Virgo season opens with sharp edges. On August 22, 2025 the Sun enters Virgo at 20:34 UT / 3:34 PM CT, and three hours later the New Moon forms at Virgo 0°22 at 23:34 UT / 6:34 PM CT. The zero point is a beginning. It strips away Leo’s fire and drops you into mutable earth. What stays, what goes, what needs repair. Leo season tested your heart, your confidence, your creativity. Virgo edits the draft. Virgo says, “That’s great, and you’re great, great… but what good does it do? How useful is it? How many times will you wear it? Don’t lie.”

We begin this Virgo season with a New Moon at Virgo 00°, and it ends with a Solar Eclipse at Virgo 29° on September 21, 2025. Two thresholds hold the season. Between them you face what’s waste and what’s work. The South Node is delivering the karma of 2006 and clearing outdated Virgo patterns in work, health, and service until July 2026. Anything out of date, sloppy, or false gets removed. Virgo doesn’t cling. It refines and moves forward.

The New Moon immediately squares Uranus at Gemini 0°55 on August 23, 2025. This exact alignment last occurred on August 23, 1944, days before the liberation of Paris in WWII. Virgo wants systems and structure. Uranus in Gemini detonates them. Expect computer outages, transportation snarls, communication failures, and breakdowns in industries ruled by Virgo. Health services, skilled trades, office roles, accounting, research, coaching, nutrition, fitness, anything hands-on. Jobs that once felt safe are destabilizing. The future arrives fast.

Virgo asks for order, a plan, a checklist. Uranus in Gemini says no time. Move. Decide now. Opportunities move quickly. Overthinking creates strain. The balance comes from grounding in your body and trusting your instincts. Let the mind follow at its own pace.

A square is when two planets meet at a 90° angle, creating tense conflict that spurs action. Things don’t flow, they grind. Pressure builds until something shifts. This square will be loud across the collective. Broken systems exposed. Industries forced into accelerated change. Expect announcements that ripple into the holiday season. Layoffs, reorganizations, new technologies cutting through what no longer works. The collective nervous system will be buzzing. People amplify their wounds and repeat their cycles louder. Virgo’s higher work is refinement, but Virgo’s shadow is criticism that cuts to the bone. With the North Node in Pisces, compassion is required. Speak softer. Edit yourself before you unload.

Mercury clears his retrograde shadow on August 25, 2025 when he returns to Leo 15°. That’s a world point. This Mercury roars forward with conviction. Words land. Decisions stick. What you say now shapes the months ahead. This is the second pass of a story first sparked on July 17, 2025, when Mercury first crossed this point. What felt uncertain then can be clarified now.

On August 25, 2025, the same day Mercury clears his retrograde shadow, Venus enters Leo. For three days, August 25 to August 28, she moves through four outer planet aspects. Venus in Leo is bright, bold, demanding to be seen. She wants love, attention, and validation. She thrives in performance, in romance, in anything that lets her show her heart.

Her first contact is a trine to Saturn retrograde at Aries 0°25 on August 25. Saturn grounds her. The passion finds commitment. Short-term desires extend into long-term choices. This is a stabilizing start to her Leo journey.

The next day, on August 26, 2025 Venus sextiles Uranus at Gemini 0°55, then trines Neptune retrograde at Aries 1°00. Electric, dreamy, surprising. Sudden connections, bold ideas, and inspired risks. This is a rare alignment that feeds the heart new possibilities. It amplifies divine feminine energy rising, in all of us, regardless of gender. Courage to love yourself, courage to trust what you want.

Then comes the wall. On August 27, 2025 Venus opposes Pluto retrograde at Aquarius 2°25. This is the descent. Fears surface. Old patterns of rejection, abuse, control, and distortion rise to be faced. Pluto dredges up trauma stored in the psyche. Venus in Leo must hold her ground. The opposition feels like an external threat, but it is a mirror. The fear is inside. The work is alchemy.

This is where toxic dynamics become obvious. Narcissistic tactics surface. Patterns that have played out for years repeat in plain sight. Predictable behaviors from people who will not change. The only power is disengagement. Do not get sucked back into this karmic undertow. Do not respond. End the cycle here.

Venus opposite Pluto brings endings that create space. You may feel it as an intense removal. Venus rises by refusing to drop into the old dynamics. She chooses higher self-respect and higher standards. That is the initiation.

Running underneath this is the rare minor grand trine forming now. Uranus Gemini 0°55, Neptune Aries 1°, Pluto Aquarius 2°25. A triangle of new frequencies. Two sextiles and a trine creating a cosmic arrow. The point is Neptune in Aries, pulling identity, courage, and spiritual evolution forward. This alignment lasts into 2029, repeating at degree points from 1° to 10°. If you have planets or points in Aries, Gemini, or Aquarius within those degrees, you’re activated. Each pass reemphasizes your new path.

Virgo season begins with an initiation and ends with an eclipse. Old habits nor setups that we have outgrown will survive the passage. Uranus drives change, Mercury gives direction, Venus tests the heart, and Pluto strips what’s false. Together, the outer planets set a trajectory that carries forward for years.

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Looking Ahead: All About Virgo

Next we will go deeper into Virgo itself. What this sign rules. Why it is called mutable earth. How it works through service, skill, and refinement. Virgo is not about perfection. It is about usefulness and repair.

We will look at how Virgo operates through the houses, what Mercury’s rulership adds to its expression, and how Virgo’s cycles shape thought, communication, and daily practice. We will also explore the shadow of Virgo, the sharp edge of criticism that can cut progress down instead of building it up.

The hope is to help you see how to work with Virgo’s higher function, how to spot the habits that need clearing, and how to align with the South Node’s passage through Virgo until July 2026. The story of Virgo is the story of refinement.