This week, the sky whispers of beginnings. Of devotion. Of quiet refinements that ripple out to change the way we live, create, and love.
The Sun shifts into Virgo on the 22nd, inviting us to anchor back into the body, into ritual, into the subtle threads of daily life that hold us steady. The very next day, a New Moon rises in Virgo, opening a doorway for new beginnings rooted in clarity, alignment, and gentle devotion. Together, these moments weave a threshold, a seasonal shift, and an initiation into Virgo’s medicine.
August 22, 2025: Virgo Season
The Sun’s movement into Virgo marks the turning of the wheel into a new season of consciousness. Virgo reminds us that our lives are built not just on the vast visions and grand dreams but on the humble rituals, the repeated steps, the moments of care.
Virgo is the great alchemist of detail. It teaches that devotion to the present moment transforms the ordinary into sacred ground. Where Leo roared with expression, Virgo now asks: How can we tend to what has been created? How can we refine it so that it lasts, so that it serves, so that it sustains?
As the sun enters Virgo, it is a season that offers clarity. Not the loud kind, but the grounded clarity that comes when we clear the noise, put our hands in the earth, and listen. It is a time of purification – of body, mind, and spirit – and an invitation to create rhythms that support our wholeness.
August 23, 2025: Virgo New Moon
Only one day after Virgo Season begins, the Moon joins the Sun at 0° Virgo, offering us a New Moon – a fresh beginning under the same sign. New Moons are portals of seeding, and Virgo asks us to plant intentions that are practical, intentional, and aligned with the rhythms of our true self.
In an Earth sign, this lunation highlights the relationship between our inner world and the systems we create in our outer lives. It asks us to weave devotion into our daily actions, to bring spirit into form through the choices we make again and again.
Virgo’s New Moon is not about grand, sweeping change. Instead, it is about choosing one small step toward alignment – and trusting that in its simplicity, the whole of your life can shift. It is about refining, simplifying, and tending. It is about remembering that the divine moves through the details.
Reflections for the Week
- Where do I crave clarity in my life right now?
- What small, practical action can I take daily that brings me closer to who I wish to become?
- How can I transform routine into ritual, task into devotion, detail into art?
Virgo teaches us that healing does not always happen in dramatic, visible breakthroughs – but often in quiet consistency, in choosing again and again to live in alignment with care, presence, and wholeness.
Weekly Forecast: August 17-23, 2025
This week is a threshold: the Sun moves into Virgo and the Moon renews herself in the same sign. Together, they open a season of devotion, refinement, and alignment. The invitation is to begin again – not through force or perfection, but through gentle, intentional care.
Virgo teaches us that the sacred is not far away. It is here in the details of daily life. It is in the way we tend to our bodies, the words we speak, the food we prepare, the spaces we inhabit. This week, life becomes the ritual. This week, we remember that through devotion to the small, we open to the vast.
Weekly Horoscopes for Your Zodiac Sign
As the planets shift in our cosmos, they simultaneously shift through our astrological chart, highlighting different areas of our human experience. By looking to your zodiac sign – in particular your rising sign for your horoscope forecast, we can begin to discern those shifts and invitations.
Read on for your horoscope for the week of August 17 to August 23, 2025. For a greater in depth reading based on your astrology chart, explore our Transits Astrology Reading.
Aries Rising
This week opens the door for you to return to yourself through ritual and care. The New Moon highlights your daily rhythms and the way you tend to your body, mind, and spirit. A subtle shift in routine can ripple out into powerful transformation. Allow Virgo’s earthy devotion to guide you in creating structure that feels supportive rather than restrictive – think of rituals that ground you, rather than obligations that weigh you down. This is not about striving for perfection but about cultivating consistency and choosing what nurtures your vitality.
The season ahead asks you to honor the sacred within the ordinary: a morning walk, a meal prepared with care, a breath taken with presence. These small moments are medicine. Trust that by refining the way you move through your days, you are setting the foundation for greater clarity, healing, and energy to move toward your dreams.
Taurus Rising
Creativity stirs within you this week. The New Moon in Virgo invites you to approach joy as devotion – to honor play, art, and pleasure not as distractions but as vital threads of your wholeness. What inspires your heart to come alive? What creative spark feels ready to be tended with quiet consistency? This is a week to seed new beginnings around your self-expression, romance, and delight.
Virgo’s influence reminds you that beauty is crafted through presence – that the most radiant creations emerge when you show up again and again, refining, nurturing, and allowing the process itself to be sacred. This is also a call to remember that joy is medicine, not a luxury. Your heart is worthy of attention, your passions are worthy of time, and your play is worthy of devotion. What begins now can grow into a steady rhythm of inspiration and fulfillment in the months ahead.
Gemini Rising
This week calls you back to your roots. With the New Moon in Virgo, home becomes sacred ground – a place of renewal, clarity, and alignment. You may feel pulled to create new rhythms within your living space, to clear and organize, or to deepen your connection with family.
Virgo reminds you that the home is more than walls and belongings – it is the sanctuary where your spirit rests and your energy renews. Tend to it with care. At a deeper level, this lunation asks you to explore what home means to you, beyond the physical. Where do you feel safe? Where do you belong? What rituals help you anchor in times of change? Trust that small shifts in your environment or your daily rhythms can create lasting harmony within.
This week opens a season of inner nourishment, one that strengthens your foundation and supports every other area of your life.
Cancer Rising
Words and connections carry power this week. The New Moon in Virgo invites you to refine how you communicate, how you listen, and how you share your truth. There is a sacred quality in language, and Virgo reminds you that clarity and care in your words can shape reality itself.
This is a beautiful time to set intentions around writing, learning, teaching, or deepening the way you connect with others. Notice the details in your conversations – the pauses, the tone, the subtle undercurrents. Healing and alignment arrive through the small shifts in how you express yourself. You may also feel drawn toward new projects of the mind, whether studies or skills you’ve been wanting to pursue. Trust that tending to your words with devotion can open doors, bring connection, and transform the way you experience the world.
This week, let your voice become a vessel for clarity, healing, and truth.
Leo Rising
This week invites you to root into what truly sustains you. With the New Moon in Virgo, your focus turns to resources, values, and stability. It is a moment to set new intentions around how you give and receive support – financially, materially, and emotionally. Virgo asks you to refine your relationship with abundance, to find clarity in what you truly need, and to honor the systems that provide you with safety and steadiness.
It may feel like a call to simplify, to strip back excess, and to anchor in what really matters. This New Moon reminds you that prosperity is not just about accumulation but about alignment – about living in devotion to what you value most deeply. Small, practical choices made now can create long-term security.
Trust that by tending to your foundation, you are creating space for your light to shine even more freely in the months ahead.
Virgo Rising
This is your New Moon – your rebirth. With both the Sun and Moon gathering at 0° Virgo, the cosmos offers you a threshold moment, a fresh cycle of becoming. This week, you are invited to return to yourself, to shed what no longer aligns, and to step into rhythms that reflect your truth.
Virgo season always highlights your gift of refinement, but this year’s New Moon asks you to embody it – not as perfectionism, but as devotion to authenticity. What do you need to release in order to create more clarity? What new patterns will sustain your growth in the months ahead? This is a time to align your actions with your soul’s essence, to set intentions that reflect not only who you are, but who you are becoming. Trust your inner wisdom – it is guiding you toward a new beginning, one born of clarity, alignment, and gentle devotion.
Libra Rising
The New Moon in Virgo calls you inward. This is a week for retreat, reflection, and healing. You may feel the pull to step back from the noise of the world and to listen to the subtler rhythms of your inner life. Virgo’s devotion whispers that rest itself can be sacred, that clarity often arrives in quiet spaces, and that the unseen work of the soul is just as vital as what is visible.
This lunation invites you to release old patterns, to clear energetic weight, and to reconnect with your inner sanctuary. Dreams, intuition, and subtle signs may speak more loudly now – trust them. New beginnings are unfolding within, even if they aren’t yet visible in the outer world. This is a time to seed intentions for spiritual growth, healing, and renewal. Through stillness, you realign with yourself, and through alignment, you open to your next season of becoming.
Scorpio Rising
Community and belonging become the focus this week. The New Moon in Virgo highlights the circles you move within, the friendships you cultivate, and the visions you share with others. This is a time to set intentions around the communities you wish to grow alongside – the spaces that feel nourishing, supportive, and aligned with your values.
Virgo’s influence encourages clarity in connection: Which relationships lift you higher? Which groups reflect the person you are becoming? This lunation reminds you that we are shaped by those we surround ourselves with. It may be time to refine your connections, to simplify, or to devote yourself more fully to those who feel like true kin. Trust that by aligning with supportive community, your own path is strengthened. This is a week to seed new beginnings in friendship and collaboration – ones that hold space for both shared vision and personal authenticity.
Sagittarius Rising
This week opens a threshold in your path of contribution. The New Moon in Virgo draws your attention toward career, purpose, and the way you share your gifts with the world. Virgo’s wisdom is not about chasing grand achievements but about devotion to clarity, consistency, and meaningful impact. What small, intentional shifts can you make in your work that will ripple out into greater alignment?
This is a moment to set intentions for the long term – seeds planted now can grow into structures that support your soul’s work for years to come. You may feel called to refine your vision, to simplify your goals, or to bring more order to your daily efforts. Trust that by anchoring in clear rhythms and practical devotion, your larger dreams will find fertile ground.
This week, you are invited to align career with calling, and calling with the quiet devotion of daily action.
Capricorn Rising
Expansion beckons this week, but Virgo’s wisdom reminds you that growth comes through clarity and devotion. The New Moon highlights your beliefs, teachings, and perspective of the world. This is a time to explore new ways of seeing, learning, and aligning with truth. What beliefs are ready to be released because they no longer reflect who you are? What new perspectives are calling you into greater alignment?
This lunation is not about escaping into the vast unknown but about refining your path of expansion with intention. Small, consistent steps toward study, travel, or spiritual practice can open entire worlds for you now. Trust the process of refining your inner compass. By clarifying what you believe, you create a foundation that will carry you further than you imagined.
This week, set intentions that honor growth rooted in clarity, devotion, and alignment with your evolving truth.
Aquarius Rising
Transformation moves quietly yet powerfully within you this week. The New Moon in Virgo draws you into the depths, inviting renewal, release, and rebirth.
Virgo’s influence reminds you that healing is not only found in dramatic change but also in the steady devotion to clearing, simplifying, and tending. This is a time to release what has grown heavy – emotionally, energetically, or materially – and to open to beginnings rooted in clarity and freedom. You may feel called to create healthier boundaries, to refine how you share your energy, or to deepen intimacy in ways that feel aligned. Trust the process of renewal. What feels like an ending now may actually be a sacred clearing, making space for your becoming.
The New Moon invites you to begin again – lighter, clearer, and more aligned. Transformation is your medicine this week, and Virgo teaches that it is lived one step at a time.
Pisces Rising
Partnerships and connections take center stage this week. The Virgo New Moon invites you to seed new beginnings in your relationships – romantic, personal, and professional.
 Virgo’s wisdom asks you to bring clarity, refinement, and devotion into the way you show up with others. What patterns are ready to be released? Where do you long for more support, balance, or harmony? This lunation encourages practical steps: clearer communication, consistent presence, and mutual care. It is not about perfection but about alignment – about showing up authentically and allowing your relationships to become spaces of healing and growth.
You may also feel called to attract or welcome new connections that reflect your evolving truth. Trust that by tending to the small details of partnership, you create bonds that are strong, supportive, and lasting. This week, love becomes a devotion, connection becomes a ritual, and partnership becomes a sacred path.
