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September 2025: The Month Your Nervous System Gets a Mandatory Software Update

Or: Why Your Old Identity Is About to Get Marie Kondo'd Whether You Like It or Not

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Dea Devidas
Aug 30, 2025
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Listen up, spiritual overachievers and somatic control freaks: September 2025 isn’t just another month where Mercury goes retrograde and you blame your communication issues on planetary positions instead of admitting you’ve been avoiding that conversation for six months. This is a full-scale nervous system reorganization disguised as “just some transits.”

Your body already knows something is shifting. That restless feeling in your chest, that strange nostalgia for futures you haven’t lived yet, that sense that the ground beneath your identity is becoming less solid. Your tissue is receiving the memo before your mind translates it.

Think of it as Reality’s software update notification: “Hey, remember that identity you’ve been clinging to like it’s the last lifeboat on the Titanic? Yeah, we’re updating the operating system. Mandatory. No, you can’t opt out. Yes, we know you didn’t read the terms and conditions. No, complaining to customer service won’t help because there isn’t one.”

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