What’s Happening in September 2024.

New Moon coming soon! The next month will be a time when many things will be unveiled and revealed, when some things become very clear and there is a renewal based in balanced reweaving elements of the past. This is a productive month, with a need to concentrate on the inner at the expense of outer things.

This Lunation introduces a new focus wherever we have 11 Virgo, a degree of things being revealed, where we understand “the hidden fruits of nature” if we have dared to love in the time of Leo. At this time of the year, all the planets are in half the zodiac (Pisces through Libra) with Pluto the only planet outside the occupied half. Due to where the inner planets are now, the focus of activity these next 4 weeks is in the 42+ degree span which includes Mercury in late Leo, the Lunation, and Venus in early Libra.

An Overview of the New Moon

Today we’ll do an overview of the Lunation and some of its primary qualities. In part 2 we’ll cover Sabian Symbols, aspects, distributions, and patterns.

This distributive, renewing, balancing, unveiling, and concentrative New Moon at 12 Virgo occurs at 6:56 pm PDT on September 2, 2:56 am BST on September 3. This is the first of the last three New Moons with Pluto in Capricorn for centuries to come. The next New Moon with Pluto in Aquarius will be the Sagittarius New Moon on Nov 30/Dec 1.

All of this year’s Lunations with Pluto in Aquarius have assisted the sprouting of Aquarian seeds which will impact generations to come. This one in Virgo helps us use the forceful energies of August in practical ways which can help us understand what we haven’t before now. Recalibrate as needed to maintain balance and equilibrium.

This month continues the annoyance of Saturn semisquare Pluto, as the Lunation is opposed Saturn and sesquisquares Pluto. Of course given that there are some great aspects to the Lunation and to Saturn and a lot of 7th harmonic aspects, it’s a turning point where a lot can be accomplished!

Mercury’s still in its shadow zone and speeding up. It makes some very good aspects which I’ll discuss in part 2. Concentrate to create, focus on how to release spiritual energies in the emotional or social realms, and remember you’ve been at this “fork in the road of destiny” before. Embrace the “genuine rejuvenation” and life renewal promised by Uranus this month. With Venus as Uranus’ ruler, stay balanced, find the rhythm of renewal, and glide into the future!

At this time of year the Sun shines a light on all of us in our Virgo sector, allowing us to take the heart energy and creative power of Leo and give it significant shape or form in some ways. We’re taking a trip “back to the future,” with important decisions coming down after 2 years of consideration at the deepest of spiritual levels. Who and what do you serve? This month can make a lot of things clear.

This New Moon will jumpstart Virgo energy wherever it falls in our chart. As that sign is now a focus of activity, along with a healthy dose of the last 10 degrees of Gemini, communicate, interact, share information, and take the remains of the past to recreate something you’ll be “glad to wear” in the coming season. As Virgo teaches us discernment, find the step plan and get it organized to accomplish whatever you’re visualizing is your ideal.

So What Rules the Lunation?

This New Moon in Virgo has Mercury in Leo as its ruler. As Virgo is in the axis of the Archetype of the Archetype of the Priest(ess), healer, Shaman and Guide, we enter into a period of guiding others or being guided into a new awareness. This is the Light of Divine Discrimination, Viveka, where we learn how to serve with humility and focused attention as we make needed adjustments and adaptations these next four weeks, so guide or be guided according to your training and purpose.

So this Lunation is ruled by Mercury in Leo, setting up a powerful “Mutual Reception,” a self-contained mutually reinforcing closed energy field. Venus is in Libra, ruling itself. Mars is in Gemini, ruled by Mercury. Jupiter in Gemini is ruled by Mercury, Saturn in Pisces is ruled by Jupiter, Uranus in Taurus is ruled by Venus, Pluto is ruled by Saturn, and as usual, Neptune occupies its home sign continuing as a long wave “standalone” dispositor of itself, ruling the fogs and mists of the current collective consciousness.

So this month we have a Mutual Reception and two “final dispositors:” the Sun and Mercury is the Mutual Reception, with Venus and Neptune the final dispositors. You can find out more about dispositors in general, chains of dispositors, and mutual reception by going to dispositors and Mutual Reception at the link.

Who Leads the Light?

At this time, Mercury at 24 Leo is the “gateway to the Light.” This indicates the “entry to illumination” involves an awareness of the Guide of Souls showing us how to go inward to concentrate our spiritual power on the emotional or social level. We are learning how to “release” certain energies, creatively or as preparation for linking “the above and below” in our lives (even if there’s a bit of stress) and receiving “spiritual blessings at the death of useless things.”

Mercury will continue to be the gateway to the Light until the next Superior conjunction of Mercury and the Sun on September 30. The study of which planet leads the Sun is a crucial but often overlooked part of understanding how the planets work in sequence.

The Sun/Moon Sequence and Its Shifts

There are two patterns: one with the Sun in the same sign as the Sun in the following Full Moon (New Moon between 1-15 degrees of a sign), and one with the Sun in a different sign than it’s in at the following Full Moon (New Moon between 16-30 degrees of a sign). I term these the “Natural” pattern and the “Alternate” pattern, since the Natural pattern shows a continuity of the Light, whereas the Alternate pattern bridges the Light across two signs. Each pattern has its importance in the Soli-Lunar sequence, and at the end of each period of the Natural pattern we shift into a pattern which “bridges the Light” across two different Light signs in the Lunation cycle.

We are now at the third New Moon in many months where the Sun sign of the New Moon is also the Sun sign of the following Full Moon. We’ve just finished an era when the New Moon Sun sign was different than the Sun sign of the following Full Moon. Last month was the second one in the new sequence, as the New Moon Sun was at 13 Leo and the Full Moon Sun was at 28 Leo. This month’s Full Moon Sun is at 26 Virgo. This indicates that we’ve returned to a time when the illuminated seed forms of the New Moon are the same energies which will find fulfillment at the Full Moon.

The New Moons and Full Moons are “God’s footprints in time.” Each shows the next in the 12 phases of how things come to be each year. The cycle could be described as follows: Life energy is initiated in Aries, substantiated in Taurus, explored in Gemini, grounded in Cancer, renewed and creatively expressed in Leo, refined and ordered in Virgo, balanced and made pleasing in Libra, purified and focused in Scorpio, expanded in Sagittarius, organized in Capricorn, solidified into a vision in Aquarius, and ended/perpetuated in Pisces.

Eclipses Effects in Play

The 2023 and 2024 Solar eclipses have been removing parts of our lives where we have 30 Aries, 20 Aries, and 22 Libra. We are also in a several month period of “Cosmic recycling” wherever we have 6 Libra/Aries. We now care about other things, have a new focus, and can join with others for mutual strengthening. We continue to eliminate old ways of self-expression and equivocating in relationships, and now will begin to see the results of what we visualized before now, or see the need for a more careful visualization of what we want to see made manifest.

We are now freed of many old ideals and areas we used to work within. All of these eclipses ask us “What is the purpose to what you leave behind and what you’re moving into?” Certainly the recent Total Solar eclipse is going to shut down some things in our Aries/Libra sectors so we may grow toward the stellium conjunct the North Node in Aries. Time to move in new directions with new people!

Of course, the big news is we have eclipses on the way! We’ll have a Lunar eclipse on September 17 at 26 Virgo/Pisces, and a Solar eclipse on October 2 at 11 Libra. I’ll write more about those before they arrive.

Jupiter and Saturn

Jupiter’s conjunction with Uranus at 22 Taurus began a new 13 year adventure into new lives. That conjunction theme is about us seeing “the white dove flying over troubled waters” which promises that our ordeal is completed and we are or will see a sign from Spirit announcing a new day, a new land, and a new life wherever we have 22 Taurus. Mars activated that energy right before it conjuncted Uranus at 27 Taurus in mid-July.

Jupiter is now in Gemini and having made its first waxing square to Saturn, approaches its stationary retrograde degree of 22 Gemini. Jupiter square Saturn happens three time over an 11 month span. We had the first one in mid-August is from 17 Gemini to 17 Pisces. The second one happens Christmas eve from 15 Gemini to 15 Pisces. The third one is next June and falls from 2 Cancer to 2 Aries. As it’s fairly non-stop between now and then, the mutable squares require we bring forth healthy Virgo and Sag responses, and next Summer, healthy Libra and Capricorn responses.

Saturn is extraordinarily important in this New Moon because of the forming opposition with the Lunation and the quintile to Uranus. We also see it in an evolutionary configuration with Mercury and Mars, creating three points in a “7 Pointed Star of Destiny.” I’ll speak of these aspects and more in part 2.

It’s still doing its review of 13 to 20 Pisces, promising us nourishment and rewards at “the end of our day of labor.” As this New Moon is opposed Saturn, throw off any vague heaviness or worry related to ghosts of the past, unveil what needs unveiling, and it should lead to a renewal of some sort. The best thing Saturn has going these days is the quintile to Uranus, setting up several powerful voids bringing gifts, unique developments, and quintessential experiences and blessings to those with planets near 15-17 Pisces, 27 Taurus – 1 Gemini, 9-13 Leo, 21-25 Libra, and 3-7 Capricorn.

June 2023 through February 2024 called us to forms of life renewal, and now we’re in a new sector of Pisces. We’re now solidly in the next stage of our life renewal as we experience “non-local awareness” with our Spiritual Sisters and Brothers within the One Life. We now are “finding nourishment,” have “walked with our wisdom,” and now get to participate in a collective renewal. We’ve been revising many ideas and some have been called to a greater stage. If called to perform, don’t hesitate! Saturn in Pisces certainly tests our compassion for everything and everyone!

Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend

Because Saturn now sails the open seas of Pisces, the part of us learning to be spiritually mature and grateful for our understanding of healthy boundaries and self-disciplines is now in a seascape of the collective feelings of all humanity over all time. This is a powerful restructuring spiritual force wherever we have mid-Pisces in our chart. Saturn now leads us in a Master Class in compassion and forgiveness practices, and learning a sober view of the collective human condition.

Between 2018 and early 2023, Saturn taught us to be more spiritually effective within a group work than we were before that period. We’ve used those skills since then in our Capricorn and Aquarius areas to achieve closures, helping us prepare for the new era coming when Saturn enters Aries in May of 2025.

Making friends with our inner Saturn is the most important thing we can do to fulfill our spiritual destiny. If you want to know more about your power to throw off oppressive chains, limitations, and fears, please give yourself the timeless gift of my book, Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend. We all need to make friends with our inner Saturn if we would claim our power to fulfill our higher purpose for being alive as Spirits in the material world.

The book offers ways to take command of your power to steer your life in a conscious way, using Saturn’s strengths and skills to master life on your own terms. As Saturn is such a dominant energy in life, by owning our ability to demonstrate Saturn's virtues, we take command of our destiny and become the living purpose we were born to make manifest!

It was written for both astrologers and non-astrologers, and will assist your understanding of how your life experiences assisted your Soul growth and power to turn away from unhelpful karmic cause and effect patterns. Each time you re-read any part of it you’re sure to find undiscovered gems of insight helping you throw off attitudes which frustrate your ability to live your higher Purpose on your own terms.

A Look Back - The Great Compression of 2020 in Capricorn Still Affects Us

As mentioned earlier, we’re now in the fifth year of a long term focus wherever we have late Capricorn and early Aquarius in our charts. In the first 90 days of 2020, we had a “Great Compression” of planets involving Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto all making conjunctions in the last decan of Capricorn, setting off a number of Saturn cycles, one of which will last 33 years! We then began an accelerated phase of our collective spiritual evolution which will take us from the threshold of the Age of Aquarius into the Age itself.

You can find out more about the very powerful Sun, Mercury, and Saturn's conjunctions with Pluto by revisiting The Great Compression of January 2020 – Mercury, Sun, Saturn and Pluto all Conjunct in Capricorn. That lays out the long wave patterns set into motion then.

Because of the Capricorn conjunctions set in motion in 2020, we reorganized our lives wherever we have late Capricorn in our charts. These cycles will impact all of us for some time to come. Especially with three Jupiter conjunctions with Pluto that year, it’s easy to see that for better or worse things were “expansively purified.”

When Mars conjuncted Saturn at 1 Aquarius on March 31, 2020, it set a cycle into motion which began to expand into a global system at the December 2020 Grand Mutation on the same degree. That Jupiter/Saturn conjunction launched both a new 20 year Aquarian cycle AND a new 200 year era of Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions in Air signs. That means less materialism than the past 200 years, with more focus on our commonality and ability to share ideas over the next 200.

Saturn in Aquarius led us to understand a more timeless role to play to help create a better world. Since then we have deepened with Saturn in Pisces. As always, Saturn in the harvest signs at the end of the zodiac challenge us to ask “What is our purpose? What structures and self-disciplines do we need to fulfill the ideal of that purpose?”

Neptune in Pisces and Chiron in Aries

In this chart, Chiron is at 23 Aries. Since its retrograde station, we’ve had doors open to “concentrated doses of spiritual energies” for the rest of the year. Chiron is said to help us “heal into our Higher Self” and the themes of 24 Aries promise “good fortune upon the putting forth of effort.” Be receptive to higher energies, as they’re blowing through our mind-windows everywhere!

Chiron involves mentoring or being mentored, assisting or being assisted related to these themes. This will help us focus our potency or move us toward our potential. Chiron is now moving us forward in the level of social or emotional potency. This month puts the focus on 23 Aries where Mars recently conjuncted Chiron, explained in depth in the article linked below.

In the bigger picture, Jupiter’s conjunction with Chiron in early 2023 began a very long wave healing and mentoring cycles wherever we have mid- Aries. Because Chiron’s last direct station was at 16 Aries, it means in 2024 Chiron is mentoring us and teaching us how to heal into our Higher Self through getting a new inspiration while seeing the relationship between the conscious and unconscious sides of life.

This continues our adventure related to Chiron’s healing and mentoring energies in the second decan of Aries. We now have two major Chironic themes in play: one was set into motion when Mars recently conjuncted Chiron in Aries in 2024, which I explained in Mars Conjunct Chiron at 23 Aries. The other major Chironic cycle was set into motion when Chiron went stationary direct, which I wrote about in Astrology Healing Cycles in 2024 - Chiron Stationary Direct at 16 Aries.

So Aries continues to dominate the Mars/Chiron cycle, with a new long wave Chironic pulse added at the Jupiter/Chiron cycle which began at 15 Aries in March 2023. This began a new cycle of “the expansive healer,” “opportunities to mentor and be mentored,” and "healing and teaching through humor." The last Jupiter/Chiron conjunction happened in late Aquarius in 2009, and this one lasts through 2036 when they meet again at 17 Gemini. This is an important cycle which will help us “heal into our Higher Self” at crucial points over the next 13 years.

Neptune now approaches the end of its depth immersion in its home sign of Pisces, and now is in its long term stay in the last decan, ruled by Scorpio with an added dose of Mars. This is “the end of the end” of the 360 degree “Whole Cycle,” and so encompasses all of the ghosts and unfulfilled mysteries of this past 150 year cycle since it was last here. It also allows us to purify and forgive much of the past and move into a deeper compassion regarding suffering humanity.

This New Moon shows Neptune at 29 Pisces, a degree of seeing how the parts relate to the whole, and how at the end of a cycle the whole splits into its parts, like white light splitting into the spectrum. We stand at a threshold where the future is just around the corner, so be clear about what you want to see made manifest in the next era. We are in a time which is a prelude to a new collective mindset coming in mid-2025. We began an acceleration in this “disintegration” energy when Mars conjuncted Neptune on this degree in late April. The end of Pisces allows us expanded “non-local knowing.”

Summing Up - The Big Picture

The Capricorn conjunctions of early 2020 continue to condition the long wave cycles unfolding since then even as we simultaneously build a new Aquarian social-spiritual ideal. Jupiter raced through Pisces and Aries at perihelion after its time in Aquarius and opened infinite potentials to be actualized over the next 20 years. What Jupiter opened in 2021, Saturn crystallized in 2022, and the promise of fortunate endings made when Jupiter was in mid Pisces February-March 2022 is now being made real by Saturn.

We’re now at a stage where, having heard Saturn’s “call to self-renewal,” we have been flowing into our mastery, our archetypal Self, and our part to play in the bigger picture of our spiritual journey. With Saturn in Pisces, while endings may feel heavy, the immediate lightness which follows helps move us into a new life adventure.

We are now solidly in the dawning of the emergent Pluto in Aquarius era, with new work to be done and new lands appearing. This is a turning point in our relationships, so express your heart, your play, your creativity, and see how all of these are related to relationships in the past. We are now on a new adventure, so enjoy the clarity of Jupiter trine Pluto. We are learning how to stabilize and express the dawning Plutonic seeds of the emerging Aquarian era, so things will be very “transitional” from now through 2025.

Summing Up – The Immediate Picture

We now enter a race to complete some things, get other things ready for movement forward in the Spring of 2025, and are in a time of greater “feeling awareness” with the Lunation opposing Saturn. This one brings revelations, unmasking things concealed up to now. There is a need to concentrate, to go inward rather than be preoccupied with outer things.

We now can shape or re-shape our plans, knowing they will attain a degree of solidity in the Grand Earth Trines coming in about 2 weeks. That should stabilize the momentum as we become clearer about what we’re taking forward and how some things are fracturing at the end of their shelf life. This is a time to “recombine the remains” into a new song, a new “garment,” a new vision.

Venus conjunct the South Node shows we can safely fall back on our line of least resistance in our interactions. This should provide a natural grace and elegance to things as we share information and are awakened to a “genuine rejuvenation.”

Virgo is where we learn the virtues of service and humility. We can now take all we experienced in Leo and give it “significant form” in Virgo. We are seeing how the parts relate to the whole, which parts are more prominent in the big picture, and will be awakening to elements of our individual spiritual service.

Remember that in this North Node in Aries/South Node in Libra era, Aries wants to get it in gear and Libra wants to look good doing it! As the North Node is in Aries, be willing “to boldly go where you’ve never gone before.” This month shows growth in multiple realms requiring us to “uplift the weak” and “tame the strong.” Keep demonstrating balance and you’ll glide through the occasional tensions.

This is a month of “final decisions.” Take responsibility for your long term renewal as things fall apart and/or stabilize in new ways. Renounce the lesser while accepting the greater. Release things of lesser importance and focus on stabilizing the plan forward. Use creative imagination, concentration, and a sense of the flow to move into new training. Focus on your heart power as an entry to the Light, and if you get a little disoriented as “things fall apart, remember the wisdom of Nelson Wilbury, “If you don’t know where you’re going any road will take you there.”

Final Thoughts

In 2020-2022, Capricorn helped us to find new forms of social power, while Aquarius took it into a much vaster context of a greater good. As you journey into the “new lands” promised by the recent Jupiter conjunctions with Uranus, remember enlightenment is a verb, not a noun, and our connection with the World Soul allows us to act in harmony with “All That Is.”

Because of our total immersion in Aquarian energy in 2021-2022, we’ve received innovative ideas and know who our spiritual allies are. In the past 3 years we’ve broken away, broken free, and broken through whatever used to block our flow. We approach a new cooperative era, and we’re now in a time of new initiatives!

We’re still becoming more conscious of our interrelatedness within the spiritual field and moving through an immersion in a new sensitivity to the generic human condition. The new era dawning will show us that we are in fact individual sparks of Light within an infinite ocean of Light. We are not separate from any other thing, since all things are Light and therefore we are one with All.

This is the beginning of the beginning of a new 200 year era. The powerful forces being released at times may be chaotic, violent, intractable, and irrational, but there is power in our unified vision of a better future. Stay clear about what your vision is, and let go of all which prevents you from flying free with your Spiritual Brothers and Sisters into a better future. Keep the course steady despite the compressed tensions of this time, and know we’re on our way into the future together!

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As Venus is leading the other planets, She will be the herald for coming transits for the rest of the year as She is the first to move through Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sag, Capricorn and Aquarius through the end of this year. That shows our feelings will be very important as a way to process experience from now through next Spring. This month She favors contacting our social or emotional archetypes and visualizing what we want to see made manifest in our lives which is pleasing to us, whether it helps us grow or simple helps us show what we already know. This will being beauty and harmony to planets we have at the beginning of the Fire and Air signs.

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See you soon with part 2, which will cover Sabian Symbols, Jones patterns, element distribution, and a whole lot more!

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