The Leo new moon on August 4 brings enthusiastic new beginnings into focus regarding your desire to know and experience more! Now, you’ll be eager to venture out into the world, leaving your familiar comfort zone behind you. This is a fortunate time for exploring different lifestyles, environments, and studies that better align with who you are. You may feel more connected to people, places, and things that exist outside of your usual routine, so be sure to soak up the new experiences that you’re having now.
You feel a switch with Mercury stationing retrograde in analytical Virgo on August 5, revising some of the plans and ideas you have for your career and professional endeavors. This is an auspicious time for mapping out your next steps in your field or rethinking how you want to use your voice publicly. Mercury will then retrograde back into passionate Leo by August 14, shifting your focus toward your current values and belief systems. During this half of the retrograde, you’ll be rethinking the philosophies and spiritual practices that you live by until August 28.
On August 19, the Aquarius full moon lights up your desire for information, skills, and conversation. During this lunation, you’ll take a personal inventory of what you currently know to be true about the topics that you’re invested in. You may be reaching a turning point in your education, or engaging in some important conversations with neighbors or relatives. Your method of accumulating understanding may look different than most, but it works for you! Explore what feels comfortable to you today, but try to approach these things from a different perspective.
Virgo season begins by August 22, bringing your focus back to your career. As this season progresses, you’ll gain a stronger sense of duty and purpose from the work that you do, and the role that you play publicly. Though you may have plenty on your list that you are slated to accomplish, make sure to acknowledge the impact you’ve currently made in your current workplace! Your efforts aren’t going unnoticed.