Replenish yourself so that you have more capacity for reality.

The two biggest astrological events of August 2025 will be the Mars ingress to Libra and the Venus-Jupiter conjunction in Cancer. As soon as Mars enters Libra, it will start to oppose Saturn and Neptune which are both still in Aries.

Honestly, neither Mars nor Saturn feel well resourced this month. Let me say a little more about this.

Saturn in Aries expresses itself urgently. Often, Saturn in Aries is about black and white morality and the desire to punish. We don’t trust our authority figures when Saturn is in Aries so we try to use punishment to solve a crisis of morality. Saturn in Aries is a time of blaming, scapegoating, and punishment.

Mars doesn’t love being in Libra either. In Libra, Mars can see every single injustice. However, Mars is not able to choose a focus or see how different injustices might be connected so it ends up comparing sorrows. That’s why Mars in Libra is always associated with this feeling of betrayal, because Mars feels like it has to walk away from someone to protect or fight for someone else. You can’t compare sorrows. Doing so betrays everyone.

Both Mars in Libra and Saturn in Aries can be difficult. They also happen to inspire one another. Mars is domicile in Aries and Saturn is exalted in Libra. In astrology, we call this a mixed reception. Mars and Saturn help each other out. However, neither of them are coming from a place that they like to be in. In fact, two debilitated planets in reception can actually stress each other out more.

From this, August does seem a bit stressful. You want to focus but focusing makes you feel like you’re neglecting other things. You feel distracted by sorrow which does make sense. You try to figure out what to do and you end up thinking about who to blame.

The reason why Mars and Saturn are in difficult places in August is because they’re ill resourced. In August, you’re burned out. You might feel robbed or like you’re coming from a place of hunger and needing more.

If you find yourself in a very punishing or doubtful mindset in August, then rest. You need to find something nourishing and giving right now. You need to replenish yourself so that you have more capacity for reality. This brings us to the second very important astrological event of August.

Venus will join Jupiter in Cancer. The conjunction is exact on August 12th. Cancer is the healing crab, the sign of emotional nourishment and wisdom. It is empowered by both benefics in August. You will find the nourishment that you need with people who you are familiar with. Those people understand you and know you.

Venus in Cancer is intimate. You get closer to people and you really stick by the people who matter to you. Venus in Cancer makes your people feel like family. Jupiter in Cancer is the world’s best cheerleader. It is someone who actually just believes in you and will support you no matter what.

In August, authority figures are desperate and scarcity minded. They try to make us compare our sorrows as though competition in sorrow will give us more value. In August, the people who know you like family love you. Someone believes in you, enough to push you forward.

If you were born in 1996, your natal astrology kind of mimics what’s going on this month but in a weird way. Not only are you going through your Saturn return and your Jupiter opposition, your Mars is also likely to be in Cancer. If this is you, then you might have to confront the part of you that wants to use punishment to solve problems, a part of you that is hurting and familiar. It might be someone else’s pain that helps you understand where your desire for punishment might be coming from.

Leo August 2025 Horoscope

Right now, you’re confronting any fears that you have about your political community judging you. You are also confronting any tendencies that you may have around being overly accommodating in your friend group because you are afraid of your political community judging you.

You actually need to take a rest. I know, I know—you’re actually worried about doing too little. But we tend to get most stressed and worried about social groups when we are taking on too much.

Right now, what you need is permission. You need permission to mess up, permission to try, and permission to not give a shit about things that you really don’t need to hyperfixate on right now because you have bigger fish to fry. Can you let go of obligation for a moment in August?

The truth is, obligation is not the only thing that drives your relationships. Sure, it’s one of the things especially if you grew up in a collectivist society. But it’s not going to be the only thing. So go ahead and let go of it for a moment and see what else keeps you accountable. You might be pleasantly surprised.

Questions for Leo for August 2025:
What time of the day do you usually worry during?
What else could do you do during those times?
What activity can you replace worrying with?

Virgo August 2025 Horoscope

What is the difference between being generous in a big way and being too accommodating in how you use resources to relate to people in your life? I try to puzzle this one out too and what I end up with is that generosity is a means of self expression. Jumping through hoops to please other people is a means of self denial.

I think that you love your friends and that you would do anything you could to cheer them on and support them. I also think that you don’t have a ton of money and that you have experienced relationships where people withheld what you needed from you to punish you. When you deal with friends and resources or friends and money, it’s like you’re walking through two parallel universes. The two versions of you who live in the two parallel universes have drastically different values.

This is what August is for: August is when your ruling planet, Mercury goes direct in your place of secrets. August gives you a wonderful opportunity to understand what gets in the way of you being honest with yourself. Again, the difference between giving because you want to and giving because you think that you have to is really just honesty.

Friends are great right now. You’re having a good time with your friends. Money, control, and resources is harder. That can make friendship seem harder. Don’t stress so much about your friends. They have your back.

Questions for Virgo for August 2025:
What is the difference between generosity and being accommodating?
How generous are you willing to be when you stop caring about your image?
What usually gets in the way of your honesty with yourself?

Libra August 2025 Horoscope

Your career is thriving right now. You’re absolutely just killing it. And guess what? It makes you happy in some ways and furious in others.

Right now, you’re dealing with your own tendency to fear punishment from other people. In early life, you had to learn how to be super accommodating because you wanted to evade other people’s judgment. That’s why you love to say yes to so many things. That’s why your first reaction is to say yes and that’s why you see the amount of work that you have to do pile up more and more.

Focus on your successes. And think about just how much you’re able to impact the world you’re a part of. Isn’t that cool? Even if you do take on some types of work due to anxiety, you’re making an impact and doing important stuff. Right now, power is your resource. You feel resourced and safe when you are assured of how powerful you can be.

You will feel very angry if you think that you have to betray yourself to appease other people. The amount of anger that you feel on any given day has more to do with that than the amount of work that keeps you busy. In fact, you like to work when it’s worth it. Just some food for thought.

Questions for Libra for August 2025:
What is your work worth your effort?
What kind of impact do you want to make?
What do your long term plans look like?

Scorpio August 2025 Horoscope

You’re actually just feeling really inspired these days. I’m talking about creatively, spiritually, and politically. It’s like you’re learning a bunch of stuff that you didn’t think of before or like you’re seeing your ideas finally get recognition or something. You’re obsessed with learning something new everyday.

Because inspiration is good and easy right now, you’re going to see a lot of your habits laid out clearly in front of you. You’re excited about something and that means that you don’t want to rely on the habits that continue to bind you to pain. You want to change up how you do things so you can’t put up with the habits that you developed to punish yourself anymore.

I’m talking about daily habits but also emotional habits. We all have some. We think that we aren’t allowed to be more loved than we saw our mothers be loved and that we aren’t allowed to be more successful than our fathers. All kinds of things. Just habits.

But inspiration, those dreams that you get when you suddenly realize that more is possible? Inspiration shocks you out of your habits. What are you excited about?

Questions for Scorpio for August 2025:
What inspires you right now?
What does that make you realize about your habits around limiting yourself?
What more is possible?

Sagittarius August 2025 Horoscope

The issue that you run into in August is really unique. It’s the issue of people involved in a political movement who expect that the movement will come and bend down to the level of an interpersonal conflict or fear. I’m not sure where that issue will appear for you. You might be directly involved or you might not.

A political movement will not love us the way our lovers will because lovers are lovers. A lover will not move us the way a political movement will because movements are movements. Boundaries. Definitions. Precision. Our fears of sex aren't the same as our fears of connection.

What I want you to focus on is collective resourcing. Who is eating well? Who isn’t? Who is sharing space and where does everyone’s time and labor go towards? I want you to use your powers of insight to look at where people are putting their energy and what kind of value those habits will build in the long term. Who trusts the movement enough to rely on it and why?

Really, you’re working through some deep seated trust questions at the moment. You happen to be around a lot of people who trust you very much. That’s exciting and also hard.

Questions for Sagittarius for August 2025:
What do you enjoy about sex?
What do you trust about revolution?
Who do you rely on?

Capricorn August 2025 Horoscope

You’re going through kind of a Tower moment right now. You know that tarot card where the big tower or big structure is falling apart because of a storm? That’s your current situation. Your home is changing. Your goals are changing.

A friend of mine once told me that storms never destroy anything that didn’t already need repair in the first place. Big storms come and they just show you what you needed to fix anyhow. They can’t destroy anything big on their own. The structures that they come to fuck with were already falling apart.

If you’re no longer motivated about the same things, that’s alright. If you no longer feel safe in the same places, that’s also alright. Because you know why? Because people are really, really good to you right now.

People are great right now. Your partner is great. Your friends are great. People are just good these days. You’re really enjoying people and you feel actually supported by your collaborations. And, um, that’s kind of a big deal? Yes, you’re in the tower that is falling right now. Yes, old structures are snapping right in half. But you’re around some really great and reliable people. You’re facing a storm in good company.

Questions for Capricorn for August 2025:
What did this last month show you about what you need to repair?
What are you letting go of?
Who has stuck by your side?

Aquarius August 2025 Horoscope

You know the first Rocky movie where he doesn’t have control over anything except what he does with his body each and every day? That’s kind of you in August.

Visibility is always scary. You get pegged a certain way if you speak your mind and if you don’t. What’s it like to live in fear of your community being the one to punish you? In Rocky, he doesn’t concern himself with any of that. He doesn’t focus on how he looks but the work in front of him.

I want you to focus on what you can do in August. Focus on the work. Develop routines in the work and stick by what you started. You have an intuitive understanding of what you are able to nourish and cultivate using your living labor right now. You’re also scared of public opinion and alienation from your political community.

So, focus on your work. If you worry about what other people think of you and whether they will run away if they think badly of you, then get up and walk around for ten minutes. Your worries start to dissipate after just ten minutes of gentle exercise.

Questions for Aquarius for August 2025:
What questions of ego have prevented you from focusing on your work?
What is your ego so worried about?
What do you need to be actually doing?

Pisces August 2025 Horoscope

You really just love people these days. You love your lover or lovers and all of your pets and friends. You just love them so much right now. And, not just that, you’re also seeing what it means for your emotional connection to loved ones to grow. You are enjoying love as a reliable and continuous practice every single day.

And you’re also having some money issues. Budgeting is harder right now, both on your own and with other people.

I’m not a financial advisor. This is what I can offer as an astrologer: both love and money tend to bring up questions around value. You might be seeing some very old and very deep questions about worthiness come up these days. You might see these questions come up in the choices that you make and the desire to be chosen by someone else. It’s just regular old worthiness, those same ideas about what any of us deserve that you know about and know what to do with.

Try to figure out what you mean by worthiness. You might have instincts that you developed in relationships where money was used as a punishment or a reward. You might have fears about worthiness that actually have nothing to do with your values and more to do with some old story that someone once told you about emotional availability and you.

Questions for Pisces for August 2025:
What is an old story that you used to accept about worthiness that you’re done with?
What’s important to you?
Who are you important to?

Aries August 2025 Horoscope

I think that you’re having a lot of conflict with different people right now. What you gotta realize is that you are a formidable fighter.

You might think that you get tongue tied when you get angry, that your anger will make you powerless for whatever reason. You might live under the impression that getting mad will just result in your being put in a time out and isolated from all understanding but that’s not what actually happens.

You are a formidable opponent who is very clear about why you are mad. Because you are clear, other people find your anger easy to understand. When you are mad, people empathize with you. Your anger makes you more powerful.

You’re supposed to be stubborn sometimes. You’ve lived your whole life thinking that you have to adapt and that you have to twist your body to accommodate what isn’t yours. But guess what? You don’t have to change everything about yourself just because you’re scared of friction. Sometimes, you have conflict and you hold your ground.

Questions for Aries for August 2025:
What if anger makes you more powerful and more empathetic?
What happens if you let yourself get mad?
Who makes room for your anger?

Taurus August 2025 Horoscope

I’ve noticed that the most superstitious people tend to be the people who are raised religious or under conditions of spiritual control. Maybe that’s many of us since we all have superstitions. Superstition is pretty simple. It’s the hard to shake off feeling that the universe will somehow decide to enact punishment upon us for whatever reason.

At the end of the day, superstition is just misinterpreted information about the ecology. Yeah, the fish will die if the marsh is too rich in nutrients. Fires will start if you prevent them from burning for too long. There’s all kinds of things like this but that’s not nature punishing you. That’s just nature doing its thing.

Likewise, living in your own imagination about what might be and what might not be isn’t really thinking. You have to move around and impact your environment to think. That’s because your mind isn’t trapped inside of your skull. Your mind is found around you in the winds and the paths.

In August, be free and live in reality. Let movement be your poetry. Sitting in one place and worrying over what may or may not happen isn’t real thinking. Moving around and doing things is.

Questions for Taurus for August 2025:
What is the actual source of your superstitions and what do you think they misdiagnose?
What do your superstitions show you about your worries?
Who understands your worries and who thinks with you?

Gemini August 2025 Horoscope

August will give you some room for untangling the ways that you had to overlook the affairs of your heart just to accommodate a society that runs on selfishness. Jupiter and Venus will bless your house of resourcing and survival. You get some benefit in the area of material resources.

How many times have you heard someone say, “I got mine, fuck you”? When was the last time you heard a neighbor say this to another neighbor? A friend to a friend or a sibling to a sibling? What about the last time you heard a parent say to their child, “I got mine, fuck yours”?

I think that we talk enough about our fears of sex, our fears of connection, our fears about loneliness. Oh, fear—that’s a symptom not a cause. We live in a society that pretends as though we can overcome collective fear with personal confidence.

We don’t talk nearly enough about the constant struggle to survive and why we feel as though people will discard us as soon as we become too inconvenient to keep. You deserve more, Gemini. That’s one way of putting the misuse of the heart in a society that thinks of everything in terms of who deserves what.

Questions for Gemini for August 2025:
When does selfishness sound like fear and what helps you hear what it’s really saying?
What do you have enough of?
What are you willing to give?

Cancer August 2025 Horoscope

You’re not an endless resource that provides safety, belonging, hospitality, and nurture to everything and everyone around you. I know you, Cancer. You always think that you have more to give.

For those of us who are really fearing the state for issues around legal belonging and home right now, we have to be careful about being overly inviting. Immigrants fear being detained and deported or displaced so we learn to be inviting to anyone and everyone, because we are told that we don’t get to assert our own boundaries around home. Immigrants are prevented from being territorial.

Fuck that! Never force yourself to compromise your own safety in order to appeal to someone else’s sympathy for you.

I want you to feel good about yourself. Your home is your home because it’s a place that you have gotten to know very well. You don’t get to offer it endlessly to everyone because to do so would be to exploit this place that you love. Apply that same principle to yourself. You are your own home and you don’t exploit yourself for stupid reasons.

Questions for Cancer for August 2025:
What are your limits?
How do you feel when you cross your own limits?
What are your rules that help you respect your limits?