On August 23rd we have a New Moon in Virgo and if you’ve been sensing that something in your life could be better, trust your wise instinct. It doesn’t matter where the cracks appear. In your closest relationships, in the way you think about money, in the habits that shape your body and health.
Every area is a landscape you can tend, and you hold the power to decide how and where to raise your voice, to say: this must change. New Moon’s are all about setting a fresh intention for yourself, and this particular one is a powerful reset. Read here for how to plan your month around the moon.
The beauty of this moment is that transformation doesn’t always have to crawl. But before the new can take root, identify what has reached its natural end. Clearing the soil is essential, so that when you build again, you’re standing on clean ground.
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The challenge is discernment. You don’t have to abandon much at all, yet not everything deserves to be rebuilt. Wisdom lies in knowing the difference between what is simply uncomfortable and what is truly over.
Aries: your life needs more order
You’ve been moving pawns (work, health, rituals) carefully, deliberately, thinking the board was stable. Words, voices, conversations crack like static in your ear, demanding sharper presence. The choice is yours: bring order to your days, or risk letting your words, intentions, and your energy unravel into disorder.
Taurus: can you balance pleasure with work?
Pleasure has always been your cathedral. But now, the altar shakes. Can you still make art when the rent is due? Can you still play when the world asks for productivity? Like Josephine Baker dancing in Paris while the world collapsed, your genius is in creating joy when it feels forbidden.
Gemini: it may be time for reinvention
The home you thought was stable is shifting beneath you, reshaping itself to reflect your evolving needs and desires. In that movement, you can start to hear your own voice again. This reinvention asks for more than instinct, it needs you to make a conscious choice to peel away the mask you once wore to meet the world’s expectations.
Cancer: give yourself space to cut through the chatter
The world is noisy and your task is to cut through the chatter, like trimming vines that choke the garden. If you make some room in your day today, it can feel like a revelation. You are about to be struck with lightning insights. Your words, once sorted, could free you, but only if you make silence holy again.
Leo: take some time to yourself, you need it
The question of your worth returns and your talents requires a level of stewardship that isn’t left to chance or spare time. It’s more than okay to gather your strength in solitude. But just know the next step is to return to the stage to redefine your world.
Virgo: who are you, behind the front?
This is your curtain call, and the future you’d planned scatter like confetti, reminding you that order cannot cage destiny. Imagine Frida Kahlo painting her pain into iconography, she didn’t wait for stability, she created it by naming herself. This is your chance to decide who you are when the script dissolves.
Libra: don’t make any decisions now
Your silence is breaking. The past has piled up like unkept letters, waiting for you to finally say goodbye or to rebirth it in some way. Private inner truths may crash against your ideals, only to build something more real in reality. You’re in a state of purification, so rest you don’t have to make any immediate decisions.
Scorpio: don’t be afraid to edit your friendship group
The bonds that feel the most intimate ask you to redraw the map of who belongs in your friendship constellation. You get to claim your chosen family. Don’t mourn the rooms you no longer enter. Build the rooms where your future people will find you.
Sagittarius: make work matter
If you’ve been thinking about your career trajectory, you can get some solid answers now about where you want to go. You have to set your own parameters first, even if you can’t see anyone else doing it. The call to rise, to make your work matter, is deafening but ambition doesn’t have to be lonely.
Capricorn: listen to your inner voice
The philosopher in you is restless. The structures of belief you once stood on are untangling thread by thread. And yet, in the small rhythm of your daily rituals, the cracks appear too. Make the smallest tasks in your day, be a point of meditation for you to listen to that little inner voice of yours. A whole world is inside of you.
Aquarius: surrender yourself to love and eroticism
Intimacy has always been your most dangerous frontier, and every desire longs for a place to make its home. Just as you begin to sort that out, the world dares you to play, to love, to create with reckless abandon. Blurring the line between eroticism and genius, your challenge is to let surrender become the fuel for creation.
Pisces: open your heart to new connections
Those who walk beside you now are showing you the true shape of home. The ground stirs, not to unsettle you, but to remind you that belonging lives in resonance, not in walls. Your relationships are the beams that hold the roof over you. Set a new intention to create even stronger connections and to open your heart to other kinfolk.
