Weekly Horoscopes September Week 3
Slip into some classic threads and prep your parasol, chic cosmic culturists. With Virgo and Libra planets dominating this week’s astral landscape, it’s an Audrey Hepburn in Paris kind of voyage. Refine your aesthetics and your aspirations, and let your ideal visions of love lead the way. While these two signs are known as the zodiac’s purists and perfectionists, when harnessed for their highest good, they’re less about anxious, rigid standards and more about the selves we’ve glimpsed in our brightest moments and the willingness to do the exacting work to affect change. Think of this week as your artist’s atelier where you get to revisit your paint set and decide how you’d like to perceive your world. Pastel candied violets and rose golds? Futuristic metallics and electric juicy fruit neons? Whether you’re feeling broad, sweeping brush strokes, or steady and careful pointillism, decide how you want to move through your life and then splash your vision onto the canvas.
The week opens with Venus and the New Moon entering Virgo on Tuesday and Wednesday, and it’s the last burst of this self-contained energy before the sun shifts gears into Libra on Friday. The sun’s entry into Libra marks the Fall Equinox, and as we stand on the threshold between light and dark, before the nocturnal realm begins to win, we can glimpse all that we’ve created with crystal clarity. This potent cosmic moment leads us out of the personal realm of the first six signs, which end with Virgo, and into the realm of relating. It’s a moment for trusting so profoundly in all the self work we’ve endured that we can look out across the great divide and catch a glimpse of the “other.” Let there be contradictions. Let there be polarity. Consider the opposition as a potentially un-lived part of yourself and then reach out for a hand and a heart. When we dream this dream together, nothing can stop us....
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Rallying Cry:
I do not need what I don’t already have.
Power Moves:
With Venus and the New Moon gracing your first house of identity expression, it’s a week for truly reveling in the beauty that already surrounds you Virgo. You’re gifted with the ability to find the divinity in every last detail and this week asks you to put this penchant to good use. You’ve been on a mission to learn when to keep refining, and processing, and honing your expertise, and knowing when to stop the tweaking and sit back and enjoy the glow. As Venus-ruled Libra enters your pleasure center 2nd house this week, it’s a full-on self-love fest befitting an astro babe who has earned it. For once in your life, sweet Virgo, claim the credit fully, settle into a long afternoon nap, and dream on about all the deliciousness that awaits you. It’s time to dissolve your resistance towards having it all and being ready to have it all exactly as you are. Let it a spill over in bounteous fall fashion. Let yourself have your fill and then some. It’s cornucopia time, Virgo. Let Thanksgiving come early.
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Rallying Cry:
Releasing from having to “make good” gives me something even better.
Power Moves:
Some of your major life’s work, luminous Libra, is around the question of projected image and public standards, and with Virgo and Libra planets moving you from your underground zone and into the spotlight, this week finds you really examining which of these standards are inherited and which are truly aligned with your deeper reason for being. Think of this week as a public hearing on your soul’s desires. You can show up to testify clad in “appropriate” clothing. You can follow the accepted format for sharing your plea. But you’ve got to pack it with the passion and life experience that only you, as a distinctive, messy, beautiful being can bring to that courtroom. Clean up the final vestiges of “not good enough” that are lying around the basement. As the Sun lights up your 1st house of identity and you move into your birth month, there will be no more room for these ghosties. Be ready and willing to fight for your right to inhabit every last part of yourself, Libra.
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Rallying Cry:
My darkness is actually part of my light.
Power Moves:
Your sign kicks off the yearly moment when night begins to win over daylight and, fittingly, you’re often taken to nocturnal maneuvering in the down and dirty reaches of the human spirit. With the sun entering your 12th house of underground dreaming this week, it’s a different kind of deep emo dive than you’re used to, soul spelunker. This isn’t the usual trial by fire, transformative plunge that burns it all to the ground so you can rise triumphant from the ashes. This week is about claiming a quieter kind of power that is no less potent in its ability to transform by releasing softly. You don’t need to dig in. You don’t need to turn up the heat. You just need to notice what’s outmoded, place your attention there, and watch it change and grow into a whole different sensation. This is another flower food week for you Scorpio — the feeling of letting things decay as gently and inevitably as the seasons so you can show up with some brand new blooms when it’s time for your own personal Spring. With Venus and the New Moon drifting into your house of future scheming and dreaming, you can savor the innocence inside of all your experience and get ready for your next move with clear eyes and an open heart. Letting the light in doesn’t mean you don’t know how to reckon with the darkness.
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Rallying Cry:
Slowing my roll makes future visions rock solid.
Power Moves:
With Venus and the New Moon in Virgo entering your powerhouse zone of career and public badassery, it’s a week to carefully approach how you show up for your duties and to reexamine how what lives inside of you aligns with your external world. Rather than waiting for the world to shape your dreams, Sag, birth something internal and let the world’s container shift to fit you. This is your board meeting week, and it’s time to really revel in the sensation of settling your wild ponyness into a pants suit. As the sun shifts into your futuristic 11th house for the next month, you’ll soon be electrified for the journey ahead. Before you set out on your next footloose voyage, make sure you’re sharp and clear about exactly where your power lives and what foundational steps need to be taken to support your wildest leaps. Build it tall, build it proud, and then give us the kind of open-armed, open-hearted leap from the top of the high dive that only you can give us Sag.
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Rallying Cry:
Powerful partnerships are built on shared beliefs.
Power Moves:
Sometimes, alpine survivalist, you’re a go-it-alone kind of astro babe. But as the sun in Libra enters your natural powerhouse zone, it’s a week for thinking about the courageousness of shared dreaming and paving the path by dancing a duet. You don’t need to soften your standards or even actually feel like you’re compromising — it’s just a clean and juicy power partnership week for stepping out in stilettos with a badass bestie by your side. Don’t worry about the division of labor or who exactly claims credit for what. This brand empire building is happening on an entirely new scale. The kind of kingdoms you want to conquer will need all the best and brightest by your side. Revel in the people who surround you and celebrate their resources. With sweet Venus and the excitable New Moon igniting your 9th house of boundless adventure, it’s finally time to reap some of the rewards for a job well done. You may not feel like you’ve faced the summit (let’s face it— your motto is always and forever “onward!”) but just delight in the vista from wherever you are. From here, your world looks absolutely perfect. Share the view.
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Rallying Cry:
Doing the dirty work wipes the slate for new adventures.
Power Moves:
With Venus and the New Moon entering your 8th house of intimacy, instinct, and transformation, it’s a deep diving week for your. Rather than move into your traditional mode of splitting between head and heart, and sometimes avoiding those depth-oriented emotional outbursts, this is actually a week where you can soften the energy around your need to open up to the darker places. You don’t need to go full throttle into those difficult spaces, you just need to strike one small match and see what’s illuminated right before your eyes. Venus and the New Moon are straightforwardly pleasurable, excitable energies so think of this as a carnival trip to the funhouse Aquarius. Delight in repositioning past pain and even having a laugh about the darker parts of your existence. Remember the motto “life is silly” and just see if you can liven up your approach to what seems to be heavy. Think of it is a pop song in a dark closet. Let bubblegum sounds lead the way into haunted zones. As the sun steps into your 9th house of high-speed adventure and brand-new beliefs, the month ahead is bold and bright. See even the tough stuff as part of the journey that’s yours and yours alone.
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Rallying Cry:
Relaxing relationship standards creates soul-shaking collisions.
Power Moves:
While you’re usually one to sit back and let it all be, this week asks you to examine where you can soften some of your impossible standards that spring from your penchant for oversized fairytales. You’re a radical allower Pisces, but you’re also 100% a dreamer, and these mystical visions can sometimes create feelings of depression as you come crashing down to earth. This is a week for being tender yet firm with those dreams, and which of your projections are ready for some scrubbing and buffing so you can either birth them into being or let them loose to make space for entirely new visions. With Venus and the New Moon activating your realm of relationships, you can reopen yourself to the experience of colliding with another without a rigid sense of expectancy that limits the complex beauty of letting things evolve in their own time. As the sun careens into your deep-diving 8th house of transformative intimacy, you’ll be ready to bless it all and belly up to the bar of a partnership that goes the distance by mixing romance with realism that will allow you to bring heaven to earth.
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Rallying Cry:
Compromise can be my most courageous act.
Power Moves:
Let’s talk about love this week, flamethrower. With Venus shifting into your house of humility and hardworking compromise, and the sun drifting towards your house of reaching out to truly understand another, this is your week for softening into the sensation of whatever you identify as “not yours.” Notice when you want to disavow something, or when you forcibly assert your opinion. Notice things that feel viscerally “not your taste.” Notice the gripping sensation around that. How the feeling of having to be “somebody” with specific likes and dislikes and a crib sheet of stats can feel sharp, anxious, and frankly, exhausting.Notice when you begin to shore up a wall, to fortify a boundary between yourself and another, and then go around it, underneath it. Let tropical, vined flowers spill over the top and then use them to climb on over into someone’s backyard. Make it a Rapunzel week, Aries. There’s nothing to be lost and everything to be gained from risking a collision that makes compromise feel courageous.
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Rallying Cry:
Loving up on every last detail lets me savor the sensation of being right here, right now.
Power Moves:
As the zodiac’s premiere sensation seeker, you’re well-accustomed to snacking on what’s on hand and enjoying every last savory bite. As Venus enters your house of romantic innocence and playful engagement, it’s a week to truly activate that skill set and let it lead you back to the heart of what you love. Notice when things get complicated in your mind. What creates all this circuitry? Why do you feel like complication is the stuff of maturity, and that work sometimes needs to feel “hard”? Let yourself be in process this week, let that unfolding feel easier, and wear that easiness like a hard-earned medal. With the sun entering your 6th house to open out the next astrological month, you can actually revel in the feeling of letting yourself be in the background. Consider this your backstage month where you can carefully design the costumes, delight in your leotard warm-ups, and queue up the orchestra. There will be plenty of time for the curtains to open wide. For now, Taurus, root into the feeling of prepping for the performance of a lifetime and knowing that it will be seamless.
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Rallying Cry:
Falling in love with the innocent fairytale is my secret superpower.
Power Moves:
You’ve been up against some emotional challenges this year Gemini, but as the Sun shifts into your 5th house of joyous, exuberant play this week, you can start to let things taste just a little bit sweeter. Often, you’re caught in an endless buffet of choices and information, and this week wants to remind you that while it’s all at your fingertips, the process of choosing doesn’t need to feel like cutting off other options. Let it feel like the careful and exhilarating sensation of picking out a new look for a big day. Delight in aligning everything just so. Build your castle this week. Whatever shape this takes, let yourself get carried away with a singular vision. With the New Moon and Venus hanging in your house of private dancing and soul romancing, it’s time to return to innocence. What lit you up when you were little? What is the simplest, most straightforward sensation you know? Just move toward that Gemini, on your softest, gossamer wings. It’s an angels and goddesses week for you Gemini. Trust that it can all come true.
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Rallying Cry:
Seeing my roots clearly leads me all the way home.
Power Moves:
The week opens with Virgo planets lighting up your house of mental perception, and it could feel like you can see all the way to the bottom of the ocean, complete with old shells and outmoded seaweed. Try looking upon this landscape with curious goggles rather than a critical gaze, sweet mermaid. More than any other sign, you can fasten your pincers into the past-either as a treasured, honeyed moment that you won’t let anyone pry from your clutches, or as a boiling resentment that wear like a badge of honor. Whatever’s on that seafloor this week, let it drift up to the surface and wash to shore. And then sort the unusable matter from the potent gems, add them to your pack, and keep on swimming. With the sun entering your natural 4th house of roots and home, it’s a week to start reassessing the personal, and separating from your tribe when need be. This is no easy feat for a fish babe who loves to find belonging. Let yourself belong first and foremost to yourself, and trust that from that pact you can build the kinds of connections you crave. Treat yourself like your most treasured lover.
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Rallying Cry:
Adopting a realistic approach doesn’t have to mean the death of the dream.
Power Moves:
With the New Moon and Venus lighting up your house of resources, this is a sweet week of integration for you, fancy feaster. It’s a vitamin supplement moment for really letting all the work you’ve been up to start to do its “work” on you. You don’t have to effort. You don’t have to scramble. But you also don’t have to go over-the-top into fluffy glitter universes in an attempt to avoid the tough stuff. It’s a moment to reassess your relationship to realism. Every sign and element has something they consider to be “real,” something they hold to be true. For you, fire feline, it’s a belief in your own special, shiny gift to the world and a willingness to show up fully and show it. But this week you can temper this urge just a little bit without putting your flame out. You can respond to the world as it is and discover exactly where your treats are most needed. With the sun shifting into your 3rd house of student learning, you can use your capacity to innocently engage with each day as brand new to humble yourself to starting over in areas of your life that need further refining. What if humble pie could be chock full of ripe, juicy cherries, Leo? Trust that you’re up to the challenge of cutting yourself down to size in order to show up as plumper than you ever dreamt possible. When you don’t have to try so hard to be larger than life, you’re exactly the right size.
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