What’s Happening in August 2024.

New Moon coming soon! The next month will be a time when we see the light of relief in reflecting on old dramas we are no longer involved in. This is a productive month, good for sharing information and cultivating honesty as we prepare for the massive friction when Mars conjuncts Jupiter at 17 Gemini with both square Saturn and sesquisquare Pluto!

This Lunation introduces a new focus wherever we have 13 Leo, a degree of a need to see how we now have a “serenity through the overcoming of storms.” At this time of the year, all the planets are in half the zodiac (Pisces through Virgo) with Pluto the only planet outside the occupied half. Due to where the inner planets are now, the focus of activity these next 4 weeks is in the 21+ degree span which includes the Lunation and Venus in Leo and Mercury in early Virgo.

An Overview of the New Moon

Today we’ll do an overview of the Lunation and some of its primary qualities. In part 2 we’ll cover Sabian Symbols, aspects, distributions, and patterns.

This serene, playful, mature and stabilizing New Moon at 13 Leo occurs at 4:13 am PDT, 12:13 pm BST on August. This is the last New Moon with Pluto in Aquarius until the Sag New Moon on Nov 30/Dec 1. All of this year’s Lunations with Pluto in Aquarius have assisting the sprouting of Aquarian seeds which will impact generations to come. This one in Leo prepares us for the forceful emergence coming with Mars and Jupiter exactly sesquisquare Pluto in mid-August.

With Mercury going retrograde, we’ve reached a “high water mark” of forward movement and are about to slow down and take a new look at how our creative imagination works and how to redirect mental energies to change the trajectory or momentum to things. Honesty is needed this month, whether we're seeing or speaking with others or ourselves. We’re still “taking a walk with our wisdom” and about to enter a time of “genuine rejuvenation” and life renewal.

At this time of year the Sun shines a light on all of us in our Leo sector, giving us lots of heart energy and creative power to renew the purpose of our year cycle, giving it momentum to embrace the future. We’re still “stretching out” from the last Grand Compression for 330 years, and much we’ve been through between late April and now will crank up now that Mars crossed the April Jupiter/Uranus conjunction at 22 Taurus. We’re headed for a new day!

This New Moon will jumpstart Leo energy wherever it falls in our chart. As that sign is now a focus of activity, along with a healthy dose of mid-Gemini, cut your spontaneity loose, experience higher subtle states of joy, dream your heart’s desire, speak the truth, see the truth, know the truth, and steer your vehicle any way you need to in order to master momentum.

So What Rules the Lunation?

This New Moon in Leo has the Sun as its ruler. As Leo is in the axis of the Archetype of the King/Queen/Noble, we can see the greatest good for our “realm” and bring forms of “divine law” into our lives. This allows us to see clearly how to take command of Leo energies in our charts to express its strength, commitment, service to a greater vision, and “conduction,” both artistically and electrically.

So this Lunation is ruled by the Sun in its home sign of Leo, making it exceptionally powerful as it rules the stage! Mercury is in Virgo, ruling itself. Venus is in Leo, ruled by the Sun. Mars is in Gemini, ruled by Mercury. Jupiter in Gemini is ruled by Mercury, Saturn in Pisces is ruled by Jupiter, Uranus in Taurus is ruled by Venus, Pluto is ruled by Saturn, and as usual, Neptune occupies its home sign continuing as a long wave “standalone” dispositor of itself, ruling the fogs and mists of the current collective consciousness.

So this month we have three “final dispositors:” the Sun, Mercury, and Neptune. You can find out more about dispositors in general, chains of dispositors, and mutual reception by going to dispositors and Mutual Reception at the link.

Who Leads the Light?

At this time, Jupiter at 15 Gemini is the “gateway to the Light.” This indicates the “entry to illumination” involves an awareness of our skill in being able to compare and contrast information we share with others so we can come to objectivity about it.

Jupiter will continue to lead the Sun (except when the Moon is between it and the Sun) until the Inferior conjunction of Mercury and the Sun on August 18. At that point Mercury will be the gateway to the Light until the next Superior conjunction of Mercury and the Sun on September 30. The study of which planet leads the Sun is a crucial but often overlooked part of understanding how the planets work in sequence.

The Sun/Moon Sequence and Its Shifts

There are two patterns: one with the Sun in the same sign as the Sun in the following Full Moon (New Moon between 1-15 degrees of a sign), and one with the Sun in a different sign than it’s in at the following Full Moon (New Moon between 16-30 degrees of a sign). I term these the “Natural” pattern and the “Alternate” pattern, since the Natural pattern shows a continuity of the Light, whereas the Alternate pattern bridges the Light across two signs. Each pattern has its importance in the Soli-Lunar sequence, and at the end of each period of the Natural pattern we shift into a pattern which “bridges the Light” across two different Light signs in the Lunation cycle.

We are now at the second New Moon in many months where the Sun sign of the New Moon is also the Sun sign of the following Full Moon. We’ve just finished an era when the New Moon Sun sign was different than the Sun sign of the following Full Moon. Last month was the first one in the new sequence, as the New Moon Sun was at 15 Cancer and the Full Moon Sun was at 30 Cancer. This indicates that we’ve returned to a time when the illuminated seed forms of the New Moon are the same energies which will find fulfillment at the Full Moon.

The New Moons and Full Moons are “God’s footprints in time.” Each shows the next in the 12 phases of how things come to be each year. The cycle could be described as follows: Life energy is initiated in Aries, substantiated in Taurus, explored in Gemini, grounded in Cancer, renewed and creatively expressed in Leo, refined and ordered in Virgo, balanced and made pleasing in Libra, purified and focused in Scorpio, expanded in Sagittarius, organized in Capricorn, solidified into a vision in Aquarius, and ended/perpetuated in Pisces.

Eclipses Effects in Play

The 2023 and 2024 Solar eclipses have been removing parts of our lives where we have 30 Aries, 20 Aries, and 22 Libra. We are also in a several month period of “Cosmic recycling” wherever we have 6 Libra/Aries. We now care about other things, have a new focus, and can join with others for mutual strengthening. We continue to eliminate old ways of self-expression and equivocating in relationships, and now will begin to see the results of what we visualized before now, or see the need for a more careful visualization of what we want to see made manifest.

We are now freed of many old ideals and areas we used to work within. All of these eclipses ask us “What is the purpose to what you leave behind and what you’re moving into?” Certainly the recent Total Solar eclipse is going to shut down some things in our Aries/Libra sectors so we may grow toward the stellium conjunct the North Node in Aries. Time to move in new directions with new people!

Jupiter and Saturn

Jupiter’s conjunction with Uranus at 22 Taurus began a new 13 year adventure into new lives. That conjunction theme is about us seeing “the white dove flying over troubled waters” which promises that our ordeal is completed and we are or will see a sign from Spirit announcing a new day, a new land, and a new life wherever we have 22 Taurus. Mars activated that energy right before it conjuncted Uranus at 27 Taurus in mid-July.

Jupiter is now in Gemini and is approaching the very powerful waxing square to Saturn. This square will happen 3 times in the next 11 months. The first one in mid-August is from 17 Gemini to 17 Pisces. The second one happens Christmas eve from 15 Gemini to 15 Pisces. The third one is next June and falls from 2 Cancer to 2 Aries. As it’s fairly non-stop between now and then, the mutable squares require we bring forth healthy Virgo and Sag responses, and next Summer, healthy Libra and Capricorn responses.

Saturn is extraordinarily important in this New Moon because of the forming square with Jupiter and the perfect biquintile from the Lunation, promising unique interactive experiences and the return of some specialized energies unleashed before now. It’s retrograde station has a theme of receiving what will nourish us at “the end of our day of labor.” It’s begun its review of the span between 13 and 20 Pisces, and as this New Moon is biquintile Saturn, it opens up “quintessential” zones around 17-21 Pisces, 29 Taurus – 3 Gemini, 11-15 Leo, 23-27 Libra, and 5-9 Capricorn. This, along with the sextile to Jupiter, will create a very productive specialization which can be released via either Jupiter or Saturn.

June 2023 through February 2024 called us to forms of life renewal, and now we’re in a new sector of Pisces. We’re now solidly in the next stage of our life renewal as we experience “non-local awareness” with our Spiritual Sisters and Brothers within the One Life. We now begin to find nourishment, en route to another “walk with our wisdom” in the first part of the month and another “revision of ideas back to source” in the second part. However, if called to the stage, don’t hesitate! Saturn in Pisces certainly tests our compassion for everything and everyone!

Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend

Because Saturn now sails the open seas of Pisces, the part of us learning how to be spiritually mature and grateful for our understanding of healthy boundaries and self-disciplines is now in a seascape of the collective feelings of all humanity over all time. This is a powerful restructuring spiritual force wherever we have mid-Pisces in our chart. Saturn now leads us in a Master Class in compassion and forgiveness practices, and learning a sober view of the collective human condition.

Between 2018 and early 2023, Saturn taught us to be more spiritually effective within a group work than we were before that period. We’ve used those skills since then in our Capricorn and Aquarius areas to achieve closures, helping us prepare for the new era coming when Saturn enters Aries in May of 2025.

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A Look Back - The Great Compression of 2020 in Capricorn Still Affects Us

As mentioned earlier, we’re now in the fifth year of a long term focus wherever we have late Capricorn and early Aquarius in our charts. In the first 90 days of 2020, we had a “Great Compression” of planets involving Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto all making conjunctions in the last decan of Capricorn, setting off a number of Saturn cycles, one of which will last 33 years! We then began an accelerated phase of our collective spiritual evolution which will take us from the threshold of the Age of Aquarius into the Age itself.

You can find out more about the very powerful Sun, Mercury, and Saturn's conjunctions with Pluto by revisiting The Great Compression of January 2020 – Mercury, Sun, Saturn and Pluto all Conjunct in Capricorn. That lays out the long wave patterns set into motion then.

Because of the Capricorn conjunctions set in motion in 2020, we reorganized our lives wherever we have late Capricorn in our charts. These cycles will impact all of us for some time to come. Especially with three Jupiter conjunctions with Pluto that year, it’s easy to see that for better or worse things were “expansively purified.”

When Mars conjuncted Saturn at 1 Aquarius on March 31, 2020, it set a cycle into motion which began to expand into a global system at the December 2020 Grand Mutation on the same degree. That Jupiter/Saturn conjunction launched both a new 20 year Aquarian cycle AND a new 200 year era of Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions in Air signs. That means less materialism than the past 200 years, with more focus on our commonality and ability to share ideas over the next 200.

Saturn in Aquarius led us to understand a more timeless role to play to help create a better world. Since then we have deepened with Saturn in Pisces. As always, Saturn in the harvest signs at the end of the zodiac challenge us to ask “What is our purpose? What structures and self-disciplines do we need to fulfill the ideal of that purpose?”

Neptune in Pisces and Chiron in Aries

In this chart, Chiron is at 24 Aries where it went stationary retrograde last month. This opens the door to a “concentrated dose of spiritual energies” for the rest of the year. Chiron is said to help us “heal into our Higher Self” and the themes of 24 Aries promise “good fortune upon the putting forth of effort.” Be receptive to higher energies, as they’re blowing through our mind-windows everywhere!

Some will be given opportunities to mentor or be mentored in assisting or being assisted related to these themes. This will help us focus our potency or move us toward our potential. Chiron is now moving us forward in the level of social or emotional potency.

In the bigger picture, Jupiter’s conjunction with Chiron in early 2023 began a very long wave healing and mentoring cycles wherever we have mid- Aries. Because Chiron’s last direct station was at 16 Aries, it means in 2024 Chiron is mentoring us and teaching us how to heal into our Higher Self through getting a new inspiration while seeing the relationship between the conscious and unconscious sides of life.

This continues our adventure related to Chiron’s healing and mentoring energies in the second decan of Aries. We now have two major Chironic themes in play: one was set into motion when Mars recently conjuncted Chiron in Aries in 2024, which I explained in Mars Conjunct Chiron at 16 Aries. The other major Chironic cycle was set into motion when Chiron went stationary direct, which I wrote about in Astrology Healing Cycles - Chiron Stationary Direct at 12 Aries.

So Aries continues to dominate the Mars/Chiron cycle, with a new long wave Chironic pulse added at the Jupiter/Chiron cycle which began at 15 Aries in March 2023. This began a new cycle of “the expansive healer,” “opportunities to mentor and be mentored,” and "healing and teaching through humor." The last Jupiter/Chiron conjunction happened in late Aquarius in 2009, and this one lasts through 2036 when they meet again at 17 Gemini. This is an important cycle which will help us “heal into our Higher Self” at crucial points over the next 13 years.

Neptune now approaches the end of its depth immersion in its home sign of Pisces, and now is in its long term stay in the last decan, ruled by Scorpio with an added dose of Mars. This is “the end of the end” of the 360 degree “Whole Cycle,” and so encompasses all of the ghosts and unfulfilled mysteries of this past 150 year cycle since it was last here. It also allows us to purify and forgive much of the past and move into a deeper compassion regarding suffering humanity.

This New Moon shows Neptune at 30 Pisces, a degree of “dreaming the pre-formed future” and its stationary retrograde degree. This is the threshold where the future is just around the corner, so be clear about what you want to see made manifest in the next era. We are in a time which is a prelude to a new collective mindset coming in mid-2025. We began an acceleration in this “disintegration” energy when Mars conjuncted Neptune on this degree in late April. The end of Pisces allows us expanded “non-local knowing.”

Summing Up - The Big Picture

The Capricorn conjunctions of early 2020 continue to condition the long wave cycles unfolding since then even as we simultaneously build a new Aquarian social-spiritual ideal. Jupiter raced through Pisces and Aries at perihelion after its time in Aquarius and opened infinite potentials to be actualized over the next 20 years. What Jupiter opened in 2021, Saturn crystallized in 2022, and the promise of fortunate endings made when Jupiter was in mid Pisces February-March 2022 is now being made real by Saturn.

We’re now at a stage where, having heard Saturn’s “call to self-renewal,” we have been flowing into our mastery, our archetypal Self, and our part to play in the bigger picture of our spiritual journey. With Saturn in Pisces, while endings may feel heavy, the immediate lightness which follows helps move us into a new life adventure.

We are now solidly in the dawning of the emergent Pluto in Aquarius era, with new work to be done and new lands appearing. This is a turning point in our relationships, so express your heart, your play, your creativity, and see how all of these are related to relationships in the past. We are now on a new adventure, so enjoy the clarity of Jupiter trine Pluto. This stabilizes and expresses the dawning Plutonic seeds of the emerging Aquarian era, so things will be very “transitional” from now through 2025.

Summing Up – The Immediate Picture

With Mercury retrograde, this Lunation is a “back to the future” type of energy. Retire, reflect, use your creative imagination, feel the peace that comes from the ending of so many past dramas, and share what you know abundantly. Leo is the sign of a life renewal through fire after experiencing all the other elements from Aries to Leo.

So there’s specialization and productivity assisting us through the tension and friction of the coming Mars conjunct Jupiter square Saturn which will happen around the time the Sun squares Uranus! We have tremendous pressure which can help us launch all kinds of new initiative, and if something’s not going in the right direction, be honest with yourself, pull out of the metaphoric nose dive and land gracefully!

Remember that in this North Node in Aries/South Node in Libra era, Aries wants to get it in gear and Libra wants to look good doing it! As the North Node is in Aries, be willing “to boldly go where you’ve never gone before.” This month shows growth by receptivity to the spiritual energies blowing into all our “mind-windows.”

Peace, fulfillment, creative imagination, honesty, sharing, wisdom, and powerful doses of spiritual energies blowing in are promised these next 4 weeks. We can strengthen our heart responses, change direction as we need to, find connection in our relationships, and if you’re wondering which way to go, remember the wisdom of Nelson Wilbury, “If you don’t know where you’re going any road will take you there.”

Final Thoughts

In 2020-2022, Capricorn helped us to find new forms of social power, while Aquarius took it into a much vaster context of a greater good. As you journey into the “new lands” promised by the recent Jupiter conjunctions with Uranus, remember enlightenment is a verb, not a noun, and our connection with the World Soul allows us to act in harmony with “All That Is.”

Because of our total immersion in Aquarian energy in 2021-2022, we’ve received innovative ideas and know who our spiritual allies are. In the past 3 years we’ve broken away, broken free, and broken through whatever used to block our flow. We approach a new cooperative era, and we’re now in a time of new initiatives!

We’re still becoming more conscious of our interrelatedness within the spiritual field and moving through an immersion in a new sensitivity to the generic human condition. The new era dawning will show us that we are in fact individual sparks of Light within an infinite ocean of Light. We are not separate from any other thing, since all things are Light and therefore we are one with All.

This is the beginning of the beginning of a new 200 year era. The powerful forces being released at times may be chaotic, violent, intractable, and irrational, but there is power in our unified vision of a better future. Stay clear about what your vision is, and let go of all which prevents you from flying free with your Spiritual Brothers and Sisters into a better future. Keep the course steady despite the compressed tensions of this time, and know we’re on our way into the future together!

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See you soon with part 2, which will cover Sabian Symbols, Jones patterns, element distribution, and a whole lot more!

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