Sun & Rising Sign Horoscopes for August 2024

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today, we will be looking at your horoscopes for the month of August. I am joined today by my colleague and friend, Alex Amorosi. And Dana Solara. If you haven't met Dana yet, she has a new co-host on the show with Alex. We invited her a couple of months ago. She joined us for the first time last month, and we just loved it.

Thank you all for such a nice, warm welcome that you gave Dana as well. So really glad to have her back. Today, we have a list of transits. I'll go over them with you and Alex, and Dana and I will share our thoughts about the transits overall, and then we'll go Aries through Pisces, and the three of us will be alternating and also offering commentary on each other's takes as we go along.

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In September, I'll be doing a talk on Venus through the 12 signs, looking at Venus as 12 Love Languages. This is really handy if you want to understand Venus in your birth chart at a deeper level and maybe even look at the kind of synastry between your Venus and maybe someone else's Venus. Also, on October 17, the October talk is called The Myth of Astrological Compatibility. What everybody gets wrong about the astrology of relationships.

This is my chance to get on my soapbox about some of the stuff that I think is absolute BS out there about astrology relationships. And I'll give you my thoughts about the thing that actually works. I have a really strong take on this, and I've never taught it. I've never taught it before, and I was like, yeah, it's time to teach it. So, I think you guys will enjoy that talk as well when you register for any of these talks. You get the link to attend live if you can't make it live. You get a recording recording afterward. So, I hope to see you all there for some of that. And on that note, I'm really glad to bring Alex and Dana back for this month's horoscopes.

Alex Amorosi
We're both doing double waves

Adam Elenbaas
Oh my gosh, I'm so glad to have you guys back. How was July for both of you?

Dana Solara
Oh yeah, I thought it was pretty chill for me. I don't know. I'm feeling Saturn moving back toward my ascendant ruler, so I was sort of just enjoying the chill. It is not approaching, but July has been okay for me. How about you, Alex?

Alex Amorosi
Um, it's been eventful but not bad. Very well, that Uranus-Mars conjunction really stirred some stuff up, but it was just typical that Uranus unexpectedly got to deal with this type of thing that would come up really fast. But Saturn is backing off of a square to my son. So July has progressively felt a little bit less like the pressure is starting to come off a little bit, which feels nice, but it's been erratic for sure. It's settling now. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
I had Uranus on my ascendant, with Mars. And so I had a nervous breakdown. I almost lost my mind. No, I mean, it was crazy because there were I would say I had some migraines. I fell down the stairs at one point, which was really scary, but I ended up being okay. And then we had a massive, massive tree-like house destroying tree size, falling 10 yards short of our house during the middle of the night and destroying our fence like we have a property line fence. It absolutely destroyed our fence, and it landed about 10 yards short of our house. And when I woke up, it was more.

It was the Mars-Uranus conjunction that was almost exactly my ascendant, and I thought it was interesting because my ascendant ruler was in the fourth house. There's also a bit of a square still going on with my ascendant ruler in the fourth house of home and property, and I was like, Whoa, that got my attention. And I feel like the month was way more. It's funny how when you have a big transit going on, and then the astrology is pinging off like there's a lot of astrology in a month when you also have an outer planet somewhere hitting your natal, Venus or your ascendant or whatever. It's like those are the biggest months. And so for me, July was like, completely nutty, like every. I can't say there was one, normal. Yeah, it was. It was really well; there were a lot of really unexpected and erratic things.

Saffron is one of our staff, and she's a big part of the Roots and Spheres monthly Moon circle. She said, sometimes, when you're going through these transits that, a month like July, may not hit you personally, maybe it's not hitting anything in your birth chart in a big way. But you will, it's sort of like if you're driving down the street, she actually had this experience driving down the street. And she was just being a very cautious driver because of Mars, Uranus. And like one intersection up, she saw someone just get T boned. And she was like, Okay, if I had been not slowing down, could that have been me? She doesn't know, who knows. But she said, sometimes you just sort of, you see the gods at work.

And you just sort of tip your cap and bless everyone involved. I hope everyone's doing okay. And it's sort of like that, like, I feel like for people in July who didn't have it hit personally, you probably saw it peripherally and other people's lives that you know, and sometimes that's how it shows up, too. So, I don't know if you guys had any experience of seeing those intense transits of July play out in other people's lives. But that was one way that a lot of people have been reflecting on seeing July play out as well.

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, for sure. You know, I put in my newsletter this month like everything that's going on in July was under the umbrella of that conjunction in some way, shape, or form; it was just it would the build to it the exact, you know, and up to the exact conjunction and I think it's an interesting way to look at astrology where it's just like, you realize that there are layers within layers and that every other transit that was happening had a little tinge of, you know, Mars-Uranus. And I think it's interesting to me when I had this experience in my life was some stuff that was going on with my family where, you know, like the tree falling, it's like a holy shit moment, but in Venus's sign, it was like, something will, you know, like, you know, if you're just like, there's like something that just seems to stave it off or move it off. You know, I don't know if that happened to everybody. But that was the experience I was having, like, well, oh, okay, well, but okay, you know, harmony returns in some way. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
I mean, it was really handy that there was a reception with Venus of benefic. Yeah, the ruler of good fortune is configured with Mars-Uranus. Certainly, I felt like that was part of the near-miss motif. I had several people in my life that I know go through really turbulent experiences in friendships or relationships that were also near misses that ended up being okay. But I was like, Is every one of my life about to get divorced, like, like friends and people in, you know, extended relations and so forth. I was like, Whoa, this is gnarly.

There are also three transits from Pluto, Mercury, Venus, and the Sun. All opposing Pluto, there was a lot of stuff that came up that was just like, oh, wow, I didn't see that coming, right? I didn't know that was in there or whatever. So August is a really different month; I want to put the chart up on the screen, and let's start taking a look at the transits of August. Now that we are kind of, we've taken a second to reflect on July.

Hopefully, here's August 1. So what we're going to be focusing on for your horoscopes today are the transits that are mostly taking place across the mutable sign axis. That would be excluding Sagittarius. It's really Virgo, Gemini, and Pisces. As we can see at the start of the month, Mercury is starting to retrograde in Virgo, a very well-dignified Mercury Retrograde. I have to say that it makes me a little hopeful that this won't be super nutty. You know, maybe some really productive things are happening there. But then we also see Venus entering her fault in the sign of Virgo with a long drawn-out opposition to Venus taking place. Then, we are going to see the conjunction of Mars and Jupiter in Gemini, which is about the middle of the month with both of those planets. Immediately squaring Saturn in Pisces, and let me just draw this out in case you can't see it.

Right, and then we've got Venus heading into the opposition. Mercury's just finished is going to dip back into Leo for the rest of its retrograde, but a significant portion of the beginning of the retrograde will take place in Virgo. And that retrograde is that Mercury Retrograde, of course, is ruling the Mars-Jupiter conjunction and effectively playing a big role in the Jupiter-Saturn square. Because you look at the chain of rulership, Jupiter Saturn is a huge moment in a mundane sense. It's a cycle that we're going to talk a little bit about before we get into horoscopes, and we want to make sure we understand it. But when the ruler of the Jupiter part of the Jupiter Saturn square is Mercury retrograde, that's a big deal that really suggests a pretty significant change within the Jupiter-Saturn dynamic.

As the month goes on, we also see Venus getting into this interesting dynamic where Venus is squaring Jupiter in the benefic while opposing Saturn in the malefic. That's an interesting dynamic because when you have a Jupiter Saturn square, Venus suddenly hits or pings off, which also turns the Jupiter Saturn square pretty significantly. Let's see. And then I think we said Mars conjoined Jupiter-Venus opposite Saturn, Jupiter square Saturn, Venus square Jupiter, and Mercury Retrograde Venus being debilitated is also a big deal. We have to understand what that means.

So, let's talk a little bit about the astrology of the month before we get into horoscopes. What stands out to you guys, when you look at this, like what are some of your thoughts about the month of August? What how would you summarize or capture some of the big themes? Maybe Dana, you could start us?

Dana Solara
Sure. Um, the first thing I noticed when I looked at this month was the way that Mercury and Venus are working together. As soon as Mercury stations Retrograde, Venus enters Virgo. And then, as soon as Mercury turns direct, Venus trines Pluto, I believe, and then enters Libra. So I find that really interesting, especially because Venus is in her fall here. It feels like Mercury and Venus are working together in an interesting way. And I'm also fascinated, but I'm not too sorry, Alex. I'll say one more thing, and then I'll let you talk. I'm interested in the fact that both phonetics are in places where they're not. They don't naturally do as well as they normally do. It feels almost contrarian, like we're going to be saying no to a lot of things, especially with mercury retrograde. Yeah.

Alex Amorosi
I love that. You know, the Jupiter-Saturn dynamic really stands out to me, and I have a personal example that just happened literally about two hours ago; I had a break in the middle of the day. I went to the gym, and I got my trainer sent me a new core workout to do, and so I'm playing the video, and I'm like, Oh yeah, well, I can do this like no big deal like it doesn't look that hard, blah blah. Like every Jupiter Mars, right? I'm kind of thumping my own chest. And it was the hardest. I could barely move like I was falling over the floor. I was sweating all over the place. I was killed by the lady next to me, and it was just like, it was so embarrassing. And I thought like this is such a Jupiter-Mars dynamic square Saturn, where it's like you have this sort of bravado and sort of a little bit hopped up on your own like intellectual or physical capability.

And then Saturn comes along and says yeah, but you haven't ever done these exercises before, Alex. You know you haven't. You need to, like, practice this. You need to go back to basics. You need to take the slower you need to come like come. Slow your roll a little bit. And I feel like that will be an interesting theme because you know Jupiter in Gemini is already so experimental and quick. You add Mars to it. It's really like, you know, pouring fuel on the fire. I think humility and recognizing you can be excited with humility this month is really important, and with a sense of staying grounded and stable and not forgetting your roots, your base, and your foundations would be really important.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, those those are great thoughts. One of the things that comes to my mind is there is so much. I mean, three of the major playing planets, Jupiter, Mars, and Venus, are all in Mercury signs, and again, both have been ethically debilitated in Mercury signs. The reason for this, if I had to put it, you know, in the broadest archetypal terms, is that Jupiter and Venus are all about bringing things together and harmonizing and building unity and holes and cohesiveness and flow. And Mercury, I don't mean to say that Mercury is like some kind of villain. But Mercury is much more deconstructive by nature.

It's like Mercury likes to pull things apart, question things, and even examine and scrutinize. And so I feel like one of the themes of the month has to do with scrutinizing things, looking at things, and seeing what works and doesn't work, and there's a sort of critical eye. Almost like, you know, having someone come in and evaluate the design style or aesthetic of your home.

It's like a very vulnerable, fragile place to have someone come into your home and just be like, well, the color doesn't really work here or like blah, blah, blah. And so I could see this month being one where there's a lot of really good constructive feedback. But there's also maybe some disappointment because it could feel like a little bit of a killjoy or almost like we want to see things come together. We want to be building things, but there's this kind of pull it all apart, take it all down theme that could sort of get in the way, for sure. I want to talk. Oh, go ahead.

Alex Amorosi
No, I was just gonna say really quick, Adam, you know, it's also looked for the background players of Uranus and Pluto to still be pretty active this month. And you know, we'll talk about that, I'm sure, when we get to the Jupiter Saturn square, which is opening the conjunction, you know, the opening square of the conjunction that happened at zero Aquarius, where Pluto is right now. Also, you know that we're in Mercury's retrograde. The Cassini with the Sun is a degree off from a square to Uranus, and Mercury is making three passes at Uranus. So, you know, really looking at like, you know, those outer planetary background themes of, you know, the cathartic purgative quality of Pluto and then the sort of surprising erratic, sometimes very liberating and freeing quality of Uranus are sort of operate you know, programs are operating in the background to this month.

Adam Elenbaas
Hmm, yeah, I think it's remarkable that I left this up because I wanted to point out that when Jupiter and Saturn square one another, we have it under the full moon in Aquarius, and the full moon is configured in an exact square with Uranus and Mercury Retrograde is just coming off the square to Uranus two so it is a very lively Full Moon in August. Still very Uranian, still very much in line, in my opinion, with the theme of the year, which is the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction. So yeah, I think it's interesting that Venus is configured in or falls intimately within the sphere of the full moon and so forth as well. So it's, yeah, it's a busy month; I want to talk a little bit about what, before we get in last this month, needs a little bit more unpacking before we just get into horoscopes because we want to understand what we're actually looking at. If we go back to December 2020, it was the conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn at zero Aquarius. What's interesting is that we have Pluto retrograding over that point. At the same time, since that conjunction, we now have the first hard aspect in the synoptic cycle between Jupiter and Saturn.

So, to my mind, you know, there's a lot of places you could look at in your birth chart this month to understand the Jupiter-Saturn dynamic because it's spread out across three mutable signs that are really engaged. But it's also the opening square coming off from the conjunction at zero Aquarius, where Pluto is now located. So, you could also look at the Aquarius house in your chart this month. But with Jupiter, Saturn, one of the classic ways of thinking about Jupiter's Saturn cycles before we had all of the outer planets 1000s of years ago was in terms of the cycles of birth and death and regeneration of major societal structures. So when you think of Jupiter, traditionally, you think of all of the major institutions of the society that help create cohesion, virtue, justice, law, equality, goodness, whether that's the law, and these are all ideally speaking, because we always fell short as humans, but the law, government, education, religion, these are all Jupiterian.

Now, to the extent that institutions are mortal, just like humans are mortal. They go through constant revision. So, the Jupiter Saturn cycles were associated with the revision, as well as the death and the RE configuring of social institutions. So, as Jupiter and Saturn are going through a square, we are looking at not just right now, but there's consecutive, like December, we have another square. Later on, in 2025, we will have one more, so it's a long process. But right now, we're really looking at a moment of reconfiguring, struck structures in our lives, the structures that ideally grant us a sense of unity and cohesion, that that's philosophically or morally or that's like your outlook on life.

Or if it's the organizational structures that are at work in your home or your office job or whatever the case might be. You're going to see that they are going through a moment of being checked or challenged, being revised or edited, shifting or evolving in some way, dying and being reborn in some way. And it's a kind of critical moment, a moment of challenge, and a moment where there could be frustrations that come up because this is the square. So let's just remember that the Jupiter Saturn square is not just any other planetary square because it's two very slow-moving planets that have this very specific history behind them in mundane astrology.

No doubt we're not doing mundane, like collective historical astrology on the show. But you will see this in the news over the next year. You're gonna see this happening in various ways in various institutions and the form of government and so on and so forth. So anyway, I wanted to say a little bit about that before we get into it today because the Jupiter-Saturn horoscopes are really important to sort of qualify what they mean and what they're all about. Do you guys want to add anything?

Alex Amorosi
I mean, I don't have much to add to that. I think it's really important to understand that cycle, especially, you know, looking at Jupiter; I think Saturn in a water sign may have the tougher time here. Pluto is in an Air sign, Jupiter is in an Air sign, and Jupiter and Saturn have been forming a conjunction for about 181 years in Air signs. You could see that the impulse to deconstruct and decentralize and look into things be very strong, but Saturn, you know, there's an emotional attachment to something or a feeling of not wanting to feel desperate or disconnected, drawing back that could feel I don't know, like attention this month. Yeah.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. And there's like like Jupiter. I feel like Jupiter in Gemini, along with Uranus, is about to enter Gemini next year, and it is very experimental. Let's try this. Let's try that. Saturn in Pisces says Yeah, but what about this obligation? Or what about this greater emotional need? Or what about? It's like someone who has a technology and someone who says that'll price too many people out. You know what I mean? Like, well, so and then someone might say, well, you know, like, I have this new idea. And someone says, Well, that won't work for me. And you say, Well, I have to set a boundary, and I can't make everything about you, or I can't make everything about this need or this burden that someone is using as a way to try and block some kind of progress or so forth.

So, like there, yeah, there's a lot of ways of looking at that Jupiter Saturn square. But anyhow, we've labored enough on these transits, so let's get started. We'll begin. I've got Aries on the ascendant. So we're going to start here, and again, what we're really focusing on this month for all of you are the transits taking place across these three houses, which we outlined at the start of the episode today. Really, this is these are the houses and topics that you're going to see things moving through in the month ahead. So that's what we will each be focusing on for you. Dana is going to start us off with Aries.

Dana Solara
Aries
Okie dokie. So Aries Risings actually wants to start with the fact that Mercury is going to be retrograding your sixth house. And I know Mercury Retrograde is pretty; it's a normal phenomenon, right? It happens about three times a year, but because Mercury is ruling Gemini and Virgo. It's important, that's where Venus is. Right. And that's where the Mars-Jupiter conjunction is going to happen. So I think it's important we think about this mercury retrograde and the fact that Venus and Mercury are going to kind of change hands; they're going to kind of high five and switch spots. Venus will stay in the Mercury sign for the rest of the month. So Mercury Retrograde is happening in your sixth house of work and health, and it's going to retrograde back into your fifth house of pleasure, creativity, and children.

So, for me, this Mercury Retrograde, wherever Virgo and Leo are in your chart, and obviously for Aries, this is going to be your sixth and fifth house. These topics are going to come together somehow. And so, for my Aries rising people, I'm wondering about what you're rethinking and the way you approach your health and your work. And because Venus is here, and Venus is in her fall, it feels like you're trying to be very dedicated to your work. There's a standard you're setting. I'm thinking about someone who is starting a new work workout routine, and they're gung ho and following it to the tee. But if you've ever done that, you know that can kind of go too far pretty quickly. And I think that that general idea is the thing we want to watch out for with Venus and Virgo is it can go too far, kind of quickly, especially when we're trying to hold ourselves to a standard, and that's what Venus in Virgo wants to do. It sees the aesthetic ideal as perfection.

And so when we're talking about your health and your work, you just want to keep that in mind. Now Venus is going to be opposing Saturn in your 12th house. Saturn in your 12th house, I would say, is forcing you to probably deal with questions, thoughts, and realities. You'd rather not because that's the 12th house, right? And Saturn wants you to be responsible. So that's been going on since March of last year. But now Venus is going to oppose Saturn. So I wonder about what this mercury retrograde and Venus stuff is bringing up for you and how that sort of creates tension or clashes with all of the behind-the-scenes subconscious work that you're doing. Now, if you've been working with Saturn in Pisces in a more conscious way, you might be really ready for this because you might be sort of getting your inner world in order. And you might have already been doing some of that.

So, what comes up with Venus and Virgo? Actually, you might be ready for it, right? But I also couldn't help but think about isolation and feeling isolated. I get that sense with Venus in Virgo that, you know, Venus in Virgo it's sort of self-sacrificing; it wants to sort of do everything for everybody. And when you've got Saturn in the 12th house, where he, you know, kind of does really well, it's the 12th house is like Saturn; I think that the potential for feeling alone in your experience is real. So, I would encourage my Aries-rising people to lean on their friends and to talk about the things that are going on with them. So that kind of takes us to the Mars and Jupiter conjunction.

Fun fact: I have this natively in Gemini. I'm not an expert. Obviously, this is something I'm learning about for the rest of my life. But I'm excited to talk about it. So we know that Jupiter is in detriment in Gemini. So, this is a critical Jupiter. It's a Jupiter that decides what it wants through a process of elimination. And when you have Mars here, too, it's I'm going to speak up, I'm going to say what I think is right and fight for what I want. And so in the third house, you know, I definitely could see this thing about communication, obviously, like speaking up, not just because it's Gemini, but because we're in the third house, thinking about your daily routines and rituals.

What are you willing to do differently? You know, and it's weird to think about courage in your daily routines and rituals, like having the courage to brush your teeth every day or something like that. But I think it does take courage; I'm talking about Mars; I think it does take courage to do things differently than you've been doing them, especially when we've got a 12th house influence that can kind of be this energy of undoing, right? So it's having the courage to step out of the things that you've always done and do them differently for your own good and your own benefit. And not because it's going to help other people, but because it's what you need. And so that's what I'm seeing here. Awesome.

Adam Elenbaas
Alex, do you want to add anything?

Alex Amorosi
Not too much. I was just thinking along those lines. Again, I was just saying I often think of Jupiter as ceremony and ritual, you know, and Gemini, Mercurial signs often are very skeptical of that sort of thing of the, you know, there's a deconstructive quality to ceremonial rituals, like a little nose up at it, you know, and I think that there might be something you know, to look at. Maybe just phrasing what you said in a different way. I was thinking about it. But, like, the idea of looking at the sort of rituals of your everyday life and maybe wanting to change those really, really quickly. And then Saturn in the 12th house is like, you have it. There's something here right in the back of your subconscious that's not quite allowing that to change. And maybe there's something to look at there that there's a reason that that brake is on. But yeah, I love that. That's a beautiful analysis.

Adam Elenbaas
One of the things that stands out to me about this particular horoscope is that this particular horoscope is for Aries. When I look at Jupiter and Saturn in the third and the 12th, one of the things that I think could happen is the calling into question a very specific and maybe a very old way of seeing the world. The Jupiter in Gemini, in the third house, square to Saturn in the 12th, is like the way that I see the world, which isn't the only way of seeing it, or the way that I experience truth is being called into question. There are different perceptions available or different lenses through which to see or understand yourself or the world. And I feel like underlying unconscious issues that are related to perception and truth and how you understand what's real or not, what's true or not.

How do you evaluate, judge, or discern between what's valuable or good for you and what's not? I could see those kinds of things being called into question in some really acute ways that also maybe have relationship ramifications where they somehow filter into relationships whether that's romantic or worker Relationships are it's kind of, but it's kind of like I wouldn't be surprised to see Aries folks sort of going. I've never seen it this way before, something like that. Love that. All right, let's move on. Thank you, Dana. That was a great one. Thank you.

Let's move to Taurus. So Alex is going to take our fixed signs for the day. And I'm just going to highlight these mutable houses so that we can see everything happening across here for you.

Alex Amorosi
Taurus
Alright, so I see, you know, I look at that Jupiter-Mars conjunction in the second house, and all I can think of is like the impetus to get some money. There's something, you know, that was, you guys ever watch Parks and Rec back in the day job offer and get that paper, you know, like, if there's something about like, I am experimenting with all these possible ways where I can bring in resources maybe ways and consider before you know, it, there could be I think with Gemini, sometimes maybe the abundant with Jupiter and Gemini, the abundance of ideas that you would want to ground into solid reality. But I think it's interesting, too, with the ruler Mercury now being retrograde in the fifth house, just passing as a conjunction with Venus. This may ask you also to reconsider. You know, are you either? Are you being precise enough with the creativity that you want to put into the world? Are you really doing the sort of organizational process behind that creativity that will bring those greater resources?

Or which can happen with Virgo very easily? Are you going too far, as you said, Dana? Are you getting mired in details about whether I am finding the exact right thing that brings my heart the exact right amount of joy that organizes that joy just the right way? And realizing like, well, I can also just, you know, put some experimental ideas forward here and see what happens. And I think it's interesting that you know, you've got Saturn sitting right up there in the 11th house, which may ask for some amount of shift or change within, especially in Pisces, the sort of energetic or emotional dynamics of your social networks of people that you're around, you know, within, I usually think of the 11th house and more of like a work or professional setting, but the people who sort of support you and support your, your ideals in the world, there might be some, there might be some, maybe challenge from that.

Or they ask you to go through some sort of more challenging emotional understanding within that sphere of life that would free you to move forward on that rocket ship of Jupiter and Mars. And that will feel great. I think gravity is going to really feel like it's pulling on Jupiter and Mars. But that Saturn is in the 11th house. There's something there of asking for some kind of grieving or ending or allowing to melt away of something that will allow you to do that which may, you know, I've had my own experiences with Saturn in places recently; it can be challenging, but ultimately freeing and cathartic.

Adam Elenbaas
Nice, nice. Do you want to add anything?

Dana Solara
I loved what you said about the experimentation factor of Jupiter, which you said earlier, but it makes a lot of sense here. And thinking about the square with Saturn. I feel like you said this in so many words, but experimentation might actually be the thing causing the friction within the groups. And that that is like a growth point, maybe for Taurus risings.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I, um, I feel like the Mars Jupiter conjunction is, like, really wanting to build or develop something, and grow something and probably is excited for some kind of shift of philosophy, or different skills or technologies being utilized for the sake of like income or money or business. Because there's this, like, let's want to do something. And the doing is governed by a Mercury that's retrograde. So it's like, let's do something new. Let's revise and have this new way of approaching things around money or business or blah, blah, blah, and it's really exciting. And then there's this check from Saturn in the 11th being like, you owe me something, or you're obligated to me, or there's some duty or some sense of like burden.

And it's going to be like, well, how much am I beholden to that Saturn and the collective obligation that represents some higher religious or spiritual or collective concern? And it might be that you can't please all the people all the time, you know, it might be that you can't be everyone's cup of tea. But you also don't necessarily have to discard all social obligations or responsibilities. So maybe there's some middle path that can be walked. Love that I also wouldn't be surprised if there are friends or colleagues who just don't like what you're doing. Or like, I don't, I don't like this new thing you're doing, and you just have to go. That's none of my business.

You know, like that could happen because I've noticed from being a Taurus rising Saturn in the 11th at times that it has been like friends, colleagues, people, and groups that I belong to being sort of like a buzzkill. And me just having to go, Oh, that's too bad. And look at me trying to think I can please everyone; I don't care, you know, or something like that. That's really hard for me personally, as a Taurus rising to, if you want to please people, you want to be Venusian, and so forth. So Venus is debilitated this month in the house of creativity for Taureans. That might mean that your creative impulse is not going to satisfy everyone or that it's, it's there's some kind of creative remaking, and that you know, certain people or relationships will be strained by virtue of it, but that may be how it has to happen.

Gemini
All right, let's go forward to Gemini, and we put the other mutable signs. When we get to our mutable horoscopes, we're putting these transits on the angles, which makes our mutable signs out there for your mutable rising signs are probably some of the most potent this month so far, for Geminis what I see is you know, the first house tends to be center stage like a spotlight right on that house when there's a lot of action.

So I would probably sort of centralize the importance of Mars-Jupiter this month in the middle of the month for Geminis, you know, that is a great placement for assertive, aggressive, competitively driven, motivated actions. Like, go get it. That's your mantra this month. Just go get it. I think like we were saying, Jupiter, Saturn square Saturn in the 10th house, there's going to be a feeling of prohibition or restriction. Well, you can go get it up to 50%. Or, you know, like, well, you can go get it, but you also still have to work a day job until your business is ready to go. Or, I feel like Saturn is going to want to clip the wings or hold Mars Jupiter back.

Now, on the other hand, Mars and Jupiter together can be like riding on a high horse. Maybe a little arrogance or inflation of the ego and Saturn might be providing some kind of check; hey, you have there. You need to be emotionally sensitive and look at your duties, your obligations, your responsibilities, realize you're a part of a vast universe, and don't get too high on yourself. So, Saturn might provide some wisdom and maturity for Mars-Jupiter if Mars-Jupiter gets too high on itself. I would also think that what makes this really interesting is the personal transformation that wants to happen for Geminis this month, which is also being guided by a Mercury retrograde and Venus in the fourth house of home, property, and living environment, family karma.

So the way in which you're wanting to change is probably related also to things happening around home and family that are really important. So the balance between the house of your work your job, your public occupation, or reputation, personal changes you're trying to make and a kind of revisionary process that's working through the roots of your life at the level of home and family makes it a pretty dynamic month. So I'll leave it there. What do you guys think?

Alex Amorosi
You know, I just think that Jupiter and Mars sitting right in the first house could feel really fun. It could also feel for Gemini rising really maddening. Because it's so much more information than even Geminis, you're used to taking in and processing. So I feel like the idea of I actually think in a way Venus, the ruler being in Virgo.

So Mercury being in Virgo, retrograde, and Saturn provides somewhat of a mute to that where it feels like a month where it could feel like, oh my god, there's all these ideas and always were, and I could change in this way I could just I'm gonna go this way. It could feel like both of those, the retrograde and Saturn, are just like, and you can be grounded, and you can be stable, and you can implement these things one at a time. And just because you have the idea doesn't mean you have to do it.

Or if you know, notice if you have an idea again, are you implementing it because I think this Jupiter Mars could feel like, wow, I have a great idea about how I want to change my body, mind, psychology, a lot of things that go with the first go on with the first house. But there's a nice organizational quality from Virgo there, and Saturn is just being a little bit like the adults in the room. You know, just being like, hey, one second. It was like, you know, to do that. We're it's gonna require some harder things that you may not have considered. And just take those into consideration as you move forward. Yeah.

Dana Solara
I've been thinking since we started, you know, it seems like for all of us, like, no matter who you are, this month is a little destabilizing; we're gonna need to get a little uncomfortable with uncertainty and being a little unclear on what's working what's not. And I think for Gemini risings, that's a little more pronounced because you do have this really strong first house energy where you're ready to go, you're ready to do stuff, but the Mercurial function is it's retrograde right now. And so I'm curious to see, you know, how for Gemini risings out there, maybe how you navigate that, like, you think you know what you want, but then there are some there's gonna be some curveballs, I think.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. Yeah. It's as though it is as though the impetus to move forward is like, there's someone's pressing the pause button and saying it, but before you can move forward, you have to organize your closet, you know, like you have to, or you have to, like, purge your dresser of clothing and take it to Goodwill. And, you know, there's some kind of process of delays, setbacks, and revisions.

On the other hand, I could see this as the implementation of a new strategy. And because Mercury's retrograde with Mars and Jupiter, I would say, like, you know, it's like, I've attacked this problem in so many different ways. Now, I realize I want to implement a new strategy. And if there's a little bit of patience and tact involved, then the Saturn check could also represent a maturation of a philosophy that hasn't worked in the past and that now will because it's matured somehow. Yeah. All right, let's move on to Cancer Rising, and we'll hand it back to Dina.

Dana Solara
Cancer
All right. So Cancer, risings. Mercury Retrograde is moving through your third and second houses. So it's initiating review in the third house things daily rituals, routines, siblings communication, that's going to be somehow tied to the second house because Mercury will eventually move back into Leo, so your assets or resources in your livelihood. And, of course, this is happening while Venus moves through Virgo in your third house. I was thinking about Venus in Virgo, and it's funny; you mentioned the closet Adam because I was thinking about Mommy dearest a little bit. Which, clearly Venus in Virgo is not inherently mean are abusive, right. But it's that exacting precision, like no more wire hangers; we don't do that here. It's about being precise with the details. That can make the connection challenging, which is why Venus has a harder time in Virgo.

But because of this connection with the second and third houses, I thought about, you know, you're trying to organize your daily life so that maybe your resources can be more easily managed. Maybe you're writing marketing emails, and you're being really meticulous with your words so that you can, like, bring in more resources, just right, so there's something going on there. That's pretty important. Again, with Venus in Virgo, we want to be careful of being self-sacrificing. And being in the house that can indicate siblings, I would just encourage Cancer rising to go into the month, remembering that like giving everything you have is not helping. That's not That's not helping anybody. It's not helping you. It's not helping them. Helping is being aware of your boundaries. And so that's something I would just encourage us to think about.

As we move into this month, you may be giving too much, and Mercury Retrograde might be helping you realize that especially because the resources are tied to this as well. So then we've got things in the ninth house, and the third in the ninth house, or excuse me, Saturn is in your ninth house. And we know that's the house of philosophies and spirituality and higher learning.

So I'm thinking about Cancer, risings, and what you've gotten serious about when it comes to your beliefs. Maybe it's a spiritual practice, or maybe it's your values. Maybe you've just kind of been making those a little more concrete since March of last year. And this Venus opposition is sort of showing you where your daily life doesn't align with that. And I'm still thinking about maybe this giving too much like, oh, actually, I do need more boundaries. And that's a part of my values. But I haven't really been implementing that in my daily life. And now I'm seeing where that's causing a problem for me. And then, of course, we've got this conjunction in the 12th house with Mars and Jupiter. We know that Jupiter in Gemini is the critic, or it can be critical. And we know that Mars can kind of cut things out.

So with the two of them making a conjunction in The 12th and the fact that they're squaring Venus, they're squaring Saturn. Around the same time as the conjunction, I wonder what this is going to bring up in terms of a blind spot. If this opposition between Venus and Saturn can show you where you're maybe not moving through your daily life in alignment with your values, that might bring up something in your subconscious where you're like, Oh, this is why, right, and I'm ready to not do that anymore.

So I think that for Cancer, risings, there's a lot of potential for freedom from the more subconscious ways we hold ourselves back. And how our behavior kind of gets in the way or doesn't align is a better way to say that with what we believe to be true and right. Hmm,

Adam Elenbaas
I love that.

Alex Amorosi
You're gonna regret bringing up Mommy Dearest because now I have all the lines. And I was just thinking about Venus Virgo; I have to say I wish she could lift up the planet. She goes, I'm not mad at you, Helga. I'm mad at the dirt. It's such a perfect Venus. You know, but I think one of the things you're bringing up that I really love that you're emphasizing in the read of Venus in Virgo is this giving nature the serve, you know, the serving nature of Virgo, the desire to be generous.

And I think like, you know, what, I'm wondering with Mercury moving back into the second house, and then conjunct the Sun squaring Uranus in the 11th house, you know, there's just a feeling like it's been just kind of second nature to give and give and give and make sure everything's organized in this organized for everybody else. And there's a feeling, especially as Mercury makes the conjunction with the Sun in mid-August, that they're like, but Is that fair to me? Am I benefiting from this, as well as others, you know, are people in a group, you know, there's a shake-up and a group that I'm in, we're Uranus in your 11th house that really alters this feeling of like, but I mean to, it's okay for me to feel that I can benefit from the fruits of the work that I put into the world.

Adam Elenbaas
Love that. I guess the only thing that I would add here for cancers is that whenever, and I've, maybe I've said this before in horoscopes, but whenever I look at Gemini in the 12th, with Cancer in the first, I always think, you know, it's the emotional intelligence for can Syrians is often the gift, the rational, detached, kind of curious, flexible, open-minded, you know, like, the rational stuff is not always as easy. And I really wonder about, like, questions that require a kind of objectivity.

And how difficult that might be for Cancerians this month, with, like, Venus in her fall in a very rational place with Mercury-enus opposing Saturn in the ninth where you could almost say, like, well, what's true or whose truth is most important, and Mars and Jupiter in the 12th are almost like saying, you must use strong, clear rational thinking, and you don't always know how to do that, if it's in the 12th house, you know, or it's a tough spot for you or you lack it somehow.

Or there's a way in which you're justifying something through the appearance of rationality. And it's, you know, we all do that, right? We use, look at this great argument I just came up with, but it's actually just you justifying something that's more emotional and impulsive. So I could see some of those tensions around emotional and intellectual intelligence sort of playing out in key spots during the month. Right, that was great. I love that, I think, hopefully, Cancers, you take some good stuff from that.

Let's move on to Leo. We'll hand it over to Alex for our second, 11th, and eighth houses that are highlighted here.

Alex Amorosi
Leo
I think all that Leo Rings really needs to know is that all the astrology this month just says that you're magnificent, special, and incredible. There's never been anyone like you on the face of the planet, and there never will be again. Um, you know, I think this is actually a very helpful month for Leos, though it may not be a lot of fun. I see Venus and Mercury going into the second house here and their whole interaction. As, again, similar to what you were saying, Dana, about, you know, the giving and you know, like, checking out, you know, am I over giving, am I overextending myself in some way, especially with resources or worth or value and that that needs to be reevaluated or especially with Virgo reorganized. You know, you could see something here where, well, you know, Venus is opposing Saturn; it's like, you know, I really just need to organize my finances in a business spreadsheet.

It's not fun, but it's organized, helpful, and helps you feel more secure and more stable. It's not always the natural impulse of fire signs to go for, like those sort of practical, earthy, organized ways to go, but they can really help support them. And I think that this dynamic with Saturn in the superior square to from the eighth house in Pisces to Jupiter and Mars conjunction in the 11th house, is really interesting to me, you know, I think the impulse will be to sort of experiment with the people you're interacting with, or the people who can really help prop up your career, the legacy of the way you're seeing in the world, all the 10th House things that the 11th House props up.

And I think Saturn in the eighth house may ask for, are you willing to let go of older ways of emotionally perceiving those connections that need to sort of decay or leave or move on? Or you know, something, Adam, you've been saying a lot about Saturn and Pisces evolved here that I really like is, you know, where are you feeling overly burdened, or guilted, or obligated by, you know, by some interaction coming from the eighth house where it's like, you know, I really want to move off in a new experimental direction, I want to work with this kind of person, this kind of person.

But there's some sense of failure. But I've always worked with this, or I've always done it this way, or this person in my life might be mad at me, or I'm, you know, I feel guilty about moving on from that obligation, feelings of the eighth house, and just maybe finding the balance. They just realize something's just you just gotta grieve and feel some sadness around and allow to move on themselves in order for you to sort of rocketship on a new connection. So that's my thought for Leos.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. I would say that the piece that stands out to me right away is what are the burdens and obligations that you have to other people this month that are shifting or changing; it's like Jupiter, Mars suggests the potential for collaboration and connection with allies or groups of people. But, it's being overcome in that from the superior square to Saturn in the eighth, which, in the eighth house, probably has to do with obligations that you have to other people like karmic debts, or, you know, it's like, it's not so easy to escape what you owe to Saturn in the eighth house. Saturn in the eighth house is also opposing Venus, moving through the second. So I just wouldn't be surprised if, for Leos, there are exciting new opportunities and things that you're really thinking about for yourself and maybe new allies, friends, or groups, but it's almost like you have to pay off a credit card before you can join the new club. Yeah.

Dana Solara
This is gonna be weird; maybe that I've been. I thought about Beatles songs twice as you guys were talking. Okay, so a second house can't buy me love. Like, we can't use the money to fill ourselves up and make ourselves happy; maybe there's a separation between those two things. And then, in the 11th house, I get by with a little help from my friends. Like, there's some drudgery, maybe here and, but the 11th house offers a little bit of like rah-rah, like will help you. So that's what I was thinking about.

Adam Elenbaas
Virgo
Yeah, love that. All right. Yeah, that was that was a solid one for Leo there. Move on to Virgo; I'll take this one. We've got the mutable signs in angles, again, and mostly here, 110 and seven. So you know, what comes to my mind for Virgos is there's, um, I think that there is a way in which you're gonna have to look at yourself this month, whether that's your self-image, your behavior, your psychology, it's sort of a look in the mirror kind of month. It could be very easy to, with Venus debilitated in that house, not love what you see. And I wonder how that is coming, like how that relates to your relationships right now.

For example, when you're in a relationship with someone who is, let's just say, very critical, you're going to probably, over time, adopt a negative idea about yourself. If you're with someone who is constantly admiring you, affirming you, and encouraging you, you'll probably adopt; it'll be easier to overcome various self-doubts or insecurities, right?

So I see this as a month where it's like, Who are you, Virgo? And how do you feel about yourself? And how is that feeling being shaped by your relationships or your job? What are you trying to be, or who are you trying to appeal to publicly? What you're trying to accomplish? And how are those things tied to your self-esteem and your self-image? Sometimes, we think accomplishment can help us overcome bad feelings about ourselves. And it almost never does. Right? It's like you'll accomplish something, but you'll still feel that you're not so great about who you are. Because who you are is beautiful without qualification, and no degree of merit or accomplishment will grant you the specialness of being; that is your birthright, right?

So, I feel like Virgos might be going through something quite existential this month. And it's really important for this month. One angle I'm taking on this, anyhow, is that this month is about not needing to be anything other than you are to be beautiful and special. I think there could be some need to revise or shift something about yourself, your physical health, your diet, and your appearance, but have fun with it. Do it because you can not because your worth is on the line. I would also imagine that this is a time where self-value and a process of personal growth intersect with work and relationships at a pretty deep level.

Dana Solara
I think what you said that was just so affirming and beautiful. And I think everybody should listen to the Virgo horoscopes as everybody needs to hear them. That was really, really good. But I was thinking that the Mercury retrograding into the 12 sorts of reinforces what you said about, like, you might be dealing with some deeper things this month. But I think if you can, like Adam said, sort of approach these realizations, first of all, allow them to be there and accept them and then approach them with that openness and that lovingness, this could be a really profound month for Virgo risings. I'm very healing.

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, I love that. And I think you know, I'm looking at your Mercury retrograding from the first to the 12th house. And along the lines of what you guys have been saying, there's a feeling with Virgo sometimes that it's okay to feel special. It's okay; you can look at the place where it's just like you have denied it.

Sometimes, it's really painful to look at the places you've denied yourself things because they weren't, you didn't think you were good enough or perfect enough, which can be something that happens with Virgos and realizing it's okay to shine. It's up to us to take it from the Leo risings like we don't mind, right? It's like, you know, you know, so it's like, there's a feeling here, it's like it's okay to feel special. And I sometimes think also when Saturn is checking things, especially with Virgo and the Virgo Pisces axis, it's also can be a month where if you're looking introspectively of looking at why am I sacrificing? What am I trying to achieve? What am I trying to get from the sacrifices?

There's some amount of control that's actually involved with that as well. Which you can look at compassionately, you know, it would make sense; it would be a very, very understandable coping mechanism for someone with strong Virgo in their chart to think, if I just give and give and give, it will get me this and this and this and to really take a look at that you don't have to do it that way. It might be compassionately looking at what's going on and then saying, you know, I don't need to do that. I can make an adjustment to just embody myself as I am.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I was thinking about the 12th House talk that I did in June, where we looked at the juxtaposition between the archetypes of the ascending sign in the 12th house sign. And for Virgos, one of the things we said was that there is no amount of good deeds, of getting things right, of skill development, or of being useful. All the gifts of Virgo, really, there's no amount of that that can ever grant you just an innate sense of being a child of the universe, like you are just special and wonderful. And that is sometimes the most inaccessible and almost like a blind spot for Virgos. And so this Mercury Retrograde starting off in your house and then dipping into Leo, to me, is really special because I like my daughter's Virgo rising. And I see this in her. And it's interesting because obviously, you could extrapolate some interesting things about the Father by looking at the Sun in the chart. Anyhow.

But one of the things that I think we need to do for our Virgos, like if you have a friend that's a Virgo rising or has a lot of Virgo energy, just be that person that just heaps praise on them for just being like, I just love who you are. Because my daughter, when I tell her that will go well, what do you love about me? And I'll go all of it, like all of it. And even stuff I can't even describe and like to see my little girl like just she just glows, you know, and like that, that we all have a 12th house spot that's like that, where it's like a little that's a spot we can't pitch and we need our friends, our parents, mentors, we need other people in our life to help us like scratch that itch. So I feel like that's sort of what we all set in different ways on this one; I think, Yeah, that's a good one.

Let's move to, um, so one of the things that I'm doing, by the way, which is interesting; I was looking at this astrology and thinking of my daughter, who's been weirdly going through some issues with confidence, with Mercury moving through Leo in our 12th house recently. And so whenever I noticed stuff like that, I will be like, let's have a daddy-daughter day because we do the I don't know if you guys have ever, ever had parents that did this or whatever, but like my wife and I will take each of the kids separately, and just go and do something with them.

Like we're going to the zoo, or we'll go see a movie or whatever. So I was like, let's like, let's have a let's have a daddy-daughter day, like, let's just like, and so I plan one for during the Mercury Retrograde when it's in her first house dipping back into the 12th because I was like, you know, if there's any way we can use this stuff as parents or friends or whatever, that's how we should be using it, you know?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, totally. Anyway, I just wanted to share that in case there are also people out there who need to take your Virgo friend out to lunch. All right, let's put a Libra on the ascendant and hand it off to Dana.

Dana Solara
Libra
Okay. Libra risings, your token Libra rising on the panel, is here for you. Let's start with Mercury Retrograde moving through your 12th and 11th houses. So we're getting a review of what's going on behind the scenes, the subconscious, the blind spots; this is somehow tied to either the groups you align yourself with or what you're striving to achieve. So we notice this happening while Venus is moving through your 12th house, and we know that Venus in Virgo is again about its precision, exactness, and dedication to the ideal at any expense, which may not always be good for us.

So this feels like a moment where maybe you're pulling weeds from your subconscious. You're able to sort of root out things that are no longer beautiful there and maybe have some awareness of what those things are. I also think for Libra risings, just Libra rising. We always need reminders that giving too much of ourselves, again, is not helping anyone. I know I said that in another horoscope. But I think it's true here, too.

We want to help and be of service naturally. We're unifiers. We're like the social glue, or at least that's how I think of Venus-ruled people. But for many of us, sort of like what you were saying about the 12th house in your 12th house talks, Adam, with Virgo being in the 12, there is something about Libra risings that feels like we always need to be doing more to sort of prove that like, Hey, I'm lovable. Hey, I'm worthy. And so I think that might be coming up for us with Venus and Virgo for this month for Libra risings.

You don't need to prove your worth to anyone. It needs to come from within you. And we might get some opportunities to learn that this month. So Saturn has been in the sixth house since March of last year, creating the context for maybe getting serious about your health and your work. I would imagine Libra rising. You've been busy, and you've been working pretty hard. And as Venus opposes Saturn, it feels like there's something about your work that might be activating in the psychological sense.

It might be bringing something up for you. And so it's like you're trying your best, but there's a part of you that feels like, maybe it's never enough. And so you might want to just have some awareness around that around the time of this opposition. But I will say this is kind of exactly, in my mind anyway, what we want to happen. We need these moments of crisis and conflict, and it's not going to be super dramatic, right? But we need these moments to happen.

So that we can realize what's not working and maybe what's kind of going on behind the scenes that's driving us and that we're not even aware of. So I think this could be really helpful, if not provoking. Now. We've got this Mars-Jupiter conjunction in the ninth. And so it's bringing up what you really believe in, what is really important to you. I'm thinking about the ninth house being the house of philosophies and values and perhaps spirituality.

So this might feel very serious, in a sense, like taking your values very seriously. And maybe what's going on with the sixth house with your work is that your health is creating some kind of conflict with that that you've got to work through. And, of course, Venus is in the mix, too. So there's a lot happening here that really could feel very provoking. Very busy. Very, like, I don't think existential is the right word here, but it's getting at, like, your deepest convictions and kind of testing them. And so I could keep going, but I think I'll stop there.

Adam Elenbaas
Alex, do you want to have anything?

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, just quickly, you know, I love that Dana I and that line of conviction, right or of knowing your convictions, I feel like that Jupiter Mars in the ninth house. I think one of the things that Libras sometimes catch a lot of ship for, and I think it's sometimes unfair, is the ability to see both sides; they really can see both sides of something.

And yes, that can manifest as indecision or trying to hop on the bandwagon, the most popular setup that can happen, but I feel like that Jupiter-Mars conjunction in the ninth house just intuitively is like permission to inject, you know, Gemini being the ninth house really see there is this and there is this it's okay for me to see that there are, there really are two sides to something, and Saturn in you know, I see Saturn in the sixth house, squaring that, that Jupiter Mars, for Libra rising, to commit to that way of seeing, you know, their own way of seeing might feel really challenging and might feel like hard work and might feel like you do have to sacrifice something in order to say like, you know, I get that we all want to come down on one decision or another decision.

But sometimes there really are two sides. There really is Castor and Pollux, the two stars of Gemini, you know, so it's maybe coming to peace with that in some way of not feeling like there's something that needs to be changed about that unless it was becoming something that was maladaptive or not helpful for your life.

Adam Elenbaas
These are such nice takes from both of you; I love them. I think the thing is, if I'm just kind of isolating the Jupiter Saturn square, it's going to be repeated in December. So I've been just looking at that while you guys are talking. One of the things that comes to my mind is okay, so every sign has its inherent strengths and weaknesses. So, for me, the strength of Libra is that it has an eye for both sides of things. I think that comes from an ability to see on the level of the sort of archetypal, architectural, and Venusian all simultaneously; it's the exultation of Saturn and the rulership of Venus, and a masculine Air sign.

That's like someone who can really like it's like a judge who sits down and hears the story of a criminal, that has the insight to understand how that criminal probably became that criminal, you know, and so, there's a sense of like mercy and compassion and a pretty well-rounded understanding of human behavior in a judge like that. And, and like, that doesn't mean that the criminal won't get punished, but it means that the punishment will sort of fit a really deep and full understanding of the situation. And I feel like to me, that's a Libra gift, like, in any situation, just wise, keen, well rounded, discerned, and judgmental.

What I find, as someone who has a couple of planets in Libra, Maya, three planets in Libra, myself, I find that what is really difficult is the earth, like, this world, is not ever going to live up to the perfect triangles and circles in the mind of God that Libra can see so easily. And so like, you know, like Librans, like, very clean, often, like clean environments and clean lines. And even like notice, sometimes like black and white photography, you know, I think that sometimes it is hard. When you like Jupiter and Mars, I see a strong emerging set of ideals, beliefs, and convictions. Saturn in Pisces, in the sixth house, to me, is messy, emotional, and sacrificial.

And it says, Look, if you want to implement these things in the world, it's going to require some sacrifices that are like yucky, that they don't feel good. And that requires you to, like, go from hanging out with the gods and looking at the scrolls of the archetypes in Olympus somewhere and come down and be stuck into the boiling cauldron of life. And you have to make some sacrifices for these higher beliefs to be enacted in your life. And I just feel like that's really hard for air signs in general. And yet, for some kind of creative fulfillment to take place in the life of Librans. Like this has to happen, Jupiter's at that zero degrees in the fifth house of creativity, right? And so the creativity and the ninth house stuff, like, for example, I would say, just knowing that Dana's Libra, right, you said your Libra rising, right?

Yeah, I would be like, Oh, for someone like yourself, this is about your astrology career taking off and really starting to grow and flourish. And like there's that creative content building and developing. And yet, there's something really difficult about it. You also have a job, and you have a real nine-to-five job. There are like, what, how do you make compromises and meaningful sacrifices around something that's blowing up over here? But, you know, you also have to be in a messy world where a lot of people do not think it's okay to be an astrologer. And it's also hard to do it full-time. That's the level of compromise that I see working out right now. Does that make sense?

Dana Solara
It makes perfect sense. A fun fact: the full moon that looks absolutely nuts is the first day of school.

Adam Elenbaas
So yeah, totally. So anyway, I just wanted to articulate that because I got really deep into the weeds looking at that Jupiter Saturn square. So I was like, All right, Alex, you ready?

Alex Amorosi
Scorpio
Let's do it. Alright, Scorpio, we've got the fifth, 11th, and eighth houses highlighted this month for you. Scorpios.
Okay, so Scorpios, you know, this Jupiter, Jupiter, Mars dynamic in the eighth house is really interesting to me. Because, you know, it may feel like squared by Saturn from the fifth, you know, Scorpios, I think, function at their best creatively when they're allowed to stew, when they're allowed to really want to cook in their own, you know, introspective space and let it go, you know, and I have a friend who's very strong Scorpio, and I can see like, he has to go to the extreme of everything, to understand it. And to create something, it can't just be created; it has to really cook for a while.

And, you know, I'm wondering with Saturn, you know, in the fifth house, which has to do with creativity and personal pleasure and the things we kind of find enjoyable, you know, if there's some amount of needing to really stew on a creative project a little bit so that it feels like you're able to, I guess the word would be, I hate the word manifest. I just feel like it's cliched so much, but that's the word that's coming to mind. You're able to pull out something that feels very creative, real, raw, and emotional. And I think it's so interesting squaring Jupiter and Mars in the eighth house because that, to me, says something about something that has to be in Gemini, something you have to choose one or the other. You've got to choose this twin, or you've got to choose that twin.

There's some amount of time I felt obligated to do one thing or two things at the same time. And I felt like I was pulled towards two things at the same time. And I have to just actually make a choice about the severing of a tie that will allow me to move forward in this more creative space and then opposing Venus in the Saturn opposing Venus Venus in the 11th house in Virgo. You know, this does feel to me like it has to do with Mercury retrograding back into the 10th house, something to do with your career, something to do with the way you're known seen no. visible in the world. And that Venus is saying something about, you know, really being precise about the people who are around you.

I think Scorpios are actually very good at this. They're able to see down to the base level of, like, well, who's who's a friend here and who's maybe a frenemy. There's some of being very precise and organized. But who are the people who are genuinely supporting you in that? But I see some choices having to be made with that Gemini, that conjunction in Gemini in the eighth house around it. Right.

Dana Solara
Yeah, I was thinking about the 11th and eighth. Together, I just kept thinking about like, cutting ties with friends and having the courage to do that. And maybe it's about principles, or, yeah, principles are what we think is right. But having the courage to do that, I think it's here for Scorpio risings this month. So that's what I noticed.

Adam Elenbaas
I think I'm looking at it; I'm starting to really focus on the Jupiter-Saturn dynamic. And every chart we're looking at, and I'm thinking about the fact that Jupiter Mars in the eighth house, it appears as one of two things in my mind: one, an incredible resource that is appearing through someone else, right like someone else has a resource, whether that's an intellectual resource or financial resource, and it's like appearing and presenting itself, and it's really exciting. But that resource is, like immediately being called into question, how will it affect your social life, your relationships, your colleagues, your friends, the groups you belong to? It's it could change them somehow.

Maybe those changes are good and exciting. But then we also have to contend with Saturn so that when I think about the Jupiter Saturn square, I also think Saturn in the fifth says, well, that's a great resource, but it's not quite in line with my creative needs or values or happiness. But it could give me this or that advantage. And so maybe I should compromise, or maybe I shouldn't compromise, and I'm going to be passing up on some kind of resource. I could see it as a clash or conversation about values and manifesting resources. What should be taken advantage of or set aside and passed over?

Sagittarius
Yeah, um, let's go to Sagittarius. So, with Sagittarius, we have the Sagittarius risings that are going to get houses, seven, or excuse me, 10, seven, and four, lit up by this sequence of planets moving through the double-bodied or mutable signs. One of the things that I can't help but think about right away is like, well, there's a Mercury Retrograde in your career house. So, are there some practical shifts or changes or revisions or setbacks or delays? Or? Yeah, what's happening there? And how is it related to relationships in the workplace with Venus debilitated in that house? Like, are you having to make some compromises?

Or is the social atmosphere driving you to make changes in your career because it's not up to your standard? I wonder about the connection between workplace relationships and workplace changes. You know, what I mean to say is this is kind of super; I feel like this is gossip, column astrology. You could fall in love with someone in the workplace. Like Mars-Jupiter, in the seventh house, and they're ruled by Mercury Retrograde in the 10th. And Venus, it's up there; I just feel like drama; I fell in love with my boss, or my co-worker, or something like that, which I think could pop up, honestly. But the other thing that I will say about this is that I wonder about, like, when you see Saturn in the fourth, like this, I also wonder, like, sometimes changes in relationships.

And on the home front, like if you're married or in a relationship and you live with someone, I could see changes happening for a spouse or partner or in the home setup, demanding that something shifts in the workplace like the work and home life balance. How is that shifting or changing this month? Is a spouse going to work if, after not having a job, a spouse gets a raise, but that's going to limit how much time they have for the family? So, I wonder about the work-life and home-life balance and how questions about those things intersect with important relationships.

Alex Amorosi
That's the track I was going down, Adam; I was thinking the same type of thing where I was just like, you know, I think Virgo Venus and Mercury in Virgo, one of the great skills of Virgo is met a couple of great skills or organization discernment, and the ability to sort of hone in on things, assess what's real assets, like, Okay, if through analyzation, let's kind of get down to the, you know what this really is.

And I could see Saturn opposing Venus-Saturn, you know, and all the squares happening now to Jupiter and Mars in the seventh house in the relationship house being something like that, like, you know, I really have to reassess the organization of my work or my workday, I have to see, you know, is it actually providing me with some sent, you know, can I go home and shut my computer and you know, or someone complaining at home that I can't go home and shut my computer, or, you know, they can see that from the relationship house and being like, hey, you know, when you come home, you're on your laptop until one in the morning, and then you just get up and go to work, there could be those kinds of discussions that come up.

And, you know, though Venus is in her fall traditionally, in Virgo, one of the things I think Venus in Virgo does really well is see where harmony can be brought about by a reorganization of something or making something a little bit, you know, just a tiny bit here, a tiny, tiny bit here, a little shift here. And wow, that freed up a lot more time or a lot more enjoyment of the space that I'm in.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, nice.

Dana Solara
I was reading planets in transit in preparation for this about Saturn through the houses, right? And so Robert Hand was talking about how Saturn can often it will show up, you know, externally, which all of the planets can right, but it will show up as something externally so that you can deal with something internally. But I feel like that is extra true for Sagittarius risings because of Saturn being in the fourth house. Yes, it's about home and family, but it's also about your deep inner world too. So it feels like home is imposing, and it's forcing you to do that like you've got too much responsibility. There's something more going on than just the burdens. The burdens are trying to teach you something.

Adam Elenbaas
Oh, Dana. I love that. Yeah, that's really good. I would especially add to that because Saturn and Jupiter are squared. What if your partner or spouse or interpersonal relationships are becoming demanding, or is the home or family presenting as a big burden or duty or both somehow? That dilemma is, as you just said, something that's there for you, not just a problem to be solved. I love that. I'm so thankful you brought that up. Yeah, that was great.

Let's shift to Capricorn since we're getting close to an hour and a half here now. So we'll hand this one over to Dana. Okay,

Dana Solara
Capricorn
Capricorn arisings Mercury Retrograde is going to move through your ninth and eighth houses. So, this is a review of both your philosophies and your beliefs. Well, starting with your philosophies and your beliefs, it's somehow tied to eighth house things or joint ventures that you owe others transformations. I think this Mercury Retrograde is really interesting for Capricorn arisings; it's an opportunity to maybe parse out the beliefs that you've inherited. Venus, moving through your ninth house is going to help you be a little more critical of those beliefs that have been there and are there and maybe thinking, is this really what I want to subscribe to? Is this really like? Are these really my operating principles that I want to use to make choices about my life? You know, even though Venus is in the fall, I think that this particular Venus situation is really helpful for being discerning about what you believe and who you adhere to who or what you adhere to.

I think what might be challenging about this, without thinking about the other transits that are going on, is that the host of Venus in Virgo is retrograde in your eighth house. And that has to do with what you do with others. You know, I was thinking about my dad, he has Venus in Virgo. And one of his catchphrases that has stuck with me forever is if you want to do anything right, you have to do it yourself. And I think that that can be a really harmful belief. But that's the kind of thing we're untangling, maybe for these Capricorn arisings. Do I really have to do everything myself? And I think that's even if we weren't talking about Venus in Virgo. That's a lesson for Capricorn risings. You don't have to do it all yourself, but that might be coming up for us.

So meanwhile, we've got Saturn transiting your third house since March of 2023, giving you a lot of responsibility in terms of your daily life. Your siblings, perhaps an interesting story, and I'll try not to talk too much about this, but my mom has a cap rising. And last year, my grandma passed away while Venus was retrograde in Leo in her eighth house.

Since then, my mom has been the executor of the will, but there wasn't a will. So my mom just had to; she became in charge because she was the one who lived closest. So this last year has really been Saturn in the third to the extreme as if she's been the one going to the lawyer to clean out the house. And, of course, that's super specific. But I think we can extrapolate the general idea of that to helping you realize how Saturn in the third has been playing out for you.

So, Venus opposing Saturn might present a situation in which you reach a breaking point with that, like you may not be able to carry those responsibilities anymore. And you might realize that you need to kind of reorient your worldview, and there's the ninth house, like, what am I? How do I want to move through life? And again, how can I orient my daily life to kind of match that, and how can I delegate? How can I not be responsible for everything and everyone? It's not working for me anymore. We've got the Mars-Jupiter conjunction happening in the sixth, so this is bringing your daily work and health into the mix, thinking about Jupiter being critical and sort of deciding what it wants in this process of elimination.

The fact that it's squaring the ninth and the third. It's a lot of work for Capricorn risings. I think Capricorn risings are used to working, and they maybe don't mind it as much, but I just see this moment as being a potential anyway being pushed to the limit to the point where you're like, I have to rethink this. I cannot do it like this. I need someone else to help me, and I'm going to ask for it now. And I think that's the best way we could use this energy for Capricorn risings.

Alex Amorosi
Nice I think that Jupiter-Mars conjunction in the sixth house is interesting for Capricorns because they feel like, you know, if the tough stuff comes up from the sixth house, whatever it is, whatever the slog feels like the instinct for a Capricorn often is to throw their back over the shoulder and do like you said they had to do it themselves right I'll I will assume the heavy responsibility of moving you know, moving the goat up the mountain so to speak, but with Gemini being the sixth house, and you know, Mars is involved, it might be like, this might involve actually like, noticing if you're taking your role or it too seriously, unless it is something that needs to be taken seriously, of course, or if it requires some amount of experimentation that requires the assumption of another person.

In a view that you may not have considered before, but in order to move through the challenge, there's a sense where I have to put down my sense of, I must achieve the sense of responsibility, and like, maybe it just requires a little bit of magic and manifestation and letting go into the ether of my own mind and its experimental possibilities or seeking out something that could help with that. So that's just where I go with the Jupiter-Mars in the sixth house.

Adam Elenbaas
Nice. Yeah, again, I've been looking at the Jupiter-Saturn dynamic in particular, and just thinking about the fact that for Cap's, it's so closely related to where the conjunction took place in the second house, the original Jupiter-Saturn conjunction Aquarius, where Pluto is right now. And I'm just wondering, you know, what is or isn't worth continuing to work for. If Pluto is bringing about some transformation of assets, values, and resources, then maybe there's a calling into question of beliefs and ideas. There's a lot of thought going on. But I think it relates back to what sacrifices and hard work and labor are and is not worth it. I feel like Capricorns are being asked to compromise and compromise with respect to what you want to continue trying to build that you've been trying to build for a while.

Compromise is important for Capricorns and things along the lines of what both of you were saying in different ways, which is that sometimes Capricorns are sort of relentless in what they pursue, and they're not satisfied with like, well just, you know, maybe it'd be like 50% of what you're trying to get to you know, like, but I feel like here there's some question of like, you can't do it all you have to like make some choices.

So yeah, all right, let's push it to Aquarius; thanks for that one. It was great. And Aquarius, we have the Pisces Virgo Gemini houses in two, eight, and five being lit up here.

Alex Amorosi
Aquarius
This is really interesting, and I think it presents a fun conundrum for Aquarius, which is the, you know, the lead-off of this Jupiter Saturn dynamic, which is a build-off of Pluto moving into your first house on this first on the zero-degree of Aquarius. There's something to me here of letting yourself become experimental and maybe feeling almost overwhelmed by the possibility of what could be creative and satisfying for you, which for Aquarius is often something mental; it's like I am sorting out some sort of system in my head that I'm going to try to grasp and grok on a sort of cerebral level. But there's Saturn in the second house here. I would be asking, I think, for forgetting that there's an emotional energy.

Use the word spiritual sense of needing to hold your own value emotionally to like our is your experimentation and creativity and moving into these wonderful ways of fifth house and Jupiter and Mars, sparked by a shift in identity that's coming in from Pluto in the first house is that also asked to remember that like, you know, your worth and your value and how you, you know, how you manifest that may be physical with money is also an important consideration here and that it could feel like again, you can get lost in the world of ideas with this. But I think Pluto's imperative in the first house may be an asset to shifting one's identity around. You know, it's also okay for me to feel like I have a sense of spiritual value. Like, I think Pisces and Aquarius are really interesting houses to be going together here with Pluto and Saturn in the sense that Aquarians really like to stay up in the cerebral and chew it over there and really want to understand it.

And I think sometimes you have to settle down like your worth is defined by you just being a sovereign Divine Being, and you don't have to figure that out. And I think that if that is what you're wrestling with, the Jupiter-Mars dynamic in the fifth house can be really fun. And really experimental and really like something I think Aquarians actually really liked to do was just kind of play with systems and how different data bits integrate within systems. That could feel very creatively satisfying.

Dana Solara
I was thinking about the separation between what's mine and what's ours with Venus in the eighth, and we're you're talking Alex about Pluto in the first. I mean, that's important. We can't ignore that, so it feels like there's some sort of self-reclamation. That's very true; I don't know if hard one is the right word, but you really had to go deep to get it. And, of course, that's ongoing for a long time. But whatever that feels related to what's happening in the fifth house and what we're creating, and it feels like it's mine, but there's this negotiation happening in the eighth house as well. So, I'm curious about how that will play out for Aquarius risings. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
I see creative aspirations forming in the fifth house, such as those of Jupiter and Mars. And it's rooted in the same kind of airy space of ideas that are probably really exciting for Aquarius. This is obviously, as Alex was saying, also related to the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction and Aquarius at the end of 2020, which Pluto is sitting on right now. So it's like, I'm trying to change who I am and how I show up. And part of that right now is about implementing some really exciting creative ideas that I want to take off with. But will they make money? You know, am I good enough? Do I have the assets or resources that I need in order to do them? Or is it selfish? Do I have other obligations or responsibilities? And then Venus in the eighth? You know, who do I? Who am I indebted or obligated to? What will they think about this? You know, how does. So, I feel like I have a creative identity. Matters of both identity and creativity are really important. And then it's all about resources and relational dynamics and how they can either support or complicate the excitement that Aquarians want to roll with right now. Yeah, that's why I'm taking that one.

Pisces
Let's move on to our last sign. Pisces, we have the Pisces, Gemini, and Virgo houses in one, four, and seven. And when I look at this, I think, well, first of all, what is the Saturn in the first house period all about? Because I think that's front and center for Pisceans. And I think about that at its best as, like, we all there's, there's periods of time in our life where we all need to recognize what our limits are, what our knows are, you know, like, there's so much that we know, we can only know ourselves to be when we've reached a no to something that we aren't.

You know, so I think Saturn in the first is like, it's heavy because you sometimes there's a process of feeling disappointed with oneself, or incapable or like you're a failure, or you can't do something or your body's limited, but it's like accepting those limitations is surprisingly liberating. There's this way in which it frees us up that is really, really profound. So that's a process that's ongoing for Pisceans right now, and it was last year.

Adam Elenbaas
Okay, great. There we go. So, um, when I look at Jupiter and Mars in the fourth, I think about some really again, like Jupiter and Mars are very action-oriented. There's an excitement to build something or to do something. But in Mercury's sign, when Mercury's retrograde, I could see this as being about what is worth tearing down and doing over or editing or revising around the home, family, and living environment. And I think this pinging off from Saturn in the first has to do with reaching a limit. It's like, No, I'm not that anymore.

And so I've got to change the environment. I've got to change where I live, I've got to move, I've got to redo something. I've got to confront or talk to someone in my family, maybe even someone you live with, such as a roommate, spouse, or partner. But I think there's an intersection between existential identity issues. I need to find out what your personal limits are, what you know, and what your boundaries are, and then have to act on them within the space of home, family, and relationships. That's what I see here, but you just want to fill in any blanks for me; what else do you see? Go ahead, Alex.

Alex Amorosi
I think Pisces to me is always on the eternal quest for unification and oneness. And all of them are. I'm just gonna go more general with this, but all the Mercury this month, everything being in a Mercury-ruled sign, you know, in the squares. Saturn strikes me as the need to choose the winter or the spring, the darkness or the light. There's something here to me about, you know, Saturn in the first house, like you were saying; what am I thinking?

I'm asking for, like, in order to get it, yes, they need to know, in order to get a, you know, I just that's just a part of what Saturn asks us to do. But through that choice, you know, we can see what the fourth house particularly like maybe it's like, you know, I realize I have to let go of an aspect of myself, I have to say no to something that I have been in order to move my home, you know, in some way or something in that regard. But I think just generally this month, the request to really work with Mercury can be challenging for Pisces risings. But it can also, like you said, Be free like I made a choice. There we go. I'm off to the races in a new way.

Dana Solara
Yeah, I think this is more or less what you both have already said. But I'm just really drawn to the fourth house conjunction and this being a new start and how we do things around here, whether that's, you know, within you with the subterranean themes of the fourth house or with your family. And I think that makes a lot of sense with Venus.

In the seventh and Saturn in the first, there's some reconfiguring of the dynamics in your home and the people you're closest with that sort of spurred on by the Saturn in the first and maybe getting a little more serious about a little more serious or a little more mature or a little more disciplined or boundaried. About how you show up.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I also feel like, you know, there might be demands or demanding people or situations around home or relationships. And it might be about what I can say. Yes, to what can I? What can I give to, and where do I have to say no? So I think these are hopefully all different angles that you know, and one of them will be resonant for all of you Pisceans out there. This is good stuff. That takes us through all 12 signs. Yay. Yeah. I am so thankful that you guys are here helping me out with this. I want to plug Alex and Dana.

You can find Alex @Alexamorosihealing on Instagram, where Alex makes lots of fun content and, often does live talks, and has had some of the people that you've seen around here. I mean, you guys did a live talk together, didn't you? We did. Yeah. So you, it's a great place to track Alex's work, you can find him at Alex amorosi.com as well, you can book a reading with him and check out all that he has going on.

I am so thankful for you being here and being a regular part of the show. I want to promote Dana at @selfhelpwitch on Instagram; you can follow her, and all of her good content, and the Self Help Witch podcast are available through the links there, your website link, can you @selfhelpwitch.com. I'm gonna put this up on the screen.

So @selfhelpwitch.com. And I'm assuming on your website, people could book a reading with you if they wanted to, or follow whatever you're up to, or some of the classes and workshops that you offer and stuff like that. Right? That's right.

Dana Solara
Just briefly, because I'm going back to school, my readings, I do still offer readings, but my availability is very like, not a lot right now. So if you don't see times that are available, you know, email me and I might have something else but just an FYI. Yeah.

Adam Elenbaas
And I'm sure that your books will have as we go forward, month by month; you may have different availability at different times, right? That's yeah. Because I know people will want to reading with you. So it's good to let them know that. Thank you both so much. We will be back at the end of August; you will find us here breaking down the astrology of September.

I have to say that September has a lot going on. We've got a big New Moon and a lot of mutable energy again. But we have one thing that I think most people will be really interested in, which is going to be the longing to get back here. It's September 17, and we have a lunar eclipse in Pisces in conjunction with Neptune. So that's going to be a big highlight for the month. So we're back into eclipse season again. Mars is going to be debilitated in Cancer, which is an interesting planet to talk about.

So lots of good stuff to come in September as well. So we hope you will come back and check that out and hear Alex and, Dana and I break it all down for you again in a month. So until then we hope you guys are all doing really well and we will see you again next time Take it easy everyone thanks bye.