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
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