New Moon/Solar Eclipse on September 21, 2025
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The Moon is New in Virgo on September 21, 2025, at 3:54 PM EDT. This New Moon is a partial Solar Eclipse.
New Moon Solar Eclipse in Virgo Chart: September 21st, 2025
This phase of the Moon occurs at 29 degrees and 5 minutes of Virgo. In the last degree of the sign, there’s an urgency to our new beginnings. This eclipse opposes Saturn and Neptune and harmonizes with Uranus and Pluto. Our responsibilities to others, our emotional health, and our need for downtime can weigh us down. It can be difficult to pull ourselves away, but we have the tools to make the changes we now realize are necessary for growth.
It’s interesting to note that in this Virgo-Pisces set that runs from September 2024 to February 2027, this September Solar Eclipse is the only Solar Eclipse–the rest of the eclipses in this set are Lunar. It’s the fourth eclipse in this sign set.
A Solar Eclipse occurred at 29 degrees Virgo on September 22nd, 2006, September 22nd, 1987, and September 22nd, 1968.
In the sign of Virgo, work and health matters will be a major focus on a personal level in the months following this eclipse. This lunation is about new beginnings regarding work, attention to details, fitness, health regimes, and daily routines.
It’s time to build our powers of healthy, constructive discrimination; learn to be more pro-active; start a new health and fitness routine; set up specific routines that will help us manage our lives in positive, mindful ways; and learn the “power of now” and of mindfulness. We can learn to master the “little” details of our day-to-day lives in a more organized manner so that we can free our minds of clutter. For some of us, circumstances are such that we need to pay more attention to our work and health routines.
Flaws in an important system in our lives are revealed around the time of the eclipse, prompting us to redo or to start fresh. We may find ourselves completely re-working this area of life. Something ends in order for something else to start anew.
We may be called to give up something in order to move forward into a new chapter in our lives. Although the “new” may be unrecognizable, it is important to allow the necessary surrender to the unknown.
Virgo rules awareness of the body, making full use of resources, attention to details, organization, self-preservation skills, order, and critical analysis. Virgo sees flaws in systems, whether those systems are our daily routines, the methods we work with on the job, or our bodies.
Striving for perfection can be a wonderful challenge, as long as we don’t allow ourselves to become overly focused on flaws and feel guilty or perturbed over them. This is where Pisces, Virgo’s opposing sign, comes in to help. Compassion, and finding beauty in imperfection, is our path to balancing this energy.
For some, a new “calling” will surface in the coming six months. A new line of work that better matches our inner nature, desire to serve, or emotional make-up may unfold in the months following this eclipse.
Major developments in the personal areas of our charts ruled by Virgo are likely to occur over the course of the next 3-6 months. However, not everyone will feel the effect of the eclipse with the same intensity. Those whose personal planets are activated by the degree of the eclipse will feel its effects on a deeply personal level.
With this potent Virgo energy, we have the chance to make important changes in our lives that will benefit us well beyond this Moon cycle. For some of us, circumstances are such that we need to pay more attention to these matters.
An eclipse occurs close to the nodal axis, and this eclipse is near the South Node in Virgo. Eclipses close to the South Node tend to tend to “feel” a little more challenging than those conjunct or closer to the North Node, as we can concentrate too much on the idea that we might have to let something go. Those of us with planets and points strongly stimulated by this eclipse can feel especially drained and tired, both physically and emotionally. There is a need to let go, forgive, cleanse, and release.
This is the fourth eclipse in a series falling along the Virgo-Pisces axis that first began with the Lunar Eclipse in Pisces in September 2024.
This phase of the Moon occurs at 29 degrees and 5 minutes of Virgo, affecting people born with personal planets and points at 24 to 30 degrees of the mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces) and 0 to 4 degrees of the cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn) most significantly.
The chart above is a “location-less” Aries chart and shows the other planets’ positions at the time of the eclipse.
It might help to think back to the series of eclipses in 2015-2017, 2006-2008, 1997-1998, and 1987-89 to consider the themes that surrounded your life then in order to get a better understanding of what the current eclipse series might mean for you.
This eclipse can spotlight our work and health pursuits and possibly challenge them. We might take steps toward better routines by tackling things that undermine us. Circumstances may be such that we are nudged or encouraged to see where our lives have fallen out of order.
This is a good time for focusing on some of the constructive traits of the sign of the Virgin, including:
- building our powers of healthy, constructive discrimination;
- rolling up our sleeves and getting down to some serious work;
- beginning a new project that requires attention to details;
- making lists, actively ticking off completed activities, and taking pride in our “little” accomplishments;
- starting a health regime, researching nutrition and nourishment, and paying attention to our diet;
- setting up specific routines that will help us manage our lives in constructive and mindful ways;
- and handling the finer details of our day-to-day life in an organized, step-by-step fashion so that we can free our minds of clutter.
We’re ready to make something special of our work, routines, or tasks. It’s a powerful time to transform our jobs, health, self-care programs, and habits. We’re filled with innovative, inventive, and unusual ideas. There can be some roadblocks to manage, largely related to responsibilities to others or to our spiritual or mental health, but we’re determined to start fresh.
With this eclipse, we might experience a strong urge to act on impulse. However, it will be important to avoid jumping to conclusions and asserting ourselves without considering others’ feelings and reactions. There is a big difference between asserting ourselves from a place of healthy confidence, and asserting ourselves brashly and blindly, which can give us a false sense of confidence or bravery.
It’s important to remember that an eclipse obscures an area of our lives in order to see another area better. As such, our view is skewed and exaggerated. In other words, we’re not seeing the whole picture, and we should therefore proceed with caution.
The following are also periods of your past, if applicable, that may have had similar themes to this current eclipse set:
Virgo-Pisces Eclipse sets (current, future, and some in recent history):
- March 2034 to February 2036
- September 2024 to February 2027
- March 2015 to February 2017
- September 2006 to February 2008
- March 1997 to September 1998
- September 1987 to August 1989
- September 1978 to August 1980
The following lists the set of eclipses falling along the Virgo-Pisces axis only (there are other eclipses in different signs between these):
- Partial LUNAR Eclipse September 17, 2024 25 Pisces 41
- Total LUNAR Eclipse March 14, 2025 23 Virgo 57
- Total LUNAR Eclipse September 7, 2025 15 Pisces 23
- Partial SOLAR Eclipse September 21, 2025 29 Virgo 05
- Total LUNAR Eclipse March 3, 2026 12 Virgo 54
- Partial LUNAR Eclipse August 28, 2026 4 Pisces 54
- Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse February 20, 2027 2 Virgo 06
