August 2013 horoscope - Aries

I follow the sidereal calendar; this is the monthly solar horoscope for birthdays from 14^th April to 15^th May or Aries Ascendants or Moons

By Louise Gilbert

Aries, the backdrop as we head into August is the ongoing stellium in Gemini that’s connected to the ongoing Grand Trine in air together with Saturn and Neptune. This has already introduced a lot of ease – or emphasis - around communication, social media, short-term projects and short-distance travel plans, interaction with siblings, writing and publishing. Especially with two other planets aspecting your 3^rd house from a supportive angle, you tend to be highly idealistic, intellectualise situations and issues but you are also more social during this time. You formulate our ideas clearly, develop connections with other people, make new contacts and expand your mental faculties with greater ease. All of the airy Gemini energy opposes transformative Pluto, who, in your area of the higher mind has been changing the way you think and look at the bigger picture over the past years.

With Pluto in this mix too, we now have a Kite aspect. The influence of the Kite pattern is similar to Grand Trines but where a trine is easy and we might not even notice it if we don’t pay attention, the Kite motivates and opens up potential. The vocal point of the Kite, again, is in Gemini, your house of communication and the mind.

Writing may feature strongly for you this month and you pour a lot of energy into your ideas, thoughts and how you get them across. You may also be given more work projects to handle or lead as other see you as a capable team player, public speaker or messenger who wants to get involved, spreading your words of wisdom that you bring to the table. As a result of all of this you may have to deal with a lot more paperwork, filing all your expenses from your frequent travels.

All if this are external signs of what it also happening inside – and this is a change of mind. Not that Aries are particularly stuck in their ways, traditionally, you can look at other people’s point of view quite well, given Mercury is well disposed in your chart. However, this month, you continue to challenge your long-held beliefs, perhaps with surprising results. Keep asking yourself why it is you want something and you may come to a realisation that you had not considered before. This realisation can also have an impact on your partnerships which flow much easier this month – equally, if you’ve been looking for a way out from one particular relationship, then you may now find the right words, the courage and the right way to do that. After all, your relationships are still hard work for the time being - your partner may be somewhat unavailable and the clearing out continues.

So, this is the backdrop of what then follows when Mercury changes signs on 5^th August 2013 and moves into Cancer just before the new Moon in the same sign on 6^th August. This happens in your 4^th house of home, feelings, emotions and the heart. Your living situation is now on the radar and you may decide to sell, buy, refurbish or if none of this is the case in August, you may simply get the ball rolling and at least, think about any of these options – or you’ll have a change of heart completely. With such a heavy focus on this area in your chart, a lot of communication may evolve around the home later on in the month, including contracts. Security is important to you now, especially the one that comes from owning a property and generally feeling secure in your own four walls.

Naturally, this is also a period when you spend a lot of time with your family and in particular your mother.

This new Moon is in the nakshatra of Aszlesa, ruled by Mercury. It’s the intimate connection and embrace. It’s where we find emotional strength to defeat your enemies. It’s also a time when we are emotionally needier than at others times and with Mercury, the ruler of this nakshatra in the same sign of Cancer, you or others in life may speak before they think and react to events more emotionally and even harshly with Saturn eye on this new Moon. If can, take a step back.

Once the Sun moves sign on 17^th August, your mood is flirtatious and outgoing. Where before you may have had some insecurities, especially around your own identity and how you really are at the moment, you are now a bundle of confidence! The world is your stage and – almost anything goes. This is a very social time for you and the full Moon on 21^st August represents a peak time for social engagements. It can also be the end or the natural conclusion of a long-term project that began in February 2012. It can highlight a bonus for a job well done or a time when your group of friends, acquaintances and business contacts are all gathering around you. This quite literally can be a great time for business. However, Neptune is not far and Mercury, the planet of communication is in opposition to the full Moon, so be careful of false friends or lovers and offers that look too good to be true – they’ll turn out to be nothing but hot air.

The month ends with all planets, not counting Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, spreading out in six subsequent houses. Vedic astrology calls this Kal Sarp Yoga when all the planets are hemmed between Rahu and Ketu or the Moon’s nodes. When you read about this yoga, I’m not surprised that some people get the fear of god when reading about this yoga. However, awareness always goes a long way and with this combination, there is a rather deep and complex compulsion across the axis of the nodes – Aries and Libra. So, the end of August seems to be a time where we do a lot of subconscious processing of the past and for you, there is a lot of growing beyond unhealthy relationship patterns and how we communicate in relationships.

Have a great month, Aries!

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