Virgo Monthly Horoscope
{Monthly Horoscopes 2024}
A horoscope guide to the month ahead for Virgo Sun and Virgo Ascendant.
August 2024 Horoscope: Predictions for Virgo
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Overview for this Month: Virgo (All)
August 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Virgo:
August is a strong month for taking a break, reorienting yourself, and exploring your goals, dear Virgo, although communication may not always be straightforward. Some form of retreat is welcome. Later in the month, however, activity increases, and so does your taste for it!
Take extra time to yourself for rest and reflection with the Sun in the sign behind yours until the 22nd. This is a time for releasing, letting go, purging, and healing. The New Moon happening in this sector on the 4th encourages you to put certain outdated ventures or situations behind you.
The day after this New Moon, Mercury, your planetary ruler, turns retrograde. Reassessing certain projects, alliances, goals, or attachments can be in focus. Although it will return to your privacy sector from the 14th to the 28th, Mercury begins its retrograde in your sign. For the best results, communicate, but avoid publicizing ideas until you are clear about them. Your voice and curiosity are stronger, but there may be the need to look to the past for answers before pushing forward. Watch for talking about something prematurely.
Certainly, conversations and interactions can be tricky in spots. Some personal plans may stall or appear to move backward when, in fact, they can benefit from a review. There will be times when pausing and allowing your emotions to catch up with your mind can serve you well. As such, delays occurring now can be blessings in disguise. Decision-making may be challenging but probably only requires more time. Your mind may be looping back to the same old problems. Factor in your plans that some of the decisions made and projects started in July can come up for review.
Indeed, there can be information clogs until next month, but the pause can help you catch up and make different choices and important edits. This pause in communication is not a setback in the long run, but a chance to reassess and make more informed decisions.
Retrograde Mercury retreats into your privacy sector on the 14th, and more rumination is likely for the remainder of this cycle (until the 28th). Looking at past projects with new eyes can figure strongly.
While this introspective theme is real and important, there are a couple of signs that the world wants your involvement this month! Venus in your sign from the 4th to the 29th is particularly suitable for showcasing your appeal. People enjoy your company. Mars at the top of your solar chart all month suggests you're not only in demand socially but professionally as well.
Mars in your solar tenth house stirs your ambitions to perform, and you continue to take a hands-on, active role in pursuing your larger goals. It's a period for connecting with the need to set longer-term objectives and actively pursuing them.
Your powers of attraction run high with Venus in your sign most of the month (from the 4-29). You open yourself to pleasure and love, and your affections are strong and clear. People notice and want you more than usual. You might feel more attractive from the inside out or project more warmth.
You could also be more self-indulgent, or your desire for comfort or luxury items is hearty from the 4-29. Venus in your sign brings you out of your protective shell with more willingness (and the required inner clarity) to express your feelings. It encourages your confidence in what you have to offer the world. Make time and room for improvising and enjoying yourself.
Health or work matters can reach a turning point around the 19th. If your work or daily regimens have become too monotonous or taken a toll on your spirits, circumstances now gently nudge you to make needed changes. It's an excellent time to recognize the desire or need to begin a new self-improvement program. This potential for personal growth can be a source of motivation and inspiration, making you feel more driven and optimistic.
Nevertheless, balancing your relationships or relationship goals with career goals and responsibilities to the outside world can be a challenge, reflected in a Jupiter-Saturn square this month. These life departments clash or compete at the moment! It can be a time of pressure coming from various camps in your life.
The latter part of August finds you coming out of retreat, ideally feeling renewed and refreshed. In truth, Venus in your sign much of the month brings you attention. However, you're more likely to be feeling it once the Sun enters your sign on the 22nd. Your desire to interact is emerging. This is a time for getting noticed, making an impression, and taking charge of your personal life. It's a time of increased initiative and personal presence.
Vesta enters your sign on the 24th, and your planetary ruler turns direct on the 28th, pointing further to more clarity and even a mission that motivates you in the last few days of the month. You're gaining an excellent ability to pace yourself and pour your energies into constructive activities.
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Virgo (Born August 23 to September 2) AND Virgo Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Virgo:
August 2024 Virgo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2024
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until August 22nd:
The Sun continues to shine its light on your solar twelfth house. This is the time to listen to your intuition, to take a break from the hectic pace of your life, and to reflect on what you have learned in the past year. You might naturally retreat a little and take more private time for yourself now.
Your physical energy levels may not be up to par for the time being, and this is your body signaling you to take a break. This is not an ideal time for pushing forward with new personal projects and plans. It is better to finish up projects and tie up loose ends now.
From August 22nd forward:
The Sun illuminates your first house now, bringing issues surrounding your personal identity, appearance, outward behavior, and self-expression to the forefront. This marks the peak of your physical solar cycle, and you are in the position to make an impression on others, and to assert your personal influence. Spontaneity of expression is what this transit is about. You are ready to put your past behind you and to start a new personal cycle. You have presence and you project confidence. Increased energy and a renewed feeling of confidence is with you now, so take advantage.
It's a great month to do something entirely new and pioneering—to go solo in some area of your life. This particular season of the year smiles on your personal endeavors. This is a time when you more easily get in touch with a true sense of your identity and purpose. The most enterprising side of your nature surfaces, and it's time to seize opportunities. Existing problems in your life may be overcome now by bravery and a straightforward approach to your life.
There's nothing wrong with a bit of self-centeredness during this cycle, but avoid taking it too far. It's not the best time for teamwork and other cooperative endeavors. The spotlight is on you and your ability to lead, so make it a good one! Take steps to improve how you come across to others. It's time to carve your own path in life.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until August 4th:
Venus continues to transit through your solar twelfth house now. The twelfth house is a sector of endings, privacy, and mental health, and with Venus here, it's possible that you are reviewing your feelings for someone, or enjoying a more private love life for the time being. You may not be open with your affections for whatever reason now, and this shouldn't be a problem—it may be difficult to articulate, verbalize, or intellectualize your feelings for the time being. Doing some soul-searching as well as an enhanced ability to perceive other dimensions in love can lead you to a deeper understanding of your own love needs and possibly of a love relationship. Love might involve some form of sacrifice or simply a lot of giving and lending of support as opposed to receiving during this cycle.
From August 4th to 29th:
You could find it hard to deny yourself much of anything during this cycle! This is a time when you naturally let loose your softer, receptive side. Romantic matters, as well as pleasure-seeking activities, come to the fore now. You are more likely to pay closer attention to your physical appearance and mannerisms, aiming to improve and enhance your attractiveness. Others find you especially agreeable and cooperative. You are more gracious, well-behaved (superficial if you are not careful!), and likable now. Take advantage! It's a time when you turn heads, and it's also a period for extra attention to pleasures, pampering, and enjoyment.
From August 29th forward:
Venus transits your solar second house and, as the natural ruler of the second house, Venus feels right "at home" here. This is a rather content position for Venus, although there can be some restlessness when it comes to money and spending it—you are more inclined to want more things around you! Financial security and enjoyment of the good things in life are important to you, although you also value simple pleasures. The ability to relate well with others might enhance your own personal finances during this period. You may find yourself in a position in which there is a blending of financial matters with social or public affairs. This is a stable position for love matters and close relationships. You value those who make you feel comfortable, and familiarity is more important to you than someone new during this cycle.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Mercury is retrograde from August 5th to 28th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of your own body language and personal manner (you may feel that others misunderstand you), as well as communications involving the career or public, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. You are ruled by Mercury, so the likelihood of being misunderstood, in general, is high. Put off career decisions as well, as career matters are Gemini-ruled for you.
Occurring in your solar twelfth and first houses this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to body language and intuition. Others may misinterpret your body language, and you should be aware of a tendency to give off mixed signals. People in your life may complain that you seem emotionally distant. This is a time to review the manner in which you come across to others--not so much whether it truly reflects your nature, but more in terms of whether it is working for or against you. You may find that you are less able to rely on your intuition. Perhaps you're picking up the wrong cues or reading too much into situations. Whatever the case may be, for the time being, you may not feel that your intuition is serving you well. Be as non-judgmental as you can, but do keep an eye out for deceptiveness and falseness in others. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with close partners and family members; 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 energize your solar tenth house now. You bring much energy, enthusiasm, and drive to your career or to directing activities in your life during this cycle. You may be quite competitive during this period, preferring to achieve and accomplish things on your own. This attitude can, in some cases, be seen by others as an instigating or otherwise offensive energy, so be aware of that possibility.
This is a strong time for directly pursuing your goals, and, if you need that extra push or oomph to get a plan going, particularly a professional one, or to assert your desires, then this is the time. You are self-motivated, and your enthusiasm can be harnessed if you so choose.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Virgo:
August is a strong month for taking a break, reorienting yourself, and exploring your goals, dear Virgo, although communication may not always be straightforward. Some form of retreat is welcome. Later in the month, however, activity increases, and so does your taste for it!
Take extra time to yourself for rest and reflection with the Sun in the sign behind yours until the 22nd. This is a time for releasing, letting go, purging, and healing. The New Moon happening in this sector on the 4th encourages you to put certain outdated ventures or situations behind you.
The day after this New Moon, Mercury, your planetary ruler, turns retrograde. Reassessing certain projects, alliances, goals, or attachments can be in focus. Although it will return to your privacy sector from the 14th to the 28th, Mercury begins its retrograde in your sign. For the best results, communicate, but avoid publicizing ideas until you are clear about them. Your voice and curiosity are stronger, but there may be the need to look to the past for answers before pushing forward. Watch for talking about something prematurely.
Certainly, conversations and interactions can be tricky in spots. Some personal plans may stall or appear to move backward when, in fact, they can benefit from a review. There will be times when pausing and allowing your emotions to catch up with your mind can serve you well. As such, delays occurring now can be blessings in disguise. Decision-making may be challenging but probably only requires more time. Your mind may be looping back to the same old problems. Factor in your plans that some of the decisions made and projects started in July can come up for review.
Indeed, there can be information clogs until next month, but the pause can help you catch up and make different choices and important edits. This pause in communication is not a setback in the long run, but a chance to reassess and make more informed decisions.
Retrograde Mercury retreats into your privacy sector on the 14th, and more rumination is likely for the remainder of this cycle (until the 28th). Looking at past projects with new eyes can figure strongly.
While this introspective theme is real and important, there are a couple of signs that the world wants your involvement this month! Venus in your sign from the 4th to the 29th is particularly suitable for showcasing your appeal. People enjoy your company. Mars at the top of your solar chart all month suggests you're not only in demand socially but professionally as well.
Mars in your solar tenth house stirs your ambitions to perform, and you continue to take a hands-on, active role in pursuing your larger goals. It's a period for connecting with the need to set longer-term objectives and actively pursuing them.
Your powers of attraction run high with Venus in your sign most of the month (from the 4-29). You open yourself to pleasure and love, and your affections are strong and clear. People notice and want you more than usual. You might feel more attractive from the inside out or project more warmth.
You could also be more self-indulgent, or your desire for comfort or luxury items is hearty from the 4-29. Venus in your sign brings you out of your protective shell with more willingness (and the required inner clarity) to express your feelings. It encourages your confidence in what you have to offer the world. Make time and room for improvising and enjoying yourself.
Health or work matters can reach a turning point around the 19th. If your work or daily regimens have become too monotonous or taken a toll on your spirits, circumstances now gently nudge you to make needed changes. It's an excellent time to recognize the desire or need to begin a new self-improvement program. This potential for personal growth can be a source of motivation and inspiration, making you feel more driven and optimistic.
Nevertheless, balancing your relationships or relationship goals with career goals and responsibilities to the outside world can be a challenge, reflected in a Jupiter-Saturn square this month. These life departments clash or compete at the moment! It can be a time of pressure coming from various camps in your life.
The latter part of August finds you coming out of retreat, ideally feeling renewed and refreshed. In truth, Venus in your sign much of the month brings you attention. However, you're more likely to be feeling it once the Sun enters your sign on the 22nd. Your desire to interact is emerging. This is a time for getting noticed, making an impression, and taking charge of your personal life. It's a time of increased initiative and personal presence.
Vesta enters your sign on the 24th, and your planetary ruler turns direct on the 28th, pointing further to more clarity and even a mission that motivates you in the last few days of the month. You're gaining an excellent ability to pace yourself and pour your energies into constructive activities.
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
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birth chart reports, relationship reports, future forecasts, and more.
Love & Romance Forecast Report
Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
Romantic Compatibility Reports
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Virgo in 2024 and the full 2024 Yearly Virgo Horoscope.
Virgo (Born September 3 to 12) AND Virgo Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Virgo:
August 2024 Virgo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2024
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
The Sun travels through your twelfth house now, marking a time of retreat and regeneration. Think about the attachments you have--to things, people, and routines--and consider which ones are dragging you down. This is a time when competitive energies and the ego are on a bit of a break.
It's not the time to push ahead with brand new projects. Rather, it's a time of reflection, dreaming, and recharging your batteries. Situations that have naturally outgrown their usefulness in your life can now be put behind you. Endings of natural cycles may be part of the picture at this time of year. Your energy is largely applied to personal and private affairs now. Your disposition is introspective. Rest and reflect, and prepare for a more outgoing cycle when the Sun moves into your first house.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until August 12th:
Venus continues to transit through your solar twelfth house now. The twelfth house is a sector of endings, privacy, and mental health, and with Venus here, it's possible that you are reviewing your feelings for someone, or enjoying a more private love life for the time being. You may not be open with your affections for whatever reason now, and this shouldn't be a problem—it may be difficult to articulate, verbalize, or intellectualize your feelings for the time being. Doing some soul-searching as well as an enhanced ability to perceive other dimensions in love can lead you to a deeper understanding of your own love needs and possibly of a love relationship. Love might involve some form of sacrifice or simply a lot of giving and lending of support as opposed to receiving during this cycle.
From August 13th forward:
You could find it hard to deny yourself much of anything during this cycle! This is a time when you naturally let loose your softer, receptive side. Romantic matters, as well as pleasure-seeking activities, come to the fore now. You are more likely to pay closer attention to your physical appearance and mannerisms, aiming to improve and enhance your attractiveness. Others find you especially agreeable and cooperative. You are more gracious, well-behaved (superficial if you are not careful!), and likable now. Take advantage! It's a time when you turn heads, and it's also a period for extra attention to pleasures, pampering, and enjoyment.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Mercury is retrograde from August 5th to 28th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of your own body language and personal manner (you may feel that others misunderstand you), as well as communications involving the career or public, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. You are ruled by Mercury, so the likelihood of being misunderstood, in general, is high. Put off career decisions as well, as career matters are Gemini-ruled for you.
Occurring in your solar twelfth house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to privacy matters. You may find that you are less able to rely on your intuition. Perhaps you're picking up the wrong cues or reading too much into situations. Whatever the case may be, for the time being, you may not feel that your intuition is serving you well. Be as non-judgmental as you can, but do keep an eye out for deceptiveness and falseness in others. You might unwittingly reveal something that you'd prefer to keep private. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating about your inner world now; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 4th:
Mars continues to animate and energize your solar ninth house. Your energy levels and sense of timing are good during this cycle. You are strong and bold in your beliefs and convictions as well, and others tend to naturally follow your lead. You actively seek out new learning experiences and have a strong desire to set out on new adventures, however big or small. Others find you easy to be around, even inspiring and energizing, and are attracted to your assertiveness and courage.
From August 4th forward:
Mars animates and energizes your solar tenth house. This transit stimulates your ambition and/or your desire to be recognized for your accomplishments. Whether it's professional or personal, you are likely to have an increased desire for others to notice you. This can be a good time to become self-employed or start a business if other factors (and Mars itself) are favorable. Conflicts with those in authority are possible now. You may pour more energy into self-promotion or business/career activities.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Virgo:
August is a strong month for taking a break, reorienting yourself, and exploring your goals, dear Virgo, although communication may not always be straightforward. Some form of retreat is welcome. Later in the month, however, activity increases, and so does your taste for it!
Take extra time to yourself for rest and reflection with the Sun in the sign behind yours until the 22nd. This is a time for releasing, letting go, purging, and healing. The New Moon happening in this sector on the 4th encourages you to put certain outdated ventures or situations behind you.
The day after this New Moon, Mercury, your planetary ruler, turns retrograde. Reassessing certain projects, alliances, goals, or attachments can be in focus. Although it will return to your privacy sector from the 14th to the 28th, Mercury begins its retrograde in your sign. For the best results, communicate, but avoid publicizing ideas until you are clear about them. Your voice and curiosity are stronger, but there may be the need to look to the past for answers before pushing forward. Watch for talking about something prematurely.
Certainly, conversations and interactions can be tricky in spots. Some personal plans may stall or appear to move backward when, in fact, they can benefit from a review. There will be times when pausing and allowing your emotions to catch up with your mind can serve you well. As such, delays occurring now can be blessings in disguise. Decision-making may be challenging but probably only requires more time. Your mind may be looping back to the same old problems. Factor in your plans that some of the decisions made and projects started in July can come up for review.
Indeed, there can be information clogs until next month, but the pause can help you catch up and make different choices and important edits. This pause in communication is not a setback in the long run, but a chance to reassess and make more informed decisions.
Retrograde Mercury retreats into your privacy sector on the 14th, and more rumination is likely for the remainder of this cycle (until the 28th). Looking at past projects with new eyes can figure strongly.
While this introspective theme is real and important, there are a couple of signs that the world wants your involvement this month! Venus in your sign from the 4th to the 29th is particularly suitable for showcasing your appeal. People enjoy your company. Mars at the top of your solar chart all month suggests you're not only in demand socially but professionally as well.
Mars in your solar tenth house stirs your ambitions to perform, and you continue to take a hands-on, active role in pursuing your larger goals. It's a period for connecting with the need to set longer-term objectives and actively pursuing them.
Your powers of attraction run high with Venus in your sign most of the month (from the 4-29). You open yourself to pleasure and love, and your affections are strong and clear. People notice and want you more than usual. You might feel more attractive from the inside out or project more warmth.
You could also be more self-indulgent, or your desire for comfort or luxury items is hearty from the 4-29. Venus in your sign brings you out of your protective shell with more willingness (and the required inner clarity) to express your feelings. It encourages your confidence in what you have to offer the world. Make time and room for improvising and enjoying yourself.
Health or work matters can reach a turning point around the 19th. If your work or daily regimens have become too monotonous or taken a toll on your spirits, circumstances now gently nudge you to make needed changes. It's an excellent time to recognize the desire or need to begin a new self-improvement program. This potential for personal growth can be a source of motivation and inspiration, making you feel more driven and optimistic.
Nevertheless, balancing your relationships or relationship goals with career goals and responsibilities to the outside world can be a challenge, reflected in a Jupiter-Saturn square this month. These life departments clash or compete at the moment! It can be a time of pressure coming from various camps in your life.
The latter part of August finds you coming out of retreat, ideally feeling renewed and refreshed. In truth, Venus in your sign much of the month brings you attention. However, you're more likely to be feeling it once the Sun enters your sign on the 22nd. Your desire to interact is emerging. This is a time for getting noticed, making an impression, and taking charge of your personal life. It's a time of increased initiative and personal presence.
Vesta enters your sign on the 24th, and your planetary ruler turns direct on the 28th, pointing further to more clarity and even a mission that motivates you in the last few days of the month. You're gaining an excellent ability to pace yourself and pour your energies into constructive activities.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.
Know More About Yourself and Others
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
birth chart reports, relationship reports, future forecasts, and more.
Love & Romance Forecast Report
Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
Romantic Compatibility Reports
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Virgo in 2024 and the full 2024 Yearly Virgo Horoscope.
Virgo (Born September 13 to 23) AND Virgo Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Virgo:
August 2024 Virgo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2024
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until August 11th:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar eleventh house. During this cycle, you are planting seeds for the future, dreaming up plans that you might begin to develop two months down the road, if they still seem viable then. You are more aware of the benefits of networking, and you might find some great ideas through others now. You might be working in a team now.
You could be questioning some of the rules you have been living by and you could be ready to try something totally new. You are more attracted to that which is progressive or unconventional during this cycle.
From August 12th forward:
The Sun travels through your twelfth house now, marking a time of retreat and regeneration. Think about the attachments you have--to things, people, and routines--and consider which ones are dragging you down. This is a time when competitive energies and the ego are on a bit of a break.
It's not the time to push ahead with brand new projects. Rather, it's a time of reflection, dreaming, and recharging your batteries. Situations that have naturally outgrown their usefulness in your life can now be put behind you. Endings of natural cycles may be part of the picture at this time of year. Your energy is largely applied to personal and private affairs now. Your disposition is introspective. Rest and reflect, and prepare for a more outgoing cycle when the Sun moves into your first house.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until August 21st:
Venus continues to transit through your solar twelfth house now. The twelfth house is a sector of endings, privacy, and mental health, and with Venus here, it's possible that you are reviewing your feelings for someone, or enjoying a more private love life for the time being. You may not be open with your affections for whatever reason now, and this shouldn't be a problem—it may be difficult to articulate, verbalize, or intellectualize your feelings for the time being. Doing some soul-searching as well as an enhanced ability to perceive other dimensions in love can lead you to a deeper understanding of your own love needs and possibly of a love relationship. Love might involve some form of sacrifice or simply a lot of giving and lending of support as opposed to receiving during this cycle.
From August 21st forward:
You could find it hard to deny yourself much of anything during this cycle! This is a time when you naturally let loose your softer, receptive side. Romantic matters, as well as pleasure-seeking activities, come to the fore now. You are more likely to pay closer attention to your physical appearance and mannerisms, aiming to improve and enhance your attractiveness. Others find you especially agreeable and cooperative. You are more gracious, well-behaved (superficial if you are not careful!), and likable now. Take advantage! It's a time when you turn heads, and it's also a period for extra attention to pleasures, pampering, and enjoyment.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Mercury is retrograde from August 5th to 28th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of your own body language and personal manner (you may feel that others misunderstand you), as well as communications involving the career or public, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. You are ruled by Mercury, so the likelihood of being misunderstood, in general, is high. Put off career decisions as well, as career matters are Gemini-ruled for you.
Occurring in your solar twelfth house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to privacy matters. You may find that you are less able to rely on your intuition. Perhaps you're picking up the wrong cues or reading too much into situations. Whatever the case may be, for the time being, you may not feel that your intuition is serving you well. Be as non-judgmental as you can, but do keep an eye out for deceptiveness and falseness in others. You might unwittingly reveal something that you'd prefer to keep private. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating about your inner world now; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 19th:
Mars continues to animate and energize your solar ninth house. Your energy levels and sense of timing are good during this cycle. You are strong and bold in your beliefs and convictions as well, and others tend to naturally follow your lead. You actively seek out new learning experiences and have a strong desire to set out on new adventures, however big or small. Others find you easy to be around, even inspiring and energizing, and are attracted to your assertiveness and courage.
From August 20th forward:
Mars animates and energizes your solar tenth house. This transit stimulates your ambition and/or your desire to be recognized for your accomplishments. Whether it's professional or personal, you are likely to have an increased desire for others to notice you. This can be a good time to become self-employed or start a business if other factors (and Mars itself) are favorable. Conflicts with those in authority are possible now. You may pour more energy into self-promotion or business/career activities.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Virgo:
August is a strong month for taking a break, reorienting yourself, and exploring your goals, dear Virgo, although communication may not always be straightforward. Some form of retreat is welcome. Later in the month, however, activity increases, and so does your taste for it!
Take extra time to yourself for rest and reflection with the Sun in the sign behind yours until the 22nd. This is a time for releasing, letting go, purging, and healing. The New Moon happening in this sector on the 4th encourages you to put certain outdated ventures or situations behind you.
The day after this New Moon, Mercury, your planetary ruler, turns retrograde. Reassessing certain projects, alliances, goals, or attachments can be in focus. Although it will return to your privacy sector from the 14th to the 28th, Mercury begins its retrograde in your sign. For the best results, communicate, but avoid publicizing ideas until you are clear about them. Your voice and curiosity are stronger, but there may be the need to look to the past for answers before pushing forward. Watch for talking about something prematurely.
Certainly, conversations and interactions can be tricky in spots. Some personal plans may stall or appear to move backward when, in fact, they can benefit from a review. There will be times when pausing and allowing your emotions to catch up with your mind can serve you well. As such, delays occurring now can be blessings in disguise. Decision-making may be challenging but probably only requires more time. Your mind may be looping back to the same old problems. Factor in your plans that some of the decisions made and projects started in July can come up for review.
Indeed, there can be information clogs until next month, but the pause can help you catch up and make different choices and important edits. This pause in communication is not a setback in the long run, but a chance to reassess and make more informed decisions.
Retrograde Mercury retreats into your privacy sector on the 14th, and more rumination is likely for the remainder of this cycle (until the 28th). Looking at past projects with new eyes can figure strongly.
While this introspective theme is real and important, there are a couple of signs that the world wants your involvement this month! Venus in your sign from the 4th to the 29th is particularly suitable for showcasing your appeal. People enjoy your company. Mars at the top of your solar chart all month suggests you're not only in demand socially but professionally as well.
Mars in your solar tenth house stirs your ambitions to perform, and you continue to take a hands-on, active role in pursuing your larger goals. It's a period for connecting with the need to set longer-term objectives and actively pursuing them.
Your powers of attraction run high with Venus in your sign most of the month (from the 4-29). You open yourself to pleasure and love, and your affections are strong and clear. People notice and want you more than usual. You might feel more attractive from the inside out or project more warmth.
You could also be more self-indulgent, or your desire for comfort or luxury items is hearty from the 4-29. Venus in your sign brings you out of your protective shell with more willingness (and the required inner clarity) to express your feelings. It encourages your confidence in what you have to offer the world. Make time and room for improvising and enjoying yourself.
Health or work matters can reach a turning point around the 19th. If your work or daily regimens have become too monotonous or taken a toll on your spirits, circumstances now gently nudge you to make needed changes. It's an excellent time to recognize the desire or need to begin a new self-improvement program. This potential for personal growth can be a source of motivation and inspiration, making you feel more driven and optimistic.
Nevertheless, balancing your relationships or relationship goals with career goals and responsibilities to the outside world can be a challenge, reflected in a Jupiter-Saturn square this month. These life departments clash or compete at the moment! It can be a time of pressure coming from various camps in your life.
The latter part of August finds you coming out of retreat, ideally feeling renewed and refreshed. In truth, Venus in your sign much of the month brings you attention. However, you're more likely to be feeling it once the Sun enters your sign on the 22nd. Your desire to interact is emerging. This is a time for getting noticed, making an impression, and taking charge of your personal life. It's a time of increased initiative and personal presence.
Vesta enters your sign on the 24th, and your planetary ruler turns direct on the 28th, pointing further to more clarity and even a mission that motivates you in the last few days of the month. You're gaining an excellent ability to pace yourself and pour your energies into constructive activities.
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Our detailed monthly horoscopes are designed to reveal and interpret the current transits of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars in your solar chart.
Because these energies or transits do not unfold neatly into any given calendar month (many transits carry forward from one month to the next), you will find some of the energies continue from the previous month.
For example, the Sun might transit the second house of your solar chart from June 21 to July 22, so that you will find a similar interpretation for this transit in both June and July’s horoscope. This is normal and expected. While new months can hold new energy, transits don’t abruptly change because the calendar month changes.
These monthly horoscopes also include an overview paragraph, as well as other energies specific to the month, such as retrogrades, eclipses, or major outer planet transits.
The Highlights section reveals lunar cycle dates. Lunar cycles repeat themselves approximately every 28 days, so it is normal to see the same lunar peaks, such as “Your Personal New Moon” and “Monthly career peak” repeat themselves from month to month, but with different dates. They serve as a helpful guide to cycle peaks in different areas of life, such as financial, career, romance, and partnership.
The horoscopes are divided into three groups or decanates, and the differences between the groups are subtle in parts and large in other parts. For those who prefer a whole sign approach to horoscopes (classic), simply read the first decanate regardless of your birthdate.
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