Libra Monthly Horoscope
{Monthly Horoscopes 2021}
A horoscope guide to the month ahead for Libra Sun and Libra Ascendant.
August 2021 Horoscope: Predictions for Libra
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We divide our 2021 monthly horoscopes into 3 groups (or decanates/decans) per sign for more accuracy. Remember that if you know your Ascendant, read forecasts for both your Sun sign and your Ascendant sign. If you know your birth time, but don’t know your Ascendant, be sure to see How to Obtain Your Astrology Chart here or use Cafe Astrology’s Ascendant Calculator.
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Overview for this Month: Libra (All)
August 2021 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra:
As August begins, you’re in good shape for cultivating contacts, getting involved, networking, sharing ideas and time or energy, dear Libra. You can make valuable new connections, or you might strengthen your ties with current friends or associates. You're making friendships work. Progress occurs through groups, like-minded people, friends, networking, associates, and new or experimental ideas and approaches.
You begin the month giving a lot of thought to friendships, group associations, and long-term goals, or you enjoy new insights into these areas of your life. You can feel excited and hopeful about the future. Your personal happiness goals or cherished causes are in focus. You might gain more clarity about--or through--a friend.
Despite all of this, a good part of you is holding yourself back due to Mars and your ruler, Venus, in your privacy sector. Mars is in this private, hidden sector of your solar chart all month while Venus stays until mid-month. While August should be good for networking, interviews, and enjoying group connections, there is also a strong need for rest, reflection, and time for yourself. Finding the right balance between the two would be ideal.
You might take particular pleasure in their private life. Dreams can be intriguing, and time in relative solitude can be enriching. Decision-making about money and love is not straightforward, though, until Venus enters your sign on the 16th. Until then, it’s wise to take your time to come to reliable conclusions. You may not be ready to share your feelings with the world.
The New Moon in your friendship sector on the 8th is energizing and can light a fire under you to begin a new project or make connections. It's a little impulsive, and the days immediately following it hold energies that temporarily cloud judgment, but in due time, you'll find that motivation and clarity increase. A new friendship or a new lease on an existing one may be in the cards. This lunation also speaks to your dreams, aspirations, and enterprising nature, presenting an excellent time for new technological endeavors and a strong period for bonding with people with similar interests or perspectives.
Venus enters your sign on the 16th, clarifying your affections and boosting your comfort with yourself! You radiate warmth and gentle confidence during this pleasing transit. It's a time to attract good things and considerate people into your life.
Do watch for a tendency to communicate before thinking or gathering all the facts, particularly around the 18th. Watch also for an overactive curiosity, as you may think you’re ready for something when you’re not. You can feel encouraged and excited to make personal improvements on emotional levels. You have a bit more courage to break through a limitation or taboo. You may break out of a rut or find a release from an old obligation, and it feels good to do so.
Uranus turns retrograde on the 19th for about five months. During this cycle, you might aim to examine how you depend on others and devise strategies to alter dependencies in ways that benefit you and the people you love. If financial or support matters have been up in the air, disorganized, or unreliable, now’s your chance to figure out why.
You can find yourself in high demand in August, but by the 22nd, you are more fully on board for extra time to yourself or for recuperation. The need to rest and relax is persistent all month — it’s just more wholehearted after the 22nd. Be especially vigilant with your health by taking breaks and rest periods.
Physical energy can be on the low side this month, but emotional energy and enthusiasm run high. You’re in a planning and dreaming stage, gathering inspiration wherever you can find it. There is a strong focus on detoxifying and cleansing on emotional, mental, and physical health levels in August.
When Mars enters your sign in mid-September, you’ll be focused on “out with the old and in with the new.” This month, it’s your job to identify what the “old” in this formula truly is so that you’re ready for the “new.” It’s not that you’re struggling until then–it’s more about observing, recharging, and healing or preparing for the upcoming active period. You can feel compelled to finally handle a situation that has been a burden. This month, there can be a renewed interest in spirituality with increased activity in your soul and privacy sector.
There can be a flurry of activity surrounding a child, creative project, or romance around the Full Moon on the 22nd. This lunation can bring affections and creativity to full bloom. The route to fulfillment may not be immediately apparent, but the first step is acknowledging what it is that you’re seeking. Self-awareness is everything right now. Similar energy was with you last month, but now it feels more urgent.
This Full Moon can bring wonderful opportunities for understanding your feelings for someone or a special project. While your emotions are full-blown now, even when you come down from the initial rush of discovery and connection, you’ll feel confident about what to do next.
Your mental energies quicken from the 30th with Mercury moving into your sign, favoring any task that involves getting your point across effectively.
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Libra (Born September 24 to October 3) and Libra Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Libra:
August 2021 Libra Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2021
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until August 22nd:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar eleventh house. During this cycle, you are planting seeds for the future, dreaming up plans that you might begin to develop two months down the road, if they still seem viable then. You are more aware of the benefits of networking, and you might find some great ideas through others now. You might be working in a team now.
You could be questioning some of the rules you have been living by and you could be ready to try something totally new. You are more attracted to that which is progressive or unconventional during this cycle.
From August 23rd forward:
The Sun travels through your twelfth house now, marking a time of retreat and regeneration. Think about the attachments you have--to things, people, and routines--and consider which ones are dragging you down. This is a time when competitive energies and the ego are on a bit of a break.
It's not the time to push ahead with brand new projects. Rather, it's a time of reflection, dreaming, and recharging your batteries. Situations that have naturally outgrown their usefulness in your life can now be put behind you. Endings of natural cycles may be part of the picture at this time of year. Your energy is largely applied to personal and private affairs now. Your disposition is introspective. Rest and reflect, and prepare for a more outgoing cycle when the Sun moves into your first house.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until August 15th:
Venus continues to transit through your solar twelfth house now. The twelfth house is a sector of endings, privacy, and mental health, and with Venus here, it's possible that you are reviewing your feelings for someone, or enjoying a more private love life for the time being. You may not be open with your affections for whatever reason now, and this shouldn't be a problem—it may be difficult to articulate, verbalize, or intellectualize your feelings for the time being. Doing some soul-searching as well as an enhanced ability to perceive other dimensions in love can lead you to a deeper understanding of your own love needs and possibly of a love relationship. Love might involve some form of sacrifice or simply a lot of giving and lending of support as opposed to receiving during this cycle.
From August 16th forward:
You could find it hard to deny yourself much of anything during this cycle! This is a time when you naturally let loose your softer, receptive side. Romantic matters, as well as pleasure-seeking activities, come to the fore now. You are more likely to pay closer attention to your physical appearance and mannerisms, aiming to improve and enhance your attractiveness. Others find you especially agreeable and cooperative. You are more gracious, well-behaved (superficial if you are not careful!), and likable now. Take advantage! It's a time when you turn heads, and it's also a period for extra attention to pleasures, pampering, and enjoyment.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until August 11th:
Mercury continues to journey through your solar eleventh house. This is a time when conversations with friends and various networking activities are much appreciated and offer learning experiences. Your ideas just now are especially progressive and unconventional, as you are questioning the rules you typically live by and entertaining some wild ideas.
Not all of these ideas are necessarily going to last or lead to new projects, but it's a time of dreaming up new possibilities and new possible solutions to problems. You are especially interested in spending time with people who are like-minded. Social interactions are more frequent, light, and fun during this cycle.
From August 11-29:
Your mind is focused on private matters and past issues while Mercury transits the twelfth house of your solar chart. This is a time when you are least likely to speak out of turn or to express yourself freely. You're searching behind the curtain, and examining the past for answers.
This is a good time for research, quiet contemplation, and meditation; but do avoid getting dragged down by issues that have outgrown their worth and purpose. Examining the past in order to improve the future is certainly worthwhile, as long as you don't waste your energy on guilt. Creative endeavors could prosper now, particularly those that draw upon the emotions or that require creative visualization skills, such as poetry, art, acting, and other such activities.
You are likely to require a certain amount of solitude in order to get your thoughts together or to be mentally productive. You are less likely to chat indiscriminately during this transit, and tend to be a little secretive or tight-lipped for the time being. This may be important, in fact, because this position of Mercury is sometimes associated with the uncovering of secrets, so discretion may be in order.
From August 30th forward:
With Mercury in your solar first house, you are most inclined to speak up about matters that you previously were only mulling over. Your disposition is more intellectual than usual now, and self-expression comes easily. You are sharper than usual--more observant, and more inclined to "live in the head". Relationships with siblings, neighbors, classmates, and casual friends may become more prominent in your life now.
It is likely that you will initiate discussions during this period, evaluate your appearance and the impact you have on those around you, and make contact with others rather than stay chained to any one place or activity.
This is the time to be direct and to communicate your needs and interests. You are more inclined to talk about yourself and your personal past now. This may also be a restless time when it is difficult to turn the thinking process off when it would be better to relax! It is an especially fruitful time for any endeavor that requires dealing with words, ideas, and facts and figures.
Your demeanor is more youthful, perhaps mischievous, light-hearted, and non-threatening so that others may be more inclined to turn to you for advice or pleasant conversation. Using the power of words to attract what you want or to further your interests works best for you now.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to energize your solar twelfth house now. While Mars occupies the twelfth house, asserting yourself in a direct and straightforward manner can be difficult. This is largely due to a feeling of not being in touch with what it is you want or desire just for the time being as you reassess your goals and needs.
This lack of direction and self-knowledge should prompt you to look within to learn about your desires. It is likely that you will be much clearer when Mars reaches your first house. For the time being, take some time for rest and give your ego a break.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2021 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra:
As August begins, you’re in good shape for cultivating contacts, getting involved, networking, sharing ideas and time or energy, dear Libra. You can make valuable new connections, or you might strengthen your ties with current friends or associates. You're making friendships work. Progress occurs through groups, like-minded people, friends, networking, associates, and new or experimental ideas and approaches.
You begin the month giving a lot of thought to friendships, group associations, and long-term goals, or you enjoy new insights into these areas of your life. You can feel excited and hopeful about the future. Your personal happiness goals or cherished causes are in focus. You might gain more clarity about--or through--a friend.
Despite all of this, a good part of you is holding yourself back due to Mars and your ruler, Venus, in your privacy sector. Mars is in this private, hidden sector of your solar chart all month while Venus stays until mid-month. While August should be good for networking, interviews, and enjoying group connections, there is also a strong need for rest, reflection, and time for yourself. Finding the right balance between the two would be ideal.
You might take particular pleasure in their private life. Dreams can be intriguing, and time in relative solitude can be enriching. Decision-making about money and love is not straightforward, though, until Venus enters your sign on the 16th. Until then, it’s wise to take your time to come to reliable conclusions. You may not be ready to share your feelings with the world.
The New Moon in your friendship sector on the 8th is energizing and can light a fire under you to begin a new project or make connections. It's a little impulsive, and the days immediately following it hold energies that temporarily cloud judgment, but in due time, you'll find that motivation and clarity increase. A new friendship or a new lease on an existing one may be in the cards. This lunation also speaks to your dreams, aspirations, and enterprising nature, presenting an excellent time for new technological endeavors and a strong period for bonding with people with similar interests or perspectives.
Venus enters your sign on the 16th, clarifying your affections and boosting your comfort with yourself! You radiate warmth and gentle confidence during this pleasing transit. It's a time to attract good things and considerate people into your life.
Do watch for a tendency to communicate before thinking or gathering all the facts, particularly around the 18th. Watch also for an overactive curiosity, as you may think you’re ready for something when you’re not. You can feel encouraged and excited to make personal improvements on emotional levels. You have a bit more courage to break through a limitation or taboo. You may break out of a rut or find a release from an old obligation, and it feels good to do so.
Uranus turns retrograde on the 19th for about five months. During this cycle, you might aim to examine how you depend on others and devise strategies to alter dependencies in ways that benefit you and the people you love. If financial or support matters have been up in the air, disorganized, or unreliable, now’s your chance to figure out why.
You can find yourself in high demand in August, but by the 22nd, you are more fully on board for extra time to yourself or for recuperation. The need to rest and relax is persistent all month — it’s just more wholehearted after the 22nd. Be especially vigilant with your health by taking breaks and rest periods.
Physical energy can be on the low side this month, but emotional energy and enthusiasm run high. You’re in a planning and dreaming stage, gathering inspiration wherever you can find it. There is a strong focus on detoxifying and cleansing on emotional, mental, and physical health levels in August.
When Mars enters your sign in mid-September, you’ll be focused on “out with the old and in with the new.” This month, it’s your job to identify what the “old” in this formula truly is so that you’re ready for the “new.” It’s not that you’re struggling until then–it’s more about observing, recharging, and healing or preparing for the upcoming active period. You can feel compelled to finally handle a situation that has been a burden. This month, there can be a renewed interest in spirituality with increased activity in your soul and privacy sector.
There can be a flurry of activity surrounding a child, creative project, or romance around the Full Moon on the 22nd. This lunation can bring affections and creativity to full bloom. The route to fulfillment may not be immediately apparent, but the first step is acknowledging what it is that you’re seeking. Self-awareness is everything right now. Similar energy was with you last month, but now it feels more urgent.
This Full Moon can bring wonderful opportunities for understanding your feelings for someone or a special project. While your emotions are full-blown now, even when you come down from the initial rush of discovery and connection, you’ll feel confident about what to do next.
Your mental energies quicken from the 30th with Mercury moving into your sign, favoring any task that involves getting your point across effectively.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
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See also general trends for Libra in 2021 and the full 2021 Yearly Libra Horoscope.
Libra (Born October 4 to 13) and Libra Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Libra:
August 2021 Libra Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2021
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
The Sun lights your solar eleventh house. The Sun illuminates your sector of friends, groups, and dreams coming true this month. It's a sociable sector of your chart, and that's exactly how you are feeling--happy, light-hearted, cosmopolitan, and social. Group affiliations capture your attention. Connections can be made now and networking pays off, or at least satisfies. Being part of a community or circle of friends and building your social network is important to you at this time.
This is a rather happy, goal-oriented cycle. A lively agenda is promised, you're attracting quite a bit of interest, and your energy for making contact with others is high. A stronger sense of community is with you during this cycle. Relationships take on a fun, if impersonal, tone now. Activities with children (especially others' children) may increase. You are more stimulated by all that is unconventional during this cycle, and your ideas are original and progressive now. This is a time to follow your dreams and ideals, and to plant a seed in the form of a wish for the future.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until the 24th:
Venus continues to transit through your solar twelfth house now. The twelfth house is a sector of endings, privacy, and mental health, and with Venus here, it's possible that you are reviewing your feelings for someone, or enjoying a more private love life for the time being. You may not be open with your affections for whatever reason now, and this shouldn't be a problem—it may be difficult to articulate, verbalize, or intellectualize your feelings for the time being. Doing some soul-searching as well as an enhanced ability to perceive other dimensions in love can lead you to a deeper understanding of your own love needs and possibly of a love relationship. Love might involve some form of sacrifice or simply a lot of giving and lending of support as opposed to receiving during this cycle.
From August 24th forward:
You could find it hard to deny yourself much of anything during this cycle! This is a time when you naturally let loose your softer, receptive side. Romantic matters, as well as pleasure-seeking activities, come to the fore now. You are more likely to pay closer attention to your physical appearance and mannerisms, aiming to improve and enhance your attractiveness. Others find you especially agreeable and cooperative. You are more gracious, well-behaved (superficial if you are not careful!), and likable now. Take advantage! It's a time when you turn heads, and it's also a period for extra attention to pleasures, pampering, and enjoyment.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
From August 1-17:
Mercury is transiting your solar eleventh house. Your mind is bright, alert, and active during this cycle, and you have the ability to come up with unusual and inventive ideas. Sharing your thoughts with others is a prime interest. Others tend to particularly enjoy your conversations during this transit--you are willing to listen as well as add your own thoughts.
As well, your ability to grasp unusual subject matter and to intuitively understand what others are trying to say win you some brownie points! You could also do a lot of thinking and musing about your own happiness and long-term goals.
From August 17th forward:
Your mind is focused on private matters and past issues while Mercury transits the twelfth house of your solar chart. This is a time when you are least likely to speak out of turn or to express yourself freely. You're searching behind the curtain, and examining the past for answers.
This is a good time for research, quiet contemplation, and meditation; but do avoid getting dragged down by issues that have outgrown their worth and purpose. Examining the past in order to improve the future is certainly worthwhile, as long as you don't waste your energy on guilt. Creative endeavors could prosper now, particularly those that draw upon the emotions or that require creative visualization skills, such as poetry, art, acting, and other such activities.
You are likely to require a certain amount of solitude in order to get your thoughts together or to be mentally productive. You are less likely to chat indiscriminately during this transit, and tend to be a little secretive or tight-lipped for the time being. This may be important, in fact, because this position of Mercury is sometimes associated with the uncovering of secrets, so discretion may be in order.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until August 14th:
Mars continues to activate your solar eleventh house. You take a more direct approach to realizing your dreams now, rather than simply hoping and wishing.
You might find that you have more energy and enthusiasm for spending time with others, but arguments now may be with or on behalf of friends. You can be especially effective at encouraging others now, as well as at leading or organizing a group.
From August 15th:
With Mars moving through your solar twelfth house, this is the time to research and reflect upon your goals. It can be a time when past actions catch up with you--and this is not necessarily a bad thing!
It could also be a time when much of your energy is channeled into private matters, or when you prefer that others not observe what you are doing. This is natural--you may just as well do your best work alone for now. Unconscious behavior patterns could influence the way you assert yourself.
Some may experience insomnia during this phase, especially if they are not allowing themselves the chance to recoup and if they are not letting their intuition serve them. Others may enjoy a more active dreaming life (this includes day-dreaming), and, if allowed to run free, the imagination can serve them very well, especially with regards to goals and new concepts.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2021 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra:
As August begins, you’re in good shape for cultivating contacts, getting involved, networking, sharing ideas and time or energy, dear Libra. You can make valuable new connections, or you might strengthen your ties with current friends or associates. You're making friendships work. Progress occurs through groups, like-minded people, friends, networking, associates, and new or experimental ideas and approaches.
You begin the month giving a lot of thought to friendships, group associations, and long-term goals, or you enjoy new insights into these areas of your life. You can feel excited and hopeful about the future. Your personal happiness goals or cherished causes are in focus. You might gain more clarity about--or through--a friend.
Despite all of this, a good part of you is holding yourself back due to Mars and your ruler, Venus, in your privacy sector. Mars is in this private, hidden sector of your solar chart all month while Venus stays until mid-month. While August should be good for networking, interviews, and enjoying group connections, there is also a strong need for rest, reflection, and time for yourself. Finding the right balance between the two would be ideal.
You might take particular pleasure in their private life. Dreams can be intriguing, and time in relative solitude can be enriching. Decision-making about money and love is not straightforward, though, until Venus enters your sign on the 16th. Until then, it’s wise to take your time to come to reliable conclusions. You may not be ready to share your feelings with the world.
The New Moon in your friendship sector on the 8th is energizing and can light a fire under you to begin a new project or make connections. It's a little impulsive, and the days immediately following it hold energies that temporarily cloud judgment, but in due time, you'll find that motivation and clarity increase. A new friendship or a new lease on an existing one may be in the cards. This lunation also speaks to your dreams, aspirations, and enterprising nature, presenting an excellent time for new technological endeavors and a strong period for bonding with people with similar interests or perspectives.
Venus enters your sign on the 16th, clarifying your affections and boosting your comfort with yourself! You radiate warmth and gentle confidence during this pleasing transit. It's a time to attract good things and considerate people into your life.
Do watch for a tendency to communicate before thinking or gathering all the facts, particularly around the 18th. Watch also for an overactive curiosity, as you may think you’re ready for something when you’re not. You can feel encouraged and excited to make personal improvements on emotional levels. You have a bit more courage to break through a limitation or taboo. You may break out of a rut or find a release from an old obligation, and it feels good to do so.
Uranus turns retrograde on the 19th for about five months. During this cycle, you might aim to examine how you depend on others and devise strategies to alter dependencies in ways that benefit you and the people you love. If financial or support matters have been up in the air, disorganized, or unreliable, now’s your chance to figure out why.
You can find yourself in high demand in August, but by the 22nd, you are more fully on board for extra time to yourself or for recuperation. The need to rest and relax is persistent all month — it’s just more wholehearted after the 22nd. Be especially vigilant with your health by taking breaks and rest periods.
Physical energy can be on the low side this month, but emotional energy and enthusiasm run high. You’re in a planning and dreaming stage, gathering inspiration wherever you can find it. There is a strong focus on detoxifying and cleansing on emotional, mental, and physical health levels in August.
When Mars enters your sign in mid-September, you’ll be focused on “out with the old and in with the new.” This month, it’s your job to identify what the “old” in this formula truly is so that you’re ready for the “new.” It’s not that you’re struggling until then–it’s more about observing, recharging, and healing or preparing for the upcoming active period. You can feel compelled to finally handle a situation that has been a burden. This month, there can be a renewed interest in spirituality with increased activity in your soul and privacy sector.
There can be a flurry of activity surrounding a child, creative project, or romance around the Full Moon on the 22nd. This lunation can bring affections and creativity to full bloom. The route to fulfillment may not be immediately apparent, but the first step is acknowledging what it is that you’re seeking. Self-awareness is everything right now. Similar energy was with you last month, but now it feels more urgent.
This Full Moon can bring wonderful opportunities for understanding your feelings for someone or a special project. While your emotions are full-blown now, even when you come down from the initial rush of discovery and connection, you’ll feel confident about what to do next.
Your mental energies quicken from the 30th with Mercury moving into your sign, favoring any task that involves getting your point across effectively.
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 Libra in 2021.
Libra (Born October 14 to 23) and Libra Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Libra:
August 2021 Libra Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2021
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until August 12th:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar tenth house. Satisfaction and fulfillment during this cycle come from doing your professional best, shining as a responsible and capable person, and contributing to the world in practical ways. You might have a chance to receive acknowledgement or praise for your work or good character now. Landing support from authority figures is easier at this time. Avoid the pitfalls of pride or arrogance standing in your way of success.
From August 12th forward:
The Sun lights your solar eleventh house. The Sun illuminates your sector of friends, groups, and dreams coming true this month. It's a sociable sector of your chart, and that's exactly how you are feeling--happy, light-hearted, cosmopolitan, and social. Group affiliations capture your attention. Connections can be made now and networking pays off, or at least satisfies. Being part of a community or circle of friends and building your social network is important to you at this time.
This is a rather happy, goal-oriented cycle. A lively agenda is promised, you're attracting quite a bit of interest, and your energy for making contact with others is high. A stronger sense of community is with you during this cycle. Relationships take on a fun, if impersonal, tone now. Activities with children (especially others' children) may increase. You are more stimulated by all that is unconventional during this cycle, and your ideas are original and progressive now. This is a time to follow your dreams and ideals, and to plant a seed in the form of a wish for the future.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until August 7th:
Venus continues to move through your solar eleventh house. This is a strong time for putting your ego aside and lowering your defenses and simply enjoying people. It's a good time for networking and settling disputes if there are differences to iron out with friends. Cooperation comes easily, and warm friendships can be made during this cycle. Personal freedom is especially important to you right now, and you won't enjoy any associations that limit you. It can also be a good time for earnings from business.
From August 7th forward:
Venus is spending some time in "hibernation" in your privacy sector. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that your love life is stagnant, but that your affection is expressed behind closed doors. Attraction to secrets and whispers characterize this period, although for some, it can also be a time of endings, relationship concerns, and wistfulness. Personal and social contacts may be secretive, and there can be secret love affairs, or at least very private love feelings and longings. Shyness can lead to some loneliness or romantic frustration. However, this can also be a deliciously private and intimate time.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until August 6th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar tenth house. Career matters are busy at this time, and there can be plenty of thoughts and/or conversations about your profession, your reputation, or your social standing during this cycle. It's a good time to analyze your work tasks and to streamline them or improve your skills. There may be increased contact with the public now, or you might experience an increased need to be heard and acknowledged for your intelligence, skills, capabilities, and ideas.
From August 6-23 forward:
Mercury is transiting your solar eleventh house. Your mind is bright, alert, and active during this cycle, and you have the ability to come up with unusual and inventive ideas. Sharing your thoughts with others is a prime interest. Others tend to particularly enjoy your conversations during this transit--you are willing to listen as well as add your own thoughts.
As well, your ability to grasp unusual subject matter and to intuitively understand what others are trying to say win you some brownie points! You could also do a lot of thinking and musing about your own happiness and long-term goals.
From August 23rd forward:
Your mind is focused on private matters and past issues while Mercury transits the twelfth house of your solar chart. This is a time when you are least likely to speak out of turn or to express yourself freely. You're searching behind the curtain, and examining the past for answers.
This is a good time for research, quiet contemplation, and meditation; but do avoid getting dragged down by issues that have outgrown their worth and purpose. Examining the past in order to improve the future is certainly worthwhile, as long as you don't waste your energy on guilt. Creative endeavors could prosper now, particularly those that draw upon the emotions or that require creative visualization skills, such as poetry, art, acting, and other such activities.
You are likely to require a certain amount of solitude in order to get your thoughts together or to be mentally productive. You are less likely to chat indiscriminately during this transit, and tend to be a little secretive or tight-lipped for the time being. This may be important, in fact, because this position of Mercury is sometimes associated with the uncovering of secrets, so discretion may be in order.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until August 30th:
Mars continues to activate your solar eleventh house. You take a more direct approach to realizing your dreams now, rather than simply hoping and wishing.
You might find that you have more energy and enthusiasm for spending time with others, but arguments now may be with or on behalf of friends. You can be especially effective at encouraging others now, as well as at leading or organizing a group.
From August 30th forward: With Mars moving through your solar twelfth house, this is the time to research and reflect upon your goals. It can be a time when past actions catch up with you--and this is not necessarily a bad thing! It could also be a time when much of your energy is channeled into private matters, or when you prefer that others not observe what you are doing. This is natural--you may just as well do your best work alone for now. Unconscious behavior patterns could influence the way you assert yourself. Some may experience insomnia during this phase, especially if they are not allowing themselves the chance to recoup and if they are not letting their intuition serve them. Others may enjoy a more active dreaming life (this includes day-dreaming), and, if allowed to run free, the imagination can serve them very well, especially with regards to goals and new concepts.
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August 2021 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra:
As August begins, you’re in good shape for cultivating contacts, getting involved, networking, sharing ideas and time or energy, dear Libra. You can make valuable new connections, or you might strengthen your ties with current friends or associates. You're making friendships work. Progress occurs through groups, like-minded people, friends, networking, associates, and new or experimental ideas and approaches.
You begin the month giving a lot of thought to friendships, group associations, and long-term goals, or you enjoy new insights into these areas of your life. You can feel excited and hopeful about the future. Your personal happiness goals or cherished causes are in focus. You might gain more clarity about--or through--a friend.
Despite all of this, a good part of you is holding yourself back due to Mars and your ruler, Venus, in your privacy sector. Mars is in this private, hidden sector of your solar chart all month while Venus stays until mid-month. While August should be good for networking, interviews, and enjoying group connections, there is also a strong need for rest, reflection, and time for yourself. Finding the right balance between the two would be ideal.
You might take particular pleasure in their private life. Dreams can be intriguing, and time in relative solitude can be enriching. Decision-making about money and love is not straightforward, though, until Venus enters your sign on the 16th. Until then, it’s wise to take your time to come to reliable conclusions. You may not be ready to share your feelings with the world.
The New Moon in your friendship sector on the 8th is energizing and can light a fire under you to begin a new project or make connections. It's a little impulsive, and the days immediately following it hold energies that temporarily cloud judgment, but in due time, you'll find that motivation and clarity increase. A new friendship or a new lease on an existing one may be in the cards. This lunation also speaks to your dreams, aspirations, and enterprising nature, presenting an excellent time for new technological endeavors and a strong period for bonding with people with similar interests or perspectives.
Venus enters your sign on the 16th, clarifying your affections and boosting your comfort with yourself! You radiate warmth and gentle confidence during this pleasing transit. It's a time to attract good things and considerate people into your life.
Do watch for a tendency to communicate before thinking or gathering all the facts, particularly around the 18th. Watch also for an overactive curiosity, as you may think you’re ready for something when you’re not. You can feel encouraged and excited to make personal improvements on emotional levels. You have a bit more courage to break through a limitation or taboo. You may break out of a rut or find a release from an old obligation, and it feels good to do so.
Uranus turns retrograde on the 19th for about five months. During this cycle, you might aim to examine how you depend on others and devise strategies to alter dependencies in ways that benefit you and the people you love. If financial or support matters have been up in the air, disorganized, or unreliable, now’s your chance to figure out why.
You can find yourself in high demand in August, but by the 22nd, you are more fully on board for extra time to yourself or for recuperation. The need to rest and relax is persistent all month — it’s just more wholehearted after the 22nd. Be especially vigilant with your health by taking breaks and rest periods.
Physical energy can be on the low side this month, but emotional energy and enthusiasm run high. You’re in a planning and dreaming stage, gathering inspiration wherever you can find it. There is a strong focus on detoxifying and cleansing on emotional, mental, and physical health levels in August.
When Mars enters your sign in mid-September, you’ll be focused on “out with the old and in with the new.” This month, it’s your job to identify what the “old” in this formula truly is so that you’re ready for the “new.” It’s not that you’re struggling until then–it’s more about observing, recharging, and healing or preparing for the upcoming active period. You can feel compelled to finally handle a situation that has been a burden. This month, there can be a renewed interest in spirituality with increased activity in your soul and privacy sector.
There can be a flurry of activity surrounding a child, creative project, or romance around the Full Moon on the 22nd. This lunation can bring affections and creativity to full bloom. The route to fulfillment may not be immediately apparent, but the first step is acknowledging what it is that you’re seeking. Self-awareness is everything right now. Similar energy was with you last month, but now it feels more urgent.
This Full Moon can bring wonderful opportunities for understanding your feelings for someone or a special project. While your emotions are full-blown now, even when you come down from the initial rush of discovery and connection, you’ll feel confident about what to do next.
Your mental energies quicken from the 30th with Mercury moving into your sign, favoring any task that involves getting your point across effectively.
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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.
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