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Written by Lisa E Zimmerman

We are in the wake of the Lunar Eclipse in Pisces that activated dramatic events prior to the actual Eclipse on Aug 27 PDT. Dolly Parton transitioned on Aug 25, triggering an outpouring of love for our national treasure whose warmth, impact and generosity transcended generations, social classes and cultures. Then on Aug 26, a catastrophic flood in the Nepal/Tibet border destroyed communities with many souls missing or dead and this tragic story is still unfolding. 

 

It seems that people are either experiencing a breakthrough new beginning after a meaningful release from constricting  circumstances or they are dealing with heaviness and challenges. Maybe you are just living your life, not really feeling anything out of the ordinary. 

 

We each have our individual paths, dictated by our personal astrology and alignment with our Authentic Self. The Eclipse energy will be in effect for many months, so focus on the story that’s unfolding for you. Can you feel where are you being led?

 

If you are stuck in a role or way of operating, you may receive a shock from the Universe to jolt you into action — or to shuffle the deck. That is typical Eclipse and Uranus energy, all active today. But Uranus is also part of the Minor Grand Trine that created the powerful Cradle aspect, so it can break up stagnant energy and move you toward something beneficial. 

 

Aug 28 – Mercury square Uranus, Sun square Uranus

 

Mercury and Sun each square to Uranus, planet of liberation and the Higher Mind. You can be proactive and make a change if there’s something you’ve been wanting to do or try. This could be your day to take action. You may hear surprising news, receive a message or download a genius idea that shifts the playing field for you. 

 

This speaks to activating, doing, being, thinking or saying something offbeat, wild, radical, out of character for you or just out of the box. Authenticity is the goal, rather than conformity or living on autopilot, which won’t work anymore. Do you dare to speak and live your truth, especially if it’s in conflict with current values and relationships? If a curveball comes at you, it’s all about how you respond and regroup in response to it. Bottom line: To thine own Self be true.

 

Aug 31 – Jupiter trine Saturn

 

Optimistic Jupiter has high ideals, sees possibilities, the big picture and wants to expand your horizons. Saturn makes the plans, creates the structures and the practical strategies to implement the vision held by Jupiter. But it must be doable. This is a profound combo that supports stable growth and will meet again in April and July ’27, so it’s in effect for a prolonged time, running in the background. You will have opportunities to make steady progress as a result of your organization. That’s the requirement — Good Orderly Direction. 

 

Sept 1 – Mars square Saturn

 

You may experience this in one of two ways, or both. Maybe there’s a delay, an extra step you need to complete or a conflict that must be resolved. And if there’s a challenge, it’s likely something you are avoiding because it’s uncomfortable. Whatever it is, you’ll probably have to deal with it if it comes up for you. Do the work, face the music. This is Saturn’s world.

 

Or you may be working to build something that takes extra effort and is not a quickie. Saturn is happy to take baby steps as long as they are practical and focused, leading to a lasting long-term result. Maybe you’re creating something that is a process and you are engaged in that effort. This is a positive manifestation of the hard work necessary (a labor of love?) in order to create something valuable and successful. It’s not easy, but it will be worth it.  

 

Sept 1 – Mercury sextile Mars

 

Mercury in Virgo is crystal clear, simplifies and has the facts in order, including the details, whereas Mars in Cancer is propelled by feelings to act. This duo is helpful for decision-making, sales, self-expression, paperwork and mundane tasks. 

 

Never underestimate the mental focus of Mercury in Virgo to organize, gather info and create a spreadsheet for optimal functioning. This will help you navigate any challenges you face from the Mars-Saturn square, so when in doubt make a to do list and get clear about the steps you need to take to fulfill your goal.

 

Following this we don’t have another major aspect until the Eclipse Wormhole closes on Sept 10 with the New Moon in Virgo, while Uranus turns Retrograde and Venus and Mercury change signs. We coast for days and will then have an avalanche of dynamic activity to launch a new beginning — and Mercury will leave Virgo, so utilize it while it’s here. Get your ducks in a row while you have the wherewithal and the space.

 

During the days ahead, focus on where you’re being guided intuitively and take aligned actions. The more you open to new ways of being and transcend old rigid thinking, rituals and roles, the better. This is a monumental task and yet it’s simple, but it requires mindfulness to not stay in unconscious ways of operating that don’t serve you. 

 

Awareness is required to feel what’s weighing you down or holding you back. If you notice something, see what you can shift to make a change. Even a baby step is helpful to create a new neural pathway. 

 

As always, I am grateful for your presence on our journey together.

 

P.S. All the quotes below are by Dolly Parton, spiritual teacher disguised as a singer-songwriter-actress-philanthropist-heartfelt-bawdy and bedazzled-down-home girl next door. There will never be another like her and she left us all with a model of how to operate. And live. 

 

There are so many video clips, interviews and stories by others of Dolly to show us how it can be done. I hope we get the message and keep highlighting her to remind us of what’s possible when you live from the heart with integrity. 

 

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“If I fail, it’s no big deal if something don’t work out. I’m not afraid of failure because, to me, I never feel like a loser. Even when I’ve lost I still feel like I’m winning because I’m earning some sort of experience, something that I can use somewhere else.” ~ Dolly Parton

 

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“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” ~ Dolly Parton

 

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“I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.” ~ Dolly Parton

 

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“Being a star just means that you just find your own special place, and that you shine where you are.” ~ Dolly Parton 

 

© 2026 Lisa E Zimmerman • All Rights Reserved • Soul Level Solutions

 

Lisa E Zimmerman is an Intuitive Astrologer, Transformational Guide and Creator of Awakened Life Retreats, helping soulful seekers in transition create an abundant, empowered, meaningful life. It is a heartfelt journey. www.soullevelsolutions.com ❤️

Written by Lisa E Zimmerman 

We begin the week traveling through the Eclipse portal toward the North Node Lunar Eclipse on Aug 27. Venus in her home sign of Libra invites us to open our hearts, as love will lead the way into the higher timelines. The mind rules in 3D, but life is more harmonious and connected when we live from the heartspace.

Aug 21 – Venus opposite Saturn

This can bring relationship issues, $$ matters, creative obstacles or questions about your values and how you are valued. It can highlight imbalances between giving and receiving, inviting clearer boundaries, serious conversations and practical decisions. Healthy relationships can deepen through honesty, negotiation and commitment, whereas shaky relationships may hit a dead end.

You’re being asked to take responsibility for what you are creating and calling into your life. Maybe you feel a lack of support that illuminates who is and isn’t available for you. If so, the real issue is the lack of support you are giving your Self. You will only allow as much love and support as you believe you deserve, so to upgrade, begin with the way you honor and care for your Self. Then create parameters from there with others.

Aug 22 – Sun conjunct the South Node in Leo

You may be aware of old roles and identities that you’ve outgrown and are ready to let go or you see where you’ve relied on attention, approval and external validation to sustain you. It is a real awakening when you’re ready to use your well developed gifts in new ways by expressing them differently, or in a fresh context of confidence. It’s not only healthy, it’s a completion and turning point, marking a rebirth. You may already be there and if not, try to open to a more collaborative or community-based way of showing up for your next evolving expression.

Aug 22-Sept 22 – Sun in Virgo

The Sun departs fiery Leo to enter analytical Virgo, inviting you to create order and to detox wherever you are out of balance or need rehab, internally or externally. If you have a vision for your future, this is the perfect time to plan practical steps to support your next steps. Practical Virgo rules holistic health, wellness and service, as well as systems, discernment (what’s useful and what’s not) and details.

Rituals and routines are Virgo’s way of making the actions of daily life sacred by imbuing them with mindfulness and reverence, whether you’re handling your To Do list, clearing clutter, exercising or cooking (food is medicine), rather than rushing through your day. This is a wonderful time to begin a new health or wellness regimen and to do something that will enhance your life and create a sense of renewal.

Mindfulness, helping others and honoring the sacred is the antidote to the toxic culture of flash, cash and service to self. We are entering a paradigm of the New Earth (astrology) and the New Era (Human Design), which are both aligned with love, community and contributing to the Greater Good.

Aug 25-Sept 10 – Mercury in Virgo

Mercury is happy at home in Virgo that supports simplifying, clarity and organization. This is ideal for editing, research, analysis, spreadsheets, bookkeeping, clearing, cleansing and anything to do with details and order. Shadow behaviors are mind games — overthinking, worry, perfectionism, self-criticism, hyper-criticism and analysis paralysis. If you find yourself there, take a walk, move your body, listen to binaural beats with headphones. Do something to redirect your energy and don’t torture yourself.

Aug 27 – Mercury Cazimi the Sun

Earlier in the day prior to the Lunar Eclipse, Mercury sits in the heart of the Sun (Cazimi). Mercury in Virgo is already very strong in its home sign and now has the Divine Light of the Sun to illuminate bright ideas to create clarity, specific steps and how-tos or a mental reset. Be sure to write down any thoughts that come through for you, as they may be seeds that will flourish in months to come.

Aug 27 – North Node Lunar Eclipse in Pisces – 9:18pm PDT

The Sun-Mercury in Virgo want order and certainty and they are with the South Node in Leo (leaders, old roles) — and they oppose the everything, everywhere all at once Pisces Moon with the North Node in Aquarius. There’s a setup with diffuse, multi-dimensional Pisces and a North Node in Aquarius that is heading into a new frontier, taking the Virgo planets on a ride.

The Pisces Moon indicates endings and completions, as it’s the last sign in the zodiac and this will be a final final of something if it touches you personally. Eclipses are always unpredictable, it’s their nature. But this Sun-Moon opposition is squared by Uranus, the unpredictable planet of radical change, so something unexpected is bound to occur that will shake up your life or the world in some way. Stay tuned…

Your job is to adapt to any changing circumstances and surrender what has reached a natural ending, whether internal or external. This is a major release that will move you into new territory, liberating you from an old limiting role and/or structure, moving you toward your soul’s evolution (North Node).

Authenticity is the invitation going forward, as all that was once considered to be unacceptable to others (non-conforming) will ultimately be rewarded as we recalibrate in the New Earth / New Era and become REAL. What a concept. This is another step on that yellow brick road.

The more you can open to new ways of being and transcend your old rigid thinking and roles, the better. This is a monumental task and yet it’s simple, but it requires mindfulness to not fall back into autopilot ways of operating.

Want to wake yourself up? Try this: change the way you do one thing. Or how you’ve thought about something. Try on a new idea, perspective or action. It’s an amazing stretch that will challenge your mind and consciousness to grow and practice flexibility.

As always, I am grateful for your presence on our journey together.

P.S. Honoring Rev. Edwene Gaines who passed recently after many years of teaching and preaching. It was from her that I learned, “Dare To Claim Your Good” in 2005 in NYC. She changed countless lives by sharing her prosperity teachings. This is one of my very favorite quotes from her:

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“The entire universe loves me, serves me, nurtures me and wants me to win.” ~ Rev. Edwene Gaines

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“Chop wood and carry water.” ~ Zen Buddhist proverb

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“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.” ~ Buddha

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The Dalai Lama was asked what surprised him most, he said “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

© 2026 Lisa E Zimmerman • All Rights Reserved • Soul Level Solutions

Lisa E Zimmerman is an Intuitive Astrologer, Transformational Guide and Creator of Awakened Life Retreats, helping soulful seekers in transition create an abundant, empowered, meaningful life. It is a heartfelt journey. www.soullevelsolutions.com ❤️

Written by Lisa E Zimmerman

We are between Eclipses, traveling through the Wormhole into a new reality. This is beyond what the mind can grasp and you may feel unmoored, wondering what is happening, or you may be on a stimulating new trajectory. Familiar reference points are ever-changing, while higher frequencies continue to activate shifts in perception that reorient you day after day. This is how life is meant to unfold now.

Toxic habits can lose their magnetic grip as powerful transpersonal energies create new energetic grids that allow you to uplevel. This can be exciting, if you’re ready and willing to embrace a new You with faith and optimism. All the while, the noise of the old structures is rising to a crescendo, as they will not be sustainable for the long term. 

Attune to your Inner Guidance for direction and know that we are in a great mystery as we witness and co-create the emergence of the New Earth. Don’t try to figure it out, but rather, feel where you belong in each moment — the people, places and things that are calling you forward now, who inspire you. Don’t go on autopilot, back to where you came from.

Aug 15 – Mercury conjunct Jupiter in Leo

You may have a message to share publicly or something to say personally to another. This inspires bold, visionary ideas, conversations, plans and possibilities spoken with confidence and optimism. Allow yourself to be heard and state your convictions with conviction. 

Mercury-Jupiter in Leo creates leadership energy — BIG, dynamic ideas with vision, certainty and enthusiasm that can bring others along. Be sure you are aligned with whatever you’re promoting, whether a product or an opinion, to be in integrity. 

This is a great day to make a sale, pitch, speech, or podcast, for writing, brainstorming, storytelling and for inspiring others. Don’t hold back if you’ve got ideas and something to say. This is your day! 

Aug 17 – Mars square Neptune, Mercury trine Saturn, Venus sextile Jupiter

These three aspects all happen within six hours of each other — the second two less than an hour apart. I’ll break them down but know that there are endless possibilities for how this can be experienced and expressed, which likely depends on your personal chart and circumstances. 

Mars square Neptune

Mars-Neptune invites you to operate intuitively via Wu Wei by aligning with the natural world and flowing around obstacles. It’s not just going with the flow, which implies passivity, Wu Wei is aligning with your intuition and attuning to your environment regarding right action. No pushing, no conflict, no manipulation to get what you want. Align. Be in harmony with your surroundings. 

It is a profound way to live and that’s the best use I know of for Mars-Neptune, along with creative and spiritual activities, dreams and rest. You may just feel like you need to go slowly and chill. With Mars in emotional Cancer, you may be feeling extra protective and need to cocoon in your nest, especially with a Neptune square that heightens sensitivity. Be gentle with yourself. 

If you push to get what you think you need/want, you may end up in the wrong places, having miscalculated. 

Mercury trine Saturn

Organize your inspired ideas to create strategic plans and structures. This is grounding energy that can bring your visions down to earth in practical ways. Recognizing what is real and what won’t fly is the discernment of Saturn, where less is more when focusing on the long game. Commitment and discipline will support your efforts to build something that will be worth it in the years to come. You may have to say “No” to something now in for the good of the project or goal that comes later. 

Venus sextile Jupiter

Blessings arrive in various forms via opportunities, connections, appreciation, attention, gifts, $$ and things that fill your heart, rather than just cash and prizes. It can also be an uplifting flow of love, pleasure and generosity — joys that make life sweeter. My guidance: be generous of spirit and be open to receiving. 

Don’t block your blessings by being too self-sufficient and closed off to others who want to give to you. Your job when receiving? Say, “Thank you,” and mean it. And really enjoy. 🩵

Aug 21 – Venus opposes Saturn

This can test relationships, partnerships and alliances activating boundary issues and more as dynamics change in relation to personal growth. Venus represents how you value yourself and love others, receive pleasure and the level of appreciation you expect and desire. Saturn can trigger fears and insecurities regarding worthiness that impact how you relate to others and it’s easy to betray yourself (a pattern) if there’s something unhealed that needs attention. This could be your cue. 

This energy can bring up issues, which is an opportunity to renegotiate relationships that are out of balance or to end unsatisfying connections. This may be a make it or break it day when things come to a head. Remember, to thine own Self be true; value yourself enough to expect respect, honoring and care. Please.

This is the final week of Leo and we have that in-between feeling before the Lunar Eclipse on Aug 28. You are being transported to a new reality within your own consciousness, and the more you detach from 3D drama and connect with your soul’s guidance, the better. 

Decide that all is well and make the most of what’s in front of you. Take extra good care of yourself as the body has to keep acclimating to rising frequencies and find your people and tribes. 

Attune to your Higher Self. Your Inner Voice. Watch for signs and messages. Life can change in a heartbeat and opportunities abound. 

Embody an Awakened Heart: open, available and guided by love rather than fear. 

Value your Self and your connection to All That Is, giving and receiving love joyfully, trusting your intuition and discernment, and living in truth with compassion and courage. 

As always, I am grateful for your presence on our journey together.

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“You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.” ~ Jerry Gillies 

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“Mystical experience sees the universe as a conspiracy organized for my benefit.” ~ Dr. Andrew Weil

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“Joy is a net of love by which you catch souls.” ~ Mother Teresa

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“You’re rescuing yourself every single day by changing the consciousness of this earth and planting seeds of peace.” ~ Kryon, channeled by Lee Carroll

© 2026 Lisa E Zimmerman • All Rights Reserved • Soul Level Solutions

Lisa E Zimmerman is an Intuitive Astrologer, Transformational Guide and Creator of Awakened Life Retreats, helping soulful seekers in transition create an abundant, empowered, meaningful life. It is a heartfelt journey. HYPERLINK “https://www.soullevelsolutions.com/”www.soullevelsolutions.com ❤️

Written by Lisa E Zimmerman

Hold onto your hats, as this will be a lively week, ripe for inspiration, new beginnings, plot twists, conversations, creations and possible epiphanies. There is an abundance of dynamic potential and your unique Being will attract and attune to what aligns with you! It’s time to awaken your heart and open your mind on a whole new level.

Aug 8 – The Lion’s Gate Portal

This is an activation of higher frequencies that creates increased spiritual awakening and transformation, allowing you to evolve, heal, integrate and connect to your soul’s path with greater access and less resistance. Attune to your Higher Self, and trust the messages you receive during this sacred passage, while gently releasing old ideas and strategies that no longer apply.

Aug 6-Sept 10 – Venus in Libra 

Venus just changed signs a few days ago, moving into its home sign of harmonious, relationship-oriented Libra. Libra is a mirror, and who and what you attract and create reflect the frequencies you’re transmitting into the world. Noticing who and what you magnetize into your orbit is a profound way to gain awareness of yourself and your beliefs, as well as how it’s all working for you. Smooth and in flow or resistance, struggle or static – what’s coming back to you? This doesn’t make you wrong, but you may need to make course corrections if you’re not having the experience you desire.

Aug 9-Sept 10 – Mercury in Leo 

Inspired ideas impel Mercury in Leo to lead the way with confidence, creativity and flair (or drama). Your thinking will be clearer and decisions more aligned with your convictions, as you speak your truth and let your evolving Voice be heard. Yes. Have fun and play; it’s time to boldly open up. Self-doubt is the potential undertow that interferes with fully embracing your joyful empowerment. The antidote? When you get an intuitive hit or message, trust it and follow your heart.

Aug 10/11 – Venus trine Pluto and Uranus, Venus opposite Neptune 

This can deepen and reshape agreements, relationships, partnerships, alliances, collaborations, creative expression and output. Things are meant to change, so take a risk and go where your calling leads you. You don’t need all the answers to trust your sacred “Yes” and take the next steps into your new frontier. Neptune opposing Venus can guide you via compassion, imagination and intuitive insights.

Aug 11-Sept 27 – Mars in Cancer

The warrior-maverick planet is in the sign of home, family, security and your emotional needs. This sensitive energy is focused on making life safe, nurturing and nourishing for you and yours, so watch how you fight for what you need (when necessary) and how much energy goes into making your home life comfy, cozy and protected.

Aug 11/12 – Mercury trine Pluto and Uranus, Mercury opposite Neptune 

This is brilliant energy for problem solving, revelations, CSI investigations, penetrating insights and ideas that are expressed with powerful impact. Pay attention to changes in your thinking, speaking, and communications with shifting viewpoints (yours and others). Liberating perspectives or innovative changes can spring you from a quagmire where you’ve been stuck or spinning. This holds great potential for new directions, methods, opportunities and genius that emerges seemingly out of nowhere — fertile conditions for radical brilliance, an unexpected twist or an exquisite creative flow.

Aug 12 – Total Solar Eclipse @ 20º Leo – 10:37am PDT

The Solar Eclipse in Leo conjunct the South Node begins a major new evolutionary cycle in which you are asked to release pride, self-centered ego and the need for adulation, replacing them with healthy Self-love, Self-approval and Self-acceptance.

Leadership in the new era means aligning with your convictions and being of service, while shining your Divine Light from a space of joyful radiance. Speak up, step up and take pride in who you are from a deep recognition of your inherent worth. Allow yourself the space to enjoy who and what you love. Treat yourself with the dignity and respect that you want to receive from others. 

As the world turns, you are having your own cosmic makeover, so allow for the discovery of who you are becoming as you honor your playful spirit and Divine mastery. Fill your inner well and show up as needed in the world.

Aug 12 – Mercury conjunct Jupiter in Leo, Mercury trine Uranus

This can activate conversations and big ideas or create connections that launch an entirely new path. This contains bold, creative, visionary potential — a message, insight or opportunity can appear that expands beyond your familiar world, and inspiration comes through you on a level you didn’t even know you possessed. It sounds dramatic, but it’s possible, especially when you’re in alignment and with the right people, places and things. Within an Eclipse, what begins as a conversation or idea now may become part of something much larger as your story unfolds.

On the day of the Eclipse, fated events and shakeups can occur, especially involving leaders. If your chart is directly affected, you may experience a major new beginning or a story that unfolds until the next set of Eclipses in Feb ’27. People can overreact and be overly emotional on the day of an Eclipse, so easy does it. Allowing twice as much time to do half as many things, if possible, as the extra space will allow you to recalibrate your nervous system.

This is a dynamic, energizing and uplifting week of creative expression, new ideas and possibilities that we are so ready for! Trust what comes your way and say “Yes” to what feels aligned for you.

Your job is to embody your Awakened Heart: open, available and guided by love rather than fear. You value your Self and your connection to all, giving and receiving love joyfully, trusting your intuition and discernment, and living in truth with compassion and courage. Amen to that.

As always, I am grateful for your presence on our journey together.

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“Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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It’s your choice: live in the past or the future, karma or dharma. ~ Stephanie Azaria

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“Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” ~ Roald Dahl

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“You, yourself, as much as anybody else in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ~ Buddha

© 2026 Lisa E Zimmerman • All Rights Reserved • Soul Level Solutions

Lisa E Zimmerman is an Intuitive Astrologer, Transformational Guide and Creator of Awakened Life Retreats, helping soulful seekers in transition create an abundant, empowered, meaningful life. It is a heartfelt journey. HYPERLINK “https://www.soullevelsolutions.com/”www.soullevelsolutions.com ❤️