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

Sagittarius Horoscope (November 22 - December 21)
Mutable Fire. Your ruling planet is Jupiter.

An interesting year thus far is about to get even more interesting, Sagittarius. Your worldview is likely to undergo further visions and revisions, or perhaps a more thorough-going transformation, during the course of this month�s cycle, ultimately leading you to a better understanding of what makes you tick at soul-level. Deep reflective spaces open up that connect with your sense of mission in this lifetime. Although your ebullient nature makes it at times more possible to do outer work than inner, the convoluted and potentially confusing events of this month tend to pertain to the internal. You seek to be of true service to others but before you can be fully present in that role you must first become your own advocate in being of true service to yourself.

As the month begins, you are engaged in an important mode of discovery, seeking how to better define your worldview to match up with how the world actually appears to be. This involves in large measure an investigation of your inner depths, that soul-level part of yourself that is the wellspring of emotion and feelings of psychological security. Nebulous mystical Neptune is located in your sector of home and family and the psychological roots of your being, and is powerfully constellated at this time. Those feelings have been in flux over these past few months, creating uncertainty and confusion at least potentially, so that you need a new form of vision to see beyond apparent illusion and even self-deception. There is another way of framing the things that continue to happen to you, a way that involves surrender: an acceptance that while Goddess or the cosmos is definitely having its way with you, she he or it has your own best interest in mind, however appearances might seem to contradict this assumption. With a concentrated effort of will you can let go, improvising a trust fall out of your situation, confident that the universe will hold you up. Mercury retrogrades on Tuesday, August 2nd, almost exactly opposite Neptune, bringing an even greater degree of introspection and reflection to the mix of energies swirling around you. Then a few days later, on Saturday, August 6th, the First Quarter Moon interjects a modicum of tension as not everything that you have wanted to turn out a certain way does, so that you must back away from some of your activity. You are caught between your clear intention to make a new start and to create a different outcome for yourself going forward, and a stubborn urge to hold back that also has a great deal of potency. The Full Moon of Saturday, August 13th, might serve as a plateau of balanced forces; although your desire nature is also very strong at this time and so could give you trouble in spite of yourself. If reactivity arises remember to breathe. The dharma or clear cut path of what you have to accomplish in this lifetime is very poignant for you now. You are seeking a weaving wandering way through the horns of the dilemma, a leap of faith that crates synthesis to take you forward into a vision of service that might make for a better match to your own higher nature. With the Last Quarter Moon of Sunday, August 21st, you are in an even more contemplative mode, if such is possible, seeking to uncover the lessons inherent in what has been taking place over these past three weeks both in terms of outer experience and what is within. You continue to benefit at this time from inner work. You are more fully energized than ever but also perhaps more fully cognizant that the timing is wrong to pursue any major departure from previous plans. Although Mercury changes to direct motion before the end of the month, the period of the retrograde lasts well into September when you take the ten-day shadow period into account. Even so, with Mercury�s station on the 26th followed by the New Moon of the 28th, you are filled with the impulse to scale the heights of fantasy and produce miracles.