Leo new moon at 12 degrees 34 minutes on Sunday August 4, 2024 at 4:13 am PDT. With this new moon there is a sextile with Jupiter and in Gemini. This aspect activates curiosity but also mischievous trickster energy with Mars so close to Jupiter. Kids may struggle with selfishness and dishonesty for a few weeks. It may appear as simple as children having more conflict while playing. Mercury in Virgo is slowing to station retrograde late the same night at 9:56 pm PDT. The slow moving Mercury puts extra emphasis on mercurial experiences, from writing, travels, to our precision in work, a need for new skills, and all types of refined trades work. Saturn in Pisces retrograde adds to the complexity and challenges that will present us on clarity, information accuracy, and getting down to the bones of the truth of the matter. Mercury stations direct in Leo at 21 degrees 24 minutes on August 28th. Anyone with planets and angles at 4 degrees Mercury will feel the changing tides of things or the frustration of unexpected errors. At the end of the Mercury retrograde cycle when it stations direct the experience of being in the spotlight may be uncomfortable. Mercury in Leo around August 28th within that week will square widely with Uranus the planet for unexpected events and surprises in Taurus at 27 degrees. Mercury re-enters Leo on August 14th. Perceptions of power (Leo) can have swift changing manifestations on what otherwise appeared to be stable ground (Taurus). Uranus is unpredictable, but we may look at the planet as one of a liberator of energy that is fixed and in the divine timing is opening something to break open. Sadly some things we wish to be stable loose in this time and have an unexpected impact. Consider what is opening for your to review and rewrite how it may appear in your life. What is calling to be integrated in your experiences and opening new pathways of potential?
There is also a wide opposition of the new moon and sun with Pluto retrograde at 0 degrees 35’ Aquarius. Neptune at the critical degree of Pisces at 29 degrees 38 retrograde on the midheaven will have many pondering what is real and true, the fog we drift in persists. The fog bank on beliefs, higher learning, and philosophy. Neptune in Pisces is also being swept up in something with great feeling. Neptune and Saturn in Pisces continue to amplify the feelings we have on imagination and creativity. What are you imagining? What are you swept up in for its creativity? Our collective wave of feelings continue to be exaggerated and fed. Negative outcomes of this energy are persistence of lies and martyrs that appear to sacrifice towards a long held belief that may have captured the individuals from unfortunate misinformation. One way to navigate such a high volume of mutable energy is to get creative, hold the word adaptable as your motto and flow with the changes. Staying detached helps to surrender to what the energy is, work extra diligently to get the facts and figures that need accuracy, and have back ups for your work and plans and communicate expectations often.
Venus at 29 degrees Leo 13 minutes at this new moon will add a royal beauty to the early part of the day, however in the separating square with Uranus in Taurus for the day will bring unexpected shifts for children, for money, and prized possessions, around 7:23 pm PDT Venus moves into Virgo. Venus in Virgo is another signature of planets in mutable energy. Feminine energy will be more matter-of-fact, reserved approaches will hinder path to pleasures. Pleasure for Venus in Virgo surface with more subtleness. Do not be surprised by a fresh pulse for modesty in dress and desires for perfection in appearances. Take extra care with your budget this month.
Mars in Gemini at 9 degrees 57 minutes is sextile to the north node in Aries for the sign Mars rules. There is activation of our instincts to act swiftly. There are many ways the energies may manifest with this aspect. Activities that bring our competitiveness may be the vehicle for this aspect. What might be something brand new on your horizon that inspires your courage to do something new?
Jupiter at 15 degrees Gemini continues our scattered perspectives and attempts to make sense of it all. Saturn in Pisces persits in the square with an applying Jupiter, it will take time to focus our efforts to construct the frame we desire. The perfect soil for a new vision and brainstorming. It is the perfect time to blend in new elements adding what you are now willing to integrate. The first task is to brainstorm, play with ideas on paper, sift through them over the month until Mercury returns to Virgo to actually place into a more cohesive description of your desires. Mercury re-enters Virgo on September 9th.
Saturn in Pisces at 18 degrees 25 minutes retrograde we may find our resistance to duties and responsibilities rather frustrating. There is a purpose to feeling the limits while Saturn transits Pisces. There is opportunity for transcendence of our personal masks, aligning with a greater sense of life in being, attuned to energy. Sometimes the flow with Saturn in Pisces aligns with idealism or romanticism. Saturn in Pisces can reveal our greatest emotional sufferings, from this awareness we may acknowledge what we desire to integrate in our plans for new experiences. The question may start with, where might we serve others, as our sufferings are lifted in serving others.
Pluto in Aquarius is retrograde at 0 degrees 35 minutes. In a month we all have the final sweep of Pluto in the last degree of Capricorn from September 2nd through November 19th when it re-enters Aquarius. On October 12th Pluto stations direct after this lengthy retrograde transit that started May 2nd. It will be our grand finale of Capricorn systems and collective structures having one more grand transformation.
Changing tides continues to be our rhythm with the planetary transits. Consider what is changing for you, take inventory, reflect. Mercury in its retrograde cycle is a perfect time for retrospection of our experiences and reframing what we desire. The old life is fading, continuing the shake off of the old you for the new that is emerging over the next six months into the spring of 2025 where new beginnings start to show their buds. Continue the course of adaptability for now, reframe the vision, and work on releasing old emotional wounds that do not serve the future vision of yourself. Take classes, create art, be filled with emotional waves from music that moves you. Life is a but a dream, let it flow through and find unexpected gifts of beauty in the swells of change. Namaste. Bless this moment.
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