Releasing Your Least Helpful Traits

It’s a week of introspection, review, and release as Saturn reenters Pisces, Mercury enters Virgo, and Uranus begins its retrograde in Gemini. Anticipate the days ahead bringing excavation, integration, and closure to the unconscious spaces within and a reminder of our ability, in any moment, to choose our response to our outward circumstances. Your weekly horoscope for August 31-September 6, 2025, explains more.

Weekly Horoscope, August 31-September 6, 2025, Preview

September 1 | Saturn retrograde reenters Pisces
September 2 | Mercury enters Virgo; Moon enters Capricorn
September 4 | Moon enters Aquarius
September 6 | Uranus retrograde in Gemini; Moon enters Pisces

Saturn Retrograde Reenters Pisces

Earlier this year, Saturn entered Aries for the first time in 26 years. This brought a shift in consciousness and a redirection of our personal and collective maturity.

But the slow-moving planet took only a single step forward in the first sign of the zodiac before taking that very same step in reverse when it went retrograde in July. It takes another reverse step this week into the final sign of the zodiac, Pisces, where it has been traveling for more than two years.

As Saturn retrograde reenters Pisces on September 1, 2025, it’s as if we are being guided back across an old threshold to finish anything that was left incomplete. Between now and its return to Aries in February 2026, we experience final moments of this multi-year transit.

Saturn supports a mastery of disciplined commitment. Pisces is a sign of mysticism, the unseen, and imagination. Saturn retrograding through Pisces invites us to bring our attention to our relationship with emotional boundaries, spiritual discipline, and our consistency in turning our dreams into reality. Ask yourself what changes you have experienced in these spaces since March of 2023 as well as what changes you’d like to experience. This is our chance for integration, resolution, and closure.

Mercury Enters Virgo

A much faster-moving planet than Saturn, Mercury enters Virgo this week on September 2, 2025, where it will remain until September 18, 2025. Wherever Mercury moves, so goes our minds, our thoughts, our perceptions, and our curiosities.

Representing all that exists within and expresses itself through the realm of the mind, Mercury is our thinking, perceiving, and communication. The earth sign of Virgo brings an emphasis on practicality, details, and refinement. Mercury in Virgo supports mental hygiene—an intentional rethinking of what exists within our minds and the words we speak from it. Whether old thought loops, perspectives that were never ours, or an inner voice that no longer comes from truth or love.

This time supports whatever allows you to express and release what no longer deserves to remain in your mind, whether through journaling, meditating, voice notes, or whatever works for you. It’s also supportive of bringing that same refinement to the practicalities of everyday life, whether our homes, clutter, commitments, habits, inner dialogue, intentions, or priorities.

Uranus Retrograde Begins in Gemini

This week Uranus begins its backward spin on September 6, 2025, joining the lineup of other retrograde planets. Similar to Saturn, Uranus retrograde will span two zodiac signs. The outer planet entered Gemini in July of this year, a sign it had not visited in more than 70 years, and will reenter Taurus in November and remains there until February 2026.

Gemini is the arena of the mind. It questions the stories, perspectives, beliefs, and mental structures we are living from and through. Uranus is awakening, change, and innovation. When retrograde, this energy turns inward. Instead of bringing vast change and evolution throughout the outer structures of our lives, it is guided within.

This is a space to bring the revolutionary and forward-thinking momentum of Uranus into the realm of the intellect. It’s a chance to review the vast changes in our lives these last few months and become aware of the quiet integration that has taken place and the shifts in perspectives that result.

Weekly Horoscope, August 31-September 6, 2025

With movement in the outer planetary realm this week, it’s as if the ground beneath your feet is shifting. It’s drawing you inward to review, refine, and release your perceptions. The mind, whether consciously or unconsciously, shapes the way you move through the world. It shapes the way you take in yourself, your life, and others in your circles, whether your perceptions are aligned with truth, shrouded in illusion, mirroring others’ projections, or expressions of fears.

You can choose differently. You can close old unconscious cycles. Your weekly horoscope explains how to support this review and relearning. Read for your rising sign.

Aries Rising

This week speaks to a review, refinement, and reorganization of what exists within your mind. It assists in bringing closure to unconscious patterns and experiencing greater awareness of your everyday thoughts, perspectives, habits, and rhythms. All so that you can bring conscious choice to your decisions.

Taurus Rising

How do you express your energy, creativity, and self in the world? This week you are clarifying your essence, reviewing your desires for the months and years ahead, and coming into a more truthful relationship with your innate worth and sense of security.

Gemini Rising

What happens when you review the habitual structures—psychological and emotional, conscious and unconscious—that have become the building blocks for your existence? As you learn to inhabit more of your self-authority and trust in yourself, you are better able to turn your desires into reality.

Cancer Rising

This week invites you to organize your mind, cleanse your space, and release unnecessary clutter in all aspects of your being and everyday life. Inspiration is speaking to you, yet it can only be heard within stillness, silence, and spaciousness.

Leo Rising 

There’s a release of unconscious material that has been moving beneath your surface. This brings closure of old patterns that allow you to heal your relationship with your innate worth, with the value you hold, and the way that translates into your relationship with your body, money, relationships, and dreams.

Virgo Rising

Explore a playful review of the identities, stories, and structures that shape how you see yourself and move through the world. Which are outdated? How can you bring them into your current moment? Can you find peace within flux as you contemplate your career and legacy?

Libra Rising

Come home to the structures, habits, self-talk, practices and rhythms that support you at your deepest levels—especially those that feel like medicine to your emotions. It’s a week of intuition and sensing as well as a review and updating of your beliefs, faith, and perspectives.

Scorpio Rising

This week invites refinement to the ideas you hold for your future. How can you clarify your visions and transform your patterns to meet those ideas? Tend to the way you express your creativity so you can bring greater reverence to your life force and its chosen mode of expression.

Sagittarius Rising

Your inner child is asking you to bring greater structure, support, and maturation to your existence. It is a week of clarification and organization within your work and goals, with a review of what you desire within your relationships.

Capricorn Rising

This week invites a review of the way you speak, share, think, and allow yourself to see into both the depths of yourself and the dreams far beyond you. It also welcomes a review of the way you see life and what you believe in and trust.

Aquarius Rising

This week brings your awareness both to the tangible and intangible realms of self and life. It invites you to review your relationship with money and explore how it may relate to your perceptionsof self-worth, empowerment, and trust. It also draws you to your innermost source of creativity and vitality.

Pisces Rising

This week brings closure and release for old identities. Yet it is a process that cannot be forced. Rather, it can be met only through surrender. Old psychological, emotional structures, and definitions of self are asking for review and release.