Aries Horoscope for August 2016

You are heading into a time of serious reconsideration of many things, Aries, including your basic worldview. You have been mulling matters over for the first half of a climactic year, and are perhaps only now beginning to put some of your ideas in order. With the continuing highlighted presence of Uranus in your sign, and even more powerfully triggered over an astrologically sizzling month of August, surprising events and unexpected enlightenment are your new normal. Cosmic forces are knocking on your metaphorical door and asking that you allow them entrance. This month you are also making major changes in the way that you conceptualize the world around you, and discovering how this shapes your creative output. The conclusions that you are coming to in this summer season timeframe will last you to the end of the year, and beyond.

As the month begins, with the Moon in your home and family sector, therefore connecting you to your psychological depths, and your ruler, Mars, newly entered into your sector of higher mind, you are exploring your emotions and yet also broadening your mental horizons. A changeable spontaneity of a nonconformist nature has been a steady condition for you in recent months, and you could be feeling this impulse quite strongly now. With the Leo New Moon of Tuesday, August 2nd, you have extra energy available to you, and also, due to the prominent presence of Saturn, a paradoxical slowing down of the forward momentum that you desire to generate. You could be making travel or educational plans this month, and finding a serious interest in these, and also difficulties in finishing them off, because Saturn is highlighted in this same sector. The New Moon makes a close aspect to Saturn, and you are energized and also held back by the need to work out every detail before proceeding. There could also be unexpected snags that come up and that need to be worked through.

All this is happening in the context of an emphasis on what lies below the surface layers of your psyche, as indicated by the potent New Moon energy at the nadir of your solar chart. In another important chime with this placement, the Sun and Moon are in strong aspect to both Saturn and the antithetical energies of Neptune, numinous harbinger of that which is beyond the physical plane, located in your sector of dream imagination and inner work. For this entire monthly cycle, your dreams could be a vital source of information for you, bringing welcome clues to what is truly going on in all your various parts. This applies to dark places within you, the residue of early childhood wounding, as symbolized by a highlighted presence of Chiron this month, located in this same sector of unconscious process. With prominent Chiron, you may find that you can understand more of the motivation that drives certain behavior patterns that have in the past been such a habitual factor for you that you are only peripherally aware of them.

Issues of interpersonal connection could arise during August to clue you in, and if so, can provide you with a golden opportunity to better get to know yourself in these dark places, below the level of your everyday consciousness. By embracing these walled-off parts of yourself with compassionate acceptance, you make the first steps in moving beyond dysfunction, and becoming more whole.