Astrology for September 2023

This month we see Venus turning direct on Sep 4 and Jupiter moving retrograde from Sep 5. Then from Sep 16 Mercury also turns direct and the usual pace of life resumes. Jupiter retrograde gives us a period of the year when desire is more consciously suppressed to allow for a deeper examination of your own intrinsic moral code. To establish what is of more value to you, personal gain or a deepening of your relating to others and life in general.

The Full Moon in Pisces traverses August 31 and Sep 1, heightening inner tensions and motivations to engage in more satisfying ways to be more personally effective in all your interactions. Your efforts though may fall a bit short of your expectations as Mars forms an inconjunct aspect to Saturn over the next four days. There is an uncertain sense as you may feel you compromise too much or are taken advantage of unless you push forward with your own agenda. To counter these difficulties, you will need to be thorough and take the time to more carefully resolve background issues. This will be complicated by deeper urges to shake up the complacency of those around you as their energies affect you very much. 

On Sep 2, the crisis reaches new heights with stronger compulsions to stir the pot and shake things up as your obligations weigh heavily upon you. What may be better to do could be to withdraw for a bit, take time out to do something creative or maybe go and see a movie to take your mind off things. The tensions continue onto Sep 3 with your struggles to actualise what is of value to you right now where your reason and feelings will not aligned so well. At the same time respect the feelings that are arising as they are very much connected to deeper more unconscious needs. Now will be the time to bring all parties together to forgive and resolve, bringing a deeper healing and initiating a changing of your old values that no longer are appropriate.

Sep 4 things slow down and will be a good day to just withdraw. Do not engage as feelings of powerlessness will heighten resentments. Take the time to do some soul searching, find your own alignment and then things will begin to look brighter. Venus turns direct bringing with it a renewal of your creative self expression which now will more faithfully align with your new inner values. The clouds then disperse and joy takes hold as you engage with others, enjoying the lightness and fun needed after a few heavy and intense days.

Sep 5 brings clarity and receiving news or information about your past or your family helps you to plan for the future as new possibilities are now open to you. Jupiter now moves retrograde and so for the next four months marks a time of a deeper examination of your intrinsic moral code. By the end of the day the mood shifts. There is an impatience with routine as the urge is for acting more impulsively takes hold.

Sep 6 ramps up the intensity and confusion, leaving you feeling out of touch but managing to find the courage to bear with and examine more closely your current circumstances. Then Sep 7 will prove more fruitful for having conversations with others and airing grievances or concerns which prevent you from having more satisfying relationships. This marks the Third Quarter Moon and so the final crisis of the Solar-Lunar month of Virgo. Once again, the focus of this month has centred around improving personal effectiveness and health, leading onto the next month in Libra where you begin to examine or deepen your more intimate relationships. So this crisis, for now, relates to what is getting in the way of having all this and in clarifying this you will feel more aligned to your deeper needs.

On Sep 8, do not hope for achieving much. Stay grounded and see the humour. You will be more particularly affected by recreational and medicinal substances today so take care not to over indulge yourself.

Sep 9 is a much better day for getting stuff done. However, a word of warning, be thoughtful regarding your actions as rash acts may cause you harm later down the track.

Sep 10 may prove more disruptive as your restlessness is met with obstacles. Acknowledge your increased sensitivities and vulnerabilities so you can avoid getting into intense conflicts. Sep 11 has a similar energy to begin with and by the end of the day, Mercury aspects Mars and this energy will remain active for the next couple of days. The message here is about being careful with how you cooperate with others as this will tend to compromise your own goals or hoped for outcomes. In spite of this word of warning, Sep 12 will be a harmonious day and a good time for being more social.

Sep 13 has a more frenetic energy to it with feelings of recklessness and not light heartedness. You may struggle with your interactions as you feel the weight of peoples’ demands and have this sense that backing down will compromise your own needs. Try to take some time out. This would also be the advice for Sep 14. Just get on with your work and speak to someone you trust, someone who has your back.

Sep 15 brings the New Moon and so a low time in the energies for the month as life begins to build again. Unconscious habit patterns and behaviours may start to surface in preparation for refining how you will begin to work more collaboratively with others. Once again, this is a sensitive day, so take care not to over indulge in recreational or medicinal substances.

Sep 16 begins with a deep desire to be more honest with yourself and with those close to you as part of this transition moving into the Solar-Lunar month of Libra. But there are also a couple more influences today with the first being Mercury turning direct. Life returns to its normal fast pace as we fly headlong into things without introspection, as we have already done this. Over the next 47 days we will tend to act more upon instinct than reason. Heightening this energy is the aspect between the Sun and Uranus, marking an excellent time for branching out and engaging in new activities. If studying, you will achieve more than you will on other days.

Sep 17 is another active day and a good one for socialising. Self control may not be so good as you want to indulge yourself. Sep 18 and 19, the energies soften with the Sun opposing Neptune and again you will be extra sensitive to the effects of recreational and medicinal substances. 

Sep 19 brings the first emerging tensions of this Solar-Lunar month where relating and relationships come under more conscious scrutiny. Be mindful of what motivates you to act benevolently. Are you trying to buy their permission and so free yourself to indulge whenever you choose? Or are you offering your services because you feel they cannot look after themselves? If so then you will feel deprived from the experience. There will be little satisfaction. It is important to remind ourselves that sometimes it is better to just not interfere, to just mind our own business. You may need to sit with this as there will be much confusion about you.

Sep 20 will be a better day for speaking out about what’s bothering you and then Sep 21 will be a very intense and powerful day, good for getting your work completed. Sep 22 is a more sociable day in the lead up top the Sun finally moving into Libra on Sep 23 when the Moon gets to the First Quarter and so the first crisis point in relating. This month will be about you learning more about who you are and what you need through your personal, or one-to-one, relationships. Adding some tension to this day will be Mars aspecting Saturn. It will be important to understand that any blocks you experience actually originate from your lack of inner confidence, your fear of failure or of feeling ambiguous.

Sep 24 will be focused upon getting ahead and how you are to achieve this. This planning will prove productive over the next three days. All this planning prevents you from focusing upon your own personal needs which you will then question in the build up to the Full Moon in Aries on Sep 29 where relating will reach its zenith and force further resolution through crisis on Sep 30.

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