Gemini Horoscope for August 2024

This is an exciting month of push and pull, Gemini, where you have a lot of energy for moving forward, and yet also must accept some delays or even setbacks to get most of what you truly want. One consequential factor in all this is the transformational pressure upon your evolving understanding of your beliefs and worldview, likely shifting these summer months, while another is the recent entrance of Mars into your sign, coincident with the potent late Capricorn Full Moon from last month, which has been giving you energy for change and a certain degree of passion, Because of of the energy of the Trickster, Uranus, you have also been dealing with surprise events and unusual revelations. You do well, however, to stay open-minded to these eruptions. This month as well, on August 4th, the same day as the Leo New Moon, Mercury, your ruler, turns to retrograde motion in your home and family sector. This initiates what is for you an introspective time when the caution is to go slowly and to try not to push the river. Your energy level stays high, and your deepest and most sincere values remain all important as you fine-tune your approach to family dynamics, relationships, and your psychological roots.


The following was written by our guest columnist Elodie St-Onge Aubut of Ninth House Astrology


The August month arrives on the heels of a dramatic Full Moon in late Capricorn from the 21st of the previous month, as the Cancer lunation cycle subsides in its first few days. At that time, Mars was newly in your sign, touching off the transformational effects of Pluto in Aquarius, or your sector of beliefs and worldview, so that you can still feel the shift – carrying over into the present month – in habit patterns and point of view.

On August 4th, your ruling planet, Mercury, turns retrograde in Virgo, corresponding to your sector of home and family which brings a reassessment of your overall direction not because you are not progressing necessarily, but because of a shifting landscape within you as far as goals and values. The need to rethink your approaches could also be prompted by Mars in your sign coming closer to expansive Jupiter.

The Leo New Moon also arrives on August 4th in your communications sector, bringing a fresh start in this area which includes mental process, curiosity, and learning. These factors may become more individually tinged with your own stamp at this timing, although with Mercury also in retrograde in your domestic sector you are in an introspective mode as well, to some extent exploring your own inner depths and the way that your familial dynamic flows.

There is a lot of action taking place in Gemini this month thanks to Mars and Jupiter coming into conjunction while both are transiting in your sign. This combination is known for being over the top and energetically active and yet it could bring the confidence needed to breeze through the more challenging aspects of this month such as the Mercury Retrograde.

Impatience with the status quo is possible mid-month as Mars conjuncts Jupiter in Gemini from the 13th to the 15th, and they together square Saturn in Pisces, Jupiter not becoming exact until the 19th of the month. This emphasizes your ambitions and brings you into thoughtful connection with the various conflicting energies of the society that surrounds you, as you make your own ay forward.

New perspectives could also begin to emerge by the 18th when Mercury in retrograde motion comes into close conjunction with the Sun in Leo, providing a degree of inspiration

The Aquarius Full Moon arrives the next day, on August 19th, with Mercury still conjunct the Sun. The Full Moon comes as something of a culmination of the impulse of this cycle, stemming from the 4th, and light up both your higher mind sector and also that of career and professional life. Issues of the balance between public and private might come up for you at this juncture, and with highlighted Uranus on the edge of your sign, surprises abound, along with startling revelations. Jupiter in Gemini forms an exact square with Saturn in Pisces in your career sector, implying course corrections, especially in relation to your career. Heading into the future, your enthusiasm must find its productive channels to flow into for maximum beneficial results.

This idea of something being up with your processional or vocational choices could be an enriching and an ongoing process that takes you all the way to June 2025 when Jupiter is also square to Saturn.

Mercury in Leo forms a sextile with Mars in Gemini on the 24th before turning direct on the 28th which means the last week of August could bring more information to you about something that’s been in the works for a while.

Venus enters Libra on the 29th and forms a trine with Pluto in Aquarius which could bring the transformational impact of Pluto to bear and perhaps result in eventual inspiration needed to rekindle your creativity and passions, making things a lot smoother after a period of reassessment.