We're building toward Eclipse Season. The Virgo Eclipse Season arrives as medicine for the part of you that believes criticism is care. This is a universal intervention for where self-improvement has become a type of self-destruction. Where impossible standards have become your prison, where you fix everything except your own exhaustion.

This week's astrology: Venus enters Leo on Monday and immediately starts making moves. Five major Venus aspects in three days: your relationships, creativity, and values are getting reworked whether you're ready or not. Saturn retrograde in Pisces (since July 13) has been reviewing your spiritual boundaries, asking what illusions you've been maintaining in the name of compassion. When Venus in Leo shakes hands with Saturn, you get passion with staying power, if it's built on truth.

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Monday's Venus-Saturn trine asks you to stop treating commitment like restriction. The relationships worth having need daily tending, not grand gestures. By evening, Venus connects with Uranus - that thing you've been wanting to try but thought was "too much"? It's not. Uranus in Gemini wants intellectual rebellion, unexpected conversations, connections that surprise you. With Mercury about to enter Virgo (September 2), your mind is preparing for precision. Use this Venus-Uranus sextile to experiment before Virgo season's analysis kicks in.

Tuesday brings the Venus-Neptune trine's intoxicating fog, but don't get too comfortable in the fantasy. Neptune retrograde in Aries has been reviewing where you've been spiritual bypassing instead of taking spiritual action. The dream feels beautiful, but Venus opposes Pluto by nightfall, dragging every unspoken resentment and power imbalance to the surface. If you've been pretending everything's fine while silently keeping score, the truth is about to emerge. Pluto retrograde in Aquarius doesn't do surface-level anything. This opposition exposes the collective shadows in your personal relationships.

Wednesday's Uranus-Neptune sextile creates a bridge between revolution and vision. The impossible suddenly has a blueprint. Your weird idea? It might actually work. This is the last major aspect before we enter the Eclipse portal.

Thursday's Moon in Scorpio sextile Sun in Virgo brings emotional depth to support practical action. After three days of Venus aspects exposing what's real versus what's performance, you finally have the emotional bandwidth to do something about it. This is integration day. Take what Venus revealed about your values and relationships and create one concrete change. Maybe it's a conversation you've been avoiding. Maybe it's a boundary you need to set. The Scorpio Moon gives you the courage, while Virgo Sun ensures it's practical, not dramatic.

Friday's Moon in Scorpio trine Jupiter in Cancer offers deep emotional support. This is the universe saying: "Yes, you can trust what you're feeling." After a week of revelations and confrontations, Jupiter provides the safety net. The feelings emerging now aren't random; they're signaling what needs healing before the Eclipse. Notice what makes you feel genuinely supported versus what's just familiar. Write down three things that actually nourished you today. You'll need this list when the Eclipse asks you to choose between comfort and growth.

By Saturday, the Moon enters Sagittarius and emotions finally lighten. Scorpio showed you the depths; Sagittarius shows you the meaning. This is when the week's lessons start forming a coherent story. What pattern do you see? What's the common thread between Monday's Venus-Saturn commitment test, Tuesday's Venus-Pluto power dynamics, and Wednesday's breakthrough vision? The story you tell yourself on Saturday becomes the foundation you'll stand on when Eclipse Season arrives.

Sunday's First Quarter Moon in Sagittarius at 8:17 AM EST marks the first challenge to your Virgo New Moon intentions from August 23rd. Whatever daily practice or sacred routine you committed to is meeting its first test: Can it expand beyond perfectionism? The Moon's sextile to Mars in Libra adds courage to expand beyond comfortable limits. Your practical plans need a bigger vision. Don't abandon the practice because it's not perfect. Adjust it. Make it sustainable. The Eclipses will take whatever isn't working, but they'll strengthen whatever is genuine. This First Quarter Moon is your chance to refine before the universe does it for you.

And this refinement matters, because Eclipse Season is almost here. Eclipse Season actually begins about two weeks before the first eclipse. By the time we hit September's Full Moon, we're already in the portal. The energy is already shifting. The old rules don't apply.

The September 7th Total Lunar Eclipse in Pisces will illuminate where perfectionism might have become too heavy to carry. Remember the Virgo New Moon from August 23rd? Whatever seeds were planted then, whether you set intentions or simply lived your daily life, because we're always planting through our thoughts and choices, will meet a moment of truth. This isn't a regular Full Moon where we release with candles and crystals. This is an Eclipse, which works differently: it clears what's complete and brings what's needed, often in unexpected ways.

Then comes the September 21st Partial Solar Eclipse at 29° Virgo: the final degree, the completion point. This will be the second Virgo New Moon this season (a rare occurrence), and at the anaretic degree, it's forcing completion of YEARS of Virgo themes: criticism, perfectionism, the belief that worth comes from usefulness and output.

This week's Venus aspects aren't happening in isolation. They're preparation. Venus in Leo is teaching you to value yourself before the Eclipses strip away false validation. The Venus-Saturn trine builds foundations before the Eclipse dismantles unstable structures. By the time Mercury enters Virgo on September 2nd, followed by Uranus stationing retrograde on September 6th (one day before the Eclipse), the cosmic weather will have completely shifted. What you're building with Venus this week needs to be authentic, because the Eclipses will test everything that isn't.

Stop trying to perfect your way to peace (Virgo shadow). Stop escaping into beautiful illusions (Pisces shadow). This week's Venus aspects are showing you where to find genuine value, sustainable love, and creative expression that doesn't require applause to exist.

The Virgo-Pisces Eclipse axis asks: Can you be devoted without being rigid? Can you serve without sacrificing yourself? Can you create sacred routines that include surrender?

The Week's Arc: Monday-Wednesday tears down false structures through Venus's confrontations. Thursday-Friday helps you process and integrate what's real. Saturday-Sunday expands your vision beyond the immediate crisis. By the time you reach September's Eclipse portal, you'll have already done the preliminary work of distinguishing authentic value from performance, genuine connection from obligation, real vision from escapist fantasy. The Eclipses can then do their deeper work without completely destabilizing you.

This Week's Astrology

Sunday 24th: Sun ♍ squares Uranus ♊ The need for order meets the impulse to scatter. Your routines want disruption.

Monday 25th: Moon enters ♎ 10:08 AM EST | Venus enters ♌ 12:27 PM EST | Venus trine Saturn 8:55 PM EST | Venus sextile Uranus 4:58 PM EST Relationships take center stage with multiple Venus aspects lighting up connection and creativity.

Tuesday 26th: Moon + Mars in ♎ | Venus trine Neptune 6:18 PM EST | Venus opposes Pluto 1:53 AM EST (Wed) Passion meets diplomacy. Dreams dissolve into necessary truths overnight.

Wednesday 27th: Moon enters ♏ 9:27 PM EST | Uranus sextile Neptune 8:14 PM EST Emotional intensity deepens as revolutionary ideas find spiritual backing.

Thursday 28th: Moon ♏ sextiles Sun ♍ Emotional depth supports practical action.

Friday 29th: Moon ♏ trines Jupiter ♋ Deep feelings meet abundant nurturing. Trust what surfaces.

Saturday 30th: Moon enters ♐ 10:05 AM EST Emotions lighten and expand after days of intensity.

Sunday 31st: First Quarter Moon ♐ 8:17 AM EST | Moon sextiles Mars ♎ Your Virgo New Moon intentions meet their first challenge. Expand beyond comfortable limits.

Weekly Horoscopes

Aries / Aries Rising

Your creative life is about to get very real. Monday through Wednesday, Venus in your house of self-expression makes five major aspects that reveal a hard truth: you've been exhausting yourself creating joy for others instead of actually feeling it yourself. Maybe you're the friend who's always "on," always entertaining, always making sure everyone else has a good time while you're secretly drained. Tuesday's Venus-Pluto opposition will expose this through jealousy or competition. Someone might get the recognition you wanted, or you'll realize you've been treating creativity like a contest you have to win.

Thursday and Friday ask you to sit with an uncomfortable question: what would you create if no one was watching? The Moon in Scorpio demands you go deeper than surface-level fun. This is about finding what actually feeds your soul, not what gets the most likes. By the weekend, the Moon enters your house of bigger meaning and suddenly you understand why this matters. Your creativity isn't meant to be small or safe or constantly seeking approval.

Burnout Prevention: With Venus in Leo hitting your 5th house, you're exhausting yourself trying to be entertaining constantly. The medicine is Saturn's trine asking for sustainable creative practice. Schedule actual rest between creative bursts. Your ruler Mars in Libra in your 7th house says stop competing with everyone, including yourself. Sunday's First Quarter Moon tests whether you can create just for you. The September Eclipses will clear out any creative pursuit that's more about ego than genuine expression.

Taurus / Taurus Rising

Home and family take center stage this week, but not in the cozy way you prefer. Venus enters your house of foundations Monday and immediately makes five aspects that reveal every crack in your support system. You might discover that what felt like security was actually stagnation. That family tradition you maintain might be draining more than supporting you. Monday's conversation with Saturn asks a direct question: are you building your own life or still living inside someone else's blueprint?

Tuesday night brings the confrontation you've been avoiding. Maybe it's about money and inheritance, maybe it's about who has power in the family system, maybe it's realizing you've recreated your childhood dynamics in your adult home. By Thursday and Friday, you need to let someone trustworthy see where you're actually struggling, not just where you're strong. This vulnerability is the key to everything.

Burnout Prevention: Venus in your 4th house while Saturn trines from Pisces in your 11th means family obligations are exhausting you. The antidote is Jupiter in Cancer in your 3rd house: have the actual conversation about redistributing responsibilities. Your burnout pattern is saying yes to maintain peace when you need to say no to maintain sanity. Sunday's First Quarter Moon challenges whether you can create something new while honoring the past. The Eclipses are coming to clear out anything built on obligation rather than love.

Gemini / Gemini Rising

This week, your words matter more than usual. Venus lights up your communication house with five major aspects that turn every conversation into a potential pivot point. Monday through Wednesday, you'll have at least one conversation that changes things. It might be about money, respect, or finally saying what you've been thinking but were too diplomatic to voice. Tuesday's Venus-Pluto opposition reveals where you've been using wit to deflect rather than communicate.

Here's what Thursday and Friday need from you: pick one thing you've been talking about and actually do it. Not plan it, not discuss it, not research it more. Do it. The Moon in your house of daily routines says enough with the ideas; show up in the mundane reality of making change. One small daily habit changed now is worth more than a thousand brilliant insights.

Burnout Prevention: Mercury preparing to enter Virgo in your 4th house plus Uranus in your sign creates mental overstimulation. Your mind is everywhere because Mercury preparing for Virgo wants precision while Uranus in your sign demands innovation. This creates mental short-circuiting. Saturn in your 10th house isn't limiting you; it's trying to focus you. The cure isn't doing less but choosing one thing to do completely. Your nervous system can't handle five half-commitments anymore.

Cancer / Cancer Rising

Money and self-worth dominate this week, but it's really about something deeper: recognizing your actual value. Venus enters your house of resources Monday, making five aspects that expose where you've been undercharging, over-giving, or accepting less because you didn't want to seem difficult. You might realize you've been the emotional support friend who never asks for support back, or the reliable one who never gets reliability in return.

Tuesday's Venus-Pluto opposition brings power dynamics around resources to a head. This could be literal (someone owes you money, you realize you're being underpaid) or emotional (you've been giving more than you're receiving, you're tired of being the only one who cares). Thursday and Friday ask you to reconnect with what actually brings you pleasure. Not what you should enjoy, not what others expect you to enjoy, but what genuinely lights you up.

Burnout Prevention: Jupiter in your sign should be expanding YOU, but you're channeling all that abundance outward. Venus in your 2nd house exposes your undervaluing pattern while the Moon's aspects support new boundaries. The exhaustion isn't from giving; it's from giving without receiving. Start charging what you're worth, energetically and literally.

Leo / Leo Rising

Venus enters your sign Monday, putting you center stage with five major aspects that strip away every costume you've been wearing. This week reveals the exhausting gap between who you are and who you've been pretending to be. Monday through Wednesday, notice where you're manufacturing confidence versus actually feeling it. Notice where you need constant validation versus where you're genuinely secure. Tuesday night's Venus-Pluto opposition with your partnership house shows which relationships require you to be "on" all the time.

Thursday and Friday take you into your roots. The Moon in your family sector asks: what did you learn about earning love? Were you the child who had to achieve to be seen? The one who had to be special to matter? This is deep work, the kind that transforms your need for applause into actual self-love.

Burnout Prevention: The exhaustion isn't from being seen; it's from curating how you're seen. Mercury entering Virgo in your 2nd house September 2 brings practical questions: which visibility actually serves you versus drains you? The real work is distinguishing between natural radiance and manufactured spotlight.

Virgo / Virgo Rising

While everyone else has public drama, yours happens behind the scenes. Venus enters your house of the unconscious Monday, making five aspects to patterns you don't even know you're running. You might have intense dreams, sudden realizations about old relationships, or find yourself triggered by things that usually don't bother you. This is preparation. Both September Eclipses hit your sign, so this week is helping you see what needs to go.

Tuesday's Venus-Pluto opposition brings hidden resentments to consciousness. You might finally understand why certain people exhaust you, or recognize the ways you've been enabling dysfunction by trying to fix it. Thursday and Friday demand you speak up. That conversation you've been too polite to have? Have it. That boundary you've been too nice to set? Set it.

Burnout Prevention: With both Eclipses coming to your sign and Venus in your 12th house, you're already in pre-burnout from trying to perfect everything before September. Saturn in your 7th house says delegate, ask for help, stop doing it all alone. Mercury entering your sign September 2 will help, but only if you stop trying to control everything now. Sunday's First Quarter Moon asks whether your self-improvement is actually self-care or just self-criticism with better branding.

Libra / Libra Rising

Venus, your ruling planet, enters your house of community and future dreams Monday, making five aspects that sort real friends from convenient ones. This week shows you who needs you to stay small so they can feel big. Monday through Wednesday reveal which groups or friendships are actually reciprocal versus which ones just take. Tuesday's Venus-Pluto opposition exposes the power dynamics you've been managing by making yourself smaller or more agreeable.

Thursday and Friday bring a financial reality check. What are these relationships actually costing you? Not just emotionally, but literally. Time is money. Energy is currency. Self-respect has value. The Moon in your resource house asks you to do the math. Some relationships are too expensive to maintain.

Burnout Prevention: Mars in your sign is making you uncharacteristically direct, which exhausts you because confrontation isn't your comfort zone. Venus in your 11th house says find your actual people who don't need you to mediate or smooth things over. Saturn in your 6th house demands a real routine, not just the idea of one. Sunday's First Quarter Moon tests holding your position even when it rocks the boat. The Eclipses will clear out anyone who needs you to be less.

Scorpio / Scorpio Rising

Your career and public reputation undergo major shifts this week. Venus enters your house of career Monday, making five aspects that expose every power game in your professional world. You'll see clearly who respects your work versus who's been using it. Monday through Wednesday reveal the politics you've been navigating, possibly unconsciously. Tuesday night's Venus-Pluto opposition shows how family patterns replay in your career. Maybe you're still trying to prove something to a parent, or you've recreated family dynamics with colleagues.

Thursday and Friday, the Moon enters your sign, giving you emotional intelligence and strategic clarity. You know exactly what needs to change and have the power to change it. This isn't about revenge or manipulation. It's about stepping into authentic authority.

Burnout Prevention: Venus in your 10th house exposing professional power dynamics is draining your energy through constant vigilance. Your medicine is the Moon entering your sign Thursday-Friday: use that emotional intelligence to identify what battles are actually worth fighting. Mars in your 12th house says rest is strategy, not weakness. Sunday's First Quarter Moon challenges whether ambitions can include collaboration. The Eclipses are completely reworking your professional trajectory.

Sagittarius / Sagittarius Rising

Your worldview gets renovated this week. Venus enters your house of higher learning and belief systems Monday, making five aspects that challenge what you thought you knew. Someone or something will show you your blind spots. Maybe through travel, education, or just a conversation with someone whose experience contradicts your philosophy. Tuesday's Venus-Pluto opposition reveals where your optimism has been avoiding reality, where your beliefs have become rigid.

Thursday and Friday ask you to sit still with uncomfortable questions. The Moon in your house of the unconscious demands you stop running and actually feel what you've been avoiding. What expansion has been escape? What growth has been spiritual bypassing? This is the unsexy work that transforms surface-level positivity into actual wisdom.

Burnout Prevention: Venus in your 9th house has you overextending through over-promising and over-committing to new adventures. The First Quarter Moon in your sign Sunday is your reset button. Saturn in your 4th house says create a home base that actually restores you instead of constantly seeking restoration through escape. The Eclipses will test whether your growth serves genuine understanding or just helps you avoid the depths.

Capricorn / Capricorn Rising

This week takes you into the deep end of intimacy, and you can't manage your way through it. Venus enters your house of shared resources and transformation Monday, making five aspects that expose every power dynamic in your closest bonds. Who owes whom? Who's keeping score? Who has the real power? Monday through Wednesday reveal the hidden contracts in your relationships. Tuesday's Venus-Pluto opposition brings financial or sexual power dynamics into unavoidable focus.

Thursday and Friday ask which friendships support your transformation versus which ones need you to stay the same. The Moon in your community house shows you who can handle your evolution and who can't. Some people liked the old version better. That's their problem, not yours.

Burnout Prevention: Venus in your 8th house means you're exhausting yourself managing everyone else's resources and emotions while ignoring your own needs. Saturn in your 3rd house says communicate boundaries clearly once instead of managing them constantly. Jupiter in your 7th house promises support if you actually ask for it. Sunday's First Quarter Moon challenges releasing control to actually merge. The Eclipses demand experiencing intimacy, not negotiating it.

Aquarius / Aquarius Rising

Relationships dominate this week, and they won't let you intellectualize your way through. Venus enters your partnership house Monday, making five aspects that expose where you've been analyzing emotions instead of feeling them. You might realize you've been treating intimacy like an interesting concept to understand rather than something to experience. Tuesday's Venus-Pluto opposition with Pluto in your sign forces you to see your own shadow in every relationship conflict.

Thursday and Friday show how these patterns play out professionally. The Moon in your career house reveals where treating colleagues like concepts rather than people has been limiting your success. People need to feel you, not just think with you. The weekend brings perspective from friends who can see what you can't.

Burnout Prevention: With Pluto in your sign opposite Venus, you're exhausting yourself by intellectualizing emotions instead of feeling them. The burnout comes from treating intimacy like a problem to solve. Saturn in your 2nd house asks: what is this emotional avoidance costing you? Uranus in your 5th house offers the cure: genuine creative play and authentic self-expression restore you. Sunday's First Quarter Moon asks if you can let love change you instead of just analyzing it.

Pisces / Pisces Rising

Your daily routines and work life get completely reworked this week, and it starts with recognizing where service has become self-sacrifice. Venus enters your house of daily work and health Monday, making five aspects that reveal how you've been giving yourself away through a thousand small acts of self-abandonment. That extra task you always take on, that boundary you never set, that "yes" when your body screamed "no."

Tuesday's Venus-Pluto opposition shows where you've confused exhaustion with holiness, where being needed has become your identity. Thursday and Friday ask you to find bigger meaning in your daily practices. What are you really serving? If it's not something that also serves you, it's not sustainable.

Burnout Prevention: The September 7 Eclipse in your sign means you're already feeling the dissolution and trying to hold everything together through sheer will. Venus in your 6th house shows where you've confused service with self-sacrifice. Jupiter in your 5th house is your medicine: actual joy and creative expression, not martyrdom disguised as helpfulness. Sunday's First Quarter Moon challenges whether service can include yourself as worthy of care. The Eclipse in your sign will dissolve any routine requiring you to disappear to be loved.