September Astrology 2025 | The Art Of Letting Go

Good morning!

Welcome back.

Turtle Angelo here for another episode of Cosmic Coffee.

Today we're going to be exploring the astrology of September,

So grab your coffee and let's get into it.

September opens with some interesting questions,

Like what does it mean to belong?

Where do I truly fit?

And what boundaries do I need to create or dissolve um to find my genuine place in the world?

On the first,

Saturn,

Our planet of structure,

Responsibility,

And limitation,

Is sliding back into Pisces for a moment during its retrograde.

We had a few planets retrograding between these signs back in spring,

And I remember an astrologer I follow,

Alex Skye,

Comparing it to the process of tempering metal,

Which is a fantastic metaphor for this situation.

With Saturn and Aries,

You're heating the metal in the forge until it's got that beautiful orange hot glow,

Right?

It's becoming malleable.

This is where many of you have been forging new aspects of identity,

Developing courage,

Learning to assert yourselves in ways maybe you haven't before.

But heating alone doesn't create strong metal.

The next step is tempering,

Which is the act of plunging that hot metal into cool water.

The rapid cooling creates these internal changes that make the metal both harder and more flexible.

Saturn in Pisces,

Okay?

All those aspects of yourself that you've been developing,

Boundaries,

A sense of individual purpose and ability to stand up for what matters to you,

They're now being tested in the waters of emotion,

Intuition,

And collective connection.

This isn't about losing what you've gained.

It's about strengthening it.

When Saturn was direct in Pisces earlier this year,

You might have felt the pressure to get serious about your spiritual life,

Your creative work,

Or even your emotional well-being,

Right?

Now in retrograde,

We're in that cooling phase.

So what you forged about yourself in Aries is being tempered by Piscean waters.

What boundaries you created are being tested by the fluid realities of human emotion.

Think about the areas of your life where you've recently developed more backbone,

More clarity about who you are.

How do these new structures hold up when faced with other people's feelings?

How do they flex when compassion is required,

Right?

We don't want to become too rigid in our newfound ways.

We want to be strong but supple,

Well-tempered,

Right?

Okay,

Then on September 2nd,

Mercury enters Virgo.

This is one of Mercury's home signs.

Mercury in Virgo wants to categorize and analyze and perfect things.

It's a very exacting sign.

It's the energy of the craftsperson,

Right,

Who spends hours refining their technique because they understand that mastery comes through attention to detail.

But the shadow side of Mercury in Virgo is perfectionism,

Of course,

Which can kind of become its own prison.

When Mercury squares Uranus on September 3rd,

That careful methodical thinking is going to get disrupted by opinions,

Changes in direction,

Possibly even your own insights that can't be organized into neat categories,

Right?

So oftentimes you'll see that plans get upended by sudden realizations or unexpected information during a Mercury-Uranic transit.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Sometimes we need to be broken out of,

Like,

Overthinking patterns and the like.

The key here is learning to dance between our desire for order and our need for flexibility and innovation.

So can you hold your plans lightly enough that when inspiration strikes,

You're able to pivot without feeling like you've failed?

Can you be open-minded enough about your creation that when the goal changes,

Inspiration flows freely onto the scene and you don't have to scrap everything?

Uranus aspects are exciting.

If you're familiar with the tarot,

This is the tower card where the lightning bolt has struck the tower and a person is now falling from great heights.

And while that looks scary,

I encourage you to open yourself up to it rather than contracting in anxiety and anticipation.

Regardless of the type of aspect these two are making,

These planets coming together is always going to show you where the cracks are.

They're like little mental earthquakes or maybe even bigger ones,

Right?

Perhaps a square is kind of a 6.

5 on the Richter scale,

Shaking the foundation of things.

And a sextile is more like an aftershock level that's settling and supportive,

Like seeing a chiropractor to get the knot out of your neck or something.

I don't know.

I'm just footballing here.

But ultimately,

You're in for a shock,

You know?

So it could be good news.

It could be bad news.

It could be different views.

But all these things remind you of something.

That stable little world you've built up inside is just a pile of Lincoln Logs at the end of the day,

Just begging for someone to blow the house down.

And the sooner you can learn how to keep the door open for surprises,

The stronger foundation you have because that's a house built knowing that nothing is permanent.

Those are walls that bend in the wind,

Right?

Mercury represents our cognitive frameworks,

Our mental habits,

These familiar pathways that our thoughts travel.

And when Uranus contacts Mercury,

It's not just bringing new information.

It's revealing the provisional nature of everything we thought we knew for certain.

I'm talking about something foundational here about human psychology.

Most of us build our sense of security on this illusion of permanence and mental structures that feel solid or unchanging.

But,

You know,

For example,

Our beliefs and our frameworks around how life works mostly come from experience.

It can be real easy to get self-righteous about what you think and believe,

But life isn't over,

Is it?

Experience can still come and knock you on your proverbial butt,

Upending everything you thought was solid about,

You know,

Your thoughts and your opinions.

Mercury-Uranus teaches us that real security comes from adaptability,

From building psychological flexibility into our very foundation.

This reminds me of Jung's concept of,

Is it called the transcendent function?

This is the psyche's ability to hold opposites in tension without collapsing into one side or the other.

So when Mercury and Uranus come together,

It forces this kind of maturation,

Right?

These two make us comfortable with uncertainty,

Not because we enjoy chaos,

But because we learn that our capacity to navigate the unexpected is actually a great strength,

Or it can be,

Right?

Because these days it feels like society's gotten really rigid in its thinking.

There's almost like a staunch rejection to the process of thinking,

To the process of forming an opinion.

There's so much divisiveness.

I mean,

I've personally been admonished for saying that I didn't understand something.

Can you believe that?

Like,

Since when is it a crime to not understand something?

Since when is it a crime to explore an idea or like a concept,

You know,

Turn it over in your head and figure out how you feel about it?

Furthermore,

Why the hell can't we disagree?

And I mean disagree and have enough respect for each other to honor the freedom we've been given to live our lives,

Right?

I'm not trying to stand in anyone's way here,

But there are definitely things that I don't understand or I don't get or I don't agree with.

And it feels like we're in this fun house right now surrounded by mirrors.

You think you have a side,

But the truth is you're on many sides.

We've created this culture where intellectual humility has become a weakness rather than wisdom,

Which is what I think it is.

When did curiosity become sus?

When did the admission of something,

Like being uncertain about something,

Become something that we need to be ashamed of rather than like the starting point of genuine learning,

Right?

And that almost feels frankly like a collective Mercury-Saturn problem,

Sort of rigidity masquerading as authority.

We've traded this messy generative process of actual thinking for the brittle comfort of already formed opinions.

And anyone who dares to live in the space between knowing and not knowing becomes a threat to that false certainty,

Right?

That slow work of turning ideas over,

Feeling your way toward understanding.

It almost suggests that maybe other people's uncertainties aren't even as solid as they appear.

So maybe there's like a fear that if they admit they don't understand,

Their whole worldview might start to crumble or something.

And I'm not just defending confusion for its own sake here.

I'm defending the very space where real thinking happens.

That space where we're neither ignorant nor expert,

But instead actively engaged with mystery,

With curiosity,

Right?

I mean,

That's where creativity lives.

That's where empathy develops.

I would argue that's where we actually even encounter each other as human beings rather than representatives of competing ideologies or something.

I mean,

Shoot,

I might be defending against the foundational uncertainty of being human,

Right?

I don't know.

So anyways,

I digress,

But this is why I get excited about Uranus transits and maybe the fact that Uranus is in Gemini specifically here because it'll be here for a while.

They crack open that defensive certainty and they remind us what it feels like to be like genuinely alive to possibility.

All right,

So pardon the tangent there.

September 4th is going to bring us Mars and Libra,

Square,

Jupiter,

And Cancer.

A tension between what we want and what we need for our development.

Mars and Libra is fascinating because,

I mean,

This is assertiveness filtered through the desire for harmony,

Which can result in impressive diplomatic strategy or sometimes in passive aggression or like people-pleasing that actually builds resentment,

Right?

Jupiter and Cancer,

Meanwhile,

Wants expansion through emotional security and family connections and nurturing.

The square between them sort of suggests a conflict between maintaining peace and standing up for what really nourishes you.

So you might find yourself in situations where being diplomatic is actually at odds with being your authentic self.

This is potent around relationships and how you assert your needs.

So,

You know,

Are you keeping the peace at the expense of your own growth?

Are you being so focused on your own desires and ambitions that you're bulldozing over others' feelings?

The square is asking us to find a way to be honest and kind,

Right?

Authentic and considerate.

Okay,

September 5th marks Uranus stationing retrograde.

Dun dun dun.

Okay,

So like I mentioned before,

Uranus is currently in Gemini,

Where it's been kind of stirring up the way we think,

Learn,

Connect with others.

So maybe you've noticed changes in how you communicate with people or maybe you've started speaking up more in meetings or in areas where you don't typically or discovered new ways of learning that actually work for your brain.

Maybe you've had to adapt to new systems like at work or you find yourself questioning ideas that you usually take for granted.

I have Gemini on my 10th house and when Uranus entered Gemini,

I noticed themes and even discussion at work around communication styles coming up.

For example,

As a manager,

We attend these annual operations planning meetings where we discuss how all the employees are performing and I noticed that the only time voice and tone came up and was in regard to female employees and it came up like specifically in regard to women who had a more direct or assertive manner of communicating.

I myself tend to have a more direct style of communication,

So the introspection on that was interesting.

Anyway,

So yeah,

Gemini is about mental agility,

Curiosity,

And making connections between different pieces of information and Uranus here might be pushing you to think outside your usual patterns,

Asking you to try new approaches to problems or even to connect with people that you don't normally talk to.

Now,

When Uranus goes retrograde,

This energy will simmer down a little and give you some time to process whether things are moving in the right direction.

Also,

In November,

It's going to dip back into Taurus,

Which should be interesting,

Sort of a moment to make sure you have a solid foundation before you can really commit to change.

So imagine you've been learning a new skill like taking online courses,

Trying new methods at work,

New communication styles,

Or exploring different ways of organizing your life,

Right?

And the Gemini part of you is excited about all the possibilities and the new information,

But the Taurus part is realizing,

Okay,

You might have to actually practice these new skills until they become second nature.

You need to make sure that they're not just interesting ideas but things that actually improve your daily life in concrete ways.

Or,

You know,

Think about someone who has been networking and meeting new people and getting lots of ideas and perspectives on things.

The retrograde might be a time to step back and figure out which of these new connections actually align with your values and your long-term goals,

Which ones feel sustainable,

You know,

Versus just maybe intellectually stimulating.

So when Uranus goes retrograde,

The external changes and disruptions quiet down,

But the internal integration intensifies.

So instead of being presented with new information and opportunities from the outside,

This is more like 3 a.

M.

Aha moments,

Right?

When you bolt them out of bed like,

Aha,

Eureka!

About,

You know,

What you actually want to do with everything that you've been learning and experiencing.

So if you've been feeling scattered or overwhelmed with all this Uranus and Gemini energy,

Right,

Too many options,

The retrograde is a moment to digest what you've taken in before you add more to your plate.

So check back in November to hear how this retrograde is progressing and the Taurus component that I mentioned.

All right,

September 7th brings the total lunar eclipse in Pisces.

Eclipses are like reset buttons for areas of your life that have become stagnant or maybe inauthentic in some way.

They're little course correction moments,

Sometimes gentle,

Sometimes not so gentle.

A lunar eclipse in Pisces is emotional and intuitive.

The moon rules our inner landscape,

Our habits,

Our comfort zones,

Our emotional patterns,

Right?

When it gets eclipsed in Pisces,

We're being asked to release emotional patterns that no longer serve us.

So this might manifest as the end of a relationship or it could be a shift in how you relate to your family or maybe a shift,

An internal shift,

In how you're processing your own emotions.

Pisces energy is about surrender.

It's about compassion and,

As you know,

The disillusion of boundaries.

So under this eclipse,

You might find that walls you've built up around your heart start to soften,

Right?

Or just that it's simply time they did and you shouldn't squander this moment.

So this can feel terrifying,

Right,

If you've been using these walls for protection,

But it can also really be profoundly liberating.

The lunar eclipse can bring culmination and endings,

But in Pisces,

These have a different quality.

Instead of that clean cut of like a knife,

It's going to be more like ice melting,

Right?

Gradual,

Natural,

And ultimately necessary for new growth.

So pay attention to what emerges in your dreams.

Pisces loves to talk to us through the unconscious and through symbols and feelings rather than logical thoughts.

And you might even find yourself just crying out of nowhere for no reason or feeling like a deep sense of completion around something that you didn't even realize was unfinished.

Okay,

The middle of the month brings some supportive transits.

September 12th offers us the sun and Mercury in Virgo,

Forming supportive aspects with Jupiter in Cancer.

Sex tiles that feel like the perfect word for something you've been trying to express,

Right?

Or discovering that the work you've been doing is actually leading somewhere meaningful.

These aspects speak to finding something fulfilling through service and attention to care and those daily practices that may seem small but accumulate into something significant.

So it's that energy of the person who tends their garden,

Right,

With so much love and care that it just becomes this beautiful verdant butterflies everywhere.

Not through one swift move,

Right,

But through that consistent and mindful attention.

September 13th we have Mercury conjunct the sun in Virgo.

This is what astrologers call a Kazemi when a planet sits exactly at the heart of the sun.

So Kazemi is considered one of the most empowered positions a planet can hold.

For a brief moment,

Mercury temporarily borrows the sun's authority and prominence.

In Virgo,

This means your practical thinking,

Your attention to detail,

And your ability to serve others in meaningful ways all get amplified and recognized.

So pretty cool,

Right?

This is the perfect day for important conversations that carry a little more weight.

So have that discussion with your boss,

You know,

About whatever the project you've been developing or,

You know,

Maybe a team member that you're developing.

Present the idea that you've been refining.

It's just really great for making decisions that require both precision and authority.

Or for having your work finally get the recognition that it deserves.

The Kazemi energy can take time to fully manifest,

So this also could just be a moment of planting seeds on this day that don't bloom until later.

But when they do,

They're going to carry significance.

So pay attention to what insights emerge,

What conversations happen,

And what decisions feel clear and important.

There's often something about the Kazemi moment that feels kind of powerful,

Right?

Like you're being given access to information and authority.

Venus enters the conversation in some interesting ways mid-month.

On September 15th,

She forms a sextile to Mars in Libra.

This is like creative passion meeting diplomatic action.

This is the energy of solving problems in a really elegant way of,

I apologize,

My dog has waken up.

So if you hear little sounds or whatever,

It's him.

So this is finding ways to express your desires that sort of lifts everybody up.

So definitely a sweet spot here mid-month.

Then September 16th is Venus trining Chiron while Mars is opposing it.

So Venus trine Chiron in Aries is about healing through self-expression,

Through reclaiming your right to be seen and appreciated.

It's the courage to let your heart be visible even when you've been hurt before.

Meanwhile,

Mars opposite Chiron is suggesting that maybe the very act of asserting yourself might trigger old wounds about rejection or even inadequacy.

So this is one of those moments where healing and hurting might happen at the same time,

Where you might have to risk reopening old injuries in service of becoming more whole or healed.

All right.

September 17th brings Mercury in Virgo opposite Saturn in Pisces.

A moment when you may realize you're in the deep end of order and logic.

So precision is great to strive for,

Right?

But technical perfection isn't always what serves the situation or the people,

Right?

We're looking for a measured approach.

This is like working on a piece of music that's technically flawless,

But where's the heart,

Right?

Sometimes the most technically proficient art leaves us cold because it just it's not touching the soul at all.

Maybe you've been planning an event and every detail is accounted for.

Schedules down to the minute.

Contingency plans for contingency plans.

Everything,

Right?

But Saturn in Pisces is going to remind you that people are going to people,

You know?

They need time to connect and feel.

They need space for unexpected conversation,

Right?

And moments of laughter.

These are organic connections that can't be scheduled,

But they are what people are going to remember most from the experience.

So you have to make space for that.

Maybe this opposition shows up in how you give feedback or criticism,

Right?

Your observations could be sound.

You can point out exactly what's wrong and how to fix it,

But Saturn in Pisces wants you to consider whether your constructive criticism is crushing people's spirits in the service of some impossible ideal or standard.

Anyway,

So the tension here isn't that your attention to detail is wrong,

But just that it might need to account for factors that can't be measured,

Like feelings,

You know?

What do people need emotionally and whether your systems are serving real human beings or just order,

Right?

September 18th is a busy day.

Mercury is entering Libra and then immediately forming multiple aspects.

Mercury in Libra thinks in terms of relationships.

It's focused on balance and justice,

But its opposition to Neptune that same day can kind of create some confusion around fairness.

What seems diplomatic could be deceptive,

Or what feels like a compromise could actually be avoidance.

The day also brings Mercury,

Trine,

Uranus,

And Pluto.

These are supportive aspects that suggest a little bit of breakthrough,

Right?

So it could be conversations or negotiations that lead to real change and the ability to communicate about transformation in ways that feel balanced rather than confrontational.

So definitely another potential sweet spot in the month.

When Mercury enters Libra,

Our thinking becomes more collaborative.

We start considering how our decisions affect others,

How to present our ideas in ways that bring people together rather than driving them apart.

And the challenge is distinguishing between healthy consideration and people-pleasing.

Okay,

September 19th brings Venus into Virgo.

So this is love getting practical.

A little more service-oriented and attention to detail.

Venus in Virgo shows a affection through acts of care.

This is noticing what someone needs and providing it without a lot of fanfare and need for attention,

You know?

So now you have a lot of Virgo energy going on.

September 20th,

We have a couple of aspects happening,

And I kind of like to look at these together intertwined into like one theme,

Sort of around what happens when your careful approach to life gets challenged from two different directions.

So first we've got Venus in Virgo squaring Uranus and Gemini.

So this is working on improving relationships,

Refining your daily routines,

Carefully managing your resources,

And then suddenly something unexpected disrupts your plans.

So maybe your partner suggests trying something completely different or new information comes to light that changes how you think about a relationship or a project or something.

Then later that evening,

We've got the Sun in Virgo opposing Saturn in Pisces.

So like just as you're dealing with this disruption,

You start to wonder what is it all for?

Or you know,

Is all this self-improvement and introspection actually worth it?

Is it serving my soul,

Right?

Am I being too rigid and missing something really important about flow or surrender?

So there's an interesting tension here between breakthrough and breakdown.

Like when you've been working really hard on something,

Following all the right steps and techniques,

Right?

This is Venus and Sun in Virgo and someone comes out of nowhere with a completely different approach that feels chaotic.

That's Venus square Uranus.

And you're hit with this sort of exhaustion or doubt about whether the whole endeavor even matters in the larger scheme of things,

Right?

That's going to be the Sun opposite Saturn.

Maybe you're in a relationship where you've been trying to address issues through communication or behavioral changes and then your partner does something really unexpected that throws off your careful approach and triggers like a deeper fatigue about whether all the work you're putting into the relationship is actually maybe just avoiding some truth that can't be fixed through effort alone.

So sometimes growth requires letting go of control and the unexpected,

Right?

This is Uranus,

Might be exactly what's needed to break you out of patterns that have become too rigid.

And this sort of spiritual questioning,

You know,

Saturn and Pisces isn't necessarily like a problem to solve so much as wisdom that's pointing you toward a more compassionate sort of flowing approach to love and purpose.

All right.

September 21st delivers a new moon solar eclipse in Virgo.

And this is like a fresh start grounded in practical wisdom,

Okay?

Solar eclipses open doors and initiate new cycles and in Virgo that looks like beginning something new,

Something sustainable,

Something that can grow through careful tending.

So what new routine or practice could change your life if you committed to it?

The answer may not be that dramatic.

It might be as simple as taking a walk every day or dedicating a little bit of time to an activity or craft that you love.

Solar eclipses in Virgo often bring opportunities around health,

Work,

Or even daily practices.

Key here is to start small and stay consistent rather than attempting to overhaul everything at once.

September 22nd marks a significant shift as Mars enters Scorpio followed immediately by the sun entering Libra,

The autumn equinox,

Right?

So Mars and Scorpio is intense.

It's focused and it is uncompromising.

Where Mars and Libra might have been diplomatic and focused on fairness,

Mars and Scorpio is more interested in truth with a capital T than diplomacy.

So you're likely to feel this shift.

This is investigative energy.

This is the willingness to keep digging even when what you find isn't comfortable.

Mars in Scorpio doesn't shy away from difficult conversations,

Uncomfortable truths.

There's a sort of urgency to get at or get out what's been avoided.

The sun entering Libra shifts the season toward balance,

Relationship,

And justice.

But with Mars having just entered Scorpio,

There's a deeper balance that comes from addressing what's been hidden or denied.

The month concludes with a series of kind of intense aspects.

September 23rd is going to bring the sun opposite Neptune.

This is a day when your sense of direction might feel unclear,

When the path forward seems a bit shrouded in mist,

Right?

This isn't a problem though.

Sometimes you need to navigate by feel rather than sight.

The same day,

The sun's going to try and Uranus and Pluto,

Which we've been seeing these connections over and over,

Right?

These are supportive aspects that suggest that even in the confusion,

There's always a bit of innovative energy available and the possibility of transformation that feels more growth oriented than catastrophic.

Okay,

But September 24th brings the month's final major aspect.

Mars and Scorpio square Pluto and Aquarius.

Mars is at home in Scorpio and therefore pretty comfortable with intensity.

This is again that investigative journalist who won't stop digging until they uncover the truth.

Or maybe a therapist or a friend who's asking the questions no one wants to answer.

It's your own willingness to look at the parts of yourself or your relationships that you'd rather keep hidden.

And then Pluto and Aquarius represents transformation on like a more collective level.

So changing systems,

Evolving group consciousness,

Changing how we organize society,

But sometimes individual truth-telling disrupts the group's comfort zone,

Right?

So imagine everyone knows there's a problem at work.

Like there's some kind of unfair treatment or an ineffective system going on,

But no one wants to be the one to bring it up because they could get fired or something,

Right?

Mars and Scorpio square Pluto would be that moment when someone finally says what everyone's thinking.

Consequences be damned.

Another example might be a family gathering where there's like this elephant in the room.

Everyone's been tiptoeing around it for years and someone finally calls it out.

Not to be cruel,

Mind you,

But because they just they can't stand the pressure anymore.

And the truth needs to be acknowledged before any real healing can happen.

This isn't comfortable energy.

Mars-Pluto combinations can come up with like nuclear confidence where you know something needs to change and you're willing to be the one to initiate it.

At its best,

This creates those massive breakthroughs and victories that everyone is relieved about.

You finally address the relationship dynamic that's been festering.

You speak up about the injustice you've been witnessing.

You dig deep into your own psychological work to finally understand this kind of self-sabotaging pattern,

Right?

But the shadow side can manifest as like explosive displays of anger and even self-righteousness.

The person who's so convinced they're right that they're willing to blow up relationships to prove their point.

The whistleblower who becomes so focused on exposing the truth that they lose sight of the human cost,

Right?

The key with this aspect is recognizing that sometimes uncomfortable displays of strength or even dominance are necessary to prevent something worse from happening.

Sometimes you have to be the person who says this stops here and you know like we need to talk about this now even when it's like the last thing anyone wants to do.

This is really good energy for for breaking through long-term struggles.

So if you've been wrestling with something for months or even years,

A creative block,

A relationship pattern,

Maybe even something internal,

This aspect provides the volcanic force to finally push through to the other side.

So not gentle energy but definitely effective.

Some things to consider around this transit are how do we handle this kind of power responsibly,

Right?

How do we use the courage to confront difficult truths without becoming the very thing we're trying to change?

We need to be willing to go into the uncomfortable places in service of genuine transformation instead of just like needing to prove that we're right.

So as we look at September as a whole,

The overarching themes really start to reveal themselves,

Right?

This is a month about the relationship between structure and flow,

Between individual transformation and collective harmony and between the practical steps that we can take and the the kind of spiritual evolution that we're undergoing,

Right?

September asks us to consider what does real balance look like in our lives?

You know,

Not just the kind that keeps everyone happy while we're slowly dying inside,

But the balance that comes from being true to our values while remaining connected to others.

As you move through this month,

Pay attention to the small moments of choice.

How do you respond when your need for harmony conflicts with your need for authenticity?

How do you handle disruptions to your carefully laid plans,

Right?

What happens when your practical mind meets your intuition?

These are the real-life situations where we practice becoming who we're meant to be.

All right y'all,

That's what I've got for you today.

Thanks for joining me.

Until next time.