#AstroProTips
Monday, August 7th
11:11 AM PT – Lunar eclipse at 15° of Aquarius
Thursday, August 10th
Mercury in Virgo sextile Venus in Cancer, both at 11°
Sun in Leo sextile Jupiter in Libra, both at 18°
Friday, August 11th
Venus in Cancer trine Neptune in Pisces, both at 13°
Saturday, August 12th
Mercury stations retrograde at 11° of Virgo
Sunday, August 13th
Sun in Leo trine Saturn in Sagittarius, both at 21°
Monday’s lunar eclipse sheds light on what lives in the shadows. The excess baggage we carry around. The invisible weight of what brings us down. The things that we know we need to put down, but are afraid to.
Monday’s lunar eclipse unpacks what has been bundled up inside of us. The emotions underneath the behavior. The fear underneath the anger. The issues in our lives that act like energetic vampires.
Monday’s lunar eclipse is here to help us empty out. To release the clutter. To be reflective. To remember that we need to clear our space in order for future spells to be effective.
Try not to rush to replace what is leaving. Try not to jump to conclusions about what to do with the new room. Try not to assume too much just because being in the unknown is uncomfortable.
Eclipse season is a time of transition. A time when our issues rise to the surface with great speed. The energy in certain areas of our life is increased. Sped up. Those of us who were born during eclipses will notice their impact more specifically. Those of us with planets or points close to 15° of Aquarius will feel this more intensely. The rest of us will notice the effects to varying degrees.
How we deal with what occurs during eclipse season effects our lives for years to come, making this a good time to incredibly mindful of where we are placing ourselves and what we are doing with the lessons that we are learning. This is the first of two eclipses. The second will be a total solar eclipse in Leo on August 21st at 28° of Leo, which looks to be one that will ignite much both personally and collectively.
Towards the end of the week, on Saturday, while the effects of the eclipse are still lingering, Mercury stations retrograde. This too will be coloring the week. With some confusion. With some reason for caution. With some opportunities to edit our messages.
Mercury in Virgo is strong, making this retrograde one that will focus on what gets in the way of our ability to be effective, skillful, and precise. Mercury will end up retrograding all the way back to 28° of Leo come September. The same degree that the total solar eclipse on August 21st is occurring on. This Mercury retrograde cycle ties into one of the most intense, dramatic and important astrological events of the year, letting us know that whatever we are needing to unlearn and relearn will be incredibly significant for a long time to come. Letting us know that whatever occurs around August 21st will be revisited around September 5th.
Interwoven through the chaos and the intensity of the week are very helpful and affirming transits.
The sun moves from a mood-lifting sextile to Jupiter to a stabilizing trine to Saturn. This aspect can help us to recalibrate post-eclipse and mid-Mercury stationing retrograde. Venus also sweetens the skies by spending the week moving from a socially supportive sextile to Mercury to a dreamy and inspirational trine to Neptune. These little goodies might get lost in the shuffle or might lighten the burden of becoming that this eclipse season is asking us to take on.
However it lands for you and yours, take good care.
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Aries & Aries Rising
We are all made better, stronger and more resilient by the connections that we create. Nurture. Sustain. Our hopes and dreams for the future are fertilized by our ability to find as much good ground between each other as possible. Our potential is activated by the right connections, collaborations and social conditions.
Monday’s lunar eclipse lights up your 11th house, a place in your chart that holds your future aspirations. A place in your chart that holds information about the folks that can help you make them manifest. A place in your chart that connects you to all those that broke your understanding of what is possible.
This eclipse asks you what your hopes and dreams for the future are. Wonders what you are working towards. Wonders who is there alongside you. Wonders who holds you up when others try to hold you back. Wonders if there are relationships that are currently hindering your movement forward.
Aries is a sign that functions autonomously, but this eclipse is encouraging you to ask for help instead of trying figuring it all out yourself. It is asking you to tidy up some relationship dynamics, organize the social clutter and sort out any friendship issues that are hanging around unaddressed.
Mercury’s retrograde will be encouraging you to review the ways in which you go about your work life. It wants you to return to the stacks of paper piled high that are marked “will do later.” Now is later. Time is ticking. Clear out your desk. Clear our your inboxes. Clear out the clutter from your work day. Back up your files. Get a good phone case, laptop cover and get things in the mail early.
*If you’d like some help navigating Monday’s lunar eclipse, Eclipse Season Part 1 is now half price and includes a meditation for the eclipse, altar suggestions and an astrological reading on how the eclipse will impact your sign.
Taurus & Taurus Rising
Once in a while we get to witness a part of our lives with clarity. With certainty. Without our expectations getting in the way of our reality.
Once in a while we are presented with the opportunity to acknowledge our efforts. To stand back and take in the importance of all the little steps. To admire the impact of accumulation.
Once in a while we get a chance to fine-tune the alignment of our outer life with our inner one. To make choices that are in our best interest. To bypass fear so that we can choose adventures that make us feel more alive and that deepen our connection to our lives.
Monday’s lunar eclipse lights up your career path. Illuminates the journey you’ve been on. The efforts that you have made. The opportunities that you have seized. This eclipse wants you to consider which ideas you have about your career that might need to be released.
So that it can grow into itself. So that it can show you what it is capable of. So that it can become it’s own being. Sometimes we get so committed to what we think needs to happen, that we get in the way of allowing what wants to happen.
Allow your career to teach you how to hold it. Listen to it. Show up for it. Co-create with it.
As Mercury stations retrograde, it asks you to review the ways in which you are using your creative energy. Asks you to review the dynamics of your romantic relationships. Asks you to review the ways in which you are working with the opportunities that you attract into your life. Take a moment to appreciate what you are able to draw to you, then see if you can’t refine your magnetism to bring more specific and resonant experiences your way.
*If you’d like some help navigating Monday’s lunar eclipse, Eclipse Season Part 1 is now half price and includes a meditation for the eclipse, altar suggestions and an astrological reading on how the eclipse will impact your sign.
Gemini & Gemini Rising
Big plans take big faith. Big heart. Big leaps into the unknown.
Big plans take us into big learning opportunities. Big growth opportunities. Big shoes to learn how to fill.
We can’t play it safe and play our hand in the game of life. We can’t refuse a chance to expand our horizons and then complain that life won’t throw us a bone. Risking our reputation, risking our place in line, risking a sure-bet for a chance to bet on ourselves takes a certain amount of belief in ourselves. It takes courage to be calculated. A righteousness to feel like we have the right to set out on our own path.
Monday’s lunar eclipse wants you to assess the lengths that you are wiling to go to in order to get to your desired destination. It’s asking you to take a look at the routes you plan to take. The pitstops you’ll need to make. The journey as you can see it from this point of view. Does it still excite you? Do parts of it need to be rerouted? Do you need to edit some part of the journey? Don’t be afraid to let some goals go if they no longer pull you towards them. As you grow, heal and change, so too does your journey.
Taking a look back at your roots can be helpful. Mercury begins its retrograde review through your 4th house of foundations. It’s impossible to end up in a good place without thoroughly investigating where we are coming from. This week wants you to pay attention to both. Your beginnings and your becoming.
*If you’d like some help navigating Monday’s lunar eclipse, Eclipse Season Part 1 is now half price and includes a meditation for the eclipse, altar suggestions and an astrological reading on how the eclipse will impact your sign.
Cancer & Cancer Rising
Being thoughtful about who you partner with will help you to create more thoughtfully. Being deliberate about your collaborations will make them more effective. Being conscious of how your insecurities and your need to please can get in the way of protecting your energy is a game-changer.
You can’t take every partnership up on its offer. You can’t pour your energy into every vessel that has room for you. You can’t make good on your promises when you over-extend yourself.
Monday’s lunar eclipse illuminates the importance of these lessons. It will make clear the collaborations that are the most profitable, energetically and monetarily, as well as the ones that aren’t. Protect your assets. Protect your talent. Protect your time, energy and creativity. This eclipse asks you to get focused. To get specific. To get strategic. If that’s not your strong suit, get help getting yourself together.
This eclipse also has the propensity to stir up your anxieties. Your insecurities. The root of the issues that you are working through. Help yourself by sticking to the routines that support you. That ground you. That help you to contextualize the emotions that tend to knock you off center.
Mercury’s next retrograde is demanding that you do so.
It will be taking you on a review of your daily schedule. Asking you to answer for the way in which you spend the hours of your days. Asking you to make the moments count. Asking you to make a list of all the things that get in the way of your ability to finish what you’ve started. And then figure out a way to do them less. Practice harm-reduction daily and witness how impactful it can be on your productivity.
*If you’d like some help navigating Monday’s lunar eclipse, Eclipse Season Part 1 is now half price and includes a meditation for the eclipse, altar suggestions and an astrological reading on how the eclipse will impact your sign.
Leo & Leo Rising
We need many ways to witness ourselves. To experience ourselves. To understand ourselves.
We need many influences. Ways to understand the world. Perspectives to view the events of our life through.
We need each other.
Need all manner of relationships. Need honest commitments to one another in order to process and make use of the painful and the profound. Ways to move through all that comes up in our committed partnerships. The heartache. The growing pains. The reflections that sometimes feel hard to face. Being committed to the process of partnering can bring us the most joyful of journeys. The most insightful experiences. The most healing we could ever hope for.
We need containers sturdy enough to withstand the impact that these transformations make.
Monday’s lunar eclipse sheds its light on the quality of your unions. It helps you to become more intimate with your intimacy issues. It wants you to be accountable for your part in the partnerships you are in. It wants you to be honest about which are resonant and which you aren’t interested in putting the effort into. Because this week offers you excellent opportunities to consolidate your skills and feel expansively in tune with life, the relationship lessons that arrive do so at a time where you are ready to deal with them.
Mercury’s station retrograde reviews your resources. How you work your money magic. How you handle the resources that you were born with. What to do to be able to clean up and curate more success on a material plane. It is asking you to review what you think you have the right to do. Buy. Sell. Be mindful of your impact, of how you are impacting the world, but also be aware of how you might use those very concerns to cut yourself off from expanding your world in ways that you desperately need.
*If you’d like some help navigating Monday’s lunar eclipse, Eclipse Season Part 1 is now half price and includes a meditation for the eclipse, altar suggestions and an astrological reading on how the eclipse will impact your sign.
Virgo & Virgo Rising
Monday’s lunar eclipse wants to help you reorganize your work life. It wants to help you sort through your tool-kit. Repair what’s rusty. Replace what is damaged beyond use. Consider how decluttering this area of your life might help you to have more free time. More time for self-care. More time to spend building with others.
Consider what part of your work might be delegated, divested from or done in a different way. Monday’s lunar eclipse is signaling a change in the way you prioritize your projects. How you do or don’t get the help that you need. How you hold onto resentments about what hasn’t come to pass or what you think “should” have by now. Use Monday’s eclipse to clear out the emotional debris that has accumulated in this area of your life. Doing so will help your health as you’ll be holding onto less.
With Mercury stationing retrograde in Virgo, you are being asked to review your communication style. How you get your message across. How you get your needs met. How well you express yourself and how that ends up impacting you and your relationships. Mercury’s retrograde through Virgo will help you to realign yourself with a clearer understanding of who you are becoming, how you are presenting that process and which parts of it to keep for yourself.
*If you’d like some help navigating Monday’s lunar eclipse, Eclipse Season Part 1 is now half price and includes a meditation for the eclipse, altar suggestions and an astrological reading on how the eclipse will impact your sign.
Libra & Libra Rising
This week be on the lookout for inspiring conversations, connections and insights that impact your career. Look for the opportunities that might come through your social networks, friends and colleagues. Look for opportunities to create connections with those in your professional and energetic fields. These little pockets of promise will help you make use of the rest of the week’s more intense aspects.
Like Monday’s lunar eclipse in Aquarius.
Monday’s eclipse wants you to remember the impact that your creative energy has on the rest of your life. You creativity gives you a voice. It gives your anxiety something useful to do with itself. It can become a channel for your doubts, fears and future dreams. As earthly beings, we need to turn our energy into something tangible, effective and generative.
This eclipse season is helping you become a little more familiar with your creative process. It is encouraging you to interrupt any excuses you make that inhibit you from it. What we choose to do with our energy during eclipse season has a lasting effect on our lives. Use this week to reset your relationship to creating your life as you need to.
As Mercury stations retrograde, it reviews some of the attitudes and beliefs that tend to get in your way. Self-sabotaging attitudes. Hidden doubts and fears. This Mercury retrograde will be useful to you when you find ways to appreciate these discoveries. Knowing what gets in our way is the first step to learning how to navigate around it, through it and with it.
*If you’d like some help navigating Monday’s lunar eclipse, Eclipse Season Part 1 is now half price and includes a meditation for the eclipse, altar suggestions and an astrological reading on how the eclipse will impact your sign.
Scorpio & Scorpio Rising
Monday’s eclipse impacts the most sensitive part of your chart. Reaching down to the roots of your life, this eclipse aims to clear out some emotional patterns that you inherited along the way. It can help you to clarify a need that you have in regards to your living situation. It can help you cleanse an aspect of your relationship to a parent or family member. It can help you let go of the desire to have you home or family situation be any way but what it is.
Monday’s lunar eclipse will help you heal.
Whatever issues are in need of it. Whatever dynamics need dealing with. When you find that you need help letting something from your past go, ask for guidance. Ask for help. Ask for what you need to move forward in peace.
Mercury’s retrograde will be asking you to review your social roles, commitments and communications. It may increase the odds of messages going missing between you and friends, community members and colleagues. This is a good time to polish up your interpersonal skills. Learn how to deal with the folks that aren’t on the same page as you. Review the groups that keep you energized, supported and feeling seen and recognize the ones that don’t. This might be a time to divest a little energy from the latter.
*If you’d like some help navigating Monday’s lunar eclipse, Eclipse Season Part 1 is now half price and includes a meditation for the eclipse, altar suggestions and an astrological reading on how the eclipse will impact your sign.
Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising
We can’t control how others take in our message. We can’t control what others make out of our memos. We can’t control the impact that our movements in the world will have.
Monday’s lunar eclipse gives you some important feedback about the ways in which your message is being received. You might have to restructure your ideas. Some folks will be receptive to negotiations and clarifications and some won’t be able to take in what you are putting out. Do what you can to keep on track when folks try to derail your efforts for clarity.
Monday’s lunar eclipse will also help clarify the aspects of your schedule that aren’t getting you to where you need to go. Monday’s lunar eclipse will realign the ways in which you are moving through your day. Monday’s lunar eclipse will help you to prioritize the parts of your schedule that not only need you the most, but that also give you back the most.
There is some loss that you might experience but that loss creates space for new projects. For you, eclipse season will shuffle around your schedule. Removing what blocks the flow of your creative energy. Removing what blocks you from fuller self-expression. Removing what interrupts your ability to make use of your more innovative ideas.
As Mercury stations retrograde, it asks you to review key concepts of your career. Review the skills that you are able to make use of. Review the skills that you need to sharpen. Review the skills that you need use in another way than you have been.
Mercury’s retrograde will demand that you deal with any professional confusions that have occurred, any misunderstandings that hold you back, any philosophical reviews that need to be made so that your career can run more smoothly. Mercury’s retrograde will help you to go over the professional connections that you have made over the past year so that you can reach out to those that you haven’t had time to make contact with. Notice who is circling back around for your reacquaintance. Notice what old ideas resurface. Notice what you are returning to in order to refurbish, reuse or repurpose it professionally.
*If you’d like some help navigating Monday’s lunar eclipse, Eclipse Season Part 1 is now half price and includes a meditation for the eclipse, altar suggestions and an astrological reading on how the eclipse will impact your sign.
Capricorn & Capricorn Rising
In order to grow, we must be willing to part ways with what isn’t working. We have to know what has served its purpose. We have to know where our energy would be better repurposed.
Monday’s eclipse makes that clear in regards to the ways in which you are utilizing your resources.
What might you need to reconsider, rework or take a new approach to in regards to the way you are supporting yourself? What issues about compensation need to be handled, healed, or held?
How you have done business up until this point, and how you do business beyond this point are decidedly different. How different is up to you. How you innovate what you are creating is entirely your call, but it is clear that you are being called to.
Notice what financial fears come up for you around this time. What feelings about your self-worth. What feelings about your capacity to make use of what you have to work with.
Mercury’s retrograde will scour the plans that you have made, checking to see if there are important revisions that your itinerary needs. Go over your long-term goals with a fine-toothed comb. Review the routes to success that you might have outlined for yourself. If you can view your journey in the coming weeks as more of an adventure than a test to get right, you’ll get much more out of Mercury retrograde’s process.
*If you’d like some help navigating Monday’s lunar eclipse, Eclipse Season Part 1 is now half price and includes a meditation for the eclipse, altar suggestions and an astrological reading on how the eclipse will impact your sign.
Aquarius & Aquarius Rising
We need both the struggle and the triumph of life in order to have a deep relationship with it. In order to feel fulfilled at the end of it. In order to understand what we are capable of while we are living it.
We need both the knowledge attained from living our lives as well as the feelings that living it evokes. We need both our strength and our softness. We need both our willingness to steer as well as to be lead.
Monday’s lunar eclipse will push you to empty out some aspect of yourself. Monday’s eclipse will ask you to receive the blessings of your accomplishments. Monday’s eclipse will be much more beneficial to you when you balance both the offerings that you make and the blessings that you receive. You can’t do it all on your own, this eclipse makes that clear. But it also makes clear the importance of doing your part with as much integrity and self respect as possible. This eclipse will call you to answer for your actions, but it will also celebrate the highroads you’ve taken. All eyes are on you, so make sure you display what you need others to know about you and conceal what you need to keep for yourself.
As Mercury begins its retrograde, it will have you spending the next couple of weeks clearing up any miscommunications within your collaborations. Some of the time this will be about you figuring out which partners are the best fit for you, and some of the time this will be about figuring out how to better communicate with the ones that you have.
*If you’d like some help navigating Monday’s lunar eclipse, Eclipse Season Part 1 is now half price and includes a meditation for the eclipse, altar suggestions and an astrological reading on how the eclipse will impact your sign.
Pisces & Pisces Rising
We must continually cast off the doubt that confines us. That keeps us stagnant. That keeps us hiding out in fear.
We must continually give ourselves permission to feel. To understand where we are coiled inward. To understand how we succumb to the effects of the wounds embedded deep within the tissues of our being.
We must continually remind ourselves that we aren’t failing when living our best life is about making it through the day. Making it through the memories. Making what we can out of the life circumstances that we are in.
It’s just as dangerous to pathologize difficulty as it is to succumb to despair.
Monday’s lunar eclipse makes this point poignantly. Monday’s eclipse happens in a part of your chart that asks you to rest, return to yourself, and reckon with the losses that have left you lingering and ungrounded. Monday’s lunar eclipse is asking you to retrieve the parts of yourself that feel lost, left or disconnected from the rest of you. Monday’s lunar eclipse is asking you to surrender to the needs of your body. The needs of your soul. The needs of your neglected parts.
Take good care of what needs caring for.
As Mercury stations retrograde in your 7th house of committed partnerships, it draws attention to the ways in which you are communicating in your most important partnerships. It pulls focus on the skills that you have to work through the issues that arise. It pulls focus on the skills that you need to acquire to do so with more finesse. It pulls focus on the skills that you could learn to help your relationships out in incredibly important ways. Stay schoolable for your sweethearts and business babes.
*If you’d like some help navigating Monday’s lunar eclipse, Eclipse Season Part 1 is now half price and includes a meditation for the eclipse, altar suggestions and an astrological reading on how the eclipse will impact your sign.