Mercury retrograde and a Leo New Moon are the simplest headlines for the primary half of August.
However the true juice is within the extraordinary side patterns. We begin with a Venus/slower planets lovefest, then construct to overlapping patterns that share Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. These give you many extra superb alternatives than I can summarize right here!
This forecast covers this half-month’s most necessary astrological occasions. Additionally take a look at my award-winning This Week in Astrology audio podcast and YouTube video forecasts!
Click on astrology graphics to see bigger pictures. Some useful resource hyperlinks might happen greater than as soon as. It is because many individuals hyperlink to a selected day’s forecast from social media, and may not see an necessary useful resource hyperlink elsewhere on this web page.
As of August 1 …
The Moon is waning (there was a Capricorn New Moon on 7/21).
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 Juno-Pallas Athena-Chiron Yod continues via 8/4.
A Ceres-Uranus-South Node Thor’s Hammer continues by 8/19.
Nice Vitality for Dedicated Partnerships (Kite w/ Juno, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto) continues via 8/30.
“Simply accessible, and efficient!”
I’m delighted to share this new 5-star Audible overview of my e book from Kris Grey:
“I really feel that I’ve reaped the advantages of an Ayahuasca retreat in Peru myself after listening to this e book!
“I’m already integrating the IDA invocations into my day by day routine. As a substitute of fearing and dwelling on my future, I now look ahead to seeing what manifests as I fall again into alignment, after some very darkish and attempting years.
“The teachings on this e book transcend The Regulation of Attraction, and frees me from at all times having to police my ideas 24/7 and spend power on day by day visualizations. I’m so happy with this religious breakthrough! I took pages of notes, and plan to revisit this e book typically for overview.”
— Kris Grey (5-star Audible overview, 7/29/24)
Accessible as an audiobook, narrated by yours actually! (FREE in case you’re not but an Audible member.)
Accessible as an eBook, paperback, and hardcover beginning at $3.99, and included with Kindle Limitless.
Venus connects with a lot of the slower planets in early August, together with Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. This auspicious alignment supercharges alternatives in Venus’ core themes: relationships, creativity, and funds.
Let’s begin with the one side sample created by these Venus connections.
Relationships, creativity, and funds are emphasised by a week-long “Finger of God” (Yod). It begins right this moment, peaks on 8/5, and ends on 8/8. Venus is at the point of interest, backed up by Neptune and Pluto.
With the fitting changes, you’ll be able to increase any and all Venusian alternatives. You’ll be able to take stable relationships to the subsequent degree, and launch or de-emphasize people who don’t benefit your consideration proper now.
Your artistic inspiration may be magnified, particularly with the help of Neptune’s divine inspiration. It’s also possible to obtain inspiration in cash issues, with further assist from Pluto’s rulership of wealth.
Throughout the a part of this Yod with Venus in Leo (via 8/4), you’ll be able to get pleasure from an enhanced capability to narrate with others as a pacesetter, or put your creativity into the highlight.
Beginning on 8/5, with Venus in meticulous Virgo, you’ll be able to extra skillfully scrutinize particulars. Virgo may aid you refine or put the ending touches in your artistic initiatives.
Jupiter and Uranus
On 8/2, Venus makes two features to slower planets.
The primary, a Venus-Jupiter quintile (26°38′ Leo-14°38′ Gemini), is fortunate for 2 causes: Jupiter is the planet most related to luck and celebration, and the quintile is astrology’s fairy mud side. All types of magical issues can occur with this 72° side!
There’s additionally a Venus-Uranus sq. (26°52′ Leo-Taurus) on 8/2. Uranus likes to pop down intuitive hits, so maintain an eye fixed out for these sudden and reliable insights. Uranus may aid you assume and act unconventionally and be extra true to your genuine self.
We’ve already coated the principle potentials supplied by Venus and her signal placements. (Venus is in Leo when these two features are actual, however the features will nonetheless be in impact for a lot of days after Venus strikes into Virgo.) Combining these potentials with the particular alternatives supplied by these 4 slower planets may aid you get pleasure from extraordinary Venusian abundance!
Your Potent Alternative for Profound Private Transformation
What if in the future, one-on-one with Benjamin and targeted solely on you, may change your life ceaselessly?
Click on to be taught extra!
A New Moon traces up at 7:13 am EDT (12°34′ Leo). Any Leo New Moon is nice for brand new beginnings or recent power in enjoying your position as a chief or entertainer. Leo power additionally helps connecting with youngsters or your inside little one, and taking time for relaxation and leisure.
Points
This New Moon is flavored by 5 features.
Sextiles with Mars and Jupiter add fireplace, growth, and the potential for enhanced luck. With each planets in Gemini, these sextiles may increase studying, writing, and communication.
A Neptune sesquare can stimulate you to deepen your religious awakening. (My free Embodied Awakening Invocation has helped hundreds do that shortly and simply.)
Neptune may provide you with divine inspiration and enhanced creativity, and may help you get pleasure from movement state extra persistently. Neptune may aid you work along with your goals, and expertise extra unconditional love and compassion.
A sesquare is a minor laborious side, so keep alert for Neptune’s tougher manifestations. These can embody substance abuse, addictions, aimless drifting, or enjoying the sufferer.
With a Juno semi-square, look ahead to friction in your dedicated partnerships. (If problem arises, I like to recommend Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication system to work by your points.)
Lastly, the Solar and Moon loosely conjoin Vesta. Is it time to place recent power into selfless service that helps a worthy trigger?
Kick your private evolution into excessive gear! Awakening Plus affords you on-line religious and shamanic experiences … 700+ consciousness-shifting recordings … and life-transforming programs. This extraordinary membership additionally provides you neighborhood connection and private help.
Able to awaken, heal, and thrive like by no means earlier than? Click on to be taught extra!
Mercury makes three noteworthy features because it turns retrograde.
A Mercury-Venus conjunction invitations you to replicate in your relationships, creativity, and funds. This side additionally helps harmonious communication and inventive writing.
With Mercury sq. Mars, think about the way you’re doing as a warrior, pioneer, sexual being, or entrepreneur.
Lastly, a Mercury-Ceres trine could make it simpler to obtain abundance. This may be something of worth, materials or energetic.
Make that tremendous life you’ve been dreaming about actual!
My distinctive mixture of modalities, refined by greater than 10,000 AstroShaman consumer classes, may help you thrive in all areas of your life. And my uncommon method may aid you do that sooner than you may need thought potential.
How can this progressive lifestyle teaching aid you?
8/5 (Mon) continued
Nice Vitality for Dedicated Partnerships (Kite)
Dedicated partnerships get highly effective and constructive help, because of a Kite that includes Juno, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. This harmonious side sample began on 7/12, peaks right this moment (8/5), and ends on 8/30.
Juno represents dedicated partnerships. Uranus helps breakthroughs, paradigm shifts, and surprises. Neptune helps soul mixing and inventive inspiration to information the way you relate with others.
If a relationship is sexual, Pluto helps the ecstasy of tantric soul mixing. In any form of relationship, Pluto helps trustworthy, weak interactions. He can also bathe you with wealth and energy, which might have present up many various methods relying in your relationship.
Even with largely harmonious features, this Kite may additionally convey up some challenges. All three “gods of change” are targeted on Juno, the goddess of dedicated partnership. If a relationship may be improved by some form of launch or transformation, these potent energies are more likely to convey it to mild.
Launch relationships which have outlived their usefulness, remodel these which are value persevering with, and take those which are already nice to the subsequent degree!
Yod Peaks
The Venus-Neptune-Pluto Yod that began on 8/1 peaks right this moment (8/5) and ends on 8/8.
Nonviolent Communication that will help you work by tough points collectively.
There’s a lot you are able to do with the tight two-week T-Sq. that begins on 8/11, peaks on 8/20, and ends on 8/26! It consists of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
There’s a lot you are able to do with the tight two-week T-Sq. that begins on 8/11, peaks on 8/20, and ends on 8/26! It consists of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.When you’re studying this complete two-week forecast from the highest, you already learn about Venus’ potentialities: 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 (and Jupiter’s) placement in Gemini amps up your capability to be taught, write, train, and talk.
Jupiter invitations you to be taught 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!
Lastly, Saturn can maintain all this targeted. He may 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 realized with others (the smart elder).
No matter you select to create, you’ll be able to manifest it extra shortly and effectively by utilizing the Regulation of Attraction. That is supported by Saturn in Pisces: Pisces guidelines visualization, whereas Saturn excels at bodily crystallization.
The Thor’s Hammer
The opposite side sample, a Thor’s Hammer, consists of Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto. It begins on 8/13, peaks on 8/17, and ends on 8/21.
Happily, most of what I stated concerning the T-Sq. can be true for the Thor’s Hammer. The one exceptions are the 2 paragraphs about Saturn.
As a substitute of Saturn, the Thor’s Hammer consists of Pluto. This provides large energy to all the probabilities of the opposite planets and indicators. Pluto’s presence additionally makes it simpler to launch or remodel what doesn’t serve you in these areas.
He may help you do the shadow work wanted for therapeutic outdated traumas, and allow you to be extra trustworthy, weak, and genuine. And, because the lord of wealth, he can bless you with abundance!
Placing Them Collectively
The Thor’s Hammer comes and goes throughout the longer timeframe of the T-Sq.. So it may be best to think about the T-Sq. as the principle occasion, which enjoys a short lived increase from the Thor’s Hammer.
These two side patterns are positively working as a staff – and a mighty staff it’s!
Deepen Your Perception, Therapeutic & Awakening
Your astrology chart reveals highly effective insights into your relationships, profession, soul function, and far more. Getting a yearly Astrology+ replace can present you what’s necessary now!
I additionally provide Shamanic Therapeutic, one-of-a-kind Life Teaching, and extra. All my companies are equally efficient in particular person or lengthy distance.
Study extra!
8/12 (Mon)
Mars Sesquare Pluto
You’ll be able to act potently and successfully with Mars sesquare Pluto (15°23′ Gemini-0°23′ Aquarius). Mars’ archetypal power particularly enjoys expressing as a warrior, sexual being, initiator, and entrepreneur. With Mars in Gemini, all psychological enter and output may be energized.
Mars-Pluto features have large energy and must be dealt with rigorously. Do your finest to keep away from conditions the place anger, violence, or dangerous sexual exercise may happen.
8/14 (Wed)
Mars Conjunct Jupiter
A Mars-Jupiter conjunction (16°40′ Gemini) is a major astrological occasion, and would usually benefit its personal interpretation. Nonetheless, since this conjunction is woven into two overlapping side patterns, it’s best interpreted inside that bigger context. Click on right here for that big-picture perspective!
Your Good-Vibes Consciousness Enhance
Study quick and straightforward instruments for awakening, therapeutic, and extra, achieve knowledge from enlightening company, and revel in mind-bending ayahuasca tales.
Try the most recent episode: Selflessly Egocentric: Balancing Service with Self-Care.
No matter your Solar Signal, my forecasts may help you make the most effective use of the present astrological energies.
All dates and occasions are within the U.S. japanese time zone. Occasions are strongest on the dates listed, however their affect will likely be lively for at the very least every week earlier than and after.
Everyone seems to be affected by these international transits. Nonetheless, you’ll be most powerfully impacted when transferring planets activate delicate factors in your natal chart. Uncover how these transits will personally have an effect on you by reserving a session with me.
Study extra about my Astrology+ classes.
Current Forecasts
Examine again across the 1st and sixteenth for up to date forecasts.
