New Moon in Virgo – August 23, 2025 (0° Virgo): The Turning Point
New Moon in Virgo at 0 Degree 23’ at 06:08GMT on 23 August 2025
The New Moon at 0° 23’ Virgo on 23rd August 2025, marks a threshold moment - the very first degree of Virgo, where fresh cycles are born. It’s also the first of two Virgo New Moons in 2025, the second will be the Solar Eclipse on 21 September 2025 at 29° 05’ Virgo. These two new moon in the sign of Virgo open a new Virgoan story in your chart - one of healing, clarity, and transformation.
Virgo and its ruler Energy
Virgo is about tidying, supporting, discriminating, and systematising the part of life it touches. The sign brings focus to routines, health, well-being, service, and healing. Its higher expression is discernment, practicality, and efficiency. Its shadow can show up as perfectionism, criticism, anxiety, or over-analysis.
This New Moon invites you to look at where Virgo sits in your natal chart and also where its ruler, Mercury, is currently transiting and where its in your natal chart. This adds nuance to the story, showing you how and where life is asking for refinement and new beginning in its purest way.
This new moon ruler, is inviting us to take time for quiet reflection. Revisit past experiences, especially moments of stress or exhaustion, and notice the wisdom they’ve given you. Journaling, reading, or even simply sitting in solitude can help you to reconnect with your inner rhythm. When you return to the busyness of life, you’ll feel refreshed and clearer about what you want to achieve.
Sometimes, we can lead toward retreat and withdrawal - rocking chairs, cottages, verandah, the desire to step back from the world. While reflection is healing, beware of becoming stuck in memories, immobility, or expecting others to take care of things for you. Being conscious and aware, we
Cosmic Aspects
This New Moon carries powerful activations:
Square Uranus in Gemini: sudden shifts, breakthroughs, and disruptions.
Quincunx Saturn (R) in Aries, Neptune in Pisces, and Pluto in Aquarius: adjustments between structure, dreams, and transformation.
Saturn + Neptune sextile Pluto: supportive flow of discipline + inspiration + empowerment.
✦ With the interaction between these planets, they form a Yod (Finger of Fate) with the New Moon at the apex — creating a turning point.
The Turning Point
It brings us to The Turning Point. Where does 0° Virgo fall in your chart? That’s the part of your life asking for refinement and reset. At this degree, the energy is raw, obvious, and potent — a seed bursting with the pure traits of Virgo.
This is the beginning of a cycle that will expand and transform at 29° Virgo during the Solar Eclipse on September 21. Where 0° Virgo introduces raw, extreme expressions of the sign’s nature — like an overture that sets the tone — 29° 3’ Virgo will spotlight what must be faced and acted upon, drawing things into sharp focus.
Together, these two lunations bookend this Virgo journey: the first New Moon opens the story, and the Solar Eclipse accelerates it into a powerful new beginning.
The Opportunity
While Uranus shakes things up, the Saturn–Neptune sextile Pluto provides the opportunity to ground and transform:
Saturn in Aries (R): courage to restructure with accountability.
Neptune in Pisces: reconnection with dreams, vision, and intuition.
Pluto in Aquarius: empowerment to embrace transformation and align with the future.
This New Moon is a call to set intentions that bring clarity and healing into your daily life, habits, and systems — intentions that can grow stronger through this Virgo cycle.
Seeds to Plant
Embrace this opportunity to ask yourself:
Which habits or routines need a reset?
Where do you need alignment and healing?
How can reflection help you see the bigger picture of your life?
What new seeds will you plant at this powerful beginning of Virgo?
New Moon being in earth mutable sign, it also means - being practical and adaptable with it square to Uranus also ruled by Mercury, the sudden bolts lights, ideas. Square is challenge that bring us growth where Uranus rules your chart, and where the Moon, Sun and Mercury rules your chart. As you can it not only the house that the New Moon occures can see the new beginning, but where the New Moon, and New Moon ruler rules will bring fresh beginnings in someway.
The 0° Virgo New Moon begins the story — raw, pure, and full of potential. The 29° Virgo Solar Eclipse in September will draw our attention sharply to what cannot be ignored. It won’t let us put things aside; it will spotlight exactly what needs to be faced and resolved.
Between these two points lies a path of refinement, healing, and clarity.
This is the turning point. Where will it unfold in your chart?
(We’ll explore the Solar Eclipse at 29° Virgo in the next article.)