Weekly Horoscopes August Week 1
As electrifying change-maker Uranus stations retrograde, it’s a radical week for back-to-the- future adventuring. Retrograde cycles give us the opportunity to slow our roll, revisit old story lines, and then take ownership over our schooling and burn the history books we no longer need.
With shake it up, wake it up, Uranus in the driver’s seat, we’re being asked to hug everything that’s come before tightly and fiercely, thank it for its service, and then toss it into the hurricane-force winds as we skydive towards a shiny neon future. Coupled with pleasure planet Venus’ entry into touchy-feely Cancer on Monday, and Friday’s showdown between expansion-seeking Jupiter and down and dirty Pluto, it’s a week to really consider which castles in the clouds still actually house our dreams and where we can parachute towards entirely new pots of gold.
But have no fear if you’re not ready for major overhaul. Consider the structures you’ve built in your life like little snow globes. Simply witness how a change in the light or a slight shift in your own climate as you gently rock them from side to side can reveal brand new ways of being. Once you’ve exposed yourself to these new possible shades, it’s time to choose your own adventure. And know that whichever way you turn, you will not be wrong. Break into wild fresh blossom and rewrite the ending as you go.
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Rallying Cry: The endless highway before me is paved with pure gold.
Power Moves: What do you desire so deeply that you’re almost afraid to imagine it, lioness? What one thing do you want above all before time runs out? Sometimes, your bigness feels like a high stakes threat, little kitten, and as you reach a plateau you can start to feel that you’ll never be able to recreate the “high” again. Enough with the preciousness of the past. Enough with that one idealized moment that you’ve danced with and romanced for years. Let it loose. Let it race out across the open plains and then follow a new spark entirely. You are wilder and wider than you could ever imagine when you release the need to recreate. Wipe it clean. Start again right now.
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Rally Cry: Shining my headlamp into the darkest spaces helps me mine my diamonds.
Power Moves: Get friendly with your instincts this week, Virgo. Notice where you’ve steered away from intimacy or intensity in the past and note that the resistance is where the difficulty lives, not in actually facing the shadow. Find entirely new ways to get primal and make it playful. Animals prints and fierce nail art. Little yelps and air punches. Trips to a haunted house or natural history museum where you can marvel at the majesty of all the beasts that walk the earth and your place among them. Let understanding yourself as part of this lineage help free you from any shame about your sexuality and desires. You don’t have to be fearless. You just have to face up to your realness.
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Rallying Cry: Claiming my right to go first supports expansive partnerships.
Power Moves: Your life-long mission, if you choose to accept it, is to find the sweet spot between considerate compromise and self-assertion. This week, it’s your turn to step to the front of the line and get double servings of ice cream. Notice where you farm out your ferocity and don’t take what’s yours. Notice when you attract others who live out these more assertive and sometimes angry parts of yourself and re-inhabit these places. Take up residence in your own palace and direct the staff. Let your personal fires be the engine of change in your life. Take the wheel, grab a lover, and decide exactly where you want to go. You don’t have to make apologies and you don’t have to ask for second opinions. Just drive that chariot.
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Rallying Cry: A radical new approach to my health electrifies trust in my competence.
Power Moves: It’s time to feel into your power by becoming your own intuitive doctor, sweet Scorpio. Notice the old storage sites in your body where pain gets locked up. The habitual responses that make you feel “stuck,” like a multi-layered emotional rock. Be kind with these responses and then make space to observe them from a distance. Imagine that there’s a gorgeous amethyst geode inside you beneath these craggy rock layers and that you hold both the lock and the key to this territory. Build out elaborate daily rituals that can support your potential for large-scale change. Clean up your routine dramatically. Dive into an entirely new way of moving through the world- whether it’s a boxing class or simply a brisk sunset walk. Create the container for yourself so all your systems can run on autopilot as you step into the full flower of your competence and stand strongly on your own two feet.
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Rallying Cry: Opening myself to new passions makes me feel fully alive.
Power Moves: It’s cosmic playground time for you, this week, My-Little-Pony. Step into the dress-up closet and wrap yourself in faux furs. Dive directly into your pleasure center and uncover new ways to light yourself up. It’s not a “fake it til you make it” energy, but instead, a complete belief in already having arrived. Deck yourself out with no place to go and see what you attract. You are a golden vessel and all you have to do is point yourself in the direction of your desires to magnetize them to you. Open your palms. Unzip yourself. Just start putting out your glorious charge into the world and see what comes rolling in.
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Rallying Cry: Expanding my concept of safety allows me to soar. Power Moves: Tunnel down into your root structures this week, Cappy, and discover what makes you feel absolutely rock solid. But make sure to distinguish between the old bunkers you climb into out of fear of unknown leaps, and the safe spaces within you that house vital nutrients that support your growth. Notice the moments when you hold on to a life raft because it’s simply there, and when you can start to work your own Olympic swimmer muscles. Look for places you can feel at home out in the world, unexpected sources of comfort. Maybe it’s a prized talisman you wear on the day of a big presentation or first date. Maybe it’s the way you can hold your body as you enter a new room. Trust that the structure you crave is already inside you and come home to it.
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Rallying Cry: Getting curious about all possible solutions brings me closer to dreams I never expected.
Power Moves: After some plunges into your irrational mind over the past month, this week marks a moment to return to your infamous brain power. But let yourself depart from the book stacks and get really street smart. Ask around. Read hidden symbols in the fabric of your city. Visit a fair or marketplace or even the supermarket and delight in all of the different selections people are making and the possible lives they might lead. Play a game of “tiny windows” where you walk down a block and retell your own story as if you lived inside of the buildings that you pass. Watch headlights disappearing on the highway to who knows where. Dive into the vast range of possibilities like a giant tub of multicolored balls. Rejoice in not having to choose right now.
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Rallying Cry: I claim my own worth and won’t settle for less.
Power Moves: Flex those muscles and sketch out those borderlines this week, Pisces. It’s a week to radically shift how you view your own value. Where have you been giving it away for free? Imagine exactly what you’re worth and then raise the bets on yourself. Discover new ways of feeling into this value. Maybe it’s something super simple like dipping strawberries in chocolate sauce or breakfast in bed. Or upping your price on freelance work you offer to the world. Take your “hobby” and turn it into an Etsy shop. Whatever it is, figure out where you don’t want to settle anymore. Where settling has you feeling tight in your chest and like you’re struggling to speak in a party full of people that just keep interrupting. Ring a bell and call a toast to yourself. Tell the world how much you mean.
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Rallying Cry: When I risk showing up fully as myself, I discover the range of my abilities.
Power Moves: There’s no need for editing this week, ram babe. Let yourself spill over. Let yourself fully spark and burn and glow. Sometimes you fear being “too much” and have a reputation for getting scapegoated for expressing and aggressing what others might be repressing. But one of your superpowers is leaping full-force to show others that it’s possible. Base-jumping into the ether to prove that it can be done. This week, prove to yourself that showing up and showing every facet of yourself can be the trailblazing risky maneuver that the rest of us so desperately need. Be our heroine by fighting your own epic battle in broad daylight.
Courtesy of Patrick Keohane @rstheory10/13Taurus
Rallying Cry: Releasing my vision of how it has to be lights the way forward.
Power Moves: Surrender ain’t easy for you, earth babe. Yet this week presents a shining opportunity for just a little bit of release. It doesn’t need to be a full scale letting go or complete coming undone. Just a widening of your viewpoint that lets more than one thing be possible- that lets your vision for how it has to be become infused with a small dose of how it might be. Think of your life like a giant, ripe, fresh salad and then just chop up all the fruits and veggies you can find and add them into the mix. Don’t force yourself to purge anything. Just add diverse spices and flavors and let the old blend with the new and infuse the things you no longer need with entirely unexpected tastes.
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Rallying Cry: When I harness my “out there” visions, I can truly commune with my tribe.
Power Moves: You’re the zodiac’s original mix and match maven, butterfly, and this week is a moment to reacquaint yourself with your more eccentric imaginings in order to discover exactly what kind of world you want to build. Become a spiritual activist. Figure out how you want the world to feel and then hit the streets carrying your message, no matter how far out. Get poetic about it. Infuse the language you use with images you’ve seen in dreams. Start a movement. Think of your life as your own big old bonfire- gather everyone you love around you and share stories until dawn. Play whisper down the lane with your ideas and let that give birth to an entirely new credo.
Courtesy of Patrick Keohane @rstheory12/13Cancer
Rallying Cry: The time is exactly right now for my leap into the spotlight.
Power Moves: You’re standing on the high dive this week, seashell queen. Think of every step you’ve taken that’s led all the way here. Your little trail of precious breadcrumbs. Think of each slippery rung of that long, tall ladder to the platform. The early morning training sessions. The tears you’ve cried underwater. Everything that’s come before. This isn’t your last chance or your only chance. But it’s a chance that’s worth taking. Only the rapid movement as you make the leap can coerce your body into a beautifully unexpected shape. You’ve studied the proper form. You’ve watched all those diving queens who’ve come before. You’ve got your swim cap on and you’re lean and mean and ready to fly. Spread your arms wide and show us the force of your heart. Swan dive.
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