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<p>Mercury may be in retrograde this September but that is not going to change the fact that this Virgo season will be filled with exciting opportunities. Moreover, as Venus retrograde ends on September 4, you can also expect to see your love life take a better turn. Read your September 2023 horoscope to know what this Virgo season has in store for your star sign.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">VIRGO (23 August – 22 September)</h3>


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<p>Born under the Virgo star sign, you are great at thinking with practicality and logic. While this has made you appear less compassionate around others, this September, some incidents will change the way people perceive you. They will begin to appreciate your thought process and even ask for your opinions and actually take them seriously.</p>



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<p>While this sudden change, especially from your partner, may confuse you at the beginning, you should try not to overthink and go with the flow. Your needless suspicions can only have a negative impact but accepting them could benefit your relationship. So, though it may be in your nature to think critically, it is best to set aside that characteristic of yours, at least for the time being.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">LIBRA (23 September – 22 October)</h3>


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<p>While your past self might have felt discouraged by the many hurdles you have to overcome to taste victory, you are more mature now, so you understand that success does not come easily. This month, you will find happiness in knowing that you have put in your best efforts in the things you do. (Libra of the Month: Atthaphan Phunsawat, Thai Actor, 4 October 1993)</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">SCORPIO (23 October – 21 November)</h3>


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<p>September could turn out to be the most exciting month for you, as you will find yourself involved in projects that you are highly passionate about. In fact, a certain person may be amazed by your expertise and give you an opportunity to advance in your career. If it feels right, just go for it, Scorpio. (Scorpio of the Month: Ryan Gosling, Canadian Actor, 12 November 1980)</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Sagittarius (22 November – 21 December)</h3>


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<p>You are feeling a sense of despair but now is the time to stay optimistic, Sagittarius. Life can be more exciting for you if you learn to pay attention to the new beginnings in life rather than pondering over what has ended. September is the right time for you to unwind and focus on your health and personal life before you become busy. (Sagittarius of the month: Sebastian Croft, British Actor, 16 December 16)</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">CAPRICORN (22 December – 19 January)</h3>


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<p>Given the planetary alignment this month, you will find September to be less exciting but you may not be very concerned about feeling bored on some days. Your priorities will completely lie in knowing that you have passed each month without any troubles and that you were not involved in any minor or major arguments. (Capricorn of the Month: Kim Taehyung, South Korean Idol, 30 December 1995)</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Aquarius (20 January – 18 February)</h3>


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<p>You will come across a couple of hurdles that would initially discourage you from continuing to work towards your goals. Do not let those minor troubles stop you from focusing on your aspirations because when you see the bigger picture, these recent obstacles will have actually taught you some valuable lessons. (Aquarius of the Month: Tom Hiddleston, British Actor, 9 February 1981)</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">PISCES (19 February – 20 March)</h3>


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<p>Communication is going to be the most vital thing for you, Pisces. Whether it is at work or at home, reminding yourself and letting the people around you know what your true feelings are, will help you and the people around you to resolve issues. September brings you the opportunity to fix any past misunderstandings. (Pisces of the Month: Emily Blunt, British Actress, 23 February 1983)</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">ARIES (21 March – 19 April)</h3>


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<p>You may feel like there is something holding you back, not allowing you to go ahead and do the things you planned. Such intuitions are mostly just in your thoughts. Learn to put your self-confidence in the forefront and it will be easy for you to see significant progress in your life, but try not to get overconfident because that might just work negatively for you. (Aries of the Month: Jim Parsons, American Actor, 24 March 1973)</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">TAURUS (20 April – 20 May)</h3>


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<p>Now is the right time to look at events from this year and reevaluate your past which may give you an awakening that will encourage you to look forward to a better future. If you have been procrastinating certain discussions to avoid conflicts, September will make it easy to have such difficult conversations. (Taurus of the Month: Andria Tayeh, Jordanian Model, 9 May 2001)</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">GEMINI (21 May – 20 June)</h3>


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<p>Previously, you might have reclined from chatting with strangers in fear of being judged or coming off as unlikable. But, this month, you will let go of that shyness and find yourself networking with new people and focusing on growing your career. Besides, you do know how to talk in a way that impresses everyone. (Gemini of the Month: Troye Sivan, South African Singer, 5 June 1995)</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">CANCER (21 June – 22 July)</h3>


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<p>In the last couple of weeks, you were probably focusing on all the things that are missing from your life and that has only made you feel low. Fortunately, your stars are pushing you to be more optimistic and look at all the simple yet great things that you have overlooked recently. Sometimes, bliss comes from within you, Cancer. (Cancer of the Month: Camila Queiroz, Brazilian Actress, 27 June 1993)</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Leo (23 July – 22 August)</h3>


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<p>September may feel more stressful than you expected it to be, so planning out in advance and following a strict schedule will be both necessary and beneficial for you, Leo. Your proper time management may even make the last week of September much more relaxed and raise your desire to go on a weekend trip to a new destination. (Leo of the Month: Dulquer Salmaan, Indian actor, 28 July 1983)</p>


Here is your September 2023 Horoscope

<p>The Mercury Retrograde phenomenon has spread like wildfire in recent years, passed on from the enlightened to the uninitiated every time this astral conjunction makes its presence felt. Not too long ago, it went mainstream, suddenly co-opted into the celebrity world.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-33727" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/700x466-6.jpg" alt="Mercury Retrograde" width="700" height="466" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/700x466-6.jpg 700w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/700x466-6-200x133.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/700x466-6-421x280.jpg 421w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/700x466-6-120x80.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/700x466-6-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/700x466-6-400x266.jpg 400w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/700x466-6-600x399.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p>Since then, it’s become a media staple, feted and analysed by the likes of <em>Vogue </em>and the <em>New York Times,</em> with the former happily enlightening its readers as to “What to shop for During Mercury’s Retrograde”. Even the relatively sane <em>Travel &amp; Leisure</em> magazine got in on the act, grimly advising its 4.8 million readers on “How to Avoid Travel Nightmares While Mercury Is in Retrograde.”</p>
<p>Mercury Retrograde’s reputation as a cosmic prankster, a kind of eccentric stellar interventionist adept at pulling the rug on unwary mortals some 48 million miles away, has clearly been well-established. That does, however, leave one question – What Exactly Is It?</p>
<p>Well, thousands of years ago, the astrologers of classic times, spotted a star (actually the planet Mercury) moving backwards across the firmament. This is somewhat unusual and even contrary to the expectations of NASA, with its website blithely informing the cosmically-curious: “Normally, the planets move west-to-east (prograde) through the stars at night.”</p>
<p>With apparently little respect for NASA’s view as to how a well-brought-up universe really ought to behave, three to four times a year, Mercury does, indeed, appear to turn tail. This sees it conspicuously travelling on a retrograde east-to-west path, as if doing a spot of galactic reversing.</p>
<p>Disappointingly, this is actually an optical illusion, a consequence of the fact that Earth’s orbital progress is somewhat faster than its far-distant neighbour.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-33728" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/700x466-7.jpg" alt="Mercury Retrograde" width="700" height="466" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/700x466-7.jpg 700w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/700x466-7-200x133.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/700x466-7-421x280.jpg 421w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/700x466-7-120x80.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/700x466-7-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/700x466-7-400x266.jpg 400w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/700x466-7-600x399.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
<p>Such anodyne astrophysics, however, have done little to deter astrologically-minded opportunists. Leavened with a mishmash of mythology – both Greek and Roman to be on the safe side – Mercury Retrograde has been successfully repackaged as an anthropologically-significant occurrence.</p>
<p>One premium rate astrologer who has clearly managed to weather the more malignant aspects of the Mercury Retrograde phenomenon is Larry Schwimmer, a US-based life coach and the founder of <em>Astrodecision.com.</em></p>
<p>Whenever Mercury Retrograde occurrs, Schwimmer maintains that all forms of all communication are compromised, saying: “Mercury, after all, does rule the mind, mental clarity, speech, self-expression and overall communication.”</p>
<p>Perhaps surprisingly, given that it is such an exact science, not every astrologer agrees. Dismissing Schwimmer’s baneful prognostications, Annabel Gat, astrologer-in-chief for the Vice online media group, says: “Do what you got to do when you have to do it. Mercury be damned.”</p>
<p>Perhaps even less surprisingly, many working in the more demonstrable sciences are even more dismissive, with Michael Shera, curator of the American Natural History Museum’s Astrophysics Department, speaking for many when he says: “There is absolutely no evidence or scientific justification as to how Mercury – or any other planet – could have any impact whatsoever on life on Earth. In fact, astrology has no more of a scientific basis than alchemy or a belief in unicorns.”</p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-33730" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/466x700-2.jpg" alt="Mercury Retrograde" width="466" height="700" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/466x700-2.jpg 466w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/466x700-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/466x700-2-186x280.jpg 186w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/466x700-2-120x180.jpg 120w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/466x700-2-400x601.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px" /></p>
<p>Mercury next goes retrograde on the 22<sup>nd</sup> of this month, staying that way until 15 April. If, during that period, you find yourself stuck at an airport, with a fritzed iPhone, peering at the smouldering remains of the Himawari 9 weather satellite, the day after starting a new job, and your ex suddenly turns up, then you might want to give matters astrological greater approbation in the future.</p>
<p>In all likelihood, however, the worst thing that will happen to you during the Mercury Retrograde period is that one of your more otherworldly nodding acquaintances will initiate a chat about the malignant planetary alignment that misappropriated his Octopus Card or some such astrally-decreed disaster on the domestic front. Some predictions, alas, are way more likely to come to pass than others.</p>
<p><strong><em>The full version of this feature appears on Gafencu Magazine’s March 2018 print issue as “Dready Mercury” by&nbsp;Julienne C. Raboca. You can download the&nbsp;<u><a href="//www.gafencushop.com/gafencu-luxury-lifestyle-magazine-app/">free app</a></u>&nbsp;for digital editions of the magazine.</em></strong></p>


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