August 23, 2025 – New Moon – Virgo 0°22

August 23, 2025 – New Moon – Virgo 0°22

Heather

The Sun and Moon meet at 0°22 Virgo on 08/23/2025 at 1:06 am CDT, 06:06 UTC. This is the first degree of the sign, a clean slate. The lunation is in conjunction with Regulus at 0°09 Virgo, translating royal presence into service and craft. Lead through competence and let visibility follow service. Power used carelessly reverses quickly.

Fixed stars act as a backdrop and are strongest within 1° by conjunction. They confer gifts with terms attached, so use them wisely. Virgo is precision in the real, but it is not only about routines. It governs systems of work, the social contract of service, and the ethics of usefulness. Virgo rules healthcare workers, analysts, critics, aides, and soldiers—the ones who hold the line. This New Moon asks what kind of order is worth maintaining, and who we become in the act of repair.

Context matters this month. Saturn in Aries (personal responsibility, pressure to lead, self-discipline under fire) sextiles Uranus in Gemini (cognitive disruption, nervous acceleration, information shock) on 08/12/2025. This sextile opens practical doors for new systems and smarter tools. The same Uranus sextiles Neptune in Aries (idealistic ignition, spiritual urgency, blurred identity) on 08/28/2025. That sextile carries inspiration into form. This New Moon lands between them, so establish structures of service, responsibility, and resilience that can meet the world as it actually is.

The New Moon forms a square to Uranus at Gemini 0°55, where disruption meets community and communication. Minds spike, schedules flip, and data floods. Stabilize your nervous system, reduce inputs, and shorten the list, if at all possible. Use the surprise to update your method, but not to abandon it. This square is not a minor interruption. It’s a system-wide alert. Uranus in Gemini rewires how we think, speak, and connect. And when it challenges a Virgo Moon, the pressure is on to adapt your systems in real time. Plans get scrambled. Priorities reorder themselves without notice. The test here isn’t whether you can hold the routine. It’s whether you can keep functioning when the structure bends or breaks. Don’t fight to restore what was. Work with what’s changing.

Saturn sextile Pluto in Aquarius (deep restructuring, collective transformation, power system exposure, RX) supports disciplined system upgrades. Set a boundary that protects your workflow and remove a single failure point so the whole machine runs truer.

Neptune in Aries pushes impulse as vision. Don’t follow the spark unless you know where it lands. Mercury rules this lunation. Mercury is direct in Leo (bold speech, performative thinking, dramatic clarity). Speak plainly, then align your process to your words. Keep messages literal and plans brief.

This is the first of two New Moons in Virgo this season. Begin at 0°22 Virgo now, and let this lunation stand on its own. It initiates a six-month cycle that culminates at the Full Moon in Virgo at 13°26 on 03/03/2026. That’s when you’ll see the results of what begins now — clarity, completion, or consequences.

This is not just a call to organize your life. It is a summons to show up where your care is needed, even if the system is broken. You may be called to serve, to repair, to hold others accountable, or to do the hard, thankless work no one else will claim. This lunation begins something that carries through disruption, not for your comfort, but for collective function. Virgo’s work is sacred not because it is tidy, but because it is necessary. Expect truth to land hard around 08/23/2025, and for priorities to shift again around 08/28/2025. Stay with what holds under pressure. That is what survives the eclipse corridor ahead. Everything is leading us toward those eclipses next month.

Planetary and asteroid placements at the New Moon – 08/23/2025

Sun & Moon – Virgo 0°22
Initiating order, service, repair, and precision at a foundational level.

Regulus – Virgo 0°09
A stellar influence tied to integrity, reputation, and earned leadership. Grants power through integrity and service; misuse backfires. 

Mercury – Leo 20° (direct, post-shadow clears 08/25)
Bold speech, literal messaging, alignment between words and action.

Venus – Cancer 18°
Emotional sensitivity, nurturing values, and care for others in relational space.

Mars – Libra 5°
Action through diplomacy, asserting with balance, tension between self and other.

Jupiter – Cancer 4°
Emotional expansion, growth through safety and familial roots.

Saturn – Aries 1°
Personal responsibility, pressure to lead, self-discipline under fire.

Uranus – Gemini 0°55
Cognitive disruption, nervous acceleration, information shock.

Neptune – Aries 0°
Idealistic ignition, spiritual urgency, blurred identity.

Pluto – Aquarius 2°25 RX
Deep restructuring, collective transformation, power system exposure. RX intensifies internal excavation and delayed systemic release.

Chiron – Aries 27° RX
Wound of self, identity healing, inner warrior work. RX turns attention inward and reopens old patterns for reflection and integration.

North Node – Pisces 18°
Fated opportunities for spiritual alignment, earned karma, and intuitive service that pulls us forward into collective evolution.

South Node – Virgo 18°
Past-life patterns of service, control, and over-functioning returning now. Karma from 18–19 years ago resurfaces to be worked through or released.

Looking Ahead: September 7, 2025 – Solar Eclipse – Pisces 6°00

This solar eclipse in Pisces dissolves what no longer holds meaning. At 6° Pisces, it targets overextension, dependency, and distorted ideals. It wipes the lens clean, whether you’re ready or not.

Pisces governs dreams, fantasy, sacrifice, and escape. It rules substances, addiction, imagination, music, film, theater, mysticism, and large institutions like hospitals, prisons, and retreat centers. It’s the soul’s longing and its blind spots. This eclipse doesn’t organize. Virgo already did that. This one asks you to release the parts of your life that never should have been structured in the first place. Don’t try to hold form. Feel what the tide pulls from your hands.

Solar eclipses begin six-month arcs. This one stretches to the Full Moon in Pisces on March 3, 2026 at 13°26. What leaves now stays gone. What stays must grow depth. You don’t need a plan. You need surrender. There is no rescue from this tide. Only rebirth when you stop resisting the current.