Aug 22/23 2025 Virgo Black Moon ~ Step into the Temple of the High Priestess
Aug 21, 2025
Are you ready to realign with clarity and purpose?
Are you ready to realign with clarity and purpose? This August 22/23, the Virgo New Moon at 0° opens a rare portal for renewal and refinement. This is the first of two Virgo New Moons this season, opening the doorway into eclipse season and initiating powerful shifts that will carry us into September's transformative gateway.
This lunation is not soft or subtle—it comes with jolts and revelations. Squaring Uranus in Gemini for the first time in over 80 years, it may deliver sudden insights, awakenings, or disruptions that shake loose what no longer fits in your life. Virgo, the archetype of the Healer and High Priestess, calls you to simplify, purify, and reorganize your daily rhythm so that your body, mind, and spirit can work in harmony.
Just like the illuminating lunation, your focus is sharpened, and your awareness is heightened, revealing what must end and what is ready to begin. This is a turning point in how you care for yourself, how you serve others, and how you adapt to a rapidly changing world.
Why This is Also a “Black Moon”
This Virgo New Moon carries extra weight because it is also a seasonal Black Moon—the third New Moon in a season that will hold four. Normally each season (from solstice to equinox or equinox to solstice) contains three New Moons. But this time, there are four:
- Summer Solstice - June 21
- 1st New Moon - June 25 (Cancer New Moon)
- 2nd New Moon – July 24 (Leo New Moon)
- 3rd New Moon – August 23 (this Virgo New Moon at 0°)
- 4th New Moon – September 21 (Virgo Solar Eclipse at 29°)
- Autumn Equinox - September 22
This rare “extra” New Moon makes the August 23 lunation a Black Moon. Spiritually, a Black Moon intensifies the energy of rebirth and reset, magnifying the potency of intentions and revelations. It signals a liminal threshold—a triple doorway of transformation that asks us to release more deeply, realign more fully, and step into the unknown with faith.
Virgo rules the details of daily life, your health, work, and sacred routines. Under this Black Moon, you are invited to:
Release and Simplify: Clear clutter, let go of outdated habits, and create space for new ways of living.
Refine Your Wellness: Virgo and Neptune highlight body systems—gut, immunity, and energy. Support your vitality with mindful practices.
Embrace Change: Uranus awakens sudden truths and endings. Trust what falls away—it frees you for the future.
Serve with Love: Virgo energy shines through acts of service. Ask yourself, “How can I help?” and align your choices with collective wellbeing.
Collective Awakening
This New Moon arrives amidst a wave of accelerated evolution. Pluto in Aquarius, Saturn and Neptune in Aries, and the coming eclipses amplify profound shifts in society, technology, health, and service. Revelations may be sudden—disrupting industries, jobs, or systems we’ve long relied upon. At the same time, discoveries in technology, science, medicine, and even the deep seas are surfacing to remind us of the Earth’s living wisdom.
This is not just personal—it is collective. Power is shifting. Consciousness is rising. And Virgo reminds us that the way forward begins with the small, consistent choices we make every day.
Transformation is rarely comfortable, but it is always purposeful. By embracing Virgo’s practical wisdom and the awakening energy of Uranus, you can reorganize your life in ways that bring greater clarity, health, and harmony.
This Black Moon is your moment to plant seeds of service, intention, and healing that will grow through the eclipse season ahead.
Simplify. Purify. Begin again.
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Friday, August 22nd
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