This week the cosmos invites you into a potent dance of heart, vision, and transformation. Venus in Leo makes a series of rich alignments that weave love, creativity, and relationship into the fabric of responsibility, dream, innovation, and deep change. Midweek brings a rare long-term Uranus–Neptune sextile opening a portal for visionary possibilities. The week closes with Mercury and Chiron offering healing through truthful storytelling.

Aug 25 – Venus enters Leo trine Saturn in Aries

Venus, the Relational One, steps into fiery Leo, calling you to lead with love and show up in relationships with authenticity and creative vitality. Her trine to Saturn, the Responsible One, steadies that passion with mature commitment. This is an invitation to honor both joy and accountability in how you connect with others and in how you express your gifts.

Reflection: Where can you bring more courage and maturity to how you love and create?

Aug 26 – Venus in Leo trine Neptune in Aries

Neptune, the Dreamer archetype meets Venus’ radiant heart. This trine asks you to open your imagination and infuse relationships, art, and values with inspiration. Let your heart vision stretch beyond the ordinary into the mythic.

Reflection: How can you dream your relationships and creative life into a more inspired form?

Aug 26 – Venus in Leo sextile Uranus in Gemini

Venus’ warmth meets the Maverick’s (Uranus’) spark. Expect surprises in love, creativity, and self-expression. Uranus invites you to break free from stale patterns in how you connect, to play with the unexpected, and to let fresh possibilities in.

Reflection: What old pattern in love or creativity is ready for a bold shift?

Aug 26 – Venus in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius

This is deep alchemy. Venus meets Pluto, the Transformer across the Leo–Aquarius axis, calling you to face the shadows in love, value systems, and creativity. Power dynamics in relationships may surface—this is a chance to transform them into mutual empowerment.

Reflection: What truth about love, power, or value is rising now that you can no longer ignore?

Aug 28 – Uranus in Gemini sextile Neptune in Aries

A rare long-term cycle begins—five exact sextiles over the next two years. Uranus, the Maverick, and Neptune, the Dreamer, collaborate to awaken collective vision. This is a subtle but profound activation of imagination, innovation, and spiritual insight, especially around communication, technology, and inspired action.

Reflection – What visionary idea is quietly emerging in your life that could shape your future?

Aug 31 – Mercury in Leo trine Chiron in Aries

Mercury, the Storyteller connects harmoniously with Chiron, the Wounded Healer. This is a moment to speak from the heart and share your truth in ways that bring healing—to yourself and to others. Your words can carry medicine now.

Reflection: What story from your own wounds is ready to be told in a way that heals?

This week’s astrology is a heart-led initiation into greater maturity, creative freedom, and deep transformation. The rare Uranus–Neptune sextile reminds you that the seeds you plant now—especi

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This week brings a potent blend of healing, disruption, and new beginnings. The Sun in its Leo fullness meets Chiron’s medicine for old wounds, a New Moon in Virgo invites change through the unexpected, Venus draws us into tender but courageous relationship healing, and the Sun steps into Virgo with an electric square to Uranus. Expect moments of insight, activation, and the call to respond with both grounded presence and open-hearted adaptability.

Aug 19 – Sun in Leo trine Chiron in Aries

Your Conscious Self (Sun) harmonizes with the Wounded Healer (Chiron), offering you a courageous moment to meet vulnerabilities with self-compassion and sovereignty.

Reflection Question: Where could I let my confidence and my vulnerability work together instead of at odds?

Aug 22 – New Moon at 0° Virgo square Uranus in Gemini

The Instinctive Nurturer (Moon) archetype begins a fresh Virgo cycle, immediately challenged by the Maverick’s demand for innovation. Disruption may be the seedbed for a more authentic rhythm of daily life.

Reflection Question: What unexpected shift could liberate me into a truer, cleaner alignment with my values?

Aug 22 – Venus in Cancer square Chiron in Aries

The Relational One (Venus) faces the Wounded Healer (Chiron) —inviting tenderness in places where self-protection has kept love at bay.

Reflection Question: How might I soften toward myself or another without abandoning my own boundaries?

Aug 24 – Sun in Virgo square Uranus in Gemini

The Conscious Self (Sun) now turns toward discernment and skillfulness, yet meets Uranus’ (Maverick's) jolt to think and act differently.

Reflection Question: Where is life asking me to break a habitual pattern in order to live more freely?

Podcast poem: "The Guest House" by Rumi

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This week offers an archetypal time of release, renewal, and bold expression. Multiple alignments offer breakthroughs in thinking, love, structure, and soul purpose.

August 11: 💥 Mercury (Storyteller) Direct at 4° Leo:
Your mental focus, communication, and inner narrative begin to move forward—but not in the same way as before. This station direct reactivates Mercury’s recent contacts with:

• Uranus (Maverick) in Gemini – new thought frequencies, unexpected downloads
• Saturn (Responsible One) retrograde in Aries – the confrontation with inner and outer authority
• Neptune (Dreamer) retrograde in Aries – releasing illusion, inviting intuitive knowing
• Pluto (Transformer) in Aquarius – shedding outdated mental control, opening to soul-truths

This rare confluence offers you a multi-dimensional opportunity to recalibrate how you think, speak, and share your vision. It's a green light—but one that asks you to lead from the heart of your truth, not the mask of performance.

Reflection: What inner clarity are you now ready to voice with courage and creativity?

⚡ August 11: Saturn in Aries trine Uranus in Gemini
This rare harmonious aspect between the planet of discipline and the planet of liberation offers a bridge between old structures and new possibilities. It’s an invitation to evolve tradition, not just reject it. This is a moment to build innovative systems that support true freedom.

Reflection: How can you become a mature steward of the changes your soul is ready to live?

💗 August 11: Venus conjunct Jupiter in Cancer
A lush and expansive moment in the heart realms. Venus and Jupiter—planets of love and abundance—unite in the deeply feeling sign of Cancer. This opens a portal of nourishment, emotional generosity, and sacred connection. A beautiful time to restore your sense of belonging.

Reflection: Where can you say yes to love that nourishes your body, heart, and roots?

🔥 August 14 & August 17: Mercury in Leo sextile Mars in Libra (twice)
Mercury, now moving direct, forms a double sextile to Mars—first as it begins to move, and again once it picks up speed. This gives you momentum to take aligned action on what you’ve been reflecting on during the retrograde. Mercury in Leo gives voice to your creativity; Mars in Libra empowers you to act with grace and strategy.

Reflection: What message or idea are you ready to activate—with both heart and harmony?

Podcast poem: The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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This week, Mars (Action-Taker) in Libra activates a wave of dynamic tensions and breakthroughs with outer planets, inviting a potent review of how you take action, seek justice, and navigate conflict.

✨ Mars enters Libra (Aug 6): Begin a new 6-week cycle focused on relational assertiveness. Mars in Libra activates your capacity to initiate from balance, justice, and social artistry—but may also expose places where you hesitate to take a stand.

Reflection: Where are you being asked to initiate action from partnership, not polarization?

⚡ Mars trine Uranus (Maverick) and Mars opposite Saturn (Responsible One) Rx (Aug 8): Electric impulses for change (Uranus) meet friction from old limitations or internalized rules (Saturn). This signature invites a bold but measured realignment in how you assert your will in relationships or group dynamics.

Reflection: What outdated rule or internal authority needs to shift so you can act with more freedom?

🌫️ Mars opposite Neptune (Dreamer) Rx (Aug 9): A time of possible confusion or disillusionment about what direction to take or how to use your energy. Let your intuition—not just logic—guide your next moves. This transit invites surrendering ego control and softening combative tendencies.

Reflection: Where are you being called to move with spiritual integrity, not just strategy?

🌕 Full Moon at 17° Aquarius (Aug 9): The Aquarius Full Moon shines a light on your place in the collective. It highlights themes of vision, innovation, and emotional detachment. This is a time to reflect on how your personal expression supports (or sabotages) larger social ideals.

Reflection: What personal truth are you ready to contribute in service to the greater whole?

🔥 Mars trine Pluto (Transformer) Rx (Aug 10): A deep well of empowered will and focused intention becomes available. This is an alchemical aspect—catalyzing courage to act with integrity, especially in transforming relationship patterns or social structures.

Reflection: Where are you ready to act with deeper purpose and transformative power?

🌀 Looking ahead: Mercury (Storyteller) turns direct on Monday (Aug 12) at 4° Leo, reactivating recent connections with Uranus, Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto. This marks a moment of mental clarity returning after a profound review phase. New insights may emerge about how to express your voice and creativity with heart-centered leadership.

Podcast poem: "What If This Road" by Sheenagh Pugh

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This Week's Core Alchemical Cycles Themes:

1. Chiron Retrograde in Aries

• A six-month inner initiation to reclaim courage from past wounds of rejection, failure, or not being "enough."
• Aries themes: agency, identity, anger, self-assertion.
• Time to apprentice to your own healing fire: how do you lead yourself forward when the pain speaks loudest?

Reflection Prompts: 
🌀 What unacknowledged fire in you is ready to become a forge, not a burn?
🌀 What pain from my past feels like it’s knocking again—this time for healing?

2. Sun conjunct Mercury (Cazimi) in Leo

• Marks the start of a new Mercury cycle, a time of seeding new intentions for your voice, perception, and creative mind.
• In Leo: themes of sovereignty, bold self-expression, and heart-centered visioning.
• Pair this with Mercury retrograde’s descent and you get “the solar mind in the underworld”—clarity emerging from the compost.

Reflection Prompts:
🌀 What new story wants to rise from your heart’s truth, not your history?
🌀 What courageous truth wants to be spoken from my heart?

3. Venus in Cancer Squares Saturn & Neptune Retrograde in Aries

Venus in Cancer wants connection, nurturing, and belonging—but hits two realities in Aries:

• Saturn’s limits (can’t emotionally bypass what needs boundaries)
• Neptune’s illusions/dreams (what are you projecting or idealizing in relationships?)
• This square invites a compassionate yet courageous reckoning: Where are you overgiving out of fear of disconnection?

Reflection Prompts: 
🌀 What dream of love or belonging needs to die so a deeper nourishment can be born?
🌀 Where in my relationships do I give away my needs to keep the peace?


Podcast Poem: Summer by Robin Coste Lewis

For information on the 4-month Mercury cycle, check out: https://astrobutterfly.com/2017/04/19/a-new-mercury-cycle-begins-time-to-start-a-new-project/

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Venus (Relational One) in Gemini squares the Nodal Axis (North Node in Pisces, South Node in Virgo)

This square points to a karmic reckoning in how we communicate, relate, and express beauty or value.

• Venus in Gemini may try to explain, rationalize, or compartmentalize feelings.
• But the North Node in Pisces whispers: “Surrender. Feel. Trust the mystery.”
• And the South Node in Virgo clings to control, precision, and proof.

This square asks: What relationships, ideas, or self-expressions need to release over-analysis to trust deeper emotional or spiritual flow?

Reflections: Are your values aligned with your intuition, or are they still seeking external approval or data to be “valid”? Where can you risk not knowing in order to fully feel?

Venus in Gemini squares Mars in Virgo

This classic Venus (Relational One) -- Mars (Action-Taker) tension plays out in the head and the hands—the realm of ideas vs. the realm of doing. It can activate conflict in relationships, communication, and inner values.

• Venus wants to explore, connect, and play with ideas.
• Mars in Virgo wants to act, fix, refine, and get results.

This transit reveals misalignments between desire and direction. Do your actions support what you say you love? Do your words build bridges or start fires?

Reflections: How can you align your thinking and doing? Where can you bring playfulness into your problem-solving—and precision into your passion?

New Moon in Leo

This is a catalytic lunation that plugs into every outer planet—inviting you to be both the visionary dreamer and the embodied creator. The Leo New Moon calls forth a sovereign reawakening: a chance to declare who you are becoming in the unfolding web of change.

• Trine Saturn (Responsible One) and Neptune (Visionary), both currently retrograde in Aries. This encourages a mystical discipline: act from your higher self, and build what’s most spiritually aligned.
• Sextile Uranus (Maverick) in Gemini: sparks the courage to express radical new ideas or unexpected voices that want to be heard.
• Opposition to Pluto (Transformer) in Leo reveals where ego attachments may still be hiding under the guise of "authenticity." True sovereignty requires shadow work.

Reflections: Where in your life is your inner lion ready to roar? What part of your creative genius have you been holding back, and what would it mean to claim your stage?

Podcast poem: "The Journey" by Mary Oliver

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Mercury (Storyteller) turns retrograde in Leo (for 3 weeks):

🔮 Alchemical Opportunities:

• This retrograde in heart-centered, expressive Leo asks for a rewiring of self-expression—especially around how you speak from ego versus soul.
• It’s an invitation to revisit your inner scriptwriter: Are you performing or revealing? Are you leading from performance or presence?
• Mercury’s journey back through Leo is a mythic call to recover your original creative fire—the gold of authenticity buried under personas built for approval.

🌟 Invitations:

• Revisit past projects, creative dreams, or bold communications that still hold vitality.
• Track where your voice has been dimmed—by shame, fear of rejection, or performative pressures.
• Reflection: “Where am I being asked to re-ignite my courage to speak and create from truth rather than approval?”

Sun in Cancer Squares Chiron in Aries

🔮 Alchemical Opportunities:

• The Cancer Sun illuminates the wound of over-defensiveness or isolation (Chiron in Aries). There’s a tension between the tender need to belong and the armored stance of fierce independence.
• This is ancestral and inner-child territory: wounds around not feeling safe to need others, or feeling unseen in your vulnerability.
• A sacred clash between the protective shell and the initiatory fire of healing.

🌟 Invitations:

• Notice where you’re either retreating too far into protective patterns or pushing too hard to “go it alone.”
• This is a ripe time for tending to younger parts of you that learned independence as a survival strategy.
• Reflections:
   “What part of me longs to feel safe enough to let others in?”
   “What am I protecting that is actually ready to be loved into wholeness?”

Mars in Virgo Conjunct the South Node

🔮 Alchemical Opportunities:

• Mars—the planet of will, drive, and instinct—merges with the karmic South Node in meticulous Virgo, illuminating outdated survival strategies of over-efforting, control, or hypercriticism.
• This transit may activate perfectionism as a wound-based response to feeling unworthy or unsafe.
• You're being asked to let go of the illusion that “if I just do it all right, I’ll be okay.”

🌟 Invitations:

• Notice where you are driven by anxiety-masked-as-productivity.
• Practice right action from wholeness, not from wounding.
• Reflections:
   “Where am I still caught in the loop of fixing rather than transforming?”
   “What old patterns of hyper-vigilance or over-responsibility am I ready to release?”

Podcast poem: "Things to Think" by Robert Bly

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Venus in Gemini trine Pluto in Aquarius 

Venus (Relational One) in Gemini awakens curiosity, relational flexibility, and the art of dialogue. Trining Pluto (Transformer) in Aquarius, it’s a call to use language and connection as tools for deep transformation, truth-telling, and social innovation. Engage in courageous conversations that dismantle outdated relational patterns. Let your voice be a mirror of soul-deep intelligence.

Reflection: how can you become a channel for love that liberates through conscious speech?

Full Moon in Capricorn

Full Moons illuminate. In Capricorn, it spotlights themes of mastery, long-term commitment, ancestral wisdom, and the structures that support or suppress your growth. What emotional structures have reached their limit? Where are you being invited to stand in your inner authority—not as control, but as wise stewardship?

Reflection: What outdated “success scripts” need to be composted to root your unique visionary path in soulful integrity?

Saturn Turns Retrograde in Aries

As the planetary elder slows to retrograde in bold, initiating Aries, Saturn (Responsible One) invites a revision of how you hold self-authority and agency. What does mature initiative look like in this new era? What inner contracts around identity and leadership need to be re-evaluated?

Reflection: How do you reclaim the fire of purpose without replicating the current cultural dominator paradigm?

Podcast Poem: "To Be of Use" by Marge Piercy

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This week we’re being asked to radically shed outdated forms of value, identity, and communication. It’s a threshold moment—initiate your freedom from old paradigms. Let love, mysticism, and curiosity rewire your being.

• Venus Conjunct Uranus at 29° Taurus

The 29th degree of any sign is a critical threshold—and this Venus (Relational One)-Uranus (Maverick) conjunction is a cosmic lightning strike to awaken us from complacency around beauty, embodiment, and connection. Uranus shakes the roots of Venus’ Taurus temple. Old attachments get jolted. New love or creativity may feel shocking but necessary. This is a wake-up to liberate embodied wisdom and radical self-worth.

Key Themes:

• ⚡ Revolution of the Heart and Values
• 💔 Sudden Breakthroughs in Love, Resources, and Worth
• 🌿 The Final Disruption of Old Value Systems Rooted in Safety and Materialism

• Neptune Stations Retrograde at 2° Aries

Neptune (Dreamer-Visionary) retrograding in early Aries says: you are not who you thought you were. This is the spiritual shedding of false confidence or performative power. It initiates a several-month journey of inward dream quest to find an authentic identity that is both mystical and sovereign. The Dream Warrior archetype awakens here—visionary action must be sourced from inner truth, not ego.

Key Themes:

• 🔥 Initiation of Mystical Agency
• 🌀 Foggy Beginnings Needing Intuitive Attunement
• 🌬 Unraveling the Illusions of "Self" That Can Lead to Sacred Identity

• Uranus Enters Gemini for the First Time Since 1941

Uranus (Maverick) in Gemini marks a seven-year shapeshifting of the mental realm. It electrifies how we communicate, learn, relate, and organize. This transit supports the edgy visionaries who channel new stories into culture. Expect shocking truths, AI ethics reckonings, and rewilding the mind. It’s a time to dismantle rigid binaries and speak with soul.

• ⚔️ Rebellion of Thought, Words, and Ideas
• 🔮 Radical Rewiring of Perception and Collective Narratives
• 🌪 Social Innovation, Tech Evolution, and Trickster Wisdom Rising

Podcast poem: The Dakini Speaks by Jennifer Welwood

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Mercury (Storyteller) makes connections with four planets this week supporting you to activate catalyzing narratives and insights.

The Sun conjoins Jupiter in Cancer supporting you to expand your sensitivity and capacity to nurture whom and what you love (especially yourself). Chani says: "this is a glorious rebirth moment. Summon your faith in yourself and allow your gifts to ripple outward."

The New Moon in Cancer anchors you in the waters of belonging to home and family (however you define them). Compassionately re-connect with your web of community, human and more-than-human. Congruently resource the ones of you and the world who struggle with fear and loneliness.

Mercury (Storyteller and Bridge-Maker) at the end of Cancer sextiles Uranus (Maverick) at the end of Taurus.  Open your mind to innovative and unexpected ways to be grounded.

Mercury enters Leo for an extended time (5 weeks) due to its upcoming retrograde motion in this zodiac sign. Awaken your creative Muse and heart-shining voice. Don't be shy to share.

Mercury in Leo trines both Saturn (Responsible One) and Neptune (Dreamer) in Aries. Chani says about the Saturn cycle: "what if you reframed your restraints as jumping-off points for creativity? Limits can be supportive too." She offers about the Neptune cycle: "probe the edges of your daydreams for pearls of inspiration. Divine downloads await."

Mercury in Leo opposes Pluto (Transformer) in Aquarius challenging you to embrace truths about the next level of necessary deep identity changes. How can you shine your unique presence and creativity in the world in support of liberation for others and the world?

Podcast poem: "Let the World Have its Way with You" by Rosemerry Whatola Trommer

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