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Although Mercury completes its retrograde cycle early in the week ahead, the days that follow are largely ruled by Venus. It’s time to look for beauty and be reminded that it is everywhere. Expect brings greater ease, flow, and openness to our minds, lives, and communication. Also, remain open to surprising yourself when it comes to understanding the pleasure of creativity. Your weekly horoscope for August 25-31 explores more of how these themes relate to you.
Weekly Astrology for August 25-31
August 26: Moon Enters Gemini
August 28: Mercury Direct; Venus Opposite Neptune; Moon Enters Cancer
August 29: Venus Enters Libra; Venus Trine Pluto
August 30: Moon Enters Leo
Mercury Direct
After almost three weeks of backward movement, Mercury returns to forward movement on August 28, 2024. Mercury began its retrograde in Virgo earlier in the month and then slipped back into Leo, retracing its steps from earlier in the summer and observing its experience from a new lens. Its retrograde comes to an end this week with the planet still in Leo, where it will walk the exact same path for the third time in recent months.
After a retrograde, a planet re-emerges from what ancient cultures deemed its time underground gathering insights and rewriting stories. It’s been questioning old patterns and untangling narratives. After a retrograde, we are different.
The invitation after a retrograde is to allow yourself to be different. To let go of the old identities. To be surprised at what or who within us is emerging. To observe who we are without the tight grip of old patterns, previous stories, and tangled narratives. And to let the entire experience be playful and curious.
As the planet returns to forward movement, we once again experience clarity, flow, and ease in the realm of the mind. The rest of Mercury’s transit in Leo is an opportunity to explore what has shifted within your perspectives and thoughts around confidence, self-expression, creativity, communication, and self-identity. Let your weekly horoscope help shape your response.
Venus Opposite Neptune
Venus entered Virgo earlier in the month on August 4, 2024, where she has been inviting beauty, healing, and wisdom into our days, reminding us of the sacred that exists within our humanness.
Neptune is our planet of transcendence, oneness, imagination, and the space where all potential and creativity arises. It has been in Pisces, the sign that it rules, since 2011.
On August 28, 2024, Venus in Virgo begins a conversation with Neptune in Pisces. In an opposition aspect such as this, each planet sits in a sign opposite to one another. What astrology teaches us, however, is that opposition is actually a partnership. They are different sides of the same coin, different ends of the same axis, fulfilling a joint purpose.
While Venus in Virgo brings beauty and intimacy with the earth, our bodies, and the practical day-to-day living of being human, Neptune in Pisces reminds us that there is more than the physical. There is more than what we can see with our eyes and feel with our hands. There is the energetic. The unseen. The sacred.
This day reminds us that we are both. We are tangible and intangible. We are practical and we are imaginal. We are of the earth and made of stars. It’s a day to explore your relationship with each of these seemingly separate realms and consider how they are actually one in the same.
To be human is to be physical and it is to be intangible. To be human is to tend to our day-to-day and it is to weave the sacred through all. It also asks the question, do you find comfort in one space more than the other? Do you see them as separate? And how do you relate to your role of bringing creativity and potential into grounded action and manifestation?
Venus Enters Libra
The day after its connection with Neptune, Venus shifts into Libra on August 29, 2024. In astrology, Venus rules Libra. She is at home here and her energy can emanate. We can feel that openness and harmony.
Venus is the goddess of beauty, balance, love, and pleasure. She is magnetic and so in tune with her worth that desires and opportunities flow to her. Libra, in a similar fashion, is our sign of beauty, partnership, harmony, balance, and attraction.
While Venus is in Libra, there is beauty, happiness, and healing to be found in our partnerships, friendships, and any kind of collaboration. Each of these archetypes brings us together with others to experience the pleasure of communion and the love in collaboration. There is a piece of the puzzle of what it means to be human within partnership. It’s a transit inviting healing and joy within seeking beauty, only to be reminded that it is all around us. It’s a time to sink into artfulness and play, to harmonize our inner and outer environment, and fall in love with the beauty of others.
Venus Trine Pluto
An hour after the harmonious entrance of Venus into Libra, it connects with Pluto in Aquarius in what is called a trine aspect. This relationship between planets is an expansive and harmonious space of each planet supporting the other.
While Venus is love and harmony and Pluto is depth and transformation, this collaboration of planets invites a beautiful intimacy, vulnerability, and truth with ourselves and our chosen people. It invites release of previous hurts and fears and a reclamation of our own beauty, joy, love, and worthiness. It’s the kind of day that reminds us that life moves through an open heart. To truly experience life is to keep our hearts open.
Your Weekly Horoscope, August 25-31, 2024
The days ahead are an invitation to tend to yourself as the goddess recommends—with a knowing of your beauty, love, magnetism, and worth. Ask yourself, how does Venus exist in your life? What is beauty to you? How does the truth of your worthiness live in your body? How does harmony feel in your mind? Your weekly horoscope can help you understand where in life these awarenesses call to you.
Aries Rising
It’s a week of renewed creativity, self-expression, and play. Let yourself open to experience creativity in a new way, including in the balance between self and other. Collaboration isn’t about losing yourself, it’s about bringing all of yourself to the connection.
Taurus Rising
There is flow in your emotional world, including both your day-to-day movements and your long-term dreams. Observe your emotional growth while grounding yourself in the habits that support you.
Gemini Rising
Let your mind take a long, slow breath out and begin syncing yourself with the rhythms of the earth. This week brings greater ease as Venus invites play and creative self-expression into your life. Let it bring you home through calm moments, laughter, and creativity.
Cancer Rising
What would it feel like to arrive in a space where you don’t experience doubt regarding your inherent worthiness, beauty, and belonging? This week wants to take you there. Your renewed perspective of yourself comes with love and respect. This is how Venus sees you.
Leo Rising
With Mercury no longer retrograde in your sign, you can let a deep breath out and renew your spark. As your mind attunes to beauty, allow yourself some grace as you adjust your perspective to seek pleasure. Let old identities drop and then observe who you are behind them.
Virgo Rising
As we are newly in your season, your weekly horoscope brings a beautiful resonance of reveling in your inherent value. It’s a week of reconnecting with the sacred and threading it through the physical. It’s also a time of exploring your desires in relation to resources and security.
Libra Rising
You are here to create and contribute through the expression, embodiment, and emanation of your own beauty. This week focuses on this. It also draws attention to your relationship with balance and harmony and how you bring that to everyone around you, offering peace to those who are receptive to it.
Scorpio Rising
Your dreams have been rearranging themselves with more clarity as they find their way to you. Begin observing the desires that appear. These are reminders that you are not alone in the creation of your life. Rather, you are a part of a divine intelligence that can support you in each moment.
Sagittarius Rising
Open your heart again to hope, blessings, beauty, desires, miracles, and the richness that awaits you. It’s a week that brings you deeper into conversation with life through the sharing of wisdom and insights of vaster perspectives that rearrange and widen your beliefs.
Capricorn Rising
Mercury has been traveling backward through your underworld, rearranging things as it brings deep transformation. The blessings and healing from this journey become available for integration during your weekly horoscope. Venus is here to add magnetism, beauty, pleasure, and opportunity to your dreams and visions for yourself.
Aquarius Rising
It’s a week that opens the door to greater ease, openness, and flow in communication and partnership, spaces where you may find ease and opportunity. It’s also a week of renewed faith, an invitation to observe the divine intelligence in all things. Allow it to expand you in the process.
Pisces Rising
Fill your days with more beauty and nurturing habits that bring you closer to yourself. These movements anchor your desires into the tangible world and will support the deep transformation and intimacy that Venus brings as she travels through your depths.
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