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Astro Overview for August

The month of August begins in the dynamic and shiny atmosphere of the Leo Sun, a placement that celebrates life and fully enjoys happy moments. Against this background, we are invited to highlight our nobility and creativity, to face challenges with dignity and to live the present with spontaneity. Another powerful influence comes from the sign of Virgo, which increases our accuracy, attention to detail and skills.

While the first part of the month emphasizes a playful spirit and ardentness, the second one is more temperate, oriented towards practical purposes and utility. Interesting changes occur in the transits of the fast planets. Among these we have to notice the ingress of Mars into Gemini for a long period of seven months in which we will test our courage through the power of our intellect and words. Let have a look at the main astral configurations of August!

Mars conjunct Uranus (Taurus): unpredictable actions

At the beginning of the month, we are under the impact of the Mars-Uranus conjunction, which stimulates sudden, powerful, rebellious and decisive reactions. Although Taurus’ style of action is rather slow and cautious, this aspect increases the impatience and willingness to confront our opponents. AstroFidelia recommends turning this extra energy and stubbornness into fuel for bold and constructive initiatives.

Mercury in Virgo: precision in thinking and communication

On August 4, Mercury arrives in one of its domicile signs, Virgo. From this position, it directs our minds to detailed analysis and critical observations. Useful advice can emerge as a consequence. In order for our suggestions to be well received by other people, AstroFidelia recommends to avoid blaming annoying criticism. We need to prioritize details so that we don’t get lost in them.

Mars (Taurus) square Saturn (Aquarius): constructive obstacles in achieving the goals

Around August 7, our initiatives encounter obstacles, as if we have to overcome a blockage before achieving the expected victories. These delays teach us how to create thorough and functional strategies. We must combine responsibility with impetuousness and remain very realistic about our goals. It is important to save our energy, but avoid stagnation, as this would create additional frustration.

Venus (Cancer) opposing Pluton (Capricorn): depth and taboos in relationships

On August 9, the opposition between Venus and Pluto is exact. Relationships, especially family ones, are subject to uncomfortable but valuable transformations. Instead of hiding behind old rules and traditions, we better dare to speak uncomfortable truths. The past can also come to the surface in the form of psychological family legacies that strengthen our connections with previous generations.

Venus in Leo: bright alliances

On August 11, Venus enters Leo, generating a vivacious, playful and creative style of approaching relationships. We tend to place our loved ones at the centre of our universe, and we need to feel special in their eyes as well. We need to feel proud of our charm, aesthetic tastes and partners. There is a noticeable inclination towards luxury and having fun. AstroFidelia recommends avoiding overly egotistical reactions in relationships.

Mars in Gemini: intelligence as a precious weapon

From August 20, 2022 to March 25, 2023, Mars transits Gemini. We have a lot of mental energy, but we must be careful to use it wisely so as not to create destruction with sharp and hasty words. We launch attacks and defend ourselves by the force of arguments. We might struggle with distorted rumours, with the gossip and duality of our opponents. This period favors activities that call for study, dexterity and cleverness.

Mercury (Virgo) in opposition to Neptune (Pisces): reason versus imagination

Around August 21, we may notice in ourselves and in those around us an ambiguous, but also more inspired and sensitive way of thinking. It takes effort to keep in balance between many details and the big picture. We seek to understand information from a logical point of view, but we must also remain open to the subtle realities. This aspect stimulates metaphorical and abstract thinking.

Sun in Virgo: to be hard-working

Starting August 23, the Sun in Virgo makes us pay attention to our own flaws and feeds us with the desire to improve ourselves. We become more analytical, realistic and methodical in an attempt to improve our skills and take pride in our diligence. Our self-esteem grows if we feel engaged in valuable work, which we perform with modesty and precision. Fixing errors might give us a sense of purpose for the next months.

Uranus retrograde (Taurus): internalized rebellion

As of August 24, Uranus begins its retrograde period, which will last until January 2023. During this time, we have the opportunity to digest and integrate sudden changes that have taken us by surprise during recent months. We are stirring up inner revolutions against old systems that no longer work. Uranus retrograde gives us the time to familiarize ourselves with new perspectives on the future.

Mercury in Libra: elegant and beautiful speech

On August 26, Mercury enters the civilized and pacifist sign of Libra. We are in search of beautiful words, preoccupied with not creating tensions through what we say and think. We should try to empower our relationships thorough graceful communication. AstroFidelia recommends not to avoid less pleasant topics for the sake of superficial harmony. Good mediators know how to speak the truth.

Sun (Virgo) square Mars (Gemini): competition with oneself

On August 27, the Sun-Mars square is exact. Even if others will perceive us as combative, now is the time to act with courage and impose our point of view with confidence. Ideally, we should do all this without becoming excessively critical or talkative, but by keeping our focus on essential information and impartiality. It is good to avoid nervousness and restlessness. Not all details matter.

Venus (Leo) in hard aspects with Uranus and Saturn: tests in relationships

At the end of August, we are under the combined influence of the Venus-Uranus square and the Venus-Saturn opposition. In relationships and financial matters, we must make room for surprises, but also for patience and realism. We need to free ourselves from old rules in love, while we take our desires seriously. What we want is not necessarily denied, but we must first pass some important maturity tests.

August launches the invitation to discover our special place under the sun, our uniqueness and our inner source of creativity, happiness and love. Leo also warns us to stay away from egotistical and selfish reactions. Simultaneously, Virgo challenges us to be very honest about the imperfections in and around us. This sign shows us when to be precise and hardworking, while Mars in Gemini announces times when the intelligent ones will come to the fore.

Planetary Motion and Astrological Events

The Sun transits Leo until August 22, 3:17 a.m., when it enters Virgo;
Full Moon in Aquarius on August 12, 5:59 a.m.; New Moon in Virgo on August 27, 8:18 a.m.;
Mercury transits Leo until August 4, 6:58 a.m., when it enters Virgo; it enters Libra on August 26, 1:03 a.m.;
Venus transits Cancer until August 11, 6:31 p.m., when it enters Leo;
Mars continues its transit through Taurus until August 20, 7:57 a.m., when it enters Gemini;
Jupiter retrograde continues its transit through Aries;
Saturn retrograde continues its transit through Aquarius.;
Uranus continues its transit through Taurus and turns retrograde on August 24, 10:45 a.m.;
Neptune retrograde continues its transit through Pisces;
Pluto retrograde continues its transit through Capricorn.

Aries

During the first part of the month, you may transform the transits through Leo into a holiday or at least into relaxing moments among your daily chores. By August 20, you need to use your financial ingenuity in order to reconcile the expenses associated with these entertainments while making some economies. Around August 7, AstroFidelia recommends considering your future prospects before making new purchases.

After August 11, Venus in Leo brings love into your life. Interactions with children can also be beneficial for you. Give time to your inner child as well, enjoy the present and take advantage of the opportunities for fun that arise spontaneously! You have the chance to practice your hobbies and creative talents. In the meantime, Jupiter retrograde in your sign encourages a careful self-analysis. Contemplate your principles and philosophy of life!

After August 20, with Mars in Gemini, your power of persuasion is emphasized, but you have to be careful about your predisposition to argue and contradict. The Sun’s ingress into Virgo on August 23 directs your energy towards work, relationships with colleagues, but also towards small details related to health. Treat your body with precision and intelligently prioritize your day-to-day tasks without pushing too hard on yourself!

Taurus

Until August 20, with Mars in your sign, you get a lot of physical force and energy. Even if your overall action style is calm and slow, during this period you can set in motion important personal projects. Don’t hesitate in front of new beginnings! Some of these fresh starts may concern your career and the way you impose respect. Meanwhile, transits through Leo bring you family and home events and a profound need for privacy.

In this sense, your attitude should be as open, generous and playful as possible, so that the moments spent in the comfort of your home and among close relatives will become true celebrations. Connecting to your roots and digesting your past can make you proud of your family and reveal valuable legacies from previous generations. Honour, dignity, love help you shine among these dear people.

After August 20, it’s time to get actively involved in projects with financial impact. Do not be afraid of small and varied expenses, because through them you can buy objects and services that will boost your further development. After August 23, if you have not yet gone on vacation, there will be favorable days for relaxation, leisure, recreational activities. Take care of your passions and do your best to achieve happiness!

Gemini

Until August 23, the transits through Leo favor your spontaneous nature and openness to new information. It is good to take advantage of these weeks in order to increase your knowledge and enjoy funny, interesting discussions with people around. You may become a good messenger. Short daily journeys can bring great experiences. Keep your perceptions alive and pay attention to life’s infinite details!

Simultaneously, until August 20, AstroFidelia recommends keeping a rather discreet and withdrawn style of action. Do not feel frustrated if you realize that it is not yet the time to act. You can take advantage of this respite and connect to the spiritual realm. Your actions will be successful if you direct them towards humanitarian causes and make small sacrifices for the collective wellbeing. After August 20, you’ll have more time to focus on yourself.

Thus, with Mars’ ingress in your sign, you can prepare for seven months of energy, initiative and determination. During this time, you’ll need to dose your personal will correctly in order to obtain beautiful victories without becoming too competitive or aggressive. After August 23, transits through Virgo require diligence and modesty in addressing experiences related to family and home.

Cancer

Venus still transits your sign until August 11, so you can improve your style, physical appearance and refinement. You may see yourself in a harmonious way during these days. Simultaneously, the transits through Leo can translate into a series of purchases and income that remind you how to enjoy what you own, but also that abundance comes primarily from an honourable system of values and principles.

Until Mars enters Gemini on August 20, AstroFidelia recommends taking care of various practical aspects related to your future and group activities. There is no need to rush, but try not to stagnate as well. Just don’t be reluctant to change! Certain friends and collaborators can prove to be loyal supporters of your long-term plans. This is also a good time to clarify your own position within society and your personal role in humanity’s progress.

After August 20, there follows a period when your actions must become more subtle, in accordance with universal rhythms and collective trends. The Sun’s ingress into Virgo on August 23 marks the transition to an interval in which it is good to remain open to the opportunities for study and communication. Logic, careful analysis of data helps you to better understand complex phenomena and communicate effectively.

Leo

The period until August 23 brings you into the spotlight and helps you focus around a radiant, bright self. The way you see your own person strongly influences other people’s image of you. Try to motivate those around you with a warm, generous, playful attitude, without eclipsing them! You can pursue your interests with fair play and equal respect for everyone else.

At the same time, by August 20, you may feel like you have some battles to fight in your career or in front of your community. Try to avoid projecting authority issues on other people. Keep your calm in front of influential and rigid people, while taking initiatives that reflect your creative ideas. After Mars enters Gemini, the feeling of responsibility diminishes and leaves room for group activities, extended networking events and planning the future.

After August 23, your attention turns to financial issues, where an orderly, detail-oriented, critical and perfectionist attitude is needed. No resource, however small, should be consumed recklessly. Precision in accounting records helps you maintain cleanliness in other areas of your life. This is a good time to set wise financial goals, for example earning resources from activities that reflect your true skills and talents.

Virgo

For you, the first three weeks of this month can generate a sort of spiritual and artistic illumination. Although to some extent you may feel isolated or withdrawn from your routine and usual interactions, this respite helps you ascend towards higher, refined emotions. You can also clean your past, addressing some issues that have remained unfinished, both on a personal level and at a broader one (for example, emotional inheritance from your family).

An attitude of reverence and acceptance could help you to spend these weeks with elegance and unconditional love, while new beginnings prepare quietly. Until August 20, Mars in Taurus sets in motion some distant journeys that give you the feeling of adventure and exploration of the unknown. For some, this time may be about activities with a spiritual flavour; for others a new chapter opens in their education.

Starting August 4, Mercury in Virgo directs your attention to your physical body. The way you perceive yourself takes on new accents. After August 23, the Sun’s ingress into Virgo amplifies this self-centering. You have a lot of energy, which must be distributed efficiently and proactively. Try to avoid becoming too critical of the imperfections found in yourself and in others, but apply your precision and practical skills with confidence!

Libra

Amid the transits through Leo, the first weeks of August invite you to spend time in the company of groups and broaden your horizons by making plans for your future development. This is also a good period for investigations of a psychological nature that may help you to eliminate various toxic influences from your life. Rituals can bring you closer to the invisible reality and occult phenomena.

The first part of the month can also bring up surprising issues related to material resources, especially those obtained through partnerships. A suitable tactic would be that of unwavering resistance to tension and discomfort factors. The period can also be financially profitable, provided that take from others as much as you offer and vice versa. Rather than getting into unnecessarily debt, better give up some expensive amusements for the time being.

After August 23, there follows a period in which it is good not to force the unfolding of events on the outside and to let yourself be carried away by meditative, contemplative states. In this way, you will be able to succeed through an interval that involves giving up the ego and empathetically connecting to society as a whole. AstroFidelia recommends getting involved in various volunteering projects that inspire you.

Scorpio

By the time the Sun enters Virgo, much of your energy will be directed towards career and official contexts. It is important to identify your mission in the world, to feel that you are participating in society’s progress. Some interactions with people in positions of authority impose a responsible behavior, dignity and pride. You can meet influential and admirable people, but don’t let them dominate you!

This period also requires finding a balance between your career and your family/home, between how you are on the outside and who you are in the depths of your soul. Does what you do on the outside authentically reflect your inner nature? This question can inspire important changes. Simultaneously, Mars in Taurus brings many relationship events until August 20. During this time, it is good to be malleable enough and attentive to other people’s universe.

After August 20, with Mars in Gemini, several months of deep, accelerated emotional transformation follow. Close relationships come to the fore and provide the ground for frank, revealing discussions. From August 23, the Sun in Virgo brings group events in your life. It’s time to feel like a direct participant in the collective soul, to see how your life model fits into certain social patterns and where they lead to.

Sagittarius

The first three weeks of August can be very productive at work for you. Even if you are on vacation, you may find that you are efficient and that you have many useful daily activities. You need to take care of small details and feel useful. It is also important to carefully deal with your body, to establish a correct balance between action, diligence and rest. Use simple and natural solutions!

Simultaneously, the current transits through Leo may bring adventures into the unknown, tests of faith and spontaneity. Long-distance travel, but also mental explorations that come through study and research help you expand the limits of knowledge and wisdom. Meeting unique places and people shows you that there are infinite ways to live our lives, but that, fundamentally, we are all made of similar impositions and aspirations.

After August 20, with Mars in Gemini, there follows a seven-month period in which you will have to keep a lot of flexibility in relationships. Although sometimes you may feel rather challenged, you will learn to adjust your reactions according to the quality of each person who comes your way. After August 23, your career comes to the fore. It’s time to ask yourself how important you are for your community.

Capricorn

The first weeks of the month lead you to deep emotional investigations, meant to eliminate harmful influences from toxic people, but also to bring you closer to those who have a defining role in your evolution. Certain issues with financial impact may actually indicate problems related to the soul, hidden power struggles, unequal emotional exchanges between you and your loved ones. Don’t let yourself be manipulated and don’t seek to manipulate!

Beyond these warnings, the period of transits through Leo can also bring moments of deep love, in which devotion is mutual and total from both partners. Until August 20, Mars in Taurus sets in motion events with a funny and relaxing nature that favor romance and play. Relationships with children can be a source of pure joy, but also of unexpected challenges.

After August 20, there is a period of several months in which you will have to put in place initiatives and actions related to work and health. You can take advantage of these celestial energies in order to improve your skills and become a teacher for less experienced people. After August 23, you could embark on distant trips or come into contact with interesting strangers. Morality and faith become subjects of high interest for you.

Aquarius

The first three weeks of the month are about finding balance between independence and collaboration. Other people turn their attention to you, trying to involve you in their projects. Cooperation becomes important. On the other hand, you are tempted to impose firm boundaries. You shouldn’t allow the proud partners to dominate you. Thus, the first part of the month can generate dynamic atmospheres in relationships.

You can win positive people on your side, and you can also have a special impact on their lives too. Regarding your rivals, it is good to face them openly, but rather by cold detachment than by aggressiveness. Until August 20, family relationships also tend to be dynamic, giving you the opportunity to measure your strength in interactions with people reluctant to change. It is good to ask yourself to what extent you, too, need inner stability and comfort.

After August 20, with Mars in Gemini, there follows a long period in which AstroFidelia recommends you to develop your passions, to educate your creative skills, practice your hobbies and bring as much pleasure as possible in daily activities. Explore happiness! The Sun’s ingress into Virgo on August 23 suggests keeping your discernment and attention to detail in close relationships.

Pisces

Most of this month urges you to be effective and develop useful, practical skills. A good attention to what is happening around you enhance agile connections and help you to successfully complete your daily tasks. A solid amount of perfectionism is necessary from your part, although your idealistic nature might find this rather hard. However, try not to worry excessively because of insignificant details!

Until August 20, you may encounter a number of dynamic situations associated with siblings, neighbours or study colleagues. It’s a good idea to avoid uncivilized reactions, but don’t allow yourself to be treated in an unpleasant way either. Keeping a close contact to nature is especially beneficial to you now. After August 20, Mars in Gemini energizes for a long period the sphere of family and home experiences.

From this moment on, you will have the opportunity to initiate changes and projects related to your living space. Revealing dialogues with your inner self are expected through the next seven months. Confront your inner conflicts and set the goal of constantly overcoming yourself! After August 23, the Sun in Virgo opens an active period in relationships. Other people show you how to be more critical and realistic.