Gemini Horoscope for August 2012

This is a complex time for you right now, Gemini, and you can't even talk your way out of it. You are in an optimistically expanded place which is also in danger of contraction, and dealing with the retrograde of your ruler Mercury by acknowledging that things do not always go as smoothly as you would like them to. You are beginning to recognize within the universe the dislocations that actually represent disparate parts of yourself struggling to gather back into their rightful alignment. In terms of outer world pursuits, you experience either a fog of confusion or a massive and glorious illusion that could even turn out to be the real thing. There is no way through other than to just surrender. Patience is required before you can entirely sort things out.

As the month begins, you are in an excellent frame of mind, in spite of the retrograde of your ruler Mercury. Your normally strong communicative tendencies are somewhat shut down right now, in favor of inner reflection. You are however expansive on all fronts, since Jupiter is well-placed in your chart, occupying your first or identity sector, and is powerfully activated there indicating especially an enhancement of understanding. It is said that "to understand all is to forgive all" and so in the midst of this current monthly cycle you are in a decidedly better position to forgive yourself and others around you, which definitely counts as progress. Neptune, planet of compassion, is also riding high in your activity sector, indicating a strong dependency on other-worldly information over the more normative ways of the three-dimensional physical world.

This energy can be somewhat confusing in the light of real-world concerns, and yet also wonderful in the way that it opens you up to new lyrical vistas, lying beyond the boundaries of mere logic, best represented by poetry and music. Neptune is also triggered by this month's lunations, and by Mercury's station to direct motion, which comes up late evening and early morning of Tuesday and Wednesday August 7th and 8th. It is helpful for you to be alert to the events that transpire at this juncture and how you feel about them, since this promises greater internal understanding of how this factor of compassionate confusion is playing out in your life.

These are essentially positive factors that light up your chart, and they are doing so in the context of the Uranus-Pluto square, which implies difficult transformation and yet new vision and greater possibility for yourself as you increase your mental scope and therefore your potential. You can do this by a trick of the mind, or perhaps it is a trick of a supra-mentality that transcends logical barriers, allowing you to tap directly into your unconscious process. You have been aware for many months now that your idea of your future possibilities is undergoing a sea-change, in an increasing crescendo of accumulated meaning. Over these summer months, you may in fact find the courage for breakthrough; or then again, you might continue to await the fullness of time. But eventual break-through is inevitable.

Detailed Monthly Forecast

With the Full Moon of late evening on Wednesday, August 1st, you are seeking balance. This is a time when the compassionate oneness of Neptune is very much a part of your consciousness and your action-orientation, and also a time when you could be feeling the wounded spaces within you as well as the joy of useful activity and connection with others around you. You are in pursuit of a better understanding of these dynamics both within and outside of yourself, and of the way that the world functions more smoothly in general with you in it.

When the Last Quarter Moon hits a week later, on Thursday, August 9th, you are picking up on the shift of energy indicated by the station to direct motion of your ruler, Mercury. You might feel an entirely different person – or at least a change in the direction of the psychic winds blowing through you – as you mull over and sort through recent happenings and attempt to more fully assimilate them into a revitalized understanding. There still remain many confusing and confounding parts of your story as you reposition the puzzle pieces into a more illuminating picture of what is going on, but there is also an expansive feeling of triumph over the way that you succeed in getting through them.

The New Moon of Friday, August 17th, brings fresh energy to your quest for greater and greater wholeness. Saturn is strongly aspected in your creativity sector right now, so that you may be feeling the pinch of circumstances beyond your control, another form of shut-down to match your communicative withdrawal as represented by the Mercury Retrograde period that is winding down at this important juncture. Mercury is slowly gaining back its momentum and its lost zodiacal longitude. With Saturn, there are restrictions, always, but also lessons to be gained.

With the First Quarter Moon of a week later, taking place on Friday, August 24th, there is some degree of everyday tension to deal with, perhaps affecting interpersonal relations with peers and with significant partners, and also an extra-strong dose of Neptunian compassion or perhaps confusion over boundaries. It's quite a trick to be able to figuratively put one foot upon the insubstantial air and the other quite firmly on grounded definite action, yet that is what you are being asked to do. You win when you are able to put your trust in the promise of a benevolent surrounding cosmos, which, after all, has your ultimate best interest constantly at heart.

Gemini Horoscope for August 2012

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