Capricorn Monthly Horoscope
{Monthly Horoscopes 2023}
A horoscope guide to the month ahead for Capricorn Sun and Capricorn Ascendant.
August 2023 Horoscope: Predictions for Capricorn
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Overview for this Month: Capricorn (All)
August 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Capricorn:
August begins with a Full Moon and a call to manage your money, resources, and talents, dear Capricorn. While emotions run high around the time of a Full Moon, they can motivate new plans to improve these areas of your life. If you've been undervaluing your contributions, whether to work or a relationship, this is a time for recognizing and affirming your worth, value, and capabilities.
Still, a bigger theme of the month is about developing and enriching your deeper connections, whether to a special person or project. Your intimacy sector is active, and transits encourage you to work on power dynamics and sharing. Of course, getting to know your own capabilities, limits, and worth is a healthy part of any exploration of dependencies on others or outside sources, and this is the "work" you're doing now.
You're seeking more depth or intimacy from your experiences this month. Venus (all month) and the Sun (until the 23rd) move through this zone of your solar chart, which rules regeneration, transformation, other people's resources (that affect you), and debts, both spiritual or emotional and material ones. There can be a more defined need for profound, rich, and meaningful experiences, more attention to a relationship's power dynamics and intimacy level, and a focus on your needs for change, evolution, and self-mastery.
Still, Venus is retrograde all month, and you can see your past in new ways. This process eventually helps you with choices and decisions about the future, even if it sometimes feels complicated. While you may have felt in the dark about your feelings recently, new awareness and the beginnings of a plan of action will likely emerge from the 13th forward. You are redefining what you want and need from others and what you expect from yourself.
Even with this inward-turned energy, Mars continues to bring dynamic energy to your spirit sector until the 27th. Life shouldn't be dull with this transit that supports you energetically and encourages the pursuit of your desires. You're making plans, seeing the bigger picture, and expressing your ideas and creative visions with others. Your powers of attraction skyrocket, and in focus are competitive activities, exams, learning, and creative activities. The physical expression of your happy feelings may be particularly appealing since you crave spirited action. You can feel excited about exploring a new path. This transit encourages taking action to move an area of your life ahead, which can happen through freeing yourself from a problem or burden or from actively pursuing a desire or goal.
Mercury turns retrograde on the 23rd, and there can be some delays to manage, this time with information, which can feel clogged. You have a strong interest in broadening your mental experiences this month, but getting to where you want to go becomes less straightforward.
The Sun enters your spirit sector on the same day, and you're putting more heart into your efforts to grow, explore, and expand beyond your usual experiences. You can experience more passion about an idea, ideal, or course of study, and you can feel compelled to share your thoughts. Exploring past studies, ideas, destinations, and topics of interest can be more attractive.
But just four days later, Mars moves on from this busy area of your solar chart, bringing on a new theme from the 27th: it heads to the top of your chart, stirring your ambitions regarding your career, reputation, or status.
While things are still moving rather slowly, concentration and commitment help you get a leg up on things as you close out the month. Your realism and willingness to take the bad with the good help you succeed. The Full Moon on the 30th prompts discoveries related to ideas, learning, communications, transportation, and relatives, which in turn motivate you to make changes and improvements.
See also This Month in Astrology.
Capricorn (Born December 22 to December 31) and Capricorn Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Capricorn:
August 2023 Capricorn Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until August 23rd:
The Sun continues to highlight your solar eighth house. Your attention turns inward, as well as to close personal relationships on a deeper level. Personal transformations, personal power, and intimate matters fulfill you most during this cycle. There may be a strong focus on other's money, such as the resources of a partner, inheritance, banking and loans, or taxes.
You are more intense in your mood and disposition, and perhaps even secretive, at this time of year. You are more in touch with the deeper and even primal elements of your own personality, and more able to see these things in others. This can be a determined and personally powerful time of year if you apply the energy of this transit constructively.
From August 23rd forward:
This month, with the Sun spotlighting your solar ninth house, your focus turns outward, away from the more personal concerns that have occupied your thoughts in the last months. More than any other time during the year, you are feeling most adventurous and willing to take a leap of faith. This is a cycle in which you seek a higher meaning to your life, and/or seek out new experiences that take you beyond the here and now, and beyond the mundane details of day-to-day life. Anything that broadens your experiences attracts now.
A lack of superficiality finds you straight to the point, interested in the truth of things. It would be wise for you to consider scheduling a vacation, adventure of sorts, or a course that expands your mind. These don't have to happen now, but taking the time to recognize your needs for escaping the daily grind, taking a few risks, and feeding your spirit for self-expression through some form of adventure or higher learning, will help you to feel good about yourself. The only caution with this cycle is that you could lose touch with managing everyday affairs and important details.
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.
For the most part, this Venus Retrograde cycle occurs in your solar eighth house of intimacy, shared resources, and personal transformation. Hold onto your money, work on a budget, and avoid arguments with loved ones that revolve around intimacy and sexuality. A disagreement over joint finances can also get you into hot water. Hold back. What you say now can have annoying ramifications.
You may find it hard to feel supported by others, and your intimate life may seem superficial or even strained. You might use this time to review past purchases or to handle financial matters such as taxes that you have put off (or it may be necessary to do so). It can be a strong time for finding a good buy. It's a fine time for review and reassessment.
Venus-ruled areas of your chart are also affected--career, as well as relationships with lovers and children.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
All month:
Mercury continues to transit your solar ninth house. During this cycle, you are especially fond of exchanging ideas with others, particularly your personal philosophies. You are inclined to take a broader look at things now, rather than concentrate on the details. You are communicating with more persuasiveness, enthusiasm, and optimism at this time.
Mercury is retrograde from August 23rd to September 15th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications regarding travels, legal matters, or opinions, as well as communications on the job and with co-workers, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. It's best not to sign on the dotted line for the time being, especially when it comes to making travel plans or any legal contracts. There could be irritating mess-ups on the job. You might be inclined to miss important details in your paperwork, or might experience frustrating delays that result from co-workers' errors. Travel plans may go awry, or you may have a change of heart.
Occurring in your solar ninth house this time, extra care should be exercised regarding travel or education plans. Delays or complications are very possible in these areas. Go over applications carefully before submitting them and make sure you understand instructions clearly. Expressing your opinions now might come across in entirely the wrong way. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with professors and lawyers as well; 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 ninth house. Your energy levels and sense of timing are good during this cycle. You are strong and bold in your beliefs and convictions as well, and others tend to naturally follow your lead. You actively seek out new learning experiences and have a strong desire to set out on new adventures, however big or small. Others find you easy to be around, even inspiring and energizing, and are attracted to your assertiveness and courage.
From the 27th forward:
Mars animates and energizes your solar tenth house. This transit stimulates your ambition and/or your desire to be recognized for your accomplishments. Whether it's professional or personal, you are likely to have an increased desire for others to notice you. This can be a good time to become self-employed or start a business if other factors (and Mars itself) are favorable. Conflicts with those in authority are possible now. You may pour more energy into self-promotion or business/career activities.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Capricorn:
August begins with a Full Moon and a call to manage your money, resources, and talents, dear Capricorn. While emotions run high around the time of a Full Moon, they can motivate new plans to improve these areas of your life. If you've been undervaluing your contributions, whether to work or a relationship, this is a time for recognizing and affirming your worth, value, and capabilities.
Still, a bigger theme of the month is about developing and enriching your deeper connections, whether to a special person or project. Your intimacy sector is active, and transits encourage you to work on power dynamics and sharing. Of course, getting to know your own capabilities, limits, and worth is a healthy part of any exploration of dependencies on others or outside sources, and this is the "work" you're doing now.
You're seeking more depth or intimacy from your experiences this month. Venus (all month) and the Sun (until the 23rd) move through this zone of your solar chart, which rules regeneration, transformation, other people's resources (that affect you), and debts, both spiritual or emotional and material ones. There can be a more defined need for profound, rich, and meaningful experiences, more attention to a relationship's power dynamics and intimacy level, and a focus on your needs for change, evolution, and self-mastery.
Still, Venus is retrograde all month, and you can see your past in new ways. This process eventually helps you with choices and decisions about the future, even if it sometimes feels complicated. While you may have felt in the dark about your feelings recently, new awareness and the beginnings of a plan of action will likely emerge from the 13th forward. You are redefining what you want and need from others and what you expect from yourself.
Even with this inward-turned energy, Mars continues to bring dynamic energy to your spirit sector until the 27th. Life shouldn't be dull with this transit that supports you energetically and encourages the pursuit of your desires. You're making plans, seeing the bigger picture, and expressing your ideas and creative visions with others. Your powers of attraction skyrocket, and in focus are competitive activities, exams, learning, and creative activities. The physical expression of your happy feelings may be particularly appealing since you crave spirited action. You can feel excited about exploring a new path. This transit encourages taking action to move an area of your life ahead, which can happen through freeing yourself from a problem or burden or from actively pursuing a desire or goal.
Mercury turns retrograde on the 23rd, and there can be some delays to manage, this time with information, which can feel clogged. You have a strong interest in broadening your mental experiences this month, but getting to where you want to go becomes less straightforward.
The Sun enters your spirit sector on the same day, and you're putting more heart into your efforts to grow, explore, and expand beyond your usual experiences. You can experience more passion about an idea, ideal, or course of study, and you can feel compelled to share your thoughts. Exploring past studies, ideas, destinations, and topics of interest can be more attractive.
But just four days later, Mars moves on from this busy area of your solar chart, bringing on a new theme from the 27th: it heads to the top of your chart, stirring your ambitions regarding your career, reputation, or status.
While things are still moving rather slowly, concentration and commitment help you get a leg up on things as you close out the month. Your realism and willingness to take the bad with the good help you succeed. The Full Moon on the 30th prompts discoveries related to ideas, learning, communications, transportation, and relatives, which in turn motivate you to make changes and improvements.
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
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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
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romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also 2023 Capricorn Preview Horoscope and 2023 Capricorn Yearly Horoscope.
Capricorn (Born January 1 to 10) and Capricorn Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Capricorn:
August 2023 Capricorn Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
The Sun energizes your sector of transformation, change, sexuality, personal growth, regeneration, others' money and resources, addictions, and taxes. As a result, this is not the most gregarious of months for you. You take a step back, focus on intimacy with a partner, or simply retreat a little from the hectic pace of life. This is an excellent time to create a budget or financial plan, or to rid yourself of bad habits that undermine your sense of personal power and self-mastery.
All that is deeply personal comes into focus now. Intimate matters are especially important to you during this cycle. Just how well you are handling your life comes up for inspection. Your self-mastery skills and psychological predisposition matter to you more than usual. This is the time of year when you are most desirous of change on a deep level. Clearing out psychic "junk" or ridding yourself of bad habits may be part of the picture now. You are more willing than usual to explore life's secrets.
This cycle brings greater in-depth understanding and an inclination to delve beneath the surface of matters to get to the bottom of them. Research uncovers new material that allows you to develop a better overall picture of the year's events. This is an especially introspective cycle during which you have the chance to truly uncover your personal strengths and talents. On a more practical level, you may be dealing with joint finances and shared resources now more than usual.
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.
For the most part, this Venus Retrograde cycle occurs in your solar eighth house of intimacy, shared resources, and personal transformation. Hold onto your money, work on a budget, and avoid arguments with loved ones that revolve around intimacy and sexuality. A disagreement over joint finances can also get you into hot water. Hold back. What you say now can have annoying ramifications.
You may find it hard to feel supported by others, and your intimate life may seem superficial or even strained. You might use this time to review past purchases or to handle financial matters such as taxes that you have put off (or it may be necessary to do so). It can be a strong time for finding a good buy. It's a fine time for review and reassessment.
Venus-ruled areas of your chart are also affected--career, as well as relationships with lovers and children.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
From August 5th:
Mercury transits your solar ninth house. Not content to focus on mundane, practical affairs just now, your mind turns to bigger visions, thoughts, and ideals. You are open to expanding your knowledge base during this cycle, and communications from or with someone far away may be part of the picture.
You are putting everything into perspective now, rather than compartmentalizing. Instead of simply shooting the breeze, you are more inclined to discuss broader philosophies now. Your inclination during this cycle is to think about the "big picture" rather than the mundane circumstances and details of your life. Missing appointments and other forms of forgetfulness could be part of the picture now.
Mercury is retrograde from August 23rd to September 15th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications regarding travels, legal matters, or opinions, as well as communications on the job and with co-workers, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. It's best not to sign on the dotted line for the time being, especially when it comes to making travel plans or any legal contracts. There could be irritating mess-ups on the job. You might be inclined to miss important details in your paperwork, or might experience frustrating delays that result from co-workers' errors. Travel plans may go awry, or you may have a change of heart.
Occurring in your solar ninth house this time, extra care should be exercised regarding travel or education plans. Delays or complications are very possible in these areas. Go over applications carefully before submitting them and make sure you understand instructions clearly. Expressing your opinions now might come across in entirely the wrong way. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with professors and lawyers as well; 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 ninth house. Your energy levels and sense of timing are good during this cycle. You are strong and bold in your beliefs and convictions as well, and others tend to naturally follow your lead. You actively seek out new learning experiences and have a strong desire to set out on new adventures, however big or small. Others find you easy to be around, even inspiring and energizing, and are attracted to your assertiveness and courage.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Capricorn:
August begins with a Full Moon and a call to manage your money, resources, and talents, dear Capricorn. While emotions run high around the time of a Full Moon, they can motivate new plans to improve these areas of your life. If you've been undervaluing your contributions, whether to work or a relationship, this is a time for recognizing and affirming your worth, value, and capabilities.
Still, a bigger theme of the month is about developing and enriching your deeper connections, whether to a special person or project. Your intimacy sector is active, and transits encourage you to work on power dynamics and sharing. Of course, getting to know your own capabilities, limits, and worth is a healthy part of any exploration of dependencies on others or outside sources, and this is the "work" you're doing now.
You're seeking more depth or intimacy from your experiences this month. Venus (all month) and the Sun (until the 23rd) move through this zone of your solar chart, which rules regeneration, transformation, other people's resources (that affect you), and debts, both spiritual or emotional and material ones. There can be a more defined need for profound, rich, and meaningful experiences, more attention to a relationship's power dynamics and intimacy level, and a focus on your needs for change, evolution, and self-mastery.
Still, Venus is retrograde all month, and you can see your past in new ways. This process eventually helps you with choices and decisions about the future, even if it sometimes feels complicated. While you may have felt in the dark about your feelings recently, new awareness and the beginnings of a plan of action will likely emerge from the 13th forward. You are redefining what you want and need from others and what you expect from yourself.
Even with this inward-turned energy, Mars continues to bring dynamic energy to your spirit sector until the 27th. Life shouldn't be dull with this transit that supports you energetically and encourages the pursuit of your desires. You're making plans, seeing the bigger picture, and expressing your ideas and creative visions with others. Your powers of attraction skyrocket, and in focus are competitive activities, exams, learning, and creative activities. The physical expression of your happy feelings may be particularly appealing since you crave spirited action. You can feel excited about exploring a new path. This transit encourages taking action to move an area of your life ahead, which can happen through freeing yourself from a problem or burden or from actively pursuing a desire or goal.
Mercury turns retrograde on the 23rd, and there can be some delays to manage, this time with information, which can feel clogged. You have a strong interest in broadening your mental experiences this month, but getting to where you want to go becomes less straightforward.
The Sun enters your spirit sector on the same day, and you're putting more heart into your efforts to grow, explore, and expand beyond your usual experiences. You can experience more passion about an idea, ideal, or course of study, and you can feel compelled to share your thoughts. Exploring past studies, ideas, destinations, and topics of interest can be more attractive.
But just four days later, Mars moves on from this busy area of your solar chart, bringing on a new theme from the 27th: it heads to the top of your chart, stirring your ambitions regarding your career, reputation, or status.
While things are still moving rather slowly, concentration and commitment help you get a leg up on things as you close out the month. Your realism and willingness to take the bad with the good help you succeed. The Full Moon on the 30th prompts discoveries related to ideas, learning, communications, transportation, and relatives, which in turn motivate you to make changes and improvements.
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 2023 Capricorn Preview Horoscope and the full 2023 Yearly Capricorn Horoscope.
Capricorn (Born January 11 to 20) and Capricorn Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Capricorn:
August 2023 Capricorn 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 seventh house--your partnership sector. This can be a time of much learning through the mirror of close relationships. It's not the time to push your agenda or personal plans forward; rather, it's a cycle in which you are at your best when you recognize the need to form alliances, to give back to a special someone, and to compromise in order to find some balance in your life.
It's a strong period for putting yourself into another person's shoes and to better understand him/her. You may be meeting with someone strong and assertive by nature now, or a partner is more assertive and needy of attention. There may be some competitive feelings between you and a significant other now. Focus is on reconciliation, forming or cementing bonds, diplomacy, consultation, one-on-one interactions, and negotiations. You may feel a little drained physically now, temporarily.
From August 13th forward:
The Sun energizes your sector of transformation, change, sexuality, personal growth, regeneration, others' money and resources, addictions, and taxes. As a result, this is not the most gregarious of months for you. You take a step back, focus on intimacy with a partner, or simply retreat a little from the hectic pace of life. This is an excellent time to create a budget or financial plan, or to rid yourself of bad habits that undermine your sense of personal power and self-mastery.
All that is deeply personal comes into focus now. Intimate matters are especially important to you during this cycle. Just how well you are handling your life comes up for inspection. Your self-mastery skills and psychological predisposition matter to you more than usual. This is the time of year when you are most desirous of change on a deep level. Clearing out psychic "junk" or ridding yourself of bad habits may be part of the picture now. You are more willing than usual to explore life's secrets.
This cycle brings greater in-depth understanding and an inclination to delve beneath the surface of matters to get to the bottom of them. Research uncovers new material that allows you to develop a better overall picture of the year's events. This is an especially introspective cycle during which you have the chance to truly uncover your personal strengths and talents. On a more practical level, you may be dealing with joint finances and shared resources now more than usual.
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 seventh house of one-to-one partnerships. Misunderstandings with your partner now can be troublesome.
If you need to talk through problems, do your best to be as non-judgmental as possible, and don't overreact to what your partner has to say either. A close partner could be distant emotionally, or a partnership can appear stalled for the time being - something is up in the air. However, this is a good time to take a breather and to get in better touch with your feelings on a matter - you need this!
Venus-ruled areas of your chart are also affected--career, as well as relationships with lovers and children.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until August 17th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar eighth house. The ability to analyze and rationalize some of the deeper elements inside yourself and in your intimate life now can benefit you. This is also a good time for sorting out finances, particularly money shared or coming from other sources other than your own personal income.
You might particularly enjoy discussing topics that you typically don't verbalize with someone special during this cycle. Anything taboo, mysterious, or puzzling can be especially fascinating for you just now. You have little interest in small talk. You are more aware of subtleties and nuances during this cycle, and you can use this increased insightfulness to improve your life.
From August 18th:
Mercury transits your solar ninth house. Not content to focus on mundane, practical affairs just now, your mind turns to bigger visions, thoughts, and ideals. You are open to expanding your knowledge base during this cycle, and communications from or with someone far away may be part of the picture.
You are putting everything into perspective now, rather than compartmentalizing. Instead of simply shooting the breeze, you are more inclined to discuss broader philosophies now. Your inclination during this cycle is to think about the "big picture" rather than the mundane circumstances and details of your life. Missing appointments and other forms of forgetfulness could be part of the picture now.
Mercury is retrograde from August 23rd to September 15th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications regarding travels, legal matters, or opinions, as well as communications on the job and with co-workers, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. It's best not to sign on the dotted line for the time being, especially when it comes to making travel plans or any legal contracts. There could be irritating mess-ups on the job. You might be inclined to miss important details in your paperwork, or might experience frustrating delays that result from co-workers' errors. Travel plans may go awry, or you may have a change of heart.
Occurring in your solar ninth house this time, extra care should be exercised regarding travel or education plans. Delays or complications are very possible in these areas. Go over applications carefully before submitting them and make sure you understand instructions clearly. Expressing your opinions now might come across in entirely the wrong way. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with professors and lawyers as well; 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 eighth house. This is a less outwardly assertive or aggressive stage for you as you take the time to process recent events in your life and to develop strategies for going after what you want in the future. You are more observant than active during this cycle, and more strategic and deliberate when you do take action. There may be an increase in sexual appetite now. It's an excellent period for eliminating wasteful activities. Shared finances can come into focus, and you might feel an increased need to take charge of these matters. This could lead to disputes and disagreements if you are not careful or sensitive in your dealings with others.
From the 12th:
Mars animates and energizes your solar ninth house. During this period, you are especially enthusiastic and more bold than usual. Some restlessness and hunger for adventure is experienced now. Essentially, you are looking to expand your activities, and you may find that you have a lot of energy for higher studies, travel, or simply new subjects. Negative potentials include being excessively opinionated or getting easily fired up over differences in points of view, or legal fights.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Capricorn:
August begins with a Full Moon and a call to manage your money, resources, and talents, dear Capricorn. While emotions run high around the time of a Full Moon, they can motivate new plans to improve these areas of your life. If you've been undervaluing your contributions, whether to work or a relationship, this is a time for recognizing and affirming your worth, value, and capabilities.
Still, a bigger theme of the month is about developing and enriching your deeper connections, whether to a special person or project. Your intimacy sector is active, and transits encourage you to work on power dynamics and sharing. Of course, getting to know your own capabilities, limits, and worth is a healthy part of any exploration of dependencies on others or outside sources, and this is the "work" you're doing now.
You're seeking more depth or intimacy from your experiences this month. Venus (all month) and the Sun (until the 23rd) move through this zone of your solar chart, which rules regeneration, transformation, other people's resources (that affect you), and debts, both spiritual or emotional and material ones. There can be a more defined need for profound, rich, and meaningful experiences, more attention to a relationship's power dynamics and intimacy level, and a focus on your needs for change, evolution, and self-mastery.
Still, Venus is retrograde all month, and you can see your past in new ways. This process eventually helps you with choices and decisions about the future, even if it sometimes feels complicated. While you may have felt in the dark about your feelings recently, new awareness and the beginnings of a plan of action will likely emerge from the 13th forward. You are redefining what you want and need from others and what you expect from yourself.
Even with this inward-turned energy, Mars continues to bring dynamic energy to your spirit sector until the 27th. Life shouldn't be dull with this transit that supports you energetically and encourages the pursuit of your desires. You're making plans, seeing the bigger picture, and expressing your ideas and creative visions with others. Your powers of attraction skyrocket, and in focus are competitive activities, exams, learning, and creative activities. The physical expression of your happy feelings may be particularly appealing since you crave spirited action. You can feel excited about exploring a new path. This transit encourages taking action to move an area of your life ahead, which can happen through freeing yourself from a problem or burden or from actively pursuing a desire or goal.
Mercury turns retrograde on the 23rd, and there can be some delays to manage, this time with information, which can feel clogged. You have a strong interest in broadening your mental experiences this month, but getting to where you want to go becomes less straightforward.
The Sun enters your spirit sector on the same day, and you're putting more heart into your efforts to grow, explore, and expand beyond your usual experiences. You can experience more passion about an idea, ideal, or course of study, and you can feel compelled to share your thoughts. Exploring past studies, ideas, destinations, and topics of interest can be more attractive.
But just four days later, Mars moves on from this busy area of your solar chart, bringing on a new theme from the 27th: it heads to the top of your chart, stirring your ambitions regarding your career, reputation, or status.
While things are still moving rather slowly, concentration and commitment help you get a leg up on things as you close out the month. Your realism and willingness to take the bad with the good help you succeed. The Full Moon on the 30th prompts discoveries related to ideas, learning, communications, transportation, and relatives, which in turn motivate you to make changes and improvements.
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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 second house of your solar chart from June 21 to July 22, so that you will find a similar interpretation for this transit in both June and July’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.
The horoscopes are divided into three groups or decanates, and the differences between the groups are subtle in parts and large in other parts. For those who prefer a whole sign approach to horoscopes (classic), simply read the first decan regardless of your birthdate.
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