Pisces Monthly Horoscope August 2018

Pisces (Born February 20 to March 1) and Pisces Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Pisces:

August 2018 Pisces Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends

Overview.
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness

Until August 22nd:

The Sun continues to spotlight your solar sixth house. This is a busy period that finds you tending to many different details of your daily existence--your work, various projects, organization around the home and office, your daily routines, and health matters. Your ego may be especially tied up in the work you do, so that you are proud and more creative than usual in your job. You may be in the position to take charge in your work, or to take charge of your health and diet. Sometimes this cycle relates to increased activities involving pets. You seek to perfect your skills or methods now, and you focus on the parts that make up the whole now in order to improve your daily life. As a result, you can be more critical than usual, but this process is necessary for you to sort out what works for you and what doesn't.

From August 23rd forward:

The Sun illuminates your seventh house. At this time of year, you have a greater need than usual to be with a partner. Bouncing ideas off someone helps you to better understand yourself. A partner provides a mirror for your own self-discovery. Now is the time to realize your own potential through a significant other. During this cycle, you focus on balancing your personal interests and objectives with your social life, or with those of a partner. The emphasis is on "us" rather than "me".

You need the energies, companionship, and support of other people, and they may also seek out your support and companionship. It's important to include others rather than to go solo for the time being. However, bending too much to the will of another is not advised either. Social interactions of a personal, one-on-one kind are emphasized. Circumstances are such that your diplomacy skills are required. Your popularity is increasing, and is reinforced by your own ability to cooperate and harmonize. Your ego and pride are tied up in how you relate to others now. This may be an especially busy time for people who consult or work with clients one-on-one.

Eclipse

A Solar Eclipse Occurs on August 11th: A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings. The Solar Eclipse marks a new beginning for you. Letting go of the past is necessary in order to move forward. This eclipse occurs in your solar sixth house, suggesting a new approach to work or health is in order. A new set-up in existing jobs or a new job altogether may be formed in the coming months, as well as a sense of renewal and reinvigoration with regards to your daily activities, health routines, and attention to practical matters. This is a phase when you have an increased awareness of the daily routines that keep you organized and of your own health.

Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort

Until the 6th: 

Venus continues her trek through your partnership sector. Meaningful and harmonious relationships--both social and romantic--define you during this cycle, affecting your mind, body, and soul. Financial or social success may come to or through your marriage partner at this time. Special attention to and from a partner is in focus, and flattery works to your advantage! Give to a partner exactly what you would like to receive just now. It's not about you right now--it's about someone else close. Smoothing out your close personal relationships is what makes you happy during this cycle. You have a greater need than usual for contact and exchange with an intimate partner. If single, you are more willing than normal to enter into a committed relationship. In general, you are adaptable when it comes to your affections.

From August 6th forward: 

Venus graces your solar eighth house now. During this cycle, a financial boost is possible, or you may gain financially through your partner. A deep and intimate connection made now could be revitalizing and even healing. You are more inclined to want to smooth over differences in a partnership concerning the sharing of power, intimacy matters, finances, and other emotionally-charged topics. Intimate relationships are intensified now. Either you or your partner want a deeper union.

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 July 25/26 to August 19th:

All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications with a partner or about partnerships, as well as communications with or about family and home, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. It will be important to avoid signing any contracts or making important partnership or family/home decisions during this cycle.

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

Mars is retrograde from June 26-August 27

All Mars retrograde cycles affect you in the areas of personal finances, income, possessions, comfort, and values. These areas might be ambiguous now, or cause for concern and anxiety for the time being. Reassessing these matters becomes necessary. This is a good time for taking a hard look at your budget. It's also a time for understanding how the management of your personal resources impacts your confidence in general.

From June 26-August 12:

Occurring in your solar twelfth house during this period, your spirituality, private life, gut instincts, and intuition are affected. Perhaps you are not as confident about your hunches. Private affairs and solitary work might need to be put on the back burner, or you could show less enthusiasm for them. Trusting your gut instincts may become an issue. Vague fears and anxieties need to be dealt with. Obsession with private matters or concerns about the past could be part of the picture. Your desire nature can be rather complicated now, and it can be difficult to find direct routes to satisfaction. Old resentments, hurts, and waves of anger can resurface. There can be lowered vitality, likely due to emotional frustrations and exasperation. It's time to rethink, revise, and reorganize your plans. Backtracking is a good idea now. This is a time for learning about how your mental health impacts your life.

From August 12-27:

Occurring in your solar eleventh house during this period, enthusiasm for generating business income, for working towards your higher goals and hopes, for group or community activities, and/or friendships may wane, perhaps due to some problems or setbacks in these areas of life. Some of you could be dealing with frustrations and buried anger with friends. Ambiguity in these areas of life may lead you to reassess your friendships, group endeavors and associations, or higher goals. There may be frustration with goals or dreams not manifesting soon enough, when in fact this retrograde period is strong for making important edits to your plans. Refocus, backtracking, and review become necessary and recommended now.

Mars is direct from the 27th:

Mars is energizing your solar eleventh house now. Group activities and cooperative efforts are the best way to achieve your goals right now. In fact, you have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do. Avoid allowing the ego to attempt to dominate others. You prefer to lead a group rather than follow during this period, and there are certainly ways to do so without stepping on others' toes.

As well, the best way to achieve your goals during this period is to work as a team, or to at least to do some networking. You may have more energy than usual to want to organize projects. Your humanitarian impulse may be stimulated. The role you play for other people in your life becomes the focus. You may feel that your schedule gets overloaded at this time with things to do (usually for others).

Overview Horoscope:

August 2018 Pisces Horoscope Summary: While there is a special emphasis on matters of health, work, and routine this month, dear Pisces, August should have has its fair share of memorable moments and pleasant experiences. It is undoubtedly a time for dealing with errors made in the past, slowdowns, delays, and so forth, but the work you do now can pave the road for sweet successes later. Be sure to focus on healing and reflecting as well so that you can bring your renewed self back to your work and self-care programs. Lifestyle improvements are strongly favored after the Solar Eclipse on the 11th, and ideas or insights gained on the 7-8 can help direct you along these lines. It's a time when you may be itching to start anew and take charge of your work, daily routines, self-care programs, and health. A more social theme and a focus on close relationships, and especially partnerships, emerges from the 23rd forward.

August is a month for being especially productive and enjoying the feeling of being useful, but it can also be a rather busy period that requires some backtracking over incomplete or outdated projects. Health or work matters can be a concern, and there can be some muddle, confusion, a state of limbo or feeling as if you are falling behind. This is due to an unusual amount of retrograde activity. From the 19th forward, it becomes easier to handle these things directly and confidently. Still, it may not until after the 27th, when Mars turns direct, that you feel clear about what you want and where you want to go. You have plenty of planetary support for taking these slowdowns in stride, and while backtracking isn't always fun, you can be making substantial changes and refinements that will eventually benefit you greatly.

Venus transits through your solar eighth house from the 6th forward, and functions quite well there, stimulating your urge to share in a harmonious manner with others. It's a favorable influence for shared resources or money coming to you from other sources than your personal income. It's a time for regeneration and processing recent events in your love life or new feelings. Ideally, this clarifies where to make changes that benefit you going forward. This is one of the better periods of the year for attracting any support you may need, material or emotional. Feelings of love and attachment intensify during this cycle. Playful competitiveness can be gently stimulating.

From the 12th to the 27th, Mars spends its final two weeks of retrograde motion in your solar eleventh house, stirring up friendships, group interactions, and long-term goals. Some of you could be dealing with frustrations and buried anger with friends. Ambiguity in these areas of life may lead you to make reassessments. There may be frustration with goals or dreams not manifesting soon enough, when in fact this retrograde period is strong for making important edits to your plans. It can also be an excellent time for reconnecting with old friends, plans, and projects. Think of this period as a time for going back over old ground, this time with new eyes.

Mercury turns direct on the 19th, and information can come in that helps you move forward a health or work plan. At the same time, you benefit from a Jupiter-Neptune aspect that's been with you in varying degrees since December, and is now exact for the final time and in its full glory. Your intuition is working beautifully now, helping you benefit from multiple-planet retrograde periods. This can be a time for meeting a significant friend or a romantic interest through travel or other activity that involves breaking the routine. Teaching, guiding, and learning are prominent themes. It can be a time of tremendous personal appeal as well as life-changing, positive experiences that expand your mind.

From the 23rd, relationships are in stronger focus. Around the 25th especially, partnerships, friendships, communications, learning, and technological projects benefit from improvements. If you can find a way to have fun and make money, teach and learn at the same time, or similar, you should embrace the opportunity. It's also a great time for improving your image. Collaborations with others can be magical now.

On the 26th, a Full Moon occurs in your sign, and with it the blossoming or embracing of your true feelings on a matter, or a significant turning point for your personal plans. You'll get a great sense of any feelings that you've brushed aside, buried, or otherwise ignored. Knowing what's in your heart is empowering, even if you don't yet have a plan set in stone for going after what you want.

Just a day later, Mars turns direct after retrograde motion for two months. In the coming weeks, you'll be clearer about your desires and needs. Friendships might straighten out, and emotional complications seem to sort out, too. You're learning who is truly in your corner, and your desires and affections clarify. As with most matters in August, it's best not to expect immediate results. Have faith that slowly but surely, you'll get where you want to go.

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Pisces (Born March 2 to March 11) and Pisces Ascendant 10 to 20 degrees Pisces:

August 2018 Pisces Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends

Overview.

The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness

All month:

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.

Eclipse

A Solar Eclipse Occurs on August 11th: A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings. The Solar Eclipse marks a new beginning for you. Letting go of the past is necessary in order to move forward. This eclipse occurs in your solar sixth house, suggesting a new approach to work or health is in order. A new set-up in existing jobs or a new job altogether may be formed in the coming months, as well as a sense of renewal and reinvigoration with regards to your daily activities, health routines, and attention to practical matters. This is a phase when you have an increased awareness of the daily routines that keep you organized and of your own health.

Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort

Until the 17th: 

Venus continues her trek through your partnership sector. Meaningful and harmonious relationships--both social and romantic--define you during this cycle, affecting your mind, body, and soul. Financial or social success may come to or through your marriage partner at this time. Special attention to and from a partner is in focus, and flattery works to your advantage! Give to a partner exactly what you would like to receive just now. It's not about you right now--it's about someone else close. Smoothing out your close personal relationships is what makes you happy during this cycle. You have a greater need than usual for contact and exchange with an intimate partner. If single, you are more willing than normal to enter into a committed relationship. In general, you are adaptable when it comes to your affections.

From August 17th forward: 

Venus graces your solar eighth house now. During this cycle, a financial boost is possible, or you may gain financially through your partner. A deep and intimate connection made now could be revitalizing and even healing. You are more inclined to want to smooth over differences in a partnership concerning the sharing of power, intimacy matters, finances, and other emotionally-charged topics. Intimate relationships are intensified now. Either you or your partner want a deeper union.

Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation

Mercury is retrograde until August 19th:

All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications with a partner or about partnerships, as well as communications with or about family and home, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. It will be important to avoid signing any contracts or making important partnership or family/home decisions during this cycle.

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.

Mercury is direct from August 19th forward:

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.

Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage

Mars is retrograde from June 26-August 27:

All Mars retrograde cycles affect you in the areas of personal finances, income, possessions, comfort, and values. These areas might be ambiguous now, or cause for concern and anxiety for the time being. Reassessing these matters becomes necessary. This is a good time for taking a hard look at your budget. It's also a time for understanding how the management of your personal resources impacts your confidence in general.

Until August 27th:

Occurring in your solar eleventh house during this period, enthusiasm for generating business income, for working towards your higher goals and hopes, for group or community activities, and/or friendships may wane, perhaps due to some problems or setbacks in these areas of life. Some of you could be dealing with frustrations and buried anger with friends. Ambiguity in these areas of life may lead you to reassess your friendships, group endeavors and associations, or higher goals. There may be frustration with goals or dreams not manifesting soon enough, when in fact this retrograde period is strong for making important edits to your plans. Refocus, backtracking, and review become necessary and recommended now.

Overview Horoscope:

August 2018 Pisces Horoscope Summary: While there is a special emphasis on matters of health, work, and routine this month, dear Pisces, August should have has its fair share of memorable moments and pleasant experiences. It is undoubtedly a time for dealing with errors made in the past, slowdowns, delays, and so forth, but the work you do now can pave the road for sweet successes later. Be sure to focus on healing and reflecting as well so that you can bring your renewed self back to your work and self-care programs. Lifestyle improvements are strongly favored after the Solar Eclipse on the 11th, and ideas or insights gained on the 7-8 can help direct you along these lines. It's a time when you may be itching to start anew and take charge of your work, daily routines, self-care programs, and health. A more social theme and a focus on close relationships, and especially partnerships, emerges from the 23rd forward.

August is a month for being especially productive and enjoying the feeling of being useful, but it can also be a rather busy period that requires some backtracking over incomplete or outdated projects. Health or work matters can be a concern, and there can be some muddle, confusion, a state of limbo or feeling as if you are falling behind. This is due to an unusual amount of retrograde activity. From the 19th forward, it becomes easier to handle these things directly and confidently. Still, it may not until after the 27th, when Mars turns direct, that you feel clear about what you want and where you want to go. You have plenty of planetary support for taking these slowdowns in stride, and while backtracking isn't always fun, you can be making substantial changes and refinements that will eventually benefit you greatly.

Venus transits through your solar eighth house from the 6th forward, and functions quite well there, stimulating your urge to share in a harmonious manner with others. It's a favorable influence for shared resources or money coming to you from other sources than your personal income. It's a time for regeneration and processing recent events in your love life or new feelings. Ideally, this clarifies where to make changes that benefit you going forward. This is one of the better periods of the year for attracting any support you may need, material or emotional. Feelings of love and attachment intensify during this cycle. Playful competitiveness can be gently stimulating.

From the 12th to the 27th, Mars spends its final two weeks of retrograde motion in your solar eleventh house, stirring up friendships, group interactions, and long-term goals. Some of you could be dealing with frustrations and buried anger with friends. Ambiguity in these areas of life may lead you to make reassessments. There may be frustration with goals or dreams not manifesting soon enough, when in fact this retrograde period is strong for making important edits to your plans. It can also be an excellent time for reconnecting with old friends, plans, and projects. Think of this period as a time for going back over old ground, this time with new eyes.

Mercury turns direct on the 19th, and information can come in that helps you move forward a health or work plan. At the same time, you benefit from a Jupiter-Neptune aspect that's been with you in varying degrees since December, and is now exact for the final time and in its full glory. Your intuition is working beautifully now, helping you benefit from multiple-planet retrograde periods. This can be a time for meeting a significant friend or a romantic interest through travel or other activity that involves breaking the routine. Teaching, guiding, and learning are prominent themes. It can be a time of tremendous personal appeal as well as life-changing, positive experiences that expand your mind.

From the 23rd, relationships are in stronger focus. Around the 25th especially, partnerships, friendships, communications, learning, and technological projects benefit from improvements. If you can find a way to have fun and make money, teach and learn at the same time, or similar, you should embrace the opportunity. It's also a great time for improving your image. Collaborations with others can be magical now.

On the 26th, a Full Moon occurs in your sign, and with it the blossoming or embracing of your true feelings on a matter, or a significant turning point for your personal plans. You'll get a great sense of any feelings that you've brushed aside, buried, or otherwise ignored. Knowing what's in your heart is empowering, even if you don't yet have a plan set in stone for going after what you want.

Just a day later, Mars turns direct after retrograde motion for two months. In the coming weeks, you'll be clearer about your desires and needs. Friendships might straighten out, and emotional complications seem to sort out, too. You're learning who is truly in your corner, and your desires and affections clarify. As with most matters in August, it's best not to expect immediate results. Have faith that slowly but surely, you'll get where you want to go.

See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.

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Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.

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See also Pisces 2018 Horoscope Preview.

Pisces (Born March 12 to 20)
AND Pisces Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Pisces:

August 2018 Pisces Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends

The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness

Until August 12th:

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 12th 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.

Eclipse

A Solar Eclipse Occurs on August 11th: A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings. The Solar Eclipse marks a new beginning for you. Letting go of the past is necessary in order to move forward. This eclipse occurs in your solar sixth house, suggesting a new approach to work or health is in order. A new set-up in existing jobs or a new job altogether may be formed in the coming months, as well as a sense of renewal and reinvigoration with regards to your daily activities, health routines, and attention to practical matters. This is a phase when you have an increased awareness of the daily routines that keep you organized and of your own health.

Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort

Until August 28th: 

Venus continues her trek through your partnership sector. Meaningful and harmonious relationships--both social and romantic--define you during this cycle, affecting your mind, body, and soul. Financial or social success may come to or through your marriage partner at this time. Special attention to and from a partner is in focus, and flattery works to your advantage! Give to a partner exactly what you would like to receive just now. It's not about you right now--it's about someone else close. Smoothing out your close personal relationships is what makes you happy during this cycle. You have a greater need than usual for contact and exchange with an intimate partner. If single, you are more willing than normal to enter into a committed relationship. In general, you are adaptable when it comes to your affections.

From August 28th forward: 

Venus graces your solar eighth house now. During this cycle, a financial boost is possible, or you may gain financially through your partner. A deep and intimate connection made now could be revitalizing and even healing. You are more inclined to want to smooth over differences in a partnership concerning the sharing of power, intimacy matters, finances, and other emotionally-charged topics. Intimate relationships are intensified now. Either you or your partner want a deeper union.

Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation

Mercury is retrograde until August 19th:

All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications with a partner or about partnerships, as well as communications with or about family and home, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. It will be important to avoid signing any contracts or making important partnership or family/home decisions during this cycle.

Occurring in your solar fifth and sixth houses this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to romance, children, creativity, work, and daily routines. Be as non- judgmental as you can with co-workers, romantic partners, and your children. Re- thinking the suitability of your job and/or romantic relationships is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. Work-related mess-ups can frustrate you. Double-check your work. There may be the need to revisit old issues with your children or lover, or there could be some communication problems with the same. Arguments with a lover may be blown out of proportion far too easily. Both you and your lover should avoid harping on the words used and try to get to the meaning behind the words instead. Or, a romance may not be moving forward in obvious ways. It might seem like stagnation, but it's actually a period of review and rest. Other possibilities include calls that are not returned, a lover is late for a date, or dates get cancelled. Speculation and gambling are not advised right now. Things will change once Mercury turns direct, so you might decide to try to keep status quo for the time being. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with co-workers, professors, lawyers, romantic partners, and children, or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.

From August 31st forward: 

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.

Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage

Mars is retrograde from June 26-August 27

All Mars retrograde cycles affect you in the areas of personal finances, income, possessions, comfort, and values. These areas might be ambiguous now, or cause for concern and anxiety for the time being. Reassessing these matters becomes necessary. This is a good time for taking a hard look at your budget. It's also a time for understanding how the management of your personal resources impacts your confidence in general.

Until August 27th:

Occurring in your solar eleventh house during this period, enthusiasm for generating business income, for working towards your higher goals and hopes, for group or community activities, and/or friendships may wane, perhaps due to some problems or setbacks in these areas of life. Some of you could be dealing with frustrations and buried anger with friends. Ambiguity in these areas of life may lead you to reassess your friendships, group endeavors and associations, or higher goals. There may be frustration with goals or dreams not manifesting soon enough, when in fact this retrograde period is strong for making important edits to your plans. Refocus, backtracking, and review become necessary and recommended now.

From August 27th forward:

Mars is energizing your solar eleventh house now. Group activities and cooperative efforts are the best way to achieve your goals right now. In fact, you have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do. Avoid allowing the ego to attempt to dominate others. You prefer to lead a group rather than follow during this period, and there are certainly ways to do so without stepping on others' toes.

As well, the best way to achieve your goals during this period is to work as a team, or to at least to do some networking. You may have more energy than usual to want to organize projects. Your humanitarian impulse may be stimulated. The role you play for other people in your life becomes the focus. You may feel that your schedule gets overloaded at this time with things to do (usually for others).

Overview Horoscope:

August 2018 Pisces Horoscope Summary: While there is a special emphasis on matters of health, work, and routine this month, dear Pisces, August should have has its fair share of memorable moments and pleasant experiences. It is undoubtedly a time for dealing with errors made in the past, slowdowns, delays, and so forth, but the work you do now can pave the road for sweet successes later. Be sure to focus on healing and reflecting as well so that you can bring your renewed self back to your work and self-care programs. Lifestyle improvements are strongly favored after the Solar Eclipse on the 11th, and ideas or insights gained on the 7-8 can help direct you along these lines. It's a time when you may be itching to start anew and take charge of your work, daily routines, self-care programs, and health. A more social theme and a focus on close relationships, and especially partnerships, emerges from the 23rd forward.

August is a month for being especially productive and enjoying the feeling of being useful, but it can also be a rather busy period that requires some backtracking over incomplete or outdated projects. Health or work matters can be a concern, and there can be some muddle, confusion, a state of limbo or feeling as if you are falling behind. This is due to an unusual amount of retrograde activity. From the 19th forward, it becomes easier to handle these things directly and confidently. Still, it may not until after the 27th, when Mars turns direct, that you feel clear about what you want and where you want to go. You have plenty of planetary support for taking these slowdowns in stride, and while backtracking isn't always fun, you can be making substantial changes and refinements that will eventually benefit you greatly.

Venus transits through your solar eighth house from the 6th forward, and functions quite well there, stimulating your urge to share in a harmonious manner with others. It's a favorable influence for shared resources or money coming to you from other sources than your personal income. It's a time for regeneration and processing recent events in your love life or new feelings. Ideally, this clarifies where to make changes that benefit you going forward. This is one of the better periods of the year for attracting any support you may need, material or emotional. Feelings of love and attachment intensify during this cycle. Playful competitiveness can be gently stimulating.

From the 12th to the 27th, Mars spends its final two weeks of retrograde motion in your solar eleventh house, stirring up friendships, group interactions, and long-term goals. Some of you could be dealing with frustrations and buried anger with friends. Ambiguity in these areas of life may lead you to make reassessments. There may be frustration with goals or dreams not manifesting soon enough, when in fact this retrograde period is strong for making important edits to your plans. It can also be an excellent time for reconnecting with old friends, plans, and projects. Think of this period as a time for going back over old ground, this time with new eyes.

Mercury turns direct on the 19th, and information can come in that helps you move forward a health or work plan. At the same time, you benefit from a Jupiter-Neptune aspect that's been with you in varying degrees since December, and is now exact for the final time and in its full glory. Your intuition is working beautifully now, helping you benefit from multiple-planet retrograde periods. This can be a time for meeting a significant friend or a romantic interest through travel or other activity that involves breaking the routine. Teaching, guiding, and learning are prominent themes. It can be a time of tremendous personal appeal as well as life-changing, positive experiences that expand your mind.

From the 23rd, relationships are in stronger focus. Around the 25th especially, partnerships, friendships, communications, learning, and technological projects benefit from improvements. If you can find a way to have fun and make money, teach and learn at the same time, or similar, you should embrace the opportunity. It's also a great time for improving your image. Collaborations with others can be magical now.

On the 26th, a Full Moon occurs in your sign, and with it the blossoming or embracing of your true feelings on a matter, or a significant turning point for your personal plans. You'll get a great sense of any feelings that you've brushed aside, buried, or otherwise ignored. Knowing what's in your heart is empowering, even if you don't yet have a plan set in stone for going after what you want.

Just a day later, Mars turns direct after retrograde motion for two months. In the coming weeks, you'll be clearer about your desires and needs. Friendships might straighten out, and emotional complications seem to sort out, too. You're learning who is truly in your corner, and your desires and affections clarify. As with most matters in August, it's best not to expect immediate results. Have faith that slowly but surely, you'll get where you want to go.

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