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Welcome to a new week and a new month. In the days ahead, Uranus begins its five-month retrograde in Taurus while Pluto retrogrades back into Capricorn. The lunar cycle begins again in Virgo while Mercury, Mars, Uranus, and Neptune dance within our cosmos, bringing opportunities and invitations. Allow space for questioning this week, although know that you don’t need to go searching. Rather, what is ready for review will whisper your name. Your weekly horoscope can help you discern what is being quietly conveyed.
Weekly Astrology for September 1-7
September 1 : Uranus Retrograde in Taurus; Pluto Enters Capricorn
September 2: New Moon in Virgo; Mars Square Neptune
September 4: Moon Enters Libra
September 7: Mercury Square Uranus; Moon Enters Scorpio
Uranus Retrograde Begins
Uranus has been in Taurus since 2018, rewriting our understanding of safety, expanding our comfort zones, and bringing shifts in how we relate to our inner worth, authenticity, security, and consciousness. We have been gathering insights, exploring new directions and perspectives, and opening to new ways of relating to Taurean areas of life.
Beginning September 1, 2024, we bring these themes under review as Uranus turns retrograde, which happens every year for approximately five months, leaving seven months for its forward movement. As it initiates its backward spin, we ask, what has shifted throughout the last seven months in my relationship to freedom, resources, money, and authenticity? How has this changed me? Uranus retrograde exists to help you clear out what doesn’t feel aligned and realign with what does.
Pluto in Capricorn
Welcome to the last moments of a 16-year story as Pluto reenters Capricorn on September 1, 2024. In astrology, Pluto is our transformer. One of our slower moving planets, it spends up to 30 years in a sign and represents the beginning of a new era each time it lands in a different sign. It brings depth, death, and rebirth. It initiates the unconscious, underworld, and underground. It brings self-reclamation and alchemy.
Pluto entered Capricorn in 2008 and has been dancing between Capricorn and Aquarius for the last year as it moves forward into one sign and then retrogrades back into the other. We have been sitting between worlds, transitioning between eras.
In Capricorn, Pluto has been breaking down and rebirthing our collective and individual relationship to structures, tradition, resources, authority, ambition, and self-responsibility. As the planet continues its backward spin, we reassess the vast changes we have been experiencing in these Capricorn-related areas of our life. During Pluto’s final foray into the practical earth sign, we meet old patterns and perspectives for their final time as we bring closure to this 16-year-long chapter.
Virgo New Moon
The medicine of Virgo season has been inviting us to strip back, discern, and release what is not ours in order to call back what is. Meeting us on September 2, 2024, is the new Moon in Virgo. Clarifying, medicinal, and grounding, the new Moon in Virgo is the essence of stripping back, clarifying, and centering. It brings clarify to what feels messy, confusing, or lingering. And it invites us to tend to small, consistent, supportive, and grounded movements.
As the Moon begins a new cycle in this sign, tune in. How has Virgo been guiding you? What has it been whispering? How have its themes been showing up in your life? And how are you called to begin collaborating with it? The new Moon invites us to reflect on our own foundations, our necessary basics, the simple yet profound intentions, beliefs, and actions that bring us home to ourselves. Like feeling the ground beneath our feet. Moving our bodies. Having routines. Conversing with our authentic selves.
Mars Square Neptune
Meeting us alongside this week’s new Moon on September 2, 2024, is the connection of Mars in Gemini with Neptune retrograde in Pisces.
In astrology, Mars is our motivation, assertion, and drive. It is here that we clarify our individuality and express our desires. Neptune, on the other hand, is our planet of surrender, intuition, imagination and fantasy. It is how we connect with the sacred and remember our oneness with all that is.
Both planets represent different archetypes within each of us. The square invites us to explore our relationship with these seemingly opposing sides of ourselves and how they relate to one another. While a square aspect in astrology can represent tension, confusion, or friction, its invitation is to find the place where they meet, where these two archetypes can collaborate, see eye-to-eye, or enter a dance of balance.
What is your relationship between logic and intuition, assertion and surrender, action and flow? What about desire and acceptance, individuality and sacred oneness?
Mercury Square Uranus
In astrology, Mercury is the mind. It is mental processing, learning, patterning, and perspectives. Uranus, sometimes known as our “higher mind,” is a planet of vast insight. It peers into the future and cracks things open so that evolution and change can happen.
Mercury came into a square aspect with Uranus last month on August 18, 2024. As Uranus begins its backwards spin this week, it returns to this square but from a different perspective. On September 7, 2024, we observe once again our relationship with liberation, truth, and growth, and how the mind plays a major role in this relationship. We are exploring thoughts, perspectives, and mental patterns alive within us that are too small for us and that belong to someone we no longer are. It’s our opportunity to begin rewriting that script and making more space for who we currently are.
Your Weekly Horoscope
With vast movements with both the inner and outer planets this week, your weekly horoscope asks you to tune into the medicine of Virgo, the astrological sign currently influencing all of us. We do this through communing with the Earth and welcoming ourselves into our bodies, quieting the noise, reestablishing routine and rhythm, and creating space in our minds, auras, and bodies.
Aries Rising
This week invites a new way to relate to your inner worth, security, and finances. You are reviewing, rewriting, and realigning in these spaces while bringing transformation to your long-term visions, career, and your understanding of success. As the Moon begins again, allow your habits, body, and routines a refresh.
Taurus Rising
This week initiates the integration of these many changes moving through you. It invites space to review who you have become this last year and how your relationship with meaning, belonging, and truth has shifted alongside you. Invite self-expression and play.
Gemini Rising
Tend to your foundation this week, including your connection to your worth, inner safety, and emotions around finances. For the greater resource you can build within your own being, the greater building you can bring to your visions and desires.
Cancer Rising
Allow your emotions to reveal what is important. The desires. The knowing. The nurturance. You are being invited to a new relationship this week to humanity, community, partnerships, and vulnerability.
Leo Rising
You deserve to feel safe in your body and secure on this Earth. You deserve to dream big based on what is within you. What needs this reminder? How can you tend to these spaces within you? This week highlights themes of resources, inner worth, and long-term visioning.
Virgo Rising
As the Moon begins again your sign, allow yourself to strip back the noise and return to who you are under this lunation. What is asking to become known in you? This week invites a review of your belief system and relationship to vaster truths, and a return to the innocence of pleasure, play, and self-expression.
Libra Rising
Your weekly horoscope brings emotions accompanied by insights, wisdom, and healing. Also, introspection and silence bring intuition and guidance. Allow yourself space and stillness. Bring safety to your experience of emotion, feel the presence of the sacred holding you, and observe what reveals itself in the process.
Scorpio Rising
It’s a week of re-writing, re-arranging, and opening the mind, Scorpio Rising. With shifts in your relationships, both in close partnerships and wider community, this week also invites you into a larger conversation with life itself – for it is sharing wisdom, meaning, vaster truths and wider philosophies if you listen closely.
Sagittarius Rising
This week invites safety and belonging in your body. In your breath, your energy, and in the liberation of knowing who you are in this moment is enough. It invites a clarification of who you desire to be in this world and your legacy. In so doing, your weekly horoscope begins an exploration of your underworld, transforming patterns and unconscious responses in the process.
Capricorn Rising
This week initiates a rebirth in your self-perception. It reminds you of the vast depths within you that your understanding of yourself hasn’t yet come to encompass. As the Moon begins again, allow yourself to come into a vaster conversation with life and the wisdom it has to share.
Aquarius Rising
Observe what brings you motivation and begin folding them into your life in a way that serves you. This week brings insights from memories and emotions within your unconscious and invites you to renew your relationship with the sacred.
Pisces Rising
You’re rewriting patterns, ideas, thoughts, and perspectives this week. You’re opening the mind and allowing yourself to see things a new way. As the Moon begins again in your opposite sign, invite yourself into the beauty that is this physical world, exploring the sacred within all of your humanness.