Virgo Horoscope for August 2024

This August month is one of exploring hidden mysteries within you, Virgo, with several astrological factors pointing in this inward turning direction. For one thing, as your ruler, Mercury, begins moving backward through your sign from almost its very start, you are reviewing or even recreating the past. Habit patterns that no longer work could be on their way out. The New Moon of August 4th illuminates your sector of unconscious process, dream imagination, and inner work, so that as you enter August’s second week, you find yourself in an internal and introspective mode. Mystical Neptune is also highlighted in your sector of partnership, as well as intimacy and personal transformation, so that everything seems very fluid and out of touch with more concretely surface realities. The Full Moon of the 19th is a significant juncture and brings relationship even more powerfully into the picture. These could be idealized at one moment and then the bubble could burst in the next, so that it is important to recognize that you are the final arbiter of your own fate. Your life on the outside does not reveal very much of what is truly going on for you as you sort your true priorities and acknowledge the power of your inner world.


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


You arrive at August fresh from a rather transformational Cancer lunation cycle, punctuated by the recent Full Moon on the edge of your sector of dream imagination and unconscious process; this brought the deep inner part of yourself closer to the light of day, while your sector of career and professional life was also being stimulated. Inner and outer were your twin watchwords, and this remains true in the current month.

You may feel the need to slow down in order to regroup at the beginning of this August excursion, with Mercury, your ruler, moving quite slowly through your sign, preparing to retrograde. This event takes place on August 4th coincident with the New Moon, and the retrograde period lasts most of the month, until the 28th. With this significant backward motion your mode becomes to some extent an introspective one, and you could find yourself questioning your very identity, or how you came to be the way that you are. There is a constructive phase to this kind of inquiry because certain self-concepts could have outlived their usefulness and could need a little pruning along the way to your net evolutionary phase.

The Leo New Moon takes place this same day, of the 4th, in your sector of unconscious process and inner work, which adds to the inward turning. This day is also when Venus enters your sign that evening, which may additionally make for a thoughtful presence, reminding you of your own unique principles and values that are your birthright. Jupiter and Mars are highlighted in your career sector, which make for an energetic accompaniment to all this inner orientation, urging you to speed up when you are feeling more in the way of slowing down to examine the ground beneath your feet. You could be simultaneously in high demand for your skills and your ability to shapeshift with ease between roles and circumstances.

This retrograde period could also prompt you to reassess your various engagements and projects to ensure that these are still aligned with what you want to be doing. You may have been gradually veering off from your trajectory due to external demands and now may be a good time to make the necessary adjustments especially when it comes to your workload and what you are willing to do for others.

From August 13th to the 15th, Mars and Jupiter in Gemini align in their close conjunction with Saturn in Pisces, and with Venus in your sign by squaring each end of the Venus opposition to Saturn. This represents more conflict between the urge to do versus the urge just to be. You could be navigating between your personal needs and the commitments or promises you made to others trying to keep all those balls in the air. The Mercury Retrograde is meanwhile again asking for a slowdown rather than a speeding up, so that you will have to exercise discrimination in choosing how you show up.

On the 18th, Venus opposite Saturn perfects, indicating commitments to partners and a slowing down in relationship interactions. Issues of self and other could arise for deeper consideration. On this day as well, Mercury in Leo, still in retrograde motion, squares Uranus. There could be loads of intuitional information flying around, as you try to pick and choose what to settle on.

The Full Moon in Aquarius arrives on the 19th emphasizing your to-do list and the near impossible task of juggling everything efficiently at this time. This may also give you the ability to get directly in touch with your ambitions and what is actually motivating you. Jupiter in your vocational sector is precisely square to Saturn in your relationship sector, so that both of these important areas are now featured, with the possibility of conflicting priorities. The world of your social setting could be another factor distracting you from embracing principles and values that are strictly your own.

The Sun enters your sign on the 22nd and Mercury turns direct on the 28th. Mercury will gradually escape its post-retrograde shadow over the next two weeks, extending to September 11th. The next month brings more ease for all things and could feel particularly rewarding after a period of hard work.