Being a Steady Presence in your own Chapter -Sept 2023
As Above, So Below: A monthly guide to consciously align your focus so you can flow with the changing energies of the planets’
Spell of Twilight States
Key themes at a glance this month: clearer on the direction you would like your relationships to go, stepping into your own sense of autonomy and truth when communicating, simplifying, removing clutter, refinement, focus on health, tune into your inner point of guidance and allow it to guide you in a physical way, time to move out of overwhelm, connecting in with universal love and peace, themes around balance, harmony and partnership, grounding insights to bring them into reality, harnessing your own creative power
Dates to note: New moon in Virgo 15th Sept at 11:39am (AEST)
First Quarter Moon in Sagittarius 23rd Sept at 5:31am (AEST)
Full Moon in Aries 29th Sept at 7:57pm (AEST)
Third Quarter Moon in Cancer 7th Oct at 12:47am (AEST)
Uranus featured strongly on 29th Aug as it went stationary (it’s now in retrograde) brought up a lot of emotion and letting us know about those vulnerable tender spots within. Last month saw some vulnerability, inward focus and an opportunity to reflect upon relationships and reviewing what you value, money and how you experience pleasure in your life (Venus).
Venus in retrograde had you reflective on how things in love haven’t worked out or been harmonious in all types of relationships, friendships and partnerships, and has more than likely touched a few deep places last month with what you value.
Now Venus has gone direct in early September you can integrate any pearls of wisdom that you have you learnt. As a result you may feel clearer on the direction you would like your relationships to go after the retrograde period. Since we have had the chance to reflect and heal our love, values and relationships, and had an opportunity for greater self-acceptance.
Key insights you may have really gathered are in considering which of your relationships are meeting your needs, and which ones have been done and are time to move on from. Any relationships not aligning with you may just fall away as a natural part of this integration phase.
The New Moon in Virgo (15th Sept) sees themes around simplifying, removing clutter, refinement and discernment, increasing productivity, look at your health and how important it is. This is a time to look at the details and make sure everything is the way you would like it to be and things are in place for your next step. This is a great time to look at your diet and doing a cleanse as Virgo is closely affiliated with day to day health.
Around the same time, we have Saturn opposing Mercury in Virgo (rules/regulations/order around communication) around day to day health and may bring up a bit of friction where you feel like your boundaries have been impacted upon, and where you may not have been stepping into your own sense of autonomy when communicating with others.
This is a great time to look at the reality of what you’ve been through Neptune opposes the Sun & Moon (may make things a bit foggy or unclear) where you can feel disillusionment, foggy or unclear if your dreams haven’t been realised. At a higher level you’re being asked to tune into your inner point of guidance for the answer when you do not get what you need from surface level communication, when you can start see the cracks appearing through those rose-coloured glasses you may have had on.
When you’re not really sure where you stand, you can really connect into your intuitive truth right now and allow that to guide you in a physical way. Key questions you can reflect on during this time:
What are your emotional needs?
Do you have the capacity to give right now?
What are you realistically capable of doing in this moment?
It’s a time to move out of the feeling of overwhelm and feeling foggy & use this time to tap into your intuitive nature. This will allow you to connect in with universal love and peace which is the higher expression of the Neptunian energy available during this time.
Uranus is trining the moon during the new moon-which may provide sudden downloads, quick insights around your feelings, how to ground that into a realistic way for your future true self. This is an opportunity to see a new way of being for your future (higher mind) and the trine energy (in earth signs) is available during this time (Moon, Pluto, Uranus) which is more of a smooth flow.
This points to a physical aspect or grounding of your insights received to bring them through into reality. Saturn opposite mercury (focus our mental energy on the details in its higher aspect), or attempt to control communication (lower aspect) Jupiter is now also in retrograde (deep process or integration phase of meaning) which reflects upon evaluating our greater purpose and search for meaning. For the next few months, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto are all in retrograde.
As Uranus is coming out of it’s square to Venus-Uranus (individual rebel energy) is in Taurus which continues the theme of re-evaluation of your own resources. It is time to have clarity on your relationships and bring honesty and truth into your conversations on what is important to you which may feel a little uncomfortable initially.
This is an important opportunity to really look at what have you have denied yourself, the role you have played & acknowledge and pour love into what you value and hold as your own personal truth-so you can be clearer and healthier relating with others. It’s only through doing this when you bring your relationships up to a higher level and out of the past and older patterns you may have experienced which will allow something new, honest and truthful to emerge.
Libra equinox -23rd Sept coming up (when the Sun enters the sign of Libra) which bring up themes around balance and harmony and partnership-it’s a great time to download surges of higher frequency information at this time. Mercury is currently in Virgo trining the moon (in Capricorn)- this aspect is about grounding big thinking/ideas about earth and it’s resources-think food, agriculture, farming, new systems of production and choice points around which direction we as a collective would like to see technology take us.
Pluto T square nodal axis-empowered This whole time up until November reminds us to continue to reflect upon themes around empowerment. In what ways do you become reactive when triggered, and can you redirect yourself to focus on harnessing your own creative power instead of being in a reactive or disempowered state?
Nearly every planet is currently still in retrograde (except Mars and Venus) until Mercury comes out of retrograde out of Virgo (planet of health) just after the new moon. So while we are still in a reflective phase, at least our communication will be more direct again! In September, we remain in a time of introspection and retreat with the majority of planets still in retrograde. Saturn, Neptune, Pluto and Uranus will still be in retrograde after 15th Sept.
We looked at the themes from an astrological perspective last month for the planets in retrograde, see below for an energy centre correlation:
Saturn-personal responsibility/authority (Base)
Neptune-dreams/spirituality (crown)
Venus-relationships (sacral + the heart)
Uranus-sudden insights/change (third eye)
Mercury-thinking/communication (throat)
Chiron is currently moving slowly through Aries, as it progresses it is a slow felt sense deep within, which stirs around feelings about your soul path and journey. A great time to really feel into if you are on track with where you would like to go in your life, and to notice is your current focus on what you would like it to be-or is it an old re-run of a story from the past?
This is a great healing time for the part of you that wants to forge ahead and do things for yourself in your own life. Chiron can have you run out of energy, petrol, flight, adrenally depleted and laid up in bed resting if you are not consciously working with this energy. Even if it is just one small step to redirect you when you feel like you’re stepping off-track can bring more of a flow.
September sees the continuation of Jupiter in Taurus (until next year) which continues building and managing your personal resources. September is a great time for retreats, earth-based practices, taking care of your health, ritual, ceremony, and connecting with nature. It’s a time to re-imagine how you as an individual take responsibility for your own role in your relationships, steady and ground yourself regardless of the external events playing out around you in the outer world.
You have energy available to you during this month to really evaluate your relationships (Venus) and see your truth (Uranus) through the fog of where you’ve previously had rose-coloured classes. With the earth energy available you can make solid, real, practical steps to own your sense of responsibility (Saturn) in how you communicate (Mercury) and what is important to you (Venus).
Connecting with your inner compass, your sense of being grounded will help you to weather the undercurrents of greater events on a global scale that you might feel deep inside. Know that you are constantly upgrading your personal energy moment by moment and day by day & readjusting and realigning with a greater collective truth and global frequencies.
There is a greater soundtrack playing around us which is an opportunity to call yourself back to what you are responsible for in your day-to-day life & how you can impact the world by being a steady presence in your own chapter and in the lives of people you touch around you which ripples out into the collective.
