Virgo Weekly Horoscope

The week at a glance

The First Quarter in Sagittarius on Friday, September 18 falls in your 4th house of home, family and roots. Quarter Moons are decision points rather than turning points — a nudge to adjust rather than restart.

Underneath that, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are retrograde all week. Here is where the slower bodies are sitting, counted from Virgo:

• The Sun in Virgo — your 1st house. It spends this stretch of the year illuminating that part of your life.
• Mercury in Libra — your 2nd house. It means the thinking happens there, whether or not the doing does.
• Venus in Scorpio — your 3rd house. It is the reason that part of life is currently the least of your problems.
• Mars in Cancer — your 11th house. It puts your energy and your irritability in the same place.
• Jupiter in Leo — your 12th house. It opens it up, which is an opportunity and an invitation to overdo it.
• Saturn in Aries (retrograde) — your 8th house. It wants it built properly, and will make a second attempt necessary if it is not.

The Moon through your week

It begins the week in Libra, through your money and comfort zone. Monday, September 14 takes it into Scorpio, through the talking part of your week. It shifts on Wednesday, September 16 into Sagittarius, through home ground, where you can drop the performance. From Saturday, September 19 it moves into Capricorn, through the part of you that wants to play.

Everything else here changes over months or years. The Moon changes every couple of days, and that is the part you actually notice.

Love and connection

Venus is in Scorpio, your 3rd house of talking, learning and short trips, so this week the action is in conversation — what gets said, written, asked or explained. Send the message you have been drafting, or ask the question you have been circling.

Venus squares Pluto on Tuesday, September 15 — they pull at cross purposes, and the friction is the point rather than a fault. That is the day the romantic weather of the week is set, whether you are choosing it or reacting to it.

Work and money

Mars is in Cancer, your 11th house, which is where your effort will actually land this week — friendships, networks and long-range hopes. Mercury in Libra puts the conversations and paperwork in your 2nd house instead, so the thinking and the doing are aimed at different targets.

The Sun is still in Virgo, your 1st house, which is the background theme for the whole month rather than just this week: the attention falls on you rather than on your circumstances.

Wellbeing

The Moon does not touch your twelfth house this week, so there is no built-in rest window. You will have to make one. Energy tracks the Moon this week: it shifts around the quarter Moon on Friday, September 18. As an earth sign you will keep going long past the point the body asked you to stop; treat rest as part of the work, not a reward for it.

Dates that matter

6 aspects perfect this week. These are the ones with enough weight to notice:

• Monday, September 14 — Mercury trine Uranus. They agree without effort — pleasant, and easy to waste if you have nothing queued up. It connects your 2nd house (money, values and self-worth) with your 10th house (career and public standing).
• Monday, September 14 — Sun sextile Mars. They offer an opening that only works if you take it. It connects your 1st house (self and how you come across) with your 11th house (friends, networks and hopes).
• Tuesday, September 15 — Venus square Pluto. They pull at cross purposes, and the friction is the point rather than a fault. It connects your 3rd house (talking, learning and short trips) with your 6th house (work, routine and health).
• Tuesday, September 15 — Venus quincunx Neptune. They never quite line up, which shows as a nagging sense of something being slightly off. It connects your 3rd house (talking, learning and short trips) with your 8th house (shared money, depth and change).
• Wednesday, September 16 — Neptune sextile Pluto. They offer an opening that only works if you take it. It connects your 8th house (shared money, depth and change) with your 6th house (work, routine and health).