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Aries
Horoscopes for 20 August 2018
While there are still a number of planets in retrograde motion, including all three planets in your career sector, Mercury's direct turn yesterday has already started to free things up. The further into August you venture the stronger a sense of anticipation and expectation is likely to become. It is Mercury's direct turn in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart that has created a sense of urgency, as you fight to ensure life doesn't become all work and no play.
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Taurus
Horoscopes for 20 August 2018
As he spends his first full day in direct motion in your home and family sector, Mercury is contributing to a sense of urgency that even a solar eclipse nine days ago wasn't able to trigger. With the Sun just days away from leaving and Mercury now beginning his own march out, continuous planetary activity since 2017 is now in its final weeks. As the Sun illuminates the path forward, you're finally able to get your head in the game, ideas on the table and the communication lines open.
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Gemini
Horoscopes for 20 August 2018
Having the Moon in your relationship sector during Mercury, planet of communication's first full day in direct motion in your communication sector is a match made in heaven. Finally a period of mixed messages and misunderstandings is over and with Mercury hungry to move things forward, the Moon gives him plenty to give a voice to. With your most important relationship year in over a decade just months away, it is time to get serious about having the communication lines open.
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Cancer
Horoscopes for 20 August 2018
Just a week after Mars retrograded back out of your financial sector, dramatically reducing the financial tension of recent months, income matters get the green light. Mars will return next month, but not until after the Sun and Mercury left your income sector, giving income opportunities room to grow. While Mars left seven days ago it is only now, with Mercury in his first full day in direct motion that there will be signs of movement. Thanks to the Moon you not only have an intuitive edge across the income, work and career fronts, but you'll like what you're picking up on.
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Leo
Horoscopes for 20 August 2018
There is something about today's playful and romantically charged lunar vibes that not only fire up your imagination, but fuel your confidence for your new solar year. In the final days of your birthday month this is the pick me up you need, finally getting excited about the journey ahead. Yet it is less the Moon's friendly aspect to the Sun and more the actual message being delivered, for the Moon knows all about the huge potential for all things fun, playful, romantic and creative ahead.
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Virgo
Horoscopes for 20 August 2018
Home might not be where the heart is today, but it is where you're emotionally connected. Normally this can be a problem, with the Moon exacerbating strong emotional responses, blowing things out of proportion and creating some work/life balance tension. While that is still possible, if so it will be more about drawing attention to things without making them an issue. Instead, this is more likely to inspire your imagination, while creating a sense of feeling grounded and connected.
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Libra
Horoscopes for 20 August 2018
While Venus' return to Libra earlier in the month has created some tension between planets in your relationship sector, this was mainly in her early days and again in her final days. For now, while there is a need to balance your personal and relationship needs, there is unlikely to be a problem. Instead, with the Moon in your communication sector this is the ideal time to ensure the communication lines are open.
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Scorpio
Horoscopes for 20 August 2018
While Venus' return to Libra earlier in the month has created some tension between planets in your relationship sector, this was mainly in her early days and again in her final days. For now, while there is a need to balance your personal and relationship needs, there is unlikely to be a problem. Instead, with the Moon in your communication sector this is the ideal time to ensure the communication lines are open.
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Sagittarius
Horoscopes for 20 August 2018
To have Mercury in his first full day in direct motion in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery just as the Sun moves into his final days, creates an unexpected surge in urgency. There hasn't been a single day since July 2017 when there hasn't been a planet in this adventurous part of your chart, keeping a sense of wanderlust, curiosity and adventure alive. Yet the Sun and Mercury both know that this is not only about to end, but life is set to become even more professionally focused.
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Capricorn
Horoscopes for 20 August 2018
With the Sun in his final days in your financial sector and Mercury in his first full day in direct motion here, there is a new sense of urgency on the financial front. However, as the Sun looks at money matters objectively and Mercury with the smart head for money needed to keep your head in the game, this can encourage a black and white approach. Fortunately, both are supported by today's intuitive and imaginative lunar vibes, which allow you to read between the lines and join the dots.
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Aquarius
Horoscopes for 20 August 2018
Another week and another advantage for you and your relationships. It was a week ago today that Mars left Aquarius, taking the pressure off you and your relationships. A week on and Mercury, planet of communication is in his first full day in your relationship sector, where he's looking to the future, with the communication lines now flowing more smoothly. As the Sun moves into his final days in your relationship sector, you're able to look to the future with confidence.
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Pisces
Horoscopes for 20 August 2018
While you have reached an important day across the income, work and career fronts, this is also a day for looking at the past, present and future. On the job front, after Mercury's direct turn in your work sector yesterday, it is all about having your head in the game, eyes open and head out of the sand, ready to make the right choices, decisions and plans for now. On the income front the focus is still on untapped income potential, while the Moon is giving you a sneak peek at exciting career developments ahead.
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Aries
Horoscopes for week beginning 20 August 2018
A week that begins with adventurous lunar vibes in play and ends with a Full Moon in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart, sounds like a low key and even relaxing week. Yet what you have is a behemoth of a professional juggernaut forming. As Mars spends his first full week back in your career sector, his last full week in retrograde motion is a chance to pull back. Yet in the heart of a major alignment between income and career forces, the Sun's return to your work sector on Thursday throws the solar spotlight onto all that is building across the income, work and career fronts. With Mars turning direct in your career sector next week and Saturn the week after, the Moon's reminders at the start and end of the week need to be taken to heart. You're in this for the long haul.
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Taurus
Horoscopes for week beginning 20 August 2018
When Mars retrograded back out of your career sector last week, rather than put the brakes on your professional year, it has done the very opposite. In retrograde motion for six weeks before leaving, with Mars gone Venus is now able to gain some traction on the job front. Yet as Mars spends his first full week back in an adventurous part of your chart and his last in retrograde motion, there is a chance to tap back into a passion for adventure. This is what the Sun will find when he returns to a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart on Thursday. Fortunately, while Venus has returned to set the wheels in motion on the job front, a balance between work and play suits her just fine. All of a sudden the work/life balance challenges of recent months make sense, especially as you start to reap the benefits.
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Gemini
Horoscopes for week beginning 20 August 2018
Starting the week with the Moon in your relationship sector is not usually the big deal that it is, but what turns the ordinary into the extraordinary is both the timing and the message. With Jupiter returning to your relationship sector in early November to kick off your most important relationship year in over a decade, the Moon's emotional and intuitive responses will tap into a new sense of anticipation. Monday is Mercury, planet of communication's first full day in direct motion in your communication sector and with the Sun leaving on Thursday, the timing couldn't be better. While the Moon will ensure your relationships jump to the head of the queue, this kicks off an important few weeks for talks, discussions and communication across the board. There is also something special developing across the financial, job and career fronts, which can all benefit from having your head in the game, ideas on the table and the communication lines open.
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Cancer
Horoscopes for week beginning 20 August 2018
Mars' departure from your financial sector last week has taken the warrior planet of the cosmos out of the game, just long enough for the Sun and Mercury to wrap things up on the income front. It was Mercury's direct turn in your income sector on Sunday that finally turns the lights green and releases the brakes and not a moment too soon. For with the Sun leaving on Thursday and Mercury two weeks later, it's time to tie up loose ends and get down to the details. This makes starting the week with the Moon in your work sector a real advantage, especially as there are clues to exciting job developments ahead. With the Moon at a friendly aspect to not only the Sun and Mercury in your income sector, but both planets in retrograde motion in your career sector, you'll start the week with a good read on forces in play across the income, work and career fronts.
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Leo
Horoscopes for week beginning 20 August 2018
cIt is during the final days of your birthday month that you finally get the green light, allowing you to move into this new solar year with confidence and finally, with a game plan. The Sun has been in Leo for a month by the time he leaves on Thursday, bringing your birthday month to a close. However, it wasn't until Mercury's direct turn over the weekend that the brakes holding things back were finally removed. A solar eclipse a week earlier has created the kind of momentum that has had you revving your engines, ready to launch forward, but held back by Mercury's retrograde phase. That has finally changed, with Monday the first full day where you're able to throw yourself into this new solar year. Ironically, this comes just as the doors are being flung open to the past, second chances and untapped potential across the job and career fronts. This is just in time for new income developments that are opening up.
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Virgo
Horoscopes for week beginning 20 August 2018
As you move into the new week you are moving into the final days of your old solar year and with seven planets in retrograde motion, the past still has a strong hold on you. However, not as strong a hold as it had when you moved into the weekend, which began with eight planets in retrograde motion. It was Mercury, your ruling planet's direct turn on Sunday that has put a new spin on the final days of this old solar year. With planets in retrograde motion across many aspects of your life, from money matters to your relationships, matters of the heart and even on the adventurous fronts, you're able to enjoy the benefits of having so many doors open to the past and second chances. Yet with Mercury in retrograde motion, you're finally starting to look to the future and to the birthday month and new solar year that begins with the Sun's return to Virgo on Thursday.
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Libra
Horoscopes for week beginning 20 August 2018
Compared to most other years, Venus is practically on cruise mode as she moves into her second full week in Libra. With the month long wind down of your old solar year not even starting until Thursday, you haven't begun closing down one solar year, yet alone starting to look at the new one. Returning this far in advance will have implications and you're already feeling the ramifications of that. Venus is being pulled by the Sun, something that is slowing her down and will result in a retrograde turn in October, that will see her return for a second, month long visit. Venus is in no hurry, giving you time to listen to your heart and to work on your wish list, long before any need to become objective. In the meantime, while there is a lot to be excited about across the income, financial and job fronts, it is the home front that is likely to draw a lot of your attention this week.
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Scorpio
Horoscopes for week beginning 20 August 2018
Starting the week with seven planets in retrograde motion is taking away a lot of the urgency, but in some critical areas there is forward movement and even a new sense of urgency. Jupiter has been in direct motion in Scorpio since earlier last month, while Mercury only turned direct in your career sector over the weekend. You begin the week with the Moon in your income sector, sharpening your nose for money as the Sun prepares to leave your career sector on Thursday, while also providing clues to exciting income developments ahead. Yet with seven planets in retrograde motion there is still a lot of focus on the past, especially on the communication, relationship and home fronts and when it comes to matters of the heart and all things fun, playful, romantic and creative. There will be a chance to tap into the latter, during Sunday's Full Moon.
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Sagittarius
Horoscopes for week beginning 20 August 2018
Starting the week with the Moon in Sagittarius is always an advantage, giving you an intuitive edge from the get go, but also connecting you to your inner voice and your own sixth sense. Yet this is less about the messenger and more about the message, with the Moon making one of its last visits to Sagittarius before Jupiter returns in early November. The Moon will only return a few more times before you not only begin your most expansive year in over a decade, but a new 12 year Jupiter cycle of expansion. With major new doors opening in less than three months' time, the Moon's job is to deliver the valuable clues, hunches and insights needed to start lining up in front of new doors before they open. In the meantime, there are some exciting developments across the income, work and career fronts this week.
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Capricorn
Horoscopes for week beginning 20 August 2018
You may have entered the weekend with eight planets in retrograde motion, but you start the week with just seven in retrograde motion. Mercury turned direct over the weekend, Mars will turn direct next week and Saturn the week after, with a number of planets preparing to come out of hibernation. Three of those planets are in retrograde motion in Capricorn including Mars, who only retrograded back in last week. It has taken Mars, retrograding back out of your income sector and into Capricorn, to take the pressure off the Sun and Mercury in your financial sector, just as money matters get the green light. For the eighth planet who was in retrograde motion was Mercury, who's direct turn in your financial sector on Sunday has finally turned the lights green. And just in time, with the Sun leaving your financial sector on Thursday and Mercury two weeks later.
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Aquarius
Horoscopes for week beginning 20 August 2018
By the time that Mars retrograded back out of Aquarius last week he had already been here for three months, twice as long as the six weeks it will normally take to launch a new Mars cycle. The fact that Mars retrograded back out was not an indication that this was a failure to launch, with Mars having spent three months to venture into just the early degrees of Aquarius. Mars will turn direct early next week, taking him just 14 more days to return to Aquarius, to start over again. When Mars returns next month he'll be back in direct motion, spending another two months finally getting this new Mars cycle up to speed. Yet returning to a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart Mars, the planet that gives us our drive and get up and go, is encouraging you to take some time out to recharge your batteries, along with time to hear yourself think. With seven planets still in retrograde motion, this couldn't come with better timing.
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Pisces
Horoscopes for week beginning 20 August 2018
No matter how many planets are in retrograde motion, the Sun will always be looking to the future. Every other planet in the solar system will turn retrograde at some point in their cycle and while you moved into the weekend with eight planets in retrograde motion, you emerge into the new week with just seven in retrograde motion. With Mars turning direct next week and Saturn the week after, the solar spotlight is waking up. In the meantime, with planets in retrograde motion in Pisces, three in a social and serendipitous part of your chart, in your income sector and even in your communication sector, there is still a lot of focus on the past. It was Mercury's direct turn over the weekend that has finally given work and job matters the green light. In the meantime, the weekend's Full Moon will bring you to the halfway point in this solar year, with a chance to revisit the dreams and intentions it began with.
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Aries
Horoscopes for August 2018
On the surface this is an uncomplicated month and in fact a stunning month across many aspects of your life. The problem you might face, especially in the early days of the month, is the fallout from the professional pressure or work/life balance tension of the last few months and a total lunar eclipse in the final days of July. Yet on the other side you're about to reap the benefits big time. The main tension over recent months has come from pressure between your home and professional lives. Yet with the Sun no longer in your home and family sector, this has dropped back. Yet as opportunities literally explode across the income, work and career fronts, all of a sudden work/life balance is the gift that will help you pace yourself and capitalise on all the available options. These include Mars retrograding back into your career sector on the 13th August, new developments on the job front and the doors opening to untapped income potential. Everything comes together at the right time, to make this an extraordinary month across the income, work and career fronts. This could have been a problem, if you hadn't just been through work/life balance boot camp. For with the Sun always spending the first three weeks of August in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart and a solar eclipse here on the 11th August, life won't be allowed to become all work and no play. Even if the Sun will contribute to a new charge on the job front from the 23rd August, until then he doesn't care how well the stars align professionally, life can't be all work and no play. With Venus opening the door to special relationship developments from the 7th August, you can have it all, but only with the right work/life balance.
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Taurus
Horoscopes for August 2018
While the professional pressure or work/life balance tension that may have come to a head with a vengeance in the final eight days of July have started to ease back, this is something you may still be reeling from. It was the Sun's return to your home and family sector on the 23rd July that triggered this, something that happens at this time every year, without creating this kind of cacophony of push back. For the first time in 47 years the Sun returned to find Mars in opposition in your career sector. Within hours of the Sun and Mars moving into opposition the Moon not only returned to your career sector, but created the first total lunar eclipse here since 1989. This was good news professionally, giving career matters a major push that Mars will continue to exploit until retrograding back out on the 13th August. With Venus returning to your work sector on the 7th August to begin some extraordinary months on the job front, with developments continuing to unfold through to early December, this professional momentum is in safe hands. Yet with the Sun in your home and family sector until the 23rd August and Mercury all month, a need for balance between your home and professional lives remains. The Moon only left your career sector on the 30th July, so professional pressure or work/life balance tensions are only just dialling back. However, this is where you have luck and the gods on your side. For while this is a stunning month for job and career matters and work/life balance continues to be policed, there are some playful and adventurous forces in play all month. As well as balancing things out, you will find it relatively easy to maintain a balance between work and play, which will make work/life balance a lot easier to achieve.
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Gemini
Horoscopes for August 2018
While many of your cosmic mates are still reeling from the onslaught of both a total lunar eclipse and an opposition with the Sun and Mars late last month, you're likely to be feeling invigorated by it. That is because both the lunar eclipse and Mars are in an adventurous part of your chart, while the Sun is in a smart and intellectually savvy part of your chart. When they clashed it was more likely to stimulate some out of the box thinking, just as you were being pushed out of your comfort zone. The Moon has moved on, but until retrograding back out of your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery on the 13th August, Mars continues to fuel a passion for adventure, while holding the doors open to the past, second chances and untapped potential. Venus' return to a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart on the 7th August will give Mars a boost in confidence in his final days, while creating a potent mix of romance, adventure and nostalgia. Whatever tension or roadblocks faced in the final days of July are now behind you, making way for a sense of liberation this month. Yet while this is also a stunning month on the job front, with Jupiter starting to gain some traction in his first full month in direct motion in your work sector, this is unlikely to create a conflict. While the pace will pick up on the job front, even without next month being the point where everything really starts to come together, a fun and adventurous focus is able to run side by side work and job matters. Able to operate in their own lane and not compete with each other, as long as you're mindful of a need for balance between work and play there is no reason why you can't have it all.
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Cancer
Horoscopes for August 2018
There is a high chance that you might enter August with frayed nerves and you may even be in protection mode, putting up barriers to protect yourself against the next wave. Except the next wave is unlikely to come. It was the Sun's departure from Cancer on the 23rd July that brought your birthday month to a close, while also taking away the pressure between the Sun and Saturn and Pluto in your relationship sector. Yet no sooner did any personal and/or relationship tension drop back than it may have felt like you had jumped from the frying pan into the fire. For from the moment the Sun returned to your income sector there was financial tension. The Sun returned to find Mars on the other side of the sky in your financial sector, for the first time in 47 years. They moved into opposition just as the Moon returned ahead of a total lunar eclipse in your financial sector on the 28th July, the first here in three decades. The Moon left on the 30th July and any financial tension is already dropping back. But until Mars retrogrades back out of your financial sector on the 13th August, there is a need for balance between money coming in and money going out. Yet as dire as this might have felt at the time, this was in fact the start of a major breakthrough, with a solar eclipse in your income sector on the 11th August turning things around. This was the push that untapped financial and income potential needed, with a chance to enjoy the benefits on the other side. In the meantime, in his first full month in direct motion in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart, Jupiter is working to bring the fun and colour back into your life. With five months of the year to go, 90 percent of the challenges are now behind you.
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Leo
Horoscopes for August 2018
For the second time in as many years, the New Moon in the heart of your birthday month is a solar eclipse and that is no surprise, with a connection between this month's solar eclipse and the solar eclipse last August. For the second time in just 18 years, you have moved into your birthday month and new solar year to find the North Node here, a force that is not only responsible for creating eclipses, but in moving your life forward in a positive, powerful and unseen way. A solar eclipse is basically a hand reaching out from the future and with a sign that says 'this way'. Last August's eclipse was a total solar eclipse and while the solar eclipse on the 11th August is a partial eclipse, with so much having been building behind the scenes over the last 12 months, whatever this triggers will unleash a flood tide of potential. Because solar eclipses are the future reaching back and pointing the way forward, while giving things a nudge, their importance is not always recognised at the time. It is only in hindsight that you'll look back and appreciate the significance of what this triggered. The New Moon that falls during your birthday month is a chance to commit to your new solar year, the future and the journey ahead, but also to your game plan and resolutions. Yet as an eclipsing New Moon, there is a need to focus less on the game plan and more on committing to moving with the tide. In the meantime, while any personal and/or relationship tension from a total lunar eclipse on the relationship front late last month is easing back, the doors will remain open to the past and second chances on the relationship front until the 13th August. This is when Mars will retrograde out of your relationship sector. With Venus returning to your communication sector on the 7th August, she'll be on hand to give your relationships, the past and unsaid words a voice. In the meantime, you have reached a stunning month across the income, work and career fronts.
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Virgo
Horoscopes for August 2018
While the Sun, as he does at the same time every year, won't return to Virgo until the 23rd August, you start the month with Venus and Ceres already here. Venus has already been here for three weeks by the time you move into the new month, giving your heart a voice weeks before your birthday month and new solar year even begins. With Ceres, queen of nurturing making her first visit to Virgo in four years, while Venus updates your desires and expectations for a new solar year that hasn't even begun, Ceres is updating your needs and priorities. Venus will leave on the 7th August but Ceres will stay on, making sure that when your birthday month and new solar year begins on the 23rd August, you know what you want and need from the get go. In the meantime, this allows Venus to move into your income sector, returning just six days before Mars retrogrades back out of your work sector on the 13th August. After a total lunar eclipse on the job front last month and Mars here at this time of year for the first time in 47 years, as Venus returns to kick off the most lucrative months of 2018, she won't believe her luck. This is the start of relationship between income and job forces that will continue for months. For while Mars will retrograde back into a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart on the 13th August, he'll turn direct on the 28th August and return to your work sector next month. During his short time back in a playful part of your chart, Mars will be swept up in a stunning mix of playful and adventurous forces. While this is a stunning month for job and income matters, there is also the right balance between work and play.
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Libra
Horoscopes for August 2018
Your new birthday month and new solar year doesn't begin until the Sun returns to Libra on 23rd September, something that happens at the same time every year, always has and always will. While Venus and Mercury will always move with the Sun, they can and do sometimes get ahead and when they get too far ahead they are pulled back. This year this is exactly what happens when Venus and you get to benefit from both her early return on the 7th August and the fact that she will be pulled back for a double dip visit in a few months' time. Because Venus returns so far ahead of the Sun, even though she is here until the 9th September she'll still be gone before your birthday month and new solar year begins. This allows Venus to make a stand alone visit. Venus will return for a double dip visit after your birthday month is over and it is then that she will focus on updating your desires and expectations for your new solar year. Because she will return and your birthday month is still so far away, this means Venus can save that for later, focusing more simply on being the planet of love. Venus returns to find Mars not only in your romantic sector, but in retrograde motion here for the first time in 47 years. After a total lunar eclipse in this fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart late last month, Venus returns to find the atmosphere already romantically charged. Venus also returns to find both planets in your relationship sector in retrograde motion, but for the first time in four decades that Chiron, planet of healing is on board. While most areas of your chart are looking good this month, it is your relationships, matters of the heart and all things fun, playful, romantic and creative that look especially good.
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Scorpio
Horoscopes for August 2018
You're at a point in your solar year where, with your birthday month and new solar year just a few months away, you're heading into the home straight. The Sun will always spend the first three weeks of August in your career sector and with a solar eclipse here on 11th August, this should be a good month professionally. With auspicious income developments ahead, this is also a chance to get your professional ducks in a row. However, after some work/life balance reminders late last month and Mercury in retrograde motion in your career sector until the 19th August, there is a need to pace yourself. The biggest influence on you personally this month is from Jupiter, with the planet of luck and expansion spending his first full month in direct motion in Scorpio. While Jupiter won't leave until the 9th November and Venus will return early next month to spend the next two months making his final months count, you will find that you're finally breaking free from the past's suction. With Jupiter not leaving until early November, the job of laying down the foundations and planting the seeds for this new 12 year cycle of expansion is now back on track. In the meantime, while there is still a sense of nostalgia and it is set to become even stronger, this is contained to one area of your life. With Neptune already in retrograde motion in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart Venus, planet of love's return to a nostalgic part of your chart on the 7th August will add to a sense of romantic nostalgia already in the air. In the meantime, when Mars retrogrades back out of your home and family sector on the 13th August, this will be good news for your relationships. As well as work/life balance tension dropping back, Mars dips back into your communication sector in order to give your relationships, the past and unsaid words a voice.
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Sagittarius
Horoscopes for August 2018
August is a month when a balance between work and play is paramount and when the lines between the two are often blurred. The Sun will always start this month in an adventurous part of your chart, but will always end the month in your career sector. For the Sun this is a clear line in the sand, with his return to your career sector on the 23rd August each year, the point when it is time to get serious about your professional game. But for Venus and Mercury, who travel alongside the Sun, nothing is ever that clear cut. While the Sun won't leave your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery and return to your career sector until the 23rd August, you start the month with Venus already there. And when the Sun leaves Mercury will stay on, ensuring that while things do become more serious professionally, a sense of adventure is still in play. In retrograde motion until the 19th August, Mercury is connecting with the two planets in retrograde motion in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart, creating a mix of romance, adventure and nostalgia. Yet even before the Sun returns to your career sector there is something extraordinary in play across the income, work and career fronts. What began last month as fairly low key advantages across all three fronts, turns into something a lot more powerful this month. This makes a balance between work and play important from the get go. However that shouldn't be too hard, with Venus returning to a social and serendipitous part of your chart on the 7th August. With the right balance between work, play and adventure, this can be an exciting and vibrant month.
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Capricorn
Horoscopes for August 2018
August is a month that is being defined by a mix of the ordinary and the extraordinary, along with the familiar and the unfamiliar. The ordinary is that the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of August in your financial sector, with the solar spotlight on your financial situation and money matters. The extraordinary is that not only is the New Moon here on the 11th August a solar eclipse, but for the first time in 47 years you start the month with Mars in your income sector. This was a problem when the Sun returned to your financial sector last month, moving into opposition with Mars in the lead up to a total lunar eclipse on the income front, on the 28th July. Any financial tension this may have created is dialling back, but this has given both income and money matters a shakeup, which is already having auspicious consequences. With a lot of untapped potential on both fronts, this was the pressure needed to topple the flood banks holding things back. With Mars not retrograding out of your income sector until the 13th August, he'll still be here when Venus returns to your career sector on the 7th August. This is early in the year for Venus to return but just as well she does. Venus' mission to fuel your professional confidence, attract opportunities and steer things in a lucrative direction will coincide with Mars' mission to exploit as much income potential as possible. Venus is the planet of money, so will work to make his final days as lucrative as possible. In the meantime, Venus will start the month in an adventurous part of your chart, the Sun will end the month here and Ceres is here all month, not only keeping a sense of adventure in play but a mix of romance, adventure and nostalgia. Meanwhile, Mars will retrograde back into Capricorn on the 13th August for a rare double dip visit.
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Aquarius
Horoscopes for August 2018
To have any planetary activity in Aquarius at this time of year is unusual and even more so to not only have Mars, warrior planet of the cosmos here but in retrograde motion, for the first time in 47 years. Yet Mars was here when you also had a rare total lunar eclipse in Aquarius late last month, something the Moon only wrapped up on the 30th July. This lunar eclipse was a personal wakeup call, while Mars is here to give you the passion and warrior spirit to throw yourself into whatever this has triggered. Mars will retrograde back out on the 13th August, but will return to Aquarius to start over from scratch on the 11th September. In the meantime, Jupiter is spending his first full month in direct motion in your career sector, with career matters starting to gain some traction. With the Sun having left your work sector last month there is no longer the work tension and job pressure, but while the urgency and any stress has dropped back, Jupiter is helping to keep the wheels turning on the job front as well. This is a chance to let work and job matters settle and run their course, while career matters will get their real boost when Venus returns early next month. By then Mars will be back in Aquarius, this time in direct motion and with your passions and warrior spirit fuelled. Contributing to a more relaxed feel this month is Venus' return to an adventurous part of your chart on the 7th August, for what is the first of two visits she will make over the coming months. And with the Sun in your relationship sector until the 23rd August, Mercury in retrograde motion here until the 19th August and here until early next month, this is also an important month on the relationship front. While the lunar eclipse late last month may have created some relationship tension Mercury, planet of communication is already working to give your relationships, the past and unsaid words a voice.
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Pisces
Horoscopes for August 2018
While August is usually a busy month for you, this is being modified by a need to work smarter and also by a call from the professional gods themselves to take things slowly. When the Sun returned to your work sector on the 23rd July, something he does at that time every year, it was to spend a month shining the solar spotlight on your work situation and job matters. With a solar eclipse on the job front on the 11th August creating the potential for auspicious new beginnings, there was every reason to throw yourself into the deep end from the get go. Except you were unlikely to have got away with it. Not only did the Sun return to find Mars in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart, with the wind down of your old Mars cycle underway, but a total lunar eclipse there on the 28th July might have stopped you in your tracks. Fortunately, Mercury's retrograde turn in your work sector two days earlier had already seen the professional gods apply their emergency brake, otherwise you would have crashed head first into this. As Mars and the North Node demanded a slower approach, the professional gods had already decided on a slower approach. This more measured approach allows you to better enjoy this month's other delights, which include Jupiter's first full month in direct motion in an adventurous part of your chart. This is also a stunning month for communication and for personal and professional networking, friendship and relationship building in general. The Sun only left a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart on the 23rd July, with even the professional gods realising the importance of having a balance between work and play. A solar eclipse on the 11th August and Mercury's direct turn on the 19th August will give work and job matters all the traction they need.