In August, we are headed into a tense space. We are already in a tense space, but now we are squeezing through even tighter spaces.
As we are born, we are as soft as we will ever be. And then we meet the hard world, and we grow grooves and tense knots. And yet, if we hold onto our rolls of fat, we might be able to meet the concrete like a kiss.
When I lived in New York, I would ride my bike around the city, weaving between trucks, pedestrians, and squeezing in between traffic lights. A part of me relished this adrenaline, and I feel the next month presents a chance to see life in this way. Or to be aware that there’s a lot of moving parts and a lot of stalled parts, and places where you have to make a split-second decision.
The first half of the month is very a gridlock, with planets in fixed signs squaring each other, and the second half of the month introduces new concerns, with Mars entrance into Gemini. Since Mars will retrograde in the fall, thus staying in Gemini until March 2023, pay attention to what topics come up during end of the month.
Dates that I am eyeing (EST)
August 1 Mars conjunct Uranus and the north node
7 Mars square Saturn
11-14 Full Moon in Aquarius, Sun moving from squaring Uranus to opposing Saturn
20 Mars enters Gemini
27 New Moon in Virgo, Sun square Mars
horoscopes (read for your rising or sun)
Leo:
Beginning of the month, authority conflicts are stubborn and in-grown. You are marching towards the top, but as you move in this direction, you are called to create sharp boundaries around how you build relationships and partnerships that are necessary for your success and authenticity.
As we reach the end of August, there are new beginnings around your resources and self-value. However, you are also entering into a long chapter of heated communication with various groups that may create extra considerations of these aforementioned resources.
Virgo:
Early month, you feel the fatigue. The fatigue has been building and building, and it’s been asking of you, “how do you care for yourself first?” Your body is not something to be manipulated, but there as a companion. The work will always be there, and you’ve been learning well enough how to work at things. This may appear as you have extra desire to move around, to jump through ideas and histories and new worlds, but you can’t. At least not at the pace or depth you want. And reconciling these various desires or realities will help you reach contact with another you that lives quietly in the soul and has many secrets to tell you.
Later in the month, you are beginning a new chapter in your conception of yourself. This could play out in changes in your body or style. At the same time, a story that may have already begun to brew around your career, fully comes into play.
Libra
Intimacy has been the grounds for a lot of unearthing. The way you connect, merge, and share has been revolutionized and cracked open for new methodologies. But these changes are also evaluated against how you feel about your own pleasure, romance, and creativity. You may seek intimacy, but it brings up pain around these themes. These themes when integrated will help you reach the vision of community you desire.
Later in the month, you begin a new chapter with your mental health. Like a internal spring cleaning, you find what parts of you need order, and what parts of you are holding on to control for dear life. At the same time, you are reevaluating many belief systems and schools of thought – possibly even preparing for school. You may experience a flurry of information all at once, so make space for your nervous system to cool down.
Scorpio
Relationships have been full of their knots and slow burns this summer, enlivened by your own passion. But this month, you confront a frigidness or blockage in your home or family. There’s work to do, to clean up or cut off attachments.
The latter half of the month brings a new beginning in friendships and group associations. As you invest in the types of collectives that stimulate you, you must also contend with various intimate entanglements that carry their own thorns and knots.
Sagittarius
You’ve been working a lot, or at least, feeling like you need to. Maybe this work is directly related to employment, but maybe some of it is upkeep of your body and home or caring for others. Whatever it is, early month, all this energy faces limitations and challenges. You must reconcile a pressure around communication, travel arrangements, or neighborhood restructuring, in order to feel the abundance that you seek in your identity.
Later in the month, you are beginning a new chapter in your career. This looks super promising, but you are simultaneously dealing with a relationship that requires extra communication. All this information comes at once, and you’ll need to make sure you don’t react too quickly.
Capricorn:
There is a lot of romantic/creative/sexual energy brimming and asking itself to be released carefully, and you must deal with the various contracts and exchanges you are engaging in. Who you choose to link up with is a conscious choice that reveals your personal values and the finite resources (time, energy) that you have.
Later in the month, you are inputting new information around research topics or philosophical journeys. However, at the same time, some maneuvers and communication mishaps brewing around work and lifestyle changes will require your concentration until early next year.
Aquarius
The earth beneath your feet has been rumbling, and you are uprooting yourself in process. All this moving meets its limitations, as Saturn, the planet of discipline and structure, asks you, once again, to commit to your maturation process. Some of this process requires saying no or drawing hard lines. Much of this may come to light through dialogue with a partner.
The second half of the month brings a new chapter in your intimate exchanges or collaborations, places where you share resources, ideas, or feelings on a deeper level. The place where you must cut out your own liver to gift to another comes close to the entire paradigm of debts, death, and rebirth. As you move through these themes, you must balance with another part of you that is itching to gamble, to play games, and to roll around in bed all day.
Pisces
You’ve experienced a lot of quick, sweet trips, communications, and compositions. Perhaps you’ve been writing a lot. Early this month, this gets contrasted with a general wind of change, that has been ushering in conversations with your shadows and hidden enemies, whether real or imagined. The energy you have for the trips, communications, and compositions can’t be pushed through despite other circumstances asking you to slow down. Ultimately, you’re facing your ego that resides in the quality and quantity of your work and contribution.
Later in the month, you are beginning a new chapter in your relationships. However, you are also facing some disturbance around home. With all of these problems popping up anew, you will have a lot of information to sort through and process, so take it slow.
Aries
You are building up your resources, slowly but steadily, and despite feeling not so clear in the paths of action, you have been moving ahead. These considerations take place under the backdrop of you redefining what friendship and group associations mean for you. You may find that to feel an authentic joy and pleasure, you need to tighten up the world around you and say some hard goodbyes.
In the latter part of the month, you may begin new work or lifestyle routines. Your health may come up as a big theme as well. This is all juxtaposed with what seems to be a buzzing of movement and exchanged messages. It may be a moment of a lot of stimulus and information to be sorted.
Taurus
A course of energy, if not anger, has been running through you, and now it meets obstacles at work and your vision of your authority. The beginning of the month asks you to tenderly sit with this tension and how it may be bruising your ego.
Moving into the latter half of the month, you are embarking in a new chapter of romance or creativity, where communication, analysis, and devotion are primary. However, at the same time, a long chapter of financial considerations comes to the forefront. You’ll have to balance between work and play.
Gemini
Early this month, monsters are dragged out from the shadows. You live in a horror movie, but whether you enjoy it depends on whether you’re doing the jump scares or running away from yourself. Meanwhile, the institutions in your life are asking you to step up to new positions of power and rigor, and in the place of due diligence, you may have little space to move and truly do the exploring you enjoy. As you take pride in yourself as a site of knowledge production, this will be a challenge for you to know yourself a little bit better.
Later in the month, you begin a new chapter around home or family. Meanwhile, you have a burst of energy to engage with the world and put yourself out there. You may notice a buzz in your interactions with others. Be careful if you notice that people recoil. Your energy is exceptionally sharp at this time.
Cancer
Friendships and group alignments have revealed so many surprises, and this month is not an exception. Early month, you may experience new (and possibly shocking) information or events that you must evaluate with the ways you want to change how you build intimacy or process loss. Ultimately, you are finding ways that you shine when in your own safe space.
Later in the month, you may begin new rituals, writing, compositions, and neighborhood hangouts. Also at the same time, you are coming into a long period (extending until the next year) of facing your shadow. These shadows may come to you as unprocessed shame, runaway feelings, and secret frenemies. You’re learning a lot about communication in this time.