August 11 2025

Monday, AUGUST 11

Mercury stations and turns direct, ending its retrograde cycle that’s been with us since July 18th. This shift brings with it the potential for improved communication and decision-making.

Over the coming weeks, problems we may have encountered while Mercury was retrograde should start to improve. The answers we’ve been waiting for arrive, and plans or projects that have stalled might now resume.

However, energies that are hard to make sense of can flood our consciousness as the change takes place today, such that critical decision-making might be avoided for the time being, as our thinking can be temporarily skewed. It’s not yet a time of keen judgment as we don’t have all the details. However, clarity is coming, and things are moving forward.

Saturn forms a sextile with Uranus, and this is the second time this outer-planet transit with longer-term influence perfects (the first happened while Saturn and Uranus were in different signs, on April 4th, 2025, and the third will occur on January 20th, 2026).

With this influence, we’re more likely to be doing what we enjoy and enjoying what we’re doing. Events occurring now build character, and life lessons are digestible. It’s a period of solid, meaningful progress. This can be a time to solidify connections, bond with allies, and work on the primary structures of our lives. The changes we make can have long-lasting benefits. Original ideas may now take form or develop quite successfully.

There is an opportunity to combine stability with improvement/excitement, leading to good results. The same can be said about innovation and tradition.

We’re heading toward a Venus-Jupiter alignment in the sign of Cancer, and we’re radiating kindness and warmth and attracting happy situations. We’re not letting responsibilities or limitations stop us from enjoying ourselves. It’s a time of increased trust, tolerance, and generosity, especially with our feelings, as well as an inclination to indulge.

The Moon is void from 2:55 AM EDT, with the Moon’s last aspect before changing signs (a trine to Jupiter), until the Moon enters Aries the next day, Tuesday, August 12th, at 6:34 AM EDT.

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