This week, three planets shift the rhythm of the sky, and with it, the inner tides of our own becoming. Each invites us to slow, to turn inward, to notice the deeper currents shaping our lives. Together, they weave a story of review, refinement, and awakening – of endings folding into beginnings, clarity unfolding in the present moment, and the mind becoming a source of liberation.
On September 1, Saturn Retrograde re-enters Pisces. On September 2, Mercury steps into Virgo. And on September 6, Uranus stations retrograde in Gemini.
These planetary movements call us to reflect on the past two years of lessons, refine the way we think and communicate, and embrace an inward revolution of perspective. It is a week of depth, clarity, and inner awakening.
September 1, 2025: Saturn Retrograde re enters Pisces
Earlier this year, Saturn entered Aries for the first time since the mid-1990s, offering a glimpse of a new long-term cycle, one centered on self-leadership, courage, and independence. But Saturn has been retrograde since July, and now it steps back into Pisces, where it will remain until February 2026.
This return is significant. Saturn first entered Pisces in March 2023, beginning a collective and personal journey of learning to merge discipline with faith, boundaries with surrender, and responsibility with trust in the unseen. Over the past two years, many of us have been learning what it means to bring form to our dreams, to anchor spiritual insights into tangible practices, and to hold ourselves with compassion while still honoring devotion.
Now, as Saturn retraces its steps, we are invited into review. Loose ends resurface. Old lessons return for integration. Themes of boundaries, healing, and energetic responsibility may ask for another look. Saturn’s step back into Pisces is not regression. Saturn’s retrograde is a sacred check-in – a chance to reflect on what has been learned, what remains unhealed, and what needs closure before we fully step into the new cycle ahead.
You may find yourself reflecting on the balance between giving and receiving, on how you carry emotional or energetic responsibility, or on the subtle ways you’ve grown since early 2023. Saturn’s wisdom is slow, steady, and often quiet. But the work we do now lays the foundation for decades to come.
September 2, 2025: Mercury in Virgo
Only one day later, Mercury enters its home sign of Virgo. Here, Mercury is at its strongest – clear, sharp, and capable of bringing order to both the tangible and the unseen. After weeks of Mercury retrograde reflection in Leo, this shift into Virgo feels grounding, refreshing, and clarifying.
As Mercury shifts into Virgo, it invites us to tend to the details of life with devotion. To refine the way we think. To notice the quality of our words, both spoken and internal. The mind becomes sharper, more discerning, more practical and able to see what is aligned and what is not.
This is a beautiful time for creating order in your environment, refining your routines, journaling, or making practical plans. But Mercury in Virgo is more than organisation for its own sake – it is about aligning the small details with the greater whole. It’s about tending to the threads of life in a way that supports clarity, wholeness, and devotion to truth.
As Mercury moves it reminds us that words are sacred. That what we speak shapes our reality. And that when we tend to the details with love, we are weaving devotion into the fabric of daily life.
September 6, 2025: Uranus Retrograde in Gemini
Uranus, the planet of awakening, disruption, and liberation, stations retrograde in Gemini on September 6. Having only entered Gemini in July, Uranus has just begun its seven-year cycle of transformation in the realms of communication, ideas, and perception.
Now, retrograde turns Uranus’ energy inward. Instead of outer disruptions, the revolution becomes internal. Our minds, perspectives, and ways of processing reality are invited into reflection and renewal.
This is a time to notice the thoughts you take for granted, the assumptions you’ve built your life upon, the mental frameworks that may be ready to dissolve. Uranus asks: What if there’s another way to think? What if the story you’ve been living by is not the only one? What if freedom begins in the mind?
As Uranus begins its retrograde and retraces its steps, we may receive flashes of insight, new ideas, or sudden inner revelations. The invitation is not to act immediately, but to listen. To allow the inner revolution to unfold in its own time. This retrograde will last until early 2026, offering plenty of space for integration.
Read more about Uranus Retrograde here.
Weekly Astrology Forecast: August 31-September 6, 2025
These three movements create a week of profound inward focus.
Saturn Retrograde in Pisces calls us to reflect on the past two years of spiritual and emotional lessons, to revisit boundaries, and to integrate healing. Mercury in Virgo offers clarity and refinement, helping us bring order to our minds and words, and to align daily life with devotion. Uranus Retrograde in Gemini begins an inner revolution of perspective, asking us to question the stories we’ve lived by and to open to new ways of seeing.
Together, they form a sacred rhythm of review, refinement, and re-imagination. It’s not a week for rushing forward or forcing clarity. It’s a week for reflection, for listening, and allowing. Saturn grounds us in responsibility. Mercury clears the mental noise. Uranus awakens new pathways of thought.
In their harmony, they remind us:
- The past is not something to escape, but something to integrate.
- The present is not something to rush through, but something to refine.
- The future is not fixed, but something we are always co-creating through the quality of our thoughts, words, and actions.
This week, let yourself move slowly. Reflect on the lessons of the past two years. Refine the small rituals of daily life. Listen for the quiet revolutions stirring in your mind.
You are being prepared for the next chapter while we move through Eclipse Season – and this week offers the sacred work of integration. The future you are dreaming of is already unfolding within you.
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 31 to September 6, 2025. For a greater in depth reading based on your astrology chart, explore our Transits Astrology Reading.
Aries Rising
This week invites you inward, Aries Rising. Saturn retrograde returns you to the quiet corners of your inner world, asking you to reflect on where you may still be carrying old weight from the past two years. Dreams, intuition, or subtle emotions may resurface for healing.
Mercury brings clarity into your daily rhythms – supporting you in refining the way you work, care for your body, and show up moment to moment. Uranus retrograde stirs change in the way you think, speak, and connect, inviting you to notice the stories you’ve long told yourself and whether they still serve your truth.
This is a week of integration and refinement, one that asks for stillness, honesty, and gentle self-devotion. The small choices you make now will ripple widely, offering both healing and liberation.
Taurus Rising
Saturn retrograde revisits your dreams for the future, asking you to reflect on your communities, friendships, and long-term visions, Taurus Rising. Some may no longer feel aligned, while others reveal their quiet strength.
Mercury enters Virgo and brings focus to your joy – to the art of creation, love, and play. It’s a reminder that your passions deserve tending, not just your responsibilities. Uranus retrograde shifts attention to your sense of stability, asking you to notice what you anchor your worth in and whether it allows you to feel free.
This week offers clarity about what truly supports you, the people, rituals, and expressions that light your spirit. You are invited to refine the way you contribute to the collective while staying rooted in the joy and worth that are inherently yours.
Gemini Rising
This week brings reflection to your path of purpose and contribution. Saturn retrograde re-enters the realm of your career, visibility, and long-term goals, asking you to revisit choices made since 2023. Have they been built on truth? Or on expectation?
Mercury enters Virgo, guiding clarity into your home and emotional foundations – reminding you that external success is rooted in inner steadiness. Meanwhile, Uranus retrograde stirs movement in your identity, prompting subtle but powerful awakenings. You may feel the call to release an old version of yourself and allow a more authentic expression to emerge.
This week is about alignment between inner and outer – refining both your foundations and your path forward. Let yourself trust that the identity shifts unfolding now are preparing you for the leadership you are here to embody.
Cancer Rising
Saturn retrograde re-enters your terrain of belief, hope and truth – inviting you to review the beliefs and philosophies that have guided your path since 2023. Some may feel outdated, others may deepen with renewed meaning.
As Mercury enters Virgo, it brings offers into communication and thought, supporting you in expressing yourself with precision and care. It’s a beautiful time to write, study, or share your voice. Uranus retrograde shifts your focus inward, awakening the unseen patterns that shape your daily choices. Pay attention to dreams, intuitions, and synchronicities – they may carry the seeds of awakening.
This week asks you to balance the vast and the intimate: to refine the thoughts shaping your days while expanding the beliefs shaping your life. By bringing clarity into your words and opening to new perspectives, you are invited into a season of wisdom and growth, Cancer Rising.
Leo Rising
This week invites you to go deeper, Leo Rising. Saturn retrograde re-enters the terrain of intimacy, shared energy, and transformation, asking you to revisit lessons around trust, boundaries, and release. What have you learned since 2023 about letting go, about vulnerability, about power shared?
Mercury enters Virgo, drawing your attention to your resources and values, reminding you to refine what truly sustains you. It’s a call to bring clarity to finances, self-worth, and how you exchange energy with the world. Uranus retrograde stirs movement in your vision for the future, reshaping how you see community and collaboration.
This week asks you to stand in the truth of your worth, to choose intimacy rooted in mutual respect, and to align your vision with your authentic values. Healing and liberation are possible when you release what weighs heavy and devote yourself to what feels true.
Virgo Rising
With Saturn retrograde returning to the space of relationships, this week invites reflection on how you show up in partnership, Virgo Rising. Lessons from the past two years may resurface, offering clarity about boundaries, commitment, and reciprocity.
Mercury enters your sign soon after, sharpening your mind and voice. This is your moment to refine self-expression and to speak from a place of clarity. Uranus retrograde begins to awaken your beliefs and philosophies, inviting you to see your path differently and to question truths you’ve long held.
The theme this week is alignment: refining both how you relate to others and how you relate to yourself. Trust that your voice is ready to carry wisdom, that your identity is evolving, and that relationships are shifting to reflect the new you. It’s a powerful week to reclaim authenticity in both self and connection.
Libra Rising
This week turns your attention to the quieter layers of life, Libra Rising. Saturn retrograde re-enters the realm of your daily rhythms and wellbeing, asking you to revisit the habits and responsibilities you’ve built since 2023.
Mercury in Virgo shifts focus inward, inviting you to listen to your dreams, intuition, and inner whispers. It’s a time for solitude, reflection, and clearing what feels heavy. Uranus retrograde awakens your deeper emotions and patterns of intimacy, inviting breakthroughs in how you share and receive energy.
This week reminds you that the small details of your life reflect the larger currents of your healing. By refining daily rhythms, tending to your inner world, and opening to more authentic connections, you create space for clarity and renewal. Slow down, listen deeply, and trust that what feels unsettled is guiding you toward alignment.
Scorpio Rising
Saturn retrograde brings reflection to your creativity and joy, Scorpio Rising. Since 2023, you’ve been learning what it means to take pleasure seriously – to see your passions not as distractions but as integral to your wholeness. Now, unfinished lessons return for review, there is more waiting for integration, becoming, and growth in this space.
Mercury in Virgo brings clarity to friendships, communities, and collaborations, supporting honest conversations and refined visions for the future. While Uranus retrograde shakes your relationships, stirring awakening and shifts in how you connect, give, and receive.
This week highlights the balance between joy, connection, and intimacy. It asks you to reflect on the spaces and people that uplift you and to refine the ways you share your heart. There is a reminder here: joy is not frivolous – it is medicine. Allow yourself to step into alignment with joy, and your relationships and visions for the future will follow.
Sagittarius Rising
This week calls you back to your roots, Sagittarius Rising. Saturn retrograde revisits the terrain of the inner child, your emotional world, home and family, asking you to reflect on the structures and foundations you’ve been building since 2023.
Mercury enters Virgo and highlights your career and purpose, offering clarity in your contribution to the world. Inviting you to refine your direction and align outer work with inner stability. Uranus retrograde stirs your daily rhythms, awakening the way you approach responsibilities, health, and routine. The thread weaving through all is alignment between inner and outer.
By tending to the roots of your emotions, refining your work with clarity, and reshaping your daily patterns, you step into deeper harmony. This week invites you to ground into the foundations that support your becoming, while remembering that contribution begins with care for yourself.
Capricorn Rising
This week brings reflection to your words, learning, and communication, Capricorn Rising. Saturn retrograde revisits lessons around truth and perception, asking you to refine how you express yourself and what beliefs you’ve outgrown.
Mercury in Virgo brings clarity to your vision of expansion, highlighting opportunities for study, travel, or broadening your perspective. While Uranus retrograde stirs your creativity and joy, awakening the way you approach play, romance, and self-expression.
Together, these movements invite you to strengthen and refine your voice, broaden your perspective, and reclaim the joy of authentic self-expression. This is a week to notice how your words and beliefs shape your reality. By aligning them with your evolving truth, you create space for creativity and expansion. Let your curiosity guide you, let your joy inspire you, and trust that every conversation is an opportunity to grow.
Aquarius Rising
This week invites reflection on what you value most, Aquarius Rising. Saturn retrograde revisits themes of resources, worth, and stability, asking you to refine your relationship with abundance and self-value.
Mercury in Virgo stirs clarity in your deeper emotions and intimate spaces, supporting you in seeing where old patterns may be asking for release. And Uranus retrograde brings awakening into your emotional world, home and family dynamics, inviting shifts in how you anchor yourself and where you find safety.
The thread weaving through all of this is the reminder that true worth comes from within, not from external measures. This week supports you in refining the structures of your life – material, emotional, and foundational – so that they reflect your evolving truth. By aligning your inner sense of worth with your outer actions, you create a life that feels both steady and alive with possibility.
Pisces Rising
This week is deeply personal, Pisces Rising. Saturn retrograde steps back into your sign, revisiting the lessons you’ve been moving through since 2023. Themes of responsibility, self-devotion, and embodiment may resurface for review. You are being invited to integrate how much you’ve grown – to acknowledge the authority and wisdom you’ve cultivated and weave it into your identity and being, and the way you move through the world.
As Mercury enters Virgo, it invites clarity into your relationships and partnerships, supporting refined communication and more aligned connections. While Uranus retrograde stirs within your mind, awakening the way you think, speak, and share ideas.
This is a week of clarity and review, inviting you to anchor more deeply into yourself while also opening to shifts in connection. Saturn asks for self-responsibility, Mercury offers clarity in partnership, and Uranus brings awakening to your words. Trust that the refinement happening now is preparing you for a new season of embodiment and leadership.
