Your nervous system wants to rest: September’s horoscope shows you how
Happy September!
We are fresh out of eclipse season and Virgo leads the way into the month. With this, our attention turns toward our nervous system which represents our internal intelligence of processing. The nervous system wants relief from constant vigilance. We can help support this through rest and simple food. Early in the month we may experience a little friction as Mars squares Saturn Retrograde right out of the gate. But don’t worry, as we make our way through the month, we ease into calmer ground.
Key astrology dates in September 2026
September 1: Mars squares Saturn Retrograde
September 10: New Moon in Virgo
September 15: Neptune Retrograde sextiles Pluto Retrograde
September 17: Chiron Retrograde enters Aries
September 21: Mercury sextiles Jupiter
September 26: Full Moon in Aries
Aries (March 21 – April 19)
September opens with a demand for patience, Aries, not usually your strongest instinct but oddly the right ask this time. Early on, Mars, your ruling planet, squares Saturn Retrograde. This could feel like you are being pulled between the comfort of home and the more authentic version of who you’re becoming right now. Amidst this, something domestic wants your attention just as your sense of self is asking for room to expand. With our nervous systems highlighted this month, you could be quick to sound an alarm, so notice where an old reflex is firing at a threat that has already passed. Later in the month, under the New Moon in Virgo, small adjustments to your daily rhythm, how you’re sleeping and how you’re eating, start to matter more than any grand overhaul could. Mid-month, Chiron Retrograde moves back into your sign as a final closure chapter. By month’s end, the Full Moon in Aries brings a moment where a long personal arc reaches its natural high point and you get to see just how far you’ve traveled from where this year began.
Taurus (April 20 – May 20)
Something loosens its grip this month for you, Taurus. You’ve had a little taste of what Chiron Retrograde in your sign is like. Mid-month it slips back into Aries for a stretch, granting you a real reprieve before it eventually returns to Taurus for the longer haul. Let yourself enjoy some rest in that gap and try to avoid bracing for its comeback. Your nervous system finds its calm this month through the senses. Consider slowing down for a comforting meal eaten slowly, or a familiar texture under your hands. Those mindful indulgences are helpful at regulating the internal self. This is your area of expertise so you may find yourself teaching those around you how to slowly enjoy the nectar of life. The New Moon in fellow earth sign Virgo offers a practical opening for something that truly delights you. Mid-month, Mercury’s sextile to Jupiter widens your sense of what’s possible in a conversation you’ve been circling. By the Full Moon in Aries, something private surfaces from beneath the surface, an old feeling or realization that’s been quietly forming out of view, finally asking to be acknowledged rather than tucked away again.
Gemini (May 21 – June 20)
Gemini, this month invites a welcomed focus. Your nervous system will thank you for practicing it, as well. Think single open tab instead of the usual dozen. The New Moon in Virgo takes place in your fourth house of home and family, planting the seed for something new to take root there. Mid-month, Mercury, your ruling planet, sextiles Jupiter, making this time the highlight of your month. This looks like a conversation or idea gets the expansive backing it deserves, so gas up whatever it is you’re communicating. As Chiron Retrograde dips back into Aries, a longer chapter of healing around who you surround yourself with. By the Full Moon in Aries, that same area of your chart reaches a real culmination, and a friendship or a shared goal rushes in.
Cancer (June 21 – July 22)
Mars is making its way through your sign this month, Cancer. I say that because when Mars squares Saturn Retrograde, it happens in your tenth house of career and public reputation. This could stir some real tension between what you’re building professionally and the story you’re telling the world about it. Your nervous system’s oldest trick is retreat. Be mindful to avoid pulling back into the shell the moment something feels exposed. The astrology this month is showing you that the bravest move is to stay soft and responsive even while a career conversation gets a little prickly. With the New Moon in Virgo in your third house of communication, you are offered a fresh start with a sibling or neighbor. By the Full Moon in Aries, you’ll have clarity about whether the public identity you’ve built still fits who you actually are.
Leo (July 23 – August 22)
Leo, after a month of being in the spotlight, you could be feeling the need to soothe. Mars squares Saturn Retrograde early on. This happens in your ninth house of belief and travel, stirring friction between a conviction you’re holding onto and a restriction that isn’t budging as easily as you’d like. After a month of being so beautifully seen, September invites you to turn that same warmth inward. Try sitting with yourself and notice how good your own company feels. The New Moon in Virgo offers you a fresh start around what you value and what you charge the world for your presence in it. As Chiron Retrograde moves into Aries, that same ninth house introduces a longer healing chapter around a belief you built your identity on. It may even need updating now that so much else about you has shifted. By the Full Moon in Aries, you get to see whether the worldview you’ve been carrying still fits the person this year has made you.
Virgo (August 23 – September 22)
Happy birthday season, Virgo! The New Moon happens in your own sign this month which will be one of the more personal resets you’ll get all year. This is an invitation to plant something new before the year winds down. Mercury, your ruling planet, sextiles the planet of luck and abundance, Jupiter, around the same time, widening whatever you’re building with luck behind it. Your gift has always been knowing almost instantly what nourishes you and what needs to go. This month asks you to trust that discernment without letting it lead to overthinking. Early on, Mars squares Saturn Retrograde, pulling tension between an obligation to your community and something more private that’s asking for your attention instead. As Neptune sextiles Pluto, a window opens for resetting a healthy habit. Chiron Retrograde moving into Aries opens a longer healing chapter around intimacy and what you share with someone close, and the Full Moon in Aries brings that same thread to a real point of clarity by month’s end.
Libra (September 23 – October 22)
Saturn Retrograde has been sitting in your seventh house of partnership for a while now, Libra, and when Mars squares it early in the month, it stirs real tension between a career demand and a relationship that’s asking for more of your attention. Your nervous system reads other people the way skin reads temperature, which makes you wonderfully attuned but also prone to absorbing tension that was never actually yours to carry. This month asks you to notice the difference between what you’re truly feeling versus what you’ve picked up from someone standing close to you. The New Moon in Virgo happens in your twelfth house, offering a more private kind of reset just before your own zodiac season begins. The Full Moon in Aries brings much sought after answers regarding a relationship thread by month’s end.
Scorpio (October 23 – November 21)
Mars in Cancer squares Saturn Retrograde early in the month, Scorpio. For you this occurs between your ninth house of belief and expansion and your sixth house of daily health and routine. This transit will stir tension between wanting something bigger and a schedule that feels too rigid to accommodate it. Your nervous system tends to run in constant scan mode and rarely fully powers down. Consider interrupting that pattern long enough to actually rest. As Neptune sextiles Pluto, your ruling planet, tension eases between your home life and that same daily routine. The New Moon in Virgo happens in your eleventh house of friendship, offering a new start around your community or a shared goal. Chiron Retrograde moving into Aries and the Full Moon in Aries both take place in your sixth house of health, opening a new perspective around your daily habits.
Sagittarius (November 22 – December 21)
Sagittarius, you have a different idea of what freedom looks like this month. Consider allowing yourself to feel while standing still. Mars in Cancer squares Saturn Retrograde early on, happening between your eighth house of intimacy and shared resources and your fifth house of romance and creativity. This brings about a bit of tension between your creative and romantic pursuits. Since your nervous system tends to run on movement, consider introducing some down time. That could be just the thing that gives your next leap, its direction. Mid-month, Mercury sextiles the benevolent planet, Jupiter, your ruling planet. This transit showcases your natural optimism to others, which some may greatly need. The New Moon in Virgo happens in your tenth house of career, offering a fresh start in your public reputation or the direction you’re building toward.
Capricorn (December 22 – January 19)
Saturn, your ruling planet, is asking a lot of you this month, Capricorn, more than it’s asking of most other signs right now. Mars in Cancer squares Saturn Retrograde between your seventh house of partnership and your fourth house of home and family. This could create a little tension between what a relationship needs and something foundational at home that wants your attention right now. Your instinct is to regulate through control, but that same instinct is exactly what’s under pressure this month. Consider loosening your grip slightly, trusting that things can hold together without you personally doing the work.The New Moon in Virgo offers a new perspective around what you’re willing to believe is possible for yourself. The Full Moon in Aries brings about a real point of clarity by month’s end, and something you’ve been rebuilding finally feels sturdy again.
Aquarius (January 20 – February 18)
Aquarius, your mind sometimes has the habit of stepping just outside your feelings, studying them a little before you let yourself fully feel them. This month invites you to let a feeling simply stay with you a while longer before you rush to explain it. This could even look like sitting with something for one extra minute. Early on, Mars squares Saturn Retrograde, and a shift in your daily rhythm bumps up against a conversation that hasn’t quite been received the way you hoped. With Chiron Retrograde moving back into Aries and the Full Moon in Aries, a tender chapter opens around wanting to feel truly understood. Meanwhile, Pluto Retrograde continues its work in your own sign, transforming the very root of who you are. The New Moon in Virgo offers a new beginning around what you share with someone close, this could be trust or resources.
Pisces (February 19 – March 20)
Pisces, you have a gift for feeling everything so fully that it can be hard to tell what’s truly yours and what you’ve simply absorbed from those around you. This month invites mindful learning to recognize which feelings actually belong to you. Mars in fellow water sign Cancer, squares Saturn Retrograde early in the month. Something that feels good and true to pursue keeps meeting a very practical question of value or resources. Neptune, your ruling planet, sextiles Pluto Retrograde mid-month. You may find an easing of tension in something that’s been resolving itself beneath the surface all along. Chiron Retrograde moving into Aries and the Full Moon in Aries both open a longer healing chapter. The New Moon in Virgo offers a fresh start with someone close.
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I feel fortunate to call the glorious city of Los Angeles home. Here, my work sits at the intersection of mediumship, astrology, and ancient devotional practice, and I hold each of these paths as sacred in a world that has turned so much into something fast and disposable.
I help people connect, in a mindful and respectful way, to spirit and to the helpful currents that move around all of us, whatever name or tradition you use to describe them. As a postmenopausal woman myself, I’ve come to see this stage of life as one of the most intuitively rich a woman can move through. I bring that lens into my work with clients navigating perimenopause and menopause of their own, trusting that the oldest paths, like the oldest texts, still hold the freshest medicine. My debut book Oracular Mediumship teaches the foundations of mediumship in an approachable and respectful way to those who are curious, whether they are just beginning or returning to a practice they’ve long felt called toward. My own work continues to live between the archive and the altar, honoring the discipline of study alongside the intimacy of the sacred.
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