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Month of August
Aries
What makes the changes this month significant is the change in the dynamics of the year itself and the different partnerships this will create. On the one hand, Venus' departure from your communication sector and return to your home and family sector on 31st July and Mars' departure from your work sector and return to your relationship sector on 7th August aren't major events. This is something that, on average Venus will do every 24 days and Mars every six weeks.
However, after playing her part in settling Uranus into what will be an eight year transit through your communication sector, Venus is joining Jupiter to get a powerful year for home, family and/or property matters off the ground.
At the same time, after doing what he can to fire things up on the job front or with whatever it is that keeps you busy and occupies your time and setting things up for when the Sun returns on 23rd August, Mars leaves to begin his first visit to your relationship sector in two years and the first planetary activity on the relationship front since October 2024. From the start, Mars is able to take advantage of the weeks Venus has just spent in your communication sector, where she was on a mission to give your heart and your relationships a voice.
This will see Mars form a partnership with Uranus in your communication sector and Pluto in your friendship sector that brings you to the start of some powerful months across the communication, social and relationship fronts. This is something that a Full Moon on 9th August will not only capture but with Mars, Uranus and Pluto all at a friendly aspect at the time, this could lead to some unexpected, serendipitous or eureka moments. Meanwhile, until leaving a playful and creative part of your chart on 23rd August to take advantage of the paths Mars has been able to forge on the busy side of life's fence, the Sun will be working to maintain a balance between work and play.
Taurus
Until he leaves a playful and creative part of your chart on 7th August, Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos will be working to put guardrails in place when it comes to a balance between work and no play and for good reason. While the Sun will return to take over on 23rd August and a New Moon on the same day will get this off to an empowered start, there will be a period of just over two weeks where there is no planetary activity here. That shouldn't be a problem, for until Mars returned in June, there had been no planetary activity here this year, as is normally the case.
The difference is that back then you didn't have Mars in your work sector, with his return on 7th August not only kicking off the busiest months of the year, but with immediate implications across the income, work and career fronts. Within two days of returning Mars will have not only caught up and formed a friendly aspect to Uranus in your income sector and to Pluto in your career sector, but they will just be coming together when a Full Moon on 9th August is going to energise things across the income, work and career fronts. This is the forging of a partnership that will remain strong until Mars leaves on 22nd September, with ongoing implications.
Meanwhile, still behind the pack after a retrograde phase earlier in the year, Venus only returned to your communication sector on 31st August to begin her annual mission to give your heart and your relationships a voice. This was nine days after the Sun left, but by the time she returns to your home and family sector on 26th August, it will be just three days after the Sun leaves, taking the solar spotlight off home, family and/or property matters. Venus is catching up, but now, where the solar spotlight shifts and there is an opportunity for reality checks and to pay attention, Venus will be following behind to give your heart a voice and explore the potential that has been exposed.
Gemini
While the Sun, Venus and Mars are all on the move this month, the one planet staying put is Mercury, with the planet of communication refusing to leave your communication sector, the part of your chart where he is able to do what he does best. The Sun will always spend the first three weeks of August in your communication sector, making this an important time of year for all aspects of communication. However, it was at the end of August that Mercury returned for what is normally a 14 to 15 day chance to get the communication lines open before leaving, not to return for another year.
Instead, a retrograde turn last month not only means that Mercury is still here, but until turning direct on 11th August, he is focused on giving the past and unsaid words a voice. Mercury is working closely with the planets in your friendship sector that are also turning retrograde, with four of the five already in retrograde motion by the time you move into the new month and the fifth turning retrograde on 12th August. While the Sun will move on and, as he does at the same time each year, return to your home and family sector on 23rd August, Mercury will stay on in your communication sector until 3rd September.
Meanwhile, having just returned to your income sector on 31st July, until she leaves on 26th August, Venus will be working to make these some of the most potentially lucrative weeks of the year.
While that will always be the case, Jupiter's return in June means that for the first time in over a decade, you have the planets of money and luck working together. At the same time, from the start there are forces in play that are standing by to make this a positive month across the income, work and career fronts.
Helping to keep things balanced is Mars' return to a playful and creative part of your chart on 7th August, where within days he will be connecting with Pluto in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery and Uranus, who is settling into his first full month in Gemini in eight decades. Within days, this trio of planets will be firing up the playful, creative and adventurous side of life's fence.
Cancer
From the moment he returns to your home and family sector on 7th August to begin the first planetary activity on the home front since the Sun left in October 2024, Mars will be pushing back against the planets in your career sector. For any planet returning to your home and family sector, at some point this is going to happen and is a key part in any year for making your work/life balance a priority. With the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos in your career sector for over a decade, any planet moving through your home and family sector is going to clash.
The difference this time is how soon this will happen, in terms of how early in the year and how soon after Mars' return.
The Sun will always return to your home and family sector on the September equinox each year, Venus and Mercury at around the same time and it is usually just before they leave that they will clash with Eris, making this something that will typically come to a head in October. Instead, Mars has returned to fire things up on the home front for the first time in two years, to find that Saturn and Neptune have returned to your career sector but are at the early degrees.
This will see Mars clash within days of his return, but in a way that is going to work to your advantage.
By the time you move into the new month, Saturn and Neptune are not only in retrograde motion, but four of the five planets there are in retrograde motion, with the fifth turning retrograde on 12th August. With August a month when there is not only a lot of focus on home and family but with the playful, creative and adventurous side of life's fence also powering up, this is an opportunity to take advantage of a chance to take your foot off the gas professionally.
Meanwhile, until Mercury turns direct in your income sector on 11th August and with Pluto in retrograde motion in your financial sector until October, on both sides of the financial fence the doors are open to the past, second chances and untapped potential.
Leo
Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of August in Leo, whether you were born in late July or your birthday is this month, this is your birthday month and the start of a new solar year. You were born under a Leo Sun, with its return a chance for a fresh start and new beginnings. Until the Sun leaves on 23rd August, this is a chance to look to the future and the opportunity this brings for a fresh start.
However, don't be surprised if you don't feel ready to nail down your intentions, resolutions or that you aren't 100 percent sure of what you want from the coming year.
This is partly because until he turns direct on 11th August, in retrograde motion Mercury brings a chance to reflect and to spend time back at the drawing board, reassessing your options. As the planet of communication, this is also making it easier to give the past and unsaid words a voice.
However, the real reason why, is that even when the Sun leaves you might not have a clear sense of what you want from the coming year, is that it is not until 26th August that held up by a retrograde phase earlier in the year, will finally return. This is not only when your heart will finally get to have its say in what you want from the coming year, but with Mercury not leaving until 3rd September, when you will finally have heart and mind on the same page.
Meanwhile, after spending the whole of July in your income sector Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos is on the move, though not before smashing as many glass ceilings on his way out the door as possible.
Knowing that the Sun will return on 23rd August and Venus and Mercury next month, while working to make his final days as lucrative as possible, Mars is also clearing a path for the lucrative months that still lie in front of you. Mars will always be the warrior planet of the cosmos and on 7th August, when he leaves your income sector and returns to your communication sector, this will end a fight for what you deserve and then begin his first war on communication barriers in two years.
Virgo
When the Sun returns to Virgo on 23rd August, this is the point in each year when your birthday month and new solar year will always kick off. Yet even before the Sun returned to a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart last month to begin the month long wind down of your old solar year, new doors were already open thanks to Mars' return in June. This was something that held back by a retrograde phase was six months overdue and having had to spend five of the previous seven months in a nostalgic part of your chart, the warrior planet of the cosmos was tired of cooling his heels and was ready to fire things up.
This brought you to the start of a new two year Mars cycle and until leaving on 7th August, he will be looking for something to channel his passions, drive, warrior and competitive spirit into. It is in the gap between Mars' departure and the Sun's return on 23rd August that there will be a chance to focus a little more on the job of bringing your old solar year home. Meanwhile, Mars' return to your income sector on 7th August will not only kick off the most lucrative months of 2025, but with game changing implications across the income, work and career fronts.
This is something that will be felt almost immediately when Mars, who will return to your income sector every two years, for the first time in our lifetime will return to find Pluto in your work sector and Uranus, who is settling into his first full month in your career sector in eight decades. Within 48 hours Mars will have moved into a friendly aspect to both, just as they are already coming together. There will be a rare triple alignment of three very powerful planets when the Moon not only returns to your career sector from 8th August to 10th August, but as a Full Moon that will throw fuel on a scene suddenly ripe with potential across the income, work and career fronts.
Libra
After recent months have seen movement of the outer planets, those planets that will have a major impact on the coming years and to have had so many in the space of just a few months is extremely rare, it is the more ordinary movement of Venus and Mars that will have a significant impact this month. Planets that had been in the same position for years before shifting into new positions could have less impact than the more ordinary movement of Venus, which happens on average every 24 days and Mars, once every six weeks. While the time they both spent in retrograde motion earlier in the year meant that wasn't the case, they are both getting back up to full speed and both with a significant impact this month.
It began in the final hours of July, when held back by that retrograde phase earlier in the year Venus returned to do what as the planet of money, desire and attraction she can, to fuel your professional confidence, attract opportunities and steer things in a lucrative direction. The Sun had left eight days earlier, but as you move into the new month Venus is not only settling into her first full day but just as Jupiter moves into his second full month. Until Venus leaves on 26th August, you will not only have the element of luck and the laws of attraction in effect, but with built in support on the income and job fronts from the start.
Meanwhile, it is on 7th August that nearly seven weeks before the Sun is due to return to Libra to begin your birthday month and new solar year, that Mars will return for his first visit in two years. As the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos, Mars' return will not only bring you to the start of a new two year Mars cycle, but until leaving on 22nd September he is going to fire up your passions, drive, warrior and competitive spirit while looking for something to channel this into. While some of this can be channelled professionally, due to the relationships Mars will form in his early days in Libra, a lot is going to be channelled into the playful, creative and adventurous side of life's fence.
Scorpio
Compared to the major planetary shifts over recent months, the shifts this month are of the more ordinary kind, but they are getting things into position to bring this year home. This is also a month when a call to know when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off will be policed, but this will work to your advantage personally and professionally. Policing this is Mars, the warrior planet of the cosmos, who will return to a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart to begin the six and a half week wind down of your current Mars cycle, ahead of his return to Scorpio on 22nd September.
While it is a given that with the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos in your busy work sector for over nine decades that at some point they would clash, when Mars returns it will bird's eye view to not only find five planets there, but spread out to the degree that during the early, middle and final days of his time here, this is when the pressure to know when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off will be at its greatest. However, you not only begin the month with four of the planets in your work sector in retrograde motion, but with the fifth turning retrograde on 12th August, a day after Mercury turns direct in your career sector.
While the Sun will keep an eye on the future until leaving on 23rd August, with Mercury here for the rest of the month and Venus not returning until 26th August, you can afford to take your foot off the gas.
Turning Mars' push to know when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off into an advantage, is that you not only have Venus in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery until 26th August, but where she has teamed up with lucky Jupiter for the first time in over a decade. They are part of a team powering up the playful, creative and adventurous side of life's fence.
Sagittarius
It is during the first week of the month and then again towards the end of the month that there will need to be some guardrails in place when it comes to a balance between work and play. The Sun will always spend the first three weeks of August in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery and there is always at least some connection to the planets in a playful and creative part of your chart. This makes this a time of year when the focus is always going to be on the playful, creative and adventurous side of life's fence.
Even more so this year, for while the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior planet of the cosmos has been in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart over nine decades, you move into the new month with five planets there.
At the start of the month, four of those planets are in retrograde motion, with the fifth turning retrograde on 12th August, the day after Mercury turns direct in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery. The focus is not only on the playful, creative and adventurous side of life's fence, but with the doors open to the past and second chances.
However, you also begin the month with Mars in your career sector and until leaving 7th August, he will be fighting to not only keep your professional hat on but will be looking for something to channel his warrior and competitive spirit into.
Mars' departure will leave your career sector empty, until the Sun returns on 23rd August and shifts the solar spotlight onto that side of life's fence. However, this won't take away from what is happening on the playful, creative and adventurous side of life's fence, making those guardrails more important than ever.
Meanwhile, until she returns to your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery on 26th August, Venus is not only spending the majority of the month in your financial sector, but where alongside Jupiter this has brought the planets of money and luck together here for the first time in over a decade.
Capricorn
While the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of August in your financial sector and the solar spotlight is always on your financial situation and money matters at this time each year, with a lot more happening on both sides of the financial fence. For the second time in as many years, when the Sun returned towards the end of last month, it was to find Pluto, the planet of change and transformation in your income sector, though this time after leaving and coming back, here now for the long term and not leaving until 2044. This meant that not only the Sun, but Mercury when he returned to your financial sector in June and Mars earlier in the year, saw them clash.
Venus will do the same when she returns to your financial sector on 26th August, but until then, the two sides of the financial fence aren't getting in each other's way. With Pluto in retrograde motion until October and Mercury until 11th August, on both sides of the financial fence the month begins with a lot of focus on the past, though with different implications. Mercury is only in retrograde motion for a few weeks and leaving your financial sector in early September, when it comes to your financial situation and money matters, for a limited time you have his smart head for money and hindsight to draw on.
Meanwhile, Pluto's longer term quest for untapped income potential was already getting a significant boost thanks to Uranus' return to your work sector last month, when Mars returns to your career sector on 7th August. This begins a partnership that is going to fire things up across the income, work and career fronts over the coming months. Meanwhile, until she joins the financial fray on 26th August, Venus is making the most of a chance to not only hang out with Jupiter in your relationship sector, but with support from the communication gods.
It has been over a decade since you last had the planets of love and luck in your relationship sector at the same time.
Aquarius
Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of August in your relationship sector, the solar spotlight is always on your relationships at this time of year, though with a lot more support from the communication gods this time. With the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos in your communication sector for over nine decades, it is a given that before leaving on 23rd August, the Sun would form a friendly aspect, as will Mercury before leaving on 3rd September. However, this is always towards the tail end, while this year you have five planets there, all spread out and offering support from the start.
In addition with Mercury, the planet of communication in retrograde motion in your relationship sector until 11th August, four of the five planets in your communication sector are already in retrograde motion and with the fifth turning retrograde on 12th August, with support for giving the past and unsaid words a voice throughout the month. Mercury has returned for what is normally a 14 to 15 day visit at the end of June, but with his retrograde turn instead keeping him in your relationship sector until 3rd September. This not only allows the communication and relationship gods to work together all month but this is something that Venus, the planet of love will take advantage of when she returns to your relationship sector on 26th August.
Until then, Venus will be wearing her planet of money, desire and attraction hat as she not only joins forces with Jupiter in your work sector, bringing the element of luck and the laws of attraction together here for the first time in over a decade, but with support standing by to get the month off to an empowered start across the income, work and career fronts. However, with Uranus in his first full month in a playful and creative part of your chart in eight decades and Mars returning to your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery in eight decades, with no danger of life becoming all work and no play.
Pisces
Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of August in your work sector and the solar spotlight is always on work and job matters or on anything that keeps you busy or occupies your time, this can be one of the busiest months of any year. However, there are three factors that suggest that while this will be a good month for income and job matters, things won't be as frantic as they would normally be and you will find it surprisingly easy to maintain a balance between work and play. The first factor is that until he left in June, Mars had spent five of the previous seven months here, so the busiest months of the year are behind you.
Compared to how busy things were in the first half of the year, you've got this. The second is that with Mercury in retrograde motion here until 11th August, not leaving until 3rd September and Venus not returning until 26th August, three days after the Sun leaves on 23rd August, there isn't the urgency. Instead, with five of the four planets in your income sector already in retrograde motion by the time you move into the new month and the fifth turning retrograde on 12th August, there is time to explore both new and untapped income and job potential.
The third factor is that even if you wanted to work around the clock and burn the candles at both ends, with Venus having just returned to a playful and creative part of your chart on 31st August where she has joined up with lucky Jupiter for the first time in over a decade, their response is likely to be 'nice try'. One of the luckiest days of any year is when Venus and Jupiter, the two benefics or lucky planets align, which they will do, in this fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart on 11th/12th August. Even when Venus does leave and end the month in your busy work sector, Jupiter is here until June 2026.
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