Aries Monthly Horoscope
August 2023 Horoscope: Predictions for Aries
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Overview for this Month: Aries (All)
August 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aries:
A Full Moon in your social sector begins the month, dear Aries. Whatever comes to light now provides valuable insight into brewing issues, likely friend-related, and you can feel purged and empowered as a result. True feelings about a person, relationship, or project can emerge, or light shines on your hopes and wishes. These revelations can lead to meaningful changes and improvements. While you've been entirely engrossed in your personal life and doing things on your own, this can be a time when you recognize the usefulness of collaboration.
Certainly, a larger focus of the month is about pleasure, recreation, and self-expression. You are motivated to express yourself in unique ways, and you may be paying more attention to personal hobbies, dating, or entertainment. A stronger urge is with you to create, put your talents to use, show others what you can do, and share your love. Even so, Venus remains retrograde all month, and it's not always straightforward, but you're learning a lot.
Even with all this attention to play, you have a strong showing of planetary activity in your work and health sector. Mercury retrogrades in this area of your solar chart from the 23rd forward, and you may need to backtrack and review what needs special attention or editing. It might feel as if things are stalling or even moving backward sometimes, but the refinements you make during this cycle can be most beneficial.
Plus, Mars spends most of the month (to the 27th) revving you up about your routines, health, and duties. You're enthusiastic about getting things in order. It's a powerful time for activities that promote physical and emotional healing. Your motivation to improve or bring abundance to your life is marked. It's a good time to work on projects with long-term appeal. You are motivated to resolve ongoing problems, and your enterprising nature is alive and well.
With Venus retrograde this month (until September 3rd), you're learning about what you truly enjoy and love, and as you do, you build your appreciation. Finding people, projects, and pastimes that truly fit you becomes easier. You might reevaluate critical areas of your life, mainly related to creativity, hobbies, romance, and friendship, in terms of whether or not they genuinely fulfill you. You might reconnect with an old love, project, or friend or learn something new about a previous relationship. Questioning current attachments is possible, and it can be a helpful process, either serving to strengthen your commitments or alerting you to stale areas of your life.
The Sun enters your work and health sector on the 23rd--on the same day that Mercury turns retrograde in the same house of your solar chart. It's complicated, but you're pouring more heart into pursuing your health and work goals while also fixing errors and facing a few delays. At this time of year, you're paying more attention to detail and getting your daily affairs in order.
Mars enters your partnership sector on the 27th, enlivening your relationships with others, sometimes stimulating conflicts but also generating excitement, passion, and activity.
With transits in the last few days of August and the Full Moon on the 30th, wrapping up projects, editing and organizing work, and managing finances are in focus--and in favor. Factoring in your need for self-renewal and downtime helps you in all areas of life.
See also This Month in Astrology.
Aries (Born March 21 to 31)
AND Aries Ascendant from 0 to 10 degrees Aries:
August 2023 Aries Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until August 23rd:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar fifth house. This is a time when pleasure-seeking and creative activities come into focus and grab much of your attention. You are particularly personally charming in a spontaneous, natural way during this solar cycle. This is the time of year when you are ready to perform and to express yourself creatively.
This is a very playful cycle, when you are inspired creatively and emotionally. It's a good time for recreation, romance, connecting with children, and enjoying and performing the arts. Your ego is tied up in your children, romantic relationships, and creative output now, so that you can be especially proud of these people and things. You can also be over-sensitive about these matters if you feel you are not getting enough appreciation.
From August 23rd forward:
The Sun illuminates your solar sixth house. During this cycle, you take more pride in the work you do and in your health routines than any other time of the year. You are sorting through the experiences of the last several months, separating the worthwhile from the worthless. This is a good time to build your skills, to get organized, and to attend to your health and wellbeing. It's a great time to make improvements to your regular routines. Your self-esteem and your ego are tied up in the work you do and in the services you give. Details are more important to you now.
It's time to bring order to your life by focusing on the little things that make up the whole. This cycle presents an opportunity to get rid of what doesn't work in your life, while also discovering what does. You could seek distinction and strive towards perfection in your work. Efficiency should be your goal now. Your physical health, as well as the relationship between your body and your mind, are in focus.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Venus is retrograde all month (from July 22nd to September 3rd):
Venus retrograde in general: As the planet of love and values, Venus retrograde periods are periods during which we re-assess what--and who--we value. It is a period that most astrologers consider inopportune for getting married or starting a new relationship. Major financial undertakings are not advised during this period as well.
Venus retrograde cycles are good times for creating budgets and financial plans, and for re-thinking our personal relationships. Old friends and lovers may re-appear, perhaps complicating current relationships. We are called upon to deal with relationship issues from the past. Events occur that seem fated or predestined.
It can be a real challenge getting close to a lover during this period of time. Unorthodox, experimental, and non-intimate relationships may be favored. Relationships that have been especially challenging may come to an end during this cycle.
However, strong relationships will survive it, even if there are a few bumps and bruises along the way. For singles, this is a good time for "eyes wide open" or experimental dating. It is not a time when people recognize the need for another person to complete them, or some people may be questioning whether they are with partners who actually fulfill them. This period is good for re-evaluating our relationship needs; but, again, major love decisions are best saved for after the cycle ends.
This Venus Retrograde cycle occurs for the most part in your fifth house of romance, pleasure, speculation, and children. Because the cycle directly affects your sector of romance and speculation, you should be especially wary of jumping into arguments with a lover and taking risks with gambling.
You may feel you are on shaky ground in the romance department. You don't need to share all your feelings with a lover right now, and you shouldn't jump to conclusions if your lover needs a little space either. It can be hard to derive satisfaction from your romantic and creative activities for the time being. An old lover may resurface in your life, complicating matters.
As well, Venus rules your partnership and income sectors, and both of these things may come up for review during this retrograde cycle.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
All month:
Mercury continues to transit your solar sixth house. This is an excellent cycle for improving your skills, objectively identifying your weaknesses so that you can work on them, and for finding flaws in your work methods or approach to daily activities so that you can make necessary changes.
You might be especially focused on list-making and to-do lists, as well as organizing things around you. The need to communicate about your work, health, and other daily affairs, or with co-workers, is especially strong now. Negative expression of this position is worrying about sixth house matters (work, health, pets, and so forth) rather than finding ways to improve these things.
Mercury is retrograde from August 23rd to September 15th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications in general and job or health-related communications because Mercury rules these areas of your life. There can be delays or rethinking with these matters.
Occurring in your solar sixth house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to work, health matters, and daily routines. Be as non-judgmental as you can with co-workers and/or employees. Re-thinking the suitability of your job is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. Work-related mess-ups can frustrate you, or you might need to redo work that you thought was complete. However, you might find that the refinements you make now will be very valuable later. Double- check your work before submitting it. It's a fine time for researching health and nutrition programs, as well as job skills and opportunities, but perhaps not the best time for beginning all-new programs. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with co-workers and health professionals; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 27th:
Mars continues to animate and energize your solar sixth house. Energy and initiative for work, health, and other daily activities increase. You are self-motivated when it comes to these matters. If there are disagreements and disputes that erupt on the job now, they may be due to a feeling of stress or impatience, or they could come from your desire to get things done independently. It's best to apply energy productively to completing projects that are unfinished or even to get ahead of yourself. It's a strong period for feeling motivated for starting a new health or fitness routine.
From the 27th forward:
Mars energizes and animates your solar seventh house. Partnerships may suffer from ego conflicts, or opposition from others may be challenging. Use the extra energy that Mars brings to this sector of your chart to work cooperatively on relationship problems. You may even find that you seem to need someone's help in order to do what you want to do during this cycle. Relationships are vivacious and dynamic during this period. When a difference arises, you are quick to settle it, and have little patience for sweeping matters under the rug. Your close personal relationships are lively during this cycle--full of conflicts and resolutions or reconciliations.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aries:
A Full Moon in your social sector begins the month, dear Aries. Whatever comes to light now provides valuable insight into brewing issues, likely friend-related, and you can feel purged and empowered as a result. True feelings about a person, relationship, or project can emerge, or light shines on your hopes and wishes. These revelations can lead to meaningful changes and improvements. While you've been entirely engrossed in your personal life and doing things on your own, this can be a time when you recognize the usefulness of collaboration.
Certainly, a larger focus of the month is about pleasure, recreation, and self-expression. You are motivated to express yourself in unique ways, and you may be paying more attention to personal hobbies, dating, or entertainment. A stronger urge is with you to create, put your talents to use, show others what you can do, and share your love. Even so, Venus remains retrograde all month, and it's not always straightforward, but you're learning a lot.
Even with all this attention to play, you have a strong showing of planetary activity in your work and health sector. Mercury retrogrades in this area of your solar chart from the 23rd forward, and you may need to backtrack and review what needs special attention or editing. It might feel as if things are stalling or even moving backward sometimes, but the refinements you make during this cycle can be most beneficial.
Plus, Mars spends most of the month (to the 27th) revving you up about your routines, health, and duties. You're enthusiastic about getting things in order. It's a powerful time for activities that promote physical and emotional healing. Your motivation to improve or bring abundance to your life is marked. It's a good time to work on projects with long-term appeal. You are motivated to resolve ongoing problems, and your enterprising nature is alive and well.
With Venus retrograde this month (until September 3rd), you're learning about what you truly enjoy and love, and as you do, you build your appreciation. Finding people, projects, and pastimes that truly fit you becomes easier. You might reevaluate critical areas of your life, mainly related to creativity, hobbies, romance, and friendship, in terms of whether or not they genuinely fulfill you. You might reconnect with an old love, project, or friend or learn something new about a previous relationship. Questioning current attachments is possible, and it can be a helpful process, either serving to strengthen your commitments or alerting you to stale areas of your life.
The Sun enters your work and health sector on the 23rd--on the same day that Mercury turns retrograde in the same house of your solar chart. It's complicated, but you're pouring more heart into pursuing your health and work goals while also fixing errors and facing a few delays. At this time of year, you're paying more attention to detail and getting your daily affairs in order.
Mars enters your partnership sector on the 27th, enlivening your relationships with others, sometimes stimulating conflicts but also generating excitement, passion, and activity.
With transits in the last few days of August and the Full Moon on the 30th, wrapping up projects, editing and organizing work, and managing finances are in focus--and in favor. Factoring in your need for self-renewal and downtime helps you in all areas of life.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.
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Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
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romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Aries in 2023.
See also detailed 2023 Aries Yearly Horoscope.
Aries (Born April 1 to 10)
AND Aries Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Aries:
August 2023 Aries Career, & General Trends
August 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
The Sun illuminates your solar fifth house now. After a period of "nesting", you are coming out of your shell, ready to perform and to express yourself creatively. This is a very playful period of the year, when you are inspired creatively and emotionally. After a period of self-protectiveness, you are now more spontaneous and more willing to take risks. You take more pride than usual in your creations, your love affairs, your children, and your hobbies. Pleasure and amusement play an important role in your search for freedom of self-expression now. Show off your best colors!
You want others to take notice, and you are more sensitive to whether people appreciate you. More than any time of the year, this is the cycle in which you focus on having fun, enjoying romance, and expressing yourself creatively. Your hobbies, leisure time, moments spent with children, gaming time, and so forth, all come into focus at this time of year.
This is a cycle in which you find joy in expressing who you are--when your "inner child" comes out to play. This is a time when you are more flirtatious than usual, and when you might take a few risks in life--not only gambling with games but with life itself. You might be a bit of a showman at this time. You are likely feeling good in general, and you tend to spread the joy.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Venus is retrograde all month (from July 22nd to September 3rd):
Venus retrograde in general: As the planet of love and values, Venus retrograde periods are periods during which we re-assess what--and who--we value. It is a period that most astrologers consider inopportune for getting married or starting a new relationship. Major financial undertakings are not advised during this period as well.
Venus retrograde cycles are good times for creating budgets and financial plans, and for re-thinking our personal relationships. Old friends and lovers may re-appear, perhaps complicating current relationships. We are called upon to deal with relationship issues from the past. Events occur that seem fated or predestined.
It can be a real challenge getting close to a lover during this period of time. Unorthodox, experimental, and non-intimate relationships may be favored. Relationships that have been especially challenging may come to an end during this cycle.
However, strong relationships will survive it, even if there are a few bumps and bruises along the way. For singles, this is a good time for "eyes wide open" or experimental dating. It is not a time when people recognize the need for another person to complete them, or some people may be questioning whether they are with partners who actually fulfill them. This period is good for re-evaluating our relationship needs; but, again, major love decisions are best saved for after the cycle ends.
This Venus Retrograde cycle occurs for the most part in your fifth house of romance, pleasure, speculation, and children. Because the cycle directly affects your sector of romance and speculation, you should be especially wary of jumping into arguments with a lover and taking risks with gambling.
You may feel you are on shaky ground in the romance department. You don't need to share all your feelings with a lover right now, and you shouldn't jump to conclusions if your lover needs a little space either. It can be hard to derive satisfaction from your romantic and creative activities for the time being. An old lover may resurface in your life, complicating matters.
As well, Venus rules your partnership and income sectors, and both of these things may come up for review during this retrograde cycle.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
From August 5th:
Mercury transits your solar sixth house. This is a good placement for Mercury, as it is the natural ruler of the sixth house. It's an excellent period for sorting out the details of your daily existence. You are inclined to make to-do lists, pay bills and sort out clutter, and to do detail work on the job. Health matters are most certainly on your brain as well, and you could be thinking of scheduling check-ups or busy researching ways to improve your health. You may also show a keener interest in improving your basic skills.
Your approach to work during this cycle is pleasant, happy, and logical for the most part, unless you allow worry or scattered energy to enter the picture. You are inclined to want to learn new work skills, or to improve your skills and output in terms of work. There is likely to be more activity, movement, contact, and communications with co-workers now.
You tend to take more interest in organizing your working environment--and this is an excellent time to do so, as you are especially objective and intelligent when it comes to getting a handle on your daily affairs and all of the "little things" that contribute to a feeling of efficiency and competency. Menial tasks become more prominent. Watch, however, for tension or idle chit-chat interfering with your work output during this cycle.
Mercury is retrograde from August 23rd to September 15th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications in general and job or health-related communications because Mercury rules these areas of your life. There can be delays or rethinking with these matters.
Occurring in your solar sixth house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to work, health matters, and daily routines. Be as non-judgmental as you can with co-workers and/or employees. Re-thinking the suitability of your job is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. Work-related mess-ups can frustrate you, or you might need to redo work that you thought was complete. However, you might find that the refinements you make now will be very valuable later. Double- check your work before submitting it. It's a fine time for researching health and nutrition programs, as well as job skills and opportunities, but perhaps not the best time for beginning all-new programs. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with co-workers and health professionals; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to animate and energize your solar sixth house. Energy and initiative for work, health, and other daily activities increase. You are self-motivated when it comes to these matters. If there are disagreements and disputes that erupt on the job now, they may be due to a feeling of stress or impatience, or they could come from your desire to get things done independently. It's best to apply energy productively to completing projects that are unfinished or even to get ahead of yourself. It's a strong period for feeling motivated for starting a new health or fitness routine.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aries:
A Full Moon in your social sector begins the month, dear Aries. Whatever comes to light now provides valuable insight into brewing issues, likely friend-related, and you can feel purged and empowered as a result. True feelings about a person, relationship, or project can emerge, or light shines on your hopes and wishes. These revelations can lead to meaningful changes and improvements. While you've been entirely engrossed in your personal life and doing things on your own, this can be a time when you recognize the usefulness of collaboration.
Certainly, a larger focus of the month is about pleasure, recreation, and self-expression. You are motivated to express yourself in unique ways, and you may be paying more attention to personal hobbies, dating, or entertainment. A stronger urge is with you to create, put your talents to use, show others what you can do, and share your love. Even so, Venus remains retrograde all month, and it's not always straightforward, but you're learning a lot.
Even with all this attention to play, you have a strong showing of planetary activity in your work and health sector. Mercury retrogrades in this area of your solar chart from the 23rd forward, and you may need to backtrack and review what needs special attention or editing. It might feel as if things are stalling or even moving backward sometimes, but the refinements you make during this cycle can be most beneficial.
Plus, Mars spends most of the month (to the 27th) revving you up about your routines, health, and duties. You're enthusiastic about getting things in order. It's a powerful time for activities that promote physical and emotional healing. Your motivation to improve or bring abundance to your life is marked. It's a good time to work on projects with long-term appeal. You are motivated to resolve ongoing problems, and your enterprising nature is alive and well.
With Venus retrograde this month (until September 3rd), you're learning about what you truly enjoy and love, and as you do, you build your appreciation. Finding people, projects, and pastimes that truly fit you becomes easier. You might reevaluate critical areas of your life, mainly related to creativity, hobbies, romance, and friendship, in terms of whether or not they genuinely fulfill you. You might reconnect with an old love, project, or friend or learn something new about a previous relationship. Questioning current attachments is possible, and it can be a helpful process, either serving to strengthen your commitments or alerting you to stale areas of your life.
The Sun enters your work and health sector on the 23rd--on the same day that Mercury turns retrograde in the same house of your solar chart. It's complicated, but you're pouring more heart into pursuing your health and work goals while also fixing errors and facing a few delays. At this time of year, you're paying more attention to detail and getting your daily affairs in order.
Mars enters your partnership sector on the 27th, enlivening your relationships with others, sometimes stimulating conflicts but also generating excitement, passion, and activity.
With transits in the last few days of August and the Full Moon on the 30th, wrapping up projects, editing and organizing work, and managing finances are in focus--and in favor. Factoring in your need for self-renewal and downtime helps you in all areas of life.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.
Know More About Yourself and Others
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
birth chart reports, relationship reports, future forecasts, and more.
Love & Romance Forecast Report
Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
Romantic Compatibility Reports
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Aries in 2023.
See also detailed 2023 Aries Yearly Horoscope.
Aries (Born April 11 to 20)
AND Aries Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Aries:
August 2023 Aries Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until August 12th:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar fourth house. This is a period of recharge, of getting in touch with your innermost feelings, of connecting with your roots, and of spending more time and energy on home and family. Home and family matters capture your attention and are a strong source of pride now. It's a time when worldly matters are not as important to you.
Use this energy to find ways to improve your family relations and your home environment. During this heart-warming cycle, you would do best to allow yourself to explore your inner needs so that you can nurture yourself and others in a healthy, growth-oriented manner, in preparation for more outgoing times to come.
From August 13th forward:
The Sun illuminates your solar fifth house now. After a period of "nesting", you are coming out of your shell, ready to perform and to express yourself creatively. This is a very playful period of the year, when you are inspired creatively and emotionally. After a period of self-protectiveness, you are now more spontaneous and more willing to take risks. You take more pride than usual in your creations, your love affairs, your children, and your hobbies. Pleasure and amusement play an important role in your search for freedom of self-expression now. Show off your best colors!
You want others to take notice, and you are more sensitive to whether people appreciate you. More than any time of the year, this is the cycle in which you focus on having fun, enjoying romance, and expressing yourself creatively. Your hobbies, leisure time, moments spent with children, gaming time, and so forth, all come into focus at this time of year.
This is a cycle in which you find joy in expressing who you are--when your "inner child" comes out to play. This is a time when you are more flirtatious than usual, and when you might take a few risks in life--not only gambling with games but with life itself. You might be a bit of a showman at this time. You are likely feeling good in general, and you tend to spread the joy.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Venus is retrograde all month (from July 22nd to September 3rd):
Venus retrograde in general: As the planet of love and values, Venus retrograde periods are periods during which we re-assess what--and who--we value. It is a period that most astrologers consider inopportune for getting married or starting a new relationship. Major financial undertakings are not advised during this period as well.
Venus retrograde cycles are good times for creating budgets and financial plans, and for re-thinking our personal relationships. Old friends and lovers may re-appear, perhaps complicating current relationships. We are called upon to deal with relationship issues from the past. Events occur that seem fated or predestined.
It can be a real challenge getting close to a lover during this period of time. Unorthodox, experimental, and non-intimate relationships may be favored. Relationships that have been especially challenging may come to an end during this cycle.
However, strong relationships will survive it, even if there are a few bumps and bruises along the way. For singles, this is a good time for "eyes wide open" or experimental dating. It is not a time when people recognize the need for another person to complete them, or some people may be questioning whether they are with partners who actually fulfill them. This period is good for re-evaluating our relationship needs; but, again, major love decisions are best saved for after the cycle ends.
This Venus Retrograde cycle occurs for the most part in your fourth house of home and family. Relations with your family may be a little strained. You might want to wait until Venus is direct before you express your frustrations with family members! What you say now may be costly.
Furthermore, if you take the time to think about things, your approach to dealing with these issues later (after the retrograde) is likely to be much more productive.
The desire or need for warm relations with family members, or for support and a feeling of security, is especially strong but the path to satisfaction may be hard to find just now. This is a great time to think about how to improve your home, but not necessarily for going forward with entirely new projects.
As well, Venus rules your partnership and income sectors, and both of these things may come up for review during this retrograde cycle.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until August 17th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar fifth house. Increased communication with children, romantic partners, and people who share the same hobbies as you can occur now. Certainly, you are thinking about these people and about love and romance, child rearing, and/or creative pursuits more than usual. Mental exercises and competitions can be particularly enjoyable now. You express yourself with warmth and creativity, and you have an appreciative "audience" for your ideas now.
From August 18th:
Mercury transits your solar sixth house. This is a good placement for Mercury, as it is the natural ruler of the sixth house. It's an excellent period for sorting out the details of your daily existence. You are inclined to make to-do lists, pay bills and sort out clutter, and to do detail work on the job. Health matters are most certainly on your brain as well, and you could be thinking of scheduling check-ups or busy researching ways to improve your health. You may also show a keener interest in improving your basic skills.
Your approach to work during this cycle is pleasant, happy, and logical for the most part, unless you allow worry or scattered energy to enter the picture. You are inclined to want to learn new work skills, or to improve your skills and output in terms of work. There is likely to be more activity, movement, contact, and communications with co-workers now.
You tend to take more interest in organizing your working environment--and this is an excellent time to do so, as you are especially objective and intelligent when it comes to getting a handle on your daily affairs and all of the "little things" that contribute to a feeling of efficiency and competency. Menial tasks become more prominent. Watch, however, for tension or idle chit-chat interfering with your work output during this cycle.
Mercury is retrograde from August 23rd to September 15th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications in general and job or health-related communications because Mercury rules these areas of your life. There can be delays or rethinking with these matters.
Occurring in your solar sixth house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to work, health matters, and daily routines. Be as non-judgmental as you can with co-workers and/or employees. Re-thinking the suitability of your job is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. Work-related mess-ups can frustrate you, or you might need to redo work that you thought was complete. However, you might find that the refinements you make now will be very valuable later. Double- check your work before submitting it. It's a fine time for researching health and nutrition programs, as well as job skills and opportunities, but perhaps not the best time for beginning all-new programs. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with co-workers and health professionals; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 11th:
Mars continues to energize your solar fifth house. This brings increased energy and enthusiasm to romance, child-rearing, and creative or recreational endeavors. It can also bring some strife to these areas of your world in some cases. For the most part, however, a romance could pick up pace, you are self-motivated and inspired on creative and expressive levels, and your self-confidence is well-received by others during this cycle. You are more willing to take little risks and you are competitive in a mostly friendly way. In your enthusiasm to take the lead, try to be sensitive to and respectful of others' needs.
From the 12th:
Mars animates and energizes your solar sixth house. You have more energy for work and your daily routines tend to speed up during this transit. Perhaps you have a larger workload than usual. It's a great time to take charge of your health. You have much energy at your disposal to pick up (or step up) a health and physical activity program. It might be hard for you to work with others in a harmonious manner during this transit, and disputes with co-workers are possible. If you are feeling especially angry, frustrated, or restless, it would be wise to find little projects and things to do so that you can channel excess energy constructively. If health is affected, fevers or infections are more likely.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aries:
A Full Moon in your social sector begins the month, dear Aries. Whatever comes to light now provides valuable insight into brewing issues, likely friend-related, and you can feel purged and empowered as a result. True feelings about a person, relationship, or project can emerge, or light shines on your hopes and wishes. These revelations can lead to meaningful changes and improvements. While you've been entirely engrossed in your personal life and doing things on your own, this can be a time when you recognize the usefulness of collaboration.
Certainly, a larger focus of the month is about pleasure, recreation, and self-expression. You are motivated to express yourself in unique ways, and you may be paying more attention to personal hobbies, dating, or entertainment. A stronger urge is with you to create, put your talents to use, show others what you can do, and share your love. Even so, Venus remains retrograde all month, and it's not always straightforward, but you're learning a lot.
Even with all this attention to play, you have a strong showing of planetary activity in your work and health sector. Mercury retrogrades in this area of your solar chart from the 23rd forward, and you may need to backtrack and review what needs special attention or editing. It might feel as if things are stalling or even moving backward sometimes, but the refinements you make during this cycle can be most beneficial.
Plus, Mars spends most of the month (to the 27th) revving you up about your routines, health, and duties. You're enthusiastic about getting things in order. It's a powerful time for activities that promote physical and emotional healing. Your motivation to improve or bring abundance to your life is marked. It's a good time to work on projects with long-term appeal. You are motivated to resolve ongoing problems, and your enterprising nature is alive and well.
With Venus retrograde this month (until September 3rd), you're learning about what you truly enjoy and love, and as you do, you build your appreciation. Finding people, projects, and pastimes that truly fit you becomes easier. You might reevaluate critical areas of your life, mainly related to creativity, hobbies, romance, and friendship, in terms of whether or not they genuinely fulfill you. You might reconnect with an old love, project, or friend or learn something new about a previous relationship. Questioning current attachments is possible, and it can be a helpful process, either serving to strengthen your commitments or alerting you to stale areas of your life.
The Sun enters your work and health sector on the 23rd--on the same day that Mercury turns retrograde in the same house of your solar chart. It's complicated, but you're pouring more heart into pursuing your health and work goals while also fixing errors and facing a few delays. At this time of year, you're paying more attention to detail and getting your daily affairs in order.
Mars enters your partnership sector on the 27th, enlivening your relationships with others, sometimes stimulating conflicts but also generating excitement, passion, and activity.
With transits in the last few days of August and the Full Moon on the 30th, wrapping up projects, editing and organizing work, and managing finances are in focus--and in favor. Factoring in your need for self-renewal and downtime helps you in all areas of life.
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Our detailed monthly horoscopes are designed to reveal and interpret the current transits of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars in your solar chart.
Because these energies or transits do not unfold neatly into any given calendar month (many transits carry forward from one month to the next), you will find some of the energies continue from the previous month.
For example, the Sun might transit the fifth house of your solar chart from July 22 to August 22, so that you will find a similar interpretation for this transit in both July and August’s horoscope. This is normal and expected. While new months can hold new energy, transits don’t abruptly change because the calendar month changes.
These monthly horoscopes also include an overview paragraph, as well as other energies specific to the month, such as retrogrades, eclipses, or major outer planet transits.
The Highlights section reveals lunar cycle dates. Lunar cycles repeat themselves approximately every 28 days, so it is normal to see the same lunar peaks, such as “Your Personal New Moon” and “Monthly career peak” repeat themselves from month to month, but with different dates. They serve as a helpful guide to cycle peaks in different areas of life, such as financial, career, romance, and partnership.
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