We cooperate with Life: Life gives us options; our decisions give it form.
The Sun will be in Virgo from August 22 through September 22. The following forecast for the month of Virgo is general and will apply to everyone.
Each aspect listed below will be in effect (“in orb”) between its Entering and Leaving dates but strongest on its Exact date. The aspects in play at any time may or may not harmonize well with one another.
TRANSITING SUN ENTERING VIRGO
Aug 22 2024
Playtime’s over — there’s work to be done! It’s time to come back down to earth for a month and get practical. Let’s consider the tasks before us carefully and perform them with accuracy, because, as we know, important details overlooked now could mean serious trouble later.
TRANSITING MARS SQUARE TRANSITING NEPTUNE
Entering Aug 31 2024, Exact Sep 3 2024, Leaving Sep 5 2024
The first half of the month brings some challenges to practical progress, beginning with this square in the last degrees of mutable signs Gemini and Pisces. It’s a wheel-spinning, rowing-in-circles kind of transit. While Mars pushes us along multiple routes of action, Neptune sets patches of dense fog in our paths. Fortunately it only lasts for about a week, but it’s irksome.
However clearly we may be thinking, it may seem that our actions are being weakened or thwarted by some kind of secret sabotage or unseen barrier. Why are we not more effective? Is there a block or leak somewhere? Is our energy being hijacked? We could do much if only we knew exactly what we’re doing, but we’re likely to waste a lot of energy now because somehow we don’t. For the present, we may expend much effort just trying to figure out what is going on.
TRANSITING URANUS STATIONARY
Sep 1 2024
Having been updating physical production in Taurus for the past 5 years, innovative Uranus is poised to take its new show on the road in Gemini — but no, it isn’t going there now after all. It’s pausing before going back into Taurus for updates on the updates, and it won’t hit the Gemini road until July of 2025. Hmmm.
TRANSITING PLUTO ENTERING CAPRICORN
Sep 1 2024
Pluto has been in Aquarius since January, and has been retrograding back towards Capricorn since early May. Now it’s actually back in Capricorn for a few brief weeks, but in November it will return to Aquarius to stay until the 2040s. Here’s what I wrote about this important transit when it entered Aquarius last January:
TRANSITING PLUTO ENTERING AQUARIUS
Jan 20 2024
On this most unusual day, the Sun is accompanying Pluto into Aquarius! This transition is routine for the Sun, which enters Aquarius every year; but Pluto, whose orbit is 248 years long, hasn’t been in Aquarius at all since 1799!!
Slow and ultra-powerful Pluto ‘peels away’ the proverbial ‘onion skins’ to reveal what is deeply hidden within whatever it touches. Since late in 2008 it’s been in Capricorn, intensifying and exposing secrets within leadership and established structures at all levels. In the autumn months of 2024 it will revisit Capricorn to finish its job there, but otherwise it’s in Aquarius to stay all the way into the early 2040s. Now we will begin to see what’s been developing invisibly among individual people and groups of volunteers.
The ingress of any slow-moving planet into a new sign marks a significant time of change for society in keeping with the signs involved. In the case of Capricorn-to-Aquarius, the metaphor of a slingshot comes to mind. The increasing pressure and tension during the Capricorn period is like the stretching of the rubber as the slingshot’s projectile is slowly drawn back (over the past 16 years in the present case with Pluto). As the Aquarius period begins, the ‘projectile’ is launched into flight.
The last time Pluto left Capricorn and entered Aquarius, as it is doing now, was way back in December of 1778, during the progress of the American Revolution. A review of history can yield valuable clues to what is happening in the world now. Although times have changed greatly since then, we can expect to see important parallels between that time and this.
What will Pluto do during its forthcoming stay in Aquarius? Nothing in Aquarius is really predictable, but as Pluto has been working in Capricorn to transform basic structures of society, so it should work in Aquarius to reveal human creativity and transform science and social ideals. Theoretically it should not only reveal things like secret inventions and various peculiar phenomena that we never knew existed, but also launch an exciting renaissance of new creativity. We know that the objects of Pluto’s revelations are never again viewed the same as before. We know also that Pluto’s last trip through Aquarius lasted from 1778 to 1799, so we can look to history during those 21 years for clues to what the contemporary version of this transit might be.
TRANSITING MARS ENTERING CANCER
Sep 4 2024
Cancer is all for safety and security, so that’s what Mars will be pushing for over the next couple of months. Mars rightfully channels the fundamental motivation for survival. We will not hesitate to do whatever we may need to do in order to protect our homes and ways of life, and to keep our families safe.
TRANSITING SUN OPPOSITION TRANSITING SATURN
Entering Sep 6 2024, Exact Sep 8 2024, Leaving Sep 9 2024
Symbolically this is a confrontation between a hero who takes pride in his good physical health and useful work (Sun in Virgo) and a villain/guardian whose structures currently tend to support physical weakness and discourage useful work (Saturn in Pisces). It poses limitations, difficulties, delays, and other obstacles to practical functions. On the other hand, it also stimulates the hero’s ambition and desire to prove his self-worth. Difficult judgments and decisions may be necessary now.
TRANSITING SUN SQUARE TRANSITING JUPITER
Entering Sep 10 2024, Exact Sep 12 2024, Leaving Sep 13 2024
Jupiter and the Sun are both in Mercury-ruled signs now (Gemini and Virgo), which means they are both concerned with details, both verbal and physical. It’s something to spread a lot of things far and wide, and something else to sort and arrange things for appropriate, accurate, and efficient function. The problem with this square is that it calls for all of that, all at once, which can be too much. In addition to overconfidence and the pressures of general overload, there are bound to be mistakes and disagreements about the “right” way to do things. Hopefully the goodness of both Jupiter and the Sun are coming through, even if the output isn’t as big or as perfect as we intend.
TRANSITING URANUS SEXTILE TRANSITING NEPTUNE
Entering Sep 14 2024
Beginning now, creative thought can more easily perceive and express natural connections between the physical world and the non-physical world. While this aspect is active, we can enjoy a wonderful time for spirituality, the arts, and inspired material production — and it will operate on and off between now and late May of 2028!
TRANSITING SUN TRINE TRANSITING URANUS
Entering Sep 17 2024, Exact Sep 19 2024, Leaving Sep 20 2024
Here we have a welcome few days when will is unusually well aligned with creativity in Earth signs. The pride and pleasure of working with others to make good use of innovative productivity is relatively easy now.
FULL MOON IN PISCES (LUNAR ECLIPSE)
Sep 17 2024
TRANSITING SUN OPPOSITION TRANSITING NEPTUNE
Entering Sep 19 2024, Exact Sep 20 2024, Leaving Sep 22 2024
These are a dreamy few days, when perception tends to be focused as much on the otherworld as on the solid, material reality. As our imagination inspires us, it can also distract us and interfere with our practical judgment. Under this aspect, our practical skills are usually better used in the service of spirituality or one of the arts than for purely practical purposes.
However, this is a highly unusual time. The Sun is not only in confrontational opposition with the dreamy outer planet Neptune, but it’s also one point of a beautifully harmonious Grand Trine in the 3 Earth signs, with the other two outer planets, Uranus and Pluto (see the trines described above and below). This configuration provides us with an incredibly easy flow of powerful and practical inspiration. It’s sure to inspire realistic visions and dreams of the ways we can heal our earth and our lives.
TRANSITING SUN TRINE TRANSITING PLUTO
Entering Sep 20 2024, Exact Sep 22 2024, Leaving Sep 23 2024
This is one of the 3 trines that make up the Grand Trine mentioned above. They are: Uranus trine Pluto (creativity from truth), Sun trine Uranus (a will to creativity) and Sun trine Pluto (a will to truth). Note that the Sun is where our will comes in. Its opposition to Neptune adds a challenge to balance our will with positive imagination and compassion (not fear and escapism). With minimal effort we should be able to realize what is needed; it’s up to each of us to know our true will clearly, and to act on it wisely and effectively.
(c) Solar Fire 4.10, 1994-97, Esoteric Technologies Pty. Ltd., was used in calculations and compilations.