Happy Birthday Virgo
This forecast covers your birthday from the start of Virgo Season, August 22nd 2024 to September 23rd 2025. I will look at your solar chart and natal chart.
The big story here is the end of politics, power issues and control questions involving lovers, suitors, people you are trying to seduce, pregnancy, babies, infants, schoolchildren, teenagers and younger generations.
You’ve had quite enough of this since 2008 and you sign off, forever, in November 2024.
Common examples of this Pluto cycle in your life (2008-2024) are: a shared child with an ex-wife or ex-husband and issues about parenting. A less common example is the loss of a child. The story for you may have been sons or daughters competing for pole position. Claims to a child (by a grandparent) or complex questions about surrogate mothers are also examples of this long Pluto transit. Whatever your story has been, it’s over in three months, as you read this in August 2024.
Famous Virgo People
Bruce Foxton, Steve Jones, Rob Hirst, Roger Waters, Chrissie Hynde, Don Powell, Steve Kilbey, Fee Waybill, Joanne Catherall, Jarvis Cocker, Dave Gregory, Joan Jett, Nick Cave, Prince Harry, Keanu Reeves, Colin Firth.
Better Friendships, New Friends
Your old friendships will become more fulfilling in 2025 and new friends will appear, introduced by other mutual friends. People who were once brief allies or passing acquaintances could become good friends. All these people are special. Not your ordinary Jill or Joe types. You are not social climbing on this cycle, but you are introduced and reintroduced to people who are a big deal.
With enough faith, hope and optimism, Jupiter says, all this can be yours. To make the most of this cycle, make sure you are prepared to see the big picture on social media. So, Substack, for example – not Facebook. Jupiter gives you the opportunity. It does not take the journey for you. A bigger future is waiting, though, socially, so why not peer into it? The dates to use are June 9th 2025 until June 29th, 2026. Jupiter in Cancer in the Eleventh House can deliver.
Do You Have Aquarius Factors?
If you have Aquarius factors in your natal chart, 2025 and 2026 will permanently transform your social life. Powerful people (made powerful through their careers, property and/or money) are here to change your world. These are the kinds of friends who make things happen.
If you were/are in a band then 2025, 2026 will bring you back together. You may get together for a concert reunion; make a documentary; re-release an old song. A band is a good analogy for this transit of Aquarius/Cancer. It may be a team, club, society, association, charity, political party, community.
Duets and Duels
Virgo, you also sign off from Saturn in Pisces on February 13th 2026. So you need to get through the end of 2024, the whole year of 2025 and then the opening weeks of 2026, with a partnership or conflict you find very heavy.
Saturn rules lead. That says it all. It’s also the ringed planet. You are already in a tightly ring-fenced situation with your sexual or professional partner. Perhaps your enemy or opponent.
Saturn is about rather heavy, barricaded situations. It is about your need to take serious measures in serious times. One common outcome of this transit is a husband or wife with depression. You promised ‘In sickness and in health’ and you have to honour your promise on this cycle.
The rings of Saturn give you the clue to this planet. It is about all that is restricted and severely curtailed or limited. Saturn shows obstacles.
Saturn in the Seventh House
This cycle will affect your marriage, partnership, dating chances, and the state of play with any rivals or enemies. Saturn is about long effort and hard work. The Seventh House is about duets and duels. So, your sexual relationship, your professional double-act, but also anyone against you.
The new boyfriend and the baggage of his old girlfriend are a Seventh House matter. So is the new boyfriend who weighs you down because of his mental health issues. As I’ve mentioned, Virgo, the marriage vows weigh heavily now. The best way to work with Saturn is to remember: this does end. Patience is required, but this is not forever.
Go into any new relationship with caution as you will be dating Saturn on some level. Saturn people are heavy, weighed down, restricted or limited by life on some level. They can also put you into situations which are hard to get out of. Take your time before you commit to a new date.
Textbook Examples
Readers over the years have given me textbook examples of this cycle. Transiting Saturn in the solar Seventh House can also be the boyfriend who is your business partner, who falls short on the job. What are you going to do?
Some basic advice: don’t just stumble into a new sexual relationship or any sort of partnership, as Saturn goes into your Seventh House. Do your homework. Ask questions. Who is this person? It helps to be a detective before you get into bed with them. Are they married and covering it up? Is this person broke? Do they have a police record? Has their last relationship actually gone away or not?
Professional Partners, Platonic Partners
Saturn takes about 29 years to repeat in this cycle. Talk to people who are in their sixties or older. Read their self-help books. This is as much about a work partner, as it is about a platonic duet (you two might share a home but not a bed). It’s always about the scales. The two sides or opposite halves.
People who are older and wiser and have been there before you will be excellent sources of advice now. Hit books, courses, whatever you have to, to check your hard work is worth it with this person.
Tests of patience are common. Your professional partner may test your tolerance. You may both have to deal with a situation in which other people have put up walls, or barriers, or defences.
Uranus, Foreigners and Foreign Countries
Uranus will be in your Ninth House of foreigners and foreign countries until April 25th, 2026. He arrived on May 15th, 2018 so you have had seven years of radically different experiences overseas; as a migrant; with other cultures in your own life.
Radical and revolutionary progress is guaranteed abroad or with foreigners in your own country, in 2025, when Uranus moves through your chart, as life will continually shift and change around you, Virgo. Freedom will call again. Independence Day will come. It can be liberating to learn a foreign language. To spend part of the year overseas. To marry into a different culture. To accept work that involves a completely different time zone and outlook.
It’s best to admit you want freedom (or someone else does) in the area of life where Uranus visits. Then you can bring about that freedom without being forced into it.
Uranus was discovered in 1781 around the time of the French, American and Industrial Revolutions. You are having your own (insert country or nationality) revolution in 2025.
Uranus in Gemini
All change. Uranus spends part of the year in Taurus, but also enters Gemini for the first time in 2025. This will completely change your goals, roles, ambitions, position and mission over many years.
Coupled with Pluto in Aquarius in your duty and service zone, this looks like a dramatic switch. Your side hustle may become your main focus. You may begin using A.I. to transform what you do. The cycle begins on July 7th 2025 and ends on August 3rd 2032. You will be liberated from what you did, or set free from a particular way of working. It may happen very suddenly in 2025 if you are open to that. Uranus works out of the blue.
Neptune and Partners
You’ve read about Saturn and your sexual or professional partner. You know about the heavy restrictions on this cycle. Well, you also have Neptune in Pisces, in your Seventh House of duets and double-acts; pairs and couples.
Neptune is a symbol of the sea; the ocean; the aquarium. It shows an escape from reality. A holiday from the real world. A vacation from normal life. The two transits could not be more different. No wonder your partnership has been complicated.
Neptune can often make us forget who we are, as a sense of personal identity and separateness dissolves, and we end up losing our boundaries. People can feel ‘all at sea’ on these cycles. With management and care, though, Neptune cycles can feel as wonderfully escapist as a day at the seaside. That’s the key on this transit, with Saturn alongside. There has to be management and care.
I hope you can see why your professional, sexual or platonic partner has been such a big stretch in 2023, 2024. You are juggling two contradictory cycles.
Neptune is out of Pisces and out of your Seventh House on January 26th 2026 so you should set aside 2025 as the last year you have to deal with this.
Pluto, Workload and Wellbeing
How much power do you actually have with your career, unpaid work or academic career? What about your control in life? These are important questions during the years that Pluto is steadily transforming your life.
For the first time in 248 years, Pluto entered Aquarius on 23rd March 2023. He will remain in Aquarius far beyond 2030. He’s signing off from Capricorn in November 2024 and so the year 2025 is dominated by this new cycle.
Look at your health and wellbeing and decode what your body is telling you. Anything not functioning well, or not functioning at all, gets in the way of work. In astrology, this is evidence for an unconscious need to avoid that particular kind of task, or job. You will not admit your misgivings to yourself, so your body acts it out for you.
Pertinent Conditions
Musicians go deaf in one ear. Athletes develop ankle problems. Virgo, pay intense scrutiny. Ask your dreams (which are a route to your unconscious mind). If you suspect that something has already been going wrong in 2023, 2024 which might be a manifestation of your unconscious and unexpressed desire not to work – you may well be right. If so, it’s time to change. Pluto in Aquarius in your solar Sixth House is about slow and total transformation of your career, academic career or unpaid role in life.
This will be most intense, to begin with, in December 2024, January and February 2025.
Close to November 19th 2024 you will see proof that Pluto is on the turn. As the year ends the usual reshuffles, resignations, redundancies and retirement all around you, in your industry, will have a greater impact than usual.
what happened before and may not even last. Pluto retrograde can be like that.
The North Node in Pisces and Partners
Virgo, the huge focus on sexual, professional or platonic partners is down to the unusual number of transits in Pisces in your Seventh House. You’ve read about Saturn and Neptune in Pisces, slowly completing their transit in 2025. Well, in 2025, you also have the arrival of the North Node of karma in Pisces.
The North Node is also known as the Dragon's Head. Astrologers associate the North Node (and the South Node, its opposite, the Dragon’s Tail) with past experiences, and you will now face people, situations and places which are strangely familiar.
Starting near January 11th 2025 you will go through another partnership cycle with your sexual or professional ‘other half’ which brings in karma.
Enemies and Opponents
Any enemies or opponents are also more important on these Pisces transits. For example, a love rival or a jealous person in your career. If you feel a story is familiar, or a theme is returning, you may be right. Life 18-19 years before will teach you a lot in 2025. The idea is to complete the karma with the past and gain closure from it. So this person in your life is a kind of karmic practise kit.
The End of Financial and Property Karma
The North Node in Aries and South Node in Libra repeat the past and bring karma for closure. So, as they pass through your horoscope, for the last time, in your finance and property zones, they will bring back these periods in your life too; life as it was some 18-19 years before.
This is the case in August-December 2024 and January 2025, with a big sign-off on January 11th 2025 as the karma ends. The stuck loop stops. The circuit ends. Which periods in your life are being thematically repeated?
North Node in Aries, South Node in Libra
26th December 2004 to 22nd June 2006
6th April 1986 to 5th May 1986
8th May 1986 to 2nd December 1987.
Expect a 'Been there, done that' feeling about the financial set-ups, business concerns or property issues which turn up now. Now is your chance to gain from everything you have learned and move forward again.
Obviously, you may be repeating the past, on a regular basis now – however, the more you go over old ground, or meet with oddly familiar situations, the more you will learn. As I said, Virgo, you sign off in January 2025.
Your breakthrough will come when you accept that life is stuck on the repeat button because it's (ironically) the best way to get you to progress on the inside. To evolve as a human being. Observe yourself each time the loop repeats. What have you learned about managing life and yourself? Are you owed, spiritually, from the past – or do you owe? The rest of 2024 is a settling up. A reckoning.
Saturn and Neptune in Aries and Money
In 2025 you see the fade-out of Saturn and Neptune from Pisces (see partners and enemies) and the fade-in of Saturn and Neptune in Aries. So this is about joint finances and property. Huge change!
These slow-moving transits are historic and will involve your legacy to others (your partner and children for example) as well as others’ will, naming you. Aries rules your Eighth House of joint finance, possessions and property.
Get the best professional advice you can afford in 2025 and update your will. If others talk to you about being an executor or beneficiary, the same message applies. Neptune is notorious for vagueness, confusion, fuzzy thinking and blurred lines. To avoid confusion, get it in writing and get it done properly.
This also applies very much to any legal action; the business of marriage; de facto relationships where you live together and co-parent. Neptune begins in Aries on January 26th 2026. February 13th 2026 is the entry point for Saturn in Aries, so you can see why the year 2026 is the really big shift.
Chiron in Aries and Money
In 2025 you will continue with a financial, business, charity or property coure of instruction. You are already aware of a money-minded teacher, mentor, foster father or guide figure. The most famous depiction of Chiron shows him as a music teacher. Quite an unusual one. So this person is like that. A maverick. He may be an unlikely accountant or a business associate.
Chiron teaches us what we can get away with. As a centaur (half man, half horse) Chiron by his very existence shows us the so-called impossible, outrageous or unthinkable. Chiron challenges you to attempt the most audacious acts and maverick decisions – for better or worse.
Chiron was discovered in 1977, year of punk rock, cloning and test tube babies. I like to call him your punk music teacher. In 2024 and 2025, the familiar question returns. “What can I get away with?” It may be a particular way of avoiding tax, for example. Or a specific way of ensuring you make money from work completed a long time ago.
The Web, Books and Education
I mention this because Virgo is ruled by Mercury the messenger and a great many Virgo people have websites, YouTube channels, podcasts or similar. You also find Virgo authors in abundance; teachers; students; professors; tutors.
Uranus in Taurus and The Word
You know Uranus in Taurus has changed everything regarding foreigners, foreign countries and culture (To a British person even America can seem foreign). This transit also affects the web, books and academia, as above. The dates might interest you:
May 16th 2018 to July 7th 2025
November 9th 2025 to April 26th 2026
This cycle will continue to change your education and self-education, your view of foreign places and people, and your use of the web. Publishing may also play a key role. Expect a revolution that sets you free, ongoing. This liberating, exhilarating cycle is quite long. You will reject. You will be rejected. Yet the rejection dance will also make you more independent.
Hearing No and Saying No
The whirl of saying ‘No’ to people and also hearing ‘No’ from them goes on in 2025. Every time it happens you are set free.
If a university or college rejects you, you will teach or study your own way, using new technology. If a publisher rejects you, or you reject a publisher, you will invent a new way to be read. It is very common to reject a foreign culture on this cycle or be rejected by it too. From all of this comes liberation.
You could end this cycle with qualifications, but the subjects you study are unlikely to be bog-standard or traditional.
The places you visit or move to now have a fated part to play in taking you to the next level. One specific foreign connection in your life could do more to alter your theories about yourself, and the way the world is, than any amount of books or university lectures.
Letting Go - Pluto in Capricorn
I began your birthday report by talking about Pluto and the world of babies, children and younger people. Letting go is a big part of the future. You need to know how long this cycle has been with you, as you sign off in November 2024. As you read this you still have a few weeks to go, so start as you mean to go on.
Pluto in the Fifth House
Your relationship with the world of babies and children, teenagers and young adults will go through a deep transformation during this cycle. Your son or daughter may move from childhood to adolescence – or adolescence to adulthood - at this time, which is one obvious cause of big change. The small boy becomes a teenager, with all that this brings.
Another possibility? You will deal with the realities of abortion, adoption, miscarriage or IVF treatments, and find that your old attitudes and expectations fall away, to be replaced by a new outlook. Splitting up can mean a child has to go to one parent, more than the other. Another example of Pluto.
Your connection to children may be less personal now – you may experience this cycle through your job (for example, if you nurse or teach infants or teenagers) or through your interests outside work – or the young people in question may be godchildren, nieces, nephews, stepchildren or grandchildren.
The world of the young will bring empowering new beginnings now, and dramatic endings – which force you to find your power too.
Your Fellow Virgo Prince Harry
Your fellow Virgo Prince Harry had this transit when he became involved with Meghan Markle and went on to become a father. Questions about who or what is in control of the children are very common. The new baby itself became the subject of huge politics, after an Oprah Winfrey interview. Pluto at large!
The story of Pluto, Proserpina and Ceres is one of deal-making and power-sharing, and one way or another, it is bound to surface on this transit, in connection with lovers, spouses or children. It may still be ongoing as you end 2024 and Christmas looks like a ‘forever’ sign-off.
You may be a grandmother whose grandchild divorces her husband and so you find yourself babysitting more frequently and for a longer time. This raises issues about who or what is in control of your great-grandchild. This is another example of Pluto in the Fifth House. You can divorce and find yourself wrangling over which parent has control of your daughter’s education and general welfare. That is also extremely common, but as I’ve said this is the sign-off. Never again will you have to deal with politics in this way.
On this cycle your own children can also be given power, with you. There is a shift in the balance of power, as you grow older (say). Again, the intensity of this cycle ends, as Pluto exits Capricorn forever in November 2024.
Happy Birthday Virgo
You are going into 2025 which is a really unusual year in astrology. I have left the best until last for you, which is the Jupiter in Gemini transit in your Tenth House of success, glory, the top job, awards, big hits, promotion, lucky breaks, big deals and status.
Jupiter is Optimus Maximus to the Romans who gave us modern astrology. Best and greatest. He was born lucky in mythology. He was also full of largesse. So here he is in Gemini in your solar Tenth House of ambition.
You have until June 2025 to make the most of this cycle, which will not come again for 12 years, Virgo. Given that you also have powerful Pluto moving into Aquarius and your Sixth House of service and duty, 2025 looks like a massive gear change with your interpretation of success. And it really will be yours.
This is such a fabulous Birthday month reading! So love all your postings but this one feels extra. Can’t wait for Libra!!! I’m a Libra rising so the Pluto in the 4th house energy has be A LOT!! I’m absolutely giddy to get Pluto off my angles and begin 2025 without the feeling something else horrible will happen.
I am a premium member and must say, your insights have been right on and assisted in my healing and motivation to rise. August 23, 1952 . In 2010, I was hired as chef on a magnificent sailboat. Crossed 7 oceans, 24 countries, married the Aquarius owner. Sold the boat 2016. 2021, my talented 42 old son died suddenly of a heart attack leaving a 1 year old son. 2023, my husband died
after a 2nd open heart. We had 14 amazing years. I am publishing my book soon, "The Captains Cook." My Captain left me financially very well off. I have grown to be capable enough to handle this wealth. Everything you laid out is true. My duet and duel is ended. The universe has placed the most remarkable people and opportunities in my path. My runners, spirt guides. These last 8 months have been introspective. I want to share with the world about grief, resilience, and the power of transformation. In gratitude. Victoria