You are mulling over your possibilities, Aries, and right now this seems to involve others as well as yourself. A concept of right relationship is called forth, and the question is making it stick. You are forging links to a better and more integrated future for yourself and everyone around you by a process of reassessing what counts for achievement and where you might find freedom from the oppression of the past. Early in the month you are summoned before the tribunal of your inner critics to see what you are made of. You do best when you neither affirm nor deny but ask the more pertinent question: "where do we go from here?"

As the month begins, you are finding the uses of adversity. This is an amazing time for you when everything is possible and when the limitations of your situation are also painfully evident. Your dreams and schemes for a better future for yourself have never been closer to fruition, and it is true that intention will take you far, and yet there is hard work indicated as well in order to get you there.

At the time of the August 5th Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse you will be put through the proverbial wringer as you participate in both of these levels simultaneously, the joy of new creation and intentional manifestation, and the rigor of making something concrete emerge from this idealistic vision. You are very other-oriented at this time, seeming to sense that the matrix for your most successful activity lies with active partnership in a homey environment. Of course, the most significant breakthrough that you can make in this way involves deeper connection with yourself and within the bounds of your own inner universe.

The Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, August 13th, brings you to an interesting state of knowledge. You are closer to defining your ideal and yet also more fully ready to acknowledge where that ideal may need to compromise in order to fit the realities of your situation. It might seem particularly painful to see the shortcomings of what you can concretely accomplish but with this understanding comes the practical possibility of actually achieving what remains.

The New Moon of Thursday, August 20th, may represent a welcome relief, since the fresh energy of the lunar cycle gives an impetus for pushing through with your deepest desires for both personal and societal change. Once again the conflict looms however, in even more poignant colors, of the ideal versus the concretely realizable.

Taurus   (April 19 - May 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Venus.    

Gemini   (May 20 - June 20)  Air.  Ruling planet Mercury.    

Communication is the name of the game for you right now, Gemini. This is an important month for putting down new roots and strengthening existing ones, as you attempt to make concrete a more idealized vision of your possibilities through intellectual connection with the circle of your peers. Although this is in some ways a tough time as you struggle to accept necessary limitations on the home front, all this soul-searching pays off in the end with a wider acceptance of yourself and the world around you. It is as if you are taking all your former beliefs and shaking them up in a grab bag, uncertain of what in the final analysis will be pulled out, but hopeful that it will be something quite different from anything that you have subscribed to before.

As the month begins, you are full of energy for connection with others. You have been philosophically expansive lately, wanting to find out what in the wide world you can see, when you lift your gaze to the mountaintop. This is a very magical time for everyone around you and for you in particular, although it is also a time when the practical necessity of your situation weighs heavily on your mind as well as the starry-eyed idealism that characterizes your current thinking.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Wednesday, August 5th, emphasizes both of these factors in your world. You want to push ahead at this time but might find yourself stopped by unexpected roadblocks. These will yield with persistence, but nothing that you are after at this time will come easily. The best way to take this is as an opportunity for future growth, and for character building in the present moment.

You are transforming at the core of your being all through this year, and any hardships that must be surmounted might be considered as just another part of your assignment. Home and family and your personal private life - all these become increasingly serious factors for you right now, even as you explore the difficulties to be encountered there. It's all part of the growth phase that you are fully engaged in these days, and you'll only see the benefits long-term.

The Last Quarter Moon of August 13th will be a time of cautious optimism, when you have strong hopes for a better way of operating in future, and when the drawbacks and missing pieces of what you are attempting are also very present to your thought process. You are digging in for keeps, and must take the bitter with the sweet at this time.

The New Moon of Thursday, August 20th, represents in some ways a fresh start on your issues, and yet in others continues the same themes. You are exploring your own unique pathway forward and there could well be profound insights that will come during these last ten days of the month, and on into September, that will surprise you. You are moving into a good place of integration and do well to pay careful attention to everything that comes and to operate in your most inclusive way of seeing things. As the poet says, you have to pick up every stitch.

Cancer   (June 21 - July 21)  Water.  Ruling planet is the Moon.    

This is yet another magical month for you, Cancer. In one way it is business as usual on our beleaguered planet, full of wonder as well as hardship, and yet in another way it is more than time for a change. The transformation that you are being asked to surrender to involves others as well as yourself. Although your evolving identity is definitely shaped by significant persons in your life, it is equally true that it derives in part from the process in which you are currently engaged of slowly decoding your personal DNA, and of perceiving how you can conceivably mesh with the cogs of society to enable a big-picture viewpoint of all your possibilities. You have been waiting for your ship to come in long enough. Once you see things fresh, there is no going back.

As the month begins, you are dealing with issues of self and other, exploring where you stop and another begins. Of course, in this regard maintaining good boundaries is extremely important, and there are lessons around this issue that will come to you over the course of this month's development. You are in a good place these days with respect to friends and family, and operating in an essentially idealistic mode, as you have for weeks now.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse that comes along on Wednesday, August 5th, taking place in your sector of intimacy and personal transformation, is an especially powerful one that will provide much food for thought. Your communication with others is full of energy, but of a more sober and serious variety than usual. You might even feel a bit shut down. It's a good time to journal or just to reflect on where you are headed with your life right now. There is a spiritual component to all that you say and do at this time and you do well to pay careful attention to it. It's also true that the energy that you have for others is changing in some subtle ways that are difficult to chart. You are transforming at the core of your being and it helps just to recognize this simple but inescapable reality.

The Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, August 13th, might provide you with more grist for your mill. This is a time when you are celebrating how far you have come as you feel your freedom and simultaneously acknowledging how far you still have to go in order to get where you really want to be. The practical limitations of your situation become very evident but this need not be a cause for concern, since a realistic appraisal of the current state of your resources will be a good basis for continued growth.

The New Moon a week later on, taking place on Thursday, August 20th, is another powerful point in time when you might be able to see your way clear to further adventures in intimacy, and when your own unique point of view is more powerful than ever. You are coming from a totally idealized place right now, especially with regard to others in your life, and it is important that you pad out these feelings with a healthy does of skepticism as a counterbalance. Still you might feel as if you could move mountains right now, and that is a great place to be.

Leo   (July 22 - August 21)  Fire.  Ruling planet is the Sun.    

This is the first month of the rest of your life, Leo. Partnership is powerfully expansive and transformative for you right now, as well as idealized, and yet your focus on others ultimately leads you to focus on yourself, and to explore the boundaries and the limitations of your own personality. You have a tendency at this time to put the significant others in your life up on a pedestal, and yet to also question this very act of idolization. Even with all the potential fantasy of your condition, concrete changes will emerge over time. This is especially true the more you can pay careful attention to everything that happens, seen from the point of view of the future rather than of the past.

As the month begins, you are feeling the presence of your angel guides, as manifested in human partners. The enthusiasm is there right now for important others in your life to bless you with the gift of their presence. This is a positive time for you, positive and possibly a little confused as well, when many things in your world could begin to alter. You are in an entirely idealistic space these days, especially regarding the intentions of others in your life, and may need to guard against illusion or even outright deception. The trick is to balance the welcome and valuable input of others with your own strong sense of yourself.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Wednesday, August 5th, is a model of this balance, when the Sun in your sign meets the Moon across the chart, representing other. It might be the perfect time to inquire as to how you mediate the input of significant others without giving up too much of your own agenda, and how you satisfy yourself without completely abandoning their requirements as you do. The triple conjunction of Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune is still active in your sector of partnership, although moving away from the very exact configuration of the late spring and early summer, giving you a dose of the numinous amidst the give and take of ordinary life.

When the Last Quarter Moon comes along a week later, on the 13th, it will represent an opportunity to reflect on these and other conundrums. This is traditionally a time when in reviewing the cycle from one New Moon to the next we can see what doesn't quite work in terms of long-term viability. In this case Saturn is emphasized, a perfect chime with this idea. Accepting the limitations imposed by concrete circumstances, in spite of your idealistic overall viewpoint, might be one of the most important lessons of this period of time.

The New Moon that comes along a week later in the last degrees of your sign represents another call to individuality, in spite of self-imposed limits, and in spite of everything. You are in some sense reinventing yourself right now, and moving though any obstacles that you encounter in order to do so. You still must remember to honor the concrete practicality of life on planet earth as you do. It's a paradox and a spiral path of plus and minus, the idea that can ignore anything that does not match your unique and high vision for yourself and the home truth that is equally poignant and present for you right now that you must nevertheless bow to practical necessity.

Virgo   (August 22 - September 21)  Earth.  Ruling planet Mercury.   

You are coming into spiritual congruence with the outline of your life these days, Virgo, and spending a good deal of time dwelling in the dream world of your imagination. You are very achievement oriented right now, no question, but getting ahead is only part of the story. You are very go-go-go but just when you think you are gaining some momentum, you find yourself unexpectedly stopped. There are important lessons in this. As the poet says, sweet are the uses of adversity. When you take the time to smell the roses you might find that they have volumes to covey about where you are actually heading with your life, and why.

As the month begins, you are feeling a paradoxical chime with your inner world that takes you out of touch with the practical mundane one that surrounds you and yet also somehow enhances that connection. Since the New Moon from the last ten days of July took place in your sector of dream imagination, you are very stimulated on the inside; daydreams could seem more real and more present than waking life. You are recognizing inner ways of being - ways that are orthogonal to real world activities. You are also tuned to the presence of Saturn in your identity sector, so you really cannot stray too far from the here and now world of practical necessity, especially as the month unfolds.

Your ruler Mercury is in your sign for much of August, so that this factor tips the balance in favor of the ordinary world. All this month you are constantly mediating between these worlds, and you do well to deliberately place your conscious awareness with both of them. There is a way also during this month that you are exploring your path forward into service to the broader collective, attempting to discover the totally unique and individual path that is right for you and you alone.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Wednesday, August 5th, might emphasize this latter function since the Moon resides in your sector of your highest purpose for yourself, what noted Astrologer Dane Rudhyar called "the discipleship to your higher self." With the triple conjunction of Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune residing in that sector all this time as well, there is plenty of positive energy for a new sense of mission in your life, a feeling perhaps of coming home to what you were always meant to be doing.

The Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, August 13th, might provide excellent food for thought in relation to this arc of your development, and emphasizes as well as the idealism, the practical aspects of your situation. The nature of this pivotal time for you is that you must embrace both the far out possibility and the restraints of practical and hard-nosed necessity.

When the New Moon comes along a week later, taking place on Thursday, August 20th, it signals a powerful breakthrough and a time when you will be lead toward integration of inner and outer, self and other, into a new synthesis that embodies the siren call of new worlds to conquer and also the concretely practical.


Libra   (September 22 - October 22)  Air.  Ruling planet Venus.    

This is a serious and also a joyful time for you Libra. You are in the midst of profound changes and yet hopefully still laughing, which you can take as a good sign. Reorganizing your beliefs and priorities can be a fun exercise when you allow it. Transformation is subtle and profound and comes over you in waves that are both sudden and also slow moving, like a long-term steam roller that leaves a different playing field behind it when it finally goes. You win when you recognize that the changes going on at the very core of your being inform all that you do in the outer world, and are fundamental to the continued good health of your entire personality.

As the month begins, you are connecting up with others around you to make something happen in the social setting that you find yourself in. You are in one sense all about career these days, your outer world presentation, and what can be accomplished with that. However, the inner world of your private circumstances actually supports and creates the possibilities for the outer one. If you are paying attention you will notice that a fundamental transformation in home and family concerns is looming in the background, secretly informing everything that you say and do. In some ways there is no escape. You find yourself in a pressure-cooker of change and good things will eventually come of this if you can take the heat.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Wednesday, August 5th, represents a time when you can see your way clear to an idealistic future vision, and yet when you must balance a purely blue skies viewpoint with the concrete limitations of your situation. It's three steps forward and two steps back, but your attitude at this time counts for a lot. You win when you keep your head high and stay alert to all your possibilities.

The Last Quarter Moon taking place in the following week, on Thursday, August 13th, traditionally indicates a time when the drawbacks of what you are attempting become more evident and when you must abandon some part of what you were hoping to accomplish. This is even truer since the limitation represented by Saturn is strongly aspected in this configuration, so that you have another and perhaps even more poignant opportunity to rise above difficult circumstances. You are building something long-lasting and that notion will have to be your compensation for now.

The New Moon taking place a week later on Thursday, August 20th, is another powerful moment in time, when you will again be pulled in at least two directions. Your sense of idealism is strong, and you have the feeling that you can accomplish literally anything that you set out to do, and this is true to a point. But the practical limits are weighing in at the very same time, and cannot be successfully ignored, both for this cycle and the one that begins mid-September.

Scorpio   (October 23 - Nov 21)  Water.  Ruling planets Mars, Pluto.   

This is a big month for forging ahead, Scorpio, but slowly, slowly. You are getting entirely serious about your sense of purpose at this time, which is likely requiring some major adjustments to your plans and these will ultimately wind up working out better for you in the long run. You are all about getting clear regarding priorities, acceptance of change and intimacy right now, these three, and it seems that the more you have of the first two, the more you will have of the third - something for you to ponder. While you are getting really good at your outer world presence, all that you do depends entirely and absolutely on the progress that you are making almost daily within the secret places and innermost reaches of your own heart.

As the month begins, you are enjoying your outer-world presence and are full of serious plans for the future. Saturn is emphasized in these August skies and is found in your sector of societal connection. You might find that access to groups that you favor or the ways that you plug yourself into society have a glitch or a difficulty that you have to work to surmount. If so, the ultimate effect of rising above such difficulties will be to build character and to create a more long-lasting connection with what you are about in the world. It might help to remember that what comes easily is never as powerful as what you must struggle for, in order to eventually attain.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Wednesday, August 5th, represents a time when you are motivated more by outer world presence than by inner, although your inner world is very active at this time also and in fact informs everything that you do in a subtle way. You have been aware perhaps, in peripheral terms of a powerful movement inside you that is difficult to characterize, and could be recognized as a spiritual revolution that has been taking place within you these last few months. This will affect different people to different degrees, but in general this quiet revolution lasts until beyond the end of the year.

Some intimations of understanding of what this is all about for you might begin to dawn with the Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, August 13th. This is traditionally a time when you are aware of the drawbacks as well as the more positive aspects of what this month is about for you. At this time you can more clearly see where you are stuck and need to acknowledge the power of necessity and also where a more optimistic viewpoint might actually prevail. It's a powerful time when you are feeling both the positive ideal of what is possible and the sense of restriction that undercuts what can concretely be accomplished.

The New Moon that comes along a week later represents a fresh start on these same issues, and a positive take is practically guaranteed, given the mix of outer planet energies swirling around you at this time, although the restrictions are still quite present for you also. It pays to take everything that happens as grist for your mill, something to inform you rather than a mere collision of circumstances.

Sagittarius   (Nov 22 - Dec 20)  Fire.  Ruling planet Jupiter.   

There is nothing in heaven and earth that does not respond to the power of your thought, Sagittarius, and this month you have the chance of testing this theory. You are currently eclipsing previous borders and barriers that have sometimes held you back from everything that you have imagined for yourself. Your point of view keeps changing over the course of this current cycle, based in part on a shifting concept of where your ultimate security really lies. You will emerge from this period with a firmer concept of what really matters in the game called life as you're currently playing it. The world goes round in any case but there are certain ways that you can operate when you give in to finally taking your power that will really make it spin for you.

As the month begins, you are taking the point of view of others into account as seriously as your own. This is a philosophically active month for you, when many factors could alter in the way that you see your world. You are also quite aware at this time of the inherent drawbacks of accepting what others have to contribute in its entirety. At this time you really must find your own synthesis. Issues of self-acceptance could also come up for you over the course of this monthly cycle. Accepting the input of others is key for you right now. It is helpful to recognize that to understand all is to forgive all, but perhaps it is most important that you first forgive yourself.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Wednesday, August 5th, signals a balance point when you are mediating between the needs of self and others. Your communication is idealistic at this time, full of the promise for a better world. It is equally true that you must take practical considerations and limitations into account as well at this time, since Saturn remains strongly configured in your public expression sector. It is a tricky business to steer between these extremes, of unbridled optimism on the one hand and practical necessity on the other, but that is what you are faced with.

The Last Quarter Moon of the 13th again emphasizes these same factors. You do best at this time when you accept everything about your situation without complaint, taking it as a jumping off point, a basis for further study. With the waning phase of the Moon you are more aware than before of what does not seem to work. Certainly the drawbacks of what you are attempting will be as fully present to you right now as the potential successes, and perhaps more so.

The New Moon that comes along a week later, taking place on Thursday, August 20th, represents a fresh start with what you are attempting in this world, both with regard to the ideal conclusions and to the philosophy of mind that sees everything as pure potential. You are still steering between the rocking concept and the hard place of practical necessity however, especially at this time, and on into September.

Capricorn   (Dec 21 - Jan 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Saturn.   

This is another eventful month for you, Capricorn. Changes abound in your universe along with major perspective shifts, catalyzed by new and startling information coming at you that truly lights up your world. By the end of the month you might hardly recognize yourself. This is a good thing since all life must constantly change or die, even though we frequently forget this basic fact and attempt to stay in stasis - which in reality cannot be done. Flexibility helps. Anything that you can do to increase yours will be an automatic win for you right now. As the month unfolds, greater intimacy is possible with others around you and perhaps most important of all with yourself.

As the month begins, you are dealing with matters of intimate connection with others and of personal transformation. The perspective of other minds is an important part of your own arc of development at this time, although your primary mission remains that you find your own way home. To that end, the material world has been extraordinarily cooperative lately. You could even feel on the border of illusion with the safety and security that it offers you. You are currently seeking a path to a better sense of societal connection; a way of service to the world at large that might take you closer to what you feel is your own unique contribution.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Wednesday, August 5th, is a powerful time for you, when you might come closer to realizing what it is that you want to get out of this part of your life's journey. There is tremendous energy available to you right now for breakthrough of one kind or another, as you attempt to synthesize the experience of the past few weeks into a more meaningful whole. There is a perspective shift that is happening slowly, over time, and that will eventually yield a deeper meaning.

The Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, August 13th, may take you closer to it as well. You are coming to realize where the ideas that you formerly held might be sufficient and where there might be hidden barriers to self-realization.

New and interesting information comes your way with the New Moon a week later, taking place on Thursday, August 20th. You are getting a preview at this time of a deeper process that began last fall.

Your ruler Saturn is moving into the next pass of an exact opposition to iconoclastic Uranus, perfecting in mid-September, and mental fireworks could easily result. You might want to think back to last November, when a similar configuration stirred your ideas. Something from that period might be reaching a new level of comprehension. You are engaged in a process of soul-level realization that may be a largely unconscious process, so that you benefit from striving to place your awareness on where you are ultimately headed with all this. Journaling can be a good idea, and also reflecting on your situation in terms of the largest possible picture.

Aquarius   (Jan 20 - Feb 18)  Air.  Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn.   

You are still experiencing everyday miracles, Aquarius. The magic act that is your constant presence in the cosmos continues into the current month. This time around the stars are shining more brightly and opening you up even more boldly to whatever inner dream space realizations you are now ready for. You are going through a tremendous push right now that will illuminate your stuck places but you could find that you have to explore being really mired in the mud before you get there. Never fear, true freedom will eventually emerge and when it does it will be accompanied, paradoxically, by a fuller sense of responsibility also.

As the month begins, you are strong on partnership with others around you. You are reaching out to others in a new way, based in part on changes that you have been going through with regard to your own self-image. This is essentially a very positive time for you, and has been for weeks now, although your feelings of optimism are so strong that they could lead you toward self-deception.

There also might be issues of self-worth that could come up for you, triggered by events in this monthly timeframe. If you have been largely unaware of what feelings you might have bubbling beneath the surface, perhaps now is a good time to tune into them. These feelings are often deliberately buried away by an unconscious process, locked up in a time vault so to speak, until such time as it makes sense to reopen them. Although it might seem scary to go to these dark places within you, the rewards are there if you have the courage to face these issues, usually dating from a much earlier period in your life.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse in your sign, an especially powerful Full Moon, might be a time when many things could become clearer to you, including even these types of issues. This is also a time when the power to go forward could be curtailed somewhat, forced by the limitations that you encounter as you attempt to do so. This is therefore a great time for journaling or for self-exploration.

The Last Quarter Moon taking place a week later, on Thursday, August 13th, might provide more food for thought. This is a time when you will be philosophically detached and seeing the
drawbacks as well as the positive aspects of what you are in the midst of developmentally at this time, and for this current monthly cycle. It might help to remember that there's opportunity in everything. Even what seems to hold us back has within that difficulty a gem for us to take forward into the next phase.

The New Moon that comes along one more week later, taking place on Thursday, August 20th, speaks to you quite powerfully as well, and represents a fresh start with some of these same issues that you have been dealing with up until now. You may be able to take everything that has happened up to now as prolog, leading you to further adventures in connection with significant partners, and more importantly, with yourself.

Pisces   (Feb 19 - March 19)  Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter.   

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Overview of the Planets this month:                                Top

The Astrology of August features Saturn, along with Neptune and Uranus, representing numinous outer-planet energies that speak to the contrast between the obvious manifest material world and the unseen world beyond this earthly one. The current cycle was kicked off last month by the Solar Eclipse of July 21st, which featured by aspect both Neptune and Uranus. Jupiter and Chiron were also exactly conjunct at this time and quite close to Neptune as their triple conjunction of the last few months begins to fade. This remarkable configuration repeats at the end of the year and bespeaks the spiritual possibilities inherent in our earthly situation, no matter how dire things may seem, and also the pain of recognizing how far we are from this simple yet illusive truth as we play out the actual situation in which we find ourselves.

The August 5th New Moon and Lunar Eclipse, the last of the three eclipses of the summer timeframe, has Mars in Gemini almost exactly square to Saturn. With our forward-going energy at this time we will feel the impact of limitation and restriction, and yet we will also profit from the lessons of Saturn, lessons that are slow but sure. It is only when we face challenges it seems that we grow as individuals, and there is plenty of growth indicated by the circumstances of 2009, as we are already seeing and as we will continue to see right through to the end of the year, and beyond.

The Saturn-Uranus opposition that was exact last November at the time of the election is becoming active once again in this late summer timeframe, before really heating up in September. What might this powerful configuration mean for us, both collectively and individually? Individually we must accept that the structure of our lives as we have known it is changing forever in the dawn of this new era, represented by these last six months of the year and on into the next. The out-moded structure is yielding to the new. The old structure has sustained us but it must now be allowed to breathe or it will suffocate us instead. On the collective level we are being asked to make way for the new. Wherever the forces of status quo are being Marshaled to hold back the tides of change they will be forced to yield. Dylan might have said it best back in the raging sixties: "Get out of the road if you can't lend a hand, for the times they are a'changing."

The New Moon of Thursday, August 20th, strongly features both Uranus and Neptune, as the New Moon opposes Neptune, and Mars squares Uranus almost exactly, initiating another roller coaster ride that takes us into the following month. These outer planet energies motivate for change, each in their own way, both by sudden epiphany (Uranus) and by slowly dissolving the existing barriers to spiritual enlightenment (Neptune). Of course Pluto in early Capricorn is also powerfully constellated through the entire year, and will be squared by Saturn in September as we work our way into an even more transformationally oriented 2010. Stay tuned, because in many ways we ain't seen nothing yet.

Current Moon Configurations

August 5th Full Moon
This third eclipse of the summer is another powerful one, with Sun and Moon opposing each other across the Leo - Aquarius axis, near the midpoint of each of these Fixed signs. The Sun at the Leo midpoint signaled the ancient pagan holiday of Lammas. Along with the Cardinal signs' initial degrees, whose passage by the Sun is recognized as the Solstice and Equinox events, the midpoints of the Fixed signs form a 8-fold division of the Zodiac and for that reason they were celebrated as "cross-quarter" holidays by the pagans. The gathering of energy represented by the Jupiter-Chiron-Neptune triple conjunction comes later in the sign of Aquarius but still receives added emphasis from this extra-powerful Full Moon. Mars is in a tight square with Saturn, meaning that whatever we dream or visualize must be grounded in concrete practicality, perhaps painfully, in order to be actualized.

August 13th Last Quarter Moon
The waning quarter is traditionally a time of recognition of where the impulse from the New Moon finds its potential and also of where that potential fails to manifest. This is even truer with this particular Last Quarter Moon, since it includes Saturn in aspect with the Sun and Moon. The Sun also opposes Jupiter exactly at this time, so this configuration includes both a flash of optimism as well as the sense of limitation represented by Saturn.

August 20th New Moon
This late Leo New Moon represents the push-pull of both Neptune and Uranus on the one hand, and Saturn on the other. The New Moon opposes Neptune and is inconjunct Uranus. Mercury conjuncts Saturn, just as Saturn is drawing closer to its opposition with Uranus which perfects in September. These energies are antithetical, indicating where we feel the impulse to go beyond existing limits and where we strongly feel those limits themselves.

August 27th First Quarter Moon
The First Quarter Moon is traditionally a time when the rubber meets the road with respect to the impulse from the New Moon. This is the test of viability of whatever was initiated at that time. In this case the Sun has changed signs, having entered Virgo, so that the basis for that impulse to unfold has shifted to a more detailed and grounded modality. All the personal planets in fact have changed signs since the time of the New Moon one week ago. The Sun in Virgo is drawing closer to Saturn, eventually to conjunct it almost exactly at the time of the New Moon in September, on the 18th.


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