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August 2020 Horoscope: Predictions for Taurus
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Overview for this Month: Taurus (All)
August 2020 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Taurus:
In August, great energy is with you for dealing with emotional or tricky areas, dear Taurus, and putting problems behind you. You can make some handy adjustments to your domestic world, or you're particularly enthusiastic about improving your personal life. If it takes a bit of extra energy to help you reduce stress all around, you're ready to put in the effort. Efforts made around the home, with domestic projects, and concerning activities with family, can lead to remarkable advances.
August asks you to acknowledge your feelings rather than push them to the side. Problem-solving skills are improved. You can quickly find solutions to problems that make you feel more secure, especially having to do with family and expenses. Thinking about the past can be quite productive and useful. While you tend to work behind the scenes more often than not in the first few weeks of the month, you're opening up to someone special and enjoying positive reactions.
The Full Moon on the 3rd reminds you of the need to pay special attention to your work or reputation. A call to action is possible, and while you could feel some pressure to perform, don't push yourself too hard. Pace yourself even with emotions running high. You might receive extra attention, or you might be in the position to take the lead. This Full Moon stirs your emotions, and a Mars-Jupiter square stirs your desires. There can be great enthusiasm, and big, beautiful feelings and passions stimulated now, but also some impatience, which you should keep in check for best results. Channeling excess energy into something you love doing can be a winning strategy now.
You tend to seek more security and enjoy a natural and smooth flow of communication with loved ones. Thoughts and conversations often turn to the old days, childhood, home, financial security, domestic pursuits, and personal affairs. You're in an excellent position to work out of your home or in home-related fields.
Your ruling planet, Venus, enters your communications sector on the 7th for a stay of a month, increasing your need and ability to share your thoughts and feelings with someone special. You're coming out of a lengthy Venus cycle that emphasized stability and security in your social and love relationships. This new cycle can serve as an important shift that's echoed later in August with Mercury and the Sun's move into your sector of joy. You're moving into a more sociable, curious, and chatty phase. You're bringing more charm and diplomacy to your communications.
Uranus begins its yearly five-month retrograde cycle mid-August. While Uranus was direct and in your sign in recent months, confidence in your pursuit of new experiences and expression of your independence has been evident. However, with Uranus now retrograde until January, more is going on inside you than on the surface. Use this time to get in touch with what is driving you, particularly if you've been feeling restless or on edge. Examine which fears or attitudes have been limiting your independence and personal truth. Plans may be put on hold or could slow down, whether this is due to circumstances or because you are not as quick to make changes or take personal risks.
The New Moon on the 18th brings fresh energy into your life for personal and domestic pursuits. You might consider this lunation a push to reconnect with yourself -- to check in with your feelings and comfort levels before pressing forward. A new start with family, home life, or living conditions and arrangements is possible now.
August transits help you find ways to satisfy both your need for new experiences and your desire to lay low and regenerate. This might mean a restful adventure or new activity that refreshes you.
Mercury and the Sun head into your sector of leisure, self-expression, fun, romance, and creativity on the 19th and 22nd, respectively. As August progresses, activities through which you can have fun, impress, create, and share are a strong draw. Others tend to respond well to your ideas and overtures.
While communications tend to be lighter or more playful, they can be rewarding and refreshing. Sharing your plans with someone and perhaps brainstorming to improve them can be rewarding. Developing satisfying rules or expectations in a relationship can be in focus. You're in a great position to apply yourself to something fulfilling and worthwhile, whether it's a hobby, project, or relationship. Your desire to create and share awakens.
See also This Month in Astrology.
Taurus (Born April 21 to 30) and Taurus Ascendant from 0 to 10 degrees Taurus:
August 2020 Taurus Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2020
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until August 21st:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar fourth house. This is a period of recharge, of getting in touch with your innermost feelings, of connecting with your roots, and of spending more time and energy on home and family. Home and family matters capture your attention and are a strong source of pride now. It's a time when worldly matters are not as important to you.
Use this energy to find ways to improve your family relations and your home environment. During this heart-warming cycle, you would do best to allow yourself to explore your inner needs so that you can nurture yourself and others in a healthy, growth-oriented manner, in preparation for more outgoing times to come.
From August 22nd forward:
The Sun illuminates your solar fifth house now. After a period of "nesting", you are coming out of your shell, ready to perform and to express yourself creatively. This is a very playful period of the year, when you are inspired creatively and emotionally. After a period of self-protectiveness, you are now more spontaneous and more willing to take risks. You take more pride than usual in your creations, your love affairs, your children, and your hobbies. Pleasure and amusement play an important role in your search for freedom of self-expression now. Show off your best colors!
You want others to take notice, and you are more sensitive to whether people appreciate you. More than any time of the year, this is the cycle in which you focus on having fun, enjoying romance, and expressing yourself creatively. Your hobbies, leisure time, moments spent with children, gaming time, and so forth, all come into focus at this time of year.
This is a cycle in which you find joy in expressing who you are--when your "inner child" comes out to play. This is a time when you are more flirtatious than usual, and when you might take a few risks in life--not only gambling with games but with life itself. You might be a bit of a showman at this time. You are likely feeling good in general, and you tend to spread the joy.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until August 7th:
Venus continues to grace your solar second house during this period. You might receive gifts or bonuses now, or you find much comfort in what you already own and have. You may be a little extravagant with money for the time being, as your desire for luxury and comfort items is increased now, and this is something to watch for. When it comes to love, you value those who make you feel comfortable and secure.
From August 7th forward:
With Venus moving through your solar third house during this period, you are mostly cheerful in your approach to others, and perhaps somewhat intellectual, during this transit. Essentially, you are quite companionable now. You enjoy talking about what interests you, and you find great value in the exchange of ideas. Sometimes this transit brings benefit through siblings, communications, or short trips. During this period, you are most attracted to wit, cheerfulness, and verbal rapport. You are especially good at mediating conflicts. Smoothing over differences using your diplomacy skills figures now.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until the 4th:
Mercury continues to move through your solar third house. Mercury feels right at home in the third house. Your mind is especially inquisitive during this cycle, when learning, short trips, and other forms of communication and making connections, appeal strongly. Some are fidgety or nervous during this cycle, perhaps due to increased errand-running, phone calls, or information overload. Others enjoy the challenge of tackling a variety of subjects.
As well, talking, writing, and studying can be good ways to handle stress. It's a great time to pick up information from your environment and the people in it. Your mind is often distracted, particularly when required to stick to routine, so this is not the best transit for focusing on one task or project. You might spend a lot of time in your car making short frequent trips, running errands, communicating with siblings and neighbors, and visiting friends and relatives.
From August 5-19:
Mercury moves through your solar fourth house. This is a time during which you can enjoy increased powers of concentration. You may require solitude in order to get mental work done during this cycle. Your memory is more retentive than usual, and your thoughts often turn to personal matters, family, and loved ones. You might particularly enjoy discussions about your early life, the past, or family matters during this cycle. In fact, it's a great time to open up conversations with loved ones, as you are more rational when it comes to personal matters now.
Your mind often wanders to domestic concerns, and issues surrounding your home, family, and personal past. On the other hand, this transit sometimes indicates an especially busy, and perhaps hectic, period on the domestic scene. For example, you might take home work or find that people drop by your home often during this cycle.
From August 20th forward:
Mercury transits your solar fifth house. During this cycle, there is a powerful mental connection with your creative self-expression. You are proud of your ideas, and very good at expressing them to others smoothly now. Your thinking is more creative than usual. You tend to entertain others with your conversation; and your sense of humor (and of mischief!) is especially strong.
Your thoughts turn to children, pleasures, or romance during this expressive cycle. You might enjoy researching speculative ventures now. You especially enjoy games that involve competing with others on a mental level. You have a stronger need than usual for intellectual stimulation. Therefore, your friends and romantic partner are best appreciated now if they are intellectual types. You're more willing to take risks on a mental level now, so take advantage of the increased spontaneity and creativity that comes with this position.
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.
Note that Mars sticks around this area of your solar chart for much longer than usual–until January 6th, 2021.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2020 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Taurus:
In August, great energy is with you for dealing with emotional or tricky areas, dear Taurus, and putting problems behind you. You can make some handy adjustments to your domestic world, or you're particularly enthusiastic about improving your personal life. If it takes a bit of extra energy to help you reduce stress all around, you're ready to put in the effort. Efforts made around the home, with domestic projects, and concerning activities with family, can lead to remarkable advances.
August asks you to acknowledge your feelings rather than push them to the side. Problem-solving skills are improved. You can quickly find solutions to problems that make you feel more secure, especially having to do with family and expenses. Thinking about the past can be quite productive and useful. While you tend to work behind the scenes more often than not in the first few weeks of the month, you're opening up to someone special and enjoying positive reactions.
The Full Moon on the 3rd reminds you of the need to pay special attention to your work or reputation. A call to action is possible, and while you could feel some pressure to perform, don't push yourself too hard. Pace yourself even with emotions running high. You might receive extra attention, or you might be in the position to take the lead. This Full Moon stirs your emotions, and a Mars-Jupiter square stirs your desires. There can be great enthusiasm, and big, beautiful feelings and passions stimulated now, but also some impatience, which you should keep in check for best results. Channeling excess energy into something you love doing can be a winning strategy now.
You tend to seek more security and enjoy a natural and smooth flow of communication with loved ones. Thoughts and conversations often turn to the old days, childhood, home, financial security, domestic pursuits, and personal affairs. You're in an excellent position to work out of your home or in home-related fields.
Your ruling planet, Venus, enters your communications sector on the 7th for a stay of a month, increasing your need and ability to share your thoughts and feelings with someone special. You're coming out of a lengthy Venus cycle that emphasized stability and security in your social and love relationships. This new cycle can serve as an important shift that's echoed later in August with Mercury and the Sun's move into your sector of joy. You're moving into a more sociable, curious, and chatty phase. You're bringing more charm and diplomacy to your communications.
Uranus begins its yearly five-month retrograde cycle mid-August. While Uranus was direct and in your sign in recent months, confidence in your pursuit of new experiences and expression of your independence has been evident. However, with Uranus now retrograde until January, more is going on inside you than on the surface. Use this time to get in touch with what is driving you, particularly if you've been feeling restless or on edge. Examine which fears or attitudes have been limiting your independence and personal truth. Plans may be put on hold or could slow down, whether this is due to circumstances or because you are not as quick to make changes or take personal risks.
The New Moon on the 18th brings fresh energy into your life for personal and domestic pursuits. You might consider this lunation a push to reconnect with yourself -- to check in with your feelings and comfort levels before pressing forward. A new start with family, home life, or living conditions and arrangements is possible now.
August transits help you find ways to satisfy both your need for new experiences and your desire to lay low and regenerate. This might mean a restful adventure or new activity that refreshes you.
Mercury and the Sun head into your sector of leisure, self-expression, fun, romance, and creativity on the 19th and 22nd, respectively. As August progresses, activities through which you can have fun, impress, create, and share are a strong draw. Others tend to respond well to your ideas and overtures.
While communications tend to be lighter or more playful, they can be rewarding and refreshing. Sharing your plans with someone and perhaps brainstorming to improve them can be rewarding. Developing satisfying rules or expectations in a relationship can be in focus. You're in a great position to apply yourself to something fulfilling and worthwhile, whether it's a hobby, project, or relationship. Your desire to create and share awakens.
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See also general trends for Taurus in 2020.
See also detailed 2020 Yearly Horoscope for Taurus.
Taurus (Born May 1 to 10) and Taurus Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Taurus:
August 2020 Taurus Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2020
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
With the Sun spotlighting your house of family and home, these areas are your instinctive focus during this period. Your family, home, property concerns, roots, and heritage come into focus and become a source of pride. You are likely quite preoccupied with feelings of security and your inner experiences. This is a time when you send down roots and seek a feeling of belonging. You could be thrust into a position of leadership on the home front.
Ego confrontations with family members are possible now, but the best way to handle this energy is to do your best to strengthen your relationship with your family and your home base. This is a time to do what you can to build trust in your family life and a strong foundation within yourself so that regardless of what you meet in the outside world over the next months, you have a secure place to return to. Besides spending more time tending to domestic affairs, the focus can be on cultivating and nourishing the inner foundations that support you and your growth. This is a time to collect yourself--to fill your well, so to speak.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until the 17th:
Venus continues to grace your solar second house during this period. You might receive gifts or bonuses now, or you find much comfort in what you already own and have. You may be a little extravagant with money for the time being, as your desire for luxury and comfort items is increased now, and this is something to watch for. When it comes to love, you value those who make you feel comfortable and secure.
From August 18th forward:
With Venus moving through your solar third house during this period, you are mostly cheerful in your approach to others, and perhaps somewhat intellectual, during this transit. Essentially, you are quite companionable now. You enjoy talking about what interests you, and you find great value in the exchange of ideas. Sometimes this transit brings benefit through siblings, communications, or short trips. During this period, you are most attracted to wit, cheerfulness, and verbal rapport. You are especially good at mediating conflicts. Smoothing over differences using your diplomacy skills figures now.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until August 9th:
Mercury continues to move through your solar third house. Mercury feels right at home in the third house. Your mind is especially inquisitive during this cycle, when learning, short trips, and other forms of communication and making connections, appeal strongly. Some are fidgety or nervous during this cycle, perhaps due to increased errand-running, phone calls, or information overload. Others enjoy the challenge of tackling a variety of subjects.
As well, talking, writing, and studying can be good ways to handle stress. It's a great time to pick up information from your environment and the people in it. Your mind is often distracted, particularly when required to stick to routine, so this is not the best transit for focusing on one task or project. You might spend a lot of time in your car making short frequent trips, running errands, communicating with siblings and neighbors, and visiting friends and relatives.
From the 10-24:
Mercury moves through your solar fourth house. This is a time during which you can enjoy increased powers of concentration. You may require solitude in order to get mental work done during this cycle. Your memory is more retentive than usual, and your thoughts often turn to personal matters, family, and loved ones. You might particularly enjoy discussions about your early life, the past, or family matters during this cycle. In fact, it's a great time to open up conversations with loved ones, as you are more rational when it comes to personal matters now.
Your mind often wanders to domestic concerns, and issues surrounding your home, family, and personal past. On the other hand, this transit sometimes indicates an especially busy, and perhaps hectic, period on the domestic scene. For example, you might take home work or find that people drop by your home often during this cycle.
From August 25th forward:
Mercury transits your solar fifth house. During this cycle, there is a powerful mental connection with your creative self-expression. You are proud of your ideas, and very good at expressing them to others smoothly now. Your thinking is more creative than usual. You tend to entertain others with your conversation; and your sense of humor (and of mischief!) is especially strong.
Your thoughts turn to children, pleasures, or romance during this expressive cycle. You might enjoy researching speculative ventures now. You especially enjoy games that involve competing with others on a mental level. You have a stronger need than usual for intellectual stimulation. Therefore, your friends and romantic partner are best appreciated now if they are intellectual types. You're more willing to take risks on a mental level now, so take advantage of the increased spontaneity and creativity that comes with this position.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
This 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.
Note that Mars sticks around this area of your solar chart for much longer than usual–until January 2021.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2020 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Taurus:
In August, great energy is with you for dealing with emotional or tricky areas, dear Taurus, and putting problems behind you. You can make some handy adjustments to your domestic world, or you're particularly enthusiastic about improving your personal life. If it takes a bit of extra energy to help you reduce stress all around, you're ready to put in the effort. Efforts made around the home, with domestic projects, and concerning activities with family, can lead to remarkable advances.
August asks you to acknowledge your feelings rather than push them to the side. Problem-solving skills are improved. You can quickly find solutions to problems that make you feel more secure, especially having to do with family and expenses. Thinking about the past can be quite productive and useful. While you tend to work behind the scenes more often than not in the first few weeks of the month, you're opening up to someone special and enjoying positive reactions.
The Full Moon on the 3rd reminds you of the need to pay special attention to your work or reputation. A call to action is possible, and while you could feel some pressure to perform, don't push yourself too hard. Pace yourself even with emotions running high. You might receive extra attention, or you might be in the position to take the lead. This Full Moon stirs your emotions, and a Mars-Jupiter square stirs your desires. There can be great enthusiasm, and big, beautiful feelings and passions stimulated now, but also some impatience, which you should keep in check for best results. Channeling excess energy into something you love doing can be a winning strategy now.
You tend to seek more security and enjoy a natural and smooth flow of communication with loved ones. Thoughts and conversations often turn to the old days, childhood, home, financial security, domestic pursuits, and personal affairs. You're in an excellent position to work out of your home or in home-related fields.
Your ruling planet, Venus, enters your communications sector on the 7th for a stay of a month, increasing your need and ability to share your thoughts and feelings with someone special. You're coming out of a lengthy Venus cycle that emphasized stability and security in your social and love relationships. This new cycle can serve as an important shift that's echoed later in August with Mercury and the Sun's move into your sector of joy. You're moving into a more sociable, curious, and chatty phase. You're bringing more charm and diplomacy to your communications.
Uranus begins its yearly five-month retrograde cycle mid-August. While Uranus was direct and in your sign in recent months, confidence in your pursuit of new experiences and expression of your independence has been evident. However, with Uranus now retrograde until January, more is going on inside you than on the surface. Use this time to get in touch with what is driving you, particularly if you've been feeling restless or on edge. Examine which fears or attitudes have been limiting your independence and personal truth. Plans may be put on hold or could slow down, whether this is due to circumstances or because you are not as quick to make changes or take personal risks.
The New Moon on the 18th brings fresh energy into your life for personal and domestic pursuits. You might consider this lunation a push to reconnect with yourself -- to check in with your feelings and comfort levels before pressing forward. A new start with family, home life, or living conditions and arrangements is possible now.
August transits help you find ways to satisfy both your need for new experiences and your desire to lay low and regenerate. This might mean a restful adventure or new activity that refreshes you.
Mercury and the Sun head into your sector of leisure, self-expression, fun, romance, and creativity on the 19th and 22nd, respectively. As August progresses, activities through which you can have fun, impress, create, and share are a strong draw. Others tend to respond well to your ideas and overtures.
While communications tend to be lighter or more playful, they can be rewarding and refreshing. Sharing your plans with someone and perhaps brainstorming to improve them can be rewarding. Developing satisfying rules or expectations in a relationship can be in focus. You're in a great position to apply yourself to something fulfilling and worthwhile, whether it's a hobby, project, or relationship. Your desire to create and share awakens.
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
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romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Taurus in 2020.
See also detailed 2020 Yearly Horoscope for Taurus.
Taurus (Born May 11 to 21) AND Taurus Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Taurus:
August 2020 Taurus Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2020
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until August 11th:
The Sun continues to highlight your solar third house--a time of the year in which you are most likely to be a "busy bee". Communications, short trips, errand-running, and general busy-ness feature now. You could have a finger in many pies, so to speak, as your curiosity is piqued by a larger variety of things than usual. Used well, this could be a period in which you come up with solutions to a number of problems. You are more inclined to take pride in your intellectual accomplishments and/or your ability to socialize and make connections.
From August 12th forward:
With the Sun spotlighting your house of family and home, these areas are your instinctive focus during this period. Your family, home, property concerns, roots, and heritage come into focus and become a source of pride. You are likely quite preoccupied with feelings of security and your inner experiences. This is a time when you send down roots and seek a feeling of belonging. You could be thrust into a position of leadership on the home front.
Ego confrontations with family members are possible now, but the best way to handle this energy is to do your best to strengthen your relationship with your family and your home base. This is a time to do what you can to build trust in your family life and a strong foundation within yourself so that regardless of what you meet in the outside world over the next months, you have a secure place to return to. Besides spending more time tending to domestic affairs, the focus can be on cultivating and nourishing the inner foundations that support you and your growth. This is a time to collect yourself--to fill your well, so to speak.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until August 27th:
Venus continues to grace your solar second house during this period. You might receive gifts or bonuses now, or you find much comfort in what you already own and have. You may be a little extravagant with money for the time being, as your desire for luxury and comfort items is increased now, and this is something to watch for. When it comes to love, you value those who make you feel comfortable and secure.
From the 28th forward:
With Venus moving through your solar third house during this period, you are mostly cheerful in your approach to others, and perhaps somewhat intellectual, during this transit. Essentially, you are quite companionable now. You enjoy talking about what interests you, and you find great value in the exchange of ideas. Sometimes this transit brings benefit through siblings, communications, or short trips. During this period, you are most attracted to wit, cheerfulness, and verbal rapport. You are especially good at mediating conflicts. Smoothing over differences using your diplomacy skills figures now.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until the 14th:
Mercury continues to move through your solar third house. Mercury feels right at home in the third house. Your mind is especially inquisitive during this cycle, when learning, short trips, and other forms of communication and making connections, appeal strongly. Some are fidgety or nervous during this cycle, perhaps due to increased errand-running, phone calls, or information overload. Others enjoy the challenge of tackling a variety of subjects.
As well, talking, writing, and studying can be good ways to handle stress. It's a great time to pick up information from your environment and the people in it. Your mind is often distracted, particularly when required to stick to routine, so this is not the best transit for focusing on one task or project. You might spend a lot of time in your car making short frequent trips, running errands, communicating with siblings and neighbors, and visiting friends and relatives.
From the 15-30:
Mercury moves through your solar fourth house. This is a time during which you can enjoy increased powers of concentration. You may require solitude in order to get mental work done during this cycle. Your memory is more retentive than usual, and your thoughts often turn to personal matters, family, and loved ones. You might particularly enjoy discussions about your early life, the past, or family matters during this cycle. In fact, it's a great time to open up conversations with loved ones, as you are more rational when it comes to personal matters now.
Your mind often wanders to domestic concerns, and issues surrounding your home, family, and personal past. On the other hand, this transit sometimes indicates an especially busy, and perhaps hectic, period on the domestic scene. For example, you might take home work or find that people drop by your home often during this cycle.
From the 30th forward:
Mercury transits your solar fifth house. During this cycle, there is a powerful mental connection with your creative self-expression. You are proud of your ideas, and very good at expressing them to others smoothly now. Your thinking is more creative than usual. You tend to entertain others with your conversation; and your sense of humor (and of mischief!) is especially strong.
Your thoughts turn to children, pleasures, or romance during this expressive cycle. You might enjoy researching speculative ventures now. You especially enjoy games that involve competing with others on a mental level. You have a stronger need than usual for intellectual stimulation. Therefore, your friends and romantic partner are best appreciated now if they are intellectual types. You're more willing to take risks on a mental level now, so take advantage of the increased spontaneity and creativity that comes with this position.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 4th:
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 the 5th 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.
Mars will continue to transit this area of your solar chart for longer than usual–until February 2021.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2020 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Taurus:
In August, great energy is with you for dealing with emotional or tricky areas, dear Taurus, and putting problems behind you. You can make some handy adjustments to your domestic world, or you're particularly enthusiastic about improving your personal life. If it takes a bit of extra energy to help you reduce stress all around, you're ready to put in the effort. Efforts made around the home, with domestic projects, and concerning activities with family, can lead to remarkable advances.
August asks you to acknowledge your feelings rather than push them to the side. Problem-solving skills are improved. You can quickly find solutions to problems that make you feel more secure, especially having to do with family and expenses. Thinking about the past can be quite productive and useful. While you tend to work behind the scenes more often than not in the first few weeks of the month, you're opening up to someone special and enjoying positive reactions.
The Full Moon on the 3rd reminds you of the need to pay special attention to your work or reputation. A call to action is possible, and while you could feel some pressure to perform, don't push yourself too hard. Pace yourself even with emotions running high. You might receive extra attention, or you might be in the position to take the lead. This Full Moon stirs your emotions, and a Mars-Jupiter square stirs your desires. There can be great enthusiasm, and big, beautiful feelings and passions stimulated now, but also some impatience, which you should keep in check for best results. Channeling excess energy into something you love doing can be a winning strategy now.
You tend to seek more security and enjoy a natural and smooth flow of communication with loved ones. Thoughts and conversations often turn to the old days, childhood, home, financial security, domestic pursuits, and personal affairs. You're in an excellent position to work out of your home or in home-related fields.
Your ruling planet, Venus, enters your communications sector on the 7th for a stay of a month, increasing your need and ability to share your thoughts and feelings with someone special. You're coming out of a lengthy Venus cycle that emphasized stability and security in your social and love relationships. This new cycle can serve as an important shift that's echoed later in August with Mercury and the Sun's move into your sector of joy. You're moving into a more sociable, curious, and chatty phase. You're bringing more charm and diplomacy to your communications.
Uranus begins its yearly five-month retrograde cycle mid-August. While Uranus was direct and in your sign in recent months, confidence in your pursuit of new experiences and expression of your independence has been evident. However, with Uranus now retrograde until January, more is going on inside you than on the surface. Use this time to get in touch with what is driving you, particularly if you've been feeling restless or on edge. Examine which fears or attitudes have been limiting your independence and personal truth. Plans may be put on hold or could slow down, whether this is due to circumstances or because you are not as quick to make changes or take personal risks.
The New Moon on the 18th brings fresh energy into your life for personal and domestic pursuits. You might consider this lunation a push to reconnect with yourself -- to check in with your feelings and comfort levels before pressing forward. A new start with family, home life, or living conditions and arrangements is possible now.
August transits help you find ways to satisfy both your need for new experiences and your desire to lay low and regenerate. This might mean a restful adventure or new activity that refreshes you.
Mercury and the Sun head into your sector of leisure, self-expression, fun, romance, and creativity on the 19th and 22nd, respectively. As August progresses, activities through which you can have fun, impress, create, and share are a strong draw. Others tend to respond well to your ideas and overtures.
While communications tend to be lighter or more playful, they can be rewarding and refreshing. Sharing your plans with someone and perhaps brainstorming to improve them can be rewarding. Developing satisfying rules or expectations in a relationship can be in focus. You're in a great position to apply yourself to something fulfilling and worthwhile, whether it's a hobby, project, or relationship. Your desire to create and share awakens.
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