The Astrology of September 14-20, 2026 / Venus in Scorpio + Retrograde Preview

So last week we had a Virgo new moon.

This was a Virgo new moon that took us out of, let's say, more of the active energies of eclipse season.

I feel like I've had a few people come to me and be like, is it going to settle down? And maybe that's why we need Virgo season to help us to put things in order, to assess.

Virgo is ruled by Mercury, so it's really great at analyzing and organizing and having the sort of concept of systems and how things should flow.

And maybe you are a Virgo and you're like, but I'm not quite like that.

That's okay.

But it's still an energy and archetype that we can all draw upon or we have it in our own astrology, for example.

And so, you know, we need that earthy practicality after a lot of the ups and downs of August.

This Virgo new moon, I have my eye on it a little bit because there's some really interesting energies.

That's the thing about a new moon is that it opens up a lunar month, a lunar month that is four weeks in total.

And there will be the new moon, you'll have the full moon two weeks later, and then the lunar month will end and then we'll have another new moon the energies that are seated at the time of the new moon they build a story it represents a lens that we are living and working through over that arc of four weeks we also have the full moon energies and they are also plugging into this bigger story of the lunar month and You know, this week we have Mercury is opposite Saturn.

Now that's a kind of quick aspect.

Mercury typically will go through a sign in about two weeks.

I forget how long it's going to be until Mercury gets to Scorpio.

I know that we have a retrograde coming up in October.

But there is this Mercury-Saturn opposition that, let's say, takes the energies of the Virgo new moon.

So it says it's time for a new beginning.

But there's something about this Virgo new moon period where we have this need to get real or have a reality check or need to make a commitment or Saturn is this planet as an energy and archetype.

It makes things real.

It can invite us to mature and to grow and to step into greater roles and responsibilities.

But sometimes it can show us where we have some limits.

So there's that this week.

And I would just say in general, it's a week to really... uh show up and not to cut corners to try to be in your accountability or your maturity because that's where Mercury and Saturn can shine you know somebody who is really of their word that's like a positive even though it's an opposition it's a positive Mercury Saturn opposition or aspect or Even Mercury and Saturn being able to, you know, somebody to come to you and to ask you for advice and you really come across as mature and responsible.

It's also positive Mercury and Saturn.

So this is going to build into a full moon that we'll talk more about next week.