Your Guide to the 🌑 Solar Eclipse in Virgo ♍

Welcome to a big week in the cosmos. We’re moving deeper into September, and the energy is building toward the Solar Eclipse in Virgo on Sunday, September 21st.

This isn’t the first Virgo eclipse of the series. That began back in March 2025 with the Total Lunar Eclipse in Virgo. Think about the whole month of March 2025.

What's something you put in motion then?
What were the most significant things that you let go of?
What did you press restart on?
What things happened that changed the game for you?
What did you begin? What did you end?
What did you learn?
What was absolutely chaotic?
What do you not want to repeat?
What's coming back for a part 2?

Think back to what was illuminated or released for you then, because this solar eclipse is carrying those themes forward, offering a powerful reset in Virgo’s domain of work, health, and systems.

Before the eclipse, two key shifts set the tone:

• On Thursday, Sept 18th, Mercury enters Libra, bringing balance, diplomacy, and clarity to our conversations. This helps us weigh perspectives and seek harmony in relationships and negotiations.
• On Friday, Sept 19th, Venus enters Virgo, shifting our values toward refinement, discernment, and devotion. Love, money, and priorities get put under Virgo’s lens so we can see what’s truly working.

Together, these movements prepare us for the eclipse. They’re asking us to balance relationships (Mercury in Libra), refine our values (Venus in Virgo), and then use the eclipse as a system upgrade, wiping away inefficiencies and distractions so we can recommit to habits, routines, and structures that sustain the bigger vision we’re building.

🌿 Let’s Talk Virgo

Virgo is the sign of refinement, devotion, and discernment. It’s the part of the zodiac that asks: Is this working? Is this sustainable? Does this truly serve me? Virgo energy is about creating systems and habits that allow life to flow with ease.

During a solar eclipse in Virgo, we’re being asked to reset our defaults. This is a time to look at the moving parts of your daily life and acknowledge what needs to be adjusted, upgraded, or released altogether. Think of it as pruning a garden: when you clear out what’s overgrown or inefficient, the healthiest plants can thrive.

Eclipses in Virgo often bring up themes around:

• Work and productivity cycles
• Health and wellness habits (specifically digestion)
• Boundaries in service to others
• Perfectionism and over-analysis
• Finding devotion through daily rituals

This eclipse is asking you to be ruthlessly honest with yourself. What’s draining your energy? What systems are outdated? And more importantly, where can you pour your devotion into what actually sustains you?

✨ A Deeper Look at the Virgo Solar Eclipse

This Solar Eclipse lands at 29° Virgo on Sunday, Sept 21st at 2:54 p.m. CT, a critical degree that carries a sense of urgency and completion. It’s the follow-up to the Virgo Lunar Eclipse on March 14th, asking you to move from recognition and release into an upgraded way of working, living, and showing up.

Here’s what’s happening in the sky:

• Sun and Moon at 29° Virgo conjunct Mercury at 5° Libra – The eclipse energy is fused with Mercury’s voice, sharpening awareness around communication, contracts, and choices. There’s an emphasis on diplomacy and clarity, especially where relationships or collaborations are involved.
• Trine Pluto at 1° Aquarius + Trine Uranus retrograde at 1° Gemini – This eclipse is harmonizing with both Pluto (transformation, power, collective shifts) and Uranus (breakthroughs, disruption, innovation). These trines suggest that changes made now have the power to unlock new pathways, especially around systems, technology, communication, and collective structures.
• Opposition to Saturn at 28° Pisces + Neptune at 0° Aries (both retrograde) – The eclipse is directly confronting two heavyweights. Saturn asks for structure, discipline, and clear boundaries, while Neptune blurs lines, stirs intuition, and dissolves illusions. Together, they create tension: where have you been avoiding clarity? Where are you over-idealizing or drifting? The eclipse forces a choice between staying in the fog or committing to clarity and devotion.

The Story:

This eclipse is a moment of powerful discernment. Virgo wants refinement, Pluto and Uranus bring transformative breakthroughs, and Saturn-Neptune remind us that discipline and vision must work together. If March’s lunar eclipse was about realizing what wasn’t working, September’s solar eclipse is about installing the upgrade by restructuring your habits, your systems, and your priorities so they align with your bigger vision.

🛠️ How to Work with This Moon

Solar eclipses reset the system, and at 29° Virgo, this one is asking for a final refinement. Think of it as clearing out cluttered code and installing a cleaner, faster, more efficient version of yourself. With Saturn and Neptune challenging the eclipse, you’ll feel the tug between clarity and confusion, discipline and drift. With Pluto and Uranus in supportive trines, breakthroughs and transformation are available if you’re willing to choose devotion over distraction.

🌿 Refine your systems and habits so they’re simple, sustainable, and aligned.
✂️ Release illusions, excuses, and distractions that keep you scattered.
🧱 Anchor discipline and devotion into your daily life, even in small steps.
⚡ Welcome breakthroughs in communication, tech, or community that open new pathways.
💫 Trust that clarity is liberation. This eclipse helps you see what’s real and act accordingly.

🌿 Activations: Refinement, Devotion & the Power of Clarity

This Solar Eclipse is activating the Virgo part of your chart which is the space where refinement, devotion, and discipline create true freedom. It’s less about doing everything perfectly and more about clearing away what’s inefficient so your energy flows toward what matters most.

Eclipses always mark turning points, and this one is asking: Where do I need to upgrade my systems, release illusions, and anchor myself in devotion? The clarity might not be comfortable, but it will be liberating.

To help you integrate, here are some journal prompts and a ritual to work with this eclipse energy.

✍️ Journal Prompts

• What systems or habits in my daily life are ready for an upgrade?
• Where am I choosing perfectionism or avoidance instead of simple consistency?
• What illusions or distractions have been clouding my clarity and how can I release them?
• How can I bring more devotion into my routines so they support my bigger vision?
• Where am I being invited to welcome breakthrough thinking or innovation?

🔮 Ritual: The Alignment Audit 2.0

This eclipse is like a final refinement at 29° Virgo—think of it as cleaning up your desktop and backing up or deleting files before installing a new operating system. The point isn’t to do more, but to do better: to upgrade your habits and systems so they actually work for you.

1. Prepare your space
   Light a white candle for clarity. Keep a pen, paper, and something grounding (a crystal, a cup of tea) nearby.
2. Draw three columns in your journal
   Label them: Habits & Systems | Illusions & Distractions | Aligned Devotion.
3. Audit your reality
   In the first column, list your current routines, tools, or systems. In the second, write down what feels confusing, draining, or distracting, the things that keep you scattered (Neptune/Saturn opposition).
4. Refine and recommit
   Move to the third column: choose 1–3 habits, rituals, or practices you’re ready to recommit to with devotion. Keep them simple. These are the building blocks of your upgrade.
5. Anchor the upgrade
   Say out loud: “I release what clouds my clarity. I devote myself to the aligned habits that sustain my vision.”
6. Close with gratitude
   Blow out the candle and place your journal somewhere visible for the week. This is your reminder that refinement is liberation.

🔍 What does this mean for me?

This eclipse is personal. Wherever 29° Virgo falls in your chart, you’re experiencing a reset and refinement in that area of life. Think of it this way: Virgo asks you to clarify, Saturn asks you to commit, Neptune asks you to release illusions, and Pluto and Uranus open the door for breakthrough. Together, they’re offering an upgrade to your systems so you can move forward with purpose.

👉 The house where this Solar Eclipse lands in your birth chart reveals where a reset is unfolding and where you’re being asked to refine, reorganize, and recommit. Virgo energy doesn’t want perfection, it wants alignment through consistency and devotion. This is your chance to clear inefficiencies and upgrade the systems that carry you forward. Let’s take a look at what that means for each rising sign...