Pisces Monthly Horoscope
{Monthly Horoscopes 2023}
A horoscope guide to the month ahead for Pisces Sun and Pisces Ascendant.
August 2023 Horoscope: Predictions for Pisces
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Overview for this Month: Pisces (All)
August 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Pisces:
August begins with a Full Moon in the sign behind yours, dear Pisces. This can manifest as a strong message from your intuition and a sudden need to attend to personal matters or to get extra rest. This prompt comes at a time of much activity related to work, health, and routines in your chart, and it's meant to help you reach a balance if you've ignored your emotional needs. Indeed, a larger theme of the month involves special and necessary attention to work, physical health, and getting your daily affairs into order. This Full Moon simply asks you to find a balance.
August can be a busy month: you're taking charge of your work and health routines, and it's rewarding as you experience a need to lead a more organized, productive, and healthier lifestyle. This month, there is a significant emphasis on chores, work, health, routines, services, daily affairs, diet, and habits. While you may be managing and improving any of these things, it can also be a time of some dissatisfaction and need for review, motivating these adjustments.
With Venus retrograde all month, you could be reworking projects or returning to old jobs that need attention. You'll likely learn new things about past problems related to work, health, and relationships. Seeing where you may have been tripping up or chasing the wrong things in the past can lead to better decisions now and in the future.
Mars continues its transit of your partnership sector until the 27th, animating your close relationships. Someone or a relationship can stir or motivate you to action. People seem to rile you up more often, frustrating you at times and motivating you at other times. Some "push and pull" can eventually get you to a better feeling of balance or equality. Mercury turns retrograde on the 23rd in this same sector, and there can be some communication challenges, but you remain quite confident and enthusiastic that you can handle problems with Mars in your seventh house to the 27th and the Sun there from the 23rd onward.
There's undoubtedly go-slow energy in August. It's not a great time to push ahead in a general sense. Still, you can be determined to make improvements or changes. Your good cheer and optimism can help strengthen close relationships. Activities with a partner can be satisfying, or pairing up can be particularly productive. Studies or projects can show signs of progress or motivate you to do something new and bold.
Mars moves into your solar eighth house on the 27th, and on-the-surface heat in relationships can lessen, but some deeper issues may emerge. This cycle animates and energizes your private world. You may put considerable energy into your relationships or self-understanding.
The Full Moon on the 30th is in your sign, and emotions and excitement build in the last week of August. The Full Moon itself brings feelings to a head and can stir powerful epiphanies. How you feel about a matter (or person) becomes undeniable, which can lead to incredible changes in your life. Fortunately, transits now encourage self-discipline and more order in your life. There can be more respect for your ideas and pursuits, and it's a fine time for happy productivity.
See also This Month in Astrology.
Pisces (Born February 20 to March 1) and Pisces Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Pisces:
August 2023 Pisces Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until August 23rd:
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.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Venus is retrograde all month (from July 22nd to September 3rd):
Venus retrograde in general: As the planet of love and values, Venus retrograde periods are periods during which we re-assess what--and who--we value. It is a period that most astrologers consider inopportune for getting married or starting a new relationship. Major financial undertakings are not advised during this period as well.
Venus retrograde cycles are good times for creating budgets and financial plans, and for re-thinking our personal relationships. Old friends and lovers may re-appear, perhaps complicating current relationships. We are called upon to deal with relationship issues from the past. Events occur that seem fated or predestined.
It can be a real challenge getting close to a lover during this period of time. Unorthodox, experimental, and non-intimate relationships may be favored. Relationships that have been especially challenging may come to an end during this cycle.
However, strong relationships will survive it, even if there are a few bumps and bruises along the way. For singles, this is a good time for "eyes wide open" or experimental dating. It is not a time when people recognize the need for another person to complete them, or some people may be questioning whether they are with partners who actually fulfill them. This period is good for re-evaluating our relationship needs; but, again, major love decisions are best saved for after the cycle ends.
This Venus Retrograde cycle occurs in your sixth house of work, health, and habits. In addition to the general cautions outlined above, the social aspect of relationships on the job may be strained for the time being. Do your best not to let people get to you.
The desire for warm relations on the job is strong, but the path to satisfaction hard to find. Schedule major beautification processes around this cycle if possible. There can be focus on healing and processing when it comes to health.
This retrograde cycle also affects the Venus-ruled sectors of your solar chart, which are your communications and intimacy sectors. You may be feeling unsupported emotionally and financially, and you may feel a little withdrawn when it comes to daily communications and light chit-chat.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
All month:
Mercury continues to transit your solar seventh house. You can be especially aware of your "audience" in your communications now, which tend to be diplomatic and respectful during this cycle. You may be encountering an especially chatty or communicative partner, or meeting youthful, talkative people.
At this time, you love to hear others' opinions and perspectives, and it's an excellent time to do so. Others can spur on your own thinking and decision making processes now, simply by offering another perspective. You are thinking a lot about others, a partner, and relating in general, and in some cases perhaps worrying over these things.
Mercury is retrograde from August 23rd to September 15th:
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 seventh house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to negotiations and one-on-one communications. Be as non-judgmental as you can with a partner. There may be the need to revisit old issues in a partnership, or there could be some communication problems with a partner. An ex-partner may resurface during this cycle. Misunderstandings with your partner now can do some damage if you (or your partner) focus on the choice of words instead of the meanings behind the words. If you need to talk through problems, try not to over-react to what your partner has to say. Mixed messages coming from a partner, or a disappointment, could occur now. You may not be as adept at mediating disputes for the time being, but it's a good cycle in which to reflect upon your negotiation skills with the goal of improving them. Re-thinking a partnership arrangement is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with partners; 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 move through your solar seventh house. During this period, strife is possible in your close personal relationships, as a significant other is now mirroring some of your own issues with assertiveness and anger. Attracting aggression in others during this cycle is a clue that there are unresolved issues within that need tending. You might actually seek some form of conflict, whether intentionally or not, in order to deal with these issues. There can be competitiveness in your life now. Any troublesome issues that have been dormant in a relationship are likely to surface, and can now be handled straightforwardly.
From the 27th forward:
Mars energizes your solar eighth house now. Sexuality and intimacy are stimulated under this transit. Negative expression of this energy is the tendency towards ego conflicts concerning jointly held property or money. Conflicts with partners over values or possessions are possible. Occasionally, this transit could bring a crisis or ending of some kind. Something you hear about now might disturb or touch you deeply. You are likely to be more strategic in your actions during this period, as you become aware of the subtleties of human interaction. This is a time when your best course of action is to recognize that you need, or rely on, others for support.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Pisces:
August begins with a Full Moon in the sign behind yours, dear Pisces. This can manifest as a strong message from your intuition and a sudden need to attend to personal matters or to get extra rest. This prompt comes at a time of much activity related to work, health, and routines in your chart, and it's meant to help you reach a balance if you've ignored your emotional needs. Indeed, a larger theme of the month involves special and necessary attention to work, physical health, and getting your daily affairs into order. This Full Moon simply asks you to find a balance.
August can be a busy month: you're taking charge of your work and health routines, and it's rewarding as you experience a need to lead a more organized, productive, and healthier lifestyle. This month, there is a significant emphasis on chores, work, health, routines, services, daily affairs, diet, and habits. While you may be managing and improving any of these things, it can also be a time of some dissatisfaction and need for review, motivating these adjustments.
With Venus retrograde all month, you could be reworking projects or returning to old jobs that need attention. You'll likely learn new things about past problems related to work, health, and relationships. Seeing where you may have been tripping up or chasing the wrong things in the past can lead to better decisions now and in the future.
Mars continues its transit of your partnership sector until the 27th, animating your close relationships. Someone or a relationship can stir or motivate you to action. People seem to rile you up more often, frustrating you at times and motivating you at other times. Some "push and pull" can eventually get you to a better feeling of balance or equality. Mercury turns retrograde on the 23rd in this same sector, and there can be some communication challenges, but you remain quite confident and enthusiastic that you can handle problems with Mars in your seventh house to the 27th and the Sun there from the 23rd onward.
There's undoubtedly go-slow energy in August. It's not a great time to push ahead in a general sense. Still, you can be determined to make improvements or changes. Your good cheer and optimism can help strengthen close relationships. Activities with a partner can be satisfying, or pairing up can be particularly productive. Studies or projects can show signs of progress or motivate you to do something new and bold.
Mars moves into your solar eighth house on the 27th, and on-the-surface heat in relationships can lessen, but some deeper issues may emerge. This cycle animates and energizes your private world. You may put considerable energy into your relationships or self-understanding.
The Full Moon on the 30th is in your sign, and emotions and excitement build in the last week of August. The Full Moon itself brings feelings to a head and can stir powerful epiphanies. How you feel about a matter (or person) becomes undeniable, which can lead to incredible changes in your life. Fortunately, transits now encourage self-discipline and more order in your life. There can be more respect for your ideas and pursuits, and it's a fine time for happy productivity.
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See also Pisces 2023 Horoscope Preview.
See also detailed 2023 Pisces Yearly Horoscope.
Pisces (Born March 2 to March 11) and Pisces Ascendant 10 to 20 degrees Pisces:
August 2023 Pisces Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2023
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.
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 in your sixth house of work, health, and habits. In addition to the general cautions outlined above, the social aspect of relationships on the job may be strained for the time being. Do your best not to let people get to you.
The desire for warm relations on the job is strong, but the path to satisfaction hard to find. Schedule major beautification processes around this cycle if possible. There can be focus on healing and processing when it comes to health.
This retrograde cycle also affects the Venus-ruled sectors of your solar chart, which are your communications and intimacy sectors. You may be feeling unsupported emotionally and financially, and you may feel a little withdrawn when it comes to daily communications and light chit-chat.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
From August 5th:
Mercury transits your solar seventh house. You tend to weigh the pros and cons of every issue during this cycle, taking into account others' needs as well as your own. Some indecisiveness is possible now, simply because you naturally entertain opposing viewpoints. You have a strong desire to cooperate and communicate with others now. You feel most comfortable spending time with people on a one-to-one level, or with those with whom you share a personal history.
Interestingly, your own thoughts become clearer through dialogue with others during this window. You may be doing public relations work, counseling, negotiating, or arbitration during this cycle. There is a lot of emphasis on communications with partners and best friends at this time. You can use the power of words to advise others or to make peace with people in your life. You are more diplomatic than usual during this transit.
Mercury is retrograde from August 23rd to September 15th:
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 seventh house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to negotiations and one-on-one communications. Be as non-judgmental as you can with a partner. There may be the need to revisit old issues in a partnership, or there could be some communication problems with a partner. An ex-partner may resurface during this cycle. Misunderstandings with your partner now can do some damage if you (or your partner) focus on the choice of words instead of the meanings behind the words. If you need to talk through problems, try not to over-react to what your partner has to say. Mixed messages coming from a partner, or a disappointment, could occur now. You may not be as adept at mediating disputes for the time being, but it's a good cycle in which to reflect upon your negotiation skills with the goal of improving them. Re-thinking a partnership arrangement is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with partners; 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 move through your solar seventh house. During this period, strife is possible in your close personal relationships, as a significant other is now mirroring some of your own issues with assertiveness and anger. Attracting aggression in others during this cycle is a clue that there are unresolved issues within that need tending. You might actually seek some form of conflict, whether intentionally or not, in order to deal with these issues. There can be competitiveness in your life now. Any troublesome issues that have been dormant in a relationship are likely to surface, and can now be handled straightforwardly.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Pisces:
August begins with a Full Moon in the sign behind yours, dear Pisces. This can manifest as a strong message from your intuition and a sudden need to attend to personal matters or to get extra rest. This prompt comes at a time of much activity related to work, health, and routines in your chart, and it's meant to help you reach a balance if you've ignored your emotional needs. Indeed, a larger theme of the month involves special and necessary attention to work, physical health, and getting your daily affairs into order. This Full Moon simply asks you to find a balance.
August can be a busy month: you're taking charge of your work and health routines, and it's rewarding as you experience a need to lead a more organized, productive, and healthier lifestyle. This month, there is a significant emphasis on chores, work, health, routines, services, daily affairs, diet, and habits. While you may be managing and improving any of these things, it can also be a time of some dissatisfaction and need for review, motivating these adjustments.
With Venus retrograde all month, you could be reworking projects or returning to old jobs that need attention. You'll likely learn new things about past problems related to work, health, and relationships. Seeing where you may have been tripping up or chasing the wrong things in the past can lead to better decisions now and in the future.
Mars continues its transit of your partnership sector until the 27th, animating your close relationships. Someone or a relationship can stir or motivate you to action. People seem to rile you up more often, frustrating you at times and motivating you at other times. Some "push and pull" can eventually get you to a better feeling of balance or equality. Mercury turns retrograde on the 23rd in this same sector, and there can be some communication challenges, but you remain quite confident and enthusiastic that you can handle problems with Mars in your seventh house to the 27th and the Sun there from the 23rd onward.
There's undoubtedly go-slow energy in August. It's not a great time to push ahead in a general sense. Still, you can be determined to make improvements or changes. Your good cheer and optimism can help strengthen close relationships. Activities with a partner can be satisfying, or pairing up can be particularly productive. Studies or projects can show signs of progress or motivate you to do something new and bold.
Mars moves into your solar eighth house on the 27th, and on-the-surface heat in relationships can lessen, but some deeper issues may emerge. This cycle animates and energizes your private world. You may put considerable energy into your relationships or self-understanding.
The Full Moon on the 30th is in your sign, and emotions and excitement build in the last week of August. The Full Moon itself brings feelings to a head and can stir powerful epiphanies. How you feel about a matter (or person) becomes undeniable, which can lead to incredible changes in your life. Fortunately, transits now encourage self-discipline and more order in your life. There can be more respect for your ideas and pursuits, and it's a fine time for happy productivity.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.
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Love & 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 Pisces 2023 Horoscope Preview.
See also detailed 2023 Pisces Yearly Horoscope.
Pisces (Born March 12 to 20)
AND Pisces Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Pisces:
August 2023 Pisces 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 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 13th forward:
The Sun illuminates your solar sixth house. During this cycle, you take more pride in the work you do and in your health routines than any other time of the year. You are sorting through the experiences of the last several months, separating the worthwhile from the worthless. This is a good time to build your skills, to get organized, and to attend to your health and wellbeing. It's a great time to make improvements to your regular routines. Your self-esteem and your ego are tied up in the work you do and in the services you give. Details are more important to you now.
It's time to bring order to your life by focusing on the little things that make up the whole. This cycle presents an opportunity to get rid of what doesn't work in your life, while also discovering what does. You could seek distinction and strive towards perfection in your work. Efficiency should be your goal now. Your physical health, as well as the relationship between your body and your mind, are in focus.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Venus is retrograde all month (from July 22nd to September 3rd):
Venus retrograde in general: As the planet of love and values, Venus retrograde periods are periods during which we re-assess what--and who--we value. It is a period that most astrologers consider inopportune for getting married or starting a new relationship. Major financial undertakings are not advised during this period as well.
Venus retrograde cycles are good times for creating budgets and financial plans, and for re-thinking our personal relationships. Old friends and lovers may re-appear, perhaps complicating current relationships. We are called upon to deal with relationship issues from the past. Events occur that seem fated or predestined.
It can be a real challenge getting close to a lover during this period of time. Unorthodox, experimental, and non-intimate relationships may be favored. Relationships that have been especially challenging may come to an end during this cycle.
However, strong relationships will survive it, even if there are a few bumps and bruises along the way. For singles, this is a good time for "eyes wide open" or experimental dating. It is not a time when people recognize the need for another person to complete them, or some people may be questioning whether they are with partners who actually fulfill them. This period is good for re-evaluating our relationship needs; but, again, major love decisions are best saved for after the cycle ends.
This Venus Retrograde cycle occurs for the most part in your fifth house of romance, pleasure, speculation, and children. Because the cycle directly affects your sector of romance and speculation, you should be especially wary of jumping into arguments with a lover and taking risks with gambling.
You may feel you are on shaky ground in the romance department. You don't need to share all your feelings with a lover right now, and you shouldn't jump to conclusions if your lover needs a little space either. It can be hard to derive satisfaction from your romantic and creative activities for the time being. An old lover may resurface in your life, complicating matters.
This retrograde cycle also affects the Venus-ruled sectors of your solar chart, which are your communications and intimacy sectors. You may be feeling unsupported emotionally and financially, and you may feel a little withdrawn when it comes to daily communications and light chit-chat.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until August 17th:
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.
From August 18th:
Mercury transits your solar seventh house. You tend to weigh the pros and cons of every issue during this cycle, taking into account others' needs as well as your own. Some indecisiveness is possible now, simply because you naturally entertain opposing viewpoints. You have a strong desire to cooperate and communicate with others now. You feel most comfortable spending time with people on a one-to-one level, or with those with whom you share a personal history.
Interestingly, your own thoughts become clearer through dialogue with others during this window. You may be doing public relations work, counseling, negotiating, or arbitration during this cycle. There is a lot of emphasis on communications with partners and best friends at this time. You can use the power of words to advise others or to make peace with people in your life. You are more diplomatic than usual during this transit.
Mercury is retrograde from August 23rd to September 15th:
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 seventh house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to negotiations and one-on-one communications. Be as non-judgmental as you can with a partner. There may be the need to revisit old issues in a partnership, or there could be some communication problems with a partner. An ex-partner may resurface during this cycle. Misunderstandings with your partner now can do some damage if you (or your partner) focus on the choice of words instead of the meanings behind the words. If you need to talk through problems, try not to over-react to what your partner has to say. Mixed messages coming from a partner, or a disappointment, could occur now. You may not be as adept at mediating disputes for the time being, but it's a good cycle in which to reflect upon your negotiation skills with the goal of improving them. Re-thinking a partnership arrangement is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with partners; 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 animate and energize your solar sixth house. Energy and initiative for work, health, and other daily activities increase. You are self-motivated when it comes to these matters. If there are disagreements and disputes that erupt on the job now, they may be due to a feeling of stress or impatience, or they could come from your desire to get things done independently. It's best to apply energy productively to completing projects that are unfinished or even to get ahead of yourself. It's a strong period for feeling motivated for starting a new health or fitness routine.
From the 12th:
Mars energizes and animates your solar seventh house. Partnerships may suffer from ego conflicts, or opposition from others may be challenging. Use the extra energy that Mars brings to this sector of your chart to work cooperatively on relationship problems. You may even find that you seem to need someone's help in order to do what you want to do during this cycle. Relationships are vivacious and dynamic during this period. When a difference arises, you are quick to settle it, and have little patience for sweeping matters under the rug. Your close personal relationships are lively during this cycle--full of conflicts and resolutions or reconciliations.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Pisces:
August begins with a Full Moon in the sign behind yours, dear Pisces. This can manifest as a strong message from your intuition and a sudden need to attend to personal matters or to get extra rest. This prompt comes at a time of much activity related to work, health, and routines in your chart, and it's meant to help you reach a balance if you've ignored your emotional needs. Indeed, a larger theme of the month involves special and necessary attention to work, physical health, and getting your daily affairs into order. This Full Moon simply asks you to find a balance.
August can be a busy month: you're taking charge of your work and health routines, and it's rewarding as you experience a need to lead a more organized, productive, and healthier lifestyle. This month, there is a significant emphasis on chores, work, health, routines, services, daily affairs, diet, and habits. While you may be managing and improving any of these things, it can also be a time of some dissatisfaction and need for review, motivating these adjustments.
With Venus retrograde all month, you could be reworking projects or returning to old jobs that need attention. You'll likely learn new things about past problems related to work, health, and relationships. Seeing where you may have been tripping up or chasing the wrong things in the past can lead to better decisions now and in the future.
Mars continues its transit of your partnership sector until the 27th, animating your close relationships. Someone or a relationship can stir or motivate you to action. People seem to rile you up more often, frustrating you at times and motivating you at other times. Some "push and pull" can eventually get you to a better feeling of balance or equality. Mercury turns retrograde on the 23rd in this same sector, and there can be some communication challenges, but you remain quite confident and enthusiastic that you can handle problems with Mars in your seventh house to the 27th and the Sun there from the 23rd onward.
There's undoubtedly go-slow energy in August. It's not a great time to push ahead in a general sense. Still, you can be determined to make improvements or changes. Your good cheer and optimism can help strengthen close relationships. Activities with a partner can be satisfying, or pairing up can be particularly productive. Studies or projects can show signs of progress or motivate you to do something new and bold.
Mars moves into your solar eighth house on the 27th, and on-the-surface heat in relationships can lessen, but some deeper issues may emerge. This cycle animates and energizes your private world. You may put considerable energy into your relationships or self-understanding.
The Full Moon on the 30th is in your sign, and emotions and excitement build in the last week of August. The Full Moon itself brings feelings to a head and can stir powerful epiphanies. How you feel about a matter (or person) becomes undeniable, which can lead to incredible changes in your life. Fortunately, transits now encourage self-discipline and more order in your life. There can be more respect for your ideas and pursuits, and it's a fine time for happy productivity.
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