Shaken Loose, Set Free

24 - 30 AUGUST 2025

We enter this week standing on shifting ground, the kind that trembles beneath our feet not to collapse us, but to loosen what we’ve outgrown. The Virgo New Moon (Aug 23) has just pulled us into the threshold of Eclipse Season, and you may already sense the hum in the air like a drumbeat in the distance, a signal that change is closer than we think.

There’s a restlessness here. The Sun squaring Uranus on August 24 brings unpredictable currents, plans reshuffle, truths get exposed, emotions swing between excitement and unease. It can feel like a rug pulled out, yet beneath it all, the Universe is whispering: “Let go. You don’t need to hold it all together. You need to make space.”

But alongside the disruption, lightness breaks through. Venus moves into Leo on August 25, reminding us that joy is medicine, that laughter and connection are not luxuries but soul-balancing forces. Where Uranus shakes us, Venus softens us. Where Pluto later intensifies, Mars and Uranus liberate. This dance of tension and release is the very rhythm of Eclipse Season: crack open, then expand.

Virgo Season itself holds us steady in the middle of it all. Its quiet, grounding wisdom reminds us that the sacred lives in the details, in our health, our rituals, our daily devotion to what matters. It asks us: Are you living in integrity with your energy? Are your systems supporting your soul?

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This is not a week to demand all the answers. It’s a week to feel, to notice, to allow yourself to be reshaped by the skies. The bigger picture is this, we are being pushed to trust instability as a teacher, to reclaim joy where heaviness has lingered, and to build a foundation strong enough to hold the expansion that is coming with September’s Eclipses.

Astrology Highlights

• Aug 24 – Sun square Uranus → Unstable or erratic energy. Plans may unravel, truths may shock. This is liberation disguised as disruption.

• Aug 25 – Venus enters Leo → A shift toward play, confidence, and love of life. Relationships and creativity lighten.

• Aug 27 – Venus opposite Pluto → Power struggles, but also a chance to reclaim your desires. Truth is revealed in relationships, love, and money.

• Aug 29 – Mars trine Pluto → A surge of focused courage; momentum to push through obstacles.

• Aug 30–31 – Venus sextile Uranus → Surprising breakthroughs in love, money, and creativity. A fresh breeze at the week’s end.

The Bigger Picture: Eclipse Season

This Eclipse Season is about purification and realignment. It begins with the Virgo New Moon (Aug 23) and culminates with the Virgo Solar Eclipse (Sept 21) and Pisces Lunar Eclipse (Sept 7) — a polarity that demands balance between detail and surrender, order and flow, structure and faith.

• What we’re being taught: To let go of perfectionism while still building sustainable rhythms. To refine what’s real and let dissolve what’s fantasy.

• What’s being pushed: Our health, routines, work-life balance, and energetic integrity are under the microscope. Any place where we’re running on fumes, avoiding truth, or outsourcing power will be brought to the surface.

• The lesson: Virgo teaches us that sacredness lives in the small things — in how we care for ourselves, how we show up daily, how we anchor spirit into matter. This Eclipse Season is asking: Is your life built to sustain your soul?

Think of this as a collective detox. Old patterns, illusions, and false securities will be stripped away so we can build stronger foundations rooted in clarity and integrity.

How It Feels this week

• This week may feel: Restless, emotionally raw, but also charged with breakthroughs. Some may feel destabilized; others may feel freed. Both are valid.

• The push: To stop gripping so tightly, to allow change instead of resisting it. To bring play, joy, and authenticity back into spaces where heaviness has lingered.

• The learning: To trust the messy middle. To recognise that what shakes this week isn’t here to punish, but to liberate.

Soul Guidance

• Let go of control and welcome change as medicine.

• Use Virgo’s earthy wisdom to create grounding rituals: journaling, decluttering, conscious meal prep, body care.

• Don’t shy away from relationship truths — Pluto demands honesty for true intimacy.

• Allow joy, play, and love (Venus in Leo) to guide you forward.

Journal Prompts

• Where in my life am I gripping too tightly?

• What simple daily rhythms would truly support my health and energy?

• What part of me is being called to play, shine, or love more boldly?

✨ Affirmation of the Week

"I trust the shaking loose. I honour my body, my truth, and my joy as I walk into Eclipse Season aligned and free."

Please note, my friends, the world you’ve been building is being rearranged. Not to undo you, but to renew you. This Eclipse Season is a turning of the soil, what has rotted will fall away, what is fertile will be revealed. Do not fear the cracks; they are how the light gets in.

You are not here to hold onto every structure. You are here to embody truth, to anchor joy, to create with integrity. Virgo Season asks us to build a life that honours our energy, our health, our soul. The rest will align itself.

Virgo Season is here now to bring order where there’s chaos, integrity where there’s avoidance, and gentleness where there’s strain. This Eclipse Season will test and transform us, but it is also setting us free. Don’t fight the unraveling. Trust what is leaving, trust what is landing, and know that your soul is being positioned exactly where it needs to be.

You got this, we have got this. 

I love you,

Sarah

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