0°23’ Virgo | The First of Two
The Virgo New Moon August 22nd /23rd arrives like a cosmic reset button for your daily life, your body, and the systems you rely on so that both are running smoothly. Virgo is the organizer of the Zodiac — the Healer, Herbalist, and detail-keeper that knows that small, consistent adjustments can create big shifts over time.
This lunation lands at 0°23’ Virgo — the very first and purest degree of the sign, offering a fresh start in the way you care for yourself, how you do your work, manage your life and maintain the structures that keep you flourishing. This is also the first of two New Moons hosted in Virgo – in the first and last degrees of the sign. It’s a Cosmic signal that The Universe wants the lessons of Virgo to be fully learned and integrated. And because this New Moon also opens the Eclipse portal its influence carries even more weight. What you initiate now becomes part of a larger storyline — one that will unfold with fated clarity as eclipses are powerful — bringing revelations, endings, and breakthroughs to the surface.
Healing Before Refinement
In the days leading up to this lunation, the Sun in Leo forms a healing trine to Chiron in Aries (Aug 19). This opens a heart-centered portal for inner child healing, self-acceptance, and the courage to live authentically. It’s like the Universe hands you a permission slip to lead with the heart and shine your talents unapologetically.
This energy sets the tone for the New Moon: correction as a form of healing. The changes you’re making aren’t about fixing what’s “wrong” — they’re about supporting what’s right and true for you now.
Correction, Not Perfection
While Virgo often prefers perfection, this New Moon is more about correction and refinement — shaping the rhythms, habits, and systems that align with who you’re becoming now, not an outdated version that clings to routines out of habit, being in survival mode or just because it’s the way things have always been done. Think of it as an operating system reboot: and a trial-and-error phase for making adjustments, fine-tuning, and streamlining so that life hums along efficiently and effectively.
Sabian Symbol: “In a portrait, the best of a man’s traits are idealized.”
Two weeks ago, the Aquarius Full Moon unmasked what’s really under the surface of things. Now, the Virgo New Moon bids you to choose wisely what stays — and polish it up. This is about tweaking and refining, so you‘re able to freely express the best of your inner essence in ways that serve both your personal wholeness as well as the greater good.
The Astrology: A Yod with the Outer Planets
This New Moon sits in a tense but potent Yod – The Finger of God with Saturn + Neptune in Aries and Pluto in Aquarius. This pattern points directly at choice points and potential pivots in the larger storyline of our lives. These slow-moving heavy hitting planets are reshaping the social, structural and technological frameworks that make up and define our reality.
The choices you make now — especially around your health, habits, and your engagement with shifting systems — will echo way beyond this lunar cycle. The cosmos is offering a chance to fine-tune your reality and to move into alignment with the life you want to live.
- Saturn + Neptune in Aries requires you to adjust your vision to align with the real work at hand by channeling your dreams into action. Release any fantasies or fears that keep you passive and instead take concrete steps that support your long-term, soul-aligned ambitions.
- Pluto in Aquarius is revealing seismic shifts in societal systems — from tech innovations and education to healthcare reform and community infrastructure and everything in between. We’re at a major choice point: you’re not just a witness to these changes you’re also called to participate in shaping and co-creating what comes next.
This is a moment for HUmanity to step into its power —to step up and consciously participate in this collective awakening, especially in areas relating to health, nutrition, daily work/life experiences, and community care systems and services. Consider your everyday habits and choices that either support or sabotage your vision. Small changes and improvements can lead to bigger breakthroughs later on.
Uranus in Gemini Squares the Lunation
As if the Yod weren’t enough, this New Moon also gets zapped by Uranus in Gemini. Uranus is the Awakener, Revolutionary, and Rebel — and in cerebral Gemini, the disruptions come through communication, information, and the nervous system itself. You can expect the unexpected with this energy. There could be interruptions, glitches, or sudden shifts in technology, data, or healthcare news. Or you could suddenly change your mind or your plans overnight, stumble across a breakthrough, or see something with brand-new eyes. At its best, it’s an invitation to break free from the programming you’ve been running on — mentally, emotionally, or even literally in your day-to-day routines. And although it can feel destabilizing, it can also be liberating. Keep your mind open, your schedule flexible, and just breathe. This is the Universe’s way of showing you new pathways, fresh perspectives, and revolutionary solutions.
Venus, The New Moon & The Venus Wave (Aug 22–28)
Venus in Cancer squares Chiron in Aries during this phase— and because Chiron is sitting at a critical degree of Aries, the tension is sharp. It highlights conflict between your emotional needs, sensitivity, and desire for belonging and your raw sense of individuality, self-healing, and wounded self. Old insecurities, relationship triggers, or even self-inflicted wounds could surface now, asking to be seen and acknowledged. Take notice of where tenderness is needed and honor both your need for personal connection and your need for self-sovereignty.
This square sets the emotional stage for what happens next.
The Venus Wave (Aug 25–28)
Just a few days after the New Moon, Venus leaves sensitive Cancer and bursts into Leo, where she immediately makes a rapid-fire series of aspects to the outer planets. This wave of energy is dynamic, catalytic, and impossible to ignore:
- Trine Saturn & Neptune in Aries (Aug 25–26): Bringing heart-centered self-mastery and soulful creativity. Love, beauty, and self-expression feel infused with both vision and purpose. New forms of artistry, self-love practices, and spiritual inspiration may flow easily now.
- Opposition Pluto in Aquarius (Aug 26): Sparks fly. Relationships and attractions feel magnetic, fated even. There may be power dynamics and shifts in relationships that surface now — along with situations that emphasize matters of control, force, obsession or compulsion.
- Sextile Uranus in Gemini (Aug 27): brings spontaneous meetings, stimulating conversations, and exciting new friendships or group connections that arrive suddenly. Follow the signs and synchronicities.
What It Means
This Venus cycle from Cancer into Leo takes us from sensitivity and conflict with old wounds, into a wave of creative, romantic, and social breakthroughs. It asks that you tend to your heart first by acknowledging wounds without letting them run the show, so that when the sparks start flying later in the week, you can greet them with authenticity, self-respect, and satisfaction.
Venus here serves to remind you that the more you tune into, accept and honor your own heart’s frequency, the more naturally you’ll attract the people, opportunities, and creative expressions that resonate with it.
New Moon Blessings and Good Vibes to ALL!