Welcome to August, folks, and the lion heart of Leo season. This month is wild, with retrograde motion and lessons galore.
Sunday, August 4, is a power player this month, awaiting the progress of Venus in the ascendant, ornate service sign of Virgo, a new moon in Leo and the start of Mercury retrograde.
With Mercury and Venus in Virgo, there is a general tendency toward criticism and a temptation to hyper-focus on the pragmatic at the expense of the joyful.
Remember that one person’s perfection is another’s failure.
It’s a scale, folks — and when pressed, choose and apply the immortal words of Virgo Quintet and musician Nick Cave: “I feel compelled to discover, enhance, and promote the beautiful things in the world instead of obsessing, fretting, and fretting.” about the worst things. I believe in creation over destruction, compassion over cynicism, mercy over bloodshed, friendship over enmity, truth over lies, and love over hate.”
Things start to get nice and level around August 19th with a full moon in space cadet Aquarius. Amid the reflective yet necessary weariness of Mercury retrograde, this future-focused full moon calls us to look up and reach beyond.
Leo is concerned with being the star, while Aquarius seeks to understand how we all fit into a constellation of interdependence. Some are real living better through community things.
I can dig.
Leo season ends on August 22, passing the baton to Virgo. This is followed by the end of Mercury retrograde on the 28th, but keep in mind that while we may have moved into an earth sign, we’re not out of the woods yet, as the shadow period will continue to confuse us as we begin. September days.
Easing and softening will be aided and abetted by Venus’s move towards orgasms, Aperol spritz and the sign of Libra’s nail polish on August 29.
Read on and make sure you find room for your sun and birth sign. Good luck out there, stay warm, stay humble, speak the truth, be kind.
Leo season lights up your fifth house of pleasure, Aries, and with your ruling planet, war dad Mars, firmly anchored in the pleasant climes of Gemini, you may find that wordplay is your favorite sport.
There’s a temptation to act like a rebellious teenager in these waning days of summer, but if you don’t get your work done and get your work done, you’ll be sorry. I encourage you to experiment with a strategic reward system instead of recklessly abandoning your trademark.
Stability can be fun – I promise.
Venus, your ruling planet, spends most of this month in Virgo, her fall sign.
Venus wants to luxuriate, but in the sign of Virgo, the planet of pleasure trades whimsy for care and a smoking jacket for work boots. I know it sounds terrible and smells like wheat bran, but you can use this energy to your advantage, Taurus.
Use the discerning lens of Virgo to reevaluate your relationship with luxury. Are you spending emotionally or intentionally and for what purpose?
Life is richer than red.
With your sharp and laid-back mind, you’re not usually what the kids would call “chill,” Gemini, but relaxation and restoration can and should be your main aspiration this month..
Sun in Leo and Mercury selling in Virgo highlight areas of your life related to self-expression and family origins.
From whom did you inherit the tendency to imagine WCS? Consider the deep, rebellious satisfaction that can come from being an unrepentant optimist.
The past is dead, my changeling babies, but how you rise from and above it may be your ultimate and greatest act of creation.
Ahoy, you bright moonbeams. The Sun in Leo strengthens the area of your chart associated with value and wealth, Cancer.
How easily and often do you exchange what you know you deserve for what you hope will please someone else? It turns out that relationships can be mutually beneficial and not some weird martyrdom saga – shocking, I know. In fact, if you’re clear about your worth and straightforward about what you won’t accept, your soft power will inspire others.
Win-win, baby.
Happy return of the sun to you, Leo. The new moon on August 4 will serve as a kind of birthday baptism for you, after which you can become painfully aware of who and what you would not prefer to attract in the next year of life.
Bonus round: skinny dipping under the dark skies of your new moon, and as the water washes over you, ask not only what you need less of, but how you can bring more to the people who lift you up and guide you right.
With Venus in your sign and Mercury transiting the moon, questions about who you are and what you fear are important, Virgo.
What are you holding that is holding you back? As author Mary Anne Radmacher reminds us, “Courage doesn’t always roar; sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day that says, ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.’
I cannot create a more positive or appropriate feeling for you this month than this gentle commandment.
The new moon in Leo lends its leonine light and power to your 11th house of community and causes, Libra, while the energy density of Virgo will have you delving deep into the esoteric realm of spirituality and the unconscious mind.
In relationship and conversation, this energy is prompting you to consider the role you play in the world at large and whether that version of you is authentic or just soothing.
Be brave enough not to be contradicted by the persona you’ve created, so you can stand up and come out as you are.
Why can being a “yes” man when saying “no” be so satisfying?
The Sun and New Moon in Leo activate/agitate your 10th house of public perception, Scorpio.
When retrograde Mercury plunges into the lion’s den mid-month, you are called to reflect on the dissonance between the image you project and the intimate truth of who you are. We know you’re a tough whore, Scorpio, but you’re much, much more.
Consider leading with confident gentleness rather than fearful blur.
For part of this month, retrograde Mercury is falling, or so to speak retrograde, in your ninth house of travel and philosophy, Sagittarius.
Movement is now stillness – not stagnation, mind you – overflow becomes what happens when you slow down long enough to empty your mind and calm your breath.
The messages of the universe can only be recognized when you are clear enough to receive them, and she is concerned about you.
You’re more of a brooding burner than a burnt-to-the-ground type, Capricorn, but Leo season is here to illuminate your eighth house of sex, death, finances and radical transformation.
When dealing with a water house like this, intuition trumps the best logic like the law of the manor. Reflection over reason, feeling over figures, feeling over strategy, my horned, horned friends.
You may be a little terrified of what the abyss is whispering to you, but it is even scarier to refuse the call.
The Sun in Leo shines its powerful light on areas of your life dealing with relationships, partnerships, handshakes, matching tattoos and other such blood oaths, Aquarius. If I were to describe one pop song to you this month, it would be “Open Your Heart,” a prayerful dirge from Madonna – The Greatest Lion of All Lions.
May I humbly suggest that you open your arms, soften your gaze, and live just for a moment in the possibility that letting someone in can support rather than subvert who you are?
Stop denying others the supreme pleasure of loving you.
Leo season activates your sixth house of ritual and responsibility, Pisces. While boundaries are extremely difficult for water signs to maintain or maintain, this month is an invitation to create routines that serve you and engage in conversations that strengthen you.
There are as many ways to feel full as there are ways to deplete yourself. Perhaps instead of a limit, you can think of your limits as a boundary—less about what you can’t allow and more about what imaginative spaces are available when you hold yourself up.
Give yourself the gift of wholeness.
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Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and reports irreverently on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture and personal experience.
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