We’re one week into Leo season and regardless of the hemisphere, things are heating up! You may have noticed an increase in miscommunications coupled with a lost grasp of details. Neptune, perched on the final degree of Pisces for the past three months, is now entering into a sextile with Uranus, inspiring innovation, revolution and experimentation, but also making us want our future tomorrow, yesterday. To say the cosmic wavelengths are muddled would be an understatement – and just in time for Mercury to station retrograde!
Mercury’s retrograde, running from August 5 – 28/29, is the big news of the month ahead. Taking place in particular Virgo and ego-driven Leo, this one is bound to get spicy. Making mistakes? Doesn’t sound like us. Admitting fault? Why would we when we’re perfect? Apologize? Not a chance. Taking everything personally does not bode well for conflict resolution.
Compounding this: Mars and Jupiter travel hand in hand for nearly the whole month (within a five-degree orb of one another until August 26). This transit amplifies confidence and charisma, tipping into unchecked hubris and a dangerous absence of self-restraint. From August 15 – 22, Saturn, Venus, Mars and Jupiter are caught up in a mutable T-square, a volatile aspect encouraging us to make up our minds about something, while simultaneously preventing us from taking our desired action. Here we’re talking tension, frustration, restlessness and a lack of resolution. A change of approach is required. There is a dire need to come back down to earth and pay attention to the information in front of us.
August still has great potential for fun, creativity and heart-centeredness. But on the whole, we’re set to step into September with several big messes to clean up. Keep that in mind and you can mitigate collateral damage in real-time.
NOTABLE TRANSITS
August 4/5 – Venus enters Virgo: this three-and-a-half-week transit emphasizes practicality in matters of the heart. Then again, we should mind a tendency to nitpick our loved ones. This is the season of the ick.
August 5 – Mercury stations Retrograde: Mercury’s three-week retrograde forces us to reevaluate things we’re sure we’re right about…
August 14/15 – Mercury enters Leo: …and its re-entrance to fiery and fixed Leo cautions us not to make a scene defending a fallacy.
August 19/20 – Jupiter square Saturn: excess meets temperance, idealism meets limitation. Annoying in the moment, but financially and professionally fruitful in the long run.
August 22/23 – Sun enters Virgo: we are more systematic about how we direct our energy in the month ahead – a period of refinement and self-improvement if executed wisely.
August 28 /29 – Mercury is Direct: the beauty of Mercury Rx is that we have an opportunity for a do-over. Let’s try this again, once more, with humility.
August 29/30 – Venus enters Libra: harmony and beauty guide our romantic decisions. We’ll need this peacekeeping energy for Mercury’s post-Rx shadow! But mind not to slip into superficiality as you kiss and make up.
