This Week Astrology: Sept 13–Sept 19, 2026
The Virgo New Moon invited us to make practical changes. This week, put those intentions into practice and build momentum toward the First Quarter Moon on Friday, September 18.
The Virgo New Moon on September 10 invited us to identify practical changes we’d like to make and begin putting promising ideas into practice. This week, the Moon waxes toward the First Quarter, shifting the emphasis from intention to participation. We don’t need to know exactly how everything will unfold; we can start working with what we’ve begun, learn from the results and make adjustments along the way.
Mercury in Libra trines Uranus in Gemini on Sunday, supporting fresh thinking, interesting conversations and solutions we may not have previously considered. The Sun in Virgo sextiles Mars in Cancer on Monday, adding practical initiative and helping us turn good intentions into action. Together, these aspects favor experimentation: try something, see how it works and remain open to discovering a better way.
Tuesday brings Venus in Scorpio square Pluto in Aquarius, intensifying questions around relationships, desires and what we truly value. Rather than treating intensity as a problem, this aspect can help us recognize where we’re ready for greater depth, honesty or change. Neptune in Aries also sextiles Pluto, supporting a larger process of imagining what could be different and gradually transforming our relationship with the future.
The First Quarter Moon arrives on Friday, September 18, reminding us that new beginnings require participation. Mercury in Libra opposes Saturn in Aries the same day, encouraging thoughtful decisions, clear expectations and follow-through on commitments. By Saturday, the Moon is in Capricorn, helping us build on what we’ve learned and give our plans greater structure. Your Horoscopes and Tarotscopes offer additional guidance for the weeks ahead, and a Psychic-Astrology Reading can help you determine which intentions are ready for greater investment.
On Sunday, the Moon remains in Libra all day, favoring cooperation, companionship and balanced choices, while Thirteen emphasizes transformation, reinvention and progress. Mercury in Libra trines Uranus in Gemini, making conversations especially stimulating and opening our minds to ideas, information or solutions we hadn’t previously considered. With the Moon now waxing after Thursday’s Virgo New Moon, stay flexible about how your intentions take shape; an unexpected suggestion or different point of view could improve the plan. Today’s best use: welcome fresh ideas and interesting conversations.
On Monday, the Moon leaves Libra at 2:43am ET and spends the day in Scorpio, encouraging greater concentration and a willingness to go beneath the surface. Fourteen emphasizes adaptability, movement and freedom, while the Sun in Virgo sextile Mars in Cancer helps us translate intention into productive action. Put your energy behind something useful, particularly a project or improvement that makes life work better. Small accomplishments can provide encouraging evidence that last week’s New Moon intentions are already gaining traction. Today’s best use: put your plans to work and see what happens.
On Tuesday, the Moon remains in Scorpio all day, favoring depth, instinct and transformation, while Fifteen emphasizes magnetism, choice and creativity. Venus in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius, intensifying desires and helping us recognize what we genuinely value and where we’re ready for greater depth or change. Neptune in Aries also sextiles Pluto, supporting a larger process of imagining what could be different. Pay attention to what draws you in today; strong feelings can provide useful information when we remain conscious of what they’re telling us. Today’s best use: invest your attention in what you truly want to strengthen.
On Wednesday, the Moon stays in Scorpio until 12:41pm ET before entering Sagittarius, shifting the mood from introspection toward exploration, optimism and a broader view of what’s possible. Sixteen emphasizes awakening, reassessment and insight, making this a useful day for changing perspective. Look closely enough to understand what’s happening, then zoom out: something that seems significant from one vantage point may look very different when considered as part of the larger picture. Today’s best use: change your vantage point and see what else becomes possible.
On Thursday, the Moon remains in Sagittarius all day, encouraging exploration, experimentation and a willingness to venture beyond familiar territory. Seventeen emphasizes hope, purpose and direction, while Chiron retrograde re-enters Aries, returning our attention to questions involving confidence, independence and self-assertion. Something we’ve encountered before may look different now because we’re different. Notice how experience has changed your response, and give yourself permission to approach unfinished business in a new way. Today’s best use: recognize how you’ve grown and try again from where you are now.
Come Friday, the Moon remains in Sagittarius all day as the First Quarter Moon arrives, moving last week’s Virgo New Moon intentions into a more active stage of development. Eighteen emphasizes intuition, responsibility and integration, while Mercury in Libra opposes Saturn in Aries, favoring thoughtful decisions, clear expectations and follow-through. First Quarter Moons remind us that intentions become meaningful through participation: try the plan, have the conversation, make the decision or take the next step, then adjust according to what you discover. Today’s best use: participate in the future you’ve been imagining.
And on Saturday, the Moon leaves Sagittarius at 12:54am ET and spends the day in Capricorn, helping us organize priorities and concentrate on tangible progress. Nineteen emphasizes independence, achievement and confidence, complementing Capricorn’s ability to give structure to ambition. With yesterday’s First Quarter Moon now underway, consider what your plans need in order to keep developing: more time, a better system, greater consistency or a concrete next step. You don’t have to accomplish everything today; just give what matters something solid to build upon. Today’s best use: put structure behind what you want to grow.
Have a fantastic week, everyone!
Working with the First Quarter Moon
The First Quarter Moon on September 18 brings us into the next stage of the lunar cycle following last week’s Virgo New Moon. The New Moon invited us to identify practical changes we’d like to make and consider how some of the possibilities revealed by the Pisces Lunar Eclipse could become more tangible. As the Moon waxes, we move from intention toward participation. Now we get to find out what happens when we actually put those ideas to work.
The Sun in Virgo sextiles Mars in Cancer on September 14, giving us useful support for getting started. Virgo favors practical improvement while Mars supplies initiative, making this a great time to try the new routine, begin the project, make the adjustment or take another concrete step toward something we want. We don’t need to know whether the plan will work perfectly before beginning. Sometimes action gives us information that thinking alone cannot.
That’s an important part of working with a Waxing Moon: treat what you’re doing as an experiment rather than a test. If something needs to be changed, simplified or approached differently, that doesn’t mean the original intention was wrong. It means we’re learning how to make it work. Mercury’s trine to Uranus at the beginning of the week supports exactly this kind of flexibility, helping us entertain different approaches and recognize solutions we might not have considered before.
The First Quarter Moon arrives alongside Mercury in Libra opposite Saturn in Aries, adding responsibility, discernment and follow-through to the equation. An idea may need a clearer plan. A conversation may require an agreement. Something we want may ask more of us than we initially anticipated. Rather than seeing these developments as obstacles, consider them useful information about what will be required to move forward. By Saturday, the Capricorn Moon helps us take what we’ve learned and give it greater structure.
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The Virgo New Moon gave us something to work with; the First Quarter Moon asks us to work with it. Put the plan into motion, pay attention to what happens and adjust as you go. The future doesn’t become real because we imagined it perfectly. It becomes real because we participate in creating it.
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