Sun Into Virgo 2024: The Zero Point

In contrast to Virgo's measured, mild-mannered character the incoming Sun cycle is shaping up to be an eventful and pivotal one. It includes the end of Mercury's retrograde and the start of Uranus's, sign changes for Mercury, Venus, Mars and of course Pluto, and the beginning of an eclipse series along the Virgo Pisces axis. The strongest theme running throughout the cycle, one familiar to the thoughtful earth sign, is mutability. Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune will remain in the mutable signs of Gemini and Pisces, while Mercury, Venus and the Sun travel through mutable Virgo. Though only the Moon will pass through Sagittarius, from September 9-11th, the mutable fire sign's influence will be felt via the presence of its ruling planet Jupiter. In astrology's wheel, each season concludes under a mutable sign. The four mutable signs have come to represent release and preparation. They are also associated with change, flexibility and adaptability.