August 2024Discovering Our Place in "the Family of Things"
Dear Agents of Evolution,
One more month of summer left! What will you do with it? With a Mercury retrograde and a Jupiter/Mars conjunction square Saturn opposite Venus (see below), the astrology of this month favors readying all systems for the historic fall we are about to enter. Hopefully you'e had some summer R&R these past two months already, and can spend August lightening your load and freeing up energy by decluttering and organizing and putting needed new systems in place.
We'll be continuing with the 45-min. Thursday 4pm ET "Meditation for Evolution" online sessions through Aug. 22. They are free of charge and not recorded so you can speak freely. It's been really fun and meaningful to gather with the group for these sessions so far this summer. I hope you'll join us!
August Astro Weather Highlights
August 4
New Moon in Ashlesha
Cleaning up
With the Moon as the "final dispositor" of the New Moon chart, during this lunation our emotions are the lens through which everything is perceived. Anywhere our feelings have become untenable we are more naturally drawn to self inquiry, and we become aware of the need for self-restraint. This is a great time to sow seeds of willingness to look at our own contribution to any unhealthy relational patterns, and to form intentions to learn a different way.
I will offer an expanded summary of this New Moon on Instagram.
August 5 - 28
Mercury Retrograde
Recalibration
This three week long Mercury retrograde is the perfect opportunity to get organized on every front before the intensity of fall sets in. We get to revisit projects, purchases, contracts, relationships, decisions, and educational commitments, see what's not working and make adjustments, thereby sealing up energy leaks. Most of this particular Mercury retrograde takes place opposite Saturn so there's extra pressure in our personal lives to be exacting, to correct what's wrong, and to look at things realistically.
Revising, refining, editing, renegotiating – these are all great Mercury retrograde activities. Also, anything that can qualify as a "do-over" is supported during this period.
Miscommunication is possible and misinformation is a given during this Merc. Retro, so double check your work for accuracy and triple fact check the news, especially any news you pass along to others.
August 14
Mars conjunct Jupiter in Rohini opposite the Moon
The promise of growth
We are feeling energy and confidence in some arena of our lives. And indeed there •is• enormous growth potential in this transit. We might be facing a kind of David and Goliath situation that requires controlled, patient, strategic movements forward.
Consider carefully what you want to put your energy behind, as the month is quite fertile and areas that have your attention are likely to expand and flourish for you over time.
August 16
Jupiter/ Mars square Saturn
Commitment to Growth
Possibly emboldened by a growth spurt, our confidence has us riding high as we examine our strategies and methods of arriving at our goals and perhaps course-correct, or perhaps double down, or perhaps recommit to the matter at hand. We begin to realize that in order to achieve what we are after we have to look at the sustainability of what we are attempting. This transit favors playing a long game over short term wins.
August 18-24
Jupiter square Saturn exact
Creative Tension
With these two titans dancing a tango, we can expect to see intensity as projects seem to take two steps forward, one step back, one step forward, two steps back. During the week this transit is exact, we can expect to feel the demands of what we have just committed to. Our confidence meets material reality, right-sizing our plans.
August 19
Full Moon in Dhanishta with Uranus square the Sun and Moon
Creating New Rhythms
The Ancestors want to help. They have a lot to give. But our tangible world imaginations are still riddled with fear, self doubt, self recrimination, and all sorts of other limiting beliefs.
A good place to start to receive the blessings available is to move to gratitude. Sometimes what limits us is a need for an outcome to look a certain way, rather than seeing how we actually are receiving what we asked for, in another form. Rather than think God has abandoned us or is asking something far too difficult of us, we can admit to ourselves, "Ok, it's like this now" and carry on, learning the new rhythms of the new time.
With Uranus exactly square the Sun and Moon at this full moon we may be being asked to do things in radically new ways. While this may be uncomfortable, ultimately Uranus wants to liberate us from all that has grown stale.
I will offer an expanded summary of this Full Moon on Instagram.
August 19
Venus opposite Saturn exact
Consolidation
This transit requires some sacrifice, or compromise, or austerity, or maybe just some plain old hard work, in the creations currently on the table. If we can tolerate the dryness or tedium of this transit it can really help us manifest what is desired. Saturn may demand a higher price for our creations than we expected. Figuring out how to streamline and simplify the plan, and be willing to work with fewer resources to get the plan to happen, will go a long way.
Some boundaries may need to be set, some goodbyes may need to be said.
Health and the need to heal may come into focus for some. And one of the many thousands of ways this transit could manifest is that some public health issue may need to be addressed.
