NEW MOON ASTROLOGY

SUNDAY | SEPTEMBER 21

Today’s New Moon in sidereal Virgo arrives in Uttara Phalguni, carrying both practicality and heart. What makes this lunation especially tender is its timing: it falls in the sacred days of Pitru-Paksha, when the veil between the living and our ancestors feels thinner. This is a moment to pause, to acknowledge those who came before us, and perhaps to release threads of grief or patterns that no longer need to be carried.

Adding to its weight, this New Moon is also joined by a partial Solar Eclipse. Eclipses are powerful thresholds — they can feel unsettling, but they also shift our vision. Like the blink of an eye, they invite us to see life in a new way.

During this eclipse window, it’s best to move gently. Big beginnings can wait. What’s called for now is inner work: prayer, reflection, and the kind of practice that steadies the heart. The energy of an eclipse unfolds over time, echoing for months as planets revisit the degree, so what you feel now may ripple forward in quiet ways.

While this eclipse will only be visible in parts of the Pacific and Australia, its energy is felt everywhere. For each of us, it’s an invitation to listen more deeply — to our ancestors, to our intuition, and to the quiet ways life asks us to begin again.