*August 2025 Monthly Horoscopes – Summaries*
Aries
August spotlights your need for recreation and attention to self-expression, creativity, joy, and love, dear Aries. You’re also in good standing on the domestic front, with nice opportunities to connect with loved ones or to understand your needs better. Mars charges through your work and health sector, ensuring you attend to your work, chores, and health pursuits, and while it moves on by the 6th, the Sun heads into the same sector on the 22nd, renewing your attention to the work, details, and practical side of your life. As such, the month ahead is looking quite balanced and diverse.
Self-expression through hobbies, recreation, love, and leisure is in focus this month, and even with some related delays while Mercury is retrograde until the 11th, it’s a good time to enjoy yourself. With a strong focus on your sector of joy, it can be a playful period–you’re discovering your needs for pleasure, entertainment, and positive feedback. You’re putting your unique personal stamp on what you do, and this is a beautiful process of self-discovery.
There can be times when you feel in limbo or behind on some level with Mercury retrograde until the 11th, perhaps as you are waiting for news or need to do some backtracking. Strive to avoid short-sighted decision-making, even if ups and downs are frustrating. Be sure that what you’re expressing is understood as you intended it because it’s all too easy to get our wires crossed. More clarity is coming, but this retrograde period is excellent for looking at things in new ways, editing, revising, and reviewing. You might find ways to reconnect with those activities that nourish your spirit and encourage you to express yourself more freely.
With Venus in your solar fourth house until the 25th, you’re likely to feel more comfortable at home or in your personal life, and if not, you’ll go to great lengths to make it so. Harmony is important at the root or home base at this time–it also helps you concentrate elsewhere. There can be special warmth or a feeling of abundance related to your family, the comforts of home, or your personal life. There can be a nice opportunity to bring more love, beauty, or harmony to a relationship or your domestic world. You might receive a gift–or give yourself one–that benefits the family or home. This is a time for emphasizing cooperation, trust, and faith in your relationships. You can be feeling quite generous either materially or emotionally (or both).
From the 6th onward, Mars animates your partnership sector, and while there (until September 22nd), will energize your close, one-on-one relationships. With Mars now opposite your sign, buried frustrations in your relationships can surface. More activity, dynamism, or competitiveness is likely in your interactions. You’re likely to find others energizing or irritating! It’s a great time for clearing the air or tackling problem areas, provided you don’t mind some liveliness.
The Full Moon on the 9th can bring people to you or can stir up a lot of activity in your social life. It can also motivate you to get moving on a new plan or project that’s fresh and exciting, although you’ll probably want to wait until at least after the 11th for Mercury to end its retrograde cycle. Inner stirrings prompt you into action. There can be the illumination of a friendship or romantic matter, or your feelings can become hard to ignore now, even if you’ve been keeping them at bay! This can be a time of invites or a sudden demand for your help, support, or company. You might relish a pleasant feeling of being needed and needing others, but if this lunation serves to magnify a feeling of lacking in these areas, it’s likely to prompt the desire to fix the situation.
Mercury’s direct turn on the 11th can prompt information to unclog, and this smoother flow feels good. The weeks following this are strong for exciting ideas, spicy communications, and compelling personal interests.
Even with some daily ups and downs, on a higher level, with current outer planet transits, you’re bolder and your vision is more lucid. There can be new insights and developments in learning areas, studies, in your neighborhood or with siblings, or in communication activities. You may receive good news or read something that inspires you to change your learning focus, write about a topic you hadn’t considered before, or through channels you have never tried, for example. Your social life can also get a nice boost.
On the 22nd, the Sun heads into your work and health sector, boosting your focus on your daily routines, fitness, health, nutrition, work, and habits. While it’s not the best cycle for recognition or worldly success, this is an intense period for self-development and laying the groundwork for future success. You pour more of yourself into getting things done, working, helping, guiding, and assisting.
A Sun-Uranus square around the time of the New Moon on the 23rd can stir some restlessness and rile you up. It’s how you redirect yourself in the face of schedule changes that matters most, however. In truth, friction can motivate you to make changes that truly benefit you. Indeed, it can be challenging to come together in agreement with others temporarily, as people may be too wrapped up in their own needs and wants, particularly as they relate to freedom and individuality. If someone’s pushing your buttons, keep a cool head. Talking openly and honestly about issues may be energy-draining but ultimately helpful.
Romantic or creative expression moves from slightly timid to wonderfully terrific around the 25th, when Venus moves out of your home sector and into your romance sector. It’s a time when you tend to follow your heart’s desire, not aggressively, but gently. As a result, you approach the world more creatively and romantically. In addition, you find more joy in leisure activities and hobbies. In the last week of August, someone might propose a fun adventure for you or encourage your creative side. It’s a relationship-oriented period for you.
Taurus
August brings a focus on home and family life and your personal world, dear Taurus, with plenty of opportunities to attend to your duties as well as express and enjoy yourself. With Mercury retrograde until the 11th, you’ll be dealing with minor problems and delays, which can undoubtedly slow you down. Fortunately, the pace doesn’t interfere too much with your enjoyment.
The month is strong for pouring special attention into your home and personal life, but it also keeps you well-connected with others and with your creative spirit as well. Mars continues its playful, animated transit of your creative and romantic sector until the 6th, and the Sun enters this same area of your solar chart on the 22nd, for example. As well, Venus spends much of August (until the 25th) in your communications sector, keeping you connected and mentally engaged.
Keep in mind that any backtracking you need to do until the 11th may contribute to the strength of plans and future ventures-ultimately, it’s not lost time! There can be some important renovations and improvements in your home or with family relationships. This month is all about self-nurturing, fulfilling comfort and safety needs, and connecting with loved ones, which can lead to significant personal growth and self-improvement.
From the 6th onward, Mars energizes your work and health sector, motivating you to get on top of your daily routines. You may be pouring a lot more energy into organizing your space, pursuing fitness or other wellness methods, and providing services or handling your work/chores during this cycle.
The Full Moon on the 9th draws your strong attention to your performance, career, reputation, or responsibilities. You’ve been particularly absorbed in your personal life these days, and now you’re reminded of the outside world! If your personal and professional lives have fallen out of balance, this is a time for recognizing the need for better management of your time, energy, and focus. You are reminded of your responsibilities, commitments, and need for accomplishment.
Mercury’s retrograde lifts on the 11th, unclogging information and contributing to a sense that you’re moving forward. In fact, you’re likely to enjoy some nice opportunities to expand your knowledge, connections, or mental interests in August. There can be a warm reception for your ideas now, test results may come through, or news you were waiting for arrives and pleases you. You could feel entirely inspired to pursue a line of study or make contact, and it’s likely to feel good to learn something new or share your ideas and connect with others and the information you need. Success tends to come through word of mouth or bright ideas. Promotion or publicity can be particularly favorable or prosperous.
The Sun moves into harmony with your sign on the 22nd, encouraging you to express your individuality and pursue your joy. A satisfying creative project or pastime can help you release stress and tension. A romantic attraction may motivate you. You’re interested in growing and improving your creative pursuits and connections. A shift from a focus on your inner world to a more creative, interactive period is occurring now–this is all about pursuing your passions.
With a New Moon on the 23rd occurring close to a Sun-Uranus square, you can feel challenged to break out of a rut or pattern that’s prevented you from growing and changing. It’s possible that uncertainty about your income or feelings of security can interfere with your desire to have fun. Or, you may want to break free from old ways of doing things but are unsure about going ahead. Disruptions have a way of pulling up buried frustrations, and these can be highly revealing. For best results, take your time with decisions and get in better touch with your intuition. This New Moon can pave the way for new approaches to enjoying and expressing yourself.
You’re likely to enjoy good opportunities to expand, strengthen, and enhance family relationships. You may be itching to put a job, home, or domestic project into motion, and good energy is with you for practical accomplishment, particularly in these life departments. You want to be productive! You’re not afraid to take on an intellectual task or demanding work, and this attitude works in your favor.
Being open to different ways to manage your money, things, valuables, or attitude toward the past and attachments can significantly improve your life. Liberating shifts in attitude allow you to experiment with different ways of making money. Problem-solving comes far more quickly and intuitively in the second half of August. You’re applying practical wisdom to your business while also tapping into your spirit for innovation, and the results are excellent.
Gemini
Themes of learning, transportation, communications, and daily affairs continue this month, dear Gemini. Still, enjoying your home and personal life more fully can also figure strongly in August. The month is sure to be lively and engaging, offering the perfect balance of busy and quiet moments to keep you feeling comfortably challenged.
Mercury is retrograde in your communications sector until the 11th, and delays or misunderstandings can be notable until then! But while there can be ups and downs and delays to manage, you’ll ultimately get to see which of your projects are genuinely viable and worth your effort. Try your best not to dwell on flaws and problems, and this can be a rewarding period when revisiting past projects or subjects of study can be satisfying. You’ll find that you’re at your most fulfilled when you’re feeling better organized and disciplined.
While Mercury’s retrograde can sometimes muddle communications, in a general sense, you’re generating more warmth and trust with important people in your life. You’re committed to making the most of your talents.
On the 6th, Mars moves into your sector of joy, bringing this fiery and courageous planet into your solar fifth house. It’s a period of extra dynamism, stimulation, and action, particularly in your creative, entertainment, and romantic worlds. This more outgoing cycle brings smoother energy to most of your endeavors, as your direct approach tends to get you results.
While this is generally a time for sticking close to home or familiar settings, around the Full Moon on the 9th, there might be a sudden desire to depart your usual routine or do something more refreshing, meaningful, and life-affirming. It could be about receiving news or a great idea coming to full bloom. Whatever emerges now sets you along a new path regarding your beliefs and attitudes. Something comes to light that changes your perspective and focus, lifting your concerns above and beyond the routine. It can encourage you to look at the big picture or to reach higher and wider. Unmet and unspoken needs can find a platform now. Consider that your needs for variety, independence, and freedom are key, and understanding these things is better than letting them rule your decisions.
Mercury’s direct turn on the 11th is a boost to clarity. It helps you clear up problems and find the answers you sought to issues raised earlier in the month. You can put some editing work behind you, or you get news that helps move things forward. Rewards come from activities that engage your heart. Your powers of communication, especially your willingness to speak more frankly and openly, heighten your magnetism.
Personal comfort, artistry, aesthetics, decoration, and prized possessions can be in high focus. Home life can be animated at times this month, but the purpose of this is to stir up change rather than to cling to stale or dysfunctional ways of living that are doing nothing for you.
You might experience a stronger drive to enjoy certain freedoms or the fruits of your labor this month. There can be a gift or discovery of a resource that benefits you. This is a good time to gain an overall sense of your next step or move. Before proceeding, consider enjoying some stillness or pausing to appreciate the moment. This pause is just right for you now!
The Sun moves into your home and family sector on the 22nd for a month-long transit that is determined to see you rest and recuperate. It’s also a time for making improvements in your domestic world.
A Sun-Uranus square near the New Moon on the 23rd can mean you’re feeling rebellious, restless, and curious. Resist the urge to react abruptly if your plans aren’t coming together as quickly and efficiently as you’d hoped. Honor your need for a change of scene, then come back fresh. Getting rid of extras and distractions to get a sense of your priorities makes the most sense now. There are times when your inner rebel gets in the way of the calm and peace you seek, and with this New Moon, you might seek ways to combine or answer both of your very valid needs for independence and comfort. Try to recognize those things that could steer you off course. The New Moon promotes a fresh start, bringing take-charge energy to your domestic world.
From the 25th forward, you can find much to enjoy in personal interests, studies, short trips, and making contact with others. It’s a good time for relationships with siblings, classmates, and neighbors.
As you open your heart to new ideas and methods, you let in the positive vibes, and move just a little out of your comfort zone. The urge to break free from limiting conditions is intense now. You are looking to the future, not the past, and the desire to leap into new and unexplored territory is powerful. Your happiness goals fuel your independence. You’re arriving at a healthy balance between realism and spirit or independence. You’re keeping your feet on the ground while exploring your sense of freedom.
At the same time, strengthening energy is with you that helps you enhance friendships and love connections. Use extra boosts of energy and motivation to fix problems, work enthusiastically at your projects or current interests, and look for ways to clear up the clutter in your life. It’s an excellent time for love connections, flirtations, and fun messages with people you care about.
Cancer
August makes it rather easy to settle in and focus on comfort and security, dear Cancer, but it provides some nice opportunities to learn, share, and connect. You’re likely to be comfortably busy and uplifted. Mars continues to keep your interest in projects and learning or sharing high until the 6th, after which it heads into your home and family sector, keeping you busy on the home front. Personal appeal is strong. Money, business, and practical affairs are more topical than usual, even with some complications on these fronts!
Venus is in your sign until the 25th, and others see you as especially desirable and likable, and perhaps more importantly, you treat yourself more gently! Venus boosts your charm–you are especially attractive and friendly, and your most gentle, refined, and appealing traits are enhanced for more to appreciate and enjoy. Your idealism and romantic nature are in the spotlight, and you’re likely to find it natural to dream of beautiful things, experiences, and situations.
Jupiter in your sign tends to put you in the spotlight in delightful ways these days, and this month, Venus meets Jupiter, boosting your appeal even further. This influence can fill you with a nice sense of abundance, as if puzzle pieces are coming together. You tend to gravitate towards situations or people who are right for you. This is a good time for sharing your feelings, happiness, art, talents, and joy. You are easy to be around and especially confident about who you are.
The Full Moon on the 9th can pull out strong feelings from you and can stir a revelation or epiphany. This can be about the need for someone or support, whether this is emotional, moral, or financial. The balance of power in a relationship, debts, a partner’s income, or other shared resources can be in strong focus and subject to stronger emotions. This could instead be about attachments, as you can see the light about releasing yourself from a burden. It’s a powerful time for allowing strong feelings to drive improvements and new missions.
Still, Mercury is retrograde until the 11th, and there can be some delays or obstacles to manage. However, it’s a fine time for making refinements and improvements. Your mind is active, and your interests are exciting. Connections and communications can be delightful, even with Mercury retrograde, but from the 11th forward, these things are more straightforward.
If you’ve been overshooting or spending/borrowing too much, it’s time to make some crucial adjustments to get yourself back on track. While you’re often drawn to the right resources or connections you need this month, the path is not always straightforward before the 11th. There could very well be some bluffing or withholding information to deal with, making it best to postpone big decisions or complicated topics. However, after the 11th, information unclogs, and you begin to see the way forward. It’s also a time when blocks seem to lift with money matters. Conversations are generous, open, and meaningful. Networking can bring rewards or opportunities. Your instincts are strong for practical matters, business, money, and career. You want to build, produce, and accomplish something tangible and measurable. Fortunately, good energy is with you for doing so. Energy levels improve with enthusiasm, and you’re willing to take the lead to get things done or to work independently at your own pace.
Mars begins its transit of your home and family sector on the 6th, bringing fire, courage, and the desire for action to your personal or domestic life. For example, you could feel the motivation to tackle problem areas within your family or take on projects around the home. Directing this extra energy into productive channels is critical. Otherwise, you may feel quite restless, or you could stir up unnecessary conflict on the home front.
By paying special attention to your career and reputation, and blending this with your private life and downtime, you can boost both areas of your life. As you invest more specialized energy in your work, career, or reputation, you come to appreciate the wisdom of taking breaks for rest and downtime. You’ll find you return to your work more refreshed, spirited, and perhaps inspired.
While Mars exits your communications sector on the 6th, you welcome the Sun to this area of your solar chart on the 22nd. Learning, paperwork, errands, and other “busy work” all figure strongly. You’re investing more of yourself into your learning pursuits, communications projects, and the connections you make with others. You’re looking to feed your curiosity.
A Sun-Uranus square can produce some tension around the New Moon on the 23rd, but this energy can nudge you on a new path. You can feel torn between playing things safe and making a change, or what you say could stir up conflict or controversy. A part of you may want to break free from confining patterns and secrets, which can be at the root of impulsive communications now. It may be a way of getting something out of your system. On the bright side, schedule changes may lead to new and exciting connections.
New ways of relating to family or of presenting yourself to others can yield surprisingly good results now. Reorganizing can be in focus. You’re also quite willing to focus on things that may need changing on the inside, not just the outside.
You have balanced Venus moving through your sector of money, values, and comfort from the 25th forward, and connecting with your wants and needs comes naturally. There can be almost magical discoveries and conclusions now, and some good finds and deals for things that genuinely improve your life.
With August’s transits, you’re especially aware of what you have and what you need to build or strengthen so you feel safer and more content down the road.
Leo
August is your power month, dear Leo. It can begin a bit sluggishly with Mercury still retrograde in your sign until the 11th, and delays with some of your plans may be part of your month. However, it remains a strong month for personal appeal and power. If you’ve been feeling demotivated or underwhelmed, this is the time for things to turn a corner. There is also a strong focus on you and your money, talents, and communications in August.
You’ve just recently experienced a New Moon in your sign towards the end of July, revving you up, but Mercury turned retrograde in your sign, asking you to pace yourself.
With the Sun and Mercury in your sign, it’s an important time for pursuing your personal goals, expressing yourself independently, and taking care of your needs. It’s about discovering or reconnecting with your independence and courage to be yourself. Mercury is retrograde in your sign until the 11th, and it’s also vital that you look back before moving forward.
This month, there’s a focus on personality and growth, with an emphasis on making considered changes. Although it may only feel like things are moving forward after mid-month, you can come to exciting new insights. August is strong for small but significant changes, as well as financial boosts. You’re learning a lot about yourself and your relationship with your things and money.
Mercury asks you to pace yourself. You’ll have to look back before going forward, but this can eventually bring rewards. Patience is necessary! Take care of unfinished business so that you can begin anew with less baggage.
What you communicate carries more weight than usual—people hear you loud and clear, but they may not grasp the full picture in the first two weeks. It’s a time for reflecting on recent events and drawing on the past for ideas and insights, which can be crucial in forming new or improved plans. Communications are taken more seriously or literally, and not always correctly with Mercury’s retrograde. Meaningful contact with someone from your past may be part of the picture. It’s crucial to avoid making too much or too little of a person or situation–let time reveal the truth.
From the 6th onward, Mars in your communications sector can be excellent for enthusiasm for learning, studying, and sharing. However, this transit can produce a tendency to speak too quickly or directly at times, and Mercury’s retrograde until the 11th complicates the potential problem. Pour your energy into intellectual tasks if you can, as you can get a whole lot done now, working with vigor and passion. Self-expression not only improves but is outstanding as the month advances, especially around the 14th.
Love may be complicated or undercover until the 25th, when circumstances reveal themselves, after which you are more decided and clear about your affections. This can apply to a particular project rather than a relationship. Your presence is powerful all month, and your voice is strong.
You can find yourself highly motivated to earn, collect, and build in August, and later, you’re likely to be gung-ho about learning a new skill. This can be an important time for releasing a block, forgiving someone, or moving past a situation that has kept you from moving forward, even if your heart is a little slower than the rest of you to take off.
The Full Moon on the 9th is relationship-oriented, but it’s mostly about getting in touch with your true feelings about a matter, and it can be a real epiphany.
There can be some complications with connecting, and at times, you can feel overwhelmed with what you need to learn or get done. Keep in mind that a lack of a long-term plan can interfere with your presence of mind, or the opposite–if you’re pinning your hopes on something in the distant future, you may be missing current opportunities. Take time to reorient yourself. If you have doubts, ride them out and then make adjustments if necessary.
You’re exploring the ability to detach and enjoy non-committed, light, and pressure-free connections with others. Your open-mindedness to new ways of approaching your life or thinking creatively can bring opportunities for engaging in new experiences that take you out of your routine. You can meet people who seem to share a similar destiny as you or who you connect with in surprising ways, which can seem sudden or unexpected. Humanitarian pursuits can be attractive now. As you build your skills and attend to your practical affairs, you might connect with people or causes that inspire and encourage you.
Mars has been pushing your buttons, motivating you to make your life more comfortable, and while Mars exits your solar second house on the 6th, the Sun visits it from the 22nd forward. You’re particularly invested in your things, values, money, valuables, and talents. You have the energy to invest in your plans and move them forward.
From the 22nd forward, you’re pouring more of yourself into your practical affairs. You’re in a great position to build upon recent ideas or projects. Attention to your personal needs and plans continues, making it a fine time to sort things out and take charge. You’re inclined to draw in the right people or resources to advance your goals. Your pioneering and progressive ideas are winners, and you can be successful in putting an inhibition related to expressing yourself behind you.
From the 25th, Venus enhances your appeal, manner, and magnetism as it transits your sign. This is a warm, easygoing influence.
Virgo
August is often a subdued month that comes in like a lamb and out like a lion for you, dear Virgo. In some ways, this is true this year, but not entirely. This is because you begin the month with Mars still in your sign, animating your desires and pushing your agenda. It doesn’t stay for much longer (on the 6th, it moves on), but it’s revving you up on some levels. As well, you have sociable Venus in your social sector until the 25th, keeping you connected and popular.
Even so, it’s the time of year for spiritual renewal, slowing down, reflection, and rest–thanks to the Sun in your privacy sector to the 22nd and Mercury, your planetary ruler, is there all month.
By the time of the Full Moon on the 9th, you’ll need to come to a good balance between work and rest, but it’s important to give your need for downtime its due attention. You’re winding down a year’s cycle, after all, and you’ll want to begin the new solar year with clarity and energy. This Full Moon can bring a work, health, or private matter to light or to a turning point.
You’ll find it natural to want to review your work instead of pushing for a launch or significant change. Even so, you can feel strongly on the verge of a meaningful change – something big – but you’re inclined to pace yourself, and it’s a good idea. There is much happening behind the scenes and within your mind in August. This is a powerful time for putting an end to situations or attitudes in your life that have become more burdensome than rewarding or that have grown toxic for you emotionally. Rest, reflection, and focus on mental and spiritual health are prominent themes.
From the 6th onward, Mars marches through your resources sector, motivating you. It’s a good time for money ideas or sources and fresh approaches to business or money management. This transit energizes your desire to get comfortable, make money, or organize your belongings. Mars brings more energy, courage, and initiative to your financial life or business. It can also be a time to build up your resources or utilize your natural talents effectively. The drive to improve your resources is strong, but tensions can also arise surrounding finances and possessions. Questions of ownership and values can be hot topics.
Paying particular attention to both your practical and spiritual needs comes easily, helping you to find a healthy balance. It’s true that Mercury is retrograde until the 11th, and this suggests major decision-making should probably wait. Still, you’re sensible and clear on the bigger things in your life.
Mercury’s retrograde, which lasts until the 11th, can be a little tricky, mainly due to possible communication breakdowns, misunderstandings, or transportation issues. Watch for revealing something that you’d prefer to remain hidden. However, it’s a good cycle for redoing and refining work already underway and backtracking over the past to find answers you previously overlooked. If you let go of expectations and allow your mind some free rein, it’s a good time for creative visualization and pursuits.
You come out of your shell further from the 22nd forward, when the Sun enters your sign. You project quite a bit of strength, even if part of you is still undecided on some levels until Mercury enters your sign in early September. The Sun awakens your desire to take charge of your life and set new personal goals. People notice you! On the 23rd, the New Moon is in your sign, and it’s a time of fresh starts. The inner troubleshooting that you’ve been engaging in starts to pay off as you regain some sense of direction and determination. There can be times when you need to manage some unpredictability in your career or with long-term goals that interfere with enjoying the moment. There can also be surprises related to rules, reputation, or responsibilities.
Opportunities can also emerge to advance materially or emotionally by thinking of your future. Being progressive and willing to make minor changes can pay off. Love or business relationships can be supportive. Something changes, such as leaving a no-win or dead-end situation behind. You could find yourself especially motivated by, and passionate about, the work you do. Support is forthcoming. Getting your finances and support situation sorted out can motivate and inspire your work or even lead to a positive new direction or reputation.
Libra
You are especially interested in collaborating, networking, or pursuing your happiness goals in August, dear Libra. While demands on your time can often be quite pleasant this month, you do need to pay particular attention to managing your time effectively with Mercury retrograde until the 11th. Delays and backtracking can be part of the picture.
Mars is in your sign from the 6th onward, bringing you more attention and encouraging you to listen to your desires. From the 11th forward, you’re likely to feel more “in the know” about what to expect (and what not to expect) from people around you. Feeling clearer about your goals can be satisfying. A stronger need to withdraw, heal, and catch your breath can emerge after the 22nd. This is a period for wrapping up your solar year and making the most of solitude, reflection, and private time.
Keeping some things to yourself while smiling for the camera seems to be what works for you until the 6th! You are likable on a professional or public level with Venus at the top of your solar chart until the 25th.. You are coming across a little mysteriously right now, even though you are very noticeable and making a mark, which adds to your appeal. Fortunately, you’re feeling positive and confident about your talents and your value to others.
While Mercury is still retrograde until the 11th, it’s especially favorable to look to the past, refine and edit projects, and rethink problems from a different perspective. It would help if you were more alert when dealing with friends, groups, business income, and dealings with business associates. Indeed, a partner or friend can give you important feedback, and you may be gathering valuable information from or through them now. It’s a powerful time for processing, reviewing, and rediscovering old interests, decisions, and ideas. A friend from the past may reappear in your life, or you could come to a new understanding of an old friendship.
The Full Moon on the 9th opens your heart to buried feelings and your eyes to situations that need your attention. There can be an epiphany or a breakthrough that motivates you to make changes. This can be a time for announcing or discovering love or a project close to your heart. Epiphanies can reveal your true feelings, and connecting with them can lead to significant personal decisions and choices. You might feel the need to get something off your chest, as unacknowledged feelings and needs surface. This is a time to do something playful, fun, self-expressive, and creative, even with tensions experienced between what you think you should be doing and what you feel.
From the 11th onward, it can feel great to lean on a friend or allow someone special to lean on you. You enjoy pushing yourself to explore and share more. Great debates and mind-opening experiences are closely tied to partnerships. Influences now bring wonderful surprises. The urge for adventure and new experiences, as well as interesting excursions and diverse topics and ideas, is strong. These pursuits can introduce you to new cultures, beliefs, personal interests, and feelings. Publishing and sharing can be exceptionally favorable. Relationship goals can inspire you to reach new heights, explore new places or ideas, or learn new skills. Personal opportunities can arise through group activities or friends of friends who find you particularly impressive.
In your sign from the 6th onward, Mars brings its qualities of fiery assertiveness, courage, initiative, and energy to your personality. You are motivated and energetic during this cycle, sometimes to the point of excess, and it’s a good idea to take special care to manage your energy well. Pace yourself, but take action on the things that matter most to you. This is a time of increased independence and initiative.
You can sometimes feel torn between partnering and life path goals, which can clash at times in August. However, you might also recognize that you’re growing through more responsibility or maturity in your relationships.
From the 22nd forward, you seek more time for yourself or, at the least, out of the fast lane! But while your yearly call to rest, replenishment and reflection is important, you’re likely to keep your engines revving in many ways with Mars, the planet of assertion and action, energizing your sign until September 22nd. You’ll do some juggling, but it’s all quite manageable and motivating–perhaps even balanced.
The New Moon on the 23rd challenges you to start fresh with your attitude toward downtime, rest, recuperation, and attention to emotional or mental health. Watch, however, for the traps of escapism and avoidance, which can lead to difficulties relaxing, unwinding, and perhaps sleeping, or a general sense that you’re behind or out of the loop. Uranus in your solar ninth house contributes to a desire to expand, grow, learn, and connect, but while these urges are important, they stand in contrast to the quieter, healing activities you seek. In truth, there can be an inner conflict between seeking out new experiences and getting time to process recent ones. Finding a way to balance all that you want to do and what you feel you should do for better physical and mental health can be difficult, but it is what you need at the moment! It makes sense to confront aspects of yourself or past choices that might be blocking your current success.
From the 25th onward, you’ll find more pleasure and pleasantness in your interactions with friends and on special projects. Your happiness goals move up on your list, and it’s a good time to ask yourself how to improve your social life.
Scorpio
You are focusing on your responsibilities, reputation, and life direction in August, dear Scorpio. Your broader goals and ambitions are in the spotlight. Even so, you’re rounding out your life well with rest and refreshing activities this month.
Until the 11th, while Mercury is still retrograde, there can be some rethinking, redoing, and backtracking on projects. While it can be frustrating at times, it’s essential work that helps you make the necessary edits. You’re working towards renewed faith in your goals. Some matters surrounding your reputation or career can be tricky during this stage, and it’s probably best not to encourage any misconceptions with a misplaced comment or premature announcement. There may be ups and downs regarding your goals, but also definite improvements–or at least foreseeable ones.
You may need to return to an old project or redo and refine something you thought was complete. If something’s left hanging, aim to focus on productivity in other areas. Consider that apparent backtracking can lead to the strengthening of things that were once on shaky ground. Thinking about life direction and long-term goals in new ways can be fruitful, leading to significant new insights or plans.
Mars moves into your privacy sector on the 6th–another influence that pulls you within and brings on some feelings of being in limbo. You begin to need extra time for yourself to rest or engage in activities that aid in healing and energy replenishment. It’s also a time for working on motivation levels as you may be putting a particular venture to rest or wrapping up a project, and you now need to reorient yourself.
From the 11th forward, information starts to flow, and there can be a satisfying feeling that you’re getting over a hump, possibly also gaining a better understanding of a relationship.
The Full Moon on the 9th can bring forth revelations about home, family, or personal needs. You may need to manage a family or personal matter if you’ve been too heavily invested in your work or responsibilities to the outside world. Such imbalances can become glaring now, and you recognize the need for improved time and energy management as well as a better work-life balance.
Certainly, there might be times when your duties, health programs, and self-care efforts clash with your increased desire to learn and share. Achieving a better balance can be a challenging and worthwhile goal now. Seek ways to balance your activities and responsibilities — get creative since boredom will not inspire you! While you’re likely to do battle with different goals and conditions, a comfortable balance is within reach.
Venus spends much of the month (until the 25th) in your spirit sector, and you delight in exploring and discovering. This can be a time of social refreshment, and you might turn to others or new ideas for inspiration. You are likely to feel a little bolder about expressing your likes and loves or pursuing your heart’s desire. It can be a time of romantic possibilities with someone offering you an entirely different perspective on life. Intelligence attracts! Alternatively, sharing your ideas with others may lead to greater opportunities. Slight stirrings of restlessness can motivate you to make improvements to your life, such as through a new course of study. It can also be a time of activities that connect you with empowering ideas and experiences.
Especially from the 22nd onward, you require some detoxing from pressured situations and goals, and you’re able to find more time for sharing, connecting, and community. At the same time, you’re taking more time for rest and healing. Smoothing over differences, extending goodwill, or lending an ear are all favored. You’re looking forward.
You might experience conflicting feelings towards a person or project and become touchy in areas where you’ve felt confined or limited, however. Opening your mind to potential disruptions seems the best strategy. Instead of rebelling against what feels like pressure to conform or to fit in, consider more constructive, moderate ways to reduce the tension or express your individuality. This way, you make empowering choices and improvements after the New Moon on the 23rd, which signals a change of mind or a fresh start.
The major key to success right now is being open-minded and embracing forward-looking, progressive thoughts and ideas about how you approach your work, routines, and health and wellness pursuits. At the same time, you’re keeping your feet on the ground. New insights into old problems can be exciting and liberating.
This can be a time of sudden insights and opportunities for emotional renewal or healing that give you a sense of power and self-mastery. It’s a fantastic time to improve your lifestyle and habits. You can better manage your time, and you’re increasingly aware of the need for a balanced approach in your relationships, finances, diet, and habits.
Sagittarius
August brings a special emphasis on learning, sharing, life experiences, and career or reputation for you, dear Sagittarius. Your larger focus is on the “big picture,” and you have a strong desire for experiences that transcend the ordinary. Whether they’re physical or mental, opportunities to satisfy this itch are emerging, but there can be some related delays to work around with Mercury retrograde until the 11th. Changes, backtracking, and obstacles tend to redirect you on a more appropriate path, so it’s mostly a matter of staying flexible.
The desire for a change of routine is strong this month, and it’s a great time to do things just a little differently for mental refreshment and a new perspective on your life. Investigation or seeking out hidden answers or resources can be successful. There can be warmth and excitement in an intimate relationship or with a passion project. There can be a buzz of excitement in your personal or professional life, and a bit of competition can motivate you to give a little more to what you’re doing.
With Mercury retrograde until the 11th, there can be some backtracking and delays that allow you to refine and improve your projects. Redoing things you previously thought were complete or returning to old material, or conversations and problems, can leave you feeling stuck at times, but you can still make some progress. Minor inconveniences aside, you’re getting to a much better place mentally. It’s a time for strengthening areas that need improvement. The temptation may be to release something or complete a project or study before it’s truly ready, but it’s essential to exercise patience – chances are that some refinements are still needed. As well, it’s better to wait for a time when people, in general, are more receptive.
Unresolved emotional matters and unacknowledged feelings emerge around the Full Moon on the 9th. You can experience an intense hunger to be understood, have your say, and express your ideas or point of view. It can be a time for recognition of recent ideas, projects, or learning endeavors, or for the fruition of learning or publishing projects. However, it’s best not to speak too soon on a matter. Observe, understand, and process for best results.
Indeed, discoveries related to ideas, learning, communications, transportation, and relatives can motivate you to make changes and improvements, particularly if you’ve been living with subpar conditions or problems in these areas for a while. The need to buckle down and deal with errands, appointments, or deadlines is a strong possibility if your mind has been elsewhere altogether.
From the 6th onward, Mars lends extra energy, courage, assertiveness, and fire to your sector of groups, friendships, and aspirations. A more active and lively social life is in your forecast. Instead, there’s now a particular focus on happiness goals and group or teamwork. You can now play a more vital role in others’ lives. Generally speaking, competitive energy with friends during this phase is the motivating kind — something inspires you through your friends or networks to take better charge of your life or work towards a special goal or dream. Life seems to roll along more smoothly with Mars now moving in harmony with your sign. Excitement about putting a dream into action or about new ventures begins to build. For some, romance is possible with a friend or through your networks.
You’re no longer tolerant of unsupportive relationships and superficial pastimes or hobbies this month. With humility and realism, the chances of success increase. New insights about yourself or a significant person in your life can be motivating and heartwarming this month. You may find it easier to open up about a passion of yours or about a matter that you’ve been keeping under wraps. It can be a time to consider accepting others’ help, sharing responsibilities, and combining resources or talents to advance your goals and benefit most from your experiences. Money or support may come through, or an open-hearted conversation that makes you feel quite wonderful takes place. Your people instincts are powerful, and you may find joy through an intimate moment or a moment of profound self-honesty.
From the 22nd forward, you’re in good shape for nurturing a long-term vision and for more thoroughly enjoying yourself, your career, or reputation. There can be a boost in popularity, or you may be feeling more confident or happier about where you’re headed. Making plans and setting goals is exciting now! With the Sun at the top of your solar chart, it’s wise to prioritize your work and goals. It can be helpful to identify areas of your life that require a change or a new approach instead of falling back on the same behaviors that keep frustrating patterns alive. The New Moon on the 23rd offers the chance for a fresh start regarding your life path, reputation, or status.
New worlds open to you as you open your mind to new ways of interacting and connecting. It’s a powerful time for romance, creativity, and interacting in inspired ways. You’re committed to making the most of your creativity and talents, and enjoying more self-discipline reflects well on you and your relationships as you feel stronger and more fulfilled. It’s a time to connect with both your practical side and your spirited, spontaneous nature.
Capricorn
A strong focus on shared resources, debts, support, and self-empowerment is in your forecast for August, dear Capricorn. You’ll also be exploring special topics and ideas. Learning and sharing can be in focus. Partnering up can be especially warm and beneficial. You’re in good shape for publishing, promoting, or connecting later this month when the Sun heads into your sector of spirit and the higher mind.
Still, there are some slowdowns to manage. You may feel in limbo while Mercury remains retrograde until the 11th, particularly regarding a financial matter or a connection. Waiting for an answer never feels great, but you have a lot to keep you busy as you wait. You’re returning to old problems with a different attitude and taking care of unfinished business. New insight into a past relationship or your own psyche can be helpful and enlightening. Conversations about intimate or taboo matters can be helpful and unusually creative. You may be drawing conclusions or uncovering clues about a mystery or investigation now.
The month’s energies inspire looking within, and intimate matters can be your primary focus, or you’re more inclined to focus your energy on one or two critical projects. Your interest in bonding with someone special or concentrating on a special activity strengthens. You’re in good shape to get in better touch with your inner power and recognize or build upon support from others.
Certainly, there can be some matters from the past to settle, or some backtracking in these areas, as well as with personal plans and financial affairs. Mercury’s direct motion from the 11th onward signals a turning point. It’s possible that a new perspective on money matters or a close relationship can steer you on an improved course. Perhaps you recognize you’ve dwelled too much on a past relationship or problem, and this has unnecessarily weighed you down. You are now feeling the need to move past it and move on.
You can experience a strong need for inner change, transformation, and self-mastery. Your focus turns outward later in the month, but the inner work you do is powerful. It’s a time for observing and processing rather than taking new action.
From the 6th onward, however, Mars transits your career and reputation sector, bringing high energy and ambition, as well as motivation and competitive feelings, to your world. Life path goals, your public life, responsibilities, performance, business affairs, and career matters can awaken, enliven, and animate.
The Full Moon on the 9th can amplify your emotions, especially in relation to business, ownership, or financial matters, as this Full Moon occurs in your resources sector. There may be some scrambling for resources, records, and information, or there can be money (or money news) coming in around this time. This Full Moon falls along an axis that has to do with talents and resources, as well as sexual and intimate relationships, and new feelings or discoveries may revolve around any of these things. Tensions about being dependent on someone’s support or approval can reach a head this month, and a stronger sense of freedom seems to be on offer.
There can be times when you struggle with finding a balance between home and family matters and relationship goals this month. However, it’s also a time when being open to different ways to do your everyday life can improve your life all around in significant ways. You’re approaching your everyday affairs and home life with progressiveness, spirit, and practicality, which is a winning combo. It’s a good time to make changes in your home life or with living conditions that reflect well in your work or on your health–and vice versa. Getting organized and disciplined in your domestic world can reflect wonderfully on your work and health pursuits, freeing you up for time to innovate.
Venus in your partnership sector until the 25th is helpful. Relationships, and especially those of the one-on-one variety, can be in focus and successful. This energy provides a great environment for pairing up and enjoying activities with a special person in your life. Even a counseling session can be especially fruitful, as others have something to reveal to you about yourself. You could find yourself on the same or compatible page as a significant other. This can be a good time for attracting a pleasant or helpful person into your life. There can be mutual benefit through others, or you might reach a new level of understanding with someone special.
The last week of the month finds you coming out of your shell, craving more adventure, and clearer about your goals. The Sun moves into your sector of higher learning, spirit, and adventure on the 22nd, and there is more enjoyment in your life as you come to a better balance between work and play. You can feel mentally refreshed as you approach things from a different angle. Warm and positive energy is with you for sharing viewpoints and exploring non-routine topics or activities.
The New Moon on the 23rd can bring some surprises and stir a bit of discontent that sets you on a fresh path. Because you may not learn a better method if you stick too rigidly to a routine or plan, a change now can nudge you in a new direction. Aim to adapt and be as flexible as possible if there are new plans. Still, a lack of organization can hinder your broader goals, and you might resolve to be more prepared next time! If you need more independence and freedom in your work or daily affairs, aim to explore ways to achieve this, but avoid rushing in the meantime. This New Moon encourages you to set your intentions or goals related to expanding your mind and experiences. You might turn a limiting situation that has weighed you down in the past into a powerful motivator for new goals and ambitions.
Aquarius
You’re in great shape for finding balance in August, dear Aquarius. Harmonizing and connecting seem to be the most important factors for reaching your goals at this time of year. Work, wellness, and relationships all make headlines for you this month.
Good energy is with you as you dig deep into a special project and tackle various important chores. This can be a good time for physical therapy of some sort. Love matters get a nice boost this month, and some of this can involve work or routines. Pursuing these things can bring more enjoyment, or you might form a social or love connection in the process.
There is an emphasis on companionship and your close relationships this month, and it’s the time of year when others’ agendas and needs tend to come into the spotlight. You’re also more inclined to seek out others’ company, advice, and feedback.
When Mercury stations on the 11th, be on the lookout for mistakes and misunderstandings, particularly in your dealings with others, and negotiations and contracts. There is a general feeling of limbo until then, but it’s a fine time to strategize. While Mercury remains retrograde until the 11th, people in your life seem to have more dramas than usual, and you’re often drawn right in! It’s a time to revisit old problems, conversations, and negotiations. Others may not always come through for you in the usual ways, but there can be new ways of connecting to discover. This period is more about accepting and enjoying people than making big moves.
Mars moving into harmony with your sign from the 6th forward is an energetic boost. This transit helps things move along more smoothly and boosts your confidence, so obstacles either fall out of your way or you clear them more easily. Adventure, travel, or new sharing or learning opportunities could be part of the mix–those things that enliven the spirit, which can simply be about taking a fresh approach to the usual routine that serves as a refresher. You’re attracted to new physical or mental challenges, and your desire to learn about the world and share your ideas and opinions increases.
The Full Moon on the 9th is yours, occurring in your sign and bringing your emotions to the surface quite suddenly and perhaps dramatically! It might bring some attention your way or can have the effect of stirring up quite a bit of excitement and activity around you. You can experience a personal revelation or epiphany. If you’ve been particularly relationship-focused or doing a lot for others these days, which is more than likely, then you are bound to recognize your needs for some independence, a voice, or personal time. It’s a time to listen to your heart while avoiding impulsive moves.
The 22nd brings another shift of energy that’s inward-focused. You can experience a strong nudge towards looking within for answers as well as seeking out deeper involvement in or commitment to a project, venture, or relationship as the Sun now transits your solar eighth house. You’re not interested in fluff at the moment as you pursue more meaningful or absorbing experiences. As such, some endeavors are likely to fall by the wayside. You might reach conclusions about a relationship or yourself, as you see a matter more clearly. Still, your sense of adventure persists, and a sense of progress, improvement, or growth is a powerful motivator right now.
You more fully enjoy getting things done, working, helping, guiding, assisting, or being of service until the 25th. You may also be motivated to do meaningful work or to make your work more meaningful to you. Sparks of attraction or love might even occur while pursuing your daily routines or health goals.
After the New Moon on the 23rd, aim to let in the positive energy and make room for new opportunities. Intimate relationships can get a considerable boost, or you’re invested in connecting with your deeper desires and ambitions, and it feels great to get to know yourself better. A Sun-Uranus square around this time can leave you feeling torn or divided. Consider that one of the lessons of Uranus is to be willing to let go of a pattern or habit that’s holding you back. This way, you end up magnetizing more positive energy into your life.
It’s also a good time to feel more organized in your pursuit of security and stability. Efforts to improve spending and organize your belongings can boost family life. Your moderate approach benefits you. It’s a great time to organize your things! The desire to make yourself and your loved ones more secure or improve your home and family life is motivating, but it’s your ability to both structure and innovate that helps you achieve what you set out to do. You may find that improving your financial situation and management can significantly enhance your home life and provide you with greater direction and discipline.
Venus heading into your partnership sector on the 25th boosts your one-to-one connections. This transit may also bring helpful, kind people into your circle.
Pisces
The potential for achieving a nice balance of attention to work, health, and relationships runs high in August, dear Pisces. The Sun spotlights your work and health sector until the 22nd. Mercury is retrograde in the same sector until the 11th, and some reorganizing and perhaps redoing or waiting for answers can be part of the picture. You can be productive while you wait, but there can be some backtracking involved. The recycling of projects and ideas can be extraordinarily successful now. You feel good this month when you’re useful and productive.
While there is a special emphasis on health, work, and routine this month, transits also boost your social life. Relationships are likely to be spirited and interesting this month. Others may spur you on, encourage you, or inspire you to action. It’s also an excellent time for creative work or pleasure-seeking activities. Feedback from others can be motivating.
Your powers of attraction run high in August. Excellent energy is with you to expand your horizons through creative endeavors or enjoy special hobbies, pleasures, romance, or pastimes. You’re likely to feel incredibly generous with your heart, time, happiness, or money. You’re magnetizing good things, people, attention, and situations into your life. Others appreciate your most natural qualities, and bonds can strengthen.
With Mercury retrograde until the 11th, it’s a time for dealing with errors made in the past, slowdowns, delays, and so forth, but the work you do now can pave the road for happy successes later.
From the 6th forward, investigations, analyses, and research are highly valued and are likely to lead to important discoveries. You seek deeper connections, whether this is with a project or a person! You’re more strategic and willing to dig deep and acknowledge your innermost desires. If you’ve been having issues with power dynamics and sharing in a relationship, now is the time to pull them out of hiding. If needed, you might pursue a loan or other forms of support.
The Full Moon on the 9th is a checkpoint time. If you’ve been overdoing the work or busy-ness angle, it’s a time for a sudden discovery of the need for extra time alone or rest, recuperation, and regeneration. There can be coincidences or discoveries of your feelings about a person or project, and your intuition is powerful. You’re sure to recognize the need to heal, unwind, and relax, even if for a short time, before you pick up the pace again. Getting to a good work-rest balance can be a challenge, but it is rewarding as you divide your time more equitably.
From the 11th, once Mercury turns direct, you’re ready to resolve problems that were overwhelming earlier in the month–the information you need arrives or delays abate.
Insight into health or work methods can be gained quickly and effectively. You’re not content to only discuss problems; you want to take steps towards resolving them. Opportunities to connect with someone special or to share good humor are likely to emerge this month. Your confidence increases.
There can be times when you’re battling yourself or money matters–your desire for security can feel at odds with your need to branch out. Part of you is focused on steadying your life, building a sense of security and safety, and managing your resources. However, these themes might feel at odds with another part of you that wants to go out on a limb or take a risk from time to time.
Your definition of comfort, abundance, security, and pleasure is evolving, and this impacts how you treat your things, your domestic world, and money matters. It’s a good time to achieve a nice balance between practicality and innovation, which contributes to your success. Your efforts to improve spending and structure your living space can boost your family life.
The 22nd brings another shift of energy as the Sun heads into your opposing sign and partnership sector. This transit stirs activity related to your social life or partnerships. If you’ve been feeling some unrest or feelings of restriction, you’re likely to want to handle the situation. The New Moon on the 23rd brings a fresh start and new interests or approaches.
Venus enters your sector of work, habits, and health on the 25th, encouraging you to strive for more harmony in your daily life, including your work or routines and health pursuits. You can take pleasure in producing, serving, and managing your daily affairs. You feel more accomplished through cooperation and sharing. Or, you might make pleasant contacts through the pursuit of your work, health, or daily goals.
Overall, August can be busy, but also quite excellent for making corrections and connections!
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