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As you settle into August, you are met by vast movements in the cosmos, including the shift of Venus into Virgo, a new Moon in Leo, and the second Mercury retrograde of the year. It’s a week of clearing away excess noise, tuning into your rhythm, and sinking into your truth. Your weekly horoscope can help you explore how.
Weekly Astrology for August 4-10
August 4 | New Moon in Leo; Venus Enters Virgo
August 5 | Mercury Retrograde; Moon Enters Virgo
August 7 | Mercury Conjunct Venus
August 8 | Moon Enters Libra
August 10 | Moon Enters Scorpio
New Moon in Leo
In astrology, the Moon reflects an energy that lives within each of us. It is nurturing, intuitive, and highly personal. It is creative, imaginative, safe, and secure. It is our heart, body, and emotions. It is the sacred space within that feels like home.
As the Moon begins a new cycle in Leo on August 4, 2024, we are invited to explore that space within and let all else become quiet. Under this lunation, the energy of Leo speaks to us through our hearts, bodies, and emotions. It becomes our home.
Leo is a sign of vitality, life, and expression. It is play, pleasure, and the expression of our unique spark. Leo reminds us of our most basic and truest essence. It reminds us that we are manifest expressions of creation and that how we live is art.
Leo reminds us that the spark of life moves through each of us differently. When we explore the unique essence of creation that exists exclusively within us, we can be inspired and led into our own new beginning on this new Moon.
Venus Enters Virgo
In mythology, Venus is known as the goddess of beauty, pleasure, and harmony. In astrology, Venus is considered the planet of love. Wherever Venus moves throughout the constellations, she brings those traits.
Also depicted as a goddess in astrology, Virgo is deeply connected to our humanness. An earth sign, she brings us into greater intimacy with our bodies and with the earth. Virgo is health and healing, fertility and purity, wisdom and intuition. Virgo is here to remind us of human life as an expression and experience of all that is sacred rather than something that must be transcended to reach the sacred.
As Venus shifts into Virgo on the same day as the new Moon, the invitation is to move through life in a new way by drawing on habits that support us rather than those that hinder us. It’s an invitation to tend to the foundational practices that nurture us, whether a morning routine, a yoga practice, or a minute of meditation. And it’s an invitation to tend to any critical voice within, holding the voice with presence and compassion while discerning what it truly wants.
Mercury Retrograde
Hours after the Moon becomes new again and Venus shifts signs, Mercury begins its backward spin. Mercury will be retrograde for most of August, originating in Virgo and then reentering Leo on August 14, 2024, where it will remain until the planet appears to move forward again on August 28, 2024.
In ancient astrology, when a planet was in retrograde it was believed to be traveling through the underworld. Distanced from its usual way of thinking, moving, and perceiving, it can free itself and begin to see things in a new way, from different perspectives, and therefore access wisdom, insights, and information that were previously unseen. As the planet finishes its backward spin and reenters everyday life, it brings with it all that it has gathered.
In astrology, Mercury rules over the conscious and unconscious ways the mind governs our communication, thinking, learning, and perceiving of information. Virgo is a sign of self-refinement that supports us in tending to our day-to-day habits, work ethic, and well-being. It is a sign that thrives when we strip things back and return to basics.
Mercury retrograde invites you to explore what within your days, and within your life, feels like excess? What within your life is simply noise, feels messy, outside of your capacity, too much to be with or to process? Stripping away excess and coming home to your foundations is where we access the treasures of Mercury’s underworld visit. Clear whatever you have been told Mercury retrograde needs to mean so that you may hear what it is actually trying to reveal to you.
Mercury Conjunct Venus
Planets in retrograde are understood to be in a space of receptivity rather than outward expression. As Mercury retraces its steps, it draws near Venus on August 7, 2024, and becomes more receptive to her balancing medicine.
Allow compassion to move through your self-talk, memories, and perspectives. Allow harmony to rearrange your mind and all that lives within it. Welcome your current mood, whether it’s a time of inward reflection or outer expression, a space of slow movement or vast transition. Acceptance will begin to reveal the offerings of this season.
Weekly Horoscope for August 4-11, 2024
Who you are is not accidental. Your inspirations, pleasures, desires, imaginations, likes, and dislikes are intentional. The movements and invitations in your weekly horoscope relate to reconnecting with yourself. It is through creating space and trusting in your inner dialogue that you experience more fulfillment in life. What in your life is too heavy, noisy, or unsupportive and can be let go? If it can’t be released, what small shifts in your perspectives or practices can support you while this space is necessary? Your weekly horoscope can offer additional insights. Read for your rising sign.
Aries Rising
Your creativity, joy, and vitality is greatly served by the way you move through your days. Your well-being, habits, and rhythms influence the spark of life within you. This week begins a shift in the way you tend to yourself, reminding you that the way you exist desires to be a love letter to yourself.
Taurus Rising
This week’s new Moon invites you home to your playfulness, your pleasure, and your deepest truth. A visit that will continue to offer sustenance and healing for many weeks to come. As Mercury begins its retrograde, you are invited to explore, review, and openly question who you are here to be, what truly matters to you, and where you find happiness.
Gemini Rising
As Mercury travels through the underworld, it brings an invitation for you to do the same with your inner world. Revisit and reorganize memories, perspectives, truths, and beliefs that were put in place during your formative years. Consider who you now are, all that you have experienced, and the wisdom you have gained. What within you could benefit from a vaster perspective?
Cancer Rising
It’s a week of tending to your your sense of security and belonging. As Mercury begins its retrograde, your weekly horoscope invites you to enter into the world that is your mind. What lives in here? What do you want to live in here?
Leo Rising
As the Moon begins a new cycle in your sign, may you observe the beginning opening within you, too. What is inspiring to you in this moment? Continue connecting to this spark while tending to anything within you that doubts your worthiness, ability, and safety in being your fullest and most authentic self.
Virgo Rising
This week is one of receptivity and surrender. It invites you to step back, connect within, and simply listen. It’s a time to trust in your timing, your current situation, and your wisdom. Surrender allows for the rearranging of who you are to begin taking place.
Libra Rising
This week invites reflection on your connection with everything that exists beyond time and space. What is sacred to you? What is your lived connection with this space? What does it mean to be a part of that world as much as you are here in the physical?
Scorpio Rising
What is your vision? Your compass, north node, direction, truth? Connect to this guiding force within and hold it close. For this week invites a rearranging, shifting, and rewriting of your place in this vaster world so that you may come into deeper truth and relationship with it.
Sagittarius Rising
Your compass is recalibrating. Who you are has been opening and changing. As you create space for integration, let it shift your direction to greater alignment, truth, and fulfillment.
Capricorn Rising
This week begins a season of rewriting your connection to life and your place in the world. Your weekly horoscope invites you to explore your depths, your truths, and your desires. And it invites a dialogue that takes you beyond your existing perspectives and beliefs.
Aquarius Rising
There is space for you to reconnect with your desires. Those desires may relate to your strength, trust, and freedom. Also, your ability to hold yourself through healing, transformation, and rebirth. That space allows you to reclaim everything within you that has been hidden, shamed, or unaccepted.
Pisces Rising
It’s a week that invites more creativity, happiness, and love into your days. Tending to your needs and well-being allows you to bring more openness, vulnerability, and connection into your relationships with your favorite people. Tending to your well-being ensures giving and receiving love.
