Virgo New Moon
- Lori Barnes
- Sep 19
- 11 min read
Solar Eclipse
Virgo New Moon Date and Time
Sunday, September 21
3:54 PM, Eastern Time
29 Degrees Virgo
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Virgo New Moon Overview
This Virgo New Moon arrives with a partial solar eclipse, making it one of the more powerful lunations of the year. Last month’s New Moon at 0 degrees Virgo opened the cycle with a focus on freshening systems and organization. This month, the New Moon falls at 29 degrees, the final degree of the sign, where urgency and closure come to the forefront. It’s a signal that unfinished projects, lingering details, and unresolved matters are ready to be wrapped up.
For business owners and entrepreneurs, this eclipse is a reminder that progress often comes from completion as much as creation. Clearing space, finishing tasks, and refining what you’ve already built are as important as launching something new. With Virgo’s emphasis on efficiency and service, this is the perfect moment to streamline your workflows, tie up loose ends, and prepare the ground for the next cycle of growth.
In This Blog:
Understanding Virgo: Element and Modality
Virgo is expressed through service, attention to detail, and practical skill. Represented by the Virgin or the maiden with wheat, Virgo energy is observant, resourceful, and tuned to what needs to be fixed, improved, or systemized. It thrives on being useful and making things better.
As an Earth sign, Virgo operates from practicality and efficiency. Earth signs bring stability and structure to the abstract, and Virgo channels that energy into functional systems, quality service, and productive tasks. It’s grounded in the tangible world and values outcomes that are well-organized, measurable, and useful.
Virgo is a Mutable sign, giving it adaptability, flexibility, and a sharp ability to adjust mid-process. This makes Virgo especially skilled at handling change, particularly when improvements or corrections are needed.
This New Moon in Virgo carries extra weight as it falls at the 29th degree, known as the anaretic degree, which signals urgency and completion. Paired with a solar eclipse, the energy highlights endings that prepare the way for beginnings.
It calls attention to what is no longer sustainable, asking you to tend to loose ends so that new growth can take root. With the background support of the great sextile forming between Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus, these changes may be far-reaching, unfolding gradually but with lasting effect.
The Bottom Line: This eclipse is a potent time to clear space, refine your workflows, and prepare for the next cycle by applying the skills and systems that sustain you.
Virgo New Moon Ruler: Mercury
This New Moon is ruled by Mercury, now moving through Libra. Mercury in Libra expresses itself through dialogue, negotiation, and balanced exchange. Where Virgo emphasizes detail and analysis, Mercury in Libra shifts attention toward cooperation, fairness, and perspective-taking. The emphasis is less on sorting the parts and more on keeping the scales even.
Mercury represents how we gather, process, and share information, and as the ruler of Virgo, it shapes this lunation with a focus on planning, communication, and attention to detail. From Libra, Mercury adds a relational dimension, encouraging collaboration and an openness to different viewpoints.
Because Venus, ruler of Libra, is also in Virgo, there’s a loop of influence between the two planets. Mercury in Libra points toward connection and collaboration, while Venus in Virgo grounds that energy in clear judgment and practical planning. The combination suggests that conversations and decisions made around this eclipse benefit from both fairness and realistic assessment.
The Bottom Line: Mercury as ruler of this eclipse highlights the importance of communication, compromise, and weighing options carefully. Look for balanced solutions, but don’t lose sight of what is practical and functional in the process.
Virgo New Moon Symbol: The Maiden with Wheat
Symbolized by the Maiden holding a sheaf of wheat, Virgo represents devotion, practicality, and attentive tending to what sustains life. The Maiden is observant and grounded in service, reminding us that small, consistent acts can yield lasting results. At 29 degrees and paired with a solar eclipse, this New Moon brings urgency to Virgo’s themes, signaling that something important is ready to be completed so space can open for the next cycle.
Discerning: The Maiden carefully chooses what to gather, just as Virgo energy filters information and selects what is useful or worth preserving.
Devoted to Service: Carrying wheat symbolizes nourishment and practical support. Virgo thrives when it improves systems, solves problems, and contributes through steady effort.
Observant: The Maiden notices what others overlook. Virgo sees the details that matter and helps bring clarity where things are tangled or unclear.
Grounded: As an Earth sign, Virgo is rooted in the practical. The Maiden reminds us that real change happens through consistent effort, efficient routines, and tools that serve a purpose.
Adaptable: Though modest in appearance, the Maiden adjusts to shifting needs. Virgo energy stays flexible by refining what works and setting aside what no longer does.
Under this Virgo New Moon and eclipse, focus on tying up loose ends and completing what has run its course. This is preparation energy: clearing the field so the next harvest can grow strong.
The Bottom Line: The Maiden reminds us that lasting progress comes from efficient workflows, attention to detail, and completing what must be finished before new cycles can begin.
Virgo Energetics and Shadow
When Virgo energy is strong, the desire to be useful, improve systems, and get things right moves to the forefront. This can lead to quality customer service, organized solutions, and a deep sense of responsibility. But when pushed too far, Virgo’s natural discernment can slip into hyper-criticism, over-functioning, or a tendency to fix what was never broken.
Virgo’s mutable earth nature makes it adaptable and hands-on, but it can also get stuck in a cycle of over-analysis or micromanagement. The drive to be of service may come from a sincere place, but without boundaries, it can turn into self-neglect, resentment, or burnout. Virgo can also get lost in the details and veer off course, focusing so closely on what's imperfect that it loses sight of time and the bigger picture.
Virgo thrives on refining and improving, but at 29 degrees, there’s a stronger push to recognize what is finished and move on. The eclipse highlights places where over-analysis, perfectionism, or self-criticism have run their course. Letting go of the need to fix everything creates space for creative flow and frees energy for priorities and what’s most essential.
This Virgo New Moon is a powerful time to notice where striving has turned into stress, or where high standards have become self-judgment. By focusing on what’s sustainable and complete, you prepare the ground for the next cycle while ensuring your efforts create lasting impact without draining your energy.
Virgo and Pisces
It’s helpful to understand the New Moon vibes by looking at the opposite sign, Pisces. Virgo and Pisces are intertwined in the zodiac as two ends of the same axis. They are always paired together as signs in opposition.
Virgo attends to what’s specific, functional, and measurable. It works through organization, analysis, and attention to detail, seeking to improve systems and offer practical support. Pisces orients itself toward the intangible, sensing the whole rather than the parts. It responds with imagination, empathy, and a deep sensitivity to what cannot be explained logically.
Virgo refines, analyzes, and brings structure to the everyday. It moves through life by observing patterns, solving problems, and serving in tangible ways. Pisces softens structure, opening space for what is symbolic, emotional, and unseen. It moves through life by trusting intuition, embracing mystery, and responding to what lies beyond definition.
The contrast between these signs is captured in the saying, “can’t see the forest for the trees.” Virgo focuses on the trees, noticing what needs adjusting, refining, or organizing. Pisces is the forest: it senses the whole, even when the details are unclear or undefined.
With this eclipse activating the Virgo–Pisces axis, there’s both an urgency to complete what needs attention and a reminder to keep sight of the bigger picture that gives those details meaning.
Virgo New Moon Aspects
Sun and Moon Conjunct in Virgo (29 degrees)
This New Moon occurs in the final degree of Virgo, adding urgency and signaling closure. At 29 degrees, themes of endings and preparation for what comes next are emphasized. Paired with the solar eclipse, this conjunction highlights the overlap of endings and beginnings, showing where one cycle must finish before another can take root. With Mars also at the final degree of Libra and Saturn reaching the end of its current stretch through Pisces, this is a moment where choices carry long-term weight.
Sun and Moon Opposite Saturn Retrograde in Pisces (28 degrees)
The opposition to Saturn sharpens the tension between Virgo’s detail-oriented nature and Pisces’ imaginative vision. This aspect calls attention to boundaries and structure: where they’re too rigid, flexibility is needed; where they’re too loose, discipline must be applied. Saturn in Pisces can give form to visionary or creative ideas, but this opposition requires clear decisions and practical steps to move them forward.
Sun and Moon Inconjunct Mars in Libra (28 degrees)
The inconjunct to Mars brings friction between action and alignment. Mars in Libra pushes for decisions and outward movement, while the Virgo Sun and Moon emphasize careful analysis and refinement. This mismatch can show up as starting too quickly without preparation, or hesitating too long when action is required. The aspect suggests slowing down just enough to bring effort into line with purpose.
Venus in Virgo Square Uranus in Gemini (2 and 1 degrees)
Venus newly in Virgo makes a tight square with Uranus in Gemini, creating unpredictable dynamics around relationships, finances, and values. Venus in Virgo seeks steadiness through attentiveness, while Uranus disrupts with sudden change or flashes of insight. Around the eclipse, expect unusual interactions or surprising turns in how people connect. This tension can act as a catalyst for change, shifting patterns that no longer fit.
The Great Sextile: Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, and Saturn
The rare Great Sextile continues to form the collective backdrop of 2025. Pluto in Aquarius, Neptune in Aries, Uranus in Gemini, and Saturn in Pisces create a supportive but powerful framework for transformation. While the Virgo eclipse only briefly interacts with this long-term pattern, the symbolism is clear: the practical changes initiated now tie into wider, generational shifts. This alignment reinforces that small, tangible steps ripple outward into larger collective movements.
Check out the September Business Outlook for the list of planetary transits this month.
Partial Solar Eclipse in Virgo (29 degrees)
This New Moon is paired with a partial solar eclipse, which amplifies its influence and marks it as a turning point. A solar eclipse happens when the New Moon is close to the lunar nodes, the points where the Moon’s orbit crosses the apparent path of the Sun. Only then can the Sun, Moon, and Earth align closely enough for the Moon to block the Sun’s light.
At 29 degrees Virgo, this eclipse carries the symbolism of urgency and completion. The final degree of a sign, known as the anaretic degree, emphasizes endings, decisions, and preparation for what comes next. The eclipse highlights what can no longer be sustained and points to the choices that need to be made in order to move forward.
This eclipse is also tied to the larger planetary picture. Uranus, now retrograde, will return to 29 degrees Taurus on November 7, activating the eclipse point by trine. Themes that surface now are likely to resurface later this year, offering another chance to address them with a fresh perspective. The opposition from Saturn in Pisces underscores the need for structure and discipline to ground creative vision into practical form.
Eclipses don’t affect everyone in the same way. They are most significant if they align closely with sensitive points in your birth chart. If you have planets or angles around 28 or 29 degrees of any sign, this eclipse is likely to feel more personal.
Schedule a consultation with me to receive a professional interpretation of how the eclipse will impact you.
The eclipse will be visible in certain parts of the world. You can see its path on ‘Date and Time’s’ website: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/.
Read more about eclipses in my 'Eclipses in Astrology' blog.
The Bottom Line: This partial solar eclipse marks a powerful moment of closure and preparation. What feels unsettled or unfinished now is part of a bigger cycle, and the choices made at this eclipse help set the stage for long-term change.
Retrogrades
Uranus Retrograde
Uranus turned retrograde this month and will track back into Taurus on November 7, activating the eclipse degree by trine when it reaches 29 degrees Taurus. Expect an offbeat tone around the eclipse window, with sudden pivots, fresh ideas, and shake-ups in plans. This retrograde wraps unfinished Taurus themes before Uranus settles into Gemini long-term in late April 2026, about a seven-year stay.
Saturn Retrograde
Saturn remains retrograde and opposite the solar eclipse in Pisces. This underscores consolidation, timelines, and boundaries. Big vision benefits from Virgo’s structure. Trim projects to their workable core, set realistic milestones, and reinforce agreements that keep delivery on track.
Neptune Retrograde
Neptune’s retrograde highlights the difference between inspiration and illusion. Treat bold ideas like prototypes, not promises. Build simple tests, gather feedback, and track results clearly so creative direction stays grounded.
Pluto Retrograde
Pluto retrograde continues to revisit power dynamics in networks, technology, and collective systems. Look at where control, access, and influence sit in your business ecosystem. Simplify decision paths and document who owns what process so that change is durable.
Chiron Retrograde
Chiron retrograde turns attention to patterns around confidence, leadership, and response to criticism. Replace self-doubt loops with clear criteria for success. Small, consistent improvements beat dramatic overhauls.
The Bottom Line: Retrogrades are always about looking backward to move forward. Use this period to review priorities, test assumptions, and adjust direction while larger shifts unfold.
Libra Equinox (September 22)
The day after the eclipse, the Sun enters Libra, marking the equinox, the balance of day and night. In business terms, this is a natural checkpoint to review where balance is missing, both in workload and in partnerships. With Libra’s emphasis on fairness and collaboration, it’s a good moment to assess how your systems support not just efficiency, but also harmony in your relationships and professional commitments.
Virgo New Moon Ritual: Three Simple Ways to Reset Under the Virgo Eclipse
This Virgo New Moon and solar eclipse is about tying up loose ends and preparing the ground for new beginnings. If your to-do list feels never-ending, these three short rituals can help you release pressure and create a sense of calm under this Virgo New Moon.
1. Declutter One Small Space
Choose one contained spot, a drawer, your desk surface, or your bag. Clearing even a small area creates an immediate sense of order and accomplishment, aligning with Virgo’s gift for organization.
2. Tea, Hot Chocolate, or Coffee Reset
Brew a warm drink, step away from screens, and give yourself ten minutes of pause. As you sip slowly, reflect on one thing you’re ready to complete and one thing you want to start fresh.
3. Simple Release Burn
Write down one word or phrase that represents something you’re ready to release. Safely burn it (or tear it up) as a symbolic act of clearing space for the next cycle.
The Bottom Line: A ritual doesn’t have to be complicated to be powerful. Even the smallest actions can help you reset, release, and feel ready for what’s next.
Virgo New Moon Inspirational Quote
‘So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it’s the hardest to do anything with.’ — Margaret Atwood
Wrap-Up: Virgo New Moon
This Virgo New Moon arrives at the final degree of the sign, paired with a partial solar eclipse that emphasizes closure and preparation. Virgo’s natural focus on organization, attention to detail, and quality service is heightened at 29 degrees, signaling that something important is ready to be completed so the next cycle can begin.
With the eclipse opposing Saturn in Pisces and forming an inconjunct with Mars in Libra, decisions now carry weight, especially where structure, discipline, and action need to align. Venus squaring Uranus adds unpredictability in relationships and values, while the rare Great Sextile underscores that small adjustments tie into larger collective changes.
Eclipses are not ordinary lunations, and this one carries both urgency and opportunity. By focusing on what’s sustainable, releasing what no longer serves, and completing unfinished work, you set the stage for long-term progress. Keep perspective: Virgo handles the details, but Pisces provides vision. Together, they remind us that change comes from balancing both.
