Complaint makes you sharper.

On the surface, the astrology of September looks pretty smooth. You got Saturn returning back to Pisces, finally leaving Aries where it suffers. You got a powerful looking Mars and Jupiter trine leading to big movements coming out of big groups. You also have a strong Mercury uplifting Venus from its condition of fall, making the beginning of fall emotionally reclusive but communicative.

However!

I want to point out that the Sun is not getting adequately nourished in the ways that it needs when it moves into Libra.

Libra Sun is a lover. How on earth are you supposed to know how to love honestly in a world that promotes false positivity?

Sun in Libra needs nurture from Venus but Venus is shyly tucked away in Virgo where it becomes withholding. The Sun can look for light from Jupiter because an exalted planet aspecting a planet in fall brings relief but Jupiter’s mother is the fickle Moon. Moreover, the Moon suffers this month because it is eclipsed while copresent with Saturn in Pisces.

The fall is a time of togetherness and collaboration but, this fall, we feel like we don’t receive adequate nourishment from being together with people. It’s really hard to participate in groups and in community when you don’t feel properly nourished by those relationships or by the economic systems that your society is building. It’s very hard to show up in relationships where you feel as though you must engage from a state of deprivation or starvation. When you show up in relationships that deprive you rather than nourish you, that’s when togetherness stops feeling like togetherness and starts to feel more like complicity—

—Complicity in denying grief and aliveness, complicity in displacement, complicity in starvation. Complicity in your own hunger. When groups deny, mock, and starve then you’re not promoting anything but loneliness.

It’s very difficult to join or participate in a group, a society, that intends to use you up and then dispose of you.

The Sun in Libra in September is like a lost child looking for love in a society that denies and starves. I’m looking at the astrology of September 2025 and wracking my brains because I’m trying to figure out a way to give us some kind of nourishment. After looking at the transits for the next month a lot, I think that the planet that we will need to lean on in September is that third planet in the water trine—Mars in Scorpio.

Mars in Scorpio is an extremely powerful Mars. And the great thing about Mars is that it’s a planet that doesn’t need positivity to give you energy. In fact, Mars prefers conflict.

We need nourishment in September—energy, motivation, and the will to keep going. What we get is conflict. We need to resist the social discipline of thinking that everything needs to be love, light, and positivity all the time. We are allowed to be negative, to complain and to protest without having to provide a solution for every single issue. Mars is sorrow. You don’t have to explain your sorrow just to vent and feel.

Complaint makes you sharper. Being allowed to complain renews your will to live. In a society that exalts fake positivity and denies sorrow, you cherish your own inner critic. Your criticality has protected you for years and years by preventing you from trying to appease a society that is trying to dispose of you. Your inner critic helps you see what is broken. Complaint interrupts relationships that have begun to comply with the chronic denial of grief and the swallowing of sorrow due to convenience.

Capitalism hates workers who protest. Patriarchy hates women who complain.

September’s astrology isn’t actually as easy as it appears. The primary issue that I can see is this pervasive loneliness—erasure, marginalization, starvation. Trying to participate in a group that denies suffering, one that you have to pretend to join, will make you feel more lonely. Complaining together can bring you together. So, complain! Become public whiner number one. Better to be a happy bitch than a lonely sycophant.

Virgo September 2025 Horoscope

Right now, your sign is getting eclipsed and that means that you might struggle to find physical energy and spiritual momentum. What will give you energy this month? Not fake as hell positivity. Positivity is not a source of nourishment. Positivity will only make you hold your resentments closer to the chest and tire you out.

Give room for the grumpy old man who lives within you. You need to give yourself permission to complain and trust that your complaint and protest makes you incredibly attractive to the people who matter. You are funny as hell when you complain. You are beautiful when you protest. In fact, you find the finest parts of your charm when you let yourself be an absolute bitch to the people who hold the most power.

Half of comedy is protest, is complaining and bitching and moaning. You should feel incredibly funny, incredibly cool, whenever you complain about what is broken because you are seeing things for what they are and spreading the strength of your insight.

In September, be sarcastic as hell, the way you are when you are around your favorite sibling. That will give you the energy that you need. Air your disappointments, be grumpy, and cherish your sense of humor. Don’t pretend to have more optimism than you do. Your sarcasm and your wit makes you hot as hell.

Questions for Virgo for September 2025:
Who is your favorite friend to get sarcastic with?
Who is your favorite friend to complain with?
Who is your favorite friend to protest with?

Libra September 2025 Horoscope

One word, Libra—promotion. Promotion is about generosity. When you promote your ideas, you are generous enough to share your mind with other people. When you share your feelings, you are engaging in an act of generosity. When you promote your ego, you’re sharing your sense of yourself, your feeling about who you are, with the people around you.

Never be so stingy as to not let people know what your needs, wants, and secrets desires might be. You must find the courage to share your desire because your desires make you feel alive and energize your relationships. Isn’t it wonderful to tell someone who you want that you want them without worrying about how they might react? To give someone the gift of your desire without asking for anything specific back? To know that your desire, on its own, is important enough to express in its bare and honest truth?

Your presence, your existence, is important enough for you to state the fact of your desire out loud. You can tell people when you are very mad and when you are very happy. You can be generous with your feelings. Sharing a feeling will not cause that feeling to disappear. Holding onto one will not make that emotion more permanent.

Creativity is an act of giving. Give your impressions, your ideas, and your artistry away because you have more—much more—where that came from. Because you do not disappear when you share. Because you have people who share with you and who are curious about you.

Questions for Libra for September 2025:
What secrets are you tired of holding onto?
What desires are embedded into those secrets?
Why don’t you share those desires with someone?

Scorpio September 2025 Horoscope

This month, you are, as my good friend calls it, the big thigh in your community. The big thigh is what everyone grabs and holds onto. The big thigh is the person who lets other people lean on them for a while. The big thigh provides security and seeks collective safety. The big thigh is a provider. I think that many communities have a big thigh or two and that healthy groups trade places, letting different people be the big thigh as time passes. In September, it’s your turn to be the big thigh.

You might be busy in September. You take care of people. You are competent and you allow other people to see your competency in its fullness. September is about saying, “Look what I can do” and getting it done. In September, you will win every fight.

If you are an older sibling then you already know what I’m talking about. You will go first. You will take on the risk of visibility, of declarative protest. You will do things for other people because it’s your turn and because you can. You will protect people because you can.

I think—enjoy. Get things done. You’re not productive all the time but September, for you, is a great time to be. You will enjoy support when you take initiative. You will defeat your opponents when you try. Let yourself do a lot in September because it will increase your confidence. Go and impress yourself with your own courage.

Questions for Scorpio for September 2025:
What do you want to accomplish in September?
Who are you taking care of?
How do you protect?

Sagittarius September 2025 Horoscope

In September, people are willing to help you but you don’t know it yet. Instead, you’re just trying to get to know a very new environment.

The eclipses, Mercury and Venus, and Saturn all clash with your sign in September. I think that it will be good to take a beginner’s mindset over the issue of belonging for a moment. Try to let go of any assumptions that you might have about what you need to do to belong somewhere. Re-examine any expectations about what you will get for looking like you belong. Find your curiosity.

How does belonging work? What does it mean in the place where you are and where do your fantasies about belonging help you remember? What do your assumptions and expectations believe to be possible and what might actually be possible? What is the simplest question that you can find to help you express your desire to belong?

Being curious, refusing pre-determination, will help you with self compassion. In September, you might find yourself getting very hard on yourself as though you are an outsider who must change or fix themselves just to fit in. Hold your horses on this. Instead, assess the definition of belonging that you hold in your mind. Contest that definition and try to remember that more people are willing to help you than you think. You must prove that more is possible.

Questions for Sagittarius for September 2025:
What do you think you need to do to belong?
What if you’re wrong?
Who are you becoming?

Capricorn September 2025 Horoscope

If you have been feeling lonely, then I want you to unpack your perfectionism. The thing about perfectionism is that it is a form of criticality and criticality is very protective. Your criticality will tell you what you cannot tolerate, what you refuse to entertain. Your criticality has done a splendid job of protecting you from disappointment and deserves to be a sacred part of your life.

But what if you can tolerate more than your perfectionism thinks that you can? What if your desire to be right has kept you from seeing potential allies and friends?

Five years ago, you started a long phase of needing to separate yourself from what you had tolerated for far too long. Your criticality has served you well for five whole years. You have learned from being critical and you have grown as a person. Now, Jupiter opposes your sign. Now, you have started to grow beyond the limits of your own self protection. Now, that helpful criticality which informs you what is wrong and not okay has started to feel constraining and more like perfectionism.

Every other transit in September will help you expand your sensing of what you can tolerate with gentleness and grace. You will let go of the assumptions that you make about people at large, expectations that have kept you safe, to explore what you desire and want deeper. You will find that your sense of safety has expanded along with your ego and that’s a good thing because you get to enjoy yourself more.

Questions for Capricorn for September 2025:
Who has surprised you recently?
How have you surprised yourself recently?
What do you no longer expect?

Aquarius September 2025 Horoscope

Your job in September will be to assess your imagination of your role in the future and to eliminate any goals that you have continued to hold onto out of obligation alone.

People will make you feel like you have to do certain things or have certain things because they have gone through certain life experiences but guess what? Those people are not you. The choices that they present to you are their choices, not your choices. You must know your own choices. They’re harder to spot than you think.

Look back on the year that has passed and try to see what you have let go of because your heart just wasn’t in it. You are no longer as tolerant as you once were about entertaining other people’s ideas about what you should or should not do. You do not base your life on acquiring credentials or goalposts. You do not base your life on what other people assume about you. You do not seek prestige just because the people who give out constructed awards call their titles prestigious and you do not take risks just because someone who idealizes you wants you to.

It’s your life. You’re the one who has to live it, the one who gets to live it. What are your goals? Where do you see potential and how do you understand your own safety? What goals help you trust the future?

Questions for Aquarius for September 2025:
What goals are you holding onto out of obligation alone?
Where do you see potential?
What goals help you trust the future?

Pisces September 2025 Horoscope

This is the month of catharsis. You have a lot of energy right now and you seek release. What does emotional catharsis look like for you? What about erotic catharsis?

Honestly, I think that you are here to enjoy a good time in September. You will find yourself around many attractive people who desire you back. You feel beautiful, charming, and funny. You find the people around you hot. You might run into some small communication issues this month but it will be with people who you like and want to like you back and not too bad. If you start relationships that you intend to deepen over time, then I would advise you to take things slower than you think you need. Basing intimacy on fast attraction can sometimes trap you in dynamics where you get in the habit of pleasing. But if you are here to just have fun, then I don’t see any cause for concern.

Pleasure is cathartic. But your pleasure is yours. When you prioritize what is safe and comfortable, then pleasure is easy. Being desirable can feel like pleasure and be pleasure sometimes but can also obfuscate your need for safety.

What is true about pleasure for you? Have you ever felt pleasure for someone else’s sake? And was that a fun experience?

Narrate your catharsis and enjoy it. You will feel more satisfied when you feel more safe and you might feel safer if you take things slower. Crying and releasing around people who you know have got your back can feel really good.

Questions for Pisces for September 2025:
What makes you feel safe?
What makes you feel pleasure?
What makes you feel catharsis?

Aries September 2025 Horoscope

This September, it’s very important to remember that it’s not sustainable to put all of your emotional needs into one relationship. Demanding everything that makes you whole from one relationship will weaken that relationship. Depending on one person will make you more vigilant and more reclusive, especially when that person has power over you.

One of the things that will give you nourishment in September is the charge of collective anger. Remember that you’re not angry at one person or at one incident. Your anger is not personal but historical. You are not protesting an exception but a system.

Your anger does not deprive you of support. You do not forfeit your needs and your vulnerability simply because you express anger at injustice. You don’t lose your right to feel taken care of by your society at large just because you complain about and protest that society. Your relationships are strong enough to witness your rage. You must take care to find relationships where you feel safe in your anger.

Anger is potent energy. But anger will drain you when you treat your sorrow as exceptional, when you try to diagnose your suffering as a personal defect. Being mad doesn’t make you more lonely. Anger will give energy back to you when you share it with people who complain with you and protest with you.

Questions for Aries for September 2025:
Who makes you feel safe about being mad?
Who believes you about why you are mad?
Who makes you feel safe about the way you complain?

Taurus September 2025 Horoscope

Actually, right now is not about charging ahead and getting things done and winning more fights. You should not fight when you don’t want to fight, when the time isn’t right for fighting, because fighting when your heart isn’t in it will not lead to victory. Victory is senseless when you don’t care.

You’re supposed to take a break. Take a break from normal work. Hide out behind the sofa to read a childhood book. Do something different from your normal routine. Prioritize what is pleasurable and safe.

Your value in life, your existence, your spirit, is not based on what you might or might not accomplish but on your life, your existence, and your spirit already being here, just here, right here, precisely the way you are. You will enjoy yourself for being who you are. You will not justify the potency of your life by producing more, working harder, or by explaining your position better. You will care more and about the right things when you adequately rest.

You are already here and you are already somebody. Enjoy that, please. Enjoy the pleasures that is your body here in the now, the beauty of the support that you can already lean on. Enjoy, enjoy. Do not work. Take a break.

Questions for Taurus for September 2025:
What do you enjoy most about late summer, early fall?
What do you enjoy most about 2025?
What do you enjoy now about yourself at the age that you currently are?

Gemini September 2025 Horoscope

You must take the support that you already have, the support that you lean on everyday, seriously because you would not be here if no one in the world supported you at all. And you are not able to think about what you can change unless you see and assess the support that you already receive clearly.

The earth supports you. The food that you eat, the wretched economies that you lean on, the clothes that you wear support your nutrition, your socialization, and your dignity. Some people see you and understand you and that supports you. You live wading communities that people build together and those communities support you. The chairs that you sit on support your back. The shoes the you wear support your spine.

See? You are capable of accepting and receiving support when support is available with grace. You are not broken. You will happily accept love when love is available. That means that you are healing and growing.

Because you have support, you can dream of better, wiser, less murderous and more life giving. Because you survive, you can dream of more life. Your ability to imagine a future comes directly from your interest in accepting the life that you currently live. You are not alone. You have support even when you know your deprivation because you do not have everything that you need and you can grow more out of what you have.

Questions for Gemini for September 2025:
What already supports your nutrition?
What already supports your belonging?
What already supports your dignity?

Cancer September 2025 Horoscope

September is about falling out of love with ideas and back in love with people. You will speak your truth when your expertise is needed and you will listen when it is not you who has skin in the game. Politics is not a game of opinions and declaring opinions loudly without listening to people whose lives are at stake is not an act of courage but one of avoidance and dismissal. Never allow anyone to make your existence a matter of debate.

A political expression is not a cult. You don’t need to win a debate to prove that you exist and you do not suddenly know more about something just because you care about it. You don’t need to know everything about an injustice to join its resistance because you are capable of listening, of accepting, of showing up when you do not know fully. You are capable of participating in a movement that you also doubt because you are willing to de-enter expertise to make room for real conversation.

You are capable of joining and creating groups that do not become cult-like because you have known real relationships. You know the difference between a community and an ideology. You are comfortable enough with what you do not know and with being someone who does not know everything to refuse to replace your own thinking with a doctrine. You know how to listen as a creative practice to people who know and people who don’t know and to yourself when you know and when you do not know.

You can practice saying: I don’t know everything and I don’t need to know everything. I am still here. I belong. I exist and the way I speak or listen will not compromise the fact of my existence.

Questions for Cancer for September 2025:
What helps you speak about what you know?
What helps you listen for what you do not know?
What reminds you that you exist regardless of what you do or do not know?

Leo September 2025 Horoscope

September is a good time to get away from everyone for a change. As a Leo, you are a giver. You love to nourish and feed the people who you love. You do not shy away from responsibility but take it on. Your presence, your care, your mind are sources of nourishment that provide for your community. Many of your relationships have grown used to dynamics where you provide and other people eat.

Take a break in September. Your birthday just passed. You fed your friends. You made sure that they had fun. You invited people in and you did the work to make people feel welcome.

Right now, you should actually be thinking about where you would like to live. You are challenging the roots of your existence by assessing what you require in your very foundation. What kind of housing situation do you need to feel human? How much space do you need and who do you need to live with? How much time do you need at home and what does your loyalty to the neighborhood that you live in mean?

These are necessary, private questions. Take a break from providing and nourishing. I know that this will feel counterintuitive as you are the giving Sun but the fall is the time when even the brilliant Sun requires a break. You are contemplating an adjustment, perhaps even a move. Take that seriously.

Questions for Leo for September 2025:
What kind of housing situation makes you feel at home?
Where do you live and what does your loyalty to your home mean?
What is changing about your home?