September 2020

September 9 to November 13, Mars in Aries travels retrograde. This will be a particularly notable transit for you if you are born April 4 to 18. Mars retrograde marks the next two months for an important review (karmic, personal). This retrograde transit also takes you through a preparation phase or a trial run for an important next chapter. Doing battle with it like you always do may not yield the desired results. Rather, Mars retrograde is well used for “look and listen-up”. Take the next two months for a test drive. Feel your way along regarding what you really want for yourself and how you are going to proceed next. Mid November onward sets you onto fast forward/full steam ahead.

September 3, Pallas Athene ends retrograde in Capricorn. Just 3 days after Mars stations retrograde, Jupiter in Capricorn stations direct. In combination, all three assist you to get yourself better on track. By September 28, Saturn will end retrograde in Capricorn and by October 4, Pluto will also resume direct motion. Progressively they’ll assist you to move past the block or hold up and to build on more solid ground.

To the plus, Mars retrograde on a pull back and regroup cycle allows for you to gain a better perspective, to get back in touch with what is in your best interests. The transit assists you to get you back to center-ice where you belong so you can start the play over and take a better shot at it (as leader of your own domain, as manager of your own heart). Too, it can be time to break the chain, do your own thing or go your own way. The transit can help you (or force you) to disengage from (or altogether eliminate) what is not serving you, to cut yourself loose in some productive way. Watch for instincts to provide new signals and prompts. Mars retrograde can also take you through a karmic revisit. A sense of déjà-vu or familiarity is a clue to the importance of this karmic recall. It is your chance move that circumstance or relationship in a new direction.

September opens on a full moon in Pisces. Despite the uncertainty of the moment, reality is shaping up in some definitive way. Venus/Saturn can bring you to end, wrap up, finish, or a sobering realization. There can be something or someone to give up or let go of. What’s cleared away now sets the stage for a next chapter to begin.

Due to its retrograde tour (September 9 to November 13), Mars will extend its tour of Aries until January 6, 2020. Mars in Aries stokes the fire, stirs up the potential and encourages you to dig deeper for the hidden wealth you can sense is lying in wait for you. Uranus continues traveling retrograde in Taurus until the middle of January. Both transits give you added time to regroup, to feel your way along, to work yourself up to it. Look to January onward, for your ready, set, go time. That is not to say you should sit out the next few months, not by a long shot. This is a sort-out and line-up-your-ducks time. The more inner development or groundwork you undertake now, the more well set you’ll be for the next action track. View Mars retrograde as a project-based transit. It is also good for the pull-one-off agenda, and for tending to things you can accomplish in a relatively short period of time. Introspection is productive too. The transit will keep you busy sorting yourself out or cooking it up behind the scenes.

Mercury enters Libra on September 5; Venus enters Leo on September 6. Both transits can put a better spin on communication and creative tracks. Your heart speak can provide clearer signals too.

Mars, the action planet, tours retrograde in Aries from September 9 to November 13. This pull-it-back transit prompts a rethink of goals, involvements, and lifestyle choices. By choice or circumstance, the transit could set your future on an alternate course. A sense of karmic destiny or déjà vu is a clue to the importance of where, when, how, or who. Consider Mars retrograde as making necessary revisions to the play or gameboard. Look to the end of the year for circumstances to hit a fuller swing and/or to set you onto a significant new adventure. Use this Mars transit to explore something outside of your usual, or to sign up for a short- term undertaking.

Over the next five weeks, all transits through Capricorn will complete retrograde tours and resume forward motion. Here are the dates: Pallas September 3, Jupiter September 12, Saturn September 28 and Pluto October 4. Now that they’ve pulled it apart/dismantled it (i.e. the reality, the rationale or justification), they’ll work to build it back up again. Progressively, they’ll pave the way forward in some better defined, perhaps no turning back way. Too, they can help you gain better inner resolve to get to work on your build it better project(s) where you want to and know you should. Effort is required yes. Pay it up front and you’ll set yourself up for the best possible results will be worth it.

Venus and Mars turn a corner on September 4. Mercury enters Libra on September 5. Venus enters Leo on September 6. All three can boost communication tracks and creative opportunity.

Feeling that you can’t rely on the pre-established or carry on as you have been? That you can’t continue to beat your head against the wall or keep running on empty? Something has got to change! The process is already well underway. If you don’t feel that as truth, you will soon enough! Mars in Aries travels retrograde from September 9 to November 13. This transit refortifies you/it from the inside out. Confront the reality head-on, face yourself honestly. The biproduct of this strip it down process will assist to find your strength and courage again. Mars retrograde is well used to review priorities and commitments, to refinance, downsize, and to restructure where necessary. There are times when you may not feel you have a choice. Circumstances are dictating, in some cases, harshly so. Reward comes from effort. The greater the effort, the greater the result.

This six-month Mars transit sets the timer to “whole new reality”. The next two months will pull the reality apart. Following that, it will time to hit the ground running with what’s gaining traction, and to use it to your advantage. Despite how hard the going is or what you feel you have lost along the way; the stars are conspiring on your behalf to help you to build your life into something more bankable.

Jupiter ends retrograde on September 12. Combined with the start of Mars reversing course, Jupiter direct helps you to keep it real, so that you can no longer cover up what you know to be true. Jupiter serves to get you better on track with necessity and to make your better bets a more obvious pick. The end of both Saturn retrograde (September 28) and Pluto retrograde (October 4) will progressively outline the direction forward with clearer definition.

The world is changing, you are too. Mars in Aries travels retrograde from September 9 to November 13. Is there somewhere else you’d rather be? Whether you have chosen it for yourself or it has been shaping up, the transit can find you questioning, resisting, or sparing with the future you have been heading for. Whether an enforced delay, a battle to face or a mountain to climb, Mars retrograde is a time to pull back and take stock, to check in with yourself again. Just a few days after Mars begins retrograde, Jupiter in Capricorn ends the retrograde cycle it started last May. Together, Mars retrograde and Jupiter direct work to true your aim, to show you what is most worthy an investment, what is most viable for you to pursue. Mars retrograde is well used to switch tracks, either for a short time or with a more permanent aim in mind. Plan B could shape up for you quite readily or naturally.

Pallas Athene ends retrograde on September 3, Saturn ends retrograde on September 28 and Pluto does the same on October 4. That’s the complete list of planets in transit through Capricorn. Progressively, the reality takes more well-defined shape and form. There may be hold-ups along the way, but don’t let them stop you. Don’t waste a moment. Get yourself sorted out, line up your ducks. Use your time wisely. Soon, it will be springboard time. Look to the end of Mars retrograde (November 13) onward for full steam ahead.

Mercury leaves Virgo for Libra on September 5. Venus exits Cancer for Leo on September 6. Both transits enhance communication and creative tracks. They can help you to make better inroads, to spruce it up, package and deliver it with better prospect.

Mars in Aries begins a two-month retrograde tour on September 9. Stay in your own bubble, do it yourself, go your own way, give your all to the moment. Don’t hesitate to put your own needs and interests first, to stand as a group of one. Mars retrograde submerges you in an intensified day to day learning curve and self discovery process. Use this transit to pull back, regroup, carve it out for yourself, refortify from within and to undertake upgrades (health and attitude included). The next two months set you on a self discovery and recovery cycle of significance. Its time to get back in touch with who you used to be before all the layers were glued on top. Each time you hit paydirt, you’ll feel it, you’ll know it. Watch for instincts, intuition, and your powers of observation to sharpen. Emotional responses can hit the quick trigger too. Also, the next two-month can take you through a try out period, trial and error, research project, or a stoke the fire process. Once the retrograde cycle is over, expect to hit the ground running on a next chapter.

Jupiter in Capricorn ends a four-month retrograde tour on September 12. Pallas Athene, currently touring Capricorn, ended retrograde on September 3. Saturn in Capricorn ends retrograde on September 28, and Pluto in Capricorn ends retrograde on October 4. All four are shaping, defining, and solidifying. Progressively, they are building the framework for this next phase of your life.
Essentially, all the planetary shifts and redirects are conspiring on your behalf. They will assist you to find yourself again, to reclaim self at center and to rebuild from the inside out in an essential and timely way. Of course, there are battles yet to face, but each breakthrough point is a victory gained. As time and experience advances, you’ll know that statement to be true.

Mercury tours Libra from September 5 to September 27. This transit can see you on an upswing. Even so, continue to stay flexible regarding your plans and expectations. Mercury can make for plenty of coming and going, re activity and your thinking process too. You may notice you are quicker and shaper on the ball.

While you have a natural propensity for collaboration and partnering up, and mostly you don’t mind going along with others, you are likely to feel you want and deserve more recognition. Mercury and Venus also prompt you to put more attention toward self interests. Yes, make sure give your first consideration toward your own needs, priorities, and interests. If you don’t do it, who will?

Have you been toughing it out with someone or something? Mars in Aries tours retrograde from September 9 to November 13. This transit could either plug the plug on something that was heating up or see it (or them) go snap. It is well used for pulling back on it, distancing yourself, creating a sharper dividing line, or for going on to other things while you let it (or them) stew. Ultimately the Mars in Aries transit gives you six months to test pilot a new way of showing up for yourself. It is a learn as you go process.

Jupiter In Capricorn ends a four month retrograde on September 12. This transit loans added momentum to the start of the Mars retrograde agenda – namely making it real. Pallas Athene turns direct on September 3, Saturn on September 28 and Pluto on October 4 – all in the sign of Capricorn. All four of these Capricorn transits are putting the finishing touches on the past. At the same time, they are setting a new foundation into place. Their number one priority is to get you to face yourself honestly. Once you can get back in touch with what matters to you most, you will start to create a better even keel/better consistency and security from within. You’ll see that reflected by a natural shift of attention and priorities, by the inroads you make, the feedback you get, and how the pathway unfolds in front of you.

Venus/Mars turn a corner of September 4. Mercury enters Libra on September 5, and Venus enters Leo on September 6. All three should put you on the upswing with evaluation process, an important conversation, an investment of time, heart, or money.

Mars in Aries turns retrograde on September 9. Jupiter in Capricorn ends retrograde on September 12. Switching gears in quick succession, they shift the momentum and the priority in an overtaking, perhaps non-negotiable way. It makes no sense to perpetuate something that isn’t making the grade. Nor can you force what isn’t coming naturally. Jupiter direct calls for a level of stripped-down honesty. What’s the bird in hand reality? Today’s tough-it-out action sets up tomorrow’s benefit/result. Mars retrograde is a time to regroup. Aim to be more attentive to the urgings of your soul, to switch track and/or tack according to the signs and signals you receive. Watch for intuition and for activities and involvements to provide you with important clues.

All planetary influences currently touring Capricorn ending retrograde cycles over this next five weeks. Here is the list: September 3, Pallas Athene; September 12, Jupiter; September 28, Saturn; October 4, Pluto. All are reaching a time is ripe/time has come stage. As they move forward, know you/your life will too. Progressively you’ll reach a better-defined sense of direction. You’ll finally be able to move forward on the pending pile, on projects, decisions, or circumstances that have been held up for far too long.

Venus/Mars, the relationship duo turn a corner on September 4. Mercury enters Libra on September 5. Venus enters Leo on September 6. Combined, they keep the interpersonal and communication track on an upswing. Enhancing matters and relationships dear to your heart through the start of October, Venus in Leo pumps up your creativity, satisfaction, and success ratio. Venus can also bring favoured attention your way and/or enhance your love life. Play it up, soak it up.

Mars in Aries tours retrograde from September 9 to November 13. This transit is best used for a personal regroup. Craving more time to yourself. Do you still want to carry on? Ready to go your own way? Feeling that something more is heating up? Mars retrograde can set up a pause before go time, a trial run cycle, or a karmic revisit transit. The next two months will help you to better pinpoint what is at the core or what is most worthy for you. Look to the middle of November onward for full thrust time.

Between now and the start of next month, all planets transiting Capricorn will end their retrograde tours. Here’s the list: Pallas Athene, September 3; Jupiter, September 12; Saturn, September 28; and Pluto on October 4. As time moves forward, more is solidified or cemented. These transits bring you and circumstance to a ripe and ready timetable. This in terms of building it better, what resources, pursuits and investments will provide the greatest opportunity and growth potential; what/who is most bankable in consideration of the long-range future and benefit.

Mercury tours Libra from September 5 to 27. Venus tours Leo from September 6 to October 2. Both transits put added attention on finding a better balance between output and reward. Both assist you to better gains re your activities and investments (time, money, and heart).

Have you been wrestling with it, with them, or with yourself? September 9 to November 13, Mars in Aries travels retrograde. This it the pull back and regroup portion of a six-month cut new teeth cycle that extends to January. Mars puts the focus on breaking new ground/laying a new foundation, making new inroads, and starting (or battling your way through to) a new chapter. The next six months also places added emphasis on home and family life. While Mars tours retrograde, it is important to observe the shifting tides, to allow for circumstances and best options to reveal themselves, to take more time out to check in with self. There are times when collaboration is wise, and times when your own needs should come first. Uncertain on how to play it? Confirmation will come if you give it enough time and space to grow on you. Wait until the urge or instinct feels compelling enough to propel you.

The whole year has been breaking down the reality and rearranging the deck chairs. Over this next five weeks, all four planets transiting Capricorn will end their retrograde tours: Pallas Athene, September 3; Jupiter, September 12; Saturn September 28; Pluto, October 4. You’ll feel each these planetary resets as foundation setting or as building blocks laid into place one by one.

Mercury tours Libra from September 5 to 27. In general, the transit can enhance communication tracks, smooth out collaborative undertakings, and help you to find a bettered equilibrium. From September 6 to October 1, Venus in Leo sets a backdrop for you showcase yourself and your offerings. Too, this Venus transit can put an added spotlight on someone you love or admire. You could gain benefit through others. A gift or gifted moment could come your way.

For the past two months, Mars has had you doing battle with your day to day, perhaps with someone specific. Perhaps you have felt the urge to jump the gun on something. September 9 to November 13, Mars travels retrograde in Aries. The transit is best used to pull back, regroup, or reconsider it. Put yourself in observation mode, feel your way along, and watch for instincts and outer signals to inform you. The next two months can be well used to take on a temporary or sideline project, or to explore a different option or alternate track.

Over this next five weeks, all four planetary influences traveling in Capricorn will end their retrograde cycles: Pallas Athene, September 3; Jupiter September 12, Saturn, September 28, and Pluto, October 4. Each one will set another piece of the puzzle in place. Now through the end of October keeps you working through it. November onward will be the time for full steam ahead.

September 5 to 28, Mercury in Libra keeps the attention focused on creating a better balance and on sorting out the worth of your investments (time, money, heart). September 6 to October 1, Venus in Leo keeps you focused on better your best and on getting better traction out of your day to day.

Mars tours retrograde in Aries from September 9 to November 13. This inventory taking transit finds y0u you deeply introspective and re-evaluating assets and resources. What do you have going for you? What are you up against? The next two months set a backdrop to help you get clearer and better onto target. What is required of you? Keep observing and checking back on it; pay close attention to your inner triggers, and go by feel, inch at a time if needs be. Don’t fight yourself, listen up instead. Mars retrograde is not a time to force what isn’t coming naturally. It is a time to pause before hitting go. You can use the transit to pick up the slack with a short interlude or sidetrack. Mars retrograde is also a stoke the fire influence. It gives you an extended time to colour it in more – in other words to lay a more solid foundation before getting something new off the ground, or to ensure that you really do want to bust yourself loose before you light that match.

Between now and the start of October, all planets transiting in Capricorn will end their retrograde cycles. Here’s the list: Pallas Athene, September 3, Jupiter, September 12, Saturn, September 27 and Pluto, October 4. The first three out of that four are on their finish up in the sign of Capricorn, the difficult grind archetype. They have been particularly hard at work regarding their mandate of deconstruct/reconstruct over this entire year. Evidence of this fact is all around us as a daily occurrence. Progressively these momentous transits are reformatting your goals, priorities and expectations.