AstroForecast August 2007

by Lance Rodriguez

August begins with the majestic Sun traveling through its own ruled sign of Leo.  This is the height of summer and strong identification with creativity, confidence, risk-taking, authority, playfulness, entertainment, recreation, and children is emphasized with this Solar passage in regal Leo.  Negative expressions of Leo are arrogance, false pride, melodrama, stubbornness, dictatorial and authoritarian behaviors, boastfulness and self-absorption.  The angel of the month of August is Hamaliel and the Leo angel is Verchiel.

Wednesday the 1st is an adjustment aspect involving Mars with Pluto that can raise tempers associated with financial issues.  Impatient individuals are meant to learn lessons about their off the cuff remarks, although honest and blunt, nonetheless they devalue and invalidate.  Diplomatic efforts to foment healthy compromises collide with positions that are stubborn, resistant and entrenched.

Thursday the 2nd is a harmonious contact of the Sun with Jupiter that is excellent for vacation travel especially to large resorts, large entertainment complexes or large amusement parks.  Strong identification with joviality and a hail fare thee well attitude do well.  Leos and Sagittarians benefit the most from this aspect and those individuals connected to these two zodiac signs can reap benefits from them.

This same Thursday is an adjustment aspect involving Mercury with Pluto that can witness communications evasiveness, emotional slights and individuals that are too preachy with an “I told you so!” response.  Information associated with farmlands especially their daily operations and contaminated fields can appear in the news.  Many teenagers experience angst that can mask deeper psychological issues.

There is a declinational shift of the Moon that symbolizes changes with meteorological, seismic and volcanic activities also on this same Thursday.  It’s important that those individuals who are psychically inclined to trust their inner intuition.  Prayers are heartfelt and earnest.

Friday the 3rd is a harmonious contact of Mercury with Mars that is excellent for running errands for purchases of building materials for home construction projects.  These projects are especially good involving water associated with the home such as laundry rooms, bathrooms, kitchens, water heaters, fountains, lawn sprinkler systems, swimming pools, greenhouses, etc.  It’s important that parents be vocally supportive of their teenagers’ values.

This same Friday is the Perigee Moon (closest approach of the Moon to Earth) that symbolizes strong intense emotions that can come easily to the conscious surface.  This is an “I feel good about myself” Perigee Moon.  Personal actions and initiatives about enhancing the self are to be allowed.  Aries individuals are spotlighted.

Saturday the 4th at 12:15pm is the annual ingress of Mercury into majestic Leo for an approximate 2-week time period.  Creative communications will be a highlight with this passage of Mercury.  Executives and authorities dictate new policies for the masses.  Stubbornness and willfulness can be problematic with this Leonine transit of Mercury.  Individuals who have strong hunches about risk-taking or speculation do well as long as there is confidence to replace what may be temporarily lost.  Global entertainment and the world media romance one another. 

Monday the 6th at 9:04pm is the direct station of Jupiter thus ending its retrograde motion that began in early April of this year.  Mr. Big of the zodiac is transiting the sign of Sagittarius, its natural rulership, so those individuals especially born from December 2nd – December 11th will be particularly relieved that whatever may have been setbacks since April will more than likely reverse all the issues that were triggered since that spring month and will fully be back on track by the time the first week of November 2007 comes into view.  Fellow fire signs Aries and Leo will also benefit from this direct motion of Jupiter with the following birthdays experiencing Mr. Big’s benevolence: March 30th – April 9th as well as August 2nd – August 12th.  This is a good-natured chart of Jupiter’s station as very little inharmonious aspects are attached to it.  Healing is prominent with this station of Jupiter particularly involving friendships.  Healthy mentorship can also evolve.    

Also this same Monday is a harmonious aspect between Saturn and Pluto that is excellent for individuals who want to sustain creative drives and expressions that can be promoted long-term wise over time with growth and expansion.  The results may be harvested by December 2007.  Saturn represents the individual who is successful due to patience, perseverance and self-discipline with goals.  Pluto represents the individual who can weather any storm due to endurance capabilities and the individual who is “psyched” for eventual outcomes.  The following birthdays in descending order can truly benefit from this harmonious aspect: August 16th – 23rd, December 15th – December 23rd and April 13th – 19th.  Stock market developments can be important to pay attention to especially long-term players.  Baby boomers from October 1954 – August 1957 can experience profound, deep and irrevocable transformations in their lives.  These transformations can be experienced as early as one month before this August 2007 date as well as a month later.    

Tuesday the 7th at 1:01am is the entrance of fiery Mars into the mental sign of Gemini for an approximate 45-day journey.  Mars in Gemini indicates a high-energy period with communications.  Those individuals that need to increase being more positively assertive and aggressive in their dealings with others can do well with this 45-day period of Mars in Gemini.  This Mars in Gemini period can also create a whirlwind of activity dealing with the electronic media, computer hardware, telecommunications devices and the Internet.  Mars can also represent antagonism, irritability, anger, frustration, aggravation and in-your-face argumentativeness with communications breaking down due to these behaviors.  Do be aware that telephone scams can increase during this Gemini journey of Mars as well as false Internet storefronts that only want to wipe out your financial savings.  Internet hackers can also be a problem during this 45-day period.  Malicious viruses on the Internet can happen as well as problems with angry insects especially stinging swarms can mount.

Also this same Tuesday witnesses an inharmonious contact of Venus with Mars and well you guessed it with the above written paragraph if there are to be breakdowns in communications that lead to breakups in relationships this aspect can describe the conditions.  Venus is in a fussy, finicky, anal-retentive and perfectionist mode and if she has to she will browbeat into another oblivion.  Mars is in a trigger-happy mode and will shoot first and ask questions later mode.  Everybody raise your hands to create a big T and everyone scream at the same time: TIME OUT! 

Wednesday the 8th at 8:10pm due to retrograde motion Venus backs out of Virgo and re-enters the sign of Leo and will remain in this fire sign until the first week of October.  Venus usually remains in a sign for about 28-days.  She will only go through half the sign of Leo in 2 months.  The following birthdays are challenged with this retrograde motion of Venus in Leo in the following descending order: August 9th – August 23rd, February 5th – February 18th, November 9th – November 22nd, as well as May 7th – May 20th.  The previous day’s paragraph of the Venus-Mars contact could well set up the skirmish yet Venus is entrenched in the issues of stubbornness, resistance, domineering behaviors, melodrama, infantile-like demands for attention and infantile-like rage. 

Thursday the 9th is a harmonious aspect between Mercury and Jupiter that is excellent for the expansion of the mind through intellectual pursuits that are extremely creative.  The telescopic picture is combined with the microscopic one yielding meticulous attention to details coupled with panoramic views.  Both the tree and the forest can be viewed simultaneously.  Vacation trips or plans for them can be effortlessly done.  Well-executed public presentations can have high impacts with targeted audiences.

Friday the 10th is an adjustment aspect involving the Sun with Uranus that can witness problems with electricity, lightning strikes, power outages such as brownouts or blackouts, electronics failures and/or computer crashes.  Ostracized individuals lobby for political attention.  Bizarre, kooky and weird behaviors can be exhibited by stressed out fathers.

Sunday the 12th at 6:02pm is the annual Leo New Moon that symbolizes the new beginnings/new initiatives of this lunar phase.  Launch new orientations to accessing inner radiance and illumination, confidence to take on new risks and gambles, creativity, vitality, expressing joy, having fun with past times and hobbies, recreation and vacation, romance (it really is a state-of-mind that the individual can cultivate by romancing life daily as life will in turn romance the individual with greater passion for life), and children as the repository of future mankind.  Angel Neciel is associated with this Leo lunation.  This Leo lunation has strong concerns involving partnerships, legal issues, the court systems, magistrates, financial expenditures (some planned others unexpected) involving care of an elderly parent, political scandals as well as mutual funds.  Keywords associated with this Leo lunation are: Fidelity to the group is important as long as the individual is allowed personal freedom.  Conquer false pride and recognize that earthly existence without a deep soul connection is a hell indeed.  Galvanize your inner creativity to dare to bring a little bit of Heaven on Earth!

The Astro*Carto*Graphy Map of this Leo lunation sensitizes the following United States locations: Alaska particularly Nome, Barrow, Fairbanks, the Alaskan Peninsula and Anchorage, Hawaii, Bakersfield and Los Angeles California, Nevada, Idaho, Seattle Washington, Helena and Butte Montana, North and South Dakota, western Nebraska, eastern Colorado, Amarillo, Midland-Odessa and West Texas, the eastern shoreline of North Carolina, Norfolk Virginia, Maryland bordering Delaware, Wilmington Delaware, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, New Jersey bordering Pennsylvania and Delaware, central New York, as well as Puerto Rico.

The following locations around the world are sensitized: Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Regina, Saskatoon, Fort McMurray, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Montreal Canada, Guadalajara Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Medellin and Bogota Colombia, Ecuador, Lima Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Caracas Venezuela, Buenos Aires Argentina, Asuncion Paraguay, Brazil, Georgetown Guyana, Greenland, Iceland, eastern England, Marseilles and Paris France, Palermo and Turin Italy, Bern Switzerland, Cologne Germany, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Zagreb Croatia, Vienna Austria, Vilnius Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Odessa the Ukraine, Russia, all of Africa particularly extreme western Africa, central Africa and the Horn of Africa, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Ankara Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, all of central China, Mongolia,  Bhutan, Bangladesh, far eastern India, Mandalay and Rangoon Myanmar, Bangkok Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, North and South Korea particularly Seoul, Malaysia, Singapore, all of Indonesia particularly Jakarta, New Guinea, western Australia especially Perth as well as Alice Springs, New Zealand, New Caledonia, as well as Vanuatu. 

Monday the 13th several aspects occur beginning with an adjustment involving Mercury with Uranus that can witness domineering individuals chipping away the confidence of less dynamic and less egotistical people.  There is no excuse for lack of civility and breach of respect.  Remember the old parable of the meek shall inherit the earth.

This same Monday is the annual opposition of the Sun with Neptune that is the definition/clarification period of these two planets with one another.  The Sun and Neptune were last conjunct one another last February 8th of this year, which was the “seeding” time period of these two planets; these two dates can correspond to one another.  Disparaging remarks can be made that insult individuals with physical or intellectual challenges to the astonishment of witnesses.  Some individuals can ramble on without coherency in discussions.  Watch out for con artists who prey on your sympathies and then empty your wallets.

The last aspect for this Monday is a conjunction of retrograde Venus with Saturn that symbolizes a sober reality check about the state of finances, relationships and values.  The following birthdays are sensitized to this alignment of Venus and Saturn: August 17th – August 23rd, February 13th – February 18th, November 17th – November 22nd, as well as May 15th – May 20th.  Resolutions, compromises and mediation associated with any of these issues can perhaps be concluded when October 13th of this year arrives.

Tuesday the 14th is the opposition of Mercury with Neptune that can symbolize fuzzy headed thinking, eye popping scandalous behaviors at the workplace or sudden emotional outbursts particularly involving usually logical and levelheaded individuals.  Checkbook balancing can be skewed as confusion reigns or the issuance of bad checks can be problematic.  Outright lies, deception and fraud can be perpetrated.  Postpone signing important documents or contracts until at least Friday of this same week to avoid potential headaches later.   

Wednesday the 15th two aspects occur with the first one being a harmonious contact of retrograde Venus with Pluto that is excellent for psychological breakthroughs associated with partnerships whether finances are emphasized or intimacy concerns are resolved.  Stocks that have experienced losses in the market are at a bargain for those individuals who desire long-term returns.  By October 3rd of this year the positive turnaround can be witnessed for this aspect to mature.

The second aspect for this same Wednesday is the conjunction of Mercury with the Sun that is especially beneficial for those individuals who have performed in peak capacity levels at the workplace that definitely commands the attention of superiors on the most favorable level.  Fathers have a heart to heart talk with teenagers.  This is a good day to write and send out party invitations or attend coffee house poetry jams.

Also this same Wednesday is a declinational shift of the Moon that symbolizes changes with meteorological, seismic and volcanic activities.  Creative ideas that enhance workplace productivity, efficiency and streamlining are to be embraced.

Friday the 17th both Mercury and the Sun are conjunct retrograde Venus that represents healthy, confident and frank discussions can be held to enhance financial affairs, partnership relations as well as support given and received associated with mutually held values.  A little bit of gossip and tongue wagging can get ignited particularly singling out two lovebirds at the workplace or what may be the blossoming of workplace romance.  Love is in the air and people want to bask and luxuriate in it. 

Also this same Friday is a harmonious contact of Mercury with Pluto that represents long-term planning and execution of financial investments for the future.  Wild speculation can occur with foreign currencies.  Intellectual and academic breakthroughs occur especially those that have impact with energy companies and perhaps utilities.  December 19th of this year can be a culminating timeline to work with this aspect.

Saturday the 18th is the conjunction of Mercury with Saturn that launches the “seeding” period of these two planets with one another.  Mercury and Saturn will oppose one another next March 17, 2007 so this date in August of this year can correspond to the March 2008 date.  This aspect is excellent for the burning of the midnight oil in regards to whatever has to be thoroughly analyzed, assessed and evaluated whether on a personal, commercial or social level.  Tremendous creative willpower can be harnessed so creative output can be productive.  So it’s build a better mousetrap time with this conjunction.

Also this same Saturday is the monthly Apogee Moon (greatest distance from the Earth) that symbolizes the ability to cultivate objectivity and impartiality with emotions/feelings.  Stay clear of individuals who suffer the battery acid tongue syndrome who are bitter and sour emotionally.  Sarcastic and caustic words can be exchanged dripping with venomous remarks.  Keep cool as a cucumber as it’s pretty apparent the individual(s) has/have been sucking a rotten pickle.

Sunday the 19th at 8:01am is the entrance of Mercury into its own ruled sign of Virgo for an approximate 2-week journey.  This passage of Mercury in Virgo is excellent for meticulous analysis, evaluation and assessment of quality of life themes especially those concerning work and health.  Virgo is a productive earth sign that desires to implement and apply whatever it analyzes, evaluates and assesses so that a goal is manifested through changes the individual can embrace.  The following Arabic Proverb best describes this Virgo industriousness: “Ten minutes of planning can save you hours of squandered time”.  Do be careful of criticism and perfectionism as this sign can be anal-retentive when in its negative expression.

Also this same Sunday is a harmonious aspect between the Sun and Pluto that is excellent for creative self-empowerment.  “I am confident and willing to evolve to the next progressive level of life” is an affirmation befitting this celestial interplay.  As there are truly no strangers in life this day can witness kindred spirits coming together in a most playful and expansive mode. 

Tuesday the 21st is the conjunction of the majestic Sun with reality oriented Saturn.  This is the annual “seeding” period of these two planets with one another.  They will oppose one another next February 24, 2008 so these two dates can correspond to one another.  The interesting thing is that this will be the last conjunction of the Sun with Saturn presently in the sign of Leo.  Next month Saturn exits Leo (all you Leos will more than likely breathe a great sigh of relief!).  A wait of 30 years will have to occur before Saturn returns to the sign of Leo.  Engage your confident and creative spirit to bring success over time to an area of strong desires whether it is associated with romance, career, children and/or leadership. 

Thursday the 23rd at 7:08am is the annual ingress of the majestic Sun into the sign of meticulous Virgo launching a 30-day journey in this zodiac sign that symbolizes work, health, improvement, quality of life themes, fastidiousness, hygiene, service, and changes that improve day-to-day life particularly with work and health.  Negative associations Virgo can get caught up in are criticism, perfectionism, nagging, browbeating, hypochondriac behaviors, extreme micro-management, faultfinding, and hairsplitting.  The angel associated with Virgo is Hamaliel.

This same Thursday is the opposition of Mars with Jupiter that can be literally the war of words, the war of the roses and the war of the worlds.  Testy, hotheaded and impetuous individuals collide with smug, preachy and negatively judgmental people.  These two planets were conjunct one another last December 11, 2006 so these two dates can correspond to one another.  Diplomatic breakdowns in discussions involving foreign lands, foreign trade treaties and foreign currencies can be witnessed.  The “I’m going to clobber you over the head with what I think is right for you” syndrome can ignite skirmishes that are unending.  Sneak attacks and guerilla warfare can rapidly plunge locations into chaos and mayhem.  War casualties and fatalities can escalate.  Disregard the age-old saying of “count to ten”; instead perhaps count to one hundred?!

Friday the 24th is an inharmonious contact of Mercury with Jupiter that due to the previous day’s Mars-Jupiter opposition would be like gasoline thrown on the fire to extinguish it.  Some individuals are earnestly engaged in fact finding missions only to be stonewalled by misinformation, disinformation campaigns that only pay attention to lame generalizations.  Unethical and unprincipled breaches can occur that undermine public trust and faith. 

Saturday the 25th two inharmonious aspects occur with the first one between Mercury and Mars that represents lots of saber rattling, name calling, bullying and vicious vocal attacks.  A lack of prudence can be exhibited.  High anxiety can be associated with volatile budgetary expenditures.  Superficial people and superficial situations tax individuals’ last nerve.

The second aspect of this Saturday is the opposition of retrograde Venus with Neptune that can experience social programs being axed or under funded.  Murky, clouded and confusing emotions can test even the best relationships.  This opposition aspect of Venus with Neptune will repeat again once Venus goes direct; September 21st of this year will be that rendezvous date.  A partner can get caught up melodramatically with a self-pity party.

Tuesday the 28th at 5:36am is the annual Pisces Full Moon that symbolizes the let go/surrender/completion phase of the Moon.  This lunation is also a Lunar Eclipse that can sensitize a 3 to 6 month time period before and after this date at the minimum.  The following individuals’ birthdays are impacted the most: February 20th – February 26th, August 25th – August 31st, May 22nd – May 29th, and November 24th – November 30th.  Surrender all issues that perpetuate the martyr/victim syndrome, disillusionment, abandonment/neglect, deception, co-dependencies, the woe-is-me-pity-committee plight and the savior complex.  Atheniel is the associated angel for this lunation.  Hot button topics can be associated with the following affairs: workplace and/or labor issues with health coverage benefits being undermined, partnership issues involving abandonment and neglect, passport problems urgently requiring processing, a national leader/politician being hospitalized, budgetary woes, as well as floods, seaquakes, tsunamis and port security.  Keywords associated with this Pisces lunation are: Embrace communion so that all may share in the well being of togetherness.  Open up to an inner spiritual sight that sees life in its myriad forms and vast richness.  Surrender a weary, worldly blindness that prevents contact with the spiritual vision.

The A*C*G Map of this Pisces Lunar Eclipse sensitizes the following US locations: western Alaska particularly Barrow and the Alaskan peninsula, Hawaii, the upper peninsula of Michigan and southwestern Michigan, northwestern Indiana, Cincinnati Ohio, Buffalo and Syracuse New York, central Pennsylvania, central New Jersey particularly Trenton, central Maryland, Washington DC, Norfolk and Richmond Virginia, Lexington Kentucky, Knoxville Tennessee, northeastern North Carolina particularly Asheville, Greenville South Carolina, southeastern Georgia, Daytona Beach, Jacksonville and Miami Florida, as well as San Juan Puerto Rico.

The following areas around the globe are sensitized: Manitoba, Ottawa, Toronto and far eastern Canada, Cuba, Jamaica, Port-au-Prince Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Medellin and Bogota Colombia, La Paz Bolivia, Santiago Chile, central Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, western Brazil, Georgetown Guyana, Greenland, Iceland, the Scandinavian countries, Krakow and Warsaw Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Zagreb Croatia, Vienna Austria, Belgrade Yugoslavia, Greece, Cyprus, the southern boot of Italy, western Romania, the Ukraine, Vladivostok and St. Petersburg Russia, Ankara Turkey, Dakar Senegal, all of central and eastern Africa, San’a Yemen, Riyadh Saudi Arabia, Tehran Iran, Syria, Jordan, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Bombay India, Mongolia, Hong Kong and Beijing China, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, North and South Korea particularly Seoul, southernmost Japan, Indonesia particularly Pontianak and Jakarta, western Australia especially Darwin and Perth, New Caledonia, as well as the Solomon Islands. 

Also this same Tuesday is an opposition between Mercury and Uranus that can witness problems with food manufacturing facilities, floods, molds, airborne contaminants, workplace technological dysfunctions, as well as disgruntled workers.  Problems with termites and insects in general can occur.  Non-realistic assessments can mask a dungeon of horrors. 

Wednesday the 29th is a rare third declinational shift of the Moon for this month of August.  Prejudices, biases and discrimination can rear their ugly heads at this time.  Certain individuals are on their soapboxes espousing inflammatory statements riddled with hypocrisy and double standards.

Thursday the 30th is a rare second Perigee Moon for the month of August.  Individuals that couple a strong can-do attitude with a gung-ho attitude will achieve progress with personal projects.  Brilliant ideas promoted by maverick leaders galvanize the populace.  Put some muscle into promises. 

God helps those
who help themselves.

God can’t make a Stradivarius violin
without Stradivarius.
God gives us the gift of life;
we determine what we do with it.
Life is a cooperative venture with God,
We share in the responsibility
for both our difficulties and delights.
God provides the arena;
we pick the games.
God gives us a face;
we form our expression.
God opens the doors;
it is for us to walk through.
God answers our prayers
not according to what we want,
but according to what we may need
for our highest good and learning.

Dan Millman

Who you are
is God’s gift to you;
what you become
is your gift to God.
 
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