#augustastrology

Full Moons, New Moons, and Planetary Shifts to Watch

August opens with big emotional tides and powerful opportunities for clarity, grounding, and intention-setting. Here’s what the stars are offering this month, and how you can align your magic accordingly:

🌕 August 9 – Full Moon in Pisces This dreamy full moon is ideal for:

Spiritual downloads

Dream magic and journaling

Deep emotional cleansing

✨ Use this night for a release ritual—write down what’s weighing on your heart and burn it under the moonlight. Water magic is especially potent here (baths, lake offerings, moon water charging).

🌑 August 23 – New Moon in Virgo Time to plant seeds with structure. This is a powerful lunation for:

Organizing your space or spell tools

Clarity rituals

Setting clean, realistic goals for the next lunar cycle

🕯️ Light a white or green candle with a written list of your new intentions. Ask Virgo’s earthy energy to help you commit with calm focus.

🔥 August 6 – Mars Enters Libra Action meets balance. A good time to:

Reflect before reacting

Use magic to restore harmony in relationships

Cast spells around justice, fairness, or contracts

🖤 Mars in Libra teaches us that grace can be powerful.

📬 August 10–11 – Mercury Goes Direct in Cancer If the past few weeks have felt foggy or misunderstood—relief is here.

Miscommunications begin to clear

Delays ease up

Spells involving writing, speech, or business start flowing better again

💬 Great time for intention journaling, sigils for clarity, or relaunching a project.

💞 August 12 – Venus Conjunct Jupiter in Gemini Expect high-vibe, lucky energy.

Excellent for beauty or love work

Manifesting abundance or creative ideas

Social spells, charm bags, glamour magic

🌟 Cast a wish spell today or wear something bright and magnetic.

🌱 August 22 – Sun Enters Virgo Virgo season begins! Time to get practical:

Focus on health, habits, and service

Cleanse and reset your altar

Begin structured routines in both mundane and magical life

🧂 Consider a full space cleanse (salt, smoke, sound) to welcome the shift in energy.

🪞 August 19 – Mercury’s Greatest Western Elongation This brief transit brings razor-sharp mental energy—perfect for:

Planning

Written magic (petitions, affirmations)

Divination with a clear question

📖 Try scrying or automatic writing today—your guides might come through clearly.

✨ August is a beautiful blend of intuition (Pisces), order (Virgo), and cosmic harmony (Venus + Jupiter).

AUGUST FORECAST

Planet:  Jupiter Sign:  Sagittarius Cycle:  Direct Motion Date:  August 11th

Jupiter moves forward finally, after being retrograde for four months.  The purpose of this retrograde was to evaluate expansion implemented up to April of this year, deciding whether or not changes and expansion were positive or a waste of valuable time.   Also looking at what has been achieved so far.    

Now that Jupiter in Sagittarius is shifting forward, decisions have to be made about which path to choose.   Gong backwards and repeating the same thing isn’t an option.  At least, an overhaul of the familiar would be a very good idea.   Hope, new knowledge/understanding and belief in personal ability to succeed is necessary for success to happen.  Raising one’s consciousness and perception  of life, understanding that the impossible can be made possible.  

Jupiter in its own sign is one of tremendous opportunity and good luck, you can’t get much better than this.  However, the caveat being, Jupiter is a magnifying glass that highlights not only the goo but not so good too.   This is why for some it will seems as if everything is going wonderfully well, while for others it may seem to be a case of one step forward and three steps back, as weaknesses come to the forefront.   In this case it is wise to confront issues/weaknesses instead of ignoring them.

Ultimately, Jupiter moving forward is a good thing if the retrograde cycle has been used correctly.  Now that the planet is moving forward, wasting time, vacillating or procrastinating is not an option.

Planet:  Sun Sign:  Virgo Date:  August 23rd - September 23rd

The Sun in the practical earth sign of Virgo, also ruled by Mercury,  highlights paying attention to detail, being practical, discriminating, analytical, orderly and modest.   Worrying may come to the forefront, whether warranted or unwarranted.  Virgos are good for assimilation of facts, but because of the Sun “heating up” the Virgo intellect, breadth of vision is unlikely during this time.

Virgo also rules the digestive system, diet, health, work (employees.employers) and service to Self and others.   Therefore, focusing on whether or not needs are being met in the current work environment will become an issue, which could lead to a change of employment later this year, or at least some type of alteration of work.  Paying attention to food that is ingested is a good idea, because allergies could be discovered. Health overall will be closer to the top of the list of things to be aware of.  The question, “are the needs of the body being served in the right way?”

Wherever Virgo is in a person’s natal chart,  is the area of life that will be affected.   The need to work and be of service to others will become important and this could also take the form of getting a pet,   Pets are ruled by this sign.