VirgoThe phase of the Moon on September 21, 2025 was a New Moon.
The New Moon opens a new lunar cycle. The sky is dark and the pull is inward. Decide what you actually want next instead of reacting to what's already in motion, and set the intention quietly. The follow-through comes later.
Virgo pays attention to detail and routine, and the New Moon here favors structure over inspiration. This is a good time to fix a habit or a schedule that isn't working rather than start from scratch. Small corrections add up faster than a grand plan.
Today’s recommendations for haircuts, gardening, and surgery are on the Moon Phase Today page.
Growth sits at its lowest point of the cycle, so today is for housekeeping. Trim split ends or tidy the outline of a style you already like. What you don't want is a big restructure booked for today, because the shape you leave the chair with is roughly the shape you'll live with for the next couple of weeks. Anyone who shaves or waxes and wants the regrowth to stay away longer picks these days for the same reason.
The other sign at the top of the list is Virgo, though it earns the spot differently from Leo. What you get is steady, even growth and a calm scalp. These are good days for a precision cut, and the usual recommendation if you're growing hair out and want the ends to survive the process.
Haircut Moon Calendar
Root crops go in now: carrots, beets, anything you are growing below the soil line. The reasoning in lunar calendars is that with the light at its lowest the plant spends what it has below the surface. It's also the point in the month worth spending on the soil itself, opening new beds and working compost in before anything is sown. If you prune today, expect the plant to answer below ground instead of pushing new shoots, which is what you want from a fruit tree you're trying to keep in bounds.
Another root day, and the one biodynamic growers keep for planting out rather than sowing. Virgo is read as the sign that gets roots established, which makes it the day for moving young plants into their final position and for putting potatoes in.
Gardening Moon Calendar
The quiet end of the cycle, and the almanacs treat it accordingly: a slot for routine work and not for anything demanding. The reasoning they offer is that recovery here is slow and gradual, so minor and elective procedures get placed in this window while the heavier ones wait for a waxing phase. Worth saying plainly that this is folk timing and nothing more. If a date has already been offered to you, your surgeon's reasoning about your case outranks the moon's position every time.
Virgo rules the abdomen and the digestive tract, so bowel and stomach procedures come off these days in the old scheme. It's among the more specific entries, and one where the tradition and ordinary caution happen to agree, though only one of the two is a medical judgement.
* Lunar timing is folk tradition, not medical advice. No research supports scheduling surgery by moon phase. Always follow your surgeon's recommendation on when to operate.
Surgery Moon Calendar
