Good morning,
My September monthly horoscope has been published to all subscribers via email and updated on the Planet Waves Astrology News and Next World Stories homepages. Here is an excerpt from the introduction:
Events of September represent a culmination of the astrology of the past 12 months, and if we look as far ahead as late October (when Saturn changes signs to Libra), we see a culmination of developments of the past two years. For the next few weeks we get to ask, if not answer, the question: what have I been doing with all this time? Implied here is the question of whether you’ve been wasting your precious days, and seeking some sign from the cosmos that you have not. The astrology involves an extra-fancy Mercury retrograde that runs from Sept. 6 through Sept. 29.
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Here is the September horoscope for Virgo. Feedback on this month’s horoscope is below.
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Virgo (Aug. 23- Sep. 22)
For a while, no decision may feel like the right decision, and no set of facts may seem to fit the scenario you are in. I suggest you stop looking for any ultimate explanations or solution sets and accept that currently everything is a variable. True, there are X-factors all over the place (this is true most of the time), but the current aspects include Mercury retrograding in and out of your birth sign through late August, September and October, which will accentuate the effect. The more room you make for things to change not just around you but within you, the more you will be able to profit from those developments. This being said, an observation or conclusion you reached in late August will provide a reference point for what you know to be true, or at least what you are assuming to be true. By a reference point I mean a basic set of facts on which you based a series of derivative ideas or assumptions. I suggest going back to what you were thinking and doing during that timeframe (around Aug. 15 through 18) and considering the various people and situations that you were involved with. There is a phase of history that you want to avoid repeating; recognizing that, knowing and understanding the recent past and what motivated you then will be your first and best ally.
Eric, your words, in the shape of scopes or reflections, move me beyond what any other written material have.
They kick me in the ass, offer a hug, and feel like a friend is looking out for me.
I get truth bumps whenever you mention someone who I also read:Betty Dodson, Dr.Mercola, and my fellow Cancerian, Rob Brezsny, just to name a few.
Thank you for being who you be. It looks good on you!
Eric, Thank you for allowing me to contribute, it’s a pleasure
I can equate reading my horoscope a bit like this…taking a few sips of wine tentatively, mmmn, and asking myself – do I like this, should I have more… and the sip turns into a mouthful, and before I know it I’ve finished the glass!
You never tire of Eric’s way with words, his philosophical take on life is always enchanting and for real.
I often think he’s looking over his shoulder at me and giving me personal advice.
Dorothy
The par characteristic confirms gemini
Next to the process shifts Gemini undergoes the background.
So many astrologers only see the superficial, especially when it comes to Leo. You cut right through the dross, Eric and get to the heart of the matter (so important for us leonine folks!). And always serendipitous…..as is the Oracle, which I often feel could have been written for me personally. I’ve been ummming and aaahhing over whether I could afford to subscribe, even at the current reduced rates, and this post has tipped me over the edge – I’ve finally put my trust in divine provenance and gone for it! Excellent astrology and writing deserves to be supported in every which way. Thanks for a brilliant site, Eric, with its finger on the button 😉 …..and a very generous one too 🙂
Hi Eric and New Readers,
I am a long time reader of Planetwaves and the Horoscopes therein. Not only are they written with intelligence but they are also, for me, more useful than any other horoscope I’ve ever read. I find that I am able to keep the information I read here with me while I experience my days. Sometimes, I need a reminder of how to work through the process that is life, and often I find my reminders within these pages. Thank you for all of the work you do because it is one of the ways we stay connected to our true roots.
Thank you!
Yes Eric, nice…I am a Libra, Capricorn rising, Libra moon. I have been concerned with ancestry these past couple weeks, working on the genealogical tree. I appreciate my ancestry so much, and have to look mostly at the women and arranged marriages-and the intrepid spirit of my pioneer DNA. This past gives me the courage and know how to move through wounds, understand my disfunction, combine the mental process with spiritual understanding. So there is that, don’t feel like I have just been spinning my wheels and not doing what needs to be done. Can’t not work on this stuff, just can’t live a clueless lifestyle.
I am looking at curiously and preparing for my transiting Saturn hitting my natal Mars at Aries point Libra, square my transiting Pluto close to conjunct my Ascendent Capricorn. My Pluto transit won’t be exact until 2012, yeah…that should be nice…
Life is always interesting, never know what is around the corner, in ordinary and non-ordinary reality.
Hi,
Aries is exactly what’s happening right now. Looks like it’s going to carry on into September as well. Beautiful work as always.
As a fellow Piscean, I always figure that – like a parent who is hardest on the child who most follows her footsteps – that you are ‘toughest’ on we fish. And then yes, each time I read your words I feel the profundity ripple my veins and take another look at myself in the magic pool.
Thanks again Eric,
Linda
High-class and a smart study of the stars for every sign. September horoscopes are thought provoking and give a push in the right direction. Being that I am a Taurus, I need a bit of a push now and then again.
Ah Eric. This month’s horoscope fits me and what I have been thinking and doing on so many levels. It deals with my decision to throw away my ideas of curriculum-led education and allowing my kids to learn in a more exploratory way; a way that values their develoment and inner needs. It deals with the issues surrounding my sex life and body image. It deals with our finances here and our long term goals. It touches on my choice to trust and let myself have a friend for the first time in my life. It even mentioned the frustration I have been having with wanting progress to happen faster than it actually is. Do you just slip into people’s minds? It is uncanny how you seem to know my deepest issues and then can put them into words with ideas as to how to look at these and how to handle the feelings that come with them. Every week you have amazing insights that have actually helped me and my family in these times of change. Keep being the voice in the meadow, softly but inexorably giving out wisdom like falling rain; nourishing all of us.
It has been a while since I had the pleasure of reading Eric’s delightfully provocative scopes and I am thrilled again. I have been following his writing on the astrology since the beginning of the year and I am so happy to be on the crest as we move into the final phase of the pagan year and the harvesting – a dynamic wonder generally but this year made more exquisite by your elucidation and guidance. I got really excited a number of times by what was happening based on your prose – I read two signs because I am born on the cusp and that is double happiness in my book! Thank you, Eric.
Melanie
Even the atmospheric tone of your Cancer horoscope reflects the place I am living. I can feel something vibrating within me but it hasn’t yet taken form. Or maybe I don’t have myself tuned to the right frequency yet so I can’t hear it. “You seem to be working out a complex equation, for which there is no easy solution. The issue actually surfaced a year or two ago…” Yes, for the past year I have been working myself into a sweat trying to understand this feeling (and with Mars in Aries sweating is a good thing), but lately, I have started to look at the feelings in wonder. And when I do, I find myself smiling.
“Trust that you’re making progress; trust that the answers will come to you as you need them.”
Thanks, Eric, for the encouragement to keep listening.
i was born at 4:19 am, so i always check in with my moonsign cancer as well as my sunsign virgo… today has been hard, the challenge has been to stand for what i want and what i need regardless of what i might have said before, and not care that others will get pissed or suffer disapointment… cold fear in the pit of my stomach, a visceral pattern passed down through the female line, and i’m still playing it out, i don’t have mastery over my own sympathetic nervous system yet… fearing others’ reactions… anyways, both my horoscopes are complex this month, and seem to reflect today’s events with uncanny accuracy, providing me with handholds on this strange mountainside… thank you eric for offering out this incredible stream of information with such consistency and eloquence, it helps more than i can say.
Eric,
I want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to learn astrology by reading your website on a regular basis. I remember my very first visit to Planet Waves right after the tsunami. Your coverage was extraordinary and I was hooked. From that moment on, I have turned to Planet Waves for inspiration, humor, and community and insight into the important events in our lives, individually and collectively. Your recommendation of Richard Tarnas’ book, “Cosmos and Psyche” further enhanced my understanding of the subject and I am now conversant. I have even had the priviledge of having you do a personal reading for me all the way from Paris! Your words and wisdom encouraged me in so many different ways. Thank you. Last but by no means least, I want to say hello to Chelsea (Chelsea, forgive me, I am still crocheting…measure Eli again!) who if a phenomenon all her own. I have found friendship at Planet Waves. For an Aquarian, that’s an important thing!
Lots of love,
Mia
mm. & Fe,
Another aquarius here – what you said. Both of you seem to have perceived that Eric does not patronize, nor does he enable. The last three sentences, especially, cleared both my sinuses and my head, bracing me with a clearer picture of how the challenges to come might manifest themselves, while at the same time encouraging my capacity to meet them.
With Gratitude and Appreciation,
Len Wallick
Eric –
As a Pisces Sun with Aquarius Moon rising, I completely agree with MM and Fe about your ability to nail the Aquarians with your horoscopes and follow that up with how you always get the Pisceans spot on. In September’s horoscope, I have been experiencing exactly what you are describing: “Through this process you’ve encountered one person after the next who seems intractable. It’s not that they desire stability as much as they seem to be making a case for being stuck. You are mainly what they are using to help themselves get unstuck: and you’ve learned to watch where your energy goes and why, because part of being stuck is that you get to skim off of the energy of everyone else while taking exceedingly few chances.” This, better than anything else I’ve read, describes my relationships since just before Saturn in Virgo opposed my sun. I have gone through one relationship after another where I’ve grown a lot but the guy I’m with is stuck and won’t address many of his issues or try to grow or take chances. And as a result, I’ve ended up in a new place where they can’t follow. These relationships have been a huge energetic drain on me and I was forced to learn how to protect my energy. It’s interesting, as I’ve progressed through Saturn opposite my sun, each guy I’ve been with has been a little less stuck than the first, a little more willing to do their work, and a little less of an energy drain. And each one has used me to help themselves heal a little more, grow a little more and become a little less stuck.
Change has been the name of the game for me that past year and with each change progress has followed. Just as with each relationship that’s ended the next has been a little closer to my level of growth and awareness.
Lately, I’ve been struggling with my relationship with a Capricorn (yes, I too am dating a Cap). The winds of change feel like they are blowing again, but I’m unsure as to whether that means a redefining of our relationship or an ending of our relationship, especially with this major Mercury retrograde coming up. I’ve been eagerly awaiting this September horoscope to gain a little more insight and guidance into the cross-roads I feel I’m at. Unlike all the other horoscopes out there that seem more predictive – look for great love around X day or for house problems around Y day – your horoscopes actually helps give me guidance about where I’m at and about where I am going and how to best harness the energies at work. And as always you deliver! Looking at both the Aquarian and Pisceans horoscopes – I’m far less determined to find an answer just yet, but focused more on having a deep conversation about where we’ve been and where we could potentially go and have that conversation with compassion, understanding and an open mind.
Thanks for bringing such clarity during such an intense, chaotic time!
– Genevieve
I don’t know how you do it, Eric, but you’ve done it again. Have you been reading my mail? Your Taurus horoscope for September is exactly where I’m living these days. My self-talk has included: “I should get a ‘real’ job”; “I’ll never make a living in the creative pursuits I love”; “I’m not motivated enough to do this”. In one short paragraph, you’ve reminded me of the power of other people’s projections, and you’ve helped me see how this negativity has worked to shut down my creative power.
Thank you, my friend, for waking me from this funk and re-directing my energy. I’m off to plunge my hands into a pile of fabric. We’ll see what comes of it!
Dixie
Dear Eric,
Like the softening daylight and the smell of autumn that I can feel but cannot describe your september horoscope gave me a glimpse of something that I know deep inside but cannot pin down. It gave me clues to some of the issues that occupy my current reality.
My natal chart is laden with cardinal planets. Current transits positioning themselves for a spectacular grand cardinal cross in the months ahead sometimes scares the hell out of me. But then I always try to remember that we humans have a choice in how we respond to external events. It gives me comfort.
Many times these horoscopes provide me with a tool to meditate upon and to discover the meaning hidden behind your words. Thank you so much for all your time, interest and above all compassion.
wishing you the best,
aisha
Oh boy, this September horoscope for Virgos…….! When it came in my mailbox this morning I shoved it aside because it was so close to the bone and I’ve had a very hard day today. I feel like I’m holding several tensions and letting them ride wherever (trying to anyway) and as Eric so aptly advised: “accept that currently everything is a variable.” I know in my heart of hearts this to be true but living it out is frankly bloody difficult.
I also know that when he writes: “There is a phase of history that you want to avoid repeating;” I’m nodding my head vigorously in agreement. But there is an art to learning how to avoid and to let go, which I know is coming to the fore of my consciousness and desires. I want so much to end ancestral behaviours that have damaged me and my family for too many generations.
So for now, to soothe my soul, I am immersing myself in my love of music and letting it speak to me. I love music so much and have a notion about myself that I’m learning to be a spiritual orchestrator! By that I mean I feel and appreciate that everyone has musicality within and I conduct them to dance to their own special tune. There are no words to explain this really but it’s soulful work that let’s me express and heal myself.
Yep, for now, on the eve of this Mercurial retrograde, I shall have to give over to the dance of my ruling planet and to its energy playing me every which way!
Eric, I don’t read your horoscopes as a “personal tarot reading,” but I need to say that the September horoscopes for Pisces and Libra (my husband’s sun sign) seem to be speaking directly to our own personal struggles and to the main challenge we are working through in our relationship at this time. Gives me hope that we may work this one through!
Peace and love!
E,
Yep. I read my ‘scope for Sept. and actually said aloud, “wow. I need to print this one out.” As usual, it feels like you’re speaking directly to me. I know how much time and energy you put into these horoscopes (on top of all the other things you put so much time and energy into!) and I am eternally grateful for the insight and reflection they provide. Rock on and THANK you! xoxox -liz
Hi Eric,
I think the Mercury retrograde has already begun for me! I’m having issues with logging on to the blog, but I just have to let you know that your September Horoscope is so on target with what is happening for me right now that I immediately pre-ordered your special Mercury Report. Thats one step I can take to “get the help you need, from people who understand these kinds of issues”. You and this fellowship always provide me with additional sources of understanding of this meaningful existence. I’m working on the next step, which is to have a private consultation with you. The money I’ve spent on a subscription, and your always targeted to the right information for me special reports are a great help in my soulful intentions.
Many thanks to you for bringing light.
P.S. So, I am finally able to log in – turns out it’s a problem with our whole network that has temporarily allowed me to post my comments.
mm:
It does seem like there is a rash of Uranus-Saturnitis as I too can attest with my Capricorn (our Venuses are conjunct, NNodes conjunct Sun and Moon and he has more air earth fire while I have more fire air water). The polarities between us are annoying and exciting. We’re learning from each other and being scared of and enticed by the lesson. In our natures that yearning to learn and to work and reach is the very chariot by which we travel together.
As another fellow aqueerian (as eric puts us), I couldn’t agree with you more about PW.
In the astrology of Planet Waves I feel an adult relating to me as a living breathing, spiritually and emotionally awake person. Its soul-centered work that helped mature me and my vision. It has helped me hone my craft and understand me and my world. Most particularly, it has opened my heart, and that is valued beyond what these measly words can ever aspire to.
“Ally” being the key word here and one that I have been noticing more in my reads and my convos with my good friend, a shaman healer.
Taurus Sun and Virgo Rising with my first Saturn Return almost over has made me understand that some of my subconscious drives and fears have a lot to do with my parents. I can’t say that they are the entire reason but do feel that my decisions lately have been based on what I have watched them go through and what I technically am trying to stay as far away from as possible. These decisions have been the hardest decisions that I have ever had to make, cutting some very vampiric people out of my life. I also feel that on a deeper level, that with my decisions, I am healing some very karmic issues that both parents have endured that ended with them almost completely shutting off the female side of their psyches.
For some reason, the story of my father (11/23/45, who has passed) comes up:
My father’s mother died a day before his 16th birthday and at the funeral was chastised by his father in front of the whole family for crying.
As always, your horoscopes are dead-on. On Sunday (0 degrees blah!) I struggled to find the words to what the hell I was experiencing and I likened the moment to my mouth being a doorway and all of the emotions that I was experiencing were obese and were jammed to the point where nothing could come out. My shaman friend told me to just HONOR it and to FEEL it. My Taurus Sun has almost forgotten how to do this.
Much thanks.
~elle
September- wow, what a horoscope this month. Somewhere between my sun (Libra) my rising (Pisces) and that damn moon (Virgo) you have inspired and encouraged me once again. Despite the immutability of the past, I can, as you say, change my interpretation of what it means to me. Which I have been working on for all the several years since both my parents passed. I am learning to give those people I love, past and present, the benefit of the doubt. Generosity of heart and spirit is always the best route… Thanks for reminding me.
Pan
Eric,
As far as I’m concerned, you’ve got Taurus dialed in. Thanks for holding up the mirror.
~Joe
Ditto from me E! Thanks PT x
Eric, best damn forecast/astrology I’ve seen/read/heard for ages. Just in the nick of time too. Glad you got your mojo working so well and we are the beneficiaries, so you are much appreciated. Keep it coming my friend. Looking forward to the Mercury story for sure.
Hey Eric,
I always hesitate to fill up your inbox but today’s scope for Aquarius is just so … juicy/ripe. It has not been so for a bit and I just wanted to say HEY and thank you. I truly appreciate the take on the Saturn/Uranus opposition, the very notion that this is a synthesis is in stark contrast to the rest of the stuff I read and thus I note with special gratitude.
I’m in this “thing,” for lack of a word, with a Capricorn and doesn’t that just seem impossible and appropriate for the days astrology. His Venus is on my Moon and my Venus is on his Sun (so there’s stuff happening) but this intense attraction hasn’t manifested as yet and I’m thinking it’s about … Saturn and Uranus and how we move WITH rather than against. Until today I was thinking this was a many lifetime deal that is just not for this world … now, I’m open(ing) to the possibility.
You always nail the Aquarians … a little shout out from the bleechers!!
mm.