Pisces Horoscope for August 2016

This is a huge month for you, Pisces! Even though the summer fun is tempting, you find yourself engaged in public responsibilities, mostly to do with career and relationship commitments that continue to grow and even multiply. You are feeling positive and inspired about all varieties of partnership in your life. Regarding both of these areas, it is not an easy task to separate out what truly motivates you, and yet it is vital that you do so. For what you accomplish out in the world, you are receiving the approval and the financial sustenance indicating the appreciation of others, and these contribute as well to your own feelings of self-worth. In these circumstances, it is of paramount importance that you move ahead with the full support of not only those around you, but also of your own deep interior process that is uniquely your own.

As the month begins, you are feeling energized even before the appearance of the New Moon on the very next day. Now and over the course of this month, you are also very invested in partnership matters: business, peer-to-peer, romantic, and prospective. You also could be feeling into a more-informed sense of any dysfunctional patterns of relating that you might find that you exhibit. This subject has been concerning for you over these past many months, especially because it can sometimes arise unexpectedly to block you from the fullest expression of your relationship connection. It is also the case that while partners matter, there is you to consider. Your awareness around these issues returns with far greater impact at the timing of the mid-month Aquarius Full Moon.

In the early part of the month, with the arrival of the August 2nd Leo New Moon, you are very energized, in your personal identity and for career and professional life. The highlighted presence of Saturn at the top of your chart, and in square alignment with your ruler, Neptune, insures that, while there might be issues to work through in this area, there is also a powerful form of public recognition that is almost entirely positive. This is so, provided you have factored in the dangers of too great a reward coming to you. If you are captivated by what is offered, in terms of financial rewards or the accolades of the marketplace, you might temporally forget that which comes from deep inside you, having really very little to do with what others might desire or indicate. You could be slowly coming to the difficult and yet inescapable conclusion that your life direction is strictly your own, and can never be bought or sold, no matter how much anyone might try. Before you have come to yourself in this way, your work-related tasks can feel like a trap, taking you away from your true center. The result is profound once you know with all your heart what you truly stand for, coming from an inner sense of soul-level intention. When you know what you feel good about espousing — and making happen — out in the world, then you can go about these same tasks with peaceful equanimity, understanding the reason for the things that you do.