Posted on July 31, 2024 by Henry Seltzer of ASTROGRAPH.COM
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This month represents another transformative time, Taurus, with Pluto continuing to be highlighted in your solar chart. The New Moon of Sunday, August 4th, represents an emphasis on home and family, and your psychological roots, with the added twist that Mercury is also turning retrograde in your sector of creativity, projects, and pleasure, so that you are simultaneously second-guessing yourself in these areas. You are very aware of the deeper layers of your psyche and do well to pay attention to what is going on within you, and to intuitional information coming your way. When a week goes by and the First Quarter Moon lands in your partnership sector, on the 12th, it is really a case of go and stop. You could have loads of ideas but your sense of what can be concretely accomplished lies in suspended animation. There could be partnership conflicts that yet illumine choices that you have made or see looming, so that careful nuance is required to see all of it through to the best conclusion. The Aquarius Full Moon of the following week, taking place on the 19th, makes for something of a culmination that brings even more vividly to an important turning point.
The following was written by our guest columnist Elodie St-Onge Aubut of Ninth House Astrology
You arrive at the month of August from a place of inner work that includes home and family considerations and a mediative attitude toward what might be accomplished by looking within yourself for the answers. That spirit of trusting to intuition also comes up for you on August 1st, as Venus, your ruler, squares Uranus in your sign, and trines Eris and Chiron in your sector of unconscious process.
Mercury is also slowing down in Virgo, getting ready to turn retrograde on the 4th, which will give you an introspective time period of further looking within, question the wellsprings of your creativity. The Mercury Retrograde period of Mercury moving backward through Virgo, and then through part of Leo, or your domestic sector, lasts until the 28th and beyond, as it straightens out for two more weeks into September. This means that you have the entire month to refine a project, a hobby, or your living situation to be sure that your efforts are sustainable in the long run.
On August 4th also, the Leo New Moon arrives, bringing fresh energy to your realm of home and family concerns and issues. Pleasurable comfort is high on your priority list, and you are always willing to put in the extra effort necessary to get it, but there could be a price to pay to secure your peace in the form of greater tension than usual between familial or career obligations versus your need for space and freedom. Important partners might be able to contribute a helpful point of view and they are in any case likely to put an oar in anyway in order to try.
Venus in Virgo for most of August brings an additional emphasis on creativity, pleasure, romance, any children in your life. Your desire for leisure and fun activities could easily take center stage if it wasn’t for your ambitions and the responsibilities attached to them.
On August 12th, the First Quarter Moon n Scorpio with the Sun still in Leo could bring up a degree of tension between your partnership and domestic sectors that could however lead to creative solutions over time.
On August 18th, there is information of an unusual kind affecting your domestic sphere as Mercury in Leo squares Uranus in your sign before becoming buried in the heart of the Sun for the afternoon.
The Aquarius Full Moon in culminates on August 19th in your vocational sector emphasizing recent victories and shining a spotlight on your public image and your societal contributions. The Full Moon makes a T-square to Uranus in your sign emphasizing individuality, originality and trailblazing. Venus, your ruler, opposing Saturn in Pisces as part of this Full Moon could put up blocks to individual creativity or romantic initiatives and which could nevertheless provide necessary lessons.
The Sun enters Virgo on the 22nd corresponding to your sector of creativity and joy, which provides you comfort in a somewhat difficult month.
The Last Quarter Moon in Gemini on the 26th could be a financial flash point in terms of attitude changes that could in the end actually prove necessary. This will be more or less impactful depending on your spending habits and your confidence level in these matters of your money and your own values and how comfortable you are acknowledging them.
Mercury turns direct on the 28th in the sign of Leo which could bring inspiration to focus on what you love to do the most. Indulgence versus discipline continues to be an important theme at the end of August as Venus also transitions from Virgo into Libra on the 29th and trines transformational Pluto. You have a lot of work on your hands but when you do what you love, the work becomes more like child’s play.
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