Time to reconsider who you really are.
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Published August 20, 2025 12:59 pm
Welcome to one of the most extraordinary virgo seasons that we have experienced in years. The transit of the sun to virgin arrives with a rare gift – two new moons in the same sign. Shortly after the Sun enters the constellation, we receive our first new moon, a powerful synchronicity that immediately runs open what healing needs around dignity. We then get a full month to practice a new way of being for the second new moon in Virgo, a partial solar eclipse, offers us the opportunity to go through and to claim our strength once and for all.
When is the new moon in Virgo?
The first of two new moons in Virgin takes place on Friday, August 22 at 11:06 pm PT.

What the new moon in virgin means to you
While we go from Leo to Virgo, we go a season that asks us to finally, really understand that you are already good enough. Not tomorrow. Not if you solve that thing about yourself. Not if you reach that goal. You are worth taking space in the world at the moment, exactly as you are, with every observed error and imperfection. The universe has waited for what you can offer alone, and you must stop hiding behind the excuse not to be ready.
The first new moon in Virgo, on August 22, 2025, the door is open to healing old stories about our value. Then the second new moon brings a partial solar eclipse on September 21, 2025, that door blows wide open and offers us the opportunity to go through and to claim our strength once and for all. This coordination creates a powerful portal to cure our deepest wounds around dignity and fully step into the gifts we came here to share.
Between these two powerful moments we have time to experiment with what happens if we no longer apologize for who we are and instead start to celebrate. With the South Node in Virgo this season, an spotlight shines in every way we have kept ourselves small through perfectionism and self -criticism.

This is not a soft invitation; It is a direct confrontation with the voice inside that whispers that you are not good enough. The universe is ready to look at your shrinking. Every time you stop your gifts because they were not ‘perfect enough’. Every occasion you left because you didn’t feel “qualified enough”. Every relationship where you dimmed your light because you were worried that you were ‘too much’ or ‘not enough’.
The universe is ready to hide at you. This season requires that you finally see the truth: your imperfections are not obstacles for your goal – they are your goal. Think about it. Who is better to help someone heal than someone who has walked through the same wound? Who could have better to guide others than someone who has lost and found his way?
Your struggles, your imperfections, your very human experiences – these are not things to hide. They are the exact medicine that someone else needs. When you embrace all parts of yourself, you give others permission to do the same.
The new moon in virgin requires honesty: do you really believe that you deserve the life you keep dreaming about? You can write the most beautiful intentions, create the perfect vision board and know exactly what you want. But if you do not believe deep down that you are worth receiving it, those intentions will affect an invisible wall.
This new moon highlights that wall and shows you exactly where your inner critic has sabotaged your dreams with its endless requirements for perfection. It says enough. It reminds you that you don’t have to be perfect to be worthy.
The idea that perfection exists is even the fall. Your imperfections are not bugs in your system – they are functions. They are what makes you human, recognizable and exactly the right person to offer your unique gifts to the world. Someone needs exactly what you have to offer, exactly because you are struggling, precisely because you are still sorting things out, precisely because you are beautifully imperfect.

Other astrological influences on the new moon in Virgo
When the new moon in virgin and Sun In Virgo Square, the newly entered Uranus in Gemini expecting breakthrough moments in how you communicate with yourself. Uranus does not do subtly – it suddenly brings consciousness that everything changes. You might suddenly hear how hard your inner dialogue has become. You could catch yourself in the middle of criticism and realize that you would never talk to a friend that way. This square creates the friction that is needed to finally interrupt those old mental loops.
The truth is that how you talk to yourself matters more than all the intention you could write. You always listen. Every word you think, every judgment that you pass on yourself, every time you tell yourself that you have to be more or do more or resolve more before you are worthy – your subconscious registers it all. And then it creates a reality that corresponds to those beliefs.
How often have you criticized yourself today? How often have you told yourself that you should be further, better, be more? Imagine that your best friend followed you and said exactly the same things. How long would that friendship last? Nevertheless, we constantly do this and we wonder why our desires and manifestations feel blocked.
The Uranus Square brings a special type of medicine – the shocking realization that your inner critic does not protect you. It doesn’t make you better or more prepared or more worthy. It just keeps you small. And here is the revolutionary part: you can change how you talk to yourself that now starts. Not tomorrow when you feel ready. Not after you heal more. Now.

Your invitation
The new moon in Virgo asks you to make a new agreement with yourself. What if you spoke to yourself for the next lunar cycle as if you would speak to someone you love? What if you celebrate your efforts instead of criticizing your results? What if you acknowledge how far you got instead of concentrating on how far you should go?
The part of you that requires perfection is terrified. It thinks that if you accept yourself as you are, you will stop growing. But the opposite is true. If you fully accept yourself, you create room for real growth – the kind that comes from love, not fear. The species that feels sustainable and joyful instead of exhausting and endless.
If you work with this new moon in August 2025, you pay attention to your inner dialogue. Note when your critic leads up. But instead of combating it, you become curious. What is it afraid of? What tries to protect you against? Our inner critic often developed when we were young and we tried to help ourselves prevent rejection or disappointment. Thank you for trying to protect you and then let it know carefully that you are now safe. You don’t have to be perfect to be loved. You don’t have to be perfect to succeed. You don’t have to be perfect, point out.
Your new agreement with yourself starts with consciousness – actually hear how you speak with yourself. It continues with interruption-yourself in the mid-critics and choosing a different thought. And it culminates in a new way of being – one in which you trust that you are just right enough as you are. Write your intentions from this location of self -acceptance. Let them come from a heart that is worth it, not someone trying to earn it. The universe is ready to deliver everything you want. The question is: are you ready to believe that you earn it? This new moon in virgin says it’s time to find out.
The new moon in Virgo arrives as an invitation to finally set intentions from a place of dignity instead of defect. You are not meant to cure all unworthiness in one night. You are meant to start. It is intended to open the door and let the light stream. Only if you claim that your value can rewrite your story. Trust that you are ready. Trust that you are worth it. Trust that the universe has waited for you to claim what has always been yours.
More information about the New Moon in Virgin, including extra astrological insights and journal prompts, in the Virgin season + new moon work bookfrom which the above is pronounced. You can also Understand your manifestation style And learn insights about how you can be more receptive to abundance.
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