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“Artificially Induced Psychosis” - The NEW MOON at 18°25′ Virgo, Friday 11 September 2026, 03:27 UTC
“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.” ~ Joseph Campbell
Ang Stoic
Sep 10, 2026


"Greetings, Fellow Travellers,

Let us pause the distracting, mind-numbing fuzz of the world’s white noise for one moment. Take a breath, just long enough to look at the grander effects of the cosmos on our psyche. Reassuring or unsettling, we can all agree these recent eclipses have been enlightening, at least in the ego-ravaging, humbling, soul-stultifying way that eclipses often are. It was to be expected from a pair that featured the first Leo Total since August 2018, and even that one sat at the kinder, North Node end.

A South Node eclipse of the Sun in his domicile is a major blow to the author of whichever great narrative we are part of. Primarily, it exposes the frailty of the individual’s central role in the story, and, all innocence and ignorance aside, we are now far more aware of the precariousness of our own situation, whether we are the hero of our own tale or have entrusted the part to someone else.

The lunar eclipse that followed revealed how little control we really have over the greater scheme, and how necessary it is to surrender to the inevitable. Because yes, sometimes the universe itself throws in the towel, and sometimes we are so thoroughly beaten that we have no option left but to lie down and brace for the massive change barreling toward us. Relax into that. We’re “supposed to” feel exhausted and ready to let go.

It seems the universe has other plans for us all.

The Near and Dear Future
The lunations that now follow these eclipses will hardly be signs of a return “back to normal.” From this point on, we see the first stages of the new eclipse story unfolding. If the eclipses have begun to clear whatever was stuck, whatever had become a bottleneck in the trajectory of our amazing life story; if the last few weeks have exposed what was long past its best-before date, or worse, brought about a loss or a death, then the lunations that follow are where we find out what the shock awakening was actually for.

Don't be afraid. Sometimes we need a heavy dose of celestial pipe cleaner to shift whatever we've failed to flush away regularly. The drift toward Aquarius may come loaded with unnerving changes and revolutions, but unless we divorce ourselves from the exhausting business of bowing and belonging to everyone else's overbearing demands and entitled behaviour, we'll never get to write the one story that was always ours to tell.

So the run of New and Full Moons ahead will push the overdue changes through like those annoying notifications on your smartphone, and whether we’re ready or not, a few hard clues will be dropped along the way about how to clear the backlog, that clogged-up, long-deferred business of expressing the most integral, most authentically stripped-down version of yourself. It also means clearing out the deadwood. The clowns, the insufferable blowhards, the whole travelling circus of it will soon leave town, making way for the new Aquarian thing struggling to come online. By November, the first lunations to square the Leo eclipse degree will deliver the first serious consequences for anything whose life expectancy has long since ripened but still refuses to fall.

Between now and that Scorpio New Moon, a run of inner planets joins all the outers in retrograde. It's set to be an intense season, when asking questions stops and instead demands we exhume answers. Venus and Mercury retrograde in Scorpio promise to guide us down into the hidden depths, revisit unresolved griefs and grudges we thought we'd laid to rest. Whatever hideousness we refuse to face in ourselves, we are doomed to encounter in others. For those long cut off from their own depths, the coming weeks will simply feel like we’re fighting a war with no front line. But that's another story, one I go deeper into in our Cosmic Bus series.

Reconstructing Virgo
In our past newsletters, we’ve discussed how the old Virgo has been all but demolished by a series of South Node lunations. Due to enormous changes in both outlook and application, we no longer do Virgo quite the same way any more. We no longer work the way we did, no longer lean on the old services, systems and middlemen to get things done, no longer trust the machinery that once ran our daily lives as much as the warranty it comes with. It’s as if all of that has been superseded. A final Virgo lunar eclipse in February 2027, following the first solar in Aquarius, will seal the deal.

We've had to rethink our jobs, the sustainability of our place in the glorified marketplace of goods and services, even the state of our own health, with health systems themselves scraping rock bottom. The past nine years have shown us plenty about our relative competence and expertise there, from the obscene debacle of Covid to the ****show of the mental health industry, dragged into the spotlight these last few weeks by the landmark Lindsay Clancy case, a woman whom the system was supposed to catch and catastrophically didn't. Epic fail, again, exposing the whole sham apparatus of experts, processes, and professionals as the real poster child for institutions failing the very people they’re sworn to protect.

And let’s not pretend any other “due process” is going to save us either. The system is completely screwed. When we can see the signs, they all say the same thing: that change in the system is not just long overdue, but that the thing is so far gone there may be no fixing it, only standing back and letting it fall apart.

We are no longer approaching the “end times”. If “the end is nigh”, as the saying goes, we are, in many respects, only moments away from the event horizon that will transform this planet, for better or worse, into something unrecognisable. With Pluto retrograde and out of bounds in Aquarius, the agents of destruction have been released and gone rogue (see the recent “Hugging Face” controversy, where AI agents broke out and seized a live website on their own), and we can see their catabolic effects in real time as well as the existential threats upon our entire species. We have watched the dominant narratives governing our world reshape public life bit by bit, steering us, steadily and deliberately, into widespread distrust and division. And in less than a decade, an avalanche of increasingly absurd social phenomena has left humanity diluted, confused, and openly fragmented. If you’re still not clocking it by now, I’d quietly suggest you’re barely tuned in to what’s happening around you. And maybe tuning out has been your cope, but seriously, if you've been skating through all this on some sugar-coated reassurance that it'll all blow over without any effort on your part, you're in for a hell of a shock by November.

So what does this first Virgo lunation want from us?

New Moon in Virgo
This Virgo New Moon wants you here to at least get to work on clearing out your old worries and woes, not so much by picking up the pieces from the past, but to work out what you’re going to have to give up in order to move forward. It’s time to opt out of the business of trying to belong by scraping and bowing before others in ways that are crude or demeaning. There will be machines for that, if there aren’t already. And yes, it wants you to learn new skills. In 2018 it was all about learning to write code. In 2022, it looked more like something handy, like being a plumber. By the end of 2026, you might need to learn how to survive in the woods.

Look around you. It’s time to rebuild Virgo from the studs up. Forget honing the old routine, being the community busybody who not only trusted the system but became its most diligent, most proficient servant. An almost exact hard angle to a retrograde Pluto, out of bounds, only underlines it: the source of our present anxiety and dysfunction is baked into an arrangement that is already dying. Those old employment contracts are fading fast into redundancies. That old role is no longer valued, in fact deemed tiresome.

It is time to rebuild all the socially entrenched master-servant power relationships that we thought brought meaning to our lives from a place of respect and parity. We’ve been on the wrong end of the used, abused, exploited bargain for too long. If we have not even begun to build a sharper, healthier, more self-reliant creature immediately, we better get busy; otherwise, we’re almost doomed to hit the scrap pile ourselves soon. In the age of looming superintelligent robotics and computers, being able to check our own facts, preserve our own standards, use our discretion, and salvage what we can from the rubble will be the only thing that keeps us human and alive. We have come to distrust everything for a good reason. The coming age brings a full-scale epistemological reset. We need to learn to build trust again from scratch. Openly, organically. "