Eros was the god of erotic love. The position of the asteroid Eros in our charts points to our passion and erotic turn-ons. Mars shows us the style in which we go after what we want, including the ways in which we express our sexuality. Venus shows us some of the important “trappings” and foreplay that help us get in the mood for sex. The Moon shows our underlying emotional needs that can express themselves as sexual fantasies and needs.

While the positions of these planets and cosmic bodies in our natal charts remain static, their positions are always changing in the cosmos, activating houses and hotspots in our natal charts. The horoscopes presented here are necessarily general, as we are focusing on only the Sun sign or Ascendant, and how these sexual cosmic bodies are currently affecting the natal chart.

Please note: These horoscopes are more accurate for the Ascendant sign, so if you know it, read them for the sign of your Ascendant first, and the sign of your Sun second.

August 2009 ErosScopes – Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces

Libra

With Mars still in Gemini and your adventure sector until the 25th, an adventurous spirit remains with you in August, dear Gemini. However, Venus has made a shift into Cancer and your solar tenth house, staying there until the 26th, and your romantic interests also shift from a hunger for the exotic to more practical desires. You are more attractive this month when you show your responsible, managerial, ambitious, and constant side during this Venus cycle. Having a steady and reliable sexual partner may be especially attractive to you now. A romance or beneficial friendship that begins as a business alliance is sometimes possible with this position. A lunar eclipse occurs on the 5th in your romance sector, and in the days surrounding this occurrence, there are likely to be heightened emotions and some level of drama on a romantic level. Events, feelings, and discoveries are surprising and extremely revealing now. This is the last of a series of eclipses that occurred in your 5th/11th sectors beginning in 2008, which have resulted in tests, epiphanies, fruition, and new beginnings on a romantic or creative level. Mars’ change of signs on the 25th points to a change of energetic focus, as well as shifts in attitudes towards a partner or from a partner, as Mars rules your partnership sector. Mars is moving from a restless, adventurous, and thrill-seeking position to a more practical, ambitious, and focused one. The 25-27 is a very unstable time of the month for all of us. Venus, Mars, and Mercury are changing signs, Venus (your ruler) is highlighting the recent Solar Eclipse degree and aligning with the South Node, and Mars (your partnership ruler) is in opposition to intense Pluto. Jumping to conclusions and decisions is a strong tendency, as well as issues from the past that come up in perhaps dramatic ways. Keep your head during this period.

Scorpio

Venus has just entered fellow water sign, Cancer, on the last day of July, and will stay in the sign until the 26th. The sign of Cancer is an energy that you easily understand and feel comfortable with. While romance has been very serious, perhaps even dark and intense, for you recently, this month is a little less pressured. Your curiosity is piqued and your sense of fun stimulated. Your good humor and joie de vivre is most attractive this month. Do something you haven’t done before, and you’re more likely to attract who and what you want. A philosophical discussion could take your heart forward by leaps and bounds. Different people (those who you don’t normally consider your “type”) attract you. You’re looking for new and different people and experiences. The exotic and the unknown now have more appeal to you than the familiar, and these days, a partner is on the same page. In other words, if you have the urge to go out and explore, you won’t find it too difficult to encourage a partner to come along. Mars continues in your intimacy sector, however, until the 25th, and coincidentally enters Cancer and your adventure sector just as Venus is moving out of it. The 25-27 is expected to be a time of instability for everyone, but since your ruler, Pluto, and your secondary ruler, Mars, are in opposition at that time, you might feel it more intensely. Keep your cool during this period, and do your best to observe rather than participate in any power games, hasty decision making, or conflicts that might transpire then.

Sagittarius

Mars continues to energize your partnership sector this month, dear Sagittarius, bringing fireworks to a close partnership for those of you who are attached. Whether you are attached or not, the focus is on “other” and this can be felt to be a little draining. If you are not getting in touch with your own desires and anger, you might be projecting it onto others and meeting it through a person or event. The 12-13 is a strong period for personal energy and initiative, however, and also for any form of romantic expression. Restlessness is stirred this month, and quite a bit of activity you may not want to deal with, but absolutely have to, such as paperwork, errands, interviews, and so forth. Watch for the 17-18 and the 25-27 for conflicts in love. Someone is asserting their independence, and it might not go over very comfortably in the first period, and power games or poor decision making during the second period. Venus is now moving through your intimacy sector and will until the 26th. Deeper expressions of attachment satisfy you most under this influence. Mars enters your mysterious and deep eighth house on the 25th, just a day before Venus leaves it. This is a passionate position, but it can also stir up resentments and fears if you are not comfortable with the deeper, more intimate aspects of relating.

Capricorn

Venus has just entered Cancer on the 31st of July and will stay in this sign that’s opposite yours until the 26th. If there have been little problems in relationships recently, this position of Venus suggests that employing tact and diplomacy can help offset them. You are more sensitive than usual to subtleties in your personal environment, and all the more vulnerable as a result. The choices you make now are colored by this sensitivity, as well as a stronger than usual need for approval and harmony. Relationship opportunities, generally of a more serious nature, sometimes pop up during this transit. Certainly, your openness to sharing with a special someone is more distinctive. You are more willing to compromise and negotiate. Just a day before Venus leaves your partnership sector on the 26th, fiery Mars enters it, and stirs up the pot. The need to pay more attention to a partner’s agenda becomes very clear, and conflicts are likely if you don’t recognize this. Overall, August is strong for ironing out differences and finding a healthy balance in your relationships. However, dates to watch for are the 4-6, when a partner is likely quite emotional or needy, and especially the 25-27, when a showdown or other drama is highly likely. Keep your cool, but no so much that you come across as a control freak!

Aquarius

Eclipses have been working their way through your sign and the sign opposite yours, Leo, since 2008, and on the 5th of this month the final eclipse in your sign for many years to come occurs. It’s a Lunar Eclipse, and lunar eclipses always bring with them heightened emotions, surprising events or epiphanies, and fruitions. Occurring in your sign, it’s especially personal for you. In fact, all month your relationship with yourself and with a partner is a strong theme. This is a tug-of-war type of experience, which can lead to moments of indecision and uncertainty (or pure frustration), but ultimately very revealing. If you feel you’ve been misrepresented, take steps to change how you are letting yourself be seen. While the dynamics of you-me are on the table, romantic expression is not a strong theme. In fact, romance is likely on the simpler side in August and not high priority. The urge to express yourself creatively and uniquely through sexual activities is strong up until the 26th. You might find that working through financial matters with a partner is easier and more objective this month. Challenging days include the 17-18 and 25-27. Stronger days for love are the 22-23.

Pisces

Romantic impulses are strong this month, dear Pisces, with Venus in fellow water sign Cancer until the 26th. This puts Venus in your solar fifth house. The need to stand out as unique and special to someone runs high, and especially so with Eros still in your sign and retrograde all month. You are certainly getting attention for the more unusual side of your romantic passions and preferences. Eros is in your sign for an unusually long time this year, and under this influence, your passions are easily stimulated and infatuations occur more readily. With Eros retrograde now and into September, you are internalizing these energies and learning more about your desires as a result. Life is on the chaotic side this month, but mostly pleasantly so. You are reminded of your responsibilities, particularly to someone important in your life, around the 17th. The 3-6 brings a sudden awareness of your need for rest and reflection. It can also be a time when a romantic partner is especially emotional or needy. Better days for love are the 11-13 and 22. Challenging are the 25-27, when Venus, Mars, and Mercury are all changing signs, Venus aligns with the South Node and stimulates the solar eclipse degree of last month, and Mars opposes Pluto along your 5th-11th axis. Stay as calm as possible and avoid making hasty or haughty decisions, which is a tendency for all signs during this period.

Eros was the god of erotic love. The position of the asteroid Eros in our charts points to our passion and erotic turn-ons. Mars shows us the style in which we go after what we want, including the ways in which we express our sexuality. Venus shows us some of the important “trappings” and foreplay that help us get in the mood for sex. The Moon shows our underlying emotional needs that can express themselves as sexual fantasies and needs.

While the positions of these planets and cosmic bodies in our natal charts remain static, their positions are always changing in the cosmos, activating houses and hotspots in our natal charts. The horoscopes presented here are necessarily general, as we are focusing on only the Sun sign or Ascendant, and how these sexual cosmic bodies are currently affecting the natal chart.

Please note: These horoscopes are more accurate for the Ascendant sign, so if you know it, read them for the sign of your Ascendant first, and the sign of your Sun second.

August 2009 ErosScopes

Aries

Eclipses occurring last month have impacted you on a deeply personal level, perhaps rocking your inner foundations and leaving you craving a more stable, secure lifestyle. Some of you have ended a relationship that once gave you a sense of security, and are now facing the need to recover and rebuild. Others have faced big changes in their family life. Whatever the case may be, the need to redefine what (or who) it is that makes you feel supported is part of the picture. On many levels, you are raring to go. You are feeling more confident, spirited, and expressive. However, your heart is a little bit behind you, as hearts often do take more time to move forward than the rest of us. You’re likely still thinking about the past even while you are charging ahead. This is a good, and necessary, thing. Some of you will be dating, but keeping your heart in a safe place nevertheless. Venus moves out of your self-protective fourth house on the 26th, after which you’re feeling more confident about socializing and romance. The 25-27 can be a tricky time emotionally, however. Venus, Mercury, and Mars are changing signs, Venus is highlighting the recent Solar Eclipse degree and joining with the South Node of the Moon, and Mars, your ruler, opposes Pluto. Some of the themes you’ve dealt with last month resurface and remind you of the past. You’re still getting over the hump, so take it easy. The Lunar Eclipse on the 5th brings awareness of your need for friends and acquaintances, or their need for you. It’s a theme that has been strong all year. It can also bring awareness of your own need to stand out independently and to be accepted for who you are.

Taurus

Venus, the goddess of love, is now in the sign of Cancer, and stays there until the 26th. Cancer is an energy that you understand quite readily, and its differences from your own nature are more stimulating for you than unsettling. This provides you with a sense of ease on a romantic level. Another strong sign for love for you this month, dear Taurus, is Mercury, the ruler of your romance sector, traveling through this very sector from the 2-25. Although you might find that you’re more impulsive than usual when it comes to love, you are also fully enjoying yourself. It’s not an especially commitment-friendly month for you, as you prefer to live it feeling free and light of baggage. Your determination to keep things light, equal, and free of drama might not please someone who prefers more intensity and exclusivity. The 25-27 is bound to be emotionally intense, however, with unresolved matters from the past resurfacing, and a partner is likely involved. In the days surrounding the Lunar Eclipse on the 5th, changes on the career front or with your status can feel unsettling at first, but eventually you’ll see they lead to improvement. The 16-17 can bring an important reminder of a commitment.

Gemini

Until the 25th, Mars continues to move through your sign, keeping you on your toes, focused on getting exactly what you want from life. Knowing what it is that you want will certainly help you out! With Venus now out of your sign, however, the charm that came along with Mars’ position last month has left, so you will have to take some care when you assert your  (considerable) desires and remind everyone of your independence!  Others are following your lead, and you’ll find friends especially supportive and interested. This might be a restless month for  you, dear Gemini, if you don’t find things to do that keep you stimulated. The need for more from life than just the four walls around you, or even the street you live on, is likely to grab hold. Fortunately, you’ll have opportunities to expand your horizons. Love is mostly stable, and your expectations are not as high. Your love life is less dramatic than it was in July, although certainly far from stagnant.  The best days for love occur on the 14-16, while the 25-27 is likely rocky. It’s best not to make any major decisions then, as the tendency to leap before looking runs very high. You’ll find that many people are excitable at that time.

Cancer

Venus has just entered your sign (on the last day of July), dear Cancer, and your ability to attract others to you by sheer personality and the power of first impressions skyrockets. Your charm lies in the gentle side of your nature, which is called to the fore now and attracting attention. Mars in your privacy sector (until the 25th) and Eros retrograde in trine to your Sun both reinforce this. Venus leaves your sign just when Mars enters it, on the 26-27, and things shift considerably! Your approach to the world, and to going after what pleases you, shifts from a receptive to active one. Around the same time, Mars in your sign opposes Pluto, and a number of other shifts are occurring that point to unrest, impulsiveness, and cantankerousness. The 25-27 is not a good period for scheduling anything important, and it’s especially unfavorable for negotiations with a partner or lover.  Pay attention to what a partner has to say on the 17-18. Eclipses in July were intensely personal for you. Questions about partnerships and personal goals were pulled up in dramatic ways for many of you. A “fish out of water” feeling was with you. This month, financial matters draw your attention. A lunar eclipse on the 5th can bring shared finances to the fore, but it can also pull up issues surrounding intimacy and sharing with a partner.

Leo

You’re enjoying a yearly peak of energy this month, dear Leo, but a Lunar Eclipse on the 5th can stir up some excitement of the negative variety, at least on the surface of things. Although eclipses can be felt as unsettling, they are often remembered as blessings in disguise at a later date. This eclipse falls in your opposite sign, Aquarius, and thus your partnership sector. There may be some drama unfolding surrounding a significant other or the partnership itself, and emotions are running very high. Keep in mind that emotions are raw just now, although don’t dismiss any revelations that come now, either. With Venus in your privacy sector until the 26th, your confidence in love may not be strong, or you might find you’re holding back as you reassess your feelings. As well, you could find that you need to make some personal sacrifices for a partner.  This is the last of a series of eclipses affecting you and your partnerships—an eclipse series that started in 2008. Venus enters your sign on the 26th. With the possible exception of the 26-27, when cosmic energies are rambunctious indeed, this shift is strong for your powers of attraction and personal magnetism. It’s a time when others are drawn to you quite naturally.

Virgo

Venus entered the sign of Cancer on July 31st, and will stay there until the 26th, stimulating your sector of friendships, dreams, hopes, and good will. Coincidentally, Mars enters Cancer (and the same sector) just a day before Venus leaves it, on the 25th. Although Cancer is a sentimental energy, the sector where it is found in your solar chart has a more progressive and individuated flavor to it. The desire for acceptance as you do your own thing is strong now when it comes to expressions of love. The first few weeks of August are “clean up” time for you—it’s a period of ridding yourself of psychic garbage, negative energies, and anything that is holding you back from achieving what you want. You require more rest and time to yourself for reflection. You’re hatching a new plan of action from the 20th, and by the 22nd, when the Sun enters your sign, you begin to feel more energized and confident. The 17-18 is a good time for coming together with a lover, and seeing eye to eye. The 25-27 is rocky, however, and shouldn’t be elected for important meetings or decisions. Avoid power games with a lover.