PLANETARY NEWS SEPTEMBER 2025 from Komilla Sutton

ECLIPSE SEASON & EXTENDED JUPITER VARGOTTAMA

September heralds the eclipse season with a lunar eclipse on the 7th and a solar eclipse on the 21st. Eclipses happen 6 months apart, and we get two eclipses together. The September eclipses are not as challenging as the ones we had in March 2025; however, they still bring changes and anxieties. Eclipse can also create earthquakes -either before or after the event. As I was writing the news, there was a massive earthquake reported in Afghanistan. It is hard to pinpoint the earthquakes unless your astrological work specialises in them. We can also expect strange weather patterns and hurricanes, too. On a personal level, eclipses are emotionally charged, and we can feel restlessness and anxiety during the eclipse, even if it is not visible in our vicinity.

7/8 September – Lunar eclipse in 21°09 Aquarius, Purva Bhadra Nakshatra. It begins at 17:30 UTC and reaches its maximum at 18:08 UTC. It is visible in Europe, Asia and Australia.

22 September – Partial Solar Eclipse - New Moon at 4°52 Virgo, Uttara Phalguni Nakshatra, 7.54 pm New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga and Antarctica will see a partial eclipse at Sunrise. If you have Ascendant, Sun and Moon placed around 4°52 Virgo, it indicates changes for you in the coming year. This is the last of the Vigo Solar eclipses for some time. Virgo Ascendant, Sun and Moon will experience it the most.

There are three places in the zodiac where two vargottama come together. Vargottama occurs when a planet is in the same rashi and navamsha. It is a special place for a planet to be in the natal chart, bringing strength and steadiness. The last navamsha of Gemini/ first navamsha of Cancer, same for Virgo/ Libra and Pisces/ Aries are vargottama. When slow-moving planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Rahu, Ketu) transit this area of the chart, it is a very special time. When the planet is the super benefic Jupiter, then it is even better. And when Jupiter stays in this, the vargottama zone for a long time, it is even more positive. This is what is happening to Jupiter in 2025 and 2026. Jupiter moves into Vargottama Gemini in September and then will go into Vargottama and exalted Cancer, retrograde back, setting up a long transit through vargottama.

19 September 2025 to 4 January 2026, 14 May to 18 June 2027 – Jupiter Vargottama by Transit in Gemini and Cancer. Extra special transit for Sagittarius and Pisces. However, all benefit from Jupiter in dignity, giving support and blessings to all.

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SEPTEMBER 2025 PANCHANGA

All times listed are UTC (Coordinated Universal Time.)
All times for festivals are for India.
Mean nodes are used.

As we start the month of Septemnber...

• We enter the second eclipse season of 2025
• Sun is in his own sign of Leo (until 16 September 8.18 pm)
• Rahu and Ketu are exalted in Navamsha (until 21 September 9.29 am)
• Mars is debilitated in Navamsha (until 3 September 12.23 pm)
• Capricorn is still experiencing Adhi Yoga (until Venus enters Leo on 14 September) with Jupiter in the 6th, Venus in the 7th and Mercury in the 8th