Another New Moon in VIRGO (Eclipse)

We have another New Moon (also an eclipse) in the sign of Virgo on Sunday September 21st.

The New Moon Solar Eclipse in Virgo is arriving like a threshold moment. The fact that the last new moon was also in Virgo means this eclipse doesn’t come out of nowhere; it’s more like a second chapter, or a continuation of a story already unfolding.

Something seeded in late August is now ripening, reaching a point where choice, clarity, or release becomes unavoidable. Virgo’s energy is about refinement, order, devotion to the small things that sustain life. It is an earth sign ruled by Mercury, which brings the attention inward and downward, into details, into daily rituals, into the ways we organize our days and our thoughts. Where Virgo thrives is in making things work better, bringing healing through consistency, and reminding us that the sacred is often found in the most ordinary of places, our meals, our sleep, the way we care for our space, the way we speak to ourselves.

But Virgo also has its shadow. It can demand too much perfection, hold back out of fear of making a mistake, get lost in criticism or endless adjustment. Under eclipse light, these shadows can surface more strongly. We might see where we’re still trying to control, where we’re afraid to be seen until we’re flawless, or where we’ve let anxiety about the “right way” keep us from actually moving forward. The eclipse doesn’t do this to punish us, it simply shines the kind of uncompromising light that makes denial impossible. And because this eclipse falls at the very edge of Virgo, there’s a sense of urgency; an insistence that we release the weight of perfectionism and step more fully into authenticity.

Spiritually, there is a difference between a lunar and a solar eclipse. A solar eclipse, like the one approaching, happens during a new moon. The light of the Sun—the outward, conscious self—is temporarily obscured. In that pause, the Moon, which symbolizes our inner world, emotions, and unconscious, becomes the stronger influence. Solar eclipses often mark external beginnings or turning points, but they are seeded from the shadow. What has been hidden inside us suddenly alters the path we walk outside. They are catalysts for change, moments where a new reality can be born, sometimes abruptly. (This New moon is a solar eclipse.)

A lunar eclipse, by contrast, takes place at the full moon. The Moon’s light is dimmed, and so it is our inner life that is brought into shadow. Lunar eclipses tend to stir the emotional body more directly, drawing up feelings, memories, or subconscious patterns that were lying beneath the surface. They are times of culmination, endings, and release, when something long-buried can be brought to light so that it can be let go. If the solar eclipse is a portal of new beginnings written in the language of destiny, the lunar eclipse is more like a tide pulling away what is no longer needed.

So when you stand at a solar eclipse in Virgo, you are standing at the doorway of a new chapter that is woven from the subtle fabric of your everyday life.

The moons asks: (Shadow Work Prompts)

-How do you serve yourself and others?

-How do you honor your body and your routines?

-Where can you let go of control so that authenticity can shine through?

-What am I working to pull towards me? (manifesting)

This eclipse is not gentle, but it is precise. It reminds us that transformation often happens not in grand sweeping gestures, but in the small daily choices that, piece by piece, create the life we are working towards.

Happy New Moon!

For more ways to tap into this energy: see the new moon ritual guide in the Library HERE

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Join us in person on Monday 9/22, tickets HERE