Your Weekly Horoscope, August 18-24: Remembering Who You Are

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As the planets move and dance in our cosmos, they bring different shifts for each of us. The week ahead is crowded with movement, including an Aquarius full Moon, Mercury retrograde cazimi, the onset of Virgo season, and other planetary transits activating what lies within us. There’s an invitation to experience a different way of being with and relating to others, ourselves, and life. As you experience these movements, your weekly horoscope can help you discern where to take action and where to allow things to happen.

Weekly Astrology for August 18-24

August 18: Mercury Square Uranus & Mercury Cazimi
August 19: T-Square; Full Moon in Aquarius; Moon Enters Pisces
August 22: Sun Enters Virgo; Moon Enters Aries
August 24: Moon Enters Taurus

Mercury Retrograde Square Uranus

In astrology, Mercury is our mind. It is our mental processing, thought patterns, and lens through which we experience the world. It connects us to our everyday consciousness, our higher consciousness, and our unconsciousness

Mercury has been retrograde since August 4, 2024. Since then, it has been revisiting and reframing our memories, experiences, and beliefs. It has been observing all that exists within us from a new perspective, including our unconscious habitual thoughts and responses. And it has been questioning, untangling, reorganizing, and rewriting things that have previously gone unchallenged.

On August 18, 2024, Mercury retrograde comes into a square with Uranus, which is oriented toward change, the future, ideas, innovation and freedom. The presence of Uranus within Mercury’s dance brings an opening to the mind. It illustrates the space between what exists in our minds and what must shift before we can step forward. As these two planets come together, they highlight the dichotomy within us all between where we have been and where we are going. In the process, we rewrite our perspective and our beliefs. Your weekly horoscope can explore where in life you want to focus.

Mercury Cazimi

A few hours after the square takes place, Mercury creates a conjunction with the Sun known as a cazimi, an Arabic term meaning “in the heart of the Sun.” As Mercury comes into the heart of the Sun, it arrives with a package of information and insights from its backward travel and its time with Uranus. Here we can become privy to information and insights that we are ready to integrate into our Sun self, which is our identity and continual unfolding of who we are.

The mind can be busy on this day. Yet the effects of the cazimi extend beyond its 24 hours. The transit brings with it the reminder that we see ourselves and the world through our minds. This environment shapes, filters and co-creates our definition of ourselves and life, whether rooted in truth or not.

It’s a day for questioning, compassion, release and rewriting. It’s a day for contemplating your weekly horoscope and journaling, grounding, meditating, or taking part in any practice that helps you declutter or clear the superfluous noise. It’s a day when you can tune into what is real and true for you.

Venus, Jupiter, Mars & Saturn T-Square

Hours before August’s full Moon, we are met with what is called a T-square in our cosmos, which is a conversation among three or more planets that find themselves at specific angles to one another. On this day, it is Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn that are in conversation.

These planets are all saying different things and coming from different perspectives. Venus in Virgo speaks from the heart and body, while Mars and Jupiter in Gemini speak from the mind and Saturn speaks exclusively about our responsibilities and real-life commitments. It’s a planetary dance that invites us to observe what emotions present themselves, what thoughts become louder than usual, and what, if any, inner contradictions begin to arise.

While we don’t need to act, change, or understand everything while in this energy, we will continue to work with its effects for months to come. Observe what arises on this day and begin engaging, integrating, and curiously exploring what is being planted. With so many different voices, archetypes, and expressions of ourselves looking to be heard, it is a day for compassion, spaciousness, and permission to not know everything in this very moment. Trust that things will continue to unfold and come together with time and space.

Aquarius Full Moon

The Moon reaches her fullness in Aquarius on the same day as the T-square to life, a rare occurrence that stirs much energy and change from beneath the surface.

A full Moon is the direct opposition of the Sun and Moon, which sit on different sides of Earth in opposite signs of the zodiac. As they do so, they come into a square aspect with Uranus, creating yet another T-square,and making this planet and all that it represents a major factor in this full Moon.

The full Moon in Aquarius asks each of us, what does it mean to be free? It answers through our inherent need to be who we are, follow our own path, and cultivate trust in our own guidance, knowing, decisions, and way forward.

This full Moon breaks down old structures, both internally and externally. There is vast rearranging occurring within each of us, with patterns shifting and transformation happening. This full Moon, supermoon and blue Moon, stands in between the old and new. It bridges who we have been with who we are becoming. It asks us to reconcile where we have been with where we are going. And it reminds us, through insights in our weekly horoscope, that to be free is to be ourselves and follow our unique calling. It all comes into culmination under this lunation.

Virgo Season

The Sun shifting into a new sign brings an entirely new astrological season and a new backdrop of energy for us to work with and understand.

As the Sun shifts from the sign of Leo into the sign of Virgo on August 22, 2024, we also shift from fire sign to Earth sign. Here, time slows down and the wisdom of the ground that is literally beneath our feet becomes more accessible. We enter a space of integration, where the vast change, movement, and shifting within and without has an opportunity to assimilate and bring us closer to who we are and further away from who we have been.

Virgo season is a period of tending, organizing, refining, and grounding. It invites us to clear the clutter in our lives, return to the foundations of our well-being, and create the rituals, habits, and everyday movements that support us rather than drain or distance us from ourselves. Among the many other cosmic movements this week, Virgo season is a long, slow breath out that brings us deeper into our bodies and ourselves.

We are invited to clear away the noise as we tune in and consider our bodies to be an extension of the Earth. We are asked to honor Earth’s pace, listen to its guidance, and take steps in service to our well-being.