The Cosmic Connection
Rising sign horoscopes for Sept. 17 – 23
♈ Aries: You’re now in study hall for your final exam about your identity, sense of self, embodiment journey, and sovereignty. Hint: Your qi is the battery for everything.
♉ Taurus: You’re now in study hall for your final exam about your connection to the unknown, unseen, and your own blind spots. Hint: Your inner well is deeper than you may realize.
♊ Gemini: You’re now in study hall for your final exam about your social circles and how they influence your future goals. Hint: Speak your truth and unique voice, regardless of the audience.
♋ Cancer: You’re now in study hall for your final exam about your current occupation, reputation, and contributions to society. Hint: Tap into your inner warrior during self-doubt.
♌ Leo: You’re now in study hall for your final exam about your beliefs, perspectives, and pushing the boundaries of your current horizons. Hint: Shedding a skin creates room to grow.
♍ Virgo: You’re now in study hall for your final exam about your capacity for transformation and response to vulnerability. Hint: Keep exercising your inner knowing and trusting its guidance.
♎ Libra: You’re now in study hall for your final exam about your willingness to learn the lessons that relationships are great teachers. Hint: The people around you hold up the mirror for you.
♏ Scorpio: You’re now in study hall for your final exam about your daily habits, routines, health, and their effect on your vitality. Hint: Making a change in your work can improve your wellness.
♐ Sagittarius: You’re now in study hall for your final exam about your connection to the flow of pleasure, joy, and the creative force within you. Hint: Adventure is in the act of creation itself.
♑ Capricorn: You’re now in study hall for your final exam about your roots, foundation, authenticity, and private sanctuary. Hint: View your own shadows as new sources of light.
♒ Aquarius: You’re now in study hall for your final exam about your relationship with your immediate environment. Hint: There’s always an ongoing verbal and energetic dialogue.
♓ Pisces: You’re now in study hall for your final exam about your self-confidence, as well as how you attain and distribute your resources. Hint: Modify your daily routines to polish the flow.
Weekly astrology summary:
Two main cosmic events grace us this week as we assimilate into all of last week’s major shifts and gear up for the incoming energies ramping up during the remainder of September. Master teacher and cathartic Chiron leaves the Taurean gardens behind and blazes back into the zodiac sign Aries on Thursday, Sept. 17. Chiron’s brief sojourn in Taurus began on June 19, during which lessons about natural resources, nature as healer and teacher, getting more grounded and slowing down, and the beauty of the physical earth, its gifts, and our bodies most likely began to surface somewhere in our lives. Chiron’s return to and final chapter in Aries brings a return to the burning themes and lessons we’ve been experiencing since 2018, which relate to the Aries qualities of identity, sovereignty, bravery, swiftness of action, and where we’re at war on a personal and collective level. We all have a final opportunity to learn and integrate Chiron’s Aries-themed lessons from now until April 2027, when the crafty centaur will return to and remain in Taurus for many years. Take advantage of your study halls, and prep for your final exams. There may be a nudge to surrender to or finally release something in order to move forward as Chiron will make supportive connections with the nodes of the moon in Aquarius and Leo during this time. Heart-centered, bold, unconventional, creative resolutions could be written into mastery of this final chapter. Tap into your inner maverick!
We’ll receive our biennial reminder about the balance of the light and the dark in our outer and inner worlds as the sun shifts into Libra on Sept. 22, ushering in the equinox and the beginning of Autumn here in the northern hemisphere. Balance, fairness, diplomacy, aesthetics, justice, and reciprocity in relationships all take center stage with deeper undertones than usual due to Venus’s presence in Scorpio presiding over all of Libra season. This week’s horoscopes are focused on Chiron’s return to Aries; see the above horoscope for your rising sign for more specific insight and guidance. If you’re unsure what your rising sign is, you can email me at ursaalchemy@gmail.com, learn more in my tutorial video on my Ursa Alchemy YouTube channel, or cast your own birth chart for free on astro.com.
Ursula Duffy is a Professional Astrologer, Certified Aromatherapist and founder of Ursa Alchemy. www.ursaalchemy.com or ursaalchemy@gmail.com.
