August Horoscopes

Astrology of August
Current Configurations
Past Months

Aries	Libra
Taurus	Scorpio
Gemini	Sagittarius
Cancer	Capricorn
Leo	Aquarius
Virgo	Pisces

August 2011

Current Astrology

	The Sun is in Gemini
	The Moon is in AquariusThe Disseminating Moon is in Aquarius: All day
	Moon Void of Course 9:24 pm to 6/9 3:14 am
	Next Mercury Retrograde Aug 23 - Sep 15

August Horoscopes

by Henry Seltzer

Gemini Horoscope (May 21 - June 20)
Mutable Air. Your ruling planet is Mercury.

Your transformation continues, Gemini, and even grows in its pace, although the time for concentrated action is delayed until at least the middle of the following month. Spiritual epiphanies provide occasions for greater intimacy. Your fullest potential is not yet realized, although the concept of what you are striving for is beginning to unfold during the course of this thoughtful and challenging present cycle. Communication with friends and loved ones is vital for you now, and helps you to better define your own position. Home and family could also be transforming in some way over the course of this important month. You are coming on strong but in invisible rather than mundane realms, as you speak your most basic truth, from your heart.

As the month begins, you are poised on the brink of new discoveries about yourself, and regarding your connection to home, family and tribe. You are refining and redefining issues related to your connections with those around you, and possibly contemplating a rearrangement of your physical living space as well. If so, this works on both an actual and a symbolic level, revising the root basis for your psychological reality. This serves to redefine your communication dynamic also, since you are coming from a different place, quite literally. A rather unworldly mode of behavior dominates your activity now, which although it has been the pattern for you lately, could be puzzling or even alarming. You are dwelling as much in the invisible world of inner intuition and visionary imagination as in the so-called �real� one these days. Music and poetry is the language of these other-worldly dimensions of reality and these might speak to you more clearly now than merely mundane logic is able to. On Tuesday, August 2nd, your ruler Mercury begins its retrograde period that will carry it through both your sector of your psychologically rooted home base and also your communication sector. You might feel the shift, and your tendency to go within, that is, of occupying yourself with your own thoughts and words rather than directing them outwardly. This is a terrific time to journal, and to reflect on where life is currently taking you, and why. With the First Quarter Moon of Saturday, August 6th, you are facing internal tensions which could become projected out upon others, and also attempting to discern which of your many ideas for future projects is truly viable. Your gauge for this standard of achievement must be other than success in the eyes of the world, however, as much of what truly interests you at this time represents your urge for a soul-level rather than a consensus thinking style of accomplishment. The comforting insight is to recognize that once this is recognized and sincerely attempted, all the rest will fall into place. The Full Moon of Saturday, August 13th, represents a time of balance, when you might feel more relieved than pressured, although the power of the retrograde period remains, and grows even stronger over the following week. You are striving for an integration of Spirit and inner life into your ordinary day-to-day life and in communication with others around you. The Last Quarter Moon of Sunday, August 21st, in the heart of Mercury�s retrograde period, represents another potentially quite confusing time for you, when you are driven to the inside for the answers to questions that you never even knew to ask. You are reassessing where you are at these days in the light of what has gone before and what information, upon reflection, you can glean from these events. This involves taking the intuitional information from your deep inner world as even more real than your outer, but it is only with a great leap of insight that you are able to do so. In order to do this you must make the effort to fully accept paradox, even though it is somewhat contrary to your logical mind to do so. The Virgo New Moon of the final weekend of the month, taking place on Sunday, August 28th, will be clarifying and kick start your next stage.