The New Moon of comes at a remarkable turning point. At 18° Virgo, it follows the August eclipses and arrives as Uranus changes direction in Gemini, while Venus enters Scorpio and Mercury enters Libra. The emphasis is on clearing, reassessing and reorganising: information, technology, relationships, money, power and the structures through which society operates. It feels less like a single dramatic event than a threshold where several currents suddenly begin moving differently. The old pattern is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain, while the beginnings of another pattern are becoming visible.

Behind this sits the much larger 2026 Saturn–Neptune cycle in Aries, with Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto all in retrograde motion around the New Moon. This gives the period a strong sense of reviewing the foundations of what is being built. Historically, Saturn–Neptune periods have coincided with major changes in political and social structures, particularly when an established order has exhausted itself and something fundamentally different begins to emerge. The important point is not destruction: it is dissolution followed by reconstruction. What no longer works is being exposed so that it can be dismantled rather than endlessly repaired.

That makes the September New Moon an invitation to participate in creating the new rather than waiting for it to appear. The troubling events in the world — wars, political instability, failing institutions, economic tensions and the enormous disruption of AI and information technology — are part of an atmosphere in which old solutions increasingly fail to solve old problems. The days following the New Moon bring Mercury into challenging contact with Neptune and then harmonious contact with Uranus and Pluto: confusion, revelation, new information and transformation.

The message is therefore remarkably simple: clear away what has become obsolete, keep what is still valuable, and use the space created to build something genuinely different. Which will work at every level- personal, familial, in communities and on the world scale – let’s hope we all can find the wisdom to do this. This is not the end of something for the sake of ending it; it is the necessary disassembly that makes a new beginning possible.