or finishing past work. You might be refining your belief systems and worldview with an eye for their ongoing utility.

The Last Quarter Moon transpires on the same day, and the square to the Sun and Mercury from the Moon in the Mercury-ruled sign of Gemini might point to the importance of caring for your psychological well-being, particularly with so much mental energy in the air. This may call for readjustments connected to your habitual behaviors, the service and care you give to others, and daily responsibilities.

The Virgo New Moon of September 14th places perception and communication front and center in the upcoming cycle, including how you listen, learn, and take in messages from the world and people around you. You may want to improve intellectual or communication skills, consider teaching and learning roles, or define the ideas you wish to share with a wider audience. Uranus the awakener offers itself to you again this lunar cycle, this time through a supportive trine from the luminaries, urging you to think for yourself, update your systems of belief, and participate more actively in the school of life from a place of open mindedness. While you may feel unprepared, rapid evolution related to creativity, children, and your attitude to life enjoyment might call you to get started on or unleash something that dwells within you. This might also related to planning an exciting overseas trip or spiritual exploration. Taking place at the same degree as Mercury stationed retrograde on August 24th, it might present an opportunity to act on any adjustments or insights that have since emerged or extend retrograde themes of returning to past ideas or situations with a new lens, particularly as Mercury moves very slowly in the sky to station direct the following day.

From the 17th to the 20th, the Sun's opposition to Neptune in Pisces may raise topics related to tension between your rational and intuitive intelligence may arise as the Sun forms an opposition to Neptune in Pisces. This transit might bring up a need for boundaries related to phone and internet use that affect focus or create anxiety. Try to log off and rest; meditation, communing with nature, and learning to connect and listen to your intuition will likely have tangible benefits that inform your conscious ambitions by helping you think creatively and cultivate empathy for yourself and others. While the earth-sign emphasis this month places significant focus on the real and useful, consider entertaining your creative visions, intuitive insights, and big dreams rather than dismiss them as impractical. Supportive aspects from both the Sun and Neptune to Pluto in the final degrees of your sign indicate that you have more personal power and energy than you may think to materialize your ambitions, so take hold of that Virgo energy to figure out a plan and take a step toward it.

The Sun enters Venus-ruled Libra on the 22nd, shifting some focus to vocation and the image you present to the world for next month.

From the 22nd to the 25th, Mars' applying opposition to Chiron in Aries could move you out of equilibrium, connecting your professional life and ambitions with topics related to home and belonging. It may also point to a gift for healing that you might offer to help others on a similar journey. Supportive aspects from Venus to Chiron and Mars may equip you with the courage and compassion to look at familial wounding or early experiences that influence your sense of self-worth, security, or confidence to advocate for and express yourself. This could also relate to a grieving process connected to death or a relationship ending.

The Aries Full Moon on the 29th extends themes of home, family, and career to that of the current Moon cycle. As the cycle culminates, perhaps you are reconciling with letting go of a familial bond or living situation as you prepare to enter a new stage. This reorientation may be aided by a square from Venus to Uranus in Taurus, which might offer rapid release of relational baggage and points to the significant creative potential of doing things differently. A trine from Mercury to Uranus as it leaves its retrograde shadow indicates your mental and spiritual expansion and a refinement of your beliefs and values is connected to this process. This may equip you to meet others from a place of inner sovereignty and integrity.

The transits of this September month may support you in bringing more joy and heart to your intimate bonds by cultivating awareness of your attitudes to relating and the nuances of your entanglements. The continued emphasis on your Taurus sector of creativity and self-expression indicates that pleasure, ingenuity, and play provide the nourishment and impetus to unshackle some of the ties you feel bound by and inspire within you new collaborative dreams.

This is another powerful month of potential changes, Aquarius. This might be especially so for you with transformative Pluto perched on the edge of your sign, getting ready to return to Aquarius in January, 2024. In this current monthly cycle, the recent Leo New Moon and retrograde of Venus presaged a relationship focus for you, lasting throughout September, where renewed factors could come to light regarding current or future partnerships amidst also a certain degree of questioning and internal speculation about this important area. You are in the process of looking more deeply into what makes your relationship dynamic tick, and this engenders further changes in the way you see yourself and your belief systems. You are evolving at the core, and your deep intuition plays a vital role, providing surprising insights. You do well to pay close attention to these. Last month’s introspective timing of the Venus retrograde is echoed this month with Mercury’s, in Virgo, corresponding to your sector of intimacy and personal evolution. Personal growth is the name of your game right now, as you seek your next evolutionary stage, a little bit farther than you have gone before.


The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com


September begins halfway through the energetic Leo New Moon cycle that took place in your relationship sector in the middle of the previous month of August. Uranus in Taurus was also greatly featured in this recent lunation so that issues of home and family continue to pop up front and center and perhaps receive an impulse of fresh inspiration with a touch of conflict from partnership considerations. You might find yourself being called upon to revolutionize some aspect of your foundations that is tied in with your close relationships. With Venus also retrograde in Leo in the beginning of September, relationship in general is your focus now, and the subject of your meditative introspection.

Because Mercury is also retrograde in Virgo as the month begins, moving backward through your sector of intimacy and personal evolution, there is also an introspective focus about the way that partners show up for you, and you for them. You may have been mulling these things over, as well as reflecting on your ongoing partnership agreements.

Venus' station direct on September 3rd punctuates her travels through Leo, signaling the end of her six-week retrograde and the beginning of her post-retrograde shadow as she recovers. As Venus first stands still and then slowly begins to move forward in the sky, your attention may be drawn to a certain issue that has been brewing in a close partnership, be it intimate, contractual, or platonic. Matters of the home and family remain a significant component of the story due to an ongoing square between Venus and Jupiter in Taurus, which also makes its positive and expansive presence because the king of planets is also moving quite slowly.

Retrograde Mercury's trine to Jupiter indicates that solutions may emerge through your sector of intimacy and joint assets. These transits continue to favor introspection and evaluation over decisive action, as clarity and precise communication might not be on the table right now. Perhaps you can simply observe the issues that are coming up and recognize there are important things to work through in the coming weeks. If you can bypass the brain and the urge to solve things immediately, Venus in Leo calls you to reconnect to the fiery inspiration of what fills your heart, what you value in partnership, and how you feel loved. A gift of Leo is to recognize the innate specialness of the self and of others. You might consider how you celebrate your loved ones and whether you feel this reciprocity within your close connections.

Mercury's inferior conjunction with the Sun on September 6th signals the halfway point in its retrograde cycle through the sector of your chart related to intimacy and personal transformation. The early morning hours of this day, when Mercury traverses the very heart of the Sun, known as its Cazimi, lasting only to 7 am PT, might be rather more clarifying than confusing. While not the best time to sign contracts or make financial agreements, Mercury's revitalization may intensify focus on matters of shared interest by lending its discerning eye to your intimate and material enmeshments. Situations or encounters that bring up pain from the past may also have you delving deeply into your psychology and lens of perception that informs the way you relate to others. Like the eye of a storm, the Cazimi moment can align with unexpected news or a moment of inspiration or mental clarity within the retrograde period. A trine from the Sun and Mercury to Jupiter indicates that whatever is on your mind right now may be positively linked to expansion in your home and family sector. A square from the Last Quarter Moon in fellow Mercury-ruled sign Gemini extends the flexible quality of the final week of the Leo lunation cycle, which may require readjustment related to children, creativity, and pleasure, including the role of the romantic and sensual within a primary relationship.

The Virgo New Moon on September 14th may have you conducting a thorough audit of your shared material realities, including debts, taxes, and inheritances. A trine from the luminaries to your co-ruling planet Uranus in Taurus again seeds this cycle with an experimental quality that supports original thinking around business and shared assets, aided by the due diligence of a highly functioning Mercury in Virgo that stations direct the following day. The connection between these earth signs grounds this lunation with a pragmatic lens that is oriented to materializing and maintaining new structures that will provide more freedom, with an eye for doing the most with what you already have. The majority of this lunar cycle may be devoted to reorganizing, optimizing, and planning, where the final week might align with more externalized action once Mercury and Venus have both escaped their retrograde shadows in October. This new cycle could also relate to change within a deeply merged relationship that now requires mental and material rearrangement or confronting aspects of your karmic or familial lineage. While challenging, Jupiter's presence in the foundational place in your chart and ongoing square with Venus indicates that whatever is left behind makes way for fertile new growth.

From the 17th to the 20th, the Sun's opposition to Neptune in Pisces may raise topics related to as the Sun forms an opposition to Neptune in Pisces. Logic may not be the solution. This transit may arrive with an ambient sense of financial anxiety or illuminate the need for self-sufficiency within partnerships. That being said, Neptunian consciousness may be just the right medicine if you find you are getting myopic, overly critical, or energetically overwhelmed. Consider your intuitive, artistic, empathic gifts as tangible assets to help you think creatively and guide your practical goals. This time calls for solitude, rest, meditative practices, and listening to your dreams. Supportive aspects from both the Sun and Neptune to Pluto in Capricorn reiterate the call for surrender within your striving and the importance of nurturing your relationship with yourself, external to the remainder of your community or circle.

The Sun enters Libra on the 22nd, which may stir your adventurous spirit for the next month in your sector of learning, travel, and the quest for meaning.

From the 22nd to the 25th, Mars' applying opposition to Chiron in Aries could activate foundational wounds related to mental health or your confidence to speak up and think for yourself. This transit offers that integration is on offer through a meaning-making process, where you might transform your relationship to certain inner wounds by connecting to a larger philosophy or understanding. It may also point to your capacity to help others heal, perhaps through a message you have to share or teach. Supportive aspects from Venus to Chiron and Mars point to the restorative power of love, should you have the courage to allow vulnerable parts of yourself to be witnessed by another.

The Aries Full Moon on the 29th may illuminate how your inner dialogue, communication patterns, or mental processes relate to the current lunar cycle. As it culminates, you may be reconciling the loss of a close relationship, material asset, or mode of thinking as you prepare to enter a new stage. Venus' final square with Uranus implies that changes within your relationship and domestic sphere might wake you up in places you have been sleepwalking. This might enliven your current relationship or equip you to share yourself with others wholeheartedly. Perhaps you can reflect on what has been unfolding across your Leo and Taurus sectors of partnership and domestic considerations since the first Venus-Uranus square in early July. As it leaves its retrograde shadow, a trine from Mercury to Uranus indicates this process has been aided by cleaning out the closet of your karmic, energetic, and material entanglements.

September supports renewal by restoring the health and heart of your one-on-one partnerships and the dynamics of energetic and material exchange that characterize relatedness. The inner recalibration, insight, and practicalities that may have been the focus of this highly analytical month will place you in good stead for putting plans into action during October.