August begins with Mars at the edge of Taurus, Mercury in own sign of Gemini, exalted Jupiter combust the Sun in Cancer, Ketu in Leo, Venus debilitated in Virgo, Rahu in Aquarius, Saturn retrograde in Pisces.
August Transits:
Venus debilitated in Virgo on August 1st
Rahu in Dhanistha nakshatra on August 1st
Mars in Gemini on August 2nd
Mercury in Cancer on August 5th
Total Solar Eclipse on August 12th
Sun in own sign of Leo on August 16th
Kalki Jayanti on August 17th
Jupiter moves to Ashlesha Nakshatra on August 19th
Sun and Ketu in exact degrees in Leo on August 22nd
Mercury in Leo on August 22nd
Partial Lunar eclipse on August 27th
Gayatri Jayanti on August 27th
New Moon in Cancer and Ashlesha Nakashatra on August 12th at 11:37 AM MT + Total Solar Eclipse
Looking at August transits doesn’t feel very hopeful.
The month ahead will be one of the most (if not the most) challenging months of the year. Heat is intensifying, sudden loss and change are inevitable, health and body are extremely vulnerable.
This is not a time to take risks, push or force results.
Everyone needs to be mindful of the risks this month.
We don’t use Jyotish to cause fear or harm. Understanding the elemental nature of the transits, the tendencies, and vulnerabilities can prevent harm.
Heyam dukham anagatam. Avert the danger that has not yet come.
When used properly, Vedic Astrology can support consciousness and awareness so that problems can be prevented.
When you know better, you do better.
Transits you need to understand:
- The biggest challenges of August start with retrograde Saturn. Grief work is intensifying and clean up can’t be avoided.
- Rahu moves to Dhanishta nakshatra after almost nine months of intensive gaze and pressure in Satabhisha nakshatra.
- Jupiter and Sun combustion creates heat and keeps exalted Jupiter from offering his support and guidance. This combination is challenging for teachers, guides, and those walking a dharmic path. Men, fathers, and gurus are particularly vulnerable this month. This is a powerful combination for purification, transformation, and change. Your offerings are in a refinement process.
- Sun exalts in Leo this month, but conjuncts Ketu, increasing the power and clarity of the Sun, while also creating sudden upheaval, loss, and ego destruction. Expect restructuring and loss with your power, the masculine, and spiritual matters.
- Venus debilitates, creating low life force energy, a demand for rest, and problems for women, relationships and finances.
- A total solar eclipse starts mid month in Ashlesha nakshatra, demanding intensified shedding and release of old identities, attachments, and beliefs.
August Reminders:
Tending the body is nonnegotiable this month.
Preventing accidents and being extra cautious is essential. Travel is not advised.
Be careful of the food you eat and what you put in your body.
Do not take risks.
As with all eclipse cycles, starting new projects, signing important contracts, or initiating anything you want to last is not advised.
Consider August a month of rest.
The New Moon in Cancer and Ashlesha Nakshatra on August 12th coincides with a total solar eclipse. Themes of shedding, release, and transformation of the mental body come to the surface. This powerful eclipse cycle intensifies the already challenging transits this month.
The Amavasya (New Moon) occurs on the 12th at 11:37 AM MT while Moon is in sidereal Cancer and Ashlesha nakshatra. Exalted Jupiter is currently transiting Cancer, which inspires a potent strength with all things Cancer. Heart, home, mother, emotional body, lungs, chest and land are receiving more focus right now. The feminine is front and center. Exalted Jupiter is bringing a potent feminine wisdom to the surface. During the eclipse cycle expect discomfort with challenging emotions to intensify. This eclipse portal brings to light more emotional tenacity, grief and feminine wisdom. Expect more of this theme during the eclipse portal and waxing cycle.
As the new Moon cycle arrives, nourishment, money and resources ask for your attention and intention. The pull will be towards greater nourishment in the weeks ahead, encouraging a focus on being fed, supported and comforted. Home, heart, and mother request more attention. What are you eating- physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually? How nourished do you feel by what you are ingesting? Does your environment support your nourishment and dharmic path?
Sarpa is the ruling deity of Ashlesha nakshatra. He brings an occult, mystical experience with him- which can also be deceptive and illusory. His snake energy penetrates deeply and likes to go well beyond the surface understanding of life and existence. Sarpa energy is bold, intoxicating and transformational. Transcendence and awakening are inevitable. How do you go about inciting this change? Sarpa reminds us that from darkness, comes great wisdom- if we are willing to go beyond the mundane, surface understanding. The power and wisdom of Ashlesha and Sarpa will be magnified during this eclipse cycle. Like the snake, it’s time to shed and release what you have outgrown.
Expect deception and illusion to come to the light. Wherever you have been hiding, new awareness and insight will emerge. Challenges you’ve been facing get a new perspective and understanding. This is a particularly challenging time for fathers, gurus, the masculine and those in power positions. Sudden shocks, changes, losses, and death are likely.
How are you supporting your transformation, healing and change process? How are you resisting, sabotaging and derailing your progress, momentum and awakening? Where are you choosing to stay in the darkness? Where do you need more resources, support and guidance?
Opening this eclipse portal will be a total solar eclipse and a new Moon in Cancer and Ashlesha Nakshatra. If you’ve been hiding behind false pretenses, this will be a time of unmasking and clarifying the changes that must take place. This particular eclipse cycle will force you to identify your trust issues- inner and outer. Where are you hiding behind ego and avoiding your deeper knowing? In what ways are you pretending to feel safe, without actually acknowledging your fears?
This eclipse cycle is an opportunity to spiral up and awaken from your slumber! Step into your power by identifying and confronting your shadows, illusions and stories. There is great potential in the coming month to release the past, the undigested thoughts and stories clogging your body wisdom. As you clear and let go of these shadowed parts, there is space for moving forward in more empowered, courageous ways. First, you must be willing to awaken from your negligence, laziness and illusion. The more courage you step into, the more you will deepen your nourishment.
Remember that solar eclipses awaken masculine parts of ourselves and help us confront ego based beliefs, ideologies and systems. There will be deconstruction and forced awareness of patriarchy and misogyny rising to the surface. The purpose of lunar eclipses is to support the confrontation of the shadowed feminine, identifying emotional body blockages and disconnections within receptivity. Solar and lunar eclipses always come in pairs, thus supporting confrontation and release of both masculine and feminine, the ultimate polarities of existence. The result of confronting the shadow is to create more conscious awareness of our unconscious self. With more consciousness, the grip of these illusions lessens, allowing us to create new possibilities- and ultimately make vastly different choices.
As we enter this eclipse portal, notice the themes and challenges you have been confronting recently. What is intensifying? What is forcing you to look? What stories, experiences and relationships are encouraging you to look more closely? Continue to dig in and lean closer. Ask for support, resources and guidance so you aren’t walking alone.
The total solar eclipse is August 12th at 09:34 am MT. The maximum eclipse is at 11:46 am MT. The eclipse will end on August 12th at 1:57 pm MT. Europe, North in Asia, North/West Africa, Much of North America, Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic will be impacted by the eclipse shadow.
From a Vedic perspective, it is not advised to be outside during an eclipse or to look directly at the eclipse. Wear a head covering if you have to be outside so you don’t absorb the shadow. Ideally, this is a time for spiritual practices such as meditation, chanting and fasting. Set intentions and honor the sensitivity of this time. It is also widely recognized that during and between eclipses, starting new endeavors will not bring positive results. No new projects, relationships or activities should start in the eclipse portal. Notice what needs are arriving, then take action after the eclipse portal closes. Best to lay low, attend to spiritual pursuits, get extra rest and work with your inner shadow very consciously during this cycle.
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Full Moon in Aquarius and Satabisha nakshatra on August 27th at 22:18 MT + Partial Lunar Eclipse
As August comes to a close, the wild transits of this month continue to activate. Mars navigates the choppy waters of Ardra nakshatra, stirring violence, aggression and grief. Exalted Jupiter regains its strength without the heat and close proximity of the Sun. Ketu and Sun conjunct, while Mercury goes combust with the Sun and Ketu- all in Leo. This combination is unpredictable, volatile, and taxing to the mind, nervous system, and finances. Your ego identity is shifting. Who are you becoming?
Venus is winding down its debilitation transit through Virgo. The body continues to need your attention and requires gentleness and pause. Life force is very low, and the body is vulnerable to getting sick and losing strength. Be careful driving. Long distance travel is not recommended. Lay low and rest.
The two week eclipse portal closes with a Partial Lunar Eclipse in Aquarius and Satabisha nakshatra. Rahu has been navigating this constellation for the last nine months, creating intense healing through seeing. This eclipse brings a closure and finale to this process. What do you see now more clearly? What has healed and resolved over the last many months? What remains challenging and still needs your attention?
Full Moon in Aquarius and Satabisha nakshatra occurs on August 27th at 22:18 MT.
This full Moon in Aquarius is a reminder to seek integration and balance with opening and closing. A dual ruled air sign, both Saturn and Rahu provide a sense of duality and contradiction here. Aquarius correlates to the 11th house of gains, however, gains come when we allow for losses. In other words, without letting go and supporting the release process, there isn’t space to acquire or receive the gains arriving. Pluses and minuses must be honored in the cycle ahead. There will be losses and inevitable letting go. Just remember you are making space for the new.
What do you need for deeper nourishment? Are you making space for what you need? What losses do you need to attend to and grieve? What gains do you need to celebrate and honor?
Satabisha nakshatra is a powerful constellation of healing. This full Moon and eclipse brings an important junction point to your journey of change and transformation. Varuna is the ruling deity of this portion of the sky. He rules Natural Law and sustains it through seeing everything- dishing out consequences for that which goes against the highest Laws of the Universe.
Said to have “thousands of eyes,” Varuna sees all actions, choices and behaviors. This gives him great wisdom, and allows him to be a powerful healer who can eradicate the root cause of disease. Sometimes Varuna is considered the king of kings for this reason as he rules over Natural Law, Universal Law, or Rta. Lakshmi and Soma are Varuna’s children. Both offer the blessings, healing gifts and miracles that are required to transform the disdain and displeasure of Varuna’s watchful gaze.
Varuna’s intention is to keep you aligned with the wisdom of Nature, to move you into right relationship with the rhythms of the universe. His wisdom is immense and his awareness is powerfully all-knowing. This is a healing constellation, offering medicine and support for aligning with dharma, truth and satwa, purity. Satabisha often makes good healers because they see with great detail. When we see what is not working, we can then take necessary steps to heal, reconnect and harmonize.
The shadow side of this constellation, however, brings extreme self hatred and inner criticism as well as a disconnection from the very thing it yearns for- connection with inner knowing and Nature’s wisdom. The critic can become intense and overwhelming, crippling self trust and inner wisdom. Watch for self criticism and judgement showing up in this cycle. Shoulds, coulds, have tos, supposed tos may emerge on the mental body level. Emotions of depression, frustration, fear, uncertainty and confusion may arrive.
What stories are surfacing in the mental/emotional bodies for you? Notice the emotions you are feeling closely. Let them rise to the surface and be conscious with them. Don’t suppress, negate or resist the challenging thoughts and stories that you encounter. It’s time to pull of these weeds once and for all. Tapping (EFT) is a wonderful resource for transforming mental/emotional patterns.
This full Moon is an excellent beginning and fresh start- especially for healing purposes. Disease that begins under Satabisha is extremely difficult to heal, so being extra diligent with routine, diet and life style choices are nonnegotiable in the cycle ahead. This is an excellent time to start a gentle cleanse, follow Ayurvedic guidelines more closely, get more rest, as well as exercise and meditate regularly. Use self care in the days ahead and hit reset.
If you’ve been falling far away from a healthy routine and choices, now is the time to reel it back in and realign with more structure for building immunity and inner strength. The cure for the critical gaze of this constellation is increasing nourishment, resources, support and vitality- as well as self love. This comes from simplicity, ease and gentleness- not force or punishment. Let this be a reminder for your healing actions and choices as you realign with your truth and inner knowing.
The symbol of Satabisha is an empty circle, which expresses the healing power of this constellation, as well as containment and boundaries. There is inner and outer, self and other, inside and out. The sacred circle contains and holds, supporting boundaries and differentiation between inner and outer. Use the coming cycle to recommit to yourself, and strengthen boundaries. Keep life simple, steady and slow. Find your center, land within. Let nature and her wisdom support your realignment.
Where do you need to simplify and reconnect with your own inner knowing? Where are you getting lost, erratic and creating difficulty? What challenges are asking you to look more closely and reevaluate your choices and actions? How is your inner critic keeping you from the nourishment you seek?
Use the coming cycle to come home to yourself and set the intention of healing your body, mind, emotions and spirit. Ask for guidance and seek out new resources where you see holes in your support team. Honoring your inner wisdom and truth is dharma. There is no other path.
This full Moon coincides with a partial lunar eclipse and marks the closure of the two week eclipse portal. The partial lunar eclipse begins on August 27th at 7:23:58 pm MT. The maximum eclipse occurs at 10:12:53 pm MT. The eclipse closes on August 28th at 1:01 am MT. The eclipse shadow will impact Europe, West in Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Antarctica.
From a Vedic perspective, it is not advised to be outside during an eclipse or to look directly at the eclipse. Wear a head covering if you have to be outside so you don’t absorb the shadow. Ideally, this is a time for spiritual practices such as meditation, chanting and fasting. Set intentions and honor the sensitivity of this time. It is also widely recognized that during and between eclipses, starting new endeavors will not bring positive results. No new projects, relationships or activities should start in the eclipse portal. Notice what needs are arriving, then take action after the eclipse portal closes. Best to lay low, attend to spiritual pursuits, get extra rest and work with your inner shadow very consciously during this cycle.
In the coming days consider what still feels true for you. Create, share, and start new projects with hope and optimism.
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