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August 2025 Horoscope: Predictions for Leo
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Overview for this Month: Leo (All)
August is your power month, dear Leo. It can begin a bit sluggishly with Mercury still retrograde in your sign until the 11th, and delays with some of your plans may be part of your month. However, it remains a strong month for personal appeal and power. If you’ve been feeling demotivated or underwhelmed, this is the time for things to turn a corner. There is also a strong focus on you and your money, talents, and communications in August.
You’ve just recently experienced a New Moon in your sign towards the end of July, revving you up, but Mercury turned retrograde in your sign, asking you to pace yourself.
With the Sun and Mercury in your sign, it’s an important time for pursuing your personal goals, expressing yourself independently, and taking care of your needs. It’s about discovering or reconnecting with your independence and courage to be yourself. Mercury is retrograde in your sign until the 11th, and it’s also vital that you look back before moving forward.
This month, there’s a focus on personality and growth, with an emphasis on making considered changes. Although it may only feel like things are moving forward after mid-month, you can come to exciting new insights. August is strong for small but significant changes, as well as financial boosts. You’re learning a lot about yourself and your relationship with your things and money.
Mercury asks you to pace yourself. You’ll have to look back before going forward, but this can eventually bring rewards. Patience is necessary! Take care of unfinished business so that you can begin anew with less baggage.
What you communicate has more impact than usual—people hear you loud and clear, but they don’t necessarily see the whole picture in the first two weeks. It’s a time for taking stock of recent events and drawing on the past for ideas and insights, which can be significant in forming new or improved plans down the road. Communications are taken a little more seriously or literally, and not always correctly with Mercury’s retrograde. Meaningful contact with someone from your past may be part of the picture. Still, it’s essential to avoid making too much or too little of a person or situation–aim to let time tell the truth of a matter.
From the 6th onward, Mars in your communications sector can be excellent for enthusiasm for learning, studying, and sharing. However, this transit can produce a tendency to speak too quickly or directly at times, and Mercury’s retrograde until the 11th complicates the potential problem. Pour your energy into intellectual tasks if you can, as you can get a whole lot done now, working with vigor and passion. Self-expression not only improves but is outstanding as the month advances, especially around the 14th.
Love may be complicated or undercover until the 25th, when circumstances reveal themselves, after which you are more decided and clear about your affections. This can apply to a particular project rather than a relationship. Your presence is powerful all month, and your voice is strong.
You can find yourself highly motivated to earn, collect, and build in August, and later, you’re likely to be gung-ho about learning a new skill. This can be an important time for releasing a block, forgiving someone, or moving past a situation that has kept you from moving forward, even if your heart is a little slower than the rest of you to take off.
The Full Moon on the 9th is relationship-oriented, but it’s mostly about getting in touch with your true feelings about a matter, and it can be a real epiphany.
There can be some complications with connecting, and at times, you can feel overwhelmed with what you need to learn or get done. Keep in mind that a lack of a long-term plan can interfere with your presence of mind, or the opposite–if you’re pinning your hopes on something in the distant future, you may be missing current opportunities. Take time to reorient yourself. If you have doubts, ride them out and then make adjustments if necessary.
You’re exploring the ability to detach and enjoy non-committed, light, and pressure-free connections with others. Your open-mindedness to new ways of approaching your life or thinking creatively can bring opportunities for engaging in new experiences that take you out of your routine. You can meet people who seem to share a similar destiny as you or who you connect with in surprising ways, which can seem sudden or unexpected. Humanitarian pursuits can be attractive now. As you build your skills and attend to your practical affairs, you might connect with people or causes that inspire and encourage you.
Mars has been pushing your buttons, motivating you to make your life more comfortable, and while Mars exits your solar second house on the 6th, the Sun visits it from the 22nd forward. You’re particularly invested in your things, values, money, valuables, and talents. You have the energy to invest in your plans and move them forward.
From the 22nd forward, you’re pouring more of yourself into your practical affairs. You’re in a great position to build upon recent ideas or projects. Attention to your personal needs and plans continues, making it a fine time to sort things out and take charge. You’re inclined to draw in the right people or resources to advance your goals. Your pioneering and progressive ideas are winners, and you can be successful in putting an inhibition related to expressing yourself behind you.
From the 25th, Venus enhances your appeal, manner, and magnetism as it transits your sign. This is a warm, easygoing influence.
See also This Month in Astrology.
Leo (Born July 23 to August 2)
AND Leo Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Leo:
August 2025 Leo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2025
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until August 22nd:
The Sun continues to move through your solar first house. You experience a renewal of energy and vitality now, and it’s a strong time for increased personal confidence. The emphasis is on self-expression, what kind of impression you make on others, and beginning new personal projects.
You are a little more self-centered than usual, and this is quite natural and healthy as long as you don’t take it too far. You are more decisive and forward-looking now, and you put more faith in your own abilities. Physically, you are likely feeling strong. This is an excellent cycle for making personal changes in your manner or appearance, and for any self-improvement endeavors. Personal projects that you begin now are likely to blossom nine months down the road.
From August 22nd forward:
The Sun highlights your second house now, and your focus is on material affairs and comfort issues. Security is a driving force for you at the moment, and you might find that you are especially interested in accumulating possessions. What you have and what you don’t have come into focus–what makes you feel comfortable, your sense of security, and what you value.
This is the time of year when personal finances and possessions receive maximum attention. Pour your energy into your work and your finances, and you might just be able to take your ideas to the bank.
Extravagance with your pocketbook is something you may want to look out for, however. If you find yourself itching to make unnecessary purchases, know that at the root of this urge is the desire to pamper and comfort yourself. Nothing wrong with it, but there are inexpensive (and even free) ways to make yourself feel good.
This is not the most eventful time of year for you. You are more inclined to dig in your heels and hang on to what makes you feel most secure than to take big risks.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until the 25th:
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 the 25th 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 July 18th to August 11th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of personal finances, as well as communications with friends or groups, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. Major financial initiatives should be avoided. Remember that friends don’t mean what they say and don’t say what they mean, and take what you hear with a grain of salt. Group meetings may be delayed or cancelled.
Occurring in your solar first house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to your body language. 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. You may appear uncommunicative and hard to reach, or what you say comes out wrong. 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. Don’t worry too much if others aren’t quite “getting” you for the time being. Things will change once Mercury turns direct, so you might decide to try to keep status quo for the time being. You might spend more time than usual when it comes to making decisions now, and this is natural. Rushed decisions may be regretted when you change your mind later on.
From August 11th forward, information unclogs.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 6th:
Mars continues to energize your solar second house. You tend to put more effort into making money or making your life more comfortable and secure during this cycle. Your strong desire to be financially independent could lead to positive things, such as paying off debts or increased enterprise. The opposite side of the coin is asserting your independence by making impulsive purchases or taking risks with your money. You are more protective of the way you earn or spend money, as well as with the values you live your life by, and if others question you about these things, there could be arguments.
From the 6th forward:
Mars animates and energizes your solar third house during this period. You are likely to have many ideas and plans going during this transit, and you might be inclined to scatter your energies as a result.
Channelled well, however, this is a good time to sell your ideas to others, or to present your case in some manner. You may be especially busy running errands and communicating with others now.
More articulate than usual, you may also have a more assertive, self-centered, or provocative communication style at this time. As such, discussions might more readily become heated or they might escalate into arguments. If this is the case, it’s likely because you are taking things very personally right now, or because you are over-identifying with your beliefs and ideas.
A tendency to be impatient or impulsive while driving or while performing manual tasks, generally with the hands, may lead to accidents, so it’s wise to be careful on the road or while operating machinery or even using scissors! This is an excellent time for working on intellectual tasks with more vigor and passion.
Overview Horoscope:
August is your power month, dear Leo. It can begin a bit sluggishly with Mercury still retrograde in your sign until the 11th, and delays with some of your plans may be part of your month. However, it remains a strong month for personal appeal and power. If you’ve been feeling demotivated or underwhelmed, this is the time for things to turn a corner. There is also a strong focus on you and your money, talents, and communications in August.
You’ve just recently experienced a New Moon in your sign towards the end of July, revving you up, but Mercury turned retrograde in your sign, asking you to pace yourself.
With the Sun and Mercury in your sign, it’s an important time for pursuing your personal goals, expressing yourself independently, and taking care of your needs. It’s about discovering or reconnecting with your independence and courage to be yourself. Mercury is retrograde in your sign until the 11th, and it’s also vital that you look back before moving forward.
This month, there’s a focus on personality and growth, with an emphasis on making considered changes. Although it may only feel like things are moving forward after mid-month, you can come to exciting new insights. August is strong for small but significant changes, as well as financial boosts. You’re learning a lot about yourself and your relationship with your things and money.
Mercury asks you to pace yourself. You’ll have to look back before going forward, but this can eventually bring rewards. Patience is necessary! Take care of unfinished business so that you can begin anew with less baggage.
What you communicate has more impact than usual—people hear you loud and clear, but they don’t necessarily see the whole picture in the first two weeks. It’s a time for taking stock of recent events and drawing on the past for ideas and insights, which can be significant in forming new or improved plans down the road. Communications are taken a little more seriously or literally, and not always correctly with Mercury’s retrograde. Meaningful contact with someone from your past may be part of the picture. Still, it’s essential to avoid making too much or too little of a person or situation–aim to let time tell the truth of a matter.
From the 6th onward, Mars in your communications sector can be excellent for enthusiasm for learning, studying, and sharing. However, this transit can produce a tendency to speak too quickly or directly at times, and Mercury’s retrograde until the 11th complicates the potential problem. Pour your energy into intellectual tasks if you can, as you can get a whole lot done now, working with vigor and passion. Self-expression not only improves but is outstanding as the month advances, especially around the 14th.
Love may be complicated or undercover until the 25th, when circumstances reveal themselves, after which you are more decided and clear about your affections. This can apply to a particular project rather than a relationship. Your presence is powerful all month, and your voice is strong.
You can find yourself highly motivated to earn, collect, and build in August, and later, you’re likely to be gung-ho about learning a new skill. This can be an important time for releasing a block, forgiving someone, or moving past a situation that has kept you from moving forward, even if your heart is a little slower than the rest of you to take off.
The Full Moon on the 9th is relationship-oriented, but it’s mostly about getting in touch with your true feelings about a matter, and it can be a real epiphany.
There can be some complications with connecting, and at times, you can feel overwhelmed with what you need to learn or get done. Keep in mind that a lack of a long-term plan can interfere with your presence of mind, or the opposite–if you’re pinning your hopes on something in the distant future, you may be missing current opportunities. Take time to reorient yourself. If you have doubts, ride them out and then make adjustments if necessary.
You’re exploring the ability to detach and enjoy non-committed, light, and pressure-free connections with others. Your open-mindedness to new ways of approaching your life or thinking creatively can bring opportunities for engaging in new experiences that take you out of your routine. You can meet people who seem to share a similar destiny as you or who you connect with in surprising ways, which can seem sudden or unexpected. Humanitarian pursuits can be attractive now. As you build your skills and attend to your practical affairs, you might connect with people or causes that inspire and encourage you.
Mars has been pushing your buttons, motivating you to make your life more comfortable, and while Mars exits your solar second house on the 6th, the Sun visits it from the 22nd forward. You’re particularly invested in your things, values, money, valuables, and talents. You have the energy to invest in your plans and move them forward.
From the 22nd forward, you’re pouring more of yourself into your practical affairs. You’re in a great position to build upon recent ideas or projects. Attention to your personal needs and plans continues, making it a fine time to sort things out and take charge. You’re inclined to draw in the right people or resources to advance your goals. Your pioneering and progressive ideas are winners, and you can be successful in putting an inhibition related to expressing yourself behind you.
From the 25th, Venus enhances your appeal, manner, and magnetism as it transits your sign. This is a warm, easygoing influence.
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.
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Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
Romantic Compatibility Reports
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romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also 2025 Leo Preview Horoscope and the detailed 2025 Leo Yearly Horoscope.
Leo (Born August 3 to 12)
AND Leo Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Leo:
August 2025 Leo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2025
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
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 the 8th:
Venus continues to move through your solar eleventh house. This is a strong time for putting your ego aside and lowering your defenses and simply enjoying people. It’s a good time for networking and settling disputes if there are differences to iron out with friends. Cooperation comes easily, and warm friendships can be made during this cycle. Personal freedom is especially important to you right now, and you won’t enjoy any associations that limit you. It can also be a good time for earnings from business.
From August 8th forward:
Venus is spending some time in “hibernation” in your privacy sector. Now, this doesn’t necessarily mean that your love life is stagnant, but that your affection is expressed behind closed doors. Attraction to secrets and whispers characterize this period, although for some, it can also be a time of endings, relationship concerns, and wistfulness. Personal and social contacts may be secretive, and there can be secret love affairs, or at least very private love feelings and longings. Shyness can lead to some loneliness or romantic frustration. However, this can also be a deliciously private and intimate time.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Mercury is retrograde from July 18th to August 11th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of personal finances, as well as communications with friends or groups, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. Major financial initiatives should be avoided. Remember that friends don’t mean what they say and don’t say what they mean, and take what you hear with a grain of salt. Group meetings may be delayed or cancelled.
Occurring in your solar first house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to your body language. 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. You may appear uncommunicative and hard to reach, or what you say comes out wrong. 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. Don’t worry too much if others aren’t quite “getting” you for the time being. Things will change once Mercury turns direct, so you might decide to try to keep status quo for the time being. You might spend more time than usual when it comes to making decisions now, and this is natural. Rushed decisions may be regretted when you change your mind later on.
From August 11th forward, information unclogs.
From August 20th forward:
Mercury continues to transit your solar first house. During this cycle, you are more communicative than usual. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that conversations are at their best right now, simply because you are more interested in expressing yourself than listening! You are especially alert and a little cerebral now. You have a receptive audience for your ideas.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until August 22nd:
Mars continues to energize your solar second house. You tend to put more effort into making money or making your life more comfortable and secure during this cycle. Your strong desire to be financially independent could lead to positive things, such as paying off debts or increased enterprise. The opposite side of the coin is asserting your independence by making impulsive purchases or taking risks with your money. You are more protective of the way you earn or spend money, as well as with the values you live your life by, and if others question you about these things, there could be arguments.
From August 23rd forward:
Mars animates and energizes your solar third house during this period. You are likely to have many ideas and plans going during this transit, and you might be inclined to scatter your energies as a result.
Channelled well, however, this is a good time to sell your ideas to others, or to present your case in some manner. You may be especially busy running errands and communicating with others now.
More articulate than usual, you may also have a more assertive, self-centered, or provocative communication style at this time. As such, discussions might more readily become heated or they might escalate into arguments. If this is the case, it’s likely because you are taking things very personally right now, or because you are over-identifying with your beliefs and ideas.
A tendency to be impatient or impulsive while driving or while performing manual tasks, generally with the hands, may lead to accidents, so it’s wise to be careful on the road or while operating machinery or even using scissors! This is an excellent time for working on intellectual tasks with more vigor and passion.
Overview Horoscope:
August is your power month, dear Leo. It can begin a bit sluggishly with Mercury still retrograde in your sign until the 11th, and delays with some of your plans may be part of your month. However, it remains a strong month for personal appeal and power. If you’ve been feeling demotivated or underwhelmed, this is the time for things to turn a corner. There is also a strong focus on you and your money, talents, and communications in August.
You’ve just recently experienced a New Moon in your sign towards the end of July, revving you up, but Mercury turned retrograde in your sign, asking you to pace yourself.
With the Sun and Mercury in your sign, it’s an important time for pursuing your personal goals, expressing yourself independently, and taking care of your needs. It’s about discovering or reconnecting with your independence and courage to be yourself. Mercury is retrograde in your sign until the 11th, and it’s also vital that you look back before moving forward.
This month, there’s a focus on personality and growth, with an emphasis on making considered changes. Although it may only feel like things are moving forward after mid-month, you can come to exciting new insights. August is strong for small but significant changes, as well as financial boosts. You’re learning a lot about yourself and your relationship with your things and money.
Mercury asks you to pace yourself. You’ll have to look back before going forward, but this can eventually bring rewards. Patience is necessary! Take care of unfinished business so that you can begin anew with less baggage.
What you communicate has more impact than usual—people hear you loud and clear, but they don’t necessarily see the whole picture in the first two weeks. It’s a time for taking stock of recent events and drawing on the past for ideas and insights, which can be significant in forming new or improved plans down the road. Communications are taken a little more seriously or literally, and not always correctly with Mercury’s retrograde. Meaningful contact with someone from your past may be part of the picture. Still, it’s essential to avoid making too much or too little of a person or situation–aim to let time tell the truth of a matter.
From the 6th onward, Mars in your communications sector can be excellent for enthusiasm for learning, studying, and sharing. However, this transit can produce a tendency to speak too quickly or directly at times, and Mercury’s retrograde until the 11th complicates the potential problem. Pour your energy into intellectual tasks if you can, as you can get a whole lot done now, working with vigor and passion. Self-expression not only improves but is outstanding as the month advances, especially around the 14th.
Love may be complicated or undercover until the 25th, when circumstances reveal themselves, after which you are more decided and clear about your affections. This can apply to a particular project rather than a relationship. Your presence is powerful all month, and your voice is strong.
You can find yourself highly motivated to earn, collect, and build in August, and later, you’re likely to be gung-ho about learning a new skill. This can be an important time for releasing a block, forgiving someone, or moving past a situation that has kept you from moving forward, even if your heart is a little slower than the rest of you to take off.
The Full Moon on the 9th is relationship-oriented, but it’s mostly about getting in touch with your true feelings about a matter, and it can be a real epiphany.
There can be some complications with connecting, and at times, you can feel overwhelmed with what you need to learn or get done. Keep in mind that a lack of a long-term plan can interfere with your presence of mind, or the opposite–if you’re pinning your hopes on something in the distant future, you may be missing current opportunities. Take time to reorient yourself. If you have doubts, ride them out and then make adjustments if necessary.
You’re exploring the ability to detach and enjoy non-committed, light, and pressure-free connections with others. Your open-mindedness to new ways of approaching your life or thinking creatively can bring opportunities for engaging in new experiences that take you out of your routine. You can meet people who seem to share a similar destiny as you or who you connect with in surprising ways, which can seem sudden or unexpected. Humanitarian pursuits can be attractive now. As you build your skills and attend to your practical affairs, you might connect with people or causes that inspire and encourage you.
Mars has been pushing your buttons, motivating you to make your life more comfortable, and while Mars exits your solar second house on the 6th, the Sun visits it from the 22nd forward. You’re particularly invested in your things, values, money, valuables, and talents. You have the energy to invest in your plans and move them forward.
From the 22nd forward, you’re pouring more of yourself into your practical affairs. You’re in a great position to build upon recent ideas or projects. Attention to your personal needs and plans continues, making it a fine time to sort things out and take charge. You’re inclined to draw in the right people or resources to advance your goals. Your pioneering and progressive ideas are winners, and you can be successful in putting an inhibition related to expressing yourself behind you.
From the 25th, Venus enhances your appeal, manner, and magnetism as it transits your sign. This is a warm, easygoing influence.
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 2025 Leo Preview Horoscope and the detailed 2025 Leo Yearly Horoscope.
Leo (Born August 13 to 22)
AND Leo Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Leo:
August 2025 Leo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2025
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until August 12th:
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 12th 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 the 16th:
Venus continues to move through your solar eleventh house. This is a strong time for putting your ego aside and lowering your defenses and simply enjoying people. It’s a good time for networking and settling disputes if there are differences to iron out with friends. Cooperation comes easily, and warm friendships can be made during this cycle. Personal freedom is especially important to you right now, and you won’t enjoy any associations that limit you. It can also be a good time for earnings from business.
From August 17th forward:
Venus is spending some time in “hibernation” in your privacy sector. Now, this doesn’t necessarily mean that your love life is stagnant, but that your affection is expressed behind closed doors. Attraction to secrets and whispers characterize this period, although for some, it can also be a time of endings, relationship concerns, and wistfulness. Personal and social contacts may be secretive, and there can be secret love affairs, or at least very private love feelings and longings. Shyness can lead to some loneliness or romantic frustration. However, this can also be a deliciously private and intimate time.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Mercury is retrograde from July 18th to August 11th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of personal finances, as well as communications with friends or groups, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. Major financial initiatives should be avoided. Remember that friends don’t mean what they say and don’t say what they mean, and take what you hear with a grain of salt. Group meetings may be delayed or cancelled.
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.
From August 11th forward, information unclogs, and these matters move forward.
Until the 27th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar twelfth house. This is a cycle in which clear decision-making does not come easily. You are paying more attention to unspoken or hidden elements of any circumstance. You are seeing all sides to any given story, and forming a definite opinion does not seem “right” for the time being. Thoughts turn to the past. It’s a strong period for gaining different perspectives on problems or issues in your life, as well as for reflection and research, but not the easiest time for presenting your ideas.
From the 28th forward:
With Mercury in your solar first house, you are most inclined to speak up about matters that you previously were only mulling over. Your disposition is more intellectual than usual now, and self-expression comes easily. You are sharper than usual–more observant, and more inclined to “live in the head”. Relationships with siblings, neighbors, classmates, and casual friends may become more prominent in your life now.
It is likely that you will initiate discussions during this period, evaluate your appearance and the impact you have on those around you, and make contact with others rather than stay chained to any one place or activity.
This is the time to be direct and to communicate your needs and interests. You are more inclined to talk about yourself and your personal past now. This may also be a restless time when it is difficult to turn the thinking process off when it would be better to relax! It is an especially fruitful time for any endeavor that requires dealing with words, ideas, and facts and figures.
Your demeanor is more youthful, perhaps mischievous, light-hearted, and non-threatening so that others may be more inclined to turn to you for advice or pleasant conversation. Using the power of words to attract what you want or to further your interests works best for you now.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to energize your solar second house. You tend to put more effort into making money or making your life more comfortable and secure during this cycle. Your strong desire to be financially independent could lead to positive things, such as paying off debts or increased enterprise. The opposite side of the coin is asserting your independence by making impulsive purchases or taking risks with your money. You are more protective of the way you earn or spend money, as well as with the values you live your life by, and if others question you about these things, there could be arguments.
Overview Horoscope:
August is your power month, dear Leo. It can begin a bit sluggishly with Mercury still retrograde in your sign until the 11th, and delays with some of your plans may be part of your month. However, it remains a strong month for personal appeal and power. If you’ve been feeling demotivated or underwhelmed, this is the time for things to turn a corner. There is also a strong focus on you and your money, talents, and communications in August.
You’ve just recently experienced a New Moon in your sign towards the end of July, revving you up, but Mercury turned retrograde in your sign, asking you to pace yourself.
With the Sun and Mercury in your sign, it’s an important time for pursuing your personal goals, expressing yourself independently, and taking care of your needs. It’s about discovering or reconnecting with your independence and courage to be yourself. Mercury is retrograde in your sign until the 11th, and it’s also vital that you look back before moving forward.
This month, there’s a focus on personality and growth, with an emphasis on making considered changes. Although it may only feel like things are moving forward after mid-month, you can come to exciting new insights. August is strong for small but significant changes, as well as financial boosts. You’re learning a lot about yourself and your relationship with your things and money.
Mercury asks you to pace yourself. You’ll have to look back before going forward, but this can eventually bring rewards. Patience is necessary! Take care of unfinished business so that you can begin anew with less baggage.
What you communicate has more impact than usual—people hear you loud and clear, but they don’t necessarily see the whole picture in the first two weeks. It’s a time for taking stock of recent events and drawing on the past for ideas and insights, which can be significant in forming new or improved plans down the road. Communications are taken a little more seriously or literally, and not always correctly with Mercury’s retrograde. Meaningful contact with someone from your past may be part of the picture. Still, it’s essential to avoid making too much or too little of a person or situation–aim to let time tell the truth of a matter.
From the 6th onward, Mars in your communications sector can be excellent for enthusiasm for learning, studying, and sharing. However, this transit can produce a tendency to speak too quickly or directly at times, and Mercury’s retrograde until the 11th complicates the potential problem. Pour your energy into intellectual tasks if you can, as you can get a whole lot done now, working with vigor and passion. Self-expression not only improves but is outstanding as the month advances, especially around the 14th.
Love may be complicated or undercover until the 25th, when circumstances reveal themselves, after which you are more decided and clear about your affections. This can apply to a particular project rather than a relationship. Your presence is powerful all month, and your voice is strong.
You can find yourself highly motivated to earn, collect, and build in August, and later, you’re likely to be gung-ho about learning a new skill. This can be an important time for releasing a block, forgiving someone, or moving past a situation that has kept you from moving forward, even if your heart is a little slower than the rest of you to take off.
The Full Moon on the 9th is relationship-oriented, but it’s mostly about getting in touch with your true feelings about a matter, and it can be a real epiphany.
There can be some complications with connecting, and at times, you can feel overwhelmed with what you need to learn or get done. Keep in mind that a lack of a long-term plan can interfere with your presence of mind, or the opposite–if you’re pinning your hopes on something in the distant future, you may be missing current opportunities. Take time to reorient yourself. If you have doubts, ride them out and then make adjustments if necessary.
You’re exploring the ability to detach and enjoy non-committed, light, and pressure-free connections with others. Your open-mindedness to new ways of approaching your life or thinking creatively can bring opportunities for engaging in new experiences that take you out of your routine. You can meet people who seem to share a similar destiny as you or who you connect with in surprising ways, which can seem sudden or unexpected. Humanitarian pursuits can be attractive now. As you build your skills and attend to your practical affairs, you might connect with people or causes that inspire and encourage you.
Mars has been pushing your buttons, motivating you to make your life more comfortable, and while Mars exits your solar second house on the 6th, the Sun visits it from the 22nd forward. You’re particularly invested in your things, values, money, valuables, and talents. You have the energy to invest in your plans and move them forward.
From the 22nd forward, you’re pouring more of yourself into your practical affairs. You’re in a great position to build upon recent ideas or projects. Attention to your personal needs and plans continues, making it a fine time to sort things out and take charge. You’re inclined to draw in the right people or resources to advance your goals. Your pioneering and progressive ideas are winners, and you can be successful in putting an inhibition related to expressing yourself behind you.
From the 25th, Venus enhances your appeal, manner, and magnetism as it transits your sign. This is a warm, easygoing influence.
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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.
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