August 16-23, 2024

“Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.”

James E. Faust

Underlying Theme for All the Signs: This week requires the use of wisdom gained through life experiences of loss, hardship, or suffering to experience a rebirth. This might mean focusing on taking better care of yourself, setting healthier boundaries, or making shrewd decisions to arrive at the truth and a strategy. Perhaps you’ll need to review your life in detail to delve deeper than ever before into the depths of your subconsciousness. When you emerge, you may be surprised at the transformation when old perceptions created about who you are based on how your family has perceived you are finally discharged. Should you resist brutal self-honesty, the process will become more painful—the objective is to let go of false truths. Right now is not about outer success and acceptance from others, but rather inner peace, acceptance of self, and understanding your life’s plan.

Be sure to look at your Sun, Moon, and Rising signs for an expanded perspective. You can click any card to enlarge the view.

What’s New?

Aries

• Not taking legal matters seriously; letting loose (pushing boundaries too far) has legal implications
• Adjustments related to exchanges, agreements or contracts
• Seeking balance by taking a time out
• Luck regarding legal matters, contracts or negotiations; working on agreements for equitable resolution
• Maintaining balance through sense of humor or playfulness
• Weighing options—may connect to need for recreation/down time; choices that tie to enjoyment
• Enjoyment requires balancing professional and personal life
• Making light work of responsibilities; determining what’s fair regarding domestic responsibilities, parenting, finances, or assets
• Choosing between two partners (business, romantic); dual opportunities
• Dealings with Libra persons (sun, moon, or rising sign)

Taurus

• Clarity of wisdom through knowledge and truth
• Clarity that comes through foresight, ability to see the future
• Opening to higher self—awareness that may link to the spirit world, resourcefulness and resilience
• Seeking inner peace as you gain greater clarity or truth in relationship; something about interactions bring important issues to light
• Coming to clear understanding because of the truth
• Need for spiritual guidance—hidden revealed
• Intuition, insight brings light bulb moment

Gemini

• Traveling with or to see a friend; road trip, pleasant journey
• Making peace with the future
• Things falling into place—may be related to long range plans
• Looking ahead for the end of a struggle
• Decision made concerning planning a future together
• A need to seek harmony, peace—relationship in the distant future

Cancer

• Illusions, need to take steps—dependent on correct timing or external forces
• Magnetically drawn to something/someone due to perfect timing
• Wanting something a great deal but needing to trust that all things happen when meant to occur
• Time to act—bringing ideas to life, influencing others
• Attracting what you desire is linked to the Universe working to unfold a situation in the best time frame for the maximum experience

Leo

• Falsity concerning a fortune or the future
• Need for clarity concerning a secret agenda or ulterior motive (yours/others)
• Wearing a mask regarding next move (you/others): manifesting with thoughts (and keeping to yourself)
• Awareness of possibilities (including manipulation) before it occurs
• Presenting a false face in relationship; someone very different than the attractive presentation
• False friend; gossip; liar, opportunist, player, impostor, con
• Persons pretending they’re happy for your good fortune; person acting with pretense to have your best interests at heart
• Good fortune after dealing with the falseness of others

Virgo

• Snake magic, voodoo, hoodoo
• Revealing the “snake” behind the scenes
• A need to notice everyday magic—serpent wisdom (death of self and rebirth into transcendent)
• Taking a closer look—someone is keeping secrets
• Element of relationship is clandestine, secretive or hidden
• The secret of magic
• Being discreet is important due to circumstance
• Pantomiming because of inability to read emotions (you/others)

Libra

• Exploring matters to gain clarity; clarity concerning travel, unsettled conditions, or changes
• Seeking to expand knowledge; clarity about the world at large
• Awareness of pushing boundaries (negatively)—gaining greater truth or clarity in a relationship
• Coming to a clear understanding—something about interactions bring important issues to light
• Hidden revealed
• A need to try something new brings a light bulb moment

Scorpio

• Surprise for your children; surprised or shocked by children
• Greater involvement with children; children are impacting the relationship
• Unexpected news (may be surprise pregnancy)
• A blast from the past may link to your childhood; may be involved with someone from childhood
• Unexpected encounter that reminds you to be more playful or romantic in your interactions
• A need to open to new possibilities related to starting something new
• Surprise or shock at dating someone younger (you/others)

Sagittarius

• A change in finances or income (positive/negative); financial overhaul
• End of financial source; ending related to money
• Waiting financial conditions to shift; waiting in vain for money; lack of movement in financial affairs
• Facing a truth—finances are affecting the relationship (may be workaholic)
• Career and work take priority over relationship (you/other)
• Ending or change may be linked to work affair or relationship with superior, colleague, client, coworker
• You or partner may be wealthy or involved in financial industry—banking, wealth management, investments, real estate, property development, etc.
• Transformation through family business; shared financial goals
• Transformation of financial situation after dead period

Capricorn

• A need for a time out —relationship is making one of you feel trapped and unable to progress; you or your partner may need greater freedom
• A need to put a cork in it—foolish talk, negative thinking, etc. (you/others)
• Uncomfortable changes—questioning if it’s just in your mind or real
• Wondering if it’s foolish to think about a relationship that never fully develops (you/others); trying to change the partner into the ideal
• Keeping things to yourself because you feel you’re not taken seriously
• Contemplation—looking for an escape route from all of the foolishness; confining situation is hindering you from sharing, expressing or making the most of your best self
• Two heads are better than one—aligning for positive change
• Taking stock—positive inner transformation
• Reviewing creativity—projects under wraps that have yet to be released

Aquarius

• Decisions that require solitude—private world (may be for research, study, contemplation, meditation, creative endeavor, etc.)
• Decision about being alone—a greater need for solitude rather than engaging with others
• Decision for solitude for the purpose of recovery, rest, healing, retreat, rehabilitation, etc.
• Making decisions that link to quiet destination, seaside community, peaceful surroundings
• Decisions about the need to be alone as a couple

Pisces

• Emotional or sexual baggage related to intimacy or someone you are/were intimately involved
• Issues of desire, love or lust needs unpacking; desire, love or lust as the means for escapism
• Relationship saddled with baggage from past conditioning—childhood patterns, ego, influence of past relationships; unresolved issues affect the way you engage; not letting go of old wounds and resentments
• Looking at where you partner with others based on shared disappointments rather than common interests or goals
• Inability to get past chronic negative behaviors that damage or prevent relationship (may be linked to fear of intimacy, infidelity, old relationships)
• Ready to pack it in on a relationship you feel or felt passionate about
• A passion for travel; traveling with or to see someone you feel passionate about; travel plans
• Packing up to follow your bliss OR the need to sort through old baggage to find your bliss/passion

Decks: Romantic Love Oracle, Love is a Garden Affirmation Deck, A Word of Advice, The Alchemist Astrologer; The Good Tarot, Collette Baron-Reid; Mystical Healing, Inna Segal

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