Eclipse Season Horoscopes For the Week of August 14th

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Tuesday, August 15th

Venus in Cancer opposes Pluto in Capricorn, both at 17°

Wednesday, August 16th

Venus in Cancer squares Jupiter in Libra, both at 19°

Sunday, August 20th

Mars in Leo sextiles Jupiter in Libra, both at 20°

Sun in Leo trines Uranus in Aries, both at 28°

This week asks us to grapple with the relationship issues that threaten to drag us down. Pull us under. Steal our ability to reason with reality. This week will exaggerate our feelings. Magnify our insecurities. Help us to locate and identify, so that we can address and heal, the wounds that get in the way of our ability to love. Relate. Create.

As the moon’s light wanes, and the nights grow increasingly darker, we inch closer and closer towards the total solar eclipse in Leo on August 21st. There is much to empty out on the way to this dramatic event. No need to be overloaded with excess baggage for the big show. Especially because this week, Venus will oppose Pluto and then square Jupiter.

This combination can increase the size of the imaginary monsters under our bed. This combination can exaggerate our feelings about a person, place or event in our life. This combination can make obvious the ways in which we get carried away by our anxieties, obsessions and appetite for what harms us.

Venus is the planet of love and relationship, creativity and manifestation. Pluto is the planet of transformative underworld journeys, and the regenerative and healing powers of the dark. Jupiter is the planet of abundance, fortune and extreme exaggerations. When all three come together, as they do this week, we are offered the opportunity to see our intimacy issues up close and personal. Impossible to deny. Unable to ignore. Unapologetically obvious.

This eclipse season’s got all kinds of tricks.

Keeping in mind that Mercury has just recently stationed retrograde, preparing for it’s own underworld journey, we know that this is a time of deep introspection as we go into the shadowlands of our lives. On Monday, August 21st, the total solar eclipse will occur, throwing its unique shade across America. This entire eclipse season is revealing our shadow selves. Our eclipsed selves. Our personal and collective underworld journeys.

These are complex days. Dense with the personal homework assigned to us. Loaded with the personal significance of each mission. Ladened with the opportunity to set new patterns for ourselves, our work and our lives. Whatever we do during eclipse season has an incredible staying power attached to it. We cannot control what happens, but every time we choose our integrity over our fear, we choose what is life-affirming over what is life-constricting. Every time we choose our integrity over our fear, we choose what is growth-enhancing over what keeps us bound up and unable to access our agency. Every time we choose our integrity over our fear, we choose to commit a little bit more to our path and divest a little more energy from what prevents us from fulfillment.

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Aries & Aries Rising

We can never get too far from what we learned to be true in our formative years. Each movement forward is either a reflection of those lessons or a conscious decision to depart from them.

Whatever you are currently unearthing in regards to your early childhood education is extremely relevant to your present situation. Take time to understand it in depth.

Look back at your young self. What did you believe was true about your own creative power? Look back at your teenage self. What did you come to believe was true about your desirability? Look back at your younger adult self. What did you believe you were worthy of attracting towards you? Where in your life did you get positive reinforcement about your creative and erotic energy? Where did the energy get shut down?

Take time to heal this now.

Tend to these topics tenderly. Approach any issues with parents, family or live-in partners with a great respect for your process and theirs. Allow time to digest the feelings that are evoked this week, as they are most likely arising from the deeper places of your being. Places where they have been safely far from reach for some time. Places that you are familiar with but perhaps not conscious of. Places that you are ready to travel to, flush out and heal in ways you have not been able to until now. Irrigate your fields with what can refresh, heal and help you reclaim your desirability and creativity.

*Please join me for Eclipse Season Part II: A Workshop for the Total Solar Eclipse, to understand how this total solar eclipse will impact you and for help navigating it. This workshop will include an astrological reading and a ritual for your sign, a guided meditation and astrological reflections that will last you the entire lunar cycle and then some.

Taurus & Taurus Rising

This week will bring you intense conversations. Communications that bring up feelings you were unaware of. Information that leads to revelations that you were not prepared for.

All of these little to large issues come up for review to help you clear out space for next week’s eclipse. Some folks will “help” you do this by way of creating a conflict for you to navigate through. Some folks will simply remind you of an earlier situation that you thought you left behind long ago. Some folks will give you the opportunity to have a do-over. This time you’ll get to do it with more consciousness, kindness and less internal conflict.

This week will point out where your thinking keeps you circling around an old wound instead of tending to it. This week will point out where your thought patterns get cloudy, preventing you from laying down the boundaries needed to repair your inner ruptures. This week will point out where your thinking impedes you from getting to the breakthroughs that are rightfully yours to have.

Pay close attention to how you are framing the difficulties that you face.

Notice when you make yourself the problem. Notice when you admonish yourself for being human instead of helping yourself get to a solution. Notice what problems make you feel disproportionately small and see what you need to do to help yourself rise up to meet them.

Gemini & Gemini Rising

This week is asking you to heal an issue around your finances. It wants to get down to the root of a problem regarding your sense of self-worth. It wants to clean out any impurities in the water-system that is hydrating your assets.

What financial situations in your life are annoying you? What resentments need to be cleared up in regards to your work? What negative feelings are inhibiting you from being able to do your job effectively?

This week is asking you to unpack your emotional baggage about it.

Relationships at work might also need a little readjustment. Attitudes can tend to get bent out of shape with astrology like this. Eclipse season tends to eclipse our better judgment at times. Remember that trying to control the situation will only make it worse. Trying to dominate and influence a working relationship will only cause more strife, and anyone who tries to pressure you into doing something professionally that you aren’t comfortable with needs to be dealt with swiftly.

You have every right to say no.

When money is attached to outcomes, sometimes we can get twisted about what is right for us and what is not. Stay as close as you can to your integrity in regards to financial situations. Keep setting the professional patterns that you most want to strengthen. Keep yourself in line with what you most wish to line up with. Eclipse season will make the rewards very rewarding.

Cancer & Cancer Rising

This week is an extra sensitive one for you and your fellow sea creatures. It tugs at your heartstrings. Pushes up against your growth edges. Asks you to do the transformational work of addressing the feelings and issues that arise in your relationships.

What are you learning that you need in partnership? What are you learning to no longer take personally? Can you sit with and investigate your reactions to relationship issues?

Developing the internal support systems necessary so that you can understand your part in your partnership problems is time and energy well-spent.

As the foundations of your life have been growing, expanding and broadening, this work becomes a little easier. The more secure you feel in the foundations of your life, the more energy you can give to being reflective and responsive to interpersonal problems. The more you sort through the tangled feelings from the past, the more available you are to address the issues of the present with greater understanding and compassion. The more curiosity is cultivated about your hangups, the more energy and space you have to give to your current creations.

Leo & Leo Rising

This week asks you to check in with yourself.

It asks you to make sure that you are readjusting to all that is coming in, not just bearing down and forcing yourself to acclimatize to it. It asks you to take a moment and remind yourself that you don’t have to be excited about everything that is occurring just because the pace is exhilarating.

You can be unsure. You can be cautious. You can be grateful for the opportunities and still need a moment to see which ones are right for you. You have the right to figure out how you feel about something no matter what anyone else says or thinks or proclaims about it.

Allowing for doubt and indecision in your decision-making process will help you be at peace, in the long run, with what you say yes to.

Virgo & Virgo Rising

While Mercury is retrograding through Virgo, review the details of your life. Like an architect does its blueprints. Like a parent does its baby. Like a poet does its page.

Lovingly. Protectively. Persistently.

Inspect the ways in which you relate to the toughest material that you face. Notice what you internalize. What you take in and take on. What you don’t yet know how to question or to ask for. What you know you need to learn to let out.

Review the way in which you are presenting yourself to the world. Does it line up with how you feel internally? If not, can you give yourself permission to align your internal and external selves? If you feel like you are being reformed, if you feel messy, if you feel not quite ready, can you give yourself time? You are going through an important transition and phase of self-discovery, the process of which isn’t always presentable.

This week will ask you to address the issues that come up within your friend groups and social and professional circles. The issues that arise in these areas of your life do so at the perfect time. They need some healing attention. Some tenderness. Some thoughtfulness from you. No matter what comes up, no matter what part of your life needs to be straightened out, try to see it as a blessing. Try to see it as the most important thing that you could address. Try to see it as the work that needs to be worked on and worked through.

Next week’s eclipse will bring you into contact with the most personal parts of your journey. This week’s social snafus will most likely help you to do the deeper inner work that the eclipses have lined up for you. Breakthroughs abound, but not without some diligent detective work first.

Libra & Libra Rising

Your ruling planet, Venus, gets into some deep waters this week. Be on the lookout for career situations that might plunge you into intense feelings. Fears. Fantasies. This week will tend to bring up professional issues that are hard to ignore, but not impossible to deal with.

You’ve got this.

For creative solutions, seek out ideas and input from friends and colleagues. Notice the relationships here that are newly forming. Notice the relationships here that are impacting your life in important ways. Notice the people that are coalescing around your ideas, hopes and dreams for your future.

The influx of new people in your life will most likely help to bring you the breakthroughs you need at the moment. These connections will bring about new possibilities. These connections won’t all be worth keeping. Parsing out the most important ones is part of the work that needs to be done.

There will be folks that are important co-stars in the next part of your story. Pay attention to what they are bringing into your life. You don’t have to say yes to all of it. You don’t have to act on anything that you aren’t sure about. You can wait until you gather the data needed. You can be careful not to get swept up in charismatic leaders or folks that just want your energy for their own ego-trips.

Be on the lookout for the people and groups that give you honest and valuable reflections, that get your engine going, and that help you get to solutions in places where you have only ever known problems.

Scorpio & Scorpio Rising

Notice the parts of your career that are getting a lift. Getting a positive reaction. Getting you praise for you efforts. Notice the upswing of energy here.

Don’t be afraid to steer your professional life in the direction you most want it to go. Your career needs you to take the lead. It needs you to take the reigns. It needs you to take your role in shaping it seriously.

Mercury’s retrograde is asking you to go back and gather data from your cohort, peers, allies and community members. If there are miscommunications amongst your people, you’ll need to address them. With diligence. Compassion. Care. Make sure that the agreements you have with others are thoroughly examined. Made explicit. Make your motives as transparent as possible. This is the kind of astrology that we can get swept away with. Don’t ignore the details. Don’t trust that what needs taking care of will get done unless you do it.

This week might alter your plans, take you on a transformative journey and have you rethinking your way forward. Stay true to your intention but stay flexible with the ways in which you keep it intact. A test of faith will either deepen your relationships or expose their weaknesses. This week tests you and your loved ones in ways that are important to experience, but tender to move through. Keep clarifying relationship agreements as you go instead of assuming that you know what they need.

Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising

This week is asking you to understand, in great depth, the contracts and commitments that you have with others. It wants you to comb through the professional agreements that you have made. It wants you to understand the fine print of your collaborations.

This is no time to gloss over the details. This is the time to be a painstaking perfectionist. If something doesn’t sit right with you professionally, legally or contractually, meditate on what is bothering you. Sift through, sort through, slowly scrutinize the situation so that you understand what you are up against. What you are lending your energy to. What you will be liable for.

Next week’s eclipse highlights the most important ethical issues that you are facing. The clearer that you are about what it is you believe in, the clearer your path forward will be. That might cut out some of your options. It might close a door or partnership. It might remove you from a trail that you were tracking.

Trust what you are removed from. Trust what leaves. Trust that what doesn’t work out is actually life working out in your best interest.

This is a moment where you get to reset your commitment to your long-term goals. But that can’t happen unless you clarify what they are not. Keep clearing out the partnerships and the professional situations that don’t align with them. The shape of your career is self-altering at the moment. Know that helping this process along will help you to course correct in profound and mysteriously perfect ways in the coming days, weeks and months.

Capricorn & Capricorn Rising

This week your partners might call on you for extra support. Your loved ones might need you more than usual. Your beloveds might become increasingly more needy as the week rolls out.

Some partners might be dealing with feelings that they have a hard time digesting. Some partners might be experiencing situations that put them ill at ease or in unfamiliar emotional territory. Some partners might be well equipped to work through these situations, while others not so much.

Give what you can but be careful not to get pulled into performing any emotional labor that you’ll later resent. Only you know what your boundaries are and only you know when they are being transgressed. See if you can uphold them without needing to be to hard on those that pull at you. These are emotionally charged days that we are wading through. With the next eclipse right around the corner, we can’t expect folks to always be operating from the most grounded of places. Keep this in mind, but take no one’s baggage on as your own.

This week will tempt you to act out too, so apply the same rules to yourself. Notice where your neediness gets the better of you and what you can do to respect the boundaries of others.

Aquarius & Aquarius Rising

This week try to pay a loving attention to your physical needs. Notice what the body is begging for. Notice the waters it wants to soak in. The replenishment it yearns for. The nourishment it isn’t getting. You tend to get stuck in your head. You tend to think your way through the problem. You tend to react to life logically.

That’s a beautiful way to be, but it sometimes overlooks the mysterious healing that happens when we let the physical aspect of life tell us what to do and when to do it. Deepen your relationship with this part of yourself. It will help you slow down enough to catch up on what eclipse season may have drained you of thus far.

Next week’s eclipse focuses on your significant partnerships. The commitments that are being formed. The breakthroughs that are coming to you through them. The ways in which the growth that your partners are experiencing intersects with and inspires your own. Surround yourself with those that inspire you to reach higher, think more deeply and feel more fluidly. Surround yourself with folks that call on you to encounter and make use of your potential. Surround yourself with folks that have been where you are and grown themselves in the most innovative and inspiring ways. What you need right now are partnerships that meet you with the experience and expertise that you don’t have, while being appreciative and excited about the enthusiasm and energy that you bring.

In regards to your long-term and long-standing relationships, this astrology might kick up some old habits to heal and work through. It might behoove both of you to sit down together and do a little recalibration so that the growth that you are both undergoing is occurring in ways that is mutually supportive.

Pisces & Pisces Rising

You have the right to remain silent. You have the right to protect your heart. You have the right to keep your energy for yourself.

You have the right to refuse care to those that can’t return the favor. You have the right to take up the space that is yours to take up. You have the right to need things for yourself. You have the right to exist and no-one else’s right to do so is allowed to overshadow yours.

This week drives this message home. Mercury retrograde has given you the assignment of reclaiming yourself. Your boundaries. Your business. Study the ways in which you get in your own way in relationships. Notice the old relationship dynamics that come up for review. That come up for healing. That come up to be transformed.

This week pokes around issues of your potency. Issues around feeling valued. Worthy. Wanted. Issues that will have you feeling sensitive to rejection. Sensitive to situations where you feel invisible. Blotted out. Overshadowed.

Take the energy that is building within you and use it for creative projects. Let your canvases, blank pages and studios be the spaces that you use to transform any stuck energy. You are not the feelings that flood you, but you can use those feelings as a jumping off point for a great many works of art.