Astrology for August 5 - 11. An Attention Grabbing Week.

 

The major astrological configuration of the month and arguably the year takes place this week (the kite).    There is also the perfection of an outer planet sextile and the Aquarius full moon perfects.   This is a big week.  

In terms of moon phases, we start the week in First Quarter Moon that launched August 1 where we continue to act on ‘letting go’……

 

 

Focus on:   What actions are you taking that release the dead?  How are you removing dead ends?   What actions can you take now that speak to letting go?   How can you be replenished and tap your creativity?  How are you acting when you know you have no control?  How are you inspired by releasing? 

 

  

 

Gibbous Moon

August 5, 2025

7:00am PDT  

 

 

Gibbous:

We refine our information.  We pick and choose, we discriminate, and we organize to be ‘Virgo’ like.  We sort through details.  Have we missed something?  How are we sifting through the information?  Go back and make sure something hasn’t been neglected.  Refine our actions.   How are we perfecting our goals? 

 

Focus on:

How are you sorting through your opinions?   How do your opinions line up with your daily life?  Are they in sync?   What do you broadcast about ‘who you are’?   Are they in sync?   What is your spiritual practices and are they in alignment with your daily actions?   Are you walking your talk? 

 

Please read KITE aspect --the energy is starting to pull together.  

 

8/6: Mars enter Libra.  This will be a six-week journey with a lot of thrills and spills as we negotiate our relationships in ease and stress. 

8/8: Mars trine Uranus (1 Gemini 07) Actions that are inspired and maybe come from out of the blue.   Relationships get a boost. 

8/8: Mars opposition Saturn (1Aries 20) Tough aspect.   Cold reality around rough actions.   Tough aspect in general and then followed by a full moon could animate this in a complicated manner.   

 

Planetary Notes:  

 

August 9, 2025

Full Moon – Aquarius 

12:55am PDT 

16 Aquarius 59 

 

 

Focus on:   What do you see is your role in your friendships?  What is your role in your groups?   Do your groups that you belong inspire you?  How are you showing up for others?   Is it a fresh experience for you?  Or has it become stale?  Is it group thought?  Is that working for you?  

 

Read separate post. 

 

  

Planetary Notes:  

 

8/9: Mars oppose Neptune (1 Aries 50) Actions and energy melt around relationships.  

8/10: Mars trine Pluto (2 Aquarius 12) Actions and energy with groups and friends refresh relationships. 

8/11: Mercury station direct (4 Leo 14)  (separate post to come) 

8/11: Saturn sextile Uranus (1 Gemini 12) (see separate post) 

8/11: Venus conjunct Jupiter (14 Cancer 03) (see separate post) Love and joy and big and abundance, and lots of flowing emotions.  

 

August 9: Aquarius Full Moon

 

                       Aquarius , watercolor, Germany, c. 1464; in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

 

Aquarius full moon

August 9, 2025

12:55am PDT

(16 Aquarius 59)  

 

In this weird week, in an unusual month in a cuckoo year, the Aquarius Full moon rolls out on August 9.  If this was any other year, month and week, where the astrological landscape was average, teasing out the Aquarius full moon would be a bit, shall we say, easier. 

 

Instead, we have this moon doing whatever it is going to do in a very juiced up astrological environment.     Mars, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto have got their own thing going on in this week's  KITE aspect, rife with both stress and opportunities.   At the same time, the full moon has zero aspects with any of the KITE planets.  So, while all that big astro theater is playing out, the Aquarius moon is having its own adventure.   It’s as if the Aquarius moon opposing Leo sun is its own theater in the middle of another play.    Kind of like a planetary  Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is happening in the KITE while the full moon is Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guidenstern Are Dead”      How will the kite and the full moon speak to each other?   Unclear. 

What we do know is that the Aquarius full moon is always the halfway point of the Leo lunar month.   Whatever energy that was launched July 24 on the new moon, full of Leo bigness, boldness, heroism and heart driven enthusiasm can hit pause at the Aquarius full moon where some of us will be reminded that we are not the only person on this planet.    Egos can get checked.   Or at the Aquarius full moon there can be a feeling for some of us that we are paying a price by sitting on gifts, skills and talents out of fear of not being good enough or believing we don’t add any value to a situation.    This is the conundrum of Aquarius/Leo energy.  Not honoring a skill by not bringing it to a community, piques the shadow of both Aquarius and Leo.  Is the group not worthy enough to put personal fear and judgy aside?   Or is the group so intimidating it suppresses those with heart driven impulses and talents?   Us versus me.   Me versus us.   Us versus us.  Me versus me.   That’s a lot going on in a simple lunar month.  Putting that in our current astro steroid world is harder to navigate. 

Luckily, there is one aspect that the full moon is making that may offer some insight.  Even if it is a bit janky.    In January the lunar nodes moved into Pisces and Virgo bringing in new lesson plans with the eclipses of 2025.   Over at Chani.com there is a super smart write up on the nodal work of Pisces and Virgo(  I recommend going to the link for the full read for greater depth) here's a snippet:  

The ancients conceptualized the North Node as the head of a hungry dragon, activating a ravenous appetite wherever it shows up. With the North Node in Pisces for the next 18 months, we’ll experience an upsurge of creativity, empathy, and broad-minded, bighearted imagination in this part of our charts. By contrast, the South Node is the dragon’s tail; it represents releasing, letting go, and catharsis. In Virgo, the South Node will help us ditch any unproductive habits or overanalytical, perfectionist tendencies hemming in our lives.

The first eclipse to highlight the lessons of Pisces/Virgo was the lunar eclipse of March 14.  Now, this Aquarius full moon is in quincunx aspect with the nodes.   It is a smaller aspect but still it has some punch.   The quincunx is like putting on a pair of pants or a jacket and it feels ‘off’.   Astrologically, Leo’s vibrant energy and Aquarius accent on groups can both feel disconnected to Pisces faith and Virgo’s almighty facts-on-the-ground.  Question:  Did anything come up around March 14 that now seems pertinent and has you wondering about community & humanity?   And your place in both?  Did something start talking to you then that did not make sense on one level but now is more meaningful in context to your heart desired and God-given skills and your groups? 

During the full moon, we may look around at friendships or groups and feel a need to shift patterns.  Are we quieter than usual with friends and groups?  Or are we bolder?   Do we still fit with our peeps?  Are we feeling we have gone the distance with friends or a group?  Or perhaps we are feeling we need to change our approach?    Or maybe we don’t have a real handle on it, but we are just vibing something is changing that is unknown.   Saturn and Uranus who both rule Aquarius will be sextile on August 11.  These two planets are working on something new that is bold and productive and inspiring and perhaps any shift in awareness at the full moon is important to whatever the work being done by Uranus and Saturn.    Additionally, Neptune which rules Pisces and the landlord of the north node for next year is conjoined with Saturn.   We may have or see a practical application to synchronicity.  

Synchronicity is the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection.

Maybe this full moon will highlight a lot of synchronistic moments.   “Oh, wow, I was just thinking, talking, remembering ___(fill in the blank) __ “

It is worth noting that if there are any bumps in this full moon we have Venus conjunction Jupiter on the 11^th that may offer some kindness.  

August 11: Venus & Jupiter Conjunction in Cancer

 

1517-18 Sanzio Raffaelo Fresco Villa Farnesina, Rome

Venus conjunct Jupiter 

August 11, 2025

10:33pm PDT 

14 Cancer 03 

 

 

 

The sea changed on June 9, when Jupiter exited Gemini and entered Cancer.    Jupiter, after a year buzzing around in the world getting informed on endless pieces of data, is now pointing us in the direction of our homes, where making a good meal, going over old photos, memories and reaching out to a friend who remembers us ‘then’ is highlighted.      On August 11^th we get one of the early aspects of Jupiter in its new sign, when Venus forms a conjunction to Jupiter at 14 degrees of Cancer.    

 

Venus and Jupiter in Cancer reminds us of the power of family, emotions and nurturing.  How we get nurturing will be highlighted.   Pets may be ruled by Virgo but when they are on our lap purring or racing to greet us when we get home, that feeling of pet family is Cancer.  Of course, lying in bed watching streamers and YouTube that take us into other worlds is also Jupiter in Cancer and can for some people be nurturing especially those who don’t always slow down and rest.      

 

Prior to the 11^th we have aspects that are both good juju and big strum and drang, in a short window of time.    Having that many aspects can be a lot to process.  By the time Venus conjuncts Jupiter, we could emotionally need a soft-landing place.   “Hello, Instacart” “Hello Netflix.”   

 

Just to remind you…..

 

 

Aug 6:       Mars enters Libra 

Aug 8        Mars trine Uranus (1Aries)

Aug 7 :      Moon enter Aquarius

Aug 7 :      Moon trine Mars (0 Libra)

Aug 7 :      Moon trine Uranus (1 Gemini)

Aug 7:       Moon sextile Saturn (1 Aries)

Aug 7:       Moon sextile Neptune (1 Aries)

Aug 7:       Moon conjunct Pluto (2 Aquarius)

Aug 8:       Moon oppose Mercury (4 Leo) 

Aug 8:        Mars oppose Saturn (1 Aries) 

Aug 9:        Mars oppose Neptune (1 Aries)

Aug 9 :       Full Moon (16 AQ 59) 

Aug 10:     Mars trine Pluto (2 Aquarius)

Aug 11:    Mercury stations direct (4 Leo)

Aug 11:     Saturn sextile Uranus (1 Gemini)

Aug 11 :    Venus conjunct Jupiter (14 Cancer 03) 

 

 

 

 

Venus in Cancer gets it that humans have needs.  Jupiter, which is the planet of opinions can be super judgmental.  During its time in Gemini, Jupiter may have believed the person with the smartest meme or joke or snappy comment was the human worth valuing.    Now, in Cancer, Jupiter may see the needs of self are the same for others.  

 

Jupiter knows how to build a bridge.   Perhaps Venus will coax an understanding born out of needs.   

 

Those of you with water sign planets around 14/15 degrees will no doubt feel the extra bounce and welcome it.  Family and friends (who are like family) will be pronounced in some manner and opportunities of nurturing can open for you.    Great. 

 

Those of you with planets at 14/15 degrees of cardinal signs (Cancer, Libra, Capricorn and Aries) may feel tension.   However, Venus and Jupiter are benefic planets, and the tension is not as tough as with other planets.  Although, having said that, Jupiter and Venus when they are misbehaving are too indulgent.   Spending too much money, eating too much food, demanding too much love and reverence can be troublesome.   Given this is in the sign Cancer there could also be too many emotions and or family demands (especially mothers).  Additionally, watch any indulgences of fitful moods.    

 

The last time Venus formed a conjunction to Jupiter in Cancer was August 5, 2001.   

August 8 - August 11: The Kite

 

 

The KITE 

 

Between August 9 – 11^th we are in a KITE aspect.  

 

Imagine a kite.    Visualize a long spine to the kite and upper part is triangle shape.  Got it?  In astrology this is the kite aspect.  The aspect involves at least four planets who are in grand trine and sextile and two of the planets are in opposition.   Obviously, that is a lot of planetary choreography, and it is a rare aspect.  In our case this August we have the Kite aspect with five planets which has never happened with these planets in these signs.    You know what, why don’t we go to the dictionary and look up ‘Has never happened before” and we will find 2025.   Okie Dokey.  

On August 6 Mars enters Libra.   Remember you can’t have a kite without an opposition.  While trines and sextiles flow and offer up a ‘rainbows and unicorns” softness (sort of), the opposition brings the power and the destabilizing factor.   The fact it is Mars is big.   No matter what the planet, the opposite planet brings the battle.  In this case it is not Venus or Mercury, it is warrior Mars who is fast and is fierce.   Really, we get Mars? Must we experience that planet?  Sure.   We all signed up to be here now, so I guess we are up for it.    Sigh.   

The kite window is August 8-11, but I would start watching the world on August 6^thwhen Mars enters the Libra door.   Also, adding to this potent window is the Moon in Aquarius on the 7^th which will trine and sextile the group and then it makes a conjunction to Pluto and opposes Mercury.   And of course, it brings the Aquarius full moon on the 9^th which has its own juice being a full phase.   On the 11^th We have round two of Saturn sextile Uranus as discussed in other post and Mercury stations direct ending the three-week retrograde.     

This is a Wow period.  

This kite obviously has many competing themes that are inspiring or opportunistic and disruptive or fierce.   I am beyond my skill set and knowledge bank to venture a guess how all this will play out.  Some of it I can sort through, like the Saturn Uranus sextile and yes Mars trine Pluto is productive in pulling out garbage.  But when you add all the other factors, it is so big, it is beyond my scope.    Here’s the line up and we’ll all watch what happens together.  

Aug 6:       Mars enters Libra 

Aug 8        Mars trine Uranus (1Aries)

Aug 7 :       Moon enter Aquarius

Aug 7 :       Moon trine Mars (0 Libra)

Aug 7 :       Moon trine Uranus (1 Gemini)

Aug 7:       Moon sextile Saturn (1 Aries)

Aug 7:       Moon sextile Neptune (1 Aries)

Aug 7:       Moon conjunct Pluto (2 Aquarius)

Aug 8:       Moon oppose Mercury (4 Leo) 

Aug 8:        Mars oppose Saturn (1 Aries) 

Aug 9:        Mars oppose Neptune (1 Aries)

Aug 10:     Mars trine Pluto (2 Aquarius)

Aug 11 :    Mercury stations direct (4 Leo)

Aug 11:     Saturn sextile Uranus (1 Gemini)

 

On August 28 Neptune is exact in the sextile with Uranus.  Obviously, it is part of the kite aspect even if the exact perfection occurs after Mars has left the window.  

Astrology for July 28 - August 1

 

This week is the Crescent Phase and First Quarter waxing moon. Whatever seeds we planted during the New Phase (7/24-7/27) may need some refinement.   Conversations and details that were fuzzy or wonky, perhaps exaggerated by the Mercury retrograde may come to the surface in Cresent.  Fine tuning facts may be necessary.   On the 30^th, Venus leaves busy-as-a-bee Gemini and enters Cozy-Is-Everything Cancer.    For the next month, dinners at home with a few friends is more appealing than larger soirees.     

 

Also on July 30, Chiron stations retrograde.  I do not always go long on Chiron but given it’s square with the new moon, it is an influence during this whole 29-day lunar month plus we are in the last decan of Aries.  See my earlier post. 

 

On July 31 at the halfway point of the retrograde we have an inferior solar conjunction (cazimi).  Any aspect with the Sun calls attention…. to our attention.  What is our awareness around big bold (Leo) thinking (Mercury).   What are we learning about our vitality?  Does our communication match our heart?   Why or why not?  Are we comfortable owning our skills and talents?  Or do we marginalize them?  Why?  How have we been called to stand up for someone or something?  What changes or shifts can we make in our thinking that uplifts, is productive and bold before the retrograde ends (August 11)?   

 

At the end of the week, the moon in Scorpio encourages actions that cut out dead ends, and the old, tired behaviors that work against our vitality.    Venus the planet of values including love and money is in tough aspect with Saturn and Neptune on August 1.    Dispirited and wet blanket energy to the whole day. 

 

 

Crescent Moon Phase

July 28, 2025

4:40am PDT 

 

 

 

Focus on: What are you being informed about your daily skills?  How are you being informed about your schedule and calendar?   How are you being informed about your daily routines?  What are you learning about your daily maintenance and how does it effect your health?  

 

 

 

Planetary notes: 

7/28: Venus sextile Chiron.  Inspired to be independent.  Leaning into love, joy, creativity for big personal satisfaction.  

7/30: Chiron retrograde.  27 Aries 09 (see above) 

7/30: Venus enters Cancer.   A month of love that is sticky and gooey.  Sentimental goes long. 

7/31: Sun conjunct (inferior) Mercury (see above)

 

 

 

First Quarter Moon 

August 1, 2025

5:41am PDT 

 

 

 

Focus on:   What actions are you taking that release the dead?  How are you removing dead ends?   What actions can you take now that speak to letting go?   How can you be replenished and tap your creativity?  How are you acting when you know you have no control?  How are you inspired by releasing? 

 

  

 

Planetary Notes:

8/1: Venus square Saturn.  A reality check on love and money.  Emotions get push back.    Hot actions get a wet blanket.  

8/1: Venus square Neptune.  Emotions can feel petty when compared to the need for independence.   Feelings versus actions are conflicted. 

Chiron Retrograde July 30 - Jan 2. Still Getting our Aries On!

 

Chiron was discovered in 1977.  Astronomers identified Chiron as a new class of objects, the Centaurs, which are planetoids between the Kuiper belt and the asteroid belt.   These Centaurs are visitors, who have a short-lived orbit and will eventually leave our solar system.  In astrology Chiron is a messenger that provides lessons which tap self-discovery in topics that are….. super hard.  But still we gotta do them.  

Chiron has an unusual orbit that takes 50 years to circle the Sun.  It spends the longest time, a little more than eight years, in Aries and the shortest time in Libra at 1.6 years.    When you hit 50 you are in your Chiron return and you bring a new maturity to the lessons and the opportunities of the Chiron work.  

Chiron in Aries, connects us to any wounds we have about being assertive, a fighter, and putting self-interests first.  We have been on this Aries journey since 2018. 

 

While every human is flawed, god yes, we still have inner drives that need to be acknowledge.   We are a ‘self’.  Each of us are independent from everyone elses ‘self’. Chiron in Aries reminds us that our place in the world thrives better when we remember ‘self’.   What does it mean to assert self?  If we find it difficult to fight or put ourselves out-there, then who are we?   Chiron is not easy.   It is the planet(oid) of the proverbial, two steps forward one step back.   But even if we are clumsy, this is part of the lesson.   We teach others, (teaching is a characteristic of Chiron) by our own willingness to assert self and be self directed.     Next year we begin a path about money and values when Chiron enters Taurus.  Of course, before we get to the Taurus era, we must continue the work and themes of Aries. 

 

On July 30, Chiron will station retrograde and revisit 27 to 22 degrees of Aries.   We are in the final legs of the Aries journey so it would be advantageous to make the most out of the retrograde period that ends on January 2.  We need to keep working on self-agency and follow our inner prompts.  For those folks who have planets between 22-27 Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn you could have a lot of internal emotions about what needs your fight, your action, your fired up direction and your personal input.   Look to that planet and its themes and consider how it benefits by a solid injection of ‘self direction’.    While we are in this 29-day Leo lunar month go back to the well and find your resolve.  Tap good old fashion Leo creativity to help navigate any insecurities.   Take care of your container, that is; your body and your mind, as you pursue independence and goals that need a fight.   There will be a lot to glean about our insecurities or perceived weaknesses during this lunar month and during the Chiron retrograde.   If you feel wobbly, try to remember, the Nelson Mandela quote, “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear”.     

 

For added information go check out Café Astrology for your natal Chiron by sign and house.   Understanding how Chiron works personally may help you navigate and glean the most from it while it is it is in Aries. 

For Leo New Moon

 

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Leo New Moon July 24, 2025. 12:11pm PDT

 

Getty Image.   

 

 

Leo New Moon

July 24, 2025 

12:11pm PDT 

(2 Leo 08)

 

I have been writing New Moon reports for a long time.   

 

Think where you were in April of 2008.   That was seventeen years ago and many of you were living at home, or in college, others were beginning careers and some of you may have begun the long journey of creating and raising a family.   Wherever you were then and where you are now has been a long road.  Right?   Me, too.  My husband and I were working in the entertainment business and raising our son who was fresh in elementary school.   

 

But also, in April of 2008 I began writing my new moon reports.   Every month I cranked out a report based on the chart of the new moon.   I laid out the larger themes of the outer planets and their aspects and broke down all eight phases of the 29-day lunar report.   Not going to lie, some of the writing was harder than others depending on the demands in my life and the astrology of the report.  In these seventeen years I have generated 208 reports.  And I say this with no hesitation or fear of hyperbole; I think this Leo New Moon and the 29 day astrology--- is the most potent of all reports I have processed.   I am not sure where we are heading.   I mean, yes, I can interpret the aspects to some extent, but seriously there is so much going on now and a lot of it is unknown. We are dealing with astrology that has not happened since BCE 3500 and other astro stuff that has never happened or if it did it was before the Ice Age.   

 

This astrological era we are in is going to roll out for the rest of the decade and will be here in some form or another until 2033.  Obviously, I will get a beat on it eventually.  In the meantime I think we are going to see information this Leo lunar month.  I don’t know what it will be, but I think there is good evidence that a wire gets tripped that will be important to the changes in our future.   Even the small stuff will have a long impact.  

 

 

You can read my whole article on Margaret Wendt Spiritual Reporting Website

The Astrology of 2025-2030

 

Scenographia: Systematis Copernicani Astrological Chart (c.1543) devised by Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), from 'The Celestial Atlas, or the Harmony of the Universe') Meisterdrucke

Now that all the outer planets have transit into their new signs where they will be for the rest of the decade (except the brief period this fall for a retrograde back into the previous sign) we are beginning an extraordinary period of outer planet trines and sextiles.  Plus the conjunction of Saturn and Neptune.  

We have never had these planetary aspects in these signs.   When I say ‘we’ I do not just mean us 21^st century humans.   I mean all of humanity since the Ice Age.   

This new era is ripe with opportunities.  Does it mean everything will be peachy?  No.  We will not be making a pitcher of margaritas, sitting on our porch and watching the good times roll out.   Astrology and humanity evolution does not work that way.  Case in point, Mars is always ready to zap outer planets and hit some dramatic trip wire (watch August) and for sure the eclipses will do a number (coming in September). But still at the end of this trine/sextile era which wraps around 2030 there will have been some monumental changes liken to man harnessing fire or man getting on horse for the first time.   

The Saturn Sextile of Uranus which we are in the middle of right now feels like some kind of prep work.   Saturn rules timing and Uranus is quick in a out-of-the-blue move.   Things can go from zero to 100 in a half a nanosecond.    Opportunities may be presented in 2025, however their full understanding may not become apparent until 2026 when Neptune and Pluto get into the mix.   

I will be talking so much about this era and frankly have already done a lot of writing about it.  I will continue to point to other astrologers for their take as well.  Case in point, for a solid dive into Saturn & Uranus go check out Rick Levine & Steve Judd’s discussion on Amanda Pua’s Astrology Hub. 

  

Saturn sextile Uranus:  

April 4, 2025 (24 Pisces/Taurus)

August 11, 2025 (1 Aries/Gemini) 

January 20, 2026 (27 Pisces/Taurus)   

 

Saturn conjunct Neptune

Feb 20, 2026 (0 Aries) 

 

Saturn sextile Pluto:         

March 28, 2026 (5 Aries/Aquarius) 

 

Neptune (r )  sextile Uranus 

August 28, 2025 (1 Aries/Gemini) 

 

Uranus trine Pluto:  

July 17, 2026 (4 Gemini/Aquarius)

November 29, 2026 (3 Gemini/Aquarius)  

June 15, 2027 (6 Gemini/Aquarius)

January 12, 2028 (6 Gemini/Aquarius)

May 9, 2028 (8 Gemini/Aquarius)

This influence (3-to-8-degree orb) lasts from 2025 to 2030

 

Neptune sextile Pluto

June 5, 2029 (8 Aries/Aquarius)