Aries August 2023

A deliciously warm spotlight shines on you Tuesday, August 1. In the middle of work plans not fully smooth, a full Moon in social Aquarius lights up your professional house. Your power with career colleagues and community will be sensational. So – utilize this day wisely. Don’t spend it alone. Get your beautiful energy out there.

With so much gained wisdom – after so much frustration – and learned patience, you will steadily place the cups of your success, arranged like trophies, back on the winning block.

This is a rebirth of sorts – of your desire.

Begin now, dear Aries, to let your wishes and desires ignite again – into a slow burning flame. That full Moon in your eleventh house Tuesday, August 1 begins your coronation!

Then it’s a slow, take-it-easy kind of month, to enjoy the fruits of your labors. This includes literal fruit as well, as in nature. As in trees, flowers, fruits and vegetables. I see you spending some of the happiest days of your life outside this month. Go outside and recapture your love of the earth. If you don’t have a garden, go outside, anywhere you can, just to experience the beauty of nature.

In a nutshell, your environment had become musty, and the windows are now open. You’re leaving the stale overused air you’ve been breathing and regurgitating for fresh breezes.

For you have, in your fifth house of pleasure and conception, the golden Sun, a new silvery Moon Wednesday, August 16, the same day generous Vesta enters, brilliant Mercury, and Venus – quelle horreur, going into retrograde yesterday, Saturday, July 22!

Venus, planet of love, goes into retrograde in your fifth house of true romance. Hmmm. How would YOU interpret that?

Ooh-la-la!

It certainly brings ex lovers back from the past. The entire Venus retrograde is July 22 – September 3.

And, now, take your pick. One of these energies from your fifth house will be going hog-wild:

Creativity
Conceiving and brainstorming new projects
Falling in love
Your children and having Children
Your lusty desires and joyful sexual self
Parties and theater
Fun and playing and dressing up
Taking a leap of faith

FOR BEST RESULTS IN WORK: Push your Virgo side (you’ve got it): Devoted, detailed, helpful, conscientious. Rather than looking at the big picture – the forest – and ignoring the branches on the trees, examine the branches! Each and every leaf is worth its weight in gold, and I’m not kidding. You get richer by zooming in on the nitpicky.

And about people, remember your wise sister Aries writer Maya Angelou: When people show you who they are, believe them.

Don’t let anything like Chiron retrograde (wounded self) in your sign and first body house chip away at your confidence. You’re in a more solid position than you think.

A past matter concerning home and property comes up again. It would behoove you to look at this for it would work to your advantage now. Ride each new wave as it comes in. Success is yours!

There is nothing more exciting than an inspired Aries – we want to see you inspired.

All that your fifth house rules:

Conception: a launch, a start-up, a baby, artistic masterpiece, business plan, brilliant idea

Your creativity and giving birth to new projects

Your child or children

Your inner child

Falling in love

Making love

Love affairs

Your desires and sexual self

Artistic performance

Playing and entertaining and dressing up

Parties

Speculating and gambling

Go ahead and feed your soul a bit more, please. Because you do need to be all things for yourself.

I will explain.

Retrograde is all about going backwards, right? Going over stuff from the past. Over and over. Re-examining. Every step, every action. Rewind the video of your life. Over and over. What really happened. Rewind as many times as you need. You must catch every detail. Can’t miss, nor skip, a beat. Getting it right this time.

Write it down and record it, if it helps. You are here to make the record straight.

What you’ve done. What you can do better.

Jupiter, already in your money house – there will be nice profits made this year – now powers forward more settlements, transactions.

The most positive part of this is that you name to yourself the people with whom you feel most comfortable. Those you can really relax with and be yourself with. Your true self. (Putting on a show, or trying to keep up with the Whomevers, is so deeply exhausting, isn’t it?) That’s true freedom. And it’s priceless. Can’t be bought.

Also old co-creators, old partners in crime, fun people from your past. And it’s a little bit about how you used to look, as well.

Just remember to curb the spending, and you’ll do great. Those who are still having conversations with da money people and such, you may want to ask yourself: Why is it I really don’t want to grow up yet? It most often has to do with a father figure in your life.

Maturity is hard to obtain, mostly because it can’t be taught. You have to learn it yourself. As the great philosopher Kierkegaard says, “Life is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson after.” You’ve had enough changes and challenges recently to pass your test with a flying A+.

Now, let’s get back to the fun stuff.

Your social eleventh house rules:

Friends and colleagues

Professional associates

Your social circles

All your communities

Your ideals and hopes

Visualizing your future

Making the world a better place

Others’ advice, for better or worse

Discerning the truth

AND THEN. New Lion Moon in your fifth love house on Wednesday, August 16! That week, a miracle idea comes to you, or a new lover, a new joy.

Insecurity stops plaguing your subconscious and fears of being old and alone. Also an exhaustive time around the house and home ceases, and the end of August launches you into a whole new energy level.

Happy Summer, Awesome Aries! I’d love to read you!

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In the mute August afternoon
They trembled to some undertune
Of music in the silver air;
Great pleasure was it to be there
Till green turned duskier and the moon
Coloured the corn-sheaves like gold hair. – August by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

YOUR DESTINY DAYS  Aries Sun, Aries Rising, and Aries Jupiter, your destined times are:

(EST) Friday, August 4 after 11:19pm; all of Saturday, August 5; all of Sunday, August 6; until 2:25am on Monday, August 7. 

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