Libra Horoscope for August 2024

This is an August month of internal thought process, Libra, and for taking a similarly mystical and intuitional perspective on relationships in your life, requiring discernment. Mercury is in retrograde motion beginning on the 4th, and the Leo New Moon that same day features your ruler, Venus, at the edge of your sector of the unconscious, dreams, and inner work. These are powerful indications that much is going on beneath the surface layers of your psyche. Important partners bring helpful perspectives that can also be tinged with a modicum of confusion or self-deception, so that you have to be careful in how you look at this. You benefit from staying as open as you are able to what your intuition and your angel guidance – which could also be considered as information from your higher self – provide. You are in the midst of an evolutionary approach to your own creativity, which might need to be in closer alignment with your most cherished principles and values as they, themselves, continue to evolve. The Full Moon of the 19th comes along two weeks later and is another extremely potent lunation, one that brings further awareness to your societal contribution and as well the issues surrounding your inner world.


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


As August arrives, you are riding out the Cancer lunation cycle from last month, which energized your vocational sector, so that might have been lots of action in that part of your life, lasting into the first few days of the present month. As the month gets underway, as well, because Venus, your ruler, is trine Eris in Aries, while Mercury is slowing down in Virgo, inner matters and future goals are also very much on your mind.

On August 2nd, your ruling planet Venus, transiting in Leo, corresponding to your social sector of groups, friendships, and future plans, forms a square with Trickster Uranus in Taurus, symbolizing that unusual alliances prosper and surprises abound. You could be feeling restless excitement in these areas and also the reverse urge to pull it together in order to continue working towards a long-term goal.

The Leo New Moon arrives on the 4th bringing new incentives to connect with like-minded individuals within or even outside of your current circle. You could be craving more pleasurable social interactions. A lot of energy is available for this with however the caveat that Venus entering Virgo and Mercury turning retrograde on the same day could mean that time spent alone in more of a meditative stance.

The Mercury Retrograde period of time begins also on the 4th, lasting until at least the 28th when Mercury stations direct. This engenders an introspective period of time when you are looking more closely beneath the normative day-to-day working world of tasks and schedules. There might be shadow work that is an important corollary to this surface level that needs attending to in order for you to fell more complete and whole; and if so, you might profit by turning your gaze within yourself. It is possible that – as you see more deeply into things – course corrections will result.

Mercury in retrograde meets Venus in early Virgo on the 7th. This brings to you greater conscious awareness of your process of review and readjustment. Time and effort invested behind the scenes will eventually pay off and there could still be a lot of work to be done before you fully get there.

The First Quarter Moon in Scorpio arrives on August 12th, lighting up your sector of values and resources. Some conflict could ensue between peer pressure versus your internal intuitional concepts. Your own completely individual principles and values are one thing that is very much on your mind in this introspective timeframe, and these could be even further brought forward.

From the 13th to the 15th, Mars and Jupiter form a conjunction in Gemini which also squares Saturn in Pisces culminating the 16th. This could continue to highlight any tension between your long-term goals and the logistics needed to make something happen. Every step along the way counts in bringing you closer to your true goals. Mars and Jupiter in Gemini being thus highlighted offers opportunities to get out of the beaten path with your beliefs and worldview and find new directions in how you see things.

August 18th, Venus, your ruler, opposes stolid old Saturn and things could slow down for you a bit. This could be something of a styme for your progress although there will also be lessons gained.

The Full Moon in Aquarius takes place on August 19th and reanimates your creative projects, romantic opportunities, children, and self-expression with some different ideas that are emerging with you. The Full Moon is making a T-square to Uranus in late Taurus so that surprise events new revelations are more than possible. Mercury Retrograde conjunct the Sun in Leo in this Full Moon brings a thoughtful and innovative time which could make it a priority to start reconciling various areas of your life where that seems needed. You may have to get out of your own way and let go of the need to have everything figured out perfectly.

On the 28th, Mercury stations direct, while on the 29th, Venus moving into your sign gives you added self-confidence to deal with the many ideas and unusual social interactions that this complex month has perhaps brought forward. As Mercury slowly escapes its post-retrograde shadow over the next two weeks, there will eventually emerge greater ease and opportunities to integrate more seamlessly what seemed irreconcilable just a few weeks ago.