This Virgo New Moon Solar Eclipse invites us to look into the light that shines through the structures that we build, and the issues that emerge from them, into the shadows of our wounds, and the gifts that they carry. We arrive in this new Lunar Cycle with the gateway of a solar eclipse, and the doorway into the Jewish New Year.
So much in the culture is burning right now. The threats of authoritarianism become more pronounced every day. There’s a lot to worry about. I wonder; what are we constructing in our minds and in our lives right now, as the structures around us crumble?
The Astrology of the Virgo New Moon Solar Eclipse
I am not an astrologer, but I look at lunar cycles through an archetypal lens. I love the mythic power, the symbolic language, and the relationship to celestial bodies, the invitation to make meaning of transits, to look into the vastness and feel into how it touches our lives.
The virgo new moon solar eclipse 2025 is exact on September 21st at 12:54pm PT, and it concludes another season of portals into new insights and pot holes on our paths that offer pauses for reflection, reconsideration, and inner interrogation. The first eclipse season in this series began in September 2024 with a Lunar Eclipse in Pisces. This solar eclipse is the first one in Virgo that happens in the South Node.
South node eclipses are thought of in astrology as pattern breaking change agents, opportunities for release, initiators of endings. The door is open, and we are invited to step out and leave behind the constructs that hold us back
Virgo themes of healing, order, and service
Virgo is an archetype of service. It’s the part of us that wants to help, support, and show up in our community as grounded, giving energy. The season of Virgo is the season of harvest (in the Northern Hemisphere). It’s the earth’s abundance in full effect. It’s the generosity of Summer transitioning into Autumn’s gathering of food and supplies to prepare for times of lack. Virgo is strategic. It shows up with a plan.
In archetypal language, Virgo is the Medicine Woman; it’s not coming from a gender perspective, but as a mythic lens. Think of the archetype and how it shows up in stories, in movies, in art, in songs. She stands at the bedside of the sick, offering the wisdom of one who stands firmly on earth, but sees into other realms. She holds the space between life and death as she stands in the threshold between Summer’s lushness and Fall’s decay.
Sometimes healing is the ability to let something die. Sometimes healing is not possible. In a culture so obsessed with health and wellness, Virgo sets a firm boundary, to give space not only for our health, but for that which cannot be cured, for that which is valuable even if it isn’t the perfect picture of youthful, fit, able-bodied IG babe. A healthier culture is one that can hold the dichotomy of valuing healthfood, exercise, and rest, and the importance of inclusion.
Virgo is an organizer. It’s the part in us that discerns and knows where to place things. With the cleaning, clearing energy of this archetype, we can eclipse with the sun in the south node, and let some shit go. The thing is, we’re gonna need to figure out where it goes, and find a way to reintegrate it, the way that the leaves that fall from the trees in the Fall are reintegrated into the soil, nourishing the roots, helping preserve moisture, supporting and serving the next growth cycle.
A new moon in Virgo is an invitation to begin a cycle of structure and reorganization, of reconstructing strategically with the heart rooted in the intention to serve, and with the medicine of generosity at the core of our vision, so that the structures that we build support a wider base than our own.
The impact of the solar eclipse
This new moon eclipse astrology is flavored with eclipse spices. An eclipse is a time of reflection. The shadow is revealed, and we become wiser when we are willing to be with it, to see it, to give it room, to integrate it. Reflecting on our shadows is not easy, but the gifts that pulse within the liminal space of this eclipse, offer us the opportunity to shed the toxic relationship with the shadow – culturally and personally.
Prepare the inner conversations that limit and hurt you to fall off your tree with the leaves, as they prepare for the seasonal shift. The outdated ways of being can fall off of you more freely when you have a deeper conversation with the shadow, so use this eclipse to sit down with inner goblins and nourish the entirety of you, so that the parts that tend to cling to you feel secured enough to be released and repurposed.
Spiritual Meaning of the Virgo Solar Eclipse
The beauty of doing this work from a secular perspective, with no emphasis on belief, and instead with the invitation to ground into a meaning making process, is that the spirituality of the moment is open for interpretation.
How eclipses open portals of change
Every moment is a portal. Every breath is a transition. Any moment can be the moment when you decide to change something, and when the forces around you line up in support of your transformation. You can lean into the collective threshold of the eclipse and allow yourself to be supported in the changes you are ready to make.
The moon crosses over the sun and obscures it, the shadow becomes visible. What’s hidden becomes exposed. The seen becomes unseen. Ordinary order turns upside down, and we can let the magic of this symbolic narrative swallow us, so that we can reconfigure the story of who we are and make the necessary changes in our lives.
Virgo’s lessons in grounding and clarity
An eclipse is not an orderly event. It dismantles patterns, breaks down old ways, and leaves a mess on the floor. But Virgo is here, and she won’t let the pieces scatter. The broom is in her hand, the containers are ready to be filled, her eyes are sharp, looking into the pile of hay, confident that she can find the needle.
With precision, patience, and purpose, Virgo is the part of us that ground us in our work. Archtypley, it’s the productive part of us. It’s the ant that spends her Summer gathering food for Winter. It’s the perfectionist that won’t rest until the work is done. But the work is never done. There’s always more hay piles. There’s always more laundry to fold. There’s always another really important detail to tend to. But sometimes we need to step into the cricket’s shoes, and play some music and sing songs and, not forget that pleasure is a necessity.
As much as Virgo wants clarity and order, it’s important to let the messy, chaotic parts of the eclipse live and breathe. The chaos is where creativity originates, where ideas come from.
Organize the inner kitchen so that you can receive the harvest and begin to make something that will sustain you in the next seasons. Clean while you’re cooking so not all of it will need to be organized when you’re done. But don’t forget to put on some music, to have a glass of wine, to get lost in conversation. Don’t just follow the recipe. Let the tomatoes tell you how they want to be sauced.
Rituals for the Virgo New Moon Solar Eclipse
Cleansing and purification practices
Virgo is a practical beast, so a Virgo solar eclipse ritual can simply be clearing out the closets and organizing the drawers, taking what you’re no longer interested in to Out Of The Closet, and getting the house in order.
Since this new moon eclipse astrology coincides with Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year’s), I am thinking of a Jewish ritual usually done on the second day of the Holiday (just FYI; Rosh Hashanah Eve is on Monday September 22nd this year, and it is followed by two days of holiness).
The ritual I have in mind is called Tashlich, which translates from Hebrew to; “throw away” or “cast away.” Traditionally, people gather on the beach or by any body of flowing water, and throw pebbles or breadcrumbs into the water to symbolize cleansing from the burdens of their own misdeeds, so that the energy of the fresh new year can flow.
I don’t necessarily think that if we’ve done something that hurt someone else (or our own selves) we can just throw it as a pebble into the sea and be done with it. I think healing takes more work. Nevertheless, it is a powerful ritual, deeply significant, and profound with its symbolic presence.
The meaning of this ritual can be reinterpreted and reorganized in our mind-heart. You can cast away into a body of flowing water the sheddings of this solar eclipse, the limited perspectives, the limiting conversations, the things that weigh you down – including the burdens of your misdeeds. And you can use it as an initiation into a new pattern, knowing that you will need to do more work. Virgo reminds us that the work is never done, right?
As you cast what you are ready to release into the water, you can do it with pebbles, or you can write what you’re releasing on paper that dissolves in water, and then watch it melt into the ocean or the river. I think breadcrumbs are littering.
Water is life giving and sacred. I don’t want to throw all my pain and energetic garbage into it mindlessly. In my intention I like to include something about what this release will nourish. And I like to add to my Tashlich the release of what I love and cherish, so that I offer to the waters what’s most beautiful and meaningful. And I know that the water will be the womb to my most beautiful intentions. I like to write down the most beautiful things that I want to create in the new year, or in the new lunar cycle, and give the beauty to the water.
Grounding rituals for body and spirit
Virgo is an Earth sign, and this archetype is deeply rooted in soil and in body, in practicality and in physicality.
I’m feeling the Virgo vibe when I think of the way that not only religion, but also spiritual teachings, create a divide between body and spirit. Virgo is like; “Oh I don’t know what you’re talking about! The soul is somatic, people!”
The earth itself, with all the landscapes and species, and how life and death are woven through it seamlessly, IS spirit.
And so any grounding practice for your body, any ritual that connects your soma to the soil, is spiritual.
Here’s one idea:
Lie on the earth (outside on the actual earth would be great, but if you can’t you can just lie on the floor). Feel the ground beneath you holding you. Place a stone on your belly – now the earth is also on top of you – and feel the weight of it connecting you more deeply to the earth. Slow your breath down. With every inhale, invite the earth’s energy into your body. With every exhalation release yourself into it. Stay with it for 5-10 minutes, until you feel grounded.
If you want to take your ritual game into a whole other mythic level, I created a ritual guide for the secular soul and it’s waiting for you here..
Why This Eclipse Matters Now
We’re living through such stressful, unprecedented times. The chaos and destruction are palpable. Collectively right now there’s a lot of fear and anxiety saturating our existence.
Eclipses are considered chaotic. The spiritual meaning of solar eclipse as well as a lunar eclipse is transformation.
Collective meaning in chaotic times
As we walk through the portal of this eclipse, we can utilize the transformative energy to work with the collective chaos that we’re witnessing and experiencing globally.
If we’re doing all this shedding and releasing on a personal level, can we include in this work – in the contemplation, in the rituals, in the journaling – the energy of the collective? Can we look at the shadow of the collective, recognize where it lives inside of us individually, and begin to do the work of decomposing, reintegrating, and reconstructing the pieces?
What we’re seeing around us is not separate from us. The way that this historical period moves through the collective impacts our personal lives. And who we are and how we live has influence on what’s happening around us.
Personal alignment with Virgo energy
As an earth sign, as a body oriented archetype, Virgo calls us into the interconnection between the body of the person and the body of the planet.
Your breath is the breath of the trees. The trees, like you, need water. The earth is a planet with water, and that’s what gives us life. The trees and you breathe together. Oxygen is uniquely crafted by the conditions of this planet.
You – your personal beingness is aligned with the planetary power. Breathe, and you will be held by it. Breathe, and you will hold it back.
You can explore how the archetype of Virgo lives in you, where you feel it and see it in yourself. You can look up where Virgo is in your chart, and weave an intimate relationship with this sign, with this eclipse, with this lunar cycle, with this new Jewish year. However, no matter how personal we make the connections, and how private and distinctive the insights are, we will continue to be called simultaneously toward the whole.
Virgo is the embodiment of independence and self sufficiency. And yet it finds the ways of the planet, to twist and turn and weave us into the interconnectedness, into how inseparable we are – no matter how individuated – from the entirety of existence. This Virgo New Moon Solar Eclipse reminds us of a deeply somatic, spiritual meaning concealed within these cycles, and invites us to contemplate and ritualize these celestial events to help transform isolation into integration.
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Much love,
Hagar
PS – You might enjoy this essay about secular rituals