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Your Moon
sign symbolizes your personal self, your feelings, your subconscious.
It represents how you relate to others, how you have nurturing relationships
with others, your intuition, your spiritual self, your sense of security,
and your habits. The Moon symbolizes your feminine, nurturing side (we
all have one).
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Aires Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagitt Capric Aquar Pisces Overview
Aires 
(March
20 - April 18) Fire. Ruling planet
Mars. Top
This
month you are feeling your way toward concepts
of collective service, Aries. Just when you are
summoning up your own unique individuality, it
is also somehow the very time when you have it
within you to be of selfless assistance to humanity
at large. At the very beginning of the month,
the Solar Eclipse in your sector of creative
self-expression brings verve and excitement along
with it, while another and very different stage
comes later in the month. On the weekend of August
16th with the Lunar Eclipse, you will reap the
fruits of your efforts or else be faced with
the diffusion of your motivation that indicates
where you might have to do further work on your
overall plan. Either way there are important
lessons to be learned.
As the month begins, with the Solar Eclipse that conjures romance and excitement
in your life, or at least that ideal, you have tremendous energy available
for self-transcendence. You are seeking a new way of being in the world and
the solution that seemed unreachable only yesterday appears suddenly as if
by magic. Idealism lights your way, and although partnership interaction in
your life may be nebulous at this time, it is certainly stimulating. Your purpose
is firmly set on becoming the person you were always meant to be and yet there
may be a shadow between you and your goal, a hint of old patterns that used
to form part of an important coping mechanism in earlier times but are now
simply in the way.
As the first week of the month unfolds, you will be amazed at the unexpected
fresh information that flows from your deep intuition and that may not even
be capable of being rendered into words. As you explore more closely the circumstances
underlying your fear of success and the patterns of behavior that no longer
serve you, you may come to the crux of the matter at the time of the First
Quarter Moon. This takes place on Friday, August 8th, coming along perfectly
between the eclipses. With this suspension of time, when cross-currents mar
your ability to smoothly glide forward, you can get a great deal of information
regarding your situation if you pay close attention to everything that is happening
to you. The ideal world that you imagine for yourself may be forced to yield
somewhat at this juncture.
The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse that follows along another week later emphasizes
again the ideal in your mind, and you are also challenged at this time to attempt
to discern truth from illusion in your dealings with the world around you.
The Last Quarter Moon of Saturday, August 23rd, may find you sadder but wiser,
and also enhances your own simply derived concepts with the input of significant
others in your life, presumably for the better. You are on the verge of breakthrough
in your career and in the way that you show up in the world in general, and
this pivotal month provides a fulcrum for activity that will only complete
later in the year. You have a great desire at this time to plug yourself more
fully into the life of society around you, and you are seeing your way through
to doing so. Of course you must mediate between the extremes of merely sticking
your toe into the water and diving in head-first by dangerous impulse.
Taurus 
(April
19 - May 19) Earth. Ruling planet Venus. Top
This is a month of dreaming your purpose into being, Taurus. From the very
beginning of August you find yourself wandering among sacred spaces of otherworldly
energies, while a week or so later, leading up to the mid-month Lunar Eclipse
in your career sector, the practical side of your motivation holds sway. The
good news is that these different impulses can work together quite successfully
when you remember that this physical life is only a game that while you are
playing for keeps is not to be taken so seriously that you exclude magical
possibility from your process.
As the month begins, you are enjoying a nebulous freedom of action, honoring
your ideals in a fresh new way, and responding to the deep call within you
of family ties and attention paid to the roots of your being. With the August
1st Solar Eclipse New Moon taking place in your sector of home and family concerns,
you are likely to be sticking close to home at this time, if not in actual
physical presence, then psychologically. This is an amazing period for you,
when your highest ideals are stimulated and when you are on the verge of breakthrough
at each moment concerning what you intend for your future self. There is a
fine line between idealism and self-deception and you must also beware at this
time of too great a detachment from concrete practicality.
Fortunately – or perhaps in the way of coming down – you are pulled
back to reality at the time of the First Quarter Moon, taking place on Friday,
August 8th. This Sun-Moon square that comes along between the eclipses represents
a moment of tension in your process, and a time when you are deadly serious
regarding your self-expression. Over the next few days you might feel stifled
somewhat, as your ruler Venus conjuncts taskmaster Saturn, which counter-balances
the wild-eyed enthusiasm that is also prevalent in your cosmic make-up right
now.
The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Saturday, August 16th, emphasizes the ideal
once more, but now tempered with a dose of practicality so that you have the
best of both worlds. This is a time of balance and of the full-flowering of
the impulse that originated with the New Moon and that has brought you thus
far in your process. You are also empowered to share your vision with others
around you now, so that speaking and writing about your feelings will be very
rewarding for you at this time.
The remainder of the month represents a process of assessment of where you
are headed in your life these days and in contrast, where you would like to
be. There may be a series of somewhat painful recognitions that will come over
you as you make adjustments to your vision, but much of what you imagined at
the start of this period will also remain intact, as a goal at least. You will
be getting a better handle on what you truly want over the next several months
and refining your sense of purpose as you do.
Gemini 
(May
20 - June 20) Air. Ruling planet Mercury. Top
This is an exciting month for you Gemini. Your career moves may be even more
wonderfully chaotic than they have in recent weeks. If you haven’t been
noticing those “unexpected U-turn” signs you are likely to begin
paying greater attention to them as August begins right off with surprising
fireworks. Your usual goal of communication will be more than met at this time.
Two weeks later, with the Lunar Eclipse, mystical thought process may confound
you just as a heightened sense of practicality pulls you in the opposite direction.
At least it is becoming obvious that the universe is trying to tell you something.
It may be enough for now just to realize that simple and ultimately inescapable
fact.
As the month begins, you are all about connecting with others in spoken or
in written form, with the Solar Eclipse at the very beginning of the month
taking place in your communications sector. Reaching out to others around you
is in any case an important side of your basic nature, and this month you might
get the chance to explore further ramifications of this mode of activity on
your life. It is also an excellent time for writing or for journaling, especially
so since you are also closely connected to a process of deep intuition right
now that manifests in terms of your public statement that you make in the world;
outer form as well as inner universe. You may find that you rather suddenly
come to a new direction in your career at this time as a result, based not
so strictly on logic but perhaps on some higher ideal. Unexpected turnings
in professional life may take place at almost any time over these next several
months.
The First Quarter Moon of Friday, August 8th, is another time of intensity,
when you may further tune in as far as life direction and when the shadow of
old patterns of belief may arise to temporarily block your way or at least
make your path more difficult. These obstacles may also have the beneficial
effect of refining you in your sense of purpose.
At the time of the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Saturday, the 16th, you are
powerfully drawn to the mystical side of life as an explanatory principle.
Although this is also a potentially confusing time, as intimations from beyond
the physical collide with practical considerations, you might also find ease
in accepting the mystery and letting go of expectation regarding outcomes.
A week later on, the Last Quarter Moon of the 23rd may also give you pause
in terms of getting things done, since it indicates a period of time when it
is more natural to be than to do. This is a time when you might begin to make
new sense of old circumstances. There are as many ways of thinking about the
events of your life as there are days to ponder them, and you might find some
contentment in simply allowing the universe to have its way with you as the
puzzle pieces fall into place.
Cancer 
(June
21 - July 21) Water. Ruling planet is the Moon. Top
You are going over Niagara Falls in a barrel this month, Cancer, but you will
have company on your journey of discovery. It is a profound dance of self and
other that you are experiencing in this monthly cycle with the powerful energy
of these eclipse lunations that speak so directly to your heart. The crucial
time might come right between them on August 8th. Then you will be challenged
to move beyond your current comfort zone although this is nothing that you
can’t handle. The cosmos keeps providing you with these opportunities.
You are set to transcend your previous limitations like the snake sheds his
skin, not so much because you want to but because you have to in order that
you become more whole.
As the month begins, you are feeling the effects of the powerful Solar Eclipse
in your security sector. This is also the sector of finances and other resources,
and of the material world in general, and you are likely to be very involved
with the material side of life at this time, both the more obvious manifestation
of concern, and potentially good luck, with finances and also with the shadow
side of the material realm, although you might also be in the process of transcending
it. We tend to be too tied to our possessions in this modern age, caught in
a societal trap where constantly reinforcing mundane over spiritual values
makes it difficult to think straight. You may dwell on the agony of over-dependence
or else make a move to shed this thinking in your life. Sudden changes in your
though process could arise over the course of the month as you wrestle with
these issues.
The First Quarter Moon of Friday, August 8th, plants some obstacles in your
road thereby providing food for thought, and also may indicate where you are
stuck in circumstances that have not yet gelled into a full-on transformative
approach. You may find that old patterns of behavior that have long outlived
their current value for you lead you from below as it were, and that could
be the case right now. Recognizing this is more than half the battle.
The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse coming along a week later, on Saturday, August
16th, brings up issues of self and other that are inherent in your situation
so that synthesis is a potential solution. It may not be all one way or all
another, even though logic may seem to indicate otherwise. This is a time when
significant others in your life enter the picture more strongly. It may be
difficult to tell which end is up unless you are willing to embrace the paradox
and let go and let god. An altogether positive outcome can still be reached.
The Last Quarter Moon of the 23rd represents a time when what you have gained
in terms of wisdom and understanding may exceed the temporal rewards of actual
achieved advantage. You are on the right path whether or not you know it with
your conscious mind, and do well to gracefully yield wherever you cannot make
further headway.
Leo 
(July
22 - August 21) Fire. Ruling planet is the Sun. Top
This is your moment to shine, Leo, as you glory in the Solar Eclipse in your
sign taking place at the very beginning of the month. You are truly blessed
right now and are out there in the world is a powerful new way, which is also
at the same time productive of novel insights and personal metamorphosis. The
mid-month Lunar Eclipse takes you in another direction, toward mystical partnership
and toward the benefit of a darker and less known part of yourself. The most
important thing for you to realize in your on-going process of self-coronation
is that you equally must acknowledge your shadow parts that are not nearly
as obvious but which complete you even as the sea completes the mountains that
rise above it.
As the month begins, with a Solar Eclipse in your sign, you are on the verge
of a breakthrough of some sort. This is an important month for you that may
well clarify a condition of transformation that has been coming on for quite
a while now. You are in some way an earthquake in the making, with the fault
lines of where you are stuck receiving greater and greater pressure until they
finally pop. Look out now. This type of shift may occur anytime over the course
of this monthly cycle, in a moment, perhaps quite unexpectedly, but it needn’t
be a terrible thing. This redirecting of your life stream is an evolutionarily
positive event that has the definite power to heal if you can only welcome
it with open arms, rather than mourning the loss of an outmoded way of existence.
The First Quarter Moon taking place on Friday, August 8th, could well represent
one crux of this initial period. This period of time between the eclipses represents
a moment of tension in your process, a time when you may find what works and
what simply doesn’t and be forced to take a definite action of one kind
or another in response. Dysfunctional blueprints of partnership interaction
and old tapes of reactive behavior could surface and contribute to the pressure
for change. These ancient patterns, operating as they do from the outer darkness
of unacknowledged trauma, likely stem from childhood wounds which, once accepted,
cease to have power over you. Consciousness in these matters is the key. This
is the month for it, with the solar energy flowing through you and your intuitional
self highly charged as well.
The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Saturday the 16th may come as a culmination
of your striving to find a way through the maze of your personality toward
the desired goal of self-transcendence, and yet may also seem at least in part
a muddle of confusion. As you attempt to integrate inner and outer fields of
energy you are forging the equilibrium of self and other which is essential
in order to get along with significant partners. Partnership in your life represents
another important form of balance for you at this time, and another necessary
form of integration.
The final two weeks of this month represent a time of shape-shifting values
and of attempting to match the new world that you seem to inhabit these days
with a deeper understanding of your goals and life direction. Ready or not,
you are reinventing yourself through your experiences of this present period
and there is no use anymore to even try to deny it.
Virgo 
(August
22 - September 21) Earth. Ruling planet Mercury. Top
You are in for a wild ride this month, Virgo, partaking of both mundane world
activity and interior meditation. Unexpected partnership interactions may fuel
the fires of both sides of your process. The month begins with a bang, although
a softly unfocused one, as the Solar Eclipse taking place in your sector of
dream imagination makes you very aware of inner over outer realities. There
is an arc of development during the course of the month that leads you through
extreme idealism affirming your highest intention for yourself and on to the
practicalities of your actual situation. You win when you mediate smoothly
between these varied viewpoints, honoring each in its proper place.
As the month begins you are pulled to the inside. This is a time when you are
drawn away from the outer events of ordinary reality and into a dreamtime universe
of your own creation. The Solar Eclipse that begins the month is action-oriented,
but for you signals activity that is taking place within your own deep center.
You don’t always give enough credit to your unconscious process although
it may be quite the richest part of your experience, and this monthly cycle
gives you the chance to explore these more hidden parts of your nature. You
may find at this time that your dreams are profound and redolent with powerful
information. It might be a good time to write them down. It is quite possible
to get your dreams down on paper if you keep a journal and writing instrument
beside your bed and set for yourself the intention to awaken with your dream
experience available to you for transcribing. It is important not to let either
the distraction of the world of outer events nor the dream imagery of your
inner cosmos take you away completely. Balance is key.
The First Quarter Moon of Friday, August 8th, indicates a time of trial in
getting everything that you want out of your life experience, and may represent
a chance to seek integration over polarization. A few days later, on the 10th,
your ruler Mercury enters your sign, and you are stepping out more bravely
and firmly into connection with others. Although you are more social and available
at this time, you may find that you exist in a changed universe. At this time
also you may find that a shadow comes between you and the realization of what
you may now perceive as your most appropriate pathway forward, the one task
that you were set into this life to master and to give.
At the time of the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse another week later on, taking
place on Saturday, the 16th, you may reach a fulfillment of this idea, or possibly
feel unsure of which road to follow. You are very idealistic at this time,
and very aware of inner rather than outer priorities, but it makes for confusion
in dealing with the so-called real world.
The Last Quarter Moon, taking place on August 23rd, is also a testing time.
The Sun enters your sign, and you may feel torn between private and public
accomplishment, and as a result come to a better understanding of the parameters
of your situation. The remainder of the month will be spent in attempting to
reorient yourself to the changing horizons of your world and in accommodating
a new sense of practical necessity that takes your inner priorities more firmly
into account.
Libra 
(September
22 - October 22) Air. Ruling planet Venus. Top
This is an important month for you Libra, determining whether you can put your
mind and your mouth where your heart is. You are future-oriented at this time,
sorting through the pieces of your past in order to reconstruct the basis for
your life anew from a truly idealistic standpoint. An entirely blue-skies approach
will naturally have its practical drawbacks, but the benefit of this time for
you lies in precisely this same sense of naive optimism. A tricky mid-month
period leads to lasting advantage by month’s end, constituting a rebirth
when you will put your vision into real-world practice, building your edifice
upon the rock of inner faith.
As the month begins, with the Solar Eclipse taking place in your sector of
group associations and future plans, you are likely thinking about goals and
opportunities. The way that you fit yourself into society around you is very
present to your mind at this time, since you don’t want to be a cog in
the wheels of machinery that you do not fully support. With the current political
and economic climate you might be dismayed and also excited by the possibilities
for a better and a cleaner world, and seeking to know how to do your part,
or you could be imagining a different approach to your job or social groups
that you favor. You are very idealistic right now, and perhaps reeling a bit
from the lightening-like appearance of new information that shows you where
you need to go, if only you have the good luck and the right timing and as
well the courage to get there. This is an excellent time to set intention,
since whatever it is that you sincerely wish for at this time has the uncanny
power of coming true.
The First Quarter Moon of Friday, August 8th, may feel like trouble in paradise
but it may also serve to clarify your aims. This is in some ways a difficult
period, but in some ways a blessing since you will find out what you are up
against.
With the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Saturday, August 16th, you will come
to a culmination of sorts, putting a capital on what you have been dreaming
up over the previous two weeks. You are ready to share your ideals with others
at this time, still partaking of a mystical attunement with your inner world,
and with the goals of the universe working themselves out in you.
The Last Quarter Moon a week further on brings with it an implicit understanding
of where you are headed exactly right and where you might be off the beam somewhat.
Through it all weaves a dependency on the working out of Spirit in your life
as a primary step, and perhaps in the last analysis the most significant one
of all.
Scorpio 
(October
23 - Nov 21) Water. Ruling planets Mars, Pluto. Top
You are in for an exciting journey this month Scorpio, and a potentially confusing
time as well, as you explore the roots of your being along with your more obvious
outer world presentation. The very beginning of the month kicks off a period
that is intense and magical and very active with the Solar Eclipse in your
career sector. This brings a powerful emphasis to professional and working
life concerns while you are also energized to envision new goals for yourself
with startling and sudden clarity. Deep within your soul however you may feel
a cloudy perception beginning to form that all is not right with your basic
premise and you benefit when you choose to pay close attention to these feelings
and explore them fully, in spite of the many distractions.
As the month begins, you are very involved with outer manifestation. The Solar
Eclipse that takes place on the very first day of the month in your career
sector stimulates you in important ways to be totally present with your achievement
orientation while at the same time honoring yourself at a deeper level. You
are seized with a new vision for future possibilities that grows stronger as
the month wears on. Although in some ways you are far more external than internal
right now, there is at the same time a mystical side to your nature that is
calling out for your attention. The smart money is on taking this call very
seriously, since the inner feeds the outer like your two eyes match each other
in focusing on a distant promontory.
At the time of the First Quarter Moon of Friday, August 8th, you might encounter
a few glitches in your plan. A conflict may arise between public and personal
goals, or important partnerships in your life could pose temporary roadblocks
to your pre-conceived mission statement. These may cause you to re-evaluate
where you are going and the desirable route to take to get there. Over the
entire week leading up to this juncture, it is also likely that surprising
information surfaces rather suddenly, and causes you to make necessary course
corrections. Taking a more well-rounded approach is always recommended. It
is important to take your personal evolution into account since you are changing
every day and you can no longer step again into the same river, much as you
might try to hold a steady and fixed image of yourself.
The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse that comes along a week later, on Saturday,
August 16th, may clear the air somewhat and yet cause sparks to fly as you
attempt to adjust to a new way of looking at things. These trials may however
also aid in providing an integrating factor between the outer and inner parts
of your spiritual anatomy. A reliance on Spirit is blossoming within you at
this time, antithetical to the outer trappings of business as usual but somehow
in support of it as well.
Another phase to your ultimate understanding of your situation arrives over
the next two weeks, a time that is less significant in terms of activity and
more in wisdom gained. This is a confusing time in your life, all in all, and
the mid-month period of the Luna Eclipse may also reinforce this viewpoint,
but you win when you take everything that happens as it comes, as something
given, a fluid offering from the universe to direct to you in your own best
interest, however appearances might seem to indicate to the contrary.
Sagittarius 
(Nov
22 - Dec 20) Fire. Ruling planet Jupiter. Top
These days are mystical and intense but of great value for your future self,
Sagittarius. The ground beneath your feet might be shaky right now, but this
at least provides you with much food for thought. Security subtracted has its
obvious drawbacks, but it does have a beneficial influence on your mental process.
There are adjustments that you must be making to the way that you communicate
with others around you in order to keep up with the pace of the information
coming in. You are feeling your way through to a better understanding of yourself
and your world and it helps to pay close attention to everything that happens
over the course of the ongoing development.
As the month begins you are no doubt feeling the energy of the Solar Eclipse
in your sector of higher mind. This is also a call for new horizons and you
may be planning travel of the physical or of the armchair variety as a way
of broadening your scope. The ultimate benefit for you may reside in terms
of the perspective it brings, since getting out of your immediate surroundings
on even a temporary basis gives you another standpoint from which to view your
current situation.
As Archimedes famously remarked, a lever and a place to stand is all that is
needed to move the earth, and in this case the lever is your mind. Intuitive
sparks will come to you over the roughly four-week period of this monthly cycle
that require no words but that inform your viewpoint nonetheless. You are renewing
yourself at the core levels of your personality as well as within the sphere
of the more mental and the philosophical. This makes for insecurity, and the
feeling that you cannot rely on much of anything anymore, but it also presents
you with the unprecedented freedom to be yourself, right down to the ground.
At the time of the First Quarter Moon, taking place on Friday, August 8th,
you will be more aware of your developments in these areas and of the potential
difficulties inherent in this arc of development for you. This may have the
effect of sidetracking you from your primary mission, but may also add new
information that helps you to define your purpose.
The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Saturday, August 16th represents another
crucial period when you may feel the confusion of too many choices, or of spiritual
priorities contrasting with those of simple here and now activity. Your spoken
and written communication may blossom at this juncture, and may have a clarifying
effect overall. Through all these mental migrations you are getting set for
a breakthrough in the physical and career-oriented world taking place at the
end of the month.
Capricorn 
(Dec
21 - Jan 19) Earth. Ruling planet Saturn. Top
It’s a changing climate emotionally for you these days, Capricorn, and
philosophically as well. You may be in the process of discovering that there
is more to life than you were previously ready to acknowledge. This is a month
when your sense of logic is falling soggy dead and your values are morphing
along with your sense of who you really are, especially during the second half.
What you can take away from the experience by the end of the month is a better
self-definition that as the poet says includes multitudes, and excludes nothing,
and this in the long run makes you stronger both physically and mentally.
As the month begins, you are primed for big changes, with the Solar Eclipse
that begins the month taking place in your sector of intimacy and personal
transformation. It’s time to recognize that there are others in your
life, and that they are more important for you than you have perhaps been willing
to recognize. The prescription is to balance the good vibes and the energy
that you receive with your own understanding of where you are going, and the
good news is that you are in a good place to do that very thing.
With the First Quarter Moon coming along a week later, on Friday, August 8th,
there may be some bumps in the road that you will have to negotiate, but essentially,
all is well. You are your own cheerleader these days, pulling for your own
sense of security, in your own way, and there may be the underbrush of old
patterns to clear out before you are fully ready to move yourself along in
the desired direction. All this is the fruit of a longer cycle of change that
you are in the midst of since the time of your birthday, or thereabouts, with
an important transition over the next thirty days.
The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse taking place on Saturday, August 16th, re-emphasizes
the tango of self and other that you are currently engaged in, and brings a
degree of culmination to your thought process. You continue to puzzle over
the area of security and a sense of your own resources, apart from the resources
of others. This mid-month time may also be a time of conflicting values and
confusion over what your finances may look like going forward. The upside of
these question marks is a better sense of your essential self, independent
from the various market fluctuations and the shifting tides of consensus thinking.
With the advent of the Last Quarter Moon, on the 25th, you are feeling ultimate
solution in terms of knowledge gained, of sense rather than dollars and cents.
Dramatic realizations that impart your more mystical and true situation may
come to you over the last week of the month and on into September.
Aquarius 
(Jan
20 - Feb 18) Air. Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn. Top
This is a potentially tumultuous month for you, Aquarius, leading you to profound
realizations. Partnership with others contributes mightily to your own development
right now, both financially and in terms of evolving values. Your highest ideal
for yourself moving forward is a changing landscape at this time, and depends
on outer world activity syncing up with interior vision. Meaningful change
takes concrete shape around month’s end and on into September. At the
time of the Lunar Eclipse in your sign on the weekend of August 16th you will
reap the fruits of existing partnership alliances and your own inner work,
and also entertain revolutionary new conceptions that pave the way for further
transformation.
As the month begins, with the Solar Eclipse in your partnership sector, you
are more fully aware than ever of significant persons in your life, and of
relationships of all kinds, both business and personal. The concept of yourself
as a single agent in the world is obsolete for you right now. The trick of
course is to make sure that you honor the effective boundary of where you stop
and the other begins. Any dysfunctional patterns of how you show up in the
world are likely to impinge on this trait of self-containment and will become
highlighted for you now. You are seeking your independence, just as you always
do, but with a slight edge in both stick and carrot for your process of self-discovery.
With the First Quarter Moon of Friday, August 8th, you will run up against
a barrier to greater achievement in the form of hidden obstacles inherent in
your approach and perhaps as well unconscious doubts that translate into conflicts,
large or small, with others around you. You are in the process of transcending
old tapes that have dictated your behavior from a more or less unconscious
basis. These patterns, usually stemming from incidents of childhood, were appropriate
in their era but have since become quirks that hold you back from the fullest
experience of who you really are. As long as these are ignored or worse, shunned,
by your conscious mind they will continue to fester.
The key, therefore, is to accept yourself fully at all levels, warts and all,
and to come to a better integration, and this period of tension may actually
serve to help you in this process of recognition. This is a time when you must
pay close attention to everything that happens, as if every action and reaction
might hold the clue to your release. You are seeking breakthrough, and if you
attend fully to your inner world you just might find it.
The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse that follow along a week later represents a
climax of some sort in the arc of your development reflected in the monthly
cycle. You are exploring mysteries of self and other at this time, finding
in your own depths the answer to the riddle of your existence, but leaning
out to significant partners as well, ideally only to a certain minimum depth
and no further.
For the later half of the month you are closely involved in your own transformation,
seeing dispassionately to the core of your life but seeing the surface also,
as is necessary for you who spend your time mainly in the physical world. Although,
you must always remember, not entirely.
Pisces 
(Feb
19 - March 19) Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter. Top
A climactic month unfolds for you, Pisces, in the midst of a big year. After
exploring your uniqueness in new ways for many weeks now there are still a
few curve balls that Spirit has left to throw at you. Enthusiastically interfacing
directly with the mundane world has not prevented you from tuning in to the
infinite with a large part of your attention. These opposite poles of experience
are both powerfully present for you in the current month, and you benefit extremely
from witnessing and enjoying the dance between them. In the latter half of
August you are drawn even more strongly to your life purpose. You are finding
ideals of spiritual service at this time all on your own and also through the
agency of others.
As the month begins, you are enjoying the forward momentum of the Solar Eclipse
taking place in your sector of discipleship to your highest purpose. You are
always vaguely aware, perhaps entirely, of your attempts to find the meaning
implicit in your days, and now you are even more totally connected with this
idea. This refers to your dharma, or that unique task that you have come into
this life to perform. Although there is the pleasure side of life, and the
avoidance of pain, and love and giving to others, you may be coming to the
important realization that life is essentially a hollow exercise without some
sense of its ultimate purpose for you and you alone. In the final analysis
this sense of meaning comes from finding your true calling. With this powerful
lunation, taking place on the very first day of the month, you find yourself
engaged full-on in this activity. There is likely to be an unconscious element
of dissatisfaction that hinders your search that you will also have to come
to terms with as the month unfolds.
The First Quarter Moon that comes along a week later, on Friday, August 8th,
may represent a few bumps on the road of your progress. You are attempting
to understand your life in terms that are greater than the run of the mill
day-to-day activity that makes up so large a part of ordinary patterns of endeavor,
and this is a time when you must truly step up to the plate and make it happen
or else wisely retire your own side and cease trying. This is also a time when
you may be forced to recognize that your goals are not entirely of this world,
but correspond to the unseen one all around you. You are largely spiritual
in your nature. Obstacles you do run into at this point may serve to remind
you of the bigger picture implicit in your striving.
The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse that follows another week later, on Saturday,
August 16th, represents a sense of culmination, a feeling that you can achieve
at least some part of what you are attempting, and brings you to the point
of sharing with others what until now has been a more or less solitary exercise.
By the time of the next phase of this monthly cycle, kicked off by the Last
Quarter Moon of Saturday, August 23rd, you are somewhat older and wiser, and
ready, in the words of the aphorism, to accept what you cannot cure. This is
a thoughtful time, and again at this juncture you benefit from the mentorship
of others around you, who may provide a necessary buffer against the slings
and arrows of ordinary reality. There is of course no substitute for your own
judgment in these matters.
You will want to watch out for and avoid consensus thinking, but you might
welcome the feedback and support of like-minded individuals whose views chime
with your own. It does take courage to swim against the tide. Building status
or a large bank account may have to take a back burner. In ay case it is important
to recognize that what you have going on is much bigger than anything quite
so simple.
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Planets this month: Top
The
Astrology of August features Uranus and Neptune,
highlighted by two eclipses. The month of August
starts off with a bang – with a Solar Eclipse
at the very beginning of the month that aspects
volatile Uranus. Since the mid-month Lunar Eclipse
and Full Moon conjuncts Neptune, the numinous
and the other-worldly are strongly brought to
our attention throughout a monthly period in
which surprises abound. In the August 1st configuration,
the Leo Sun and Moon emphasize the individual
over the collective, even as the aspect with
Uranus and the North Node in group-oriented Aquarius
emphasizes the collective over the individual.
This makes sense in terms of the larger picture,
since it is a truism that before giving up one’s
ego-orientation one must first have an ego to
give up. We must find out who we are in the fullest
sense, before we are ready to move beyond to
collective goals. As we come to realize the full
scope of our unique individuality consistent
with inner purpose rather than with prior conditioning,
we can find our way forward and begin for the
sake of humanity at large to make of ourselves
a joyful rather than a resentful sacrifice.
In another chime with this higher social ideal, Venus is almost exactly opposite
Neptune in Aquarius at the time of the Solar Eclipse, bringing to us an idealized
conception of relationship with Spirit as well as with everyone around us.
This has its downside in that it can also lead to illusion or even outright
deception, depending on how we choose to manifest this energy in our lives.
A few days later, Venus enters discriminating Virgo and then moves through
her conjunction there with Saturn, bringing us very much down to earth as well
as up in the air over this part of the month, especially with regard to our
important connections with others. Venus makes another move at the time of
the mid-month Lunar Eclipse and Full Moon, coming to a strong and positive
aspect with expansive Jupiter. Mars has also an exact square with transformative
Pluto, leading us to explore, in one way or another, our assertive and perhaps
even our aggressive urges. The relationship roller-coaster over these first
two weeks of August is therefore profound and ever-changing.
The Lunar Eclipse and Full Moon of August 16th that caps this period is a powerful
moment because the Moon conjuncts Neptune quite closely, bringing our sense
of the mystical, and of social idealism, into even greater focus. This may
be a confusing time as well, as we try with varying degrees of success to interpret
and interweave the subtle presence of numinous other planes of reality into
our daily lives. These energies take us out of our ordinary mode of thought,
and open us to the presence of divine forces that are in reality all around
us, if only we can, in the words of Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter “close
our eyes to see.” We can look beyond the physical at any time to become
aware of cosmic powers conspiring for our benefit, but paradoxically must also
remain firmly in the here and now to act on this awareness and to work from
the strength of our convictions.
Current Moon Configurations
August 1st New Moon
This powerful New Moon in Leo has the additional feature of making a sesquiquadrate
aspect with Uranus. The unexpected enlightenment of the promethean planet will
therefore be a factor all through the month, and surprises abound. In the case
of close aspects with natal charts, this influence may be a factor for many
months to come. You might want to look to see if any natal degree in your chart
falls within a few degrees of 10 Leo, or with any of the Fixed signs of Taurus,
Scorpio, or Aquarius. Also at this extra-special New Moon we find that Venus
is opposite numinous Neptune, a harbinger of outer planet influence in general
that is again emphasized at the time of the Full Moon two weeks further on.
The aspect between Venus and Neptune provides an idealistic and potentially
confusing highlight to al our relationships at this time.
August 8th First Quarter Moon
This phase traditionally represents the “crisis of action” implicit
in coming to terms with what portion of our dreams can and cannot survive in
the cruel world of manifestation. The tender shoot pokes its head out and will
either thrive or else must wither. Coming on the heels of an intense eclipse
lunation as it does, this will be an especially important juncture. The Sun
and Moon in square with each other also make a T-square to Chiron in Aquarius,
which is closely conjunct the North Node for this entire first week of the
month. This emphasis on Chiron indicates that old dysfunctional patterns of
behavior could come up for greater acceptance and eventual healing, especially
those of our goals, our group orientation and where we sub-serve our interests
to the commonality of collective ideals.
August 16th Full Moon
Another eclipse lets us know that this is an unusually powerful Full Moon,
and also the close conjunction of the Moon with Neptune brings the numinous
very much to bear at this time. Idealism is rampant and also the possibility
of confusion, even outright deception, as this complex symbol may manifest
at any of several different levels. The divine intersects the physical plane
in complex and multifaceted ways. It is interesting that throughout this monthly
cycle the numinous energies beyond the physical stand opposed to and triggered
by the personal planets in the more personal signs. We have always before us
as this cycle unfolds the contrast to dwell on and the chance to enhance our
understanding of our true nature as spirits in the material world.
August 23rd Last Quarter Moon
This phase represents what dean of Western Astrology Dane Rudhyar termed the “crisis
in awareness” represented by seeing what has succeeded and what has not
over the preceding cycle. We are brought to a new lever of understanding as
a result of the struggle to manifest our deepest desires and this wisdom serves
as the seed of the next cycle starting with the coming New Moon. In this case
too, the Sun has moved into Virgo in preparation. This Sun and Moon also aspect
Pluto, reminding us of the necessary transformation of our goals and ideals
as we go through life.
August 30th New Moon
This New Moon in discriminating Virgo conjuncts Saturn there, pulling us down
to the real, and setting the stage for a new cycle in September. This makes
a marked contrast to the high flying lunations of early August. We benefit
by remembering the physical world, since we must make our place and our stand
there, in spite of our connection to the beyond which is also very much with
us at this time. At first we see only the physical world, but then, with partial
enlightenment, comes an understanding that we are in essence much beyond that
state. But then, in a more mature understanding, we acknowledge and embrace
the physical as a necessary part of the whole, and our bodies as a necessary
vehicle for Spirit. In the words of sixties icon Donovan “First there
is a mountain then there is no mountain, then there is.”
Text ©Copyright 2008 AstroGraph
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