Celestial Courier - Weekly Forecast 08/05 - 08/11 2024
- Aug 4, 2024
- 7 min read
August 5th to August 11th
The new cycle driven by the New Moon in Leo (08/04) begins to take form; it allows us to make our heart's desires come true. Throughout the week, the Moon will pass through the signs of Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio, bringing a great emotional focus to interpersonal dynamics. The vitalizing and spontaneous energy of the New Moon refines and enhances our capacity for socialization and social profusion as it refines in the following signs.
Venus and Mercury remain in the sign of Virgo during the week, indicating moments of analysis and discernment in their respective themes. Virgo is a Mutable Earth sign, bringing adaptability to the material universe; a time of tangible changes. The regenerative qualities of the sign also help to solve problems and dysfunctions with efficiency and effectiveness that are only possible when due attention is paid to details.
Mercury begins its retrograde movement on Monday, interrupting the flow of your activities to review our internal logic and how we organize them externally through communication. As it is the ruler of Virgo, this transit also affects Venus; our relationships are also subject to review.
The Sun in Leo reaches Jupiter in Gemini by sextile during the week, bringing more optimism and self-confidence; we feel greater ease in socializing and integrating our identities in collective contexts. Jupiter's inclusive nature also allows us to more easily embrace and welcome the “shadows” that arise when we shamelessly show our light.
05/08 - Monday
Mercury in Virgo begins its retrograde motion during the early hours. It is time to add the prefix “Re” (review, reevaluate, redo, etc.) to mercurial activities; to reformulate the criteria and logic that order our minds. In Virgo, we focus on the material and practical effects of our ideas; we separate ideas that are useful in the present moment from other daydreams. We prioritize what is possible and viable within the limits of the present.
Mercury’s retrograde movement continues until the end of the month (08/28), also affecting Venus in Virgo (08/04 - 08/29). Venus in Virgo begins to bring order and refinement on a practical level to our intimate relationships. This transit invites us to analyze our relationship with well-being, pleasure and devotion using the material universe as a reference; it brings our attention to what we can effectively do.
Venus connects us and unites us with others through the sharing of common values and pleasures. The energy of the sign of Virgo calls for a certain level of isolation and individuality, calling us to observe situations from our own point of view and all its unique details. We are more concerned with beautifying our own “little world”, our routines and habits.
The Moon remains in Leo throughout the day without forming aspects to the traditional planets. The kickoff of the New Moon continues to inspire us throughout the day, but brings few new insights. In the early evening, the Moon enters the sign of Virgo, making our moods more melancholic and restrained, but also making our imagination more decisive and useful.
The Moon in Virgo reaches Venus, which has just entered the sign, bringing emotional and psychological insights about the need for change and adaptation on a practical level to bring the improvements we desire to our affections and intimate partnerships. We focus on dissecting the details, scrutinizing in search of any possible improvement.
06/08 - Tuesday
The Moon in Virgo reaches Mercury through conjunction. Mercury's organizing and logical energy supports the Moon. Solutions to practical issues can emerge throughout the day in a very spontaneous and natural way; as long as attention and focus are maintained on the execution of each activity.
Mercury will still be stationary during the conjunction, and our ideas may feel a little “rigid” or stagnant even with so much demand for modifications and improvements. It is important to respect the time of each process, especially with the retrograde movement. Hasty advances tend to be revised anyway, give yourself time to think about the best routes.
In the late afternoon, the Moon in Virgo forms a square with Mars in Gemini. This aspect brings agitation and irritability; we feel the need to make decisions and act, and any obstacle or delay in our progress tends to generate more intense responses. Mercury also rules Mars, rushing things using willpower and enthusiasm alone will not help; the moment calls for better and more refined logic/mindset/framework.
07/08 - Wednesday
The Moon remains in Virgo, our moods and imagination remain focused on the material universe and its transmutations. The Moon sees the social planets, Jupiter and Saturn, bringing greater awareness and perception of social and collective issues and how they affect our personal projects and plans.
Saturn in Pisces opposes the Moon in Virgo. It reminds us of all the emotional, psychological and symbolic realities that exist beyond the limits of our “microcosm”. Virgo’s perfectionism only meets its own criteria, Pisces reminds us that there is an entire ocean of experiences and wisdom beyond us.
The Moon sees Jupiter in Gemini through a square, which brings a greater breadth of ideas to the Moon. It encompasses ideas, techniques and methods that go beyond what we already know and have contact with in our daily lives. It invites us to go beyond social and cultural boundaries in search of solutions. The aspect between them is a square, indicating decision-making and urgency, but their natural affinity softens and harmonizes the dynamics.
The Sun in Leo also sees Jupiter, but through sextile. This aspect indicates opportunities that arise from the cooperation between these energies. The Sun in Leo strengthens your sense of identity and creativity through contact with the diversity of ideas, techniques and knowledge presented by Jupiter.
08/08 - Thursday
Mercury and Venus form a conjunction in the sign of Virgo. Rationalization and communication of our values, desires and pleasures; we can more easily understand and share what brings us well-being and pleasure or not. The critical and analytical nature of the sign indicates a desire for improvements and enhancement through communication; talking just for the sake of talking doesn't add up here.
The conjunction also makes communication more affectionate; authentically expressing affection becomes easier, especially through concrete actions or acts of service.
In the morning, the Moon enters the sign of Libra, bringing more lightness and sociability. Imagination and moods focused on the social universe, especially the agreements and contracts involved in it. We become more sensitive to social interactions, we more easily perceive how we receive and internalize each dynamic in which we participate.
08/09 - Friday
The Moon in Libra advances, forming aspects to Mars, Jupiter and the Sun! The first aspect, a trine to Mars, occurs in the morning and brings more excitement and energy to the day. The aspect is harmonious and indicates a fluid and spontaneous affinity between our emotions and strategies.
In the early afternoon, the Moon reaches Jupiter by trine. The aspect points to feelings of expansiveness and optimism; our subjectivity finds support in social and collective references with ease. We see the interconnectivity of experiences and their reverberation beyond ourselves; we feel like we belong to something greater.
In the early evening, the Moon reaches the Sun in Leo by sextile, indicating an opportunity for self-expression, personal power and the satisfaction of our most authentic desires. The new impulses indicated by the New Moon (08/04) also receive support; we see more clearly how things will develop as we move towards the First Quarter phase.
10/08 - Saturday
The Moon in Libra remains out of course, without forming any aspects, throughout the day. All the activity of Friday gives way to calm; we continue with the agreements already negotiated, but there is little availability for new major social contracts. The social nature of Libra favors interactions and exchanges in which common desires and interests, and their terms, are consciously established.
The Moon arrives in the sign of Scorpio at night. We dive into the emotional and psychological depth of our interpersonal relationships. The give and take of relationships, and all the memories and patterns that we formulate from these experiences are revisited during this transit.
Fixed Waters. It structures and stabilizes processes based on emotions; it fixes its imaginative processes in reality. Passions and obsessions; how they kill us and bring us back to life. The Moon has an affinity with the emotional sensitivity of Scorpio, but its fluidity and speed struggle with the rigidity of the sign.
The Moon in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius, its co-ruler in Modern Astrology. This aspect fosters deep perceptions and insights into the impact of social interconnectivity; shared emotions and ideas. Scorpio’s transformative and renewing quality is heightened overnight.
11/08 - Sunday
Moon in Scorpio sextiles Mercury in Virgo; it helps to bring awareness and organization to our inner universe. Virgo's analytical capacity helps to discern and organize the emotional viscerality of the Moon in Scorpio. It also helps to organize methods and experiments to materialize our ambitions and deep desires.
Mercury is retrograde, focusing on reviewing and reevaluating the themes it sees at the moment. The Moon is a signifier of our memory and past; an aspect between them under these conditions puts us in deep contact with everything that has already happened that allows us to be who we are in the present. Everything we have already transformed; and the limits that we can still overcome.
Scorpio and Virgo share a healing nature; they are interested in processes that allow change and transformation. Virgo regenerates by bringing adaptability and change to the material universe, using the rational mind to improve habits and routines. Scorpio heals by allowing itself to experience all the vulnerability and mystery of connecting with others; it allows for the deep and genuine cure that we can only experience through union.
The Moon in Scorpio sextiles Venus in Virgo as well, favoring socialization and pleasurable experiences. Venus in earth signs favors contact with the physical body and our senses. Observe the sensations of the body, especially how it reacts with emotions that arise in contact with other people.
