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Aires   (March 20 - April 18)  Fire.  Ruling planet Mars.    Top

This is a really big month for you, Aries. You are engaged at this time in massive reassessment and joyful recognition of your full potential. Excited by your prospects, and coming into a more compassionate stance with all your kin - which includes everybody - you are also perhaps feeling somewhat confused over your current role. It's hard to match the numinous possibility with real-world practicality, even though you've been wrestling with that very question for weeks now, but you are beginning to manage it.

As the month begins, you are making an important evolutionary movement from serious and somewhat stuck commitment to your own issues toward a more expansive involvement with the world around you. This is a time of shake-up in your personal agenda, a time which will shoot you through a cannon over the next few weeks. You will land on your feet but the scenery around you will be irrevocably changed.

The initial signs of this transition will manifest in this current monthly timeframe as a profound and fertile confusion regarding goals and life path. Your basic beliefs may even be called into question, or at least to a thorough-going revision, by the time that this month ends.

These feelings may come to a crux around the time of the Leo New Moon, taking place on Sunday, August 12th. Then you are stargazing into your future with a new idea in mind, and finding the fluidity in your ego involvement after all, where recently only the hard outer crust was visible.

There may be relationship issues to be worked out at this time, which in the end may help to define the direction that your higher self intends for you now, and the road you must travel to get there, as Venus continues to retrograde through Virgo and back into your self-expression sector over the next few weeks.

By the time of the First Quarter Moon of August 20th you will be trying to settle down with these radically new perspectives in mind, and finding the places where the fit is too tight or just doesn't work.

The Full Moon Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, August 28th , represents a time of great wonder and excitement and celebrating the tension of actually making your way forward into a new world. The strain might be more than you bargained for but it will not be more than you can take.

Taurus   (April 19 - May 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

Your clock is running backwards this month Taurus. You are questioning all of your assumptions right now. Attempting to refine your idea of what truly matters to you can actually be a very good thing, especially if you face this challenge head-on and unafraid. You are digging deep within the roots of your being, rearranging family commitments and seeking the spiritual mandate that you came into this lifetime to fulfill. If compassion is the only path that makes sense to you right now, then that is the road that you must walk.

As the month begins, with your ruler Venus is recently retrograde in your sector of self-expression, you are prone to feeling more internal than usual. Rather than to any outer form of connection you are likely to be reaching to the inside for answers, plumbing the depths of your psychological make-up and seeking a true basis for security within your inner world.

There also may be subtle conflicts with partners at this time, especially around the Last Quarter Moon of the 5th. These strains may arise because you yourself are going through changes, or perhaps because it is time for some differences that have been building up to come to greater conscious awareness. With the Venus retrograde taking place over the next six weeks, not really completing her transition until well into October, you are in the midst of a long drawn-out process of reassessment.

The time of the Leo New Moon of August 12th is a serious opportunity for completion of one phase of this journey, and for new doors to open. At this point you may feel both electrified with transcendent possibilities and confused as to motives. You are closer than ever to accepting the unseen world all around you as an integral part of your existence, but the contrast with real-world practicality can also be more than your earth-bound mind can handle.

One way to cope may be by writing down your impressions, without judgment. Meditating or intensive spiritual practice may also be indicated at this juncture. Sting's statement that we are actually "spirits in the material world" is quite relevant here, and it is only natural that acknowledging the mix can prove daunting at times.

In the last week of the month, on Tuesday, August 28th, when the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse takes place in your sector of goals and future plans, you will have the opportunity to get a better glimpse of where these new-found realizations are heading. This is a time when the opportunity is there to lock in those changes that you feel are appropriate, as witnessed by your close community; a chance to take a stand for what you believe at the deepest level to be the right course of action for you. The trick is in the subsequent follow-through.

Gemini   (May 20 - June 20)  Air.  Ruling planet Mercury.    Top

There is virtue in variability for you these days, Gemini. Fuzzy thinking may not be so bad when it coveys more precisely the paradoxical nature of your entire situation. In this current monthly timeframe you are trying for a new form of communication that takes all your parts into account, and that acknowledges the cosmic unity underlying your separatist condition. It's a difficult balance to strike, but positive developments in the area of partnership with like-minded others will bolster your chances of finding it.

As the month begins, and coming off the last weekend in July, you are exploring new options for yourself and your world, accessed by a subtle shift in point of view. The pace of potential change intensifies by Monday evening, August 6th, when Jupiter stations in your relationship sector. This is a time when you find that helpful partners enable you to come into yourself in a new and positive way, and when everything seems possible.

The retrograde of Venus, lasting until September or even October, means that everything that happens to you right now has its internal impact as well, and puts an introspective slant on all your communications.

At the time of the subsequent New Moon, taking place on Sunday, August 12th, your outreach is both more energized than usual and also less specific. There is a way that a deep unknown part of yourself is seeking to come forth in your connections with others at this time, and all bets are off on what worlds the conversation may lead you to. It's an exciting prospect that shouldn't scare you, although you may wonder why it doesn't. Leaving the familiar mental highways behind can of course be challenging, but also in the end exhilarating, for without the opportunity to explore new perspectives, what after all have we to live for?

With this New Moon energy, you are in the process of solidifying these possibilities for yourself into form, creating the space to take them forward and actualize them into concrete being in your life, while at the same time feeling the spaciousness of new vistas that defy being pinned down in this way. You must somehow find a compromise in working with both sides.

The First Quarter Moon of August 20th will provide a necessary sorting out process, while the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, August 28th, will further catalyze your response into action. Over the following month you are connecting deeply with the roots of your being and everything else will have to take second place to that ultimately rewarding effort.

Cancer   (June 21 - July 21)  Water.  Ruling planet is the Moon.    Top

You are investigating issues of self and other in this monthly timeframe, Cancer, exploring your boundaries. There is a push-pull going on within your soul at this time. On the one side, you are idealizing the benefit to your life that compassionate partners provide, while on the other you feel a determination to remain the captain of your own ship. You are peering into the future with these intentions in mind, trying to find your way forward, seeking if not the answers, at least intelligent questions. A more inclusive philosophy of life and living that comes to you by month's end may provide them.

As the month begins, you are making surprising connections mentally and with respect to working life goals, connecting the dots in a new way between how you see your world and your place within it. You are coming into a better understanding these days of your life purpose, that unique task that you and only you can fulfill.

In the first full week of the month, when Jupiter stations direct on August 6th, you are coming to an optimistic conception of where in your life you are heading, and how you might expect to get there. You have been concerned with outer events almost exclusively for some time now, and that inclination continues into the first week of August, but the balance is steadily shifting toward your inner world.

When the New Moon of Sunday, August 12th, shines in your sector of values and resources, opposed by Neptune, and Venus conjoins your Seventh House ruler, you are entering into a sensitive and spiritually oriented period of time, when you are striving to uncover the deeper meaning of your financial and other material safety-net, and when you may be forced to reevaluate the important partnerships in your life from the standpoint of a more purely internal perspective. You are presently seeking what is good for you, and trying to sort that out from what others think is good for you, or for them as well, not always an easy task.

Startling awareness may come upon you suddenly at this time, and you would do well to pay close attention to anything that is revealed to you, no matter how well this new awareness fits into your prior conceptions. You don't need to completely buy into this kind of fresh information, but you benefit by taking it fully into account.

At the time of the First Quarter Moon a week later, taking place on Monday, August 20th, there are likely to be new constraints added to the emerging picture of what makes the truest basis of your security.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, August 28th, is a very powerful time for you, when many things will become clear, and when your communication of your own personal truth will be your watchword. Throughout this tumultuous month you do well to pay careful attention to everything that happens to you. The universe is constantly sending you messages, and you ignore them your peril, although it also pays not to get too reactive to what you think you are seeing but to allow your awareness to blossom with the added perspective of time.

Leo   (July 22 - August 21)  Fire.  Ruling planet is the Sun.    Top

You are coming into yourself more fully this month, Leo, in your birthday time of the year, but with the added dimension of an almost alien partnership point of view that is very close and yet represents also a distance from your own. There is a way that you experience partners in your life as entirely illuminating and beneficial, opening you up to new vistas of possibility, and another way that may be more challenging for you. The secret lies in a higher process of integration, where the overly ideal and the merely practical merge into a magical third way.

As the month begins, you are putting your best foot forward in the midst of your birthday season appropriately full of yourself and your goals. As you lead the way to a richer and more complete understanding of the world and your place within it, you are more seriously concerned with the arc of your personal development right now than ever, playing it for keeps.

With the first full week of the month, beginning on Monday, August 6th, you are optimistically assessing your future goals. You may also find yourself rethinking your career priorities at this time, reevaluating your plans from a more internal standpoint, rather than a strictly outer world determination.

The New Moon that takes place on Sunday, August 12th, is definitely your time to shine. This potent lunation connects you with the electrifying presence of Uranus in your sector of intimacy and personal transformation as well as Neptune in your partnership sector, so that you are likely to feel the effects in terms of important relationships in your life. These may prove to be both charged with unexpected happenings and more nebulous and prone to idealization than usual. You are also seeking to concretely manifest the way that you do all your partnerships into a more personally realized and immediately available form.

You have been reflecting lately on your relationship dynamic and that process will continue with the retrograde of Venus through next six weeks and on into October. You have positive energy for realigning your goals at this time and you do well to make the most of it. Journaling can help you to get in touch with your thoughts and sort out your own impressions apart from the received opinions of the surrounding consensus.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, August 28th, represents another powerful time of new awareness and shared insight when great realizations are possible regarding the impact of intimate connection and partnership of all kinds on your life.

Virgo   (August 22 - September 21)  Earth.  Ruling planet Mercury.   Top

This is a mostly internal month for you, Virgo, but a quietly exciting one. You are unusually tuned in at this time to your dreams and your compassionate vision. You are always somewhat connected to these mystical places behind and beyond the earthly plane of schedules and events, now even more so. Finances may be on hold at this time, but that is not the real issue. Rather than struggling to adhere to a mundane perspective, you benefit when you make friends with the ocean of cosmic unity within. Although often unacknowledged, it is largest and richest part of you.

As the month begins, you may be finding that something regarding relationship with others is not fully serving you, and that adjustments are required. You have been in the process for some time now of feeling the link between significant partnerships in your life and your own higher purpose, and these days that exploration has become both intensified and more internal. You may feel yourself retreating from close involvement with others in order to sort things out, and so it helps to be aware of the temporary nature of your introspection.

You will emerge from the tunnel of the next few weeks both stronger in yourself and also more ready to assume the friendly impact of others upon your own agenda. Meantime, you live more behind your conscious mind than more obviously and out in the open.

In the first full week of the month, with your ruler Mercury drifting through your sector of dreams, while Jupiter stations in your fourth sector, you may enjoy feeling the deeper connections to your own feeling nature, and to your familial roots.

The New Moon of Tuesday, August 12th, brings fresh energy to your internal process, and perhaps some surprises in your key relationships with others, but you are likely to find yourself more subdued than you might otherwise expect. You are still processing internally at this time, and seeking a life direction going forward that matches your highest purpose for yourself.

By the time of the following week, beginning with the First Quarter Moon taking place on Monday, August 20th, you are coming out of your daze somewhat and returning to a more outward orientation, as first Mercury and then the Sun enters your sign.

The Full Moon Eclipse on Tuesday of the last week of the month takes you even further out of your more narrow internal focus, and brings others directly into your picture, although in an entirely different way than before. Still, something remains of your previous preoccupation with your deeper connection to yourself and it is vital that you not lose sight of that important part of yourself in the rush of surface circumstances.


Libra   (September 22 - October 22)  Air.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

You have been slowly getting it together lately, Libra, and this could be your break-through month. You have the potential right now to totally redesign your life goals along the lines of a more compassionate solution. Your ruler Venus is retrograde through the first week of September, and consequently you are looking inside yourself at this time for answers and life direction. Your thoughts are powerful right now, especially after mid-month; what you intend is very likely to come true, so be careful what you wish for.

As the month begins, you find yourself in an exciting time, as you explore the possibilities of a remarkable new way forward in your life. You are both more concretely realized than you were a few short weeks ago, and also more internally focused at the same time, so that you are spending quality time with yourself.

At the time of the Jupiter station of August 6th, in your sector of goals and societal connection, you are renewed and invigorated in your ideas, while re-thinking your plans for actualizing them from a more inner-oriented perspective.

The New Moon that comes along in the following weekend, on Sunday, August 12th, represents a fresh look at where in your life you are heading, and one that keeps this thoughtful and introspective stance firmly in mind. Your goals are playing themselves out along the lines of inner peace and contentment right now as much as for finances or fame. A trip or a new job may beckon, but you find that the draw is very definitely involved with divine goals, spiritual principles, coupled with advances in your thinking regarding your future-orientation.

The First Quarter Moon of Monday August 20th provides you with a testing time for your mandate for change and spiritual growth as you link your thoughts with others around you. The impulse began around the end of July with the retrograde of Venus will play itself out over the next several weeks, and not until October will really begin to settle in.

Toward the end of the current month, the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, August 28th, brings you a more expressive flowering of these ideas, together with a passionate commitment to inner work as well as outer. You don't really have to choose one over the other, as the latter follows as inexorably from the former as the day the night.

Scorpio   (October 23 - Nov 21)  Water.  Ruling planets Mars, Pluto.   Top

You are going through a thorny passage this month, Scorpio. The planetary configurations indicate a significant time for new business connections and also presage tough sledding in making them happen for you in the right way. There may be equally problematic and yet ultimately beneficial issues to be resolved in the area of personal relationships. The resources that you need are solidifying, but you have to be willing to allow that flowering to take place in its own time. You are changing to meet the needs of a changing environment, and that is a good thing in the end, no matter how difficult it may seem to be in the passing moment.

As the month begins, you are finding the link between partnership with others and your own self-determination. Relationships in your life are emphasized right now, and help you to define and particularize your own way forward. The Last Quarter Moon of August 5th represents a degree of conflict in this area and may serve to bring these issues into sharper focus for you.

You are in the midst of an important learning phase, which is part of your life lesson generally, regarding the way that you handle deep connection with others. You are seeking the total benefit for both parties involved, so that neither of you is used up by the transaction. You are also fortunate in finances at this time, although lifting your gaze to the broader meaning of security issues in your life is definitely an even greater blessing.

The influential New Moon of Sunday, August 12th, takes you further to the inside of your being. At this time you are seeking a balance between the dark unknown and the more conscious parts of yourself. There may be surprises in store for you, as electric self-expression leads you into some new territory for personal creativity as well as potential romance. You are exploring your very depths, and if you have the courage to reveal this hidden side of yourself to others around you who knows what is ultimately possible.

At the same time that you are externally motivated and living out your priorities in terms of public performance, there is still a part that remains introspective. This month represents an excellent opportunity for journaling your impressions and getting clearer on where you stand vis a vis your relationship dynamic and other thought-provoking questions regarding life direction.

The First Quarter Moon of Monday, August 20th, may signal a time of subtle conflict between personal and work-related issues and gives you another chance to examine your own impressions, independent from the beliefs of others.

In the last week of the month, the Lunar Eclipse and Full Moon of Tuesday, August 28th brings to you a form of culmination and a future orientation to your thinking that helps you to focus on the eventual results that you are trying for. These are powerful configurations in a powerful month for you that could be productive of great change in your life as you come to the integration point of all this energy. It will take time but time is exactly what you have got.

Sagittarius   (Nov 22 - Dec 20)  Fire.  Ruling planet Jupiter.   Top

You are coming to some significant decisions of a philosophical kind this month, Sagittarius. Through your recent changes, you have exposed yourself to some vastly different points of view, and the effect on you is profound as you seek an uneasy balance between alternatives. On the one hand there is soulful communication that takes important, although potentially confusing, cosmic priorities more fully into account; on the other a greater presence in the here and now rush of personal events. The good news is that you don't even have to choose. Just doing your best job of being yourself may be enough.

As the month begins you are feeling the philosophical impact of the Sun and Mercury in your sector of higher mind. This is a big month of shifting perspectives for you, and travel to distant shores is one possible way that this invigorating attitude adjustment could play itself out. You are coming to a different stand on your belief orientation and educational perspective, whatever outer form this takes, and the exploration along the way to your destination may be the real goal.

On the week beginning with Monday, August 6th, as your ruler Jupiter turns to direct motion, you will feel the shift. You find yourself reaching out more cheerfully to others around you. The paradox is that you still feel an undertow of a pull to the inside as well at this time, since Venus retrogrades into your Ninth House and squares Mars in your partnership sector. The potential conflict that ensues between inner and outer concerns may be resolved by recourse to a more detached point of view that takes everything that happens as it comes, without judgment and without agenda.

The New Moon of the following week, taking place on Sunday, August 12th, presents you with fresh alternatives. You may see your world as composed of bonds with others right now, or see very clearly the inner link to All That Is, wherein you connect still more deeply to the universe. Your private life is shot full of inspiration right now. You may find that your communication with others is more mystically than realistically based at this time, but who's to say which mode of operation matches more truly the reality of the world around you.

In the week following, the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, August 20th, represents some bumps in the road, a potential for conflict between ideal concept and concrete achievement. You may find yourself in the process of absorbing disappointments into your evolving world view.

With the Moon entering your sign that same evening you will do well with any necessary adjustments. The next few days are potent for you, and may help to put the cap on the changes that have been gathering in your psyche over the course of this cycle.

The Full Moon Lunar Eclipse of the last week of the month, on August 28th, is another powerful time, when you might find that you must place you energy in rising above petty concerns to take on the real heart of the matter. You might take courage from the realization that you are in an important period of growth and development, and that as you more fully integrate the perspectives of your inner world, these will lead you to great strides forward in the outer one as well in the coming weeks and months.

Capricorn   (Dec 21 - Jan 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Saturn.   Top

You have been engaged in searching out new directions for yourself lately, Capricorn, and your process of transformation continues into the current time frame. Intimacy with others is one avenue toward greater fulfillment, both with significant partners in your life and with yourself, as you find slowly dawning within you the compassionate recognition of others' needs as valid as your own. The trick is to manifest your own place to stand in what can be a shifting ground of potentially illusory idealization. You have it within your power right now to effectively move forward; it takes only the awareness of the opening door and the determination to move through it.

As the month begins, you are coming into a greater sense of solidity within yourself, benefiting from the information of others around you but concocting from all that you receive your own blend of ideas. Thus you are stockpiling a rich currency of perspectives that you can use to your own advantage, as you complete a major shift in your beliefs and values that has been in the works for you for some time now.

The Last Quarter Moon of Sunday, August 5th, presents you with challenges in this area, when you are taking in the viewpoints of others and attempting to integrate them with your own.

The New Moon of Sunday, August 12th, represents a powerful time of inspiration when you are attempting to deal with issues of inner and outer, self and other. This is one climax of a lengthy period of integration as you seek to take your relationship orientation and balance this part of yourself with the demands of a more spiritual perspective. An impulse for massive change is slowly taking hold within you, reemphasizing relationship with others around you as an avenue to your own metamorphosis.

Surprising information may contribute to your process of increasing awareness at this time. As you reexamine all your relationships, both personal and business, you may come to the startling conclusion that a win-win situation is always present in your dealings with others, you may only have to dig for it, and to accept that part of yourself that makes the predominate connection to Spirit.

As you go through your process of investigation, the First Quarter Moon of the 20th is likely to provide more fuel for thought, representing a time when you must choose between alternatives, priorities of life direction and intimate connection, and decide which approach makes the most sense in the long run. It may be possible to find a third way of higher resolution.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, August 28th represents another potent time of discovery, and may serve as a summing up of recent advances in your understanding. Your world view is shifting, and in a good way, over the next few weeks and on into October.

Aquarius   (Jan 20 - Feb 18)  Air.  Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn.   Top

You are searching for stability amidst the chaos right now, Aquarius, although you may also be intent on rejecting it when it comes within your grasp. Finding your footing can be a two-edged sword if you excessively narrow your focus in order to achieve it. Partnership with others is powerful for you at this time, and presents you with an opportunity to move forward in multiple directions rather than just one. That is the good news; the rest of the story lies in how you handle it.

As the month begins, you are feeling your way forward into a new conception of yourself and your world. Taking a closer look at the effects of intimacy and bonding with others encourages you to experiment with new ways of thinking and feeling about partnership in your life as a natural outgrowth of your own individuality rather than a distraction from it. When Jupiter changes direction on the 6th there are implications for your future-orientation and a new hopefulness may emerge.

You are involved over the course of this month's journey with issues of self versus other, and of material safety versus a joyful acceptance of immateriality as central to your vision, so that your security depends not so much on what you possess but on how cheerfully you possess yourself.

The New Moon period of time, beginning with Sunday, August 12th, is a dazzling juncture when things begin to slip into place. You are vaguely discontented with life in the material plane right now, as you have been for some time. Although you are still dealing with the effects of relationship on your life in a more or less internal fashion, you are also actively engaged as well with the world around you. Relationships of all kinds, including business partnerships, are vitally important for you right now.

You seek the deeper meaning of connection with others, in the best of circumstances a true marriage of minds wherein neither agent is diminished but rather all aspects of individual creativity are enhanced.

The issues and realizations of this period are brought to a head by the time of the powerful Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, August 28th, when you may arrive at the deepest epiphanies, and when are ready to share your conclusions with others.

You may also view this month's journey through the realms of the Other as part of a larger cycle, based on the retrograde of Venus, that will not fully complete until October. Through it all, the downs and the plentiful ups, you do well to follow the advice of that good old band and keep on truckin' on.

Pisces   (Feb 19 - March 19)  Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter.   Top

You are multi-dimensional and spiritually oriented this month, Pisces, finding new inspiration in working with the public in a capacity of service to higher goals. This is a positive time for you, with lots of enthusiasm for any type of outer activity. Meanwhile, and somewhat paradoxically, you are feeling more internally motivated than usual, with a focus on dreams and other intimations of the unseen world that surrounds and informs this one. As you attempt to reconcile these very different viewpoints and also deal in a fresh way with significant relationships in your life, you journey ever upward on the cosmic spiral of your destiny.

As the month begins, you are gathering your forces, in the context of your higher purpose for yourself moving forward. At this time you are coming to a better understanding of how your world and the world of others might fit together, and where they do not allow for a merger. You are in the process of arriving at new goals for yourself and externalizing them, with great success, in the field of worldly prominence. At the same time you are taking a somewhat internal stance on relationships in your life, including those of a business nature, and how they fit into the larger picture for you.

With the New Moon of Sunday, August 12th, you may find that things are in some way coming to a head. You are feeling quite sensitive at this time and not at all at home in the material plane. Simultaneously there is an excitement in your very being, and a presence about you that is electric and enthusiastic and that can move mountains if you give it full sway. You are turning to the more hidden parts of yourself and using that deep center to launch yourself into outer activity from a very new and different perspective, coming from the inside out. This is a terrific opportunity to launch yourself out into the world in a fresh approach. If you're not confident, you can pretend confidence for the time being until you truly have it.

The First Quarter Moon of Monday, August 20th, and the days following, represents a turning point for changes to more concretely manifest, or else to be driven under the surface by the necessities of life in the arena of events and schedules.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of the following week, taking place on Tuesday, August 28th, represents another breakthrough, when partnership with others comes more fully into the picture to help cement changes that you were in the process of solidifying for yourself.

This month represents a great time to be getting yourself off the hook of others opinions of you. Try not to eliminate the perspective of others entirely, since that amounts to impossibility. Integration is the key, and the challenge.

Aires   Taurus   Gemini   Cancer   Leo   Virgo   Libra   Scorpio   Sagitt   Capric   Aquar   Pisces   Overview   Top

Overview of the Planets this month:                                Top

The Astrology of August features Venus, Saturn and Neptune, and the Leo New Moon. Venus, extremely bright this summer, having turned retrograde in late July, disappears from the evening skies by around August 12th. We are sure to be looking more closely at all our relationships during this time, and taking an introspective stance, attempting to discern what really matters to us. Venus retrograde in Virgo signifies discrimination in partnerships, values and matters of aesthetics. In its forming conjunction with Saturn, this Venus configuration suggests a slowing down and concentration of the relationship impulse. Decisions that we make now have the viewpoint of the years in mind. Events that take place over the course of this month may seem to stymie our efforts at connection, but may in fact be in our own best long-term interest, and have the beneficial effect of throwing us back on ourselves for the answers.

Venus reappears as the Morning Star on August 24th or a day or so later, an event called her Helical Rise that takes place every nineteen months. This moment in the Venus cycle was correlated in Mayan Astrology with the embarrassment of the ruler, loss of control, and a fall from high places. The difficulties of our national leadership may become even more extensive at this time, right at the beginning of the year-long presidential campaign leading up to November 2008.

As Venus nears her mid-month conjunction with Saturn, Saturn aligns itself in trine with Pluto. Saturn with Pluto is reminiscent of 9-11, when they were opposed, although the trine symbolizes far greater possibility for working things out. Still, radical transformation is implied for the structures that we have built up around us, both individually and collectively. This is necessary change, and it is up to each of us how we handle it. We can go gracefully, or kicking and screaming, but it is still bed time for some important part of our lives.

After the current month that features this Saturn and Pluto alignment, Saturn enters a new sign, Virgo, for the next two and a half years, at the very beginning of September (on Labor Day weekend). At this point in time we might feel the shift to a more detail-oriented and perfectionistic focus. All during Fall, in regard to the structure of our lives, we are trying to get it right in some way, beginning to operate in a new mode. This is another part of the preparation for the major changes and challenges of the next few years, when everything that we know and love takes on a vastly different aura. In the more spiritually motivated function of these changes, we are striving to come to a better understanding of our role in life as consistent with our highest purpose for ourselves, to begin to take on the evolutionary mission of our generation and our times.

Getting back to the current configurations of this summer, in mid-August, the Leo New Moon of August 12th powerfully opposes Neptune, while Venus conjuncts Saturn, as Saturn continues to trine Pluto. A total of five planets in Leo at this time make for a fiery and growth oriented experience. In the enjoyment of summer, we are contrary-wise pulled in more than one way to dissolve ego attachment at this time, as Neptune enlightens us with the perspective of cosmic unity. This New Moon continues the series of powerful mid-month lunations that we have been experiencing lately, and that serve to underscore the transformative nature of these times.

In September, the powerful eclipse of the 11th continues this trend. The current month, with its relationship emphasis, adds greatly to the cumulative effect of spiritual transformation on our personal lives. We will leave the year of 2007 as very different individuals than when we entered it.

Current Moon Configurations

The Last Quarter Moon of Sunday, August 5th (Last Quarter Moon Chart), traditionally represents a "crisis of consciousness" when the impulse from the preceding Cancer New Moon of mid-July finds its difficulty in coming completely into fruition, and awareness is thereby gained. This is of course the developmental stage that precedes the Leo New Moon of the following weekend, and comes as Venus is beginning to retrograde back into the first degree of Virgo. The station of Jupiter to direct motion, in Sagittarius, takes place on the 6th, bringing an optimistic tone to the proceedings at that time.

The Leo New Moon of Sunday August 12th (New Moon Chart) is a very powerful lunation, being opposed exactly to Neptune in Aquarius, and quincunx to Uranus in Pisces. These two outer planets remain in mutual reception, linking them to each other. There is a way that electrifying messages of Spirit illumine our path right now and as well numinous and obscure energy for merger comes over our social impulse. Since Saturn is also exactly conjunct retrograde Venus in late Leo at this time, as it trines Pluto, the energies of all the outer planets are invoked. Since Mercury is conjunct this New Moon, this is a time of renewed awareness of the fundamentally mystical nature of reality.

The First Quarter Moon of Monday, August 20th (First Quarter Moon Chart), is traditionally a time of a "crisis of action" when the impulse of the New Moon must find it's way through the necessities imposed by reality. Since this Quarter Moon exactly squares Saturn, this would be an entirely appropriate reading for the evolving situation. Saturn is about to change signs, moving into Virgo come September.

The Full Moon of Tuesday, August 28th (Full Moon Chart), is also a Lunar Eclipse, the first of a pair that will include next month's very potent September 11th New Moon. This Full Moon, in the 5th degree of Virgo and Pisces, squares both Mars in Gemini and Jupiter in Sagittarius, newly turned to direct motion, thus forming a Mutable Grand Cross. The Sabian Symbol for the Sun's degree, "a man dreaming of fairies" may presage miracles of new awareness. This is the full flowering of the impulse from the New Moon and we will learn from it.


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