August 2022 ‘Scopes
Aries
Aries, with your ruler Mars spending its final three weeks in Taurus this month, and then entering Gemini on the 20th (not for its usual transit of six weeks, but for an extended transits of seven months!), the month of August 2022 is going to feel powerfully revelatory for you. You’re being asked to open up to your community, and your creativity this month.
Pour your attention into whatever project you’ve deemed the most essential for you to complete this year. But with Saturn, the Planet of Challenge, also retrograde in your sector of friendship and social networks, this month is also about remembering that life’s about more than just you. How are the people around you flowing, Aries? If they’re struggling, it’s not your responsibility to be their savior. But being mindful of other people’s vibes, and checking in from time to time, will be a mutually beneficial experience for you this month, particularly around the Aquarius Full Moon on August 11th. This will allow you to also be poured into.
Leo Season’s energy is a supremely romantic period for you, Aries, and if you’re already boo’d up you may combine forces with your partner and create a product or offer a service that’s a deeply healing balm to not only your couple, but humanity. Same goes for single Aries — let yourself be social, even during retrograde season, because you’ll reconnect with people who’s evolutionary journey is similar to yours, particularly once Virgo Season begins the 22nd. Enjoy this restful, yet awakening month, Aries.
Bask in your abundance.
Taurus
Taurus, for the past three weeks, Mars, the Planet of Action, has been in your sign, encouraging you to enjoy where you are in the present moment, while planting seeds of intention that allow for your continued growth and prosperity. What does that specifically look like for you? It means defining what your comfort zone is.
Even if you’re someone who’s tapped into universal plights, you may also prefer to stick to what you know, and let your routine lead the way. But with Uranus, the Planet of Change, in its pre-retrograde shadow period this month (it shifts retrograde on the 24th of August), you can sense that your comfort zone is starting to feel stifling. It’s time to move beyond that.
The Aquarius Full Moon on the 11th of August squares off with your Taurus energy, so you may be surprised by information that surfaces on a collective and personal level around that time. Perhaps you’ve been planning for a big moment in your career or professional life, and then it’s suddenly revamped, cancelled, or restructured without much advance notice.
You’d benefit from integrating mindfulness into your day, and into your reactions, as to not let all the retrograde hiccups cause you to lose your cool or develop anxiety. Once Virgo Season begins on the 22nd, you’re likely to feel more grounded and at peace with life’s transits, allowing you to be of better service to those around you. This helps you enter the Uranus Retrograde portal with the awareness that your consciousness is about to rapidly transform these next 5 months.
Gemini
Gemini, August 2022 is an epic month for you. Mars, the Planet of Action, will enter your sign on August 20 and remain there for 7 months. This is due to Mars Retrograde that will begin at the end of October. With Mars in your sign during such a long period of time, you’ll be the Universe’s favorite, and many skymates will be drawn towards you as well.
Protecting your energy and spiritual space is therefore the name of the game, so use the first half of August to set intentions regarding who you really feel safe with. The energy of the Leo New Moon is still coursing through you, activating your sector of community and creation, and helping you give birth to a new version of you — one who has more firm boundaries and who doesn’t allow their time to be wasted. The Aquarius Full Moon on the 11th of August may lead to you connecting with humanitarians who have revolutionary and brilliant ideas. Because we’re in a very auspicious period of time, do not take these connections for granted.
There’s no such thing as coincidence — this is divinely orchestrated synchronicity. Once Mars shifts into your sign on the 20th, and then Virgo begins the 22nd, you’ll be on the move, mentally and physically. Trust your body’s intuitive signals, and stay away from people who increase your anxiety or judgmental tendencies. If you play your cards right, you’ll transform your life for the better these next 7 months, and everyone around you will reap the benefits of your presence in the world.
Cancer
Cancer, Venus’ transit through Cancer up until August 11th will teach you how to fully tap into your vulnerability without wondering if you’re “too much” for others. You are more than enough. And with Mars spending the first three weeks of August in Taurus, you’re going to feel cosmically hugged by the cosmos, and by life itself. You’re feeling more in tune with your intuitive wisdom, and that helps you sense when things are off personally, but also politically and collectively.
Pay attention to what’s going on in your local government this month, Cancer. Your powers of perception are enhanced, and starting August 11, when Venus enters Leo, your ability to call out injustice in a bolder and more direct way also deepens significantly. People often underestimate Cancers, but by the time the Aquarius Full Moon strikes on the 11th they’ll see a part of you that they’ve rarely seen before. Anyone who’s used to you being the passive, or non reactive bystander will feel like they’re being confronted with a lion(ness) who can claw through the BS.
As a lunar-led being, you’re feeling quite activated by the energy of the recent Leo New Moon, so in a way, you’re acting in a more Leo-Like way this Leo Season. Once Virgo Season begins the 22nd and Uranus shifts retrograde in Taurus on the 24th, don’t be surprised if you’re in more of a low-key mood, as you shift through all the internal and external changes you’ve been navigating. Let yourself rest as the month comes to an end. That too, is a form of activism.
Leo
Leo, your birthday continues to help you better tap into your most in-depth desires, especially since Uranus’ upcoming retrograde in Taurus squares off with your sign and makes you acknowledge areas of your life that you may have outgrown. Spend the first half of August relishing in the new moon magic that was bestowed on you during the Leo New Moon portal on July 28th. This is one of the most brilliant lunations of the year, and you’ll feel its effects for the next six months.
This means that you may become a change-maker and a voice for the people in the coming months, even if it starts off with you speaking about an underground topic that most people aren’t paying attention to. People love to associate you as someone who’s more self-focused rather than concerned with universal matters, but having Saturn in Aquarius opposite your Sun has helped open your eyes to the ways you’re more drawn to community than you think.
Around the Aquarius Full Moon on the 11th, community healing will be more of your intention. You may be able to open up to someone (or more than one person) about what you’ve been secretly experiencing, and they’ll feel seen by you, allowing them to open up to you too and heal alongside you.
By the time Virgo Season begins on the 22nd, your heart will feel more tender, and Mars’ 7-month stretch in Gemini starting on the 20th will help you heal childhood wounds that may be affecting you subconsciously. This is a life-changing month for you, Leo!
Virgo
Virgo, the highlight of the month for you is the fact that your ruler Mercury is in your sign for the majority of August, and this helps fine-tune your mentality and overall efficiency. But where exactly are you inclined to direct that energy, Virgo, and why? While this transit can make you feel more productive, it can also lead to you feeling mentally restless as you sort through a never-ending to-do list, and try to save everyone and everything. The more useful way to use this transit would be to do the counter intuitive thing, and take on less, rather than piling on more.
The more you meditate on what your current life routine and habits are, the more you’ll be able to use retrograde season, and the Aquarius Full Moon on the 11th, to lovingly release what feels like continuous burden or weight that you don’t want to hold on to. Mars spends the first three weeks of August in Taurus, encouraging you to create greater fertility in your life. That may mean tending to a garden and encouraging those in your neighborhood to do the same, or it could literally mean deciding to create babies with someone who’s on your energetic wavelength.
But once Mars shifts into your fellow Mercury-ruled sign of Gemini on August 20th for the next 7 months, you may be surprised to see how much your vision for your life drastically shifts. You may not be used to changing your mind so drastically, but instead of fearing this change, lean into it, and get curious about it. By the time your birthday season begins the 22nd, you’ll be up for anything!
Libra
Libra, with your planetary ruler Venus shifting into Leo on the 11th, the more social and fiery side of you will emerge, and this will help boost your self-esteem in your intimate connections, and also in your relationship to money and your values.
You’re starting to feel more defined in who you are, especially with Mars, the Planet of Action, transiting through your fellow Venus-ruled sign of Taurus until August 20th. This is helping you weed out the distractions in your life, in social media, in the news, and in your relationships. Mars’ transit in Taurus helps you get down to the basics and remember what your core needs are.
On the 11th, an Aquarius Full Moon infuses greater versatility, dynamism, team spirit, and airiness into your life. If you’ve been overthinking a relationship or situation, you may reach a significant sense of closure. The same goes with any political turmoil that you may have been reflecting on — you may start to define your position more clearly in the days preceding or following the Aquarius Full Moon.
Then, on the 20th, Mars’ shift into Gemini for the next 7 months helps you explore new aspects of your own personality. Let yourself be more childish, wild, uninhibited, and impulsive, Libra. You don’t always have to be the peacemaker. While Virgo Season’s energy on the 22nd may have you in a more self-reflective mood, Mars in Gemini will remind you that letting yourself play is one of the most productive things to do, even — or especially — during revolutionary and uncertain times. If not now, then when?
Scorpio
Scorpio, August 2022 is teaching you the art of patience and dedication. With Mercury, the Planet of Communication, in its home sign of Virgo for most of the month, you’re fine-tuning your priorities and side-eyeing all energy drainers. Plus, Mars, your ruling planet, spends the first three weeks of August in Taurus, activating your partnership sector. Last month you had been asked the following questions: “Who can you fully trust? Who can you trust enough to forgive? Which aspects of yourself do you have yet to trust?”
Since we’re in retrograde season, these same questions apply to you, but you’re likely to feel that you’ve made significant progress toward answering them, particularly by the Full Moon in Aquarius on August 11th. You can see your relationships from a new perspective, and you’re more intrigued by what they’re here to show you, rather than concerned. Once Mars shifts into Gemini on the 20th, your sector of depth and intimacy is activated, and you’ll be focused on securing generational wealth, while also tapping into what makes you feel spiritually secure.
You’ll be seeking to build alongside people who are drawn to your shadows, and whose shadows you are drawn to. This is a very sexy, mystical time to be a Scorpio. Once Virgo Season starts the 22nd, followed by Uranus Retrograde in Taurus on the 24th, you’ll feel like you’ve rewired your consciousness and forgiven yourself and others for past hurts.
You’ve opened yourself up to a new dimension of healing, and it’ll have ripple effects on everyone around you, and the multitude of essences within you.
Sagittarius
Sag, August 2022 is the first full month that Jupiter, your ruling planet of expansion, spends retrograde in the sign of Aries (for over 11 years). The wisest thing you can do this month is sit your ass down and chill. Your growth will mostly be internal, especially with Chiron, Juno, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Saturn all being retrograde this month. If you try to push yourself to do the most, you’ll burn out tremendously.
You are advised, however, to spend the first month of August living out the intentions you set during the Leo New Moon at the end of July. We’re in a really powerful Lion’s Gate ascension portal, where our manifestations occur at lighting speed. But the main caveat for you, Sag, is that you at times overwhelm your consciousness with thoughts of what you desire and why you desire it, which leads to your mind feeling crammed with ideas and vision, but leaving no set room for a path towards creation to emerge.
Fortunately, Mercury, the Planet of Communication, spends time in Virgo during the first few weeks of August, and while this energy squares off with Sag energy and tends to make you feel nervous, you can use your nervousness to your advantage. You can allow yourself to be vulnerable and more intentional about what you really want. And by the Aquarius Full Moon on the 11th, you may start to see signs of you getting what you want. But alas, once Mars in Gemini begins the 20th — and lasts 7 months! — everything may take a 180, and it’s your mission to keep others in the loop if you suddenly change course. It be like that sometimes.
Capricorn
Capricorn, you should allow yourself to play more this month. Your planetary ruler Saturn’s continued retrograde through your sector of values and security has helped you release the need to control how you make money and how much you make. Instead, you’re focused on letting your inner child call the shots.
The Leo New Moon at the end of July motivated you to step more into the limelight and ask more directly for what you want from the Universe, from your partners, from your family, and from everyone who’s used to you being the provider. The Aquarius Full Moon on August 11th gets you to ask yourself, “who’s providing for me?” You deserve the security you so naturally give others, but if you don’t take the time to open your throat chakra and ask for what you want, then you won’t as easily receive it. Fortunately, Mercury, the Planet of Communication, is in Virgo for most of the month, making you more discerning of your own intentions.
The main thing to beware of is not becoming overly self-critical, or critical of others during this process. Perfectionism can be paralyzing. Once Mars shifts out of Taurus on the 20th and enters Gemini, you won’t have a choice but to let humor and light-heartedness lead the way. Political, social, and interpersonal plot twists will be occurring non-stop as the month rounds out, and if you can laugh about it instead of fret about it, you’ll end up learning valuable lessons about release.
Aquarius
Aquarius, last month you were very focused on raising awareness about social causes that humanity should be aware of, and this month, with Chiron, Juno, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto all retrograde, it’s best that you take a break from being a savior, or a martyr. Focus more on your evolution and life journey from the past six months.
The Aquarius Full Moon on the 11th is connected to the intentions you set six months ago, during the Aquarius New Moon. At first, due to retrograde season, you may downplay all the growth you actually experienced these past six months. But once Mars shifts into Gemini on the 20th, you’ll start to be much more aware of the wide array of ways you’ve outgrown your past self. Saturn’s experiencing its final 7 months in your sign — starting March 2023 it will enter Pisces and not return to Aquarius for another 29 years.
So it’s normal that of all the zodiac signs you’re experiencing the greatest amount of growing pains. Mars in Gemini can serve as a healing balm of sorts, especially since Venus, the Planet of Love, will be in Leo most of the month starting on the 11th, activating your sector of relationships and marriage.
You don’t have to heal alone, Aquarius. In fact, this is the month where letting yourself be taken care of, letting yourself cry in front of your lover(s) or close friend(s), and letting yourself experience moments of sadness will be some of the most healing actions possible. By the time Uranus, your second planetary ruler, shifts retrograde in Taurus on the 24th, you’ll be ready to face aspects of yourself you had previously shied away from. Bravo!
Pisces
Pisces, as the last sign of the zodiac, people often mistake you as a slumbering being who doesn’t add too much momentum to the day to day world. Boy, are they about to be surprised by what you have in store for them this month! Yes, it’s true that with the Aquarius full moon activating your sector of healing and spirituality on August 11th, a major part of you will be operating behind the scenes.
This is also the case due to Jupiter, your planetary ruler, spending its first full month retrograde in Aries, activating your sector of security. Same goes for your second ruler, Neptune. But you tend to thrive behind the scenes, and with Mars, the Planet of Action, still in Taurus for the first three weeks of the month, so much abundance comes your way when you don’t attempt to be seen, but rather let opportunities and people naturally come to you.
Many creative opportunities or people from the past will re-emerge, either in “real life”, or in your dream life, this month. Pisces, understand that you’re being offered an opportunity to expand, and once Mars enters your fellow mutable sign of Gemini on the 20th, you’ll feel like you’ve grown a set of wings.
What to do with all this auspicious energy?
The start of Virgo Season on the 22nd will have you feeling drawn towards co creation. Perhaps some Pisces will conceive children around this time, while others will conceive art. Some will conceive both a baby and an art project! Whatever you do, do so with the awareness that you are more than the art or baby you create. You are infinity, incarnated. Celebrate your wholeness, and thrive.