August 2015 Planets & You!

AUGUST 2015 HOROSCOPES:

LEO:   BEST DAYS:  4-5-13-14-23-24-31 

Career goals have more or less been achieved or the time being.  Now it is time to build up the forces for your next career push early next year.  This is the time, symbolically speaking, to get a good night’s sleep, so that the next career push will happen properly.  So it is good to focus on your family, the domestic situation and your emotional well-being.  If these are right the career will take care of itself naturally.  The month ahead looks very prosperous.  You begin a yearly financial peak: for some of you this will be a lifetime peak and for others a multiyear peak.  There is a cosmic conspiracy to prosper you.  There is luck in speculations these days – especially from the 26th to the 28th.  It looks like there is foreign travel happening this month too.  A very favourable period for college-level and/or postgraduate students.  Those applying to college get good news this period.  The love life has been good all year, and particularly so since the 23rd of last month.  By now you should be involved in some happy relationship and there is less need to focus here.  This brings career advancement and opportunity.  However, as we mentioned, the focus is starting o shift now.  Career opportunities that come should feel emotionally comfortable and should not uproot the family.  If not, you can pass on them for now.  Health and energy are excellent these days.  You look good, have plenty of charisma and excel in exercise and athletics.  (You are at your personal best this month.)

 

VIRGO:   BEST DAYS:  6-7-15-16-17-25-26

A very eventful and happy month for you Virgo. Enjoy.  You begin a multi-year cycle of prosperity.  Lady luck sits beside you.  You catch the lucky breaks in life.  You are experiencing the good life – the physical and sensual delights – and the wherewithal will come to enjoy it all.  Since you are in a long-term cycle of prosperity, now would be a good period to attain clarity on your financial goals and plans.  There can be a delayed reaction to your prosperity, but it is still happening.  Financial and good fortune, are yours.  There may be a tendency to overspend, which is not advisable just yet.  A parent or parent figure has a nice financial payday also.  You begin one of your yearly personal pleasure peaks.  The body gets indulged.  The only problem here is weight – there is a tendency now (and for the rest of the year) to put on the pounds.  As we have mentioned, Virgos of childbearing age are very fertile now, and especially this month.  You have been in a strong spiritual period since July 2014, and last month and this month until the 23rd, this becomes even more apparent.  Your dream life is probably more exciting than your waking life and it might be hard to rouse yourself from it.  Supernatural experiences have been happening all year, but they increase during this period.  Spiritual breakthroughs are happening and these are most joyous things.  Your financial limits are not what they seem.  Your ability to achieve is greatly expanded.  You are very conscious of a higher Power guiding you affairs.  Health and energy are excellent this month – the best they have been all year. 

 

LIBRA:   BEST DAYS:  1-8-9-18-19-27-28

This will be a strong social month.  In the past year you’ve made new and significant friends, and this month even more.  Your knowledge of computers, science and technology has greatly expanded over the same period also.  Your knowledge of astrology and astronomy is greatly increased.  ‘Fondest hopes and wishes’ come to pass.  It is a pappy kind of month.  The month ahead (and the rest of the year) is very spiritual.   Be prepared for all kinds of experiences that can’t be explained rationally.  You will start reading more books on spirituality, psychic phenomena and ESP (extrasensory perception).  You will start to explore your own abilities here.  Many of you are already on a spiritual path.  In those cases, your innate spiritual gifts will become even stronger.  Many will even be involved in teaching others.  Finances are still not what they should, or will, be but they are improving.  You are entering a prosperity period, but it has not yet reached its fullness.  Continue to gain mental clarity on finance.  Things are actually much better than they seem at the moment.  Health and energy are much improved this month, and next month, they will be even better.  Enhance the health in the ways mentioned in the yearly report.  Your love planet brings a shift in love attitudes.  Where once you were attracted by power and prestige, now you want friendship and equality.  You want someone you can have fun with.  This month you have the aspects for an online romance.  Singles will find good romantic opportunities online.  Romantic opportunities will come at group activities and events too.  Friends will be playing Cupid

 

SCORPIO:   BEST DAYS:  2-3-10-11-12-20-21-22-29-30

It is time to focus on your own interests and desires.  It is wonderful to get on with others, wonderful to be concerned about their needs.  But your own needs are no less important.  And you are in the cycle where these should be dealt with.  Now is the time to stand on your own two feet, to practise self-reliance, to take personal responsibility for your happiness.  People skills are wonderful, but now is the time to develop personal initiative.  For the next five months or so, your personal power and independence are strong.  Use this time to create conditions of happiness.  If others don’t go along with you at first, eventually they will.  Act independently.  You are still in a yearly career peak until the 23rd; the focus should still be there.  You seem to be working very hard this month, defending off the competition, meeting deadlines, and putting in long hours.  But it pays off, your social graces are still important in your career, but less so than last month.  Now it is your work ethic that impresses superiors.  Uncles or aunts or these kinds of figures in you life seem very helpful in the career this month. Health and energy are still stressful until the 23rd.   Keep your moods positive and constructive.  Do your best to maintain family harmony, it won’t be easy but do your best. By the 23rd you will have made satisfactory progress in your career and the focus shifts to friends and group activities.  Being involved in-group activities help the career.   Your mission now is to be there for your friends.  An important new friendship materializes between the 6th and the 8th.  You will be making many more new friends after the 11th.  It is a social period, but not necessarily a romantic one.  There is a happy romantic meeting, but don’t leap into anything serious just yet.  Take love slowly and let things develop. 

 

SAGITTARIUS:   BEST DAYS:  4-5-13-14-23-24-31

Very important and happy changes are happening this month.  Great career success, and personal success can be made at this time.  You are above (at least for a while) everyone in your world.  You receive honours and recognition.  A promotion in your job or in your profession is likely.  You have almost celebrity status these days and this will continue well into next year.  For many of you it will be a lifetime peak.  It is noon, symbolically speaking, in your year.  You are exerting more influence in your world now. Personal appearance seems very important career wise.  Who you are, how you look, is just as important and perhaps more important than your professional achievements.  There is tension with a parent or parent figure in your life.  Neither you nor this person is right or wrong.  You are just seeing things from opposite perspectives.  Sometimes the parent figure is right, sometimes you are.  If you can bridge the differences you can be very helpful to each other.  Your career goals are high.  Thus, this is a good time to take courses, higher degrees, or seminars in subjects related to the career.  The higher the aspiration, the more preparation is needed.  Bone up on any subject that helps the career.  All this ambition, this outer activity, makes the health more delicate after the 23d.  As always, make sure you get enough sleep.  Pursue your career goals calmly and steadily, with plenty of rest periods thrown in.  Delegate as much as possible.  Avoid impatience and give more attention to your health especially the heart.  Present health problems will be very delicate.  A very happy job opportunity occurs between the 3rd and the 6th, but study it carefully.  You will have many happy opportunities in the coming year.

 

CAPRICORN:   BEST DAYS:  6-7-15-16-17-25-26

This month we find we are dealing more with death and death issues, with estates and taxes.  The sexual appetite and libido are increased.  We could be attending more funerals or hearing about near-death kinds of experiences – and sometimes we are involved in near-death experiences.  In order to live properly – to fulfil our true potential – it is important to understand death and come to terms with it.  Every year the cosmos brings you this opportunity. This may not be literal death but more about ‘encounters’ with death.  You may have had spiritual revelation either personal or through others of what death is all about.  If you are of the appropriate age, this is a great period for doing estate planning.  Money can come to you from tax refunds or insurance claims.  It is also a great period to pay down debt or to refinance debt of better terms.  Borrowing if you need to is also easier this period.  If you have good business ideas, this is a good period to attract outside money for them.  The spouse, partner or current love is still in a yearly financial peak until the 23rd.  Health and energy are good this month.  You can enhance it further by giving more attention to the heart until the 7th.  There is travel in store this month.  University students or applicants are successful in their educational goals now.

 

AQUARIUS:   BEST DAYS:  1-8-9-18-19-27-28

Health and energy still need watching until the 23rd.  This is especially so for those of you born late in the sign of Aquarius.  Physical exercise could help improve the situation in some cases.  Love is still the main headline this month.  For the unattached this shows many, many romantic possibilities, perhaps too many.  It can be confusing.  Still it is a nice problem to have.  However, serious decisions about love shouldn’t happen this month.  Let love develop as it will.  Finances become more stressful this month, especially after the 23rd.  Earnings will happen, but you’ll have to work harder for them and overcome more obstacles than usual. The good news is that while your personal earning power is not at its best, the spouse, partner or current love is in a yearly financial peak.  He or she takes up the slack. The beloved is going to have a prosperous year ahead.  He or she seems lucky in speculations and in financial risk- taking.  The beloved is going to be more generous with you too – a freer spender.  While finances might be temporarily challenging, things will improve in a month or so.  Your career seems very successful from the 11th onwards.  Promotions can happen.  Happy career opportunities come.  Your professional achievements area appreciated.  Friends seem very helpful in the career.  Online activities are also helpful.  You are in a more sexually active kind of period.  Whatever your age or stage in life, the libido is more than usual.  Detox and weight-loss regimes are good.  It will be good to get rid of the clutter in your life too, possessions that you no longer need or use.  Good to get rid of mental and emotional patterns that won’t serve your interest. 

 

PISCES:  BEST DAYS:  2-3-10-11-12-20-21-22-29-30

The main headline this month is the love life.  You are in a yearly love and social peak now.  In the coming months many of you will marry or enter into relationships that are like marriage.  There is a very happy love and social month ahead.  Forget about moonlit walks on the beach, flowers and music.  Love is very practical and down to earth.  You are attracted to people of high status, the good providers, the people who serve your interests in practical ways, the people who can help you career wise.  Flowers and moonlit walks and the whisper of sweet nothings are all ephemeral.  Practical service endures.  So, this is the kind of month (and year) where the beloved shows his or her love by fixing your computer or changing a flat tire, or giving career support.  This is how you feel loved and this is how you show it.  This month you have the classic aspects for an office romance.  This can be with a co-worker or with a boss or superior – or with someone involved in your career.  Power and prestige are mighty aphrodisiacs this month, and the year ahead.  Even your health is affected by your love life after the 23rd it will be important to maintain harmony with the current love or partner.  Health and energy are good until the 23rd but need more attention afterwards.  Reflexology, acupuncture or acupressure treatments may help some of your problem areas.  As always, make sure you get enough rest.  Low energy is the primal disease and the primal cause of disease.  Important career changes are happening.  The spouse, partner or current love is very involved in your career and supportive.  It is good now to advance the career by social means – through networking and through attending or hosting the right kinds of parties.  Your personal merits are important but your ability to get on with others is perhaps more important career wise.  

 

ARIES:  BEST DAYS: 4-5-13-14-23-24-31

Its party time, a time to explore the rapture of life.  This personal pleasure peak will be stronger than in most past years.  By the 23rd you will have got some of the high spirits out of your system and will be ready to get more serious in the weeks to come.  A review is in order of both the financial and love life.  This is not a time for making major purchases, investments or love decisions, but for doing your homework on these matters.  Some things will slow down a bit.  A payment that was promised can be delayed.  A cheque you received can bounce – perhaps due to errors at the bank or in the senders accounting.  That great deal on an appliance might turn out to be not such a great deal a few weeks down the road when you find the same item (or a better one) for less in another store.  Those shares that you thought were so unbelievably cheap get even cheaper with time.  CAUTION, CAUTION, CAUTION.  There are some nice financial and romantic happenings now.  A nice payday and/or romantic meeting is indicated, but it might be delayed.  There is luck in speculations during this period, especially from the 26th – 28th – only don’t lose or misplace your lottery ticket.   Those of you into the creative arts are especially inspired during this period, and children or children figures of the appropriate age are especially fertile.  This is a great time for job seeders:  there are dream jobs out there for you.  The month ahead, in general, is good for job seekers.  Clarity and direction is happening in your career now, and pretty soon – in the next two months – you can start taking overt actions in this sphere.  Right now, however the focus is still on home and family. 

 

TAURUS:  BEST DAYS:  6-7-15-16-17-25-26

The focus is now on other people, rather than on your own personal interests and desires.  Your good comes through others and not from your personal merit or personal actions.  The cosmos impels you to develop your social skills, to attain your ends by consensus and through the co-operation of others.  As we have mentioned, there is nothing wrong with self-interest, but you are now in a different stage of your cycle.  It is more difficult now to have things your way, and if the truth be told your way is probably not the best way these days.  Hopefully you have used your creative power to create pleasant circumstances for yourself over the previous months.  Now is the time for living with your creation.  If it is good, you will enjoy the good.  If there have been mistakes, you will experience the unpleasantness.  When your next cycle of independence comes – early next year – you will be able to make the appropriate changes again.  Love, as we mentioned, has not been particularly good the past few months.  However, this is about to change.  Romance is starting to happen.  You will still need to go slowly.  The social life starts to bloom.  Opportunities for love affairs, rather that necessarily serious romance.  Serious romance will happen later on, but at least the frozen love life is starting to melt.  Health still needs watching.  This is a month for making psychological progress.  Many psychological breakthroughs and insights will come to you.  It is very natural to become nostalgic, to relive the past, to look at memories of the past.  Old memories will arise spontaneously and if you examine them from your present perspective of things, healing will happen.  Things that were traumatic as a youngster seem like trifles from the present perspective.  We can smile at them.  And this makes them lose whatever power they had over us.

 

GEMINI:  BEST DAYS:  1-8-9-18-19-27-28

Things move slower in the world at large.  Interestingly, you don’t seem too much affected by all this, not in a personal way.  This shows that you are covering a lot of ground and making much personal progress.  For you things haven’t slowed down that much.  Good levels of self-confidence and self-esteem are present.  You are never in one place for too long.  You are achieving and doing important changes here.  Your needs in love are changing.  Communication is always important for you in love, but now you want emotional intimacy, and emotional sharing.  You show love by giving emotional support and this is how you feel loved.  Never mind the wisecracks and witticisms now, give emotional support.  The love sign Venus in Virgo and produces other challenges.  You and the beloved (and the people you meet) can be too much of a perfectionist in love.  This can lead to destructive criticism, which is always a killer for romance.  Criticism will not get you closer to perfection.  It will be a challenge to keep the criticism constructive, and to withhold it when the timing is not right.  In the month ahead love is improved.  The 3rd to the 8th brings happy romantic opportunities.  Marriage is not likely – not this year anyway – but the trysts are happy.  Home and family becomes very powerful after the 23rd.  Moves or opportunities to move are likely.  There will be more entertaining from home and more socializing with family members.  Pursue your career by the methods of night.  Visualize, dream and affirm.  Enter, as best you can, the feeling state of being where you want to be career wise.  You will be able to take outward, overt actions towards these things.

 

CANCER:   BEST DAYS:  2-3-10-11-12-20-21-22-29-30

The month ahead has a lot of earning power present.  This is the main headline this month. Your career will have the financial favour of these people.  Money can come from the government too.  Pay rises can also happen.  By the 23rd most of your financial goals have either, been attained or good progress has been made towards them.  You seem satiated and are ready to move on to other interests.  Though the interest in finance is waning there is a very nice payday period from the 26th to the 28th.  This could also be a higher paying job opportunity.  Many messages, first, you are probably getting a new car (and a good one too) and new communication equipment in the year ahead.  You spend on communication and can earn from that too.  Those of you in sales, marketing, advertising or PR and those of you who are teachers and writers – will have a banner financial month.  Whatever business you’re involved with, good sales and marketing, good PR, good use of the media is very important.  Siblings and sibling figures start to prosper now and they seem financially supportive.  Money is earned close to home in the neighbourhood, and perhaps through neighbours.  Siblings and neighbours seem open to your financial ideas and financial thinking.  You are in an intellectual stage in your life now.  Intellectual wealth is just as much wealth as financial wealth, and this is what is happening for you now.  You are building your intellectual property portfolio these days.  A wonderful time for students at both school and college level.  There is success in studies now.  College applicants should hear good news.  As we mentioned, clarity is starting to happen in love.  You are ready to move forward too.  Social confidence is much stronger these days, and your judgement will be better too.  Love happens more easily after the 23rd than before.  Health and energy are still excellent.  They are not perfect, but they are good.  You can enhance your health even further in the ways mentioned in the yearly report.