We’re celebrating this month because Mercury turns direct on Aug. 11 — just two days after the full moon in Aquarius on August 9. August feels lighter, cosmically speaking, as Mercury — the planet of communication — wraps up its retrograde, bringing some much-needed clarity and reprieve to this summer’s intense retrograde season.
The Aquarius full moon, which starts off the month, is making a harsh square to the Venus-Jupiter conjunction in Cancer, allowing you to assess relationships with money, personal values, and morals that have created friction in your inner and emotional worlds. However, it’s also allowing you to create new timelines that center on healthy boundaries around excessive indulgence, which is often geared towards poor self-worth and trading it for better self-regulating rituals.
The Aug. 23 Virgo new moon will be sitting at zero degrees, creating a unique and rare new moon. Planets at zero degrees are powerful and don’t allow themselves to be easily influenced by other planetary transits. This equates to the new moon being in the sign of Virgo, which is associated with purity and virginity. Meaning, it asks us to assess how we are being authentic and raw with ourselves, and in what ways we are being performative and self-shaming to appease the patriarchy. Try writing prompts, meditating, and doing mirror work as magic rituals for this new moon. This will help you unlock a higher perspective on those narratives.
Now, what does your tarotscope have in store for you? Tarotscopes merge the divination tools of tarot and astrology horoscopes based on your zodiac sign to provide you with a magical fusion of forecasting. Read on for your sun and rising signs to understand how August’s tarot reading will influence you.
Tarot Card of the Month: Nine of Wands
The overall tarot card pull for the general collective is the Nine of Wands. This card carries the motto of “onward and upward.” It’s a card of prevailing and not giving up. August reminds you of all that you’ve been through. You could reflect on your hard efforts and take pride in your journey. They say it’s not about reaching the finish line, but rather about the process by which you arrive. You are learning how to turn lemons into lemonade. However, it’s not a month limited to challenges and perseverance. It’s also a month that provides you with resilience to set your mind towards big dreams.
Esoteric Esa is a writer, astrologer, and expert in the esoteric fields. She’s contributed to HipLatina, Mitú, and Cosmopolitan. Her work focuses on eliminating misconceptions around taboo subjects in Latine spirituality such as astrology, brujería, and decoloniality.
