Welcome to September star seeds. This month is a doozy, with an eclipse portal opening and some serious cosmic instability afoot.

On September 1, Saturn, our planet of limitations, boundaries, and karmic ties, moves from its retrograde position in Aries to Pisces, where it will stay until February 2026.

As Saturn is the planet of boundaries, when it retrogrades through Pisces —the sign of boundlessness —our limits are pushed and our patience is tested—situations surface to show us how and when to make our “nos” known.

On September 2nd, Mercury, our luminary of the mind and the mouth, moves into Virgo, the sign where it is both at home and in its exaltation. Virgo is the sign of concise communication and divine discernment, the hard edit, so to speak. This energy can help separate the essential from the nonessential, but we must hold the sickle with tact; a focused mind takes us further than a sharpened tongue.

On September 6th, Uranus, our outlaw planet of liberation, upheaval, and sudden change, begins its retrograde in Gemini, a transit that asks us to consider how our roles, routines, or relationships may be constricting the full expression of our selfhood.

Uranus and Saturn are joined in retrograde with Pluto and Neptune.

The banner news this month is the lunar eclipse in Pisces on September 8th and the solar eclipse in Virgo on September 21st.

Under these skies, the status quo gets stuffed in the trunk and lightning rides shotgun. Stability holds no certainty as truths surface, endings come on as suddenly as a summer hailstorm, and the air itself is charged with the feeling that all things save for stasis are possible.

On September 22nd, we welcome the fall equinox and the gradual loss of daylight as we march onward into winter.

Mythologically speaking, the equinox is synonymous with Persephone’s return to the underworld after a 1/2 year in the sunshine. Within the lens of Virgo, we can view this descent below ground as our own sinking and seeding into the earth to rest, restor,e and replenish so we may return at full force and top form.

Read for your sun and rising sign.

Solid ground is hard to come by this month, Aries.

You are a sign that moves fast, but in the coming weeks, and courtesy of this eclipse cycle, change comes in flashes, sudden and irrevocable. Ruled by Mars, reaction is your middle name and confrontation your MO, yet, under these skies, you do best to reflect and release, as raising hell will amount to a hill of no good.

Saturn retrograde enters your twelfth house of endings and the unconscious mind, where it shall tangle and toil through February of 2026, you may find many things falling away in the next six months but trust that this a process of divine editing.

The sun in a fellow earth sign turns your attention to matters of pleasure and play, desire and conception, community and belonging, Taurus.

As writer Elbert Hubbard reminds us, “Art is not a thing; it is a way.”

In this sense, and with the eclipses activating your fifth house of creation and your eleventh house of wishes and friends, I hope you will begin to see every part of your life as a part of a greater work. From how you set a table to who you welcome to it, all things are an offering.

Ahoy Gemini!

The sun and Mercury in Virgo this month activate your fourth house of roots and the reach of the deep past.

A Russian proverb reminds us, “The past is a lighthouse, not a port.”

As Virgo is the sign of divine discernment, I hope that all that came before will serve as a guide but not an anchor.

Drown cancer!

The gods live on your tongue this month, Cancer, as the sun, Mercury, and the eclipse in Virgo activate your third house of communication and exchange.

Eclipses bring startling clarity, and you may surprise yourself in conversation when a truth or revelation is spoken into being or an ending into becoming.

With Jupiter, the planet of lucky dice and good tidings in your sign, whatever comes to pass or is made part of your past will aid and abet your fortunate unfolding.

With luck and language being the preemininent themes for you this month, I suggest you begin each day by saying out loud and with as much conviction as your crab heart can muster, “I believe, I believe, I believe.”

Hello Leo!

The sun’s journey through Virgo and the Virgo eclipse later this month throw open the door and rock the foundation of your second house of wealth and worth.

Meanwhile, Daddy Saturn and the Pisces eclipse activate your eighth house of death, resources, secrets, and intimacy.

These houses are where we experience gains and losses, consummation and expulsion, rise and fall, ripe and rot.

In the spirit of this paradox, I offer you the words of Leo poet Li-Young-Lee who writes:

“O, to take what we love inside,

to carry within us an orchard, to eat

not only the skin, but the shade,

not only the sugar, but the days, to hold

the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into

the round jubilance of peach.”

As we approach the autumn equinox, I hope you will savor the sweetness that belongs solely to what is never meant to last.

Happy return of the sun to you, Virgo.

The eclipse portal is open for most of your celebratory season, making the energy feel more like getting schooled than coming home.

This eclipse cycle is coming hard for your first house of the self and your seventh house of partnership, and as a result, themes to identity and attachment are up for review.

Yours is the sign of discernment, and eclipses are about fated release; as you become increasingly aware of what forces growth and what sifles with stasis, I offer you this parable of wisdom from Ram that:

“What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.”

Welcome to September, Libra!

The sun in Virgo shines a light on your twelfth house of endings and the subconscious time, your annual summons to cut loose any extraneous hang-ups, binding ties, or negative self-talk before your solar return.

To aid you in pruning and building a pyre, I offer a little internet wisdom: “It’s ok to burn bridges to places you don’t want to go back to.”

Ever forward.

When Mars, your ancient ruler, comes home to your sign later this month, you’ll be urged to seek out intensity, even and especially when you run the risk of having your heart broken, Scorpio.

Do not resist, do not dip a toe when you could be taking a dive.

In the words of fellow scorpion and a cappella angel Jeff Buckley“The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It’s worth being bashed against. It’s worth getting scarred by. It’s worth pouring yourself over every one of its hot coals.”

All in time, all for the ride.

Arrows up, Sagittarius!

September is a season of anchors and aspirations for you. The eclipses fall in your fourth house of root systems and your tenth house of legacy and purpose. Eclipses are known to reveal and remove, and you could face some shocking truths about where you come from and/or where you’re going.

Trust that nothing is lost, only transformed, and that there is no force greater than good timing.

The sun and Mercury in Virgo light a lamp in your ninth house of philosophy, ideals, beliefs, and adventure, Capricorn.

Now, more than ever, your confidence sets your communication apart and your connection aloft. Your lesson this month is to discover the myriad ways chemistry can be put to use. No interaction is wasted, no connection missed if you remain open to the possibility that every person you meet is an agent of fate rolling out the carpet of tomorrow.

Look up and step through.

Hello Aquarius!

The sun and Mercury in Virgo throw a light on your shadowy eighth house of death, shared resources, and transformation.

While these are heavy themes, they can always be offset with levity and company.

In an homage to that trinity, I offer you this Peruvian parable: “Laughter loosens the coffin nails.”

I hope these next few weeks see you howling with joy, even and especially as you face the presence of pain.

September will be a month to remember, Pisces.

Saturn returns to your sign and your first house on the first of the month, bringing with it the summons to get back to growing up. However, that advancement need not be punishing.

Eclipise season is the equivalent of a hailstorm wherein the pellets are formed from the burps of ghosts and the unprocessed emotional detritus of others. Hard not to get hit when you’re a fish who feels deep. This pelting is, if you let it, a prime time to get clear about what is and isn’t your responsibility.

Pro tip: Your healing is, theirs isn’t.

The lunar eclipse is a lesson in expansion for you, opening you to possibilities you have not previously considered and opportunities you may have felt unprepared for or unworthy of.

Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture, and personal experience. To book a reading, visit her website.