September 2018 Forecasts

Venus, in Libra to September 9 and in Scorpio through the start of 2019, sets up an important few months for making headway regarding finances and involvements. The next several months will take you through an important karmic replay/recall chapter. For some, the Venus transit can call forth a lover or a key someone from another lifetime. Do not under-estimate the potency and potential that exists in every single moment. Keep checking in with your soul and keep remembering that you are here to learn, to grow, and to thrive.

As stated in the intro, over the first week of the month, the transits of Mercury and Venus are dialing up the karmic nature of circumstances. Mars is already on that peak stimulation program and will stay on it through mid November.
If you are ready for a new career path or a new lifestyle (even a radical one), Mars in Aquarius is your ally. If you are resisting reinvention or getting on board with reality, then Mars in Aquarius may use a shock prod to convince you to get with the program. (It may not be that extreme, but I’m sure you get the point.) Any relationship or circumstance that is already buckling under the strain isn’t likely to make it through the upcoming Venus retrograde cycle (mid October to mid November) without serious revamping.
There’s no ability to skirt around it once Venus enters Scorpio on Sept 9. A compelling force, the transit will force you to take a deeper dive into your emotions, to examine the choice makings of your soul. Irresistible attractions are a clue to the importance of the karmic recall. A compulsion or obsession reflects the unresolved deep-seated anxiety warehoused by your ego or your soul. The Venus cycle can also take you through deeper soul-searching regarding an addiction or any other self-undermining propensity.

Along with the sun in Virgo, Mercury in Virgo, starting September 5, can busy you with personal improvement, home fix-it projects, or family matters. You could scoop a better deal on real estate or have a better opportunity to get approved for a loan.
Mars returns to Aquarius on September 10. Explore your options. Entertain fresh possibilities, try something or someone new on for size. Through the middle of November, Mars builds a bridge to your future. Mars favours all initiatives directed toward getting your life moving in a new direction. It’s a good transit for marketing and speculative ventures, for putting yourself out there professionally or socially.

Mars in Aquarius, starting Sept 10, gets the action going regarding lifestyle, relationship or career reinvention. It is a good transit for independence initiatives and for diving into something fresh and new, especially regarding making money and earning a living. It can be a matter of trial and error until you find what will unlock the right door. Courage isn’t an option, it is a requirement.
The sun and Mercury in Virgo (starting September 5, puts an added emphasis on the shortfalls and what’s missing. Both transits are constructive for getting yourself better educated and prepared, for learning the ropes, tackling paperwork, and putting yourself to work where necessary.
Launching on the new moon September 9, Venus in Scorpio is an empowerment transit. One way or another, you’ll gain motivation and incentive from this transit. Venus also takes you into deeper soul-searching. If you couldn’t find your base-line or your bottom-line previously, you will now. Whatever you feel, you’ll feel it deeply. Hopefully you can put passion into play to your highest and best good. Intuitive instincts and all sensory faculties are greatly enhanced by this transit. Venus in Scorpio can juice up an existing intimate relationship or attract a new lover. Know also that the transit is working on more than one level at the same time. Heading onto an intensification and threshold-crossing track through the rest of the year, Venus is setting you up to go yet another round regarding an important karmic matter. A pivotal few months lies ahead. Expect to be fully submerged in a circumstance, process, relationship, or money matter.

Mars in Aquarius switches its primary focus to the social and relationship track as of September 10. Watch for social trends, commerce trends, and politics to energize and intensify; for the process of relationship involvements, contracts, legal undertakings, or lifestyle reinvention to speed up. Mars sets the stage for inner and outer breakthroughs.
A foundation laying transit, Venus in Scorpio, starting September 9, launches a significant next home, family, or living-with-yourself chapter. You’ll find you are even more driven toward making yourself/your life/your family safer, more secure. Are you gearing up to start something new? Know there’s a process to worth through first. The strong and worthwhile will survive, the weak will not. Through the end of the year Venus is on an agenda to work out the kinks, prune it back, or strip it down; to make it more valuable and worthwhile. It’s a heart journey for sure.

The end of Saturn retrograde gives you more solid ground to stand on. Saturn aims to help you to gain better control and to build it better. Put ambition to work and see the good it does you.
Your daily get-go is about to get much busier. One way or another, its time to get to work. Mars in Aquarius can see you take on a new job, study, or learning curve. Mars also puts the focus on health or exercise upgrades. Try something alternative. A new advisor or agent could be a step in the right direction too.
Where-ever you go, where-ever you find yourself, watch for Venus in Scorpio, starting on the new moon September 9, to pull you in deeper. This transit can be excellent for mind over matter, and for work or projects that require good concentration, dedication and a steady hand. Venus in Scorpio can sharpen your observation, communication, sales, marketing, and strategic skills. The transit loans you more sway and magnetism; it ignites passion and deep-seated emotions. If you are a creator, a healer, sponsor, agent, or a social advocate this Venus transit will help you to use your gifts more fully. While Venus transits Scorpio, you can make a greater impact on the world around you and vice versa. Your Spidey-sense becomes a stronger asset too, but make sure to avoid the pitfalls of obsessive thinking or paranoid emotions.
Venus in Scorpio will turn retrograde next month. It will take you through a karmic replay with someone or something. Keep on watch, the whole month ahead gives you a preview.

Venus leaves Libra for Scorpio on the new moon of September 9, but she’ll be back for a final touchdown in November. The next couple of months are an important time to get back in touch with yourself and what is truly of value to you – to your overall well-being, your economic welfare, and most importantly – to your soul. Venus will put a stronger magnetic aura around you. It’s a good transit for enhancing what Mother Nature gave you. You’ll get noticed whether you want to be or not. Venus will help you to call forth that which your soul has deemed is important/essential for your evolution. It’s no small feet to untether yourself from codependency or enmeshment, or to reconcile with dark parts of yourself you’d rather not dreg up. Life and living – it is a major undertaking through the end of the year. Courage nets a pay-off.
Mars in Aquarius, starting September 10, is one of your better transits for trying the new on for size – for creating, expressing, manifesting, reinventing, and success generating. Someone or something new can take you by storm. Along with the Venus transit reaching into the karmic purse, know that whatever you meet up with in the next couple of months is meant for a fast track.

Motivation in ample supply, obsession can be too once Venus treks into Scorpio on September 9. Put a healthy passion into action, commit yourself fully.
Venus in Scorpio is a major juju transit. Venus, the attraction planet, intensifies your personal magnetism/energy field. The transit can call forth unresolved emotions from deep within your soul. The next couple of months will pull you into a major karmic undertaking. Perhaps you are already getting a feel for it. Once the action is triggered, it is all consuming. Expect to be on a deep dive right from the get go.
Regaining what was first tested or introduced back in May, Mars in Aquarius speeds up the process of getting on board with your new reality. Whether it is a matter of choosing and doing, or circumstances have forced the issue, there is no better time than right now to take on a new career trajectory, personal reinvention, and/or a radical lifestyle change. This transit can be stress producing. Coping skills can be put to the test. Risk and uncertainty are in the mix, but when is it not? Try to take it one day, one step at a time. Objectivity or non-attachment to outcome can help you to manage yourself better. Mars in Aquarius will continue to keep you freshly supplied, so try not to stand in your own way. Stay up to speed instead. There’s no reason to hold on tight to the past/the way it was/that which you know is no longer in your best interest. Courage and initiative will net a pay-off.

Venus in Scorpio, starting on the new moon September 9, keeps what’s going on inside of you somewhat under the radar. Things are on brew. It’s a matter of feeling your way through them, and of giving it time to see what’s evolving. Venus also powers up your intuition, sensory faculties, and emotional responsiveness. You’ll read folks and pick up on the emotional undercurrents with even more precision than usual. The transit can take you into a much deeper dive regarding an intimate relationship, a creative process, a trust issue, or a soul-searching chapter. The upcoming retrograde cycle (mid October to mid November) will see you readdress or revisit something important. It could force you to confront an addiction, obsession, or self-undermining rut.
Mars in Aquarius, starting September 10, makes for never a dull moment. It’s a life-on-the-go, mobilizing, fresh infusion transit. You’ll find plenty to think about, to talk about, and to do.

Venus in Scorpio, starting on the new moon September 9, calls for a deeper commitment to undertaking the change you want to see. Stay driven, stay focused on the goal. While there can be some difficult choices or tricky navigating in the months ahead, now is not the time to second guess the urgings of your soul. If on the other hand, Venus in Scorpio revamps your ambition, your goal, or your lifestyle, accept that some things/some relationships were meant to be, some were not. Embrace the moment with all your heart. Do not under-estimate what you feel, what you see, what/who shows up. The compelling, the irresistible, the sudden, or the overtaking is your clue that karmic destiny has signed you up for a ride.

Mars in Aquarius will have you firing on all cylinders soon enough, so take this first week of the month to get yourself organized and ready.
Venus in Scorpio, starting on the new moon September 9, could take you to the threshold of a completely altered reality. October/November can be major in this regard. Due to the recent retrograde, Mars retrograde has given you an extended timeframe to work your way through a process or circumstance and to build up enough momentum and energy. Turning retrograde next month, Venus will also give you extended time to work your way through whatever heavy lifting you have to do to get the rocks out of the way or to cement the platform. You could see the start of benefits package in November or soon after.

Through September 9, Venus in Libra enhances prospects for financial gain. It’s also a good influence for same page accord and for enjoying one on one time with the one(s) you love.
Starting on the new moon on September 9, Venus in Scorpio sets the future on its course in some altering, definitive, and destiny-producing way. Juicing up prospects of all kinds, Venus in Scorpio is one of your most opportune transits for calling forth. The transit is a good one for holding more sway in your personal life relationships, becoming more influential in your chosen field, or for finding more profitable or more fulfilling prospects. Venus favours travel, relocation, studies, research, creative pursuits such as publishing or performing, and the spiritual quest. The karmic nature of the upcoming retrograde is likely to take you on another go ‘round with a key someone. That key someone could be someone you already know, i.e. a long distance relative or someone from your past, or someone pertinent to your future (a lover, a special teacher, spiritual advisor, or an agent of change). Whether it comes in the form of a person, a subject of study, or circumstance, an irresistible draw and a sense of déjà vu is your clue to the potency of the karmic play that will occupy these next couple of months. No matter where you find yourself, go with all your heart.