Libra Horoscope for August 2013

Your journey toward wholeness continues, Libra, as you vision new possibilities for yourself that has a broader scheme as its basis. This is an important time of internal change and reorientation; another period when what is happening on the outside does not reveal anything close to what is actually going on within you. The recent retrograde of Mercury through your career sector symbolized a thoroughgoing review and re-examination of your goals for your work in the world. This combines with a newfound determination to succeed within the framework of a more solid understanding of yourself that takes your deep interior process more fully into account. You are receiving loads of intuitive information from partners as you move toward a more compassionate embrace of the universe that surrounds you.

As the month begins, you are taking in all that has happened recently, and attempting to more fully understand what has in fact transpired. The Star of David or grand sextile configuration, that six-pointed star from the last Monday of July — involving as it did the Moon in your intimacy sector and your ruler, Venus, in your sector of dreams and inner work — has lingered, if not in the actual sky, then within your mind and heart. This is in any case a time of inner imaginings as you contemplate the changing tides from the gradual attenuating of the Mercury Retrograde period of July that affected your solar chart quite strongly.

With Mercury recently retrograding through your career sector you have been in an interesting space of revising how you approach your life in general. This extends to professional choices but also applies to what you bring to any table — how you see yourself engaging with the world around you and the people in it. There are many pulls to the inside that are symbolized by various elements and aspects of transits to your solar chart right now. These are an indication that it is only by consciously integrating the vast unconscious places within you that you will find the right path for yourself moving forward. Greater wholeness within has its spiritual and also its material rewards; making it easier for you to deal with the pressures and challenges of modern day society.

The planets that participated in last month's grand trine and grand sextile are still emphasized in the current month, especially in the early going. With expansive and positive Jupiter, as well as Mercury, so clearly emphasized in your career sector, you have been in an optimistic place lately in many ways, and yet still drawn to your internal places also. There has thus been a movement toward better integration of all your parts that has been well started but that is still far from complete. Then, too, the emphatic presence of Pluto in your home and family sector, as well as Chiron in your sector of service to others, brings family relations and the concept of your contribution there very alive for you now as well. You have perhaps been dealing with what makes your home special to you, and this trend continues and even amplifies over the remainder of the year. This is also symbolic of what makes your feel secure in yourself. You could find yourself challenged and also rewarded as you dig down and deal with such issues.

Your ruler, Venus, moves into your sign after the middle of the month, and begins to aspect Saturn, representing a sense of limitation, and also Neptune, representing a numinous and yet also ungrounded freedom from the limits of the physical world, and again Chiron by the time of the August 20th Full Moon. More intensity and further impacts corresponding to the Uranus and Pluto square are coming to exact in the remainder of the year. There is a side to you that finds difficulties in these particular ingredients of your current arc of development and yet the work is there to be done and the rewards are great for following through and moving yourself along.