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Month of August
Aries
The Sun will always spend the first three weeks of August in your romantic sector and the solar spotlight is always on matters of the heart and all things romantic at this time of year. Yet, before the Sun even returned last month a huge amount of water had already passed under the bridge. Not only had it been nearly four weeks since Mercury returned for what is normally a 14 to 15 day mission to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page, when he returned towards the end of June, it had only been 10 days since Mars left, ending his longest visit in two decades.
By the time Mars left in June, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos had spent five of the last seven months here.
As you move into the new month, Mercury is not only still here, but until turning direct on 11th August, is holding the doors open to the past and second chances. Even when the Sun leaves on 23rd August, this will be far from the end of the journey the love gods are taking your heart on, with Mercury not leaving until early next month and held back by her own retrograde phase earlier in the year Venus, the planet of love not returning until 26th August.
Because of all the water that will have passed under the bridge by then, as the last planet to return and the last to leave, Venus' return will begin what she will be working to make the most romantically charged weeks of the year.
Meanwhile, coming full circle from the New Moon late last month, the Moon's return from 21st August to 23rd August will bring it back together with the Sun, with romantically charged solar and lunar vibes able to reunite. Meanwhile, there are big developments on the relationship front this month as well with Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos returning for his first visit to your relationship sector in two years on 7th August.
Not leaving until 22nd September, a day before the Sun is due to return, this kicks off the first planetary activity on the relationship front this year, with built in support from the communication gods from the start.
Taurus
While the Sun's return to your romantic sector on 23rd August is the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto matters of the heart and all things romantic, this year you not only have a head start but the love gods are dividing this into two chapters. The first chapter began on 17th June, when held back by a retrograde phase Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos finally returned for his first visit to your romantic sector in two years. Mars returned to find Venus, the planet of love still in Taurus and while she left last month, the weeks they spent together not only added to Mars' romantic passions and fighting spirit but helped to shape your romantic expectations for the rest of the year.
When Venus moves through Taurus each year, she is on a mission to update your romantic and relationship desires and expectations for the coming year, but rarely with any planetary activity on the romantic or relationship fronts at the time. This year you not only had Mars in your romantic sector but the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment and especially commitment to your relationships making her first visit to your relationship sector in four years. Both are still here and while Mars will leave your romantic sector on 7th August, Juno is not only in your relationship sector until October, but in her first full month back in direct motion.
While Mars' departure will leave your romantic sector empty, only until the Sun and Moon both return on 23rd August. The Moon's return less than 12 hours behind the Sun will not only create a very early New Moon, but when it comes full circle next month it will not only create a second New Moon, but this time a solar eclipse. With Venus and Mercury, the planets of love and communication both returning to your romantic sector next month, this journey is far from over.
Meanwhile, when the Moon returns to your relationship sector from 1st August to 3rd August Venus, the planet of love will be in her early days in your communication sector. Venus is here until 26th August, with her mission to give your heart and your relationships a voice getting an early boost.
Gemini
Held back by a retrograde phase Venus, the planet of love finally left Gemini on 31st July, hours before you moved into the new month. Fresh from reviewing your romantic and relationship desires and expectations for the coming year, Venus has left you with everything needed to embark on the journey ahead. While there is no planetary activity in your romantic or relationship sectors and there rarely is at this time of year, your heart's over the horizon radar and Venus' influence will be telling you that this is about to change.
While there will be no planetary activity on the relationship front until later in the year, on the romantic front there is a definite sense of change in the year.
As you move into the new month, not only has it been just a few hours since Venus left Gemini, but the Moon is just wrapping up a visit to your romantic sector that made her final days some of the most romantically charged. While the Sun doesn't return to your romantic sector until the September equinox each year, both Venus and these romantically charged lunar vibes will have your heart on high alert.
That change will come when on 7th August Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos will return for his first visit to your romantic sector in two years to kick off the most romantically charged months of 2025.
Within 48 hours, Mars will be rubbing shoulders with two of the heavyweights of the solar system, forming a friendly aspect to Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in an adventurous part of your chart during a three day period from 9th August to 11th August. This will bring the planets of passion, change and synchronicity, locking into a place a mix of romance, passion and adventure.
This will get another boost when the Moon moves through your romantic sector from 26th August to 28th August. Meanwhile, with no planetary activity in your relationship sector, the Moon's return from 3rd August to 5th August and then again from 31st August will be a valuable chance to check in and become more emotionally engaged and aware.
Cancer
With Venus, the planet of love having spent the majority of July in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart and the asteroid Juno having spent most of the last three months in retrograde motion in your romantic sector, the love gods have been taking your heart on a nostalgic trip down love's memory lane. However, as you move into the new month, it will be clear that all that has changed and if it feels like this is something that has changed overnight, that is because it has. While Juno, the queen of commitment turned direct on 11th July, she not only spent weeks at a near standstill, but with Venus still taking your heart on a nostalgic trip down love's memory lane, a sense of romantic nostalgia will have hung over virtually the whole month.
It wasn't until literally the 11th Hour that the veil lifted, when Venus left and finally returned to Cancer on 31st July. The first day of the new month is Venus' first full day in Cancer and as the first day of a new Venus cycle, with a chance for a fresh start. While Venus won't catch up and form a friendly aspect to Juno until 17th August, as the planet of love and the queen of commitment draw closer, they are working together from the start.
Helping to get this off to the perfect start is having the Moon move through your romantic sector from 1st August to 3rd August.
As well as getting the new month off to a romantically charged start, as Venus is on a mission to update your romantic and relationship desires and expectations for the coming year, as the Moon's first visit since Juno turned direct, this will have both immediate and long term implications. Venus will leave on 26th August, so won't be here when the Moon returns from 28th August to 31st August.
However, Juno will still be in your romantic sector, where until backup arrives in October, she will continue to keep the romantic flame burning. Meanwhile, the Moon's return to your relationship sector from 6th August to 8th August will be a brief chance to check in and become more emotionally engaged and aware.
Leo
While the Sun's return to Leo last month to begin your birthday month and new solar year saw it clash with Pluto in your relationship sector, something that Mercury did when he returned in June and Mars several times earlier in the year, things have settled and will remain that way until later in the month. With Pluto not only in your relationship sector until 2044 but set to spend several years in the early degrees, no planet can return to Leo without clashing. However, these are brief clashes and with Pluto in the first full year of a 20 year transit through your relationship sector, this is key to maintaining the right balance between your own and your relationship needs.
The last planet to clash with Pluto this year will be Venus, when she returns to Leo on 26th July. While this might once again push some buttons, as the planet of love she will use this to better understand what you want from your relationships and what they need from you. Venus will also have an advantage that the Sun, Mercury and Mars didn't have, which is a huge amount of support from the communication gods.
Despite their early clash at the end of June having Mercury, the planet of communication in Leo is already helping to keep the communication lines open. With Pluto already in retrograde motion and Mercury in retrograde motion until 11th August, this includes finding it easier to give the past and unsaid words a voice.
However, this will get a significant boost when Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos returns to your communication sector on 7th August, to begin his first war on communication barriers in two years.
This is the start of a new trend, where over the coming months, the planets that had clashed with Pluto, will one by one return to your communication sector and into a friendly aspect. While Mars' friendly aspect to Pluto will peak on 10th/11th August, just as Mercury is turning direct, this is the start of a new partnership between the communication and relationship gods that will continue for months.
Virgo
While this is a fairly quiet or business as usual month on the romantic and relationship fronts, this should be a good month for both. While there is no planetary activity in your romantic sector and won't be until later in the year, as Pluto's 16 year visit only ended in November 2024, you no longer need the love gods holding your hand. You know what you want from love and what your own heart is telling you, with the confidence to follow it.
However, the Moon's monthly visits will help to keep the spirit of romance alive, which it will do when it makes this month's visit from 6th August to 8th August.
Meanwhile, while there is no planetary activity in your relationship sector either, you not only have the North Node here but its partner the South Node in Virgo. The lunar nodes aren't physical objects and instead, as the points where the Earth's orbit around the Sun is intersected by the Moon's orbit around the Earth and as they are always in opposition, they create a gravitational pull while keeping things in balance.
In this case, until they leave in July 2026, the lunar nodes are working to maintain the right balance between your own and your relationship needs. It is in the gap between Mars' departure from Virgo on 7th August and the Sun's return on 23rd August that this will become a lot easier.
What you do have this month is a lot of support from the communication gods and Venus, the planet of love spending the majority of the month in a social and serendipitous part of your chart.
While they won't move into an exact friendly aspect until 17th August, until she leaves on 26th August, Venus will not only be working in harmony with the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment and especially commitment to your relationships in your communication sector, but with the North Node in your relationship sector. While having Venus here is increasing the potential for serendipitous moments and/or encounters, especially when she aligns with Jupiter on 11th/12th August. This is when the element of luck and the laws of attraction and synchronicity will be most potent.
Libra
While there is a strong presence on the romantic and relationship fronts this month, on both fronts, with a growing amount of focus on the past. While Pluto, the planet of change and transformation has been in retrograde motion in your romantic sector since May and won't turn direct until October, the planets in your relationship sector are still in the process of turning retrograde. By the time you move into the new month, four of the five planets in your relationship sector are in retrograde motion, all of them having just turned retrograde last month and the last Chiron, the planet of healing having just turned retrograde on 31st July.
The only planet still in direct motion is the dwarf planet Ceres, who returned in May for her first deep dive into your relationship needs and priorities in four years. Normally here for just three months, it is her retrograde turn on 12th August that will keep Ceres here until March 2026. The Moon's return to your relationship sector from 12th August to 14th August will not only ensure you are emotionally engaged and aware as Ceres turns retrograde, but just as every planet here is now in retrograde motion.
On both the romantic and relationship fronts the focus is on the past, with Mars' return to Libra on 7th August having an impact on both.
You not only have all planets on the romantic and relationship fronts either already or in the process of turning retrograde, but Pluto is in the very early degrees of your romantic sector and Saturn and Neptune, in the very early degrees of your relationship sector. When Mars returns to Libra, he will not move into a friendly aspect to Pluto but will not only oppose Saturn and Neptune in your relationship sector, but at the same time.
This will all be exact from 9th August to 11th August, from the start the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos is going to fire things up on the romantic and relationship fronts, all while the doors are open to the past and second chances. Adding to this will be the Moon's visit to your romantic sector from 8th August to 10th August and to your relationship sector from 12th August to 14th August.
Scorpio
While there are no planets in your romantic or relationship sectors this month, there is a definite shift to all things romantic and that is saying something. You not only moved into July with Venus and Uranus in your relationship sector, but while Venus was only passing through, Uranus had been there since 2019. Yet within a week both were gone and six years of continuous planetary activity on the relationship front is over.
While Uranus will retrograde back in later in the year before finally leaving again in April 2026, not to return for another eight decades, for now the focus is off your relationships.
However, the last six years and the final weeks when Venus, the planet of love was there has left you with a clear sense of what you want from your relationships and what they need from you. Until Uranus returns in November, the Moon's monthly visits will be a valuable chance to check in and remain emotionally engaged and aware.
This makes the Moon's transit through your relationship sector from 15th August to 17th August the most important days of the month on the relationship front. Meanwhile, while there is also no planetary activity in your romantic sector, though not a physical body, the North Node is more than a placeholder for when Saturn not only returns next month, but with a total lunar eclipse here next month as well.
As well as acting as your heart's internal compass, until leaving in July 2026 the North Node is keeping the spirit of romance alive as major planets transition in and out over that time.
The North Node will play an important role in guiding Venus, the planet of love through an adventurous part of your chart from 31st July to 26th August. As well as teaming up with Jupiter there, something that has brought the planets of love and luck together, the North Node will make Venus' mission to bring the spirit of romance and adventure together a lot easier. This will be especially so when the Moon moves through your romantic sector from 10th August to 12th August.
Sagittarius
While it is a given that there will be planetary activity in your romantic sector at this time of year, for with the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos here for over nine decades and Chiron, the planet of healing since 2019, that is always the case at this time of year. However, while playing an important role in keeping the spirit of romance alive, Eris and Chiron are not major players and as they will always spend the majority of the second half of each year in retrograde motion, at this time of year the spirit of romance will be on a slow boil and with a lot of romantic nostalgia. This year, there is still a lot of nostalgia, but with things on anything but a slow boil.
By the time you move into the new month, there are not only five planets in your romantic sector, but all but one is in retrograde motion. The only planet still in direct motion is the dwarf planet Ceres, who returned in May for her first deep dive into your heart's needs and priorities in four years. With Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams having returned at the end of March for the first time in 150 years and Saturn at the end of May for the first time in three decades, that couldn't be more important.
No wonder then that a retrograde turn on 12th August will keep Ceres here until March 2026.
By the time the Moon moves through your romantic sector from 12th August to 14th August, all five planets will be in retrograde motion, with the doors open to the past and second chances. Meanwhile, while Venus left your relationship sector on 31st July, she has left your relationships in the safe hands of Uranus, the planet of surprise, synchronicity and the unexpected, who returned last month for the first time in 77 years.
Along with Pluto, who is in your communication sector now until 2044, with Neptune not eventually leaving your romantic sector until 2039 and Uranus at the start of an eight year transit through your relationship sector, the love, communication and relationship gods all have major outer planets, planets that are here for years rather than weeks or months.
Capricorn
By the time you move into the new month it has only been nine days since the Sun left your relationship sector, something that at the same time each year will always take the solar spotlight off your relationships. With Mercury, the planet of communication having wrapped up his annual visit at the end of June, this would normally be the point in each year when the focus shifts off your relationships. With Uranus in your romantic sector since 2019, this is the point in the year when, after a few months of focus on your relationships, this can shift back to matters of the heart.
That isn't the case this year, with the balance of power having shifted to your relationships, where it will stay.
After six years, Uranus left your romantic sector last month and as Venus, the planet of love had left two days earlier, this left you with no planetary activity on the romantic front until later in the year. However, the Moon will continue to return every four weeks, with its return from 15th August to 17th August some of the most romantically charged days of the month.
Yet while the focus has shifted off matters of the heart, it has shifted onto your relationships. Held back by a retrograde phase earlier in the year, Venus has been late to return to your relationship sector this year and only returned on 31st July. As you move into the new month, Venus has only just returned and is just settling into her first full day.
Not leaving until 26th August, Venus was always going to make this one of the best months of the year on the relationship front. Your annual relationship housekeeping is behind you, Mercury has left you with everything needed to keep the communication lines open and Venus is free to work her magic. Except she won't be doing this on her own, for Venus has returned to find Jupiter moving into the second month of what will be a 12 month transit through your relationship sector.
While the planets of love and luck will continue to work as a team until Venus leaves on 26th July, key points in the month will be when they align on 11th/12th July and when the Moon moves through from 19th August to 21st August.
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. What is not the norm is to still have planets in your romantic sector, which can only happen in a rare set of circumstances. It is not physically possible for the Sun or Mercury to still be here this late in the year, it is only possible for Venus to still be here if she turns retrograde and Mars, who will return every other year, was here last year and won't return until 2026.
As Venus left on 31st July and neither the Sun, Mercury nor Mars could be here, then who is?
The 'who' is Uranus, who early last month returned to your romantic sector for the first time in 77 years to spend the majority of the next eight years here. Because Venus only left in the final hours of July 1st August is Uranus' first full day on his own and with it, a chance to get a proper feel for his influence and his long term focus. Venus was only in your romantic sector for 26 days and as she was late to return, her focus was on making last month as romantically charged as possible.
This month is a chance to lead on from that and to focus more on the journey. That will get a boost when Mars not only returns to an adventurous part of your chart on 7th August, but into a friendly aspect to Uranus by 9th/10th August.
With Mars not leaving until 22nd September and with support from Pluto, the planet of change and transformation in Aquarius from the start as well, this will lock a mix of romance, passion and adventure into place.
Meanwhile, in retrograde motion in your relationship sector until 11th August, Mercury is here for the rest of the month, staying after the Sun leaves on 23rd August and keeping the seat warm until Venus returns on 26th August. The Moon's return from 21st August to 23rd August will ensure you are emotionally and intuitively engaged and aware during the Sun's final days in your relationship sector. Together, this makes this an important month on the romantic and relationship fronts.
Pisces
Just when all planetary activity on the romantic front for the year should have ended, the most romantically charged weeks of the year are just getting started. The Sun will always return to your romantic sector on the June solstice and for the next month, will hold the solar spotlight on matters of the heart and all things romantic. However, for the first time in over a decade, the Sun returned to find that Jupiter had returned 10 days earlier to begin what he will be working to make your luckiest year for love in over a decade.
During that time Mercury moved through, with his annual mission to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page having ended at the end of June.
By the time you move into the new month, the Sun has been gone for nine days and while initially this left Jupiter on his own, not for long. It was on 31st July that held back by a retrograde phase Venus finally returned, and on 1st August, she is still settling into her first full day in your romantic sector.
While not aligning until 11th/12th August, until Venus leaves on 26th August, the planets of love and luck will be working to make this one of the most romantically charged months of the year. Helping with that will be when the Moon moves through from 19th August to 21st August.
Both Venus and Jupiter's alignment and the Moon's transit through your romantic sector will come during a window when between Mars' departure from your relationship sector on 7th August and the Sun's return on 23rd August, the relationship gods are taking a break.
This creates two chapters, where Mars can leave you with something to fight for when it comes to knowing what you want from your relationships and what they need from you, before the Sun returns to take it from here. Because the Moon will move through from 23rd August to 25th August, this will not only create a New Moon during the Sun's early hours, but with time for it to not only come full circle to create another New Moon next month, but a solar eclipse.
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