Horoscope Week August 12 2024 by Jennifer Angel

Welcome to Week August 12, 2024.

OK, let’s get started and see what the stars are bringing us for this week!

We are effectively right in Mercury Retrograde now, and I don’t know about you, but I have been noticing a few challenges in my life, which are definitely about Mercury Retrograde throwing its power around. The normal things like the fraud charge on my account, which took an unscheduled amount of time to deal with, put me behind, and the usual annoying tech issues. I’d like to hear if anyone else has anything to report and how you handled it.

We are effectively out of the destructive storm part of the transit. Now we are heading into the time where we can use Mercury’s retrograde energy to buckle down and get things done, especially projects that are unfinished or have been put on the backburner. This week, Mercury will depart Virgo, one of the signs it rules and is very comfortable in, and revert back to Leo. I love Mercury in Leo, although, it can cause some people to be a little bit full of themselves but what we love about Leo is they are real leaders and action takers, and they’re the ones who get up in front and really make a difference in the world. So, what you accomplished, the tidy up, with Mercury retrograde in Virgo, you can now start to put that into action.

And yes, I know some of you are saying, yeah but it’s not really a good time to do that, but in this stage of the retrograde transit it can be a good time to push something forward that’s already going, rather than start something new. I do have a full Mercury retrograde article, the different stages of the transit, what it means, and what it means for your sign, for both Mercury in Virgo and Leo. It’s available in the Astro Wealth Wisdom Membership, where each day you receive the major planetary interaction for the day, plus your sign’s daily horoscope, plus a daily inspirational quote, emailed. Your monthly horoscope also per sign and an article from myself and a highlighted guest article, someone I follow or have worked with, one of my favorite teachers in the world of inner-self-development. Right now, for a limited time, I have 30% off this membership not just for now, but forever once you subscribe. You also have a 7-day free trial, so although I would love to have you as part of my soul family, you can grab the Mercury article and everything else for this month, and cancel before the 7 days, and in fact, you can cancel at any time. This program gives you the heads-up to strategically plan your day, week, and month!

Moving on, the other major planetary interaction this week is Mars conjunct Jupiter, and this to me really is amazing because Jupiter’s energy is beneficiary, and Mars, which doesn’t always play nicely with all the other planets, is good here as it pushes you into action. In fact, a few days later on the 16th Mars is squaring Saturn, and these two do not play nicely together. However, let’s go back to Jupiter and Mars, as this interaction helps push things forward, but you want to be a little careful because you know Mercury is retrograde and although I just said that this is a great time to put things into action, you want to be a little careful of the impulsive nature of Mars, and the cautious nature of Saturn in this challenging interaction. And Saturn does not like to be pushed and Mars just wants to push on, so in this sense, it’s a bit like driving forward with the handbrake on.

Keep in mind though, that Mars can be impulsive, and rash, and Saturn says, hey, is this what you really want, will this serve you long term? So, Jupiter and Mars provide the energy action, and Mars and Saturn help you just a step back and think it through. Let’s not forget Mercury is the trickster, you know, so, even though this is a pretty complex week planetary interaction-wise, some challenges and some beneficial, and if you look at the whole, there’s a balance that takes place there. Moving forward, but with the handbrake on, which will protect you from doing anything rash that you may regret, and the combined energy can also help protect you from that Mercury trickster sort of energy, retrograde energy, as well.

Right at the end of the week, over the weekend of the 17th and 18th, Mercury still retrograde will also square Uranus, the planet of Surprises. Be mindful that Mercury represents communication, also creativity, and education, but let’s focus on communication here. This challenge can make you a little impulsive as well. Although it is a pretty heavy-duty challenge, it does help balance things out and just pull you back to reevaluate and reframe, and course correct, if that’s what you need to do. 

Taking all of this into consideration, Saturn will help to keep things in perspective, so you don’t do anything rash that you may regret. Remember, there are always two sides, the positive and the negative, and it’s up to you what you want to look at it, and how you want to look at it, right?

Heads up, at the beginning of next week, on the 19th, as we go into next week we have a full Moon in Aquarius, and this can be a little bit tricky as well. Full Moon energy can be crazy, however, in Aquarius, it does encourage you to think of others, and any chance you get to do small (or big) acts of kindness, use this time to step up and do that. It can be something like helping someone reach the top shelf at the market or helping an elderly person across the road, that’s what little acts of kindness are all about. As we head into the full Moon energy over the weekend of the 17-18, will be when the Moon is reaching its fullness, and when the energy is the most potent, and realizations can take place.

Even though this is a complex week, I like it, and I hope you can all work with the energy in a positive manner.

Ok, now let’s take a look at the individual sun signs.