At this First Quarter Moon, it’s time to take a minute, take stock, and take practical action toward the Sep. 2025 Virgo New Moon’s insights and plans. Try to remember what you might have whispered to yourself then, at some critical moment. It was a little promise you made to yourself, and now’s the time to do something – anything – to keep that promise.

Mars leaves fast-moving Aries for the more leisurely pastures of Taurus. Venus enters nurturing Cancer and makes a romantic sextile to Mars. The Sun enters the curious sign of Gemini and is awakened by a conjunction with Uranus, and creativity are highlighted as the Sun sextiles Neptune. We are encouraged to loosen our grip on perfectionism at the Virgo First Quarter Moon.

Moon in Taurus tells us, above all, to be in our bodies and enjoy life’s simple pleasures. Embrace being in the world, in a body. I’ve always imagined that we incarnated to learn things we couldn’t learn any other way, the things of the physical world.