Scorpio | Virgo Season 2025
The Universal Overlay
Virgo Season | August 22 - September 22
Summer quickens toward its end. What’s ripe on the vine must be harvested, processed, stored—capturing the bounty of the year’s sun-kissed quarter.
In our modern lives, what’s metaphorically bearing fruit needs our attention. Children reach new levels of maturity. As they start a new grade, we send them off equipped with backpacks, fresh supplies, and our own quiet anxieties—have we prepared them well enough? We follow our favorite football teams, hoping their preparation was enough to bring home a win. We build fantasy teams with thoughtful strategy, but will they hold up? Work ramps up. The evenings glow with patio-worthy light. Life is in full motion, like a late-summer garden overflowing with growth.
Virgo Season is abundant, but it’s also edged with urgency, timing, and critical decisions. It asks: Are you ready for what’s next? Am I skilled enough to take on this new project? Do I have time to host a lively dinner? Are the kids’ carpools, tutors, and activities covered? Is someone else—like the single mom down the street—in need of help with rides? Even my morning yoga class just changed time and intensity. Can I adapt?
This season stretches us, revealing our priorities, systems, and capacities. It shows where we're living with thoughtfulness and generosity—and where our life systems are too tangled, running us instead of the other way around. Sometimes, we see we didn’t plant well—our garden yields little while others overflow.
Virgo Season brings a reckoning: What can we actually handle? What sustains our bodies and lives? What does a well-balanced ecosystem feel like?
As a Virgo myself, I know this intimately. I often make life so intricate it becomes hard to manage. In my 40s, I’m learning that my wellbeing thrives when I have fewer things to care about, but more to give to what I truly love. That often means living slower. My nervous system goes from zero to sixty too fast when I juggle too much. I prefer a gentler rhythm—one that lets me master a few things and savor my mundane rituals with care and skill. These rituals anchor me. They soothe my easily stirred nerves.
We’re all different, though. If you really listen, this season can show you what kind of creature you are. My husband is a collie dog. After several surgeries, I’ve seen how frustrated he gets when he’s not busy—it’s a fight to get him to rest. Me? I’m a cheetah. I need lots of rest and space. But when I’m ready to run, I want everything cleared so I can sprint after a singular goal. I’m still learning how to pattern a life that supports this rhythm. Virgo Season always tests me: Where did I plant responsibilities I no longer want? What processes take too much time with too little reward? What blind spots have I missed because I feel stuck or unproductive?
We change as we mature. Life around us changes too. That’s the gift of Virgo’s mutability. It knows how to tie things up and transform. I may be a cheetah, but my environment, my “hunt,” and my routines evolve with the seasons. Virgo helps us adapt—refining our ecosystems, renewing our purpose through daily ritual and process. It speaks through our health and our harvests. We only need to listen and adjust with discernment.
Ruled by Mercury, Virgo’s version of the mind is different than Gemini’s. Where Gemini is a jester and messenger, Virgo is an alchemist and problem-solver. It’s not the head brain—it’s the gut brain. Virgo teaches technique, practice, rhythm, and skill. Its wisdom comes from lived experience, honed instincts, and the refining fire of critique. It heals through precision and patience, trial and error. That’s why it speaks best through analogies and lived stories.
This year, with the South Node moving through Virgo, eclipse season brings even more refinement. Virgo will host two new moons—one on the second day of the season, the other, on the penultimate day, a solar eclipse. The first brings necessary edits, endings, and critical choices. The second, transitional reckoning. The lunar eclipse in Pisces on Spetember 7th, will pull us inward, ending something softer, more emotional.
Be ready for life to reorganize itself in a whirlwind—cutting what no longer serves, clarifying your purpose, and refining your path with the clean, calm hand of an inner editor.How the Season Activates You
Your Dimensional Growth
Sun In The 11th House | A fruitful Future
As the Sun moves through the signs and houses, it shines a light on a dimension of you. This helps you to become well-rounded and develop holistically.
Scorpio, while your waters often run deep in solitude, this season reminds you that no vision is truly fulfilled alone. As Virgo’s clarity sharpens the edges of late summer, your gaze turns outward: toward the people who walk beside you, and the greater dream you’re walking toward.
The Sun in Virgo casts its steady light on your constellation of kin—your chosen family, collaborators, co-dreamers, and long-lost kindred stars. This is a time to nourish your connection to the collective, not by losing yourself in the crowd, but by refining your place within it.
What do you want to contribute to the world around you? What future do you want to belong to—and help shape?
The Virgo New Moon on August 23rd, near the South Node, invites you to release outdated affiliations, group dynamics, or social patterns that no longer reflect your evolving values. There’s grace in letting go of alliances that were once true but now dilute your vision. You are preparing for a more aligned network—one where your voice matters, your power is honored, and your dreams of a fruitful future are echoed by others.
Later in the season, on September 21st, the solar eclipse in Virgo thins the veil even further. A quiet shift may occur in your sense of purpose within the collective. Perhaps a new community emerges. Perhaps a forgotten dream returns. This is a moment to recalibrate your compass—not just for where you’re going, but with whom you want to walk.
Let yourself feel the sacred pulse of shared purpose. Organize around what inspires. Refine your dreams so they can withstand the weight of reality—and still sing. This is the season to plant seeds of impact. To dream forward, not just inward. To remember that your light, when shared wisely, becomes wildfire in the best way.
You don’t need to hold it all alone, Scorpio. Find your people. Socially architect an abundant future.
The animating guide of The Season
MEcury in the 10th & 11th Houses | The Devoted Innovator
Mercury is the ruling body of the season, the archetype of our alchemist and problem-solver. This aspect of ourselves will activate to respond to Virgo Season’s tone and circumstances, guide our actions, and give us a stance, or mythic script, in how we evolve, develop, engage life, and express.
Mercury, ruler of Virgo Season, begins its path in your 10th house (Leo), emphasizing visibility, reputation, and leadership. But on September 2nd, Mercury enters Virgo’s 11th house, shifting your focus from the spotlight to the soul of your long-term vision and who you’re meant to walk alongside.
“Mapping the Sacred Future”
As the Sun enters Virgo, your attention is drawn to the horizon—not in haste, but in clarity.
What are you building that lasts?
Who are you meant to walk with?
What vision will you refine and devote yourself to?
Mercury, who begins the season in your 10th house of public presence, has reminded you of your authority. But as it steps into the 11th house on September 2nd, it becomes the visionary architect, helping you design the future with precision.
This is a season to:
Align your friendships and networks with your current values.
Reassess which dreams are truly yours—and which need recalibration.
Collaborate not for popularity, but for purpose.
Mercury here acts as a connector and a clarifier:
Introducing you to people and ideas that match your deeper mission.
Asking you to refine your message so it reaches who it’s meant to.
Helping you distill your longings into practical steps forward.
Let your voice be a bridge to belonging.
Let your mind imagine not just what’s possible—but what’s sustainable.
You don’t need to rush the future.
You just need to build it with discernment and devotion.
Virgo Season asks: Who are your people? And what are you here to do together?
Mercury replies: Those who resonate will rise with you. Just speak the vision clearly.
Your Ground and Materialization of the Season
Earth in The 5th House | deep Creativity
In tandem with dimensional growth in our solar season, Earth’s placement, directly opposite the Sun’s reach and exerting energy, shows the dimension of us that has become the fertile ground maturing underfoot. It’s normal to feel like our efforts in a solar season aren’t paying off, but they will, in time, when that sign becomes the Earth’s sign, the ground holding us, embodied and tangible. Look to the Earth sign to tend to what is maturing and growing in your roots and soul, that needs you to be receptive and caring.
With Earth in Pisces this season, something cosmic is maturing. Our ethereal dreams are underfoot, like walking on the ocean or a floor of mist. Dreams are starting to deepen and need our care, our soulful intuition. Compassion needs our depths to align with inspiration and surrender. We process and stabilize the magic of the heart.
Your calendar is full of causes, your networks bloom with fire in the Virgo solar season.
But Earth sings from the child within—the artist, the lover, the wild one.
Return to your altar of play.
The September 7th Lunar Eclipse lifts a veil: joy is not an indulgence, but a compass.
What makes you ache with beauty is worth following.
Personal & Continuous aims
Your Radiant becoming
PHASE OF Scorpio’s YEARLY SEEDS | Exhaling & Investigating
Separate from the Sun shining a light on our different dimensions through the signs and houses, we have another solar journey—a spiral journey of Conscious Evolution and Radiant Becoming—the path of illumination. I track this journey from your sign’s new moon to its next new moon, with a formula that’s a bit my own.
Your seeds this year have an essence of revival. It’s a year of redefining your power, your entanglements, and your psychological wisdom. It’s a year to purge what’s no longer lighting your strategic core up to make space for new things to delve into, new underworld to uproot, and new resurrections to attend to.
At the start of Virgo Seaosn, your becoming is in a phase of sacred unraveling as you move into the final quarter of your journey. You are shedding excess and working to return to the essence of what you truly value, enriched by the understanding you have recently gained. Let life become a mirror, helping you see more clearly the patterns you’ve unconsciously created. Prune what no longer resonates. Allow this process to lighten your load and help you exhale.
Around September 1st, you move into an even deeper phase of unraveling. Mysteries call you to follow threads of psychological inquiry. It’s a time to witness the power dynamics in your life and notice how they are making you feel—integrated or fractured. In that witnessing, you find the power to mend what has been sabotaged in the shadows, reviving the blocked currents of your life force. It’s a time to find your empowered precision through strategic vulnerability and entangling with true hearts.
Your Archetypal Journey
Mars in The 12th Houses | Facing Sabotaging Illusions
The planet that rules your sign gives you an archetype—a leading character flavor. This planet is a central part of how you show up and your personal agenda. We go on journeys in the skin of our archetypes, like leading characters in books and films. Your ruler, Mars, is the Lunar Hero, the Strategist, the Transformer, and the Psychological Warrior.
Mars: The Lunar Hero/Your Ruler | Stage: The Road of Trials | Sign: Libra | House: 12th | Cancer 9th House-Themed Quest
“The Road of Trials Brings Shadow Mirror Training”
Back in January, Mars—the ruler of Scorpio’s blood-deep will and sacred rage—plunged into the soft tides of Cancer, seeding a Hero’s Journey not with fire, but with feeling. You were called not to act, but to remember. The journey began in your 9th house, a portal of spiritual memory, belief, and ancestral truth. What stirred then wasn’t a mission—it was a whisper from the soul: There’s something you must follow into the dark.
Now, in Virgo Season, that descent deepens. Mars enters the Road of Trials, the part of the journey where the hero is tested not just in strength—but in faith, perception, and identity. And for Scorpio, this phase unfolds in the most mysterious of houses: the 12th, under the sign of Libra.
Here, the trials are subtle. Invisible. They may come in dreams, silences, echoes of your own psyche. Mars in Libra in the 12th doesn’t face external enemies—it meets the unconscious saboteurs, the lovers long buried, the karmic echoes that haunt behind the veil. This isn’t war—it’s spiritual alchemy.
You may feel:
– Restless without reason.
– Triggered by beauty or nostalgia.
– Haunted by old desires or unfinished stories.
– Drawn to art, silence, retreat… or to destroy what you don’t yet understand.
But Mars in the 12th isn’t here to weaken you. It’s here to purify you through surrender. To challenge your instinct to control or attack. To ask you:
What are you running from in the quiet?
What power do you lose when you’re alone?
Can you meet your own shadow… without needing to win?
Libra brings the mirror. It shows you how your enemies live inside your projections. It demands inner equilibrium—not through isolation, but through compassion. The trials here will not be obvious. But they will be transformational.
Virgo Season’s earthy logic offers you grounding—but only if you dare to walk barefoot through your dreamscape, through loss, longing, and luminous vulnerability. Mars in Libra wants to recalibrate your energy, your instincts, your compass. But first: it dissolves the false strength. The armor that was really fear. The silence that was really shame.
Scorpio, you are not losing power.
You are discovering the sacred use of it.
You are learning that the deepest battles are not won by force…
but by the courage to dissolve.
This is not the end.
It’s the initiation before the return.
To round out your horoscope, check your natal moon sign’s ‘13 Moons’ stage to see how your mood is creating atmosphere and receptivity in your life. This is also where to head to do personal work and journeys at the New and Full Moons of the season.