Esoteric Astrology as news for week September 3 – 9, 2025

A Full moon, an Eclipse & a Retrograde – Contemplation, Integration & Change

On Friday night (September 5), the planet of disruptions, of things sudden and unexpected, the future replacing the past, the planet that is sideways and offers all things, new (Uranus) stations retrograde (1 degree) in the sign of Gemini (thinking, communication, interactions, neighborhoods, friends). And later re-entering Taurus (comfort, stability).

Uranus retrograde helps us to turn inward and focus on traditions we hold holy and sacred. Uranus retro also helps us integrate the recent changes that have occurred societally. We assess them for their usefulness & stability.

Planets when retrograde encourages humanity to reflect and deepen one’s inner awareness. I’m reminded of St. Teresa of Avila’s book “Interior Castle,” on inner contemplation of one’s life.

Uranus is like a rain storm with thunder and lightning. As we watch from the safety of our homes, the rain falls and lighting (Uranus) lights up the sky followed by rolling thunder. Our thoughts turn inward in contemplation. We reflect on the choices and paths taken. We assess if we are conforming or compromising and question our beliefs, opinions and thought patterns. Uranus calls us to be more authentic, more truthful. We become more self-aware, seeking to learn and later anchor new ideas in our mind. We attempt to reconnect with old friends (the unusual and the unique), remembering events and places that suddenly changed us.

Uranus will be retrograde until February 3, 2026 (day after Candlemas). Uranus will then remain in Gemini until 2033. This is a revolutionary transit as well as a creative, life changing transit for all of humanity.

Sunday is the Virgo solar festival full moon lunar eclipse (moon 15 degrees Pisces is hidden). Eclipses are potent, bringing needed crisis, events that change us. Eclipses progress us forward, informing us that something exterior (lunar eclipse) or something within our interior (solar eclipse) self is disappearing. Eclipses have a six-month effect – three months before, and three after. A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes behind the Earth and thus in Earth’s shadow. The moon is “eclipsed” (hidden). The past, represented by the moon, begins to “fall away.” Lunar eclipses alert us to disappearing and changing circumstances. The changes are different for each of us. We must consult our astrology chart to see what area of life is activated by the eclipse. What “falls away,” no longer needed, its purpose complete.

ARIES: As you give and give, you realize you would like to be given to. You are secure within your own self, your crab shell often protecting you. However, new values have arisen, new code of ethics. You contemplate right and wrong, good and bad. You consider spiritual resources and values, too. And how your life is shaped by these. You remember someone. Who is it?

TAURUS: You might feel your emotions more keenly, more deeply. Your feelings may be out and about for others to see. Your physical body and sense of self identity are changing. How people see you in the world is shifting too. Your Soul quietly begins to speak with you about the purpose and plan for your life. Be still each day and ask the Soul for direction. Then listen in a garden of peacocks.

GEMINI: There will be events and then a deep inward turning in order to come to empathy and compassion. Others may come to you, attracted to your silence, asking for help. Be careful to remain in a state of retreat. Allow nothing to hinder the still small voice attempting to communicate with you. Tend to your health with the utmost care. Stand in the morning and evening sunlight.

CANCER: All the ties that bind you to others will be activated. You will seek which ones are real, which not.  You will want a harmonious integration with everyone. You will consider integrating even those you have rejected in order to bring about a new poise and balance. This will challenge you but it is good.  Things are beautiful and bright. Like the shiny Milagros you love so much.

LEO: Though you may not sense it, a new phase of life is being initiated. It will bring forth a healing and a fixing of what you thought was wrong or broken or not yet completed. You will seek a deeper cooperation with others, giving up something of self, so a greater intimacy can develop. You don’t understand all of this. It’s the great mystery of the stars over-lighting you.

VIRGO: Jupiter is always your benevolent teacher. Helping you bring forth new concepts and philosophies, research into and understanding of religious ideas, all to be used creatively in your work. You are to expand limited small minds into large spacious minds. So they can know the truth of the kingdom (Earth) and all of its geometric beauty. You are to use your ambition to serve and educate others.

LIBRA: Libra and Capricorn are often seen as linked. It’s Saturn that links them always offering hard work, responsibilities, ambition, achievement, and ladders to success. Let’s talk about foundations. That ladder needs a firm foundation. Love is that foundation. Remember to have love in all that you do. Sometimes Capricorns, Aquarians and Librans are seen as hard and cold. We know you’re not. You’re just sensible, with sensible shoes. Do you need new ones?

SCORPIO: You become more aware of yourself, your age, your limitations. Impatient at first, you learn to adapt. They are lessons along the path. This is a positive time of learning, even if you feel somewhat retrained. Later you will see a new opportunity, possibility and perspective dawning. You will feel a new sense of strength, inspiration and confidence. In the meantime, be kind, always.

SAGITTARIUS: Old identities, events, people, previous beliefs and ways of being come up for review, completion and for understanding. They are shielded in swift moving clouds so you don’t feel blame or guilt at any previous behaviors. If these occur take the Ignatia Amara, the homeopath that helps heal grief. Or Rock Rose, the Bach Flower Remedy. New values begin to emerge as the old drifts away. You are a vital part of “all things new” that will come to pass.

CAPRICORN: Creativity,  loving understanding, fun, play and things that call for risk taking. Games and sports and all expressions of the self. Will and willingness to love. Any and all of these will be affected, shifted, changed. Emotional comfort comes from creative efforts. Thoughts on children, a new baby, a family. A definite and clean break from the past begins to occur. Blending the past, present and future. A lovely tapestry.

AQUARIUS: You think about home, either moving, a long vacation, creating a home elsewhere for a time, redecorating, reconstruction or remodeling. Wondering what a true home means. Seeking deeper foundations and a greater balance between home and work. One’s biology, genealogy, early family life and childhood memories. Mother and nurturing of self and others. Building a spiritual home.

PISCES: In search of new knowledge, developing mental telepathy, unfolding intelligence through new study, assessing how one relates to others. Is it truthful? Is it real? Building the Rainbow Bridge, walking the Path. Bringing others with us. Contact siblings or those we feel are brothers and sisters. A new level of education is considered that is at odds with beliefs. Especially at this time. There is a new education for the new era. It includes the foundations of astrology.