Monthly horoscope
August begins in the same place July ends: with your sights focused firmly on you. Stubbornness is both your best and your worst trait, Mr. or Ms. Taurus, and when you point your immovable will at your own self, you can become pretty preoccupied.
Your family and oldest friends might be feeling the chilly, uncompromising edges of all this recent You-Centeredness. The eclipses of the 1st and 16th (read more here) are squared to your sign, and you may face some surprising backlash.
“But aren’t I supposed to focus on self-improvement?” you may say. “Aren’t I due a little Me-First time?” Of course you are, and the planets have supported the recent bout of self-centered reflection, improvement, and reward. We all need it, want it, and deserve it...it’s good for us...but....
The time is coming to focus on the outer world again. August will be filled with interesting happenings, most of which will require you to come out of yourself long enough to notice them. You're about to become super-busy all of a sudden; by the end of August, the pace of your life will be running a hard 70 and still accelerating.
While it’s tempting to stay wrapped up in home life and simple Me-First pleasures, events will begin to propel you outward. It’s a good thing, I promise. This is a great time to tie up the loose ends of any dangling projects; this month, Saturn and Jupiter are happy to help.
Some of these loose ends may involve romantic tangles, too. Keep working at them until they begin to loosen up—patience is just stubbornness in drag, you know, so keep at it.
All of the fast-moving planets, plus the asteroid Eros, will move through fellow earth sign Virgo this month. Romance is almost inevitable. If you can shift your focus from Me-First to You-Too, that is.
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Like your fellow fixed sign Taurus, you could be in for a wake-up call this month. Blame the eclipses, who are arrayed like twin alarm clocks on either side of you.
You can read more about the Leo/Aquarius eclipses here, but it'll suffice to say that these two events, the solar eclipse on August 1 and the lunar eclipse on August 16, will have a noticeable effect on your life. Eclipses are just like regular New and Full Moons, only stronger and less predictable. Considering the parade of planets that's in the process of squaring your sign, the eclipses will merely be the focal point of a very enlightening, if possibly painful, month.
Look first to your home life and roots. Somehow, there’s a healing process underway in the deepest areas of your life—your family history, your childhood memories, the foundations of your personal psychology—and the events of August will dredge up a few more wounded areas for you to deal with.
Some of the triggering events will occur through the most public of your activities. Everything has been moving so fast in your career and public persona sector that you’ve barely had time to catch your breath; now you’ll need to take time to internalize all that’s happened.
The past/present links that show up may catch you off-guard. Some of your recent public decisions have cast a strong light on the wounds of the distant past.
Does "what happened back then" still affect your decisions? Can you find some way of reconciling the huge difference between the person you are now and that person of the past who no longer really exists?
It may not be easy, but you are a Scorpio, after all—if anyone can do it, it’s you.
Good Things: You know all that hard work and patience you’ve been directing toward your friends and your social organizations? August is a good month to reap some of the benefits. Accept whatever thanks come your way; you’ve earned them!
Sex Life: Iffy. By the end of the month, your vital energy (including your sexual urges) may take a nosedive. Just blame it on the heat, and wait ‘til it returns in early fall.
