August
Best Days Overall: 6, 7, 16, 17, 24, 25
Most Stressful Days Overall: 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 27, 28
Best Days for Love: 2, 3, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 31
Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 29, 30, 31
Best Days for Career: 1, 2, 11, 12, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29, 30
Retrograde activity among the planets is still strong but is less than last month. On the 8th Mercury starts moving forward and the retrograde percentage drops to 30 per cent. With Pluto retrograde, any surgery is better off delayed (unless it is an emergency). Elective surgeries need more research doing now. Friends seem to lack direction this month, they seem ‘up in the air’ (a trend for the next few months). Purchases of high-tech equipment and software need more homework too; a new and better version could be in the works, or new operating systems could make them obsolete as soon as you buy them. As we mentioned last month, avoid making important changes to the health regime or diet (or job) until after the 8th when Mercury starts moving forward again. Like last month, enhance your health by giving more attention to the heart.
Having said all this, the month ahead seems basically happy – a fun kind of month. (Having fun will tend to improve your health as well.) You are still in a yearly personal pleasure peak until the 23rd. Health and energy are much improved over last month too. Mars is making fabulous aspects to Jupiter from the 8th to the 21st, which is a very happy transit for you. It brings enjoyable travel opportunities. Students hear good news about school or tests. There are religious and philosophical breakthroughs happening and you have good relations with the academics and religious figures in your life. There is luck in speculations and a general feeling of optimism.
Venus, now moving firmly forward since June 27, moves into Cancer on the 8th. This shows many things. There is more socializing with the family and with those who are ‘like family’ to you. You are probably investing in the home, redecorating it, and spending on objects of beauty for the home. Family and family connections are important financially this period. And family members are playing cupid now. There are a few short-term financial and love upheavals after the 8th but they pass very quickly.
On the 23rd the Sun enters Virgo, your 6th house. This signals a more serious period. You are in the mood for work, and this is a nice transit for job seekers. Job seekers are not just looking for ‘a job’ – they want work that they will enjoy, and it seems they will be successful. Many of you will sacrifice pay for enjoyable work.
Children seem confused and lacking in direction from the 21st to the 24th – a bit dreamy and other worldly. But this will pass. Avoid speculations that period.
September
Best Days Overall: 2, 3, 12, 13, 21, 22, 29, 30
Most Stressful Days Overall: 10, 11, 16, 17, 23, 24
Best Days for Love: 1, 12, 16, 17, 21, 22, 29, 30
Best Days for Money: 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16, 17, 21, 22, 25, 26, 29, 30
Best Days for Career: 8, 9, 17, 18, 23, 24, 26
Mars entered your 8th house of transformation on the 24th of last month and will be there for the entire month of September. There are many positives to this. It is a great period for detoxing the body and for losing weight (if you need to), and a good period for delving into the deeper things of life – past lives, reincarnation, occult studies, life after death, etc. Whatever your age or stage in life, libido will be stronger than usual, so it is a more sexually active kind of month too.
This celestial position tends to make a person more serious about life; they see beneath the surface of things, beneath all the façades that people put up. There is also more dealing with death, either physically or psychologically. There is a need to come to terms with death, to understand it properly. Mars in the 8th house intensifies the desires of nature. The desires can be good or ill, but they will be more intense than usual. Thus there is a greater likelihood of success. You go after what you want in a very fierce and single-minded way.
Health is good most of the month until the 23rd. After that you need to rest and relax more. Happily you are focused on health this month. You can enhance your health by giving more attention to the heart (all month but especially on the 1st); the small intestine (from the 2nd to the 17th); and the kidneys and hips (from the 17th onwards). Avoid alcohol and other drugs from the 1st to the 3rd. It is always good to keep harmony in your marriage or love relationship, but after the 17th it becomes an actual health issue. If problems arise (God forbid), examine this area and restore harmony as quickly as possible.
The love life has been stressful so far this year, but things are improving this month. Venus moves into Leo on the 7th so there is more joy in the current relationship and in general. You are more fun-loving in love, not as serious and pessimistic as in the past few years. Also, on the 23rd the Sun moves into your 7th house, initiating a yearly love and social peak. Singles have wonderful love opportunities now, but they don’t seem like serious ones – more like love affairs. Perhaps they can develop into something in the future, but for now they are just love affairs.
Avoid speculations from the 23rd to the 30th. (You are always a risk taker, but this month even more so than usual.) Children need to be more mindful when driving or handling electrical equipment or dangerous objects. They should avoid risky kinds of activities. If the children are very young, keep dangerous objects away from them. Children are prosperous this month, and there is good financial co-operation between you and them.
October
Best Days Overall: 1, 9, 10, 11, 18, 19, 27, 28
Most Stressful Days Overall: 7, 8, 14, 15, 20, 21
Best Days for Love: 1, 12, 14, 15, 21
Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 29, 30, 31
Best Days for Career: 7, 16, 20, 21, 24
Retrograde activity increases again this month: Jupiter moves backwards (for the rest of the year) on the 4th, meaning 30 per cent of the planets are retrograde this month from this date onwards. If you are involved in legal issues there are more glitches and complications these days. Take your time with these things. Students should be more cautious about making important educational changes now. Mars in your 9th house from the 7th onwards shows that foreign lands are calling to you; you have the travel itch now, but Jupiter’s retrograde motion shows that these trips need carefully planning.
Health still needs watching this month. You probably need more sleep than usual. You can enhance your health by giving more attention to the kidneys and hips (until the 5th); the colon, bladder and sexual organs (from the 5th to the 29th); and the liver and thighs (from the 29th onwards). The good news this month is that after the 23rd, your health and energy will dramatically improve. The short-term planets move away from their stressful aspect and, more importantly, after a two-year stay Saturn leaves his stressful aspect in Libra on the 5th. From that date onwards, for the next two years you will feel like a heavy weight has been lifted off your shoulders. If you have had health problems the past few years you should hear good news about it. Keep in mind though that there are still two long-term planets stressing you. So your health still needs monitoring.
Last month was a sexually active month. Now with Saturn in your 8th house for the next two years, you need to be more ‘choosy’ about sex. Sexual activity will probably be reduced and there is a need to focus on ‘quality’ rather than ‘quantity’.
Last month was also good for detoxing, slimming down, personal transformation, occult studies and gaining a deeper understanding of death. Likewise this month, especially after the 23rd.
If you are involved in estate, tax or insurance issues, you need more patience. There are many delays here. Things will work out in these affairs, but slowly. Your spouse, partner or current love might feel financially squeezed, but the resources needed are there. He or she just needs to reorganize things a little.