Weekly Horoscopes August Week 4
This is it, astro babes. The one you’ve been waiting for. August 21st’s Great American Eclipse is a spectacular, soul-rocking event complete with Leonine bells, whistles, and sequined tassels. Just like the zodiac’s glitter-kissed fluffball loves to have it.
Yet after the past month of excruciating build-up, the actual arrival of this nail-bitingly anticipated event returns us to a sense of sweet self-containment. Just after the Solar Eclipse, the Sun enters the woodsy witchery of Virgo, the cosmos’ original self-seductress. Though patriarchal co-pting of her mythology might have us thinking otherwise, the “Virgin” was actually an unwed woman who simply didn’t give it away for free. And on the 25th, earth goddess Saturn in fiery Sagittarius stations direct, lending a crystal-cut clarity to our capacity to speak truth to power.
It’s been a long time. It’s been arduous. There’s been ice rain and high winds. But we have come home to ourselves. Finally. Complete with letter jackets and prom dresses. And this is a homecoming that feels like the last slow dance of the night in haute couture we’ve sewn by hand, stitch by stitch, through tears, and sweat, and heartache, and heart opening. And on this night, we know exactly who we’ll be leaving with...
Courtesy of Patrick Keohane @rstheory1/12LEO :: LEO RISING
Rallying Cry: My creative force is worth its weight in gold.
Power Moves: With Eclipse Season slam dancing with your sign this month, Leo, it’s not been your usual pineapple-scented, tropical-print vacation. You’ve been asked to up your game. Make good on the promise of your potential. Face fears about not being recognized or fully loved. Shine your light so intensely and without question that you can make that flame eternal. This week continues this work, but you’re getting damn good at it by now. And you’re ready to feast. As the Sun enters your 2nd house of worth and resources, you can begin to reap the rewards of all this internal work. You can sit down at your own table and fully assess what you’ve brought to dinner. Consider your particular flavors. Which dishes they can best contribute to. And then serve it up, fancy feline. With Saturn stationing in your 5th house of creative play, it can feel like the party might be over. But it is actually just beginning. And this time, you’re a masterful party planner and you are pulling all the strings in your life to actualize what’s been inchoate and imaginary. Relish your new-found sense of realism and let it rage.
Courtesy of Patrick Keohane @rstheory2/12VIRGO :: VIRGO RISING
Rallying Cry: Stepping into solitude doesn’t have to feel like isolation.
Power Moves: You are the zodiac’s original witchy woman, Virgo. More than any other sign, you’re being asked to rely on the resources you can summon during your quietest hours. Yet this process doesn’t have to feel lonely one bit. Your luscious sense of self-containment is the stuff that warriors are made of. As the Sun crosses into your first house of identity expression this month, get really comfortable with your own code. Write it down. Revisit the message daily. With Saturn stationing in your 4th house of belonging, this can feel challenging. The pull to participate- the pull to merge and to feel safety in blending is strong. Resist right now. There’s things you need to learn alone in your emotional woods. There’s precious time you need to give only to yourself. No compromises. No surrender right now. Delight in your singularity. The sharper edges of yourself that distinguish you from every other being. These distinctions are your gold.
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Rallying Cry: Refining my dreams lets me bring heaven to earth.
Power Moves: With the Sun moving into the cloud-kissed landscape of your dreamy 12th house this week, just drift away Libra. Put on the yacht rock. Take the phone off the hook. Bring the sweet smudged sensation of ombré to your emotional landscape. Treat yourself like a lover in the honeymoon phase. Let yourself be held in a wide hammock where every part of you is fully supported- no judgement or assessment. As Saturn stations in your house of perception and communication, your thoughts could feel extra foggy and heavy. Choose to step out in your raincoat and parasol. Make a romantic Parisian outing of your more melancholy feelings. Dress them up and tango with them. By week’s end, Venus moves into your 11th house of utopianism and group consciousness, and you’ll be ready to take yourself out on the town once again. For now, revel in the rainstorm.
Courtesy of Patrick Keohane @rstheory4/12SCORPIO :: SCORPIO RISING
Rallying Cry: I’m ready to get real about my values and let them steer the cruise ship.
Power Moves: As Saturn stations in your house of value and worth this week, it’s time to really plunge into the philosophy behind the materiality. Look around you at what you find beautiful and start to examine it as a reflection of what you hold to be true. Consider the objects and clothing pieces you’ve hung onto that just make you feel gorgeous. What do they have in common? Maybe you’ll plunge into your closet and discover through pinks and zany prints and rainbow baubles that your sense of play is most valuable to you right now. Or looking around at book stacks of classic literature, that you want to return to your writing practice. Let the world that surrounds you clue you into what matters most. The Sun enters your 11th house of radical futurism this week, and you can build entirely new dreams on these excavated foundations. As Venus enters your 10th house of badass career moves by week’s end, you’ll be ready to step up to the podium, and can let power moves be informed by pure pleasure seeking.
Courtesy of Patrick Keohane @rstheory5/12SAGITTARIUS :: SAGITTARIUS RISING
Rallying Cry: Facing self-image fears head-on makes me me feel like a boss.
Power Moves: Take a good look in the mirror this week, My-Little-Pony. Strip it down. Stare yourself straight in those wild, unicorn eyes. As task master Saturn stations direct in your 1st house, it’s a lights-on week for carefully considering your self-image. In the words of the late, great Michael in “Man in the Mirror,” “it’s time to look at yourself and make that change.” Shine the floodlights on the pieces of yourself that are painful. Notice if this is because these parts want desperately to be fully lived on the outside- no matter what the people say. Or because they are ready to be excised, to be released. You can afford to be a little bit rough and tumble with yourself this week without being harsh, Sag. You’re notorious for truth seeking and once you’ve found a philosophy, you can sell it like one else can. Sell yourself on some truths this week Sag. You’ll need this honest to goddess vision in order to step fully into control of the next adventure as the Sun enters your 10th house of potency and vocation. Leave no stone unturned. This is how you’ll find the diamonds.
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Rallying Cry: I can acknowledge the darkness while stepping into the light.
Power Moves: As you natural ruler, Saturn, sets up shop in the underworld of your 12th house this week, it can feel a little bit like a haunting. There’s something that feels unsettled. There’s something you’re trying to stave off or stuff further into the closet. As the planet stations direct, it’s the moment for facing those beasties head on. Think of 80s horror films and B movies that are so obviously fake that their horror is kitschy. This is your Gremlins week. Get silly with it. Jump out of your own closet and scare yourself straight. Part of the issue is one of integration, dear Capricorn, and with the Sun entering your 9th house of wild pony lightsabers, you can best these demons in battle by simply letting them live. By realizing that you don’t have to shut off the gloomy parts of yourself. That you can just see them as another quality of your humanness. Don’t forget to bring the popcorn.
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Rallying Cry: Risking exile uncovers my truest desires.
Power Moves: It’s a lone huntress week for you, rocket queen, and this could actually feel like a welcome reprieve from too much external scrambling and group consciousness. Though you’re a notorious group leader, this leadership relies on your capacity to be “out there” beyond ordinary vision so you can inspire others to make the leap. As the Sun enters your mysterious, underground bunker of an 8th house, this week gives you the chance to hole up in your space station and tap back into what truly lights up your stars. Get personal with it. Get intimate and touchy feely if you can. Sink your teeth into all flavors of your sexuality. Your cravings. Whatever that means to you. And use this feeling of excavating your secret places as a buff and balm- let it coat you in a brand new shade of paint for your debut back into the world. By week’s end, as Venus moves into your house of partnership, you’ll be ready to collide with the road again, with a lover or bestie who truly gets you by your side.
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Rallying Cry: When I embrace both my hardcore and my gentle, my resources are infinite.
Power Moves: As much as you’d like to drift away on a Care Bear cloud sometimes, your badassery is often grossly underestimated, little sea creature. By feeling it all you bear all the psychic weight of what surrounds you, and this often leaves you craving necessary retreat to repower your supplies for the long journey ahead. This is a week to say yes to both sensations- the sweet retreat and the showing up in the world and colliding with others’ emotions. As the Sun enters your 7th house of relating, it’s time to show up for others fully. Not just as a mirror for their existing emotions but as a loving challenger who helps them work through it all by sometimes providing frictional feedback. With Saturn’s work-horse energy stationing in your 10th house of self-sufficiency, it can feel like recess is over. But this is a rock solid opportunity for you to gain some wilderness survival skills. As Venus enters your 6th house of embodied competence, you have the chance to really assess the rituals and habits that help you hone your vessel. Don’t let them tell you otherwise Pisces. You’ll outlast us all.
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Rallying Cry: Letting myself be the apprentice helps liberate future possibilities.
Power Moves: Open up your old-school trapper keeper, Aries. It’s back to the bookstacks for you this week. But this doesn’t have to feel like arduous homework and emo after school specials. With the Sun entering your 6th house, it’s actually a moment to relish the sensation of assessing your skill set. Really taking a look at what you want to birth into the world and then getting mechanically-minded about it. Stepping into your lab. Mixing up some elixirs. Let this be a cookbook week for you. A perfume making week where you really get to sample each scent and decide exactly the proportions you want in your life. Where do you really excell? Where does the world need you most? As Saturn stations in your house of adventurous unfolding, it’s a moment of pause before packing. Figure out exactly what you want to bring along for your mission. When Venus tracks into your 5th house of romance and play at week’s end, you’ll be ready to jet set into the future and drink from your own cup.
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Rallying Cry: Acting on my creative impulses helps me dive deep in partnership.
Power Moves: This is a screen siren week for you, Taurus. Think about all the famous power couples of history. Frida and Diego. George and Amal. Kim and Kanye. Barack and Michelle. Duos who have fueled each other’s creative force in the world. Sometimes these collaborations get messy. Paint gets spilled. Amps get knocked over. But this passion is a cry of “hell yes.” Hell yes to vividness. Hell yes to living with the impulses that live inside you. Even if you aren’t coupled, you can use creative acts this week to get closer to the raw excitement of life this week. As Saturn stations in your 8th house, it’s time to get really real about where you dampen your instincts. Where you hold back from screaming and dancing and creating. With the Sun entering your 5th house of innocent acts of artistic birth, it’s time to let those impulses spill over. Paint the town. Leave a trail of emotion wherever you go. Let it seep into the pavement. Don’t ever apologize for its color.
Courtesy of Patrick Keohane @rstheory11/12GEMINI :: GEMINI RISING
Rallying Cry: Committing to my lunacy helps me learn how to relate.
Power Moves: With Saturn stationing in your 7th house of relating and partnering, this can feel like a challenging week of reaching out to others only to be left feeling somewhat remote and distant from the connections you crave. But as the Sun tracks through your 4th house of home, the gateway to connection with others is actually through your own loony inner world. Before you can reach out to others through those airwaves and smoke signals and text threads you so love, you’ve got to tap back into the soft whispers that live inside your private lair. Think of it as a an Old Hollywood boudoir week for you. Settle down at your vanity table. Get glam with your perfume bottles and powder puffs, really discovering what delights you. And when you’ve buffed and puffed and sparkled all alone, then pick up that gold-edged telephone and reach out to see where the party is. When you’re fully decked out in your own glow, sometimes there’s nowhere you need to go at all.
Courtesy of Patrick Keohane @rstheory12/12CANCER :: CANCER RISING
Rallying Cry: When I release from having to do it all perfectly, everything falls into place.
Power Moves: Take a load off little mermy. While this week brings Saturn direct into your house of nose-to-the-grindstone, behind-the-scenes laboring, the Sun enters your house of curious local exploration. There’s an opportunity here to view the work that needs to be done with excitement and anticipation. How would you approach a task if you knew that it could be wildly imperfect? Could you see it as part of a simple unfolding, a process of experimentation? Let yourself enjoy the tasting menu of your life this week. Think of the process of building an elaborate sandcastle and then watching it slowly dissolve. Can you love every grain of sand just as fiercely when it’s drifting out to unite with the sea? As a cardinal sign, you’re an initiator in the zodiac, but this is a week of learning and adapting for you. Let yourself simply fill whatever container presents itself and enjoy that form. With Venus entering your 12th house of hidden dreams by week’s end, the true treasures will be found in the most unexpected places.
