September 23rd – October 10th, 2022
Mercury revisits its Virgo domain
Mercury backtracks to discerning, detail-oriented Virgo on September 23rd. Under normal conditions, the messenger feels at home in this sign. However, with Mercury retrograde and inching closer to an opposition with Neptune, a planet very good at blurring the lines, our organizer-in-chief will act more like a trickster.
Buses run late. The house gnomes hide the car keys. Communication gets frayed. The “truth” of a matter becomes hotly debated. But there’s some hope in this equation too.
Mercury stations direct but fog abounds
Mercury will join Venus on September 26th, helping us recognize each other’s best intentions, even if we agree to disagree. Venus is all about compromise, and negotiations will run smoother around this day. When Mercury goes on to trine Pluto on September 27th, we’ll collectively find it easier to advocate for ourselves from a place of authenticity and personal power.
Finally, Mercury stations direct on October 2nd. Day by day, conversations run smoother. That person you’ve been waiting to hear from finally gets in touch. Technology acts reliably(-ish) again. Though it may take a week or two for the fog to totally clear. (You can read more about this retrograde, and what to expect from the weeks following, here.)
In the meantime, do what Mercury in Virgo does best: notice the details. Triple-check your texts for typos. Edit your heart out. But refrain from letting yourself focus too much on “getting it right.” Right now, the way we measure our worth against external successes and failures is under the microscope for inspection. Mercury in Virgo is here to remind us that productivity, metrics, and deliverables are not the end goal.
The more we can untangle ourselves from idealizing perfection, the more the parts of ourselves that tend to take a back seat can feel comfortable making themselves known.
Read your Mercury in Virgo Horoscopes
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The following horoscopes were written by Sarina Romero.
Aries & Aries Rising
Mercury in Virgo pulls focus to the systems that structure your daily life, health, and work routines. During this time, you may come up with innovative ways to arrange your furniture, or new ideas on how you want to structure your days to better support your well-being.
With Mercury retrograde, you’re invited to give some extra care and attention to your daily routines. Consider the ways your current schedule makes it easier, or harder, to pause and rest. Any and all ways you can structure downtime into your days will make a difference.
By September 26th, there’s extra momentum in the air to dig deep and problem-solve with coworkers and collaborators. This moment is all about striking a balance between honoring your drive to innovate and get things done in your public life, while also being your most loyal advocate and ally for rest.
This Mercurial season is an open invitation to take your routines, schedules, and me-time seriously. To treat your time like a precious resource, and to view your schedule as the tool that protects how you use it. Remember: Even tiny stones create ripples. Embrace the small changes that have mighty impacts.
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Taurus & Taurus Rising
Mercury in Virgo brings delight to your creative projects, pleasures, and unadulterated fun. Anything that requires you to use your imagination and mental prowess just-for-the-heck-of-it is where you want to be. This moment is all about relishing communication and creation without expectations or an end goal in mind.
When it comes to your communication with others, take care and tread lightly until October 2nd — what may feel like a light joke to you can get muddied, or lost in translation.
The best course of action is to take care with others and, when possible, pursue what genuinely lights you up. Creative outlets and activities that bring you unadulterated delight are the balm to any friction at this time.
The planet of communication is here to encourage you to trust your gut and pursue the activities, people, and places that leave you feeling energized. Follow what feels good. Connect with your joy by checking in with yourself — say yes to things that genuinely delight you, and gather your courage to say no to the things that don’t.
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Gemini & Gemini Rising
Mercury in Virgo directs its fierce problem-solving skills to the parts of your interior world that need it most. This is a great time to give TLC to your sleep routine — set your phone to “do not disturb” an hour before bed, or introduce a new practice that helps you unwind. Or, to give some extra attention to house agreements for chores, shared space, and fridge real estate alongside the people you share space with.
If home is not one fixed location for you, Mercury’s retrograde brings the people and places that nurture your sense of foundation, care, and rest to the front and center. These sources of safety in your life nourish the vast root system that lifts you up. Spend extra time with the people or places that offer you this, or make a list of what makes you feel assured and comforted to keep close by and read when you need reminding most.
While in Virgo, the planet of communication encourages you to spend time with your below-the-surface emotions, memories, and beliefs. Consider writing a letter to your past self about how you define home and safety, now. Tell them everything they needed to hear.
Get curious about what your heart wants to feel taken care of, and to feel at home.
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Cancer & Cancer Rising
Mercury in Virgo cranks the heat up on your communications. Think: constantly bumping into people you know on the street, having your phone feel like a live wire of notifications, and talking to your neighbors, friends, and family all at the same time. While all these things may not happen directly to you, Mercury in Virgo infuses the air with this quality of buzzing commotion.
In addition to an influx of DMs, new ideas, plans, and changes (big and small) will be coursing through your community. While this energy can feel electric, it can also be dizzying — especially during Mercury’s retrograde — so don’t underestimate the power of rest and the relief of quiet during this time.
This Mercurial season is all about flexibility and being open to unforeseen events — and solutions — in your daily life. Make the practices that ground you a priority, even as you’re surrounded by movement and change. It’s time to soften your grip on fixed schedules and your ideas of how things should go.
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Leo & Leo Rising
Mercury in Virgo casts vigilant focus on what you value in life — in your material, intellectual, and spiritual realms. While it can be tempting to stick to doing things the way you always have, this is a potent time to establish new ways to work with your resources.
While retrograde, the messenger planet encourages you to rework and broaden your personal definition of abundance — without the influence of anyone else.
Get curious about the definitions of abundance that you’ve inherited, and the definitions you want to create for yourself. Reimagine and refresh your budgets. Recycle old stories. Plant the seeds of the new stories and definitions you want to grow.
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Virgo & Virgo Rising
Mercury in Virgo brings precision to all the ways you express yourself. So ready your glue gun, colored pencils, collage materials, DIY home projects, or anything else that gives you an outlet to create during this time.
But be careful: Juggling multiple projects all at once can transform into a tripwire, especially when Mercury is retrograde. Remember that rest and creativity can both be yours to claim. The more you can recharge and check in with yourself, the more bandwidth you create for any and all projects you’re balancing right now.
This period offers you an opportunity to zero-in on the practices that soothe your mind and the expressive outlets that light up your creative energy. Meditations, walks, naps, and showers are all small, but mighty, ways to ground yourself during this busy and dizzying time.
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Libra & Libra Rising
Mercury in Virgo’s extreme attention to detail illuminates the more subconscious, interior parts of yourself with sharp focus. Here, the messenger planet isn’t scared of a few cobwebs and leaves no stone unturned.
Now is a powerful time to encourage radical honesty with yourself about what’s been feeling good in your life, and what’s been more challenging. Free writing, sharing with others, or taking time for yourself can all support this kind of excavation.
With all of this self-exploration, alone time is crucial. Naps, unscheduled hours, time spent outside, or anything else that gives you regenerative rest is all the elixir you need.
Make a list of affirmations for courage and then tape them on your wall, carry them with you in your pocket, or speak them out loud. You are more brave than you give yourself credit for.
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Scorpio & Scorpio Rising
Mercury in Virgo asks you to reconsider the goals and expectations you hold yourself to, inviting you to observe the way you compare yourself to your communities.
We all carry stories we tell ourselves about accomplishment. Use this time to figure out which stories are yours, which are intergenerational inheritances, and which are societal norms dressed up like truth.
During Mercury’s retrograde, the roles you play in your friend and familial communities are vying for your attention. Get curious about the old narratives you have internalized about your role in group dynamics, and get clear on what you want to create moving forward.
Because Mercury is the planet of communication, articulating what you notice, and what you want to do differently, writing down what’s coming up for you, or turning towards any expressive outlet will support channeling what you uncover.
Be gentle and patient with yourself as you sift through any internalized feelings about your achievement in comparison to others. Believe in your incredible capacity to start anew.
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Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising
Mercury in Virgo invites you to dream up, and analyze, plans for your professional life and collaborations. Take inventory of what’s working. Go back to the drawing board and dig into the plans you want to create or improve. Challenge yourself to get clear on what you need to start building. If you’ve been waiting to sync with your boss or co-creators, this is the moment.
With Mercury retrograde, the boundary between imagination and illusion will be hazy, so take your time when drawing up plans with your co-collaborators. Trust that whatever projects withstand the crossed-wires are stable and lasting.
During this period, it can be easy to get caught up in bureaucratic red tape and miss the forest for the trees. Remember to step back every now and then to appreciate the big-picture view of what you’re creating.
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Capricorn & Capricorn Rising
Mercury in Virgo brings its rigorous love of detail to your long-term plans and your desire to seek out novelty. Turning onto new streets when traveling somewhere familiar, being open to your schedule steering off course, or chatting with someone new could all feed this appetite for discovery.
With Mercury retrograde until October 2nd, your days may become one big game of telephone. Attempting to cling to clarity during this time will be as successful as trying to keep an ice cube from melting by holding it in your hand.
Instead, use this time to relish any questions that may be circling your mind. Whether they’re related to your long-term plans, your desire for new adventures, or your aim to bring change to your life, the things you want to learn more about will be like magnets to you. Allow yourself to follow their pull.
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Aquarius & Aquarius Rising
Mercury in Virgo ignites your desire for experiences that remind you of your ability to dive deep. Conversations that aren’t afraid to plunge below surface small-talk, art that reminds you of your vast emotional landscape, and moments that leave you breathless are calling to you.
Right now, the subterranean parts of you that tend to shy towards the back of the room are more easily accessible. They may even have a louder voice than they usually do, or you find creative (and non-linear) ways to express them.
While Mercury retrograde brings a dose of confusion to this area, the emphasis on review, and combing back over old territory, can help you get to know the shapes and feelings of your emotional health. You’re pulled to spend time thinking about the interwoven relationships that change, loss, and growth share with one another.
Remember to bring lightheartedness, play, time outside, and conversations with loved ones into your days, to balance out any emotional spelunking you embark on. Finding outlets for your emotions to flow (like talking with a friend, journaling, drawing, or listening to music) will help you channel any sticky feelings that arise.
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Pisces & Pisces Rising
Mercury in Virgo pulls focus on the romantic, platonic, and work partnerships in your life. While normally the messenger’s gift for gab would support your conversations with close others, your exchanges could get murky while Mercury is retrograde until October 2nd.
Whatever comes up, give yourself the time to process emotions before you try parsing any sticking points in your relationships. Letting yourself respond after a night’s sleep, or a day’s pondering, will give you the discernment required to uncover creative solutions. You may even notice new ways of seeing your beloveds and refreshed ways they see and relate to you.
Make room for anything that pushes to the surface. Jot down your thoughts or record voice notes whenever you notice your emotions veering toward hot-button topics. Then, make intentional time to share what you’ve been learning with those involved.
Until October 10th, Mercury in Virgo is here to support your communication with those closest to you — especially when the topic is complex, challenging, or requiring extra vulnerability. Take a breath, and then deep-dive together.
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