A potent 13-Month Jupiter-Saturn sq. and a Grand-Crossed Aquarius Full Moon spotlight the second half of August. You can too study the perfect use of Mercury turning direct, the Solar getting into Virgo, and many facet patterns!
This forecast covers this half-month’s most vital astrological occasions. Additionally take a look at my award-winning This Week in Astrology audio podcast and YouTube video forecasts!
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As of August 15 …
The Moon is waxing (there was a Leo New Moon on 8/4).
Mercury is retrograde via 8/28 at 5:14 pm
Pluto is retrograde via 10/11.
Saturn is retrograde via 11/15.
Neptune is retrograde via 12/7.
Chiron is retrograde via 12/29.
A Ceres-Uranus-South Node Thor’s Hammer continues via 8/19.
A Venus-Mars-Jupiter-Pluto Thor’s Hammer peaks on 8/17 and continues via 8/21.
A Venus-Mars-Jupiter-Saturn T-Sq. peaks on 8/20 and continues thtu 8/26.
Nice Power for Dedicated Partnerships (Kite w/ Juno, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto) continues via 8/30.
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Mercury is famed for its fleetness of foot, and its elements normally come and go rapidly. The exception is Mercury retrograde durations. That’s why this “Finger of God” with Mercury, Neptune, and Pluto is a Mercurial marathon!
This facet sample got here into orb (shut sufficient to have affect) again on 7/21 and first peaked on 7/26. It has its retrograde peak right now (8/15) and strikes out of orb on 8/20. Its final hurrah will begin on 9/4, peak on 9/8, and finish on 9/11.
Put merely, this Yod’s give attention to Mercury empowers studying and communication. Pluto might help you dive deep in your studying, or juice up your message with energy and charisma. Neptune can open you to intuitive inspirations, and might help you channel info extra simply to your self and others.
With Mercury largely in Leo, your communication as a pacesetter or entertainer will get particular assist!
At this time’s different Yod places Vesta on the tip, backed up by Neptune and Pluto. Vesta is the asteroid goddess of service to the next trigger, and is hoping you’ll observe her selfless lead. This Yod begins right now (8/15), peaks on 8/24, and ends on 9/2.8/16 (Fri)
Mars Sq. Saturn
A Mars-Saturn sq. is precise right now (17°42′ Gemini-Pisces). Somewhat than cope with this sq. by itself, I’ve woven it into my interpretation of the T-Sq. that features Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Click on right here to grasp this Mars-Saturn sq. in its bigger context!
Mercury Quintile Jupiter
The winged messenger is on a roll. Its Mercury-Neptune-Pluto Yod peaked yesterday, and Mercury quintiles Jupiter right now. This magical facet between the 2 planets of studying and communication ought to juice up your psychological powers much more!
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We’re solely three days into this forecast, and are already encountering our third “Finger of God.” Isn’t that Yod?
As soon as once more, Neptune and Pluto are holding down the rear. However this time the Solar shines forth on the apex. This Yod begins right now (8/17), peaks on 8/22, and ends on 8/26.
This Yod can provide you considerable divine energy. This could gentle up something you do, or provide help to step out as a chief or entertainer.
You’ll have particular assist for these two roles whereas the Solar is in Leo, 8/17 via 8/22 at 10:55 am EDT. The Solar is in Virgo for the remainder of the Yod, giving particular assist to service, therapeutic, and element work.
Peaking right now (8/17) is a Thor’s Hammer that features Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto. It began on 8/13 and ends on 8/21.
This Thor’s Hammer has many of the similar alternatives and challenges because the T-Sq. I interpret beneath on 8/20. So the next info on Venus, Virgo, Mars, and Jupiter, applies to each facet patterns.
Venus guidelines relationships, creativity, and cash. Her placement in Virgo helps well being, service, and element work. You need to use this T-Sq.’s efficiency to empower any of those areas!
Mars can energize your actions as a warrior, initiator, sexual being, or entrepreneur. His (and Jupiter’s) placement in Gemini amps up your skill to study, write, educate, and talk.
Jupiter invitations you to study or share increased knowledge and open to expansive international influences. Reside your life as an adventurous quest, and embrace your full measure of enthusiasm, pleasure, and celebration!
Pluto provides super energy to all the chances of the opposite planets and indicators. His presence additionally makes it simpler to launch or remodel what doesn’t serve you in these areas.
Pluto might help you do the shadow work wanted for therapeutic outdated traumas, and allow you to be extra sincere, weak, and genuine. And, because the lord of wealth, he can bless you with abundance!
8/18 (Solar) & 8/19 (Mon)
Solar and Mercury Conjoin and Sq. Uranus
4 associated astrology occasions occur inside 31 hours on 8/18 and eight/19: the Solar and Mercury conjoin in Leo, each planets sq. Uranus, and Uranus squares Vesta.
I embody these 4 occasions in my 8/19 Full Moon interpretation. You’ll be able to study all about them there!
Right here’s the technical data on these 4 occasions:
8/18
Mercury sq. Uranus, 5:47 am EDT, 27°10′ Leo-Taurus.
Uranus sq. Vesta, 7:10 pm EDT, 27°10′ Taurus-Leo.
Solar conjunct Mercury, 9:58 pm EDT, 26°35′ Leo.
8/19
Solar sq. Uranus, 12:45 pm EDT, 27°11′ Leo-Taurus.
A Full Moon, electrified by a potent Grand Cross, illuminates the sky at 2:26 p.m. EDT (27°15′ Aquarius).
Any Aquarius Full Moon is nice for launch or adjustment in a number of areas. Are you embracing your individuality inwardly and expressing it outwardly? Are you following your intuitive hits? And are you serving others with the particular skills you most love to make use of?
Are you spending sufficient time together with your “tribe”? Are you cultivating your genius? And are you working for the nice of the collective?
Elements
Grand Cross
This Aquarius Full Moon is potently amplified by a good Grand Cross. Astrology’s most intense facet sample can deliver each problem and alternative. This six-planet Grand Cross consists of the Moon, Solar, Mercury, Pallas Athena, Vesta, and Uranus.
Due to Mercury, a central theme of this lunation is studying and communication that genuinely electrifies you!
What data hole are you enthusiastic about filling? What info are you excited to share with the world? Mercury and the Solar are in Leo, which invitations you into the highlight as a pacesetter or entertainer.
The warrior goddess Pallas Athena might help you do that with applicable assertiveness. She will be able to additionally provide help to be intelligent and strategic. And Vesta, the asteroid goddess of selfless service, encourages you to contemplate how your actions assist the larger good.
What about Uranus? He has the identical meanings as Aquarius, so we’ll be getting an additional serving to of the Aquarian energies already talked about!
Two Extra Elements
The Moon additionally makes two different elements. A Chiron sextile empowers your work as a healer or knowledge giver, and might ease your private therapeutic work. And a Neptune semi-sextile can subtly assist your non secular awakening, impressed creativity, and unconditional love.
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13-Month Jupiter-Saturn Sq.!
Broaden or contract? See the glass as half-full or half-empty? Dance in ecstatic celebration or prime off your emergency provides? With Jupiter sq. Saturn (17°27′ Gemini-Pisces), you is perhaps pulled in each instructions.
Jupiter and Saturn got here into orb (started to affect one another) on 7/6, and make an actual sq. right now (8/19).
As a result of Jupiter will flip retrograde on 10/9 with this sq. nonetheless in orb, this facet’s affect will final an unusually very long time: almost 13 months! There might be two extra precise Jupiter-Saturn squares on 12/26/24 and 6/15/25. This facet’s affect will lastly finish on 7/31/25. This gives you loads of time to take advantage of its alternatives!
Be versatile. Typically Jupiter, the planet of enlargement, optimism and celebration, will lead. Jupiter may additionally invite you to give attention to philosophy, faith, and international journey or influences.
At different instances heed Saturn, who embodies seriousness, maturity, boundaries and limitation. He could name so that you can focus in your objectives, plan your work and work your plan, and preserve your nostril to the grindstone.
The indicators of the social planets add different life-affirming potentials. Jupiter is in Gemini, whereas Saturn is in Pisces. The helps intuitively impressed pondering and communication, in addition to enhanced Regulation of Attraction juju.
It is going to be simpler to brainstorm to realize sensible outcomes. And you’ll stability blissfully productive durations “within the zone” with downtime for frolicsome celebration!
That is the waxing sq. of the Nice Conjunction of 2020. This marks the primary main turning level of that momentous Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, certainly one of this decade’s most vital influences. To learn to make the perfect use of this Nice Conjunction cycle, click on right here.
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There’s a lot you are able to do with the tight T-Sq. that began on 8/11, peaks right now (8/20), and ends on 8/26! It consists of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
As famous above, the Thor’s Hammer that peaked on 8/17 has a lot in frequent with this T-Sq.. Please pardon the repetition as I briefly remind you of the alternatives each facet patterns gentle up with Venus, Virgo, Mars, and Jupiter.
Venus guidelines relationships, creativity, and cash. Her placement in Virgo helps well being, service, and element work. You need to use this T-Sq.’s efficiency to empower any of those areas!
Mars can energize your actions as a warrior, initiator, sexual being, or entrepreneur. His (and Jupiter’s) placement in Gemini amps up your skill to study, write, educate, and talk.
Jupiter invitations you to study or share increased knowledge and open to expansive international influences. Reside your life as an adventurous quest, and embrace your full measure of enthusiasm, pleasure, and celebration!
Saturn, the one planet on this T-Sq. the Thor’s Hammer lacks, can preserve all this targeted. He might help you be mature, accountable, and productive. He’d such as you to take sufficient time for your self (the hermit) and share what you’ve discovered with others (the sensible elder).
No matter you select to create, you possibly can manifest it extra rapidly and effectively through the use of the Regulation of Attraction. That is supported by Saturn in Pisces: Pisces guidelines visualization, whereas Saturn excels at bodily crystallization.
A strong and harmonious Envelope empowers relationship optimization, artistic collaboration, perception into monetary issues, and extra. This flowing facet sample combines Venus, Pallas Athena, and “gods of change” Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. It begins right now (8/21), peaks on 8/28, and ends on 9/3.
The themes of relationship, creativity, and finance come from Venus. Pallas Athena helps optimization, collaboration, cleverness, and technique.
The theme of creativity is empowered by Neptune in Pisces. The planet and signal each energize impressed creativity.
Pluto, lord of wealth, boosts the monetary theme. And Uranus might help deliver these adjustments with shocking velocity!
Extra broadly, all three outer planets firing up Venus and Pallas Athena give large energetic assist for any of their potentials. Make hay whereas the solar shines!
8/22 (Thu)
There are three notable astrology occasions right now.
Solar Yod Peaks
The Solar-Neptune-Pluto Yod that began on 8/17 peaks right now (8/22) and ends on 8/26.
Solar Enters Virgo
The Solar enters Virgo at 10:55 am EDT. For the subsequent month, extra power is out there to empower your service to others. Do you take pleasure in your service, and does it make the perfect use of the particular skills you most love to make use of?
Well being can also be energized, whether or not you’re supporting your self or others. Lastly, no signal beats Virgo on the subject of modifying, refinement, and a focus to element!
Venus Sq. Mars
A Venus-Mars sq. fires up relationships, creativity and extra. With a 90° sq., you could have to “flip a nook” in these areas. Challenges could come up for decision, when you can take good conditions to the subsequent stage!
Venus guidelines relationships, creativity, and cash. Her placement in Virgo helps well being, service, and element work.
Mars can energize your actions as a warrior, initiator, sexual being, or entrepreneur. His placement in Gemini amps up your skill to study, write, educate, and talk.
This Venus-Mars sq. is a part of the Thor’s Hammer and T-Sq. I interpreted above. Its full potential is described in these facet sample interpretations.
8/24 (Sat)
Vesta Yod Peaks
The Vesta-Neptune-Pluto Yod that began on 8/15 peaks right now (8/24) and ends on 9/2.
Assertiveness is potently supported by a “Finger of God” (Yod) that begins right now (8/27), peaks on 9/3, and ends on 9/12. This emphatic facet sample consists of Mars, Pallas Athena, and Pluto.
Mars, on the apex of this Yod, empowers masculine aggression. Pallas Athena guidelines female assertiveness, which might obtain its objectives utilizing subtler strategies. These can embody negotiation, diplomacy, and mediation.
Lastly, Pluto guidelines uncooked energy, which you should use nonetheless you would like!
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Envelope Peaks
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The Envelope that began on 8/21 peaks right now (8/28) and ends on 9/3. This facet sample consists of Venus, Pallas Athena, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
8/27 (Tue) via 8/29 (Thu)
Three Venus Elements
Venus makes elements to the outer planets on three consecutive days, 8/27 via 8/29. On the most simple stage, this massively empowers relationships, creativity, and funds.
All three elements occur across the peak of an Envelope facet sample which incorporates Venus, the three outer planets, and Pallas Athena. For a deeper understanding of what’s taking place with Venus and these different planets, click on right here.
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All dates and instances are within the U.S. jap time zone. Occasions are strongest on the dates listed, however their affect might be energetic for at the very least every week earlier than and after.
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