Gemini Horoscope for August 2016

This is a month of deep reflection, Gemini, as you continue to mull over the events of your life and where to place your next few steps. The long-term presence of Mercury in the sector of your psychological depths is inclining you toward interior realms of introspection. You are going all out for learning and communicative endeavors, with also a strong commitment that you forge ahead with only those projects imbued with heart. In the midst of this, you are feeling both impulsive and restrained; a paradoxical attitude that has you launching out in many directions, all at once, and yet subdued. It certainly seems to be true that whatever course you decide upon must have the fullest participation of all that you hold inside, or else it will remain as something only half-decided. During these times of indecision and uncertainty, major intuition could become your truest watchword.

As the month begins, you are making a shift in your sense of belonging in the world. You have for many weeks now been detecting within yourself the impulse to try out new ideas in life direction, perhaps along the lines of serious soul intentionality. Whatever it is that you most deeply identify with would now seem more concretely realizable. Your commitment with the significant relationships in your life, or potential partners, is also up for you this month. You are working through ideals and illusions directly associated with this important area, and with career choices also.

The Leo New Moon of the very next day aspects both Saturn and Neptune, in key sectors of your chart, so that you are very much caught up the push-pull of impulsively going for far-out, almost illusory conceptions, and also of abandoning these in favor of more practical considerations. It is tempting to go for all or nothing, but you do better to seek a balance point between extremes.

As this month continues to unfold, you are also wrestling to some extent with old and outmoded patterns of behavior that you are more than ready to let go of, but which habit and fear of change has managed to preserve as determinants of your everyday reactions. This is especially so with the timing of the mid-month Full Moon that highlights the presence of Chiron, the Wounded Healer, at the top of your chart. This planetary energy typically signals dealing with the residue of early childhood wounding that continues to arise time to time, unless and until you pay close attention to what is going on for you beneath the surface layers of your psyche. The recommendation is to love and accept every part of yourself, including these dark places within you that correspond to situations from your past rather than your present.