Astrology for August 22, 2024

The Sun shifts out of the powerful and provoking sign of Leo today and moves into Virgo. It will stay there until the 22^nd of September helping us fine tune the details.

We need to make sense out of what has been happening and we need change because the previous patterns are not allowing us to have a path through this maze that allows for comfort and consideration.

We need to have the daily issues feel more handled. We need to remove the patterns that are causing us concern and are contributing to the negative energy that is pulling us down. There are so many issues that are piling up and just now seem to be weighing us down.

It feels as if the reality keeps adding things instead of subtracting things and the overwhelm is getting to us.

The sign of Virgo is great in helping us implement new systems and to deal with the details. But it almost feels too little … too late.

Somehow, we have crossed an invisible line, and some will feel as if they cannot go back and will refuse to put themselves into patterns that feel abusive and mean-spirited.

The best way to handle things is to remember what you love to do and move in that direction. I know we are at the end of the summer, but a quick trip might give hope and allow in more joy in a moment that we need to get away from our reality and move towards things that will give us some solace and healing.

Pluto and the Sun will quincunx and what is clear is that change is needed to be able to keep going forward. Know that the tension is palpable, and the fears of our old reality are right on the surface. Today, things feel like a step backwards and that is demoralizing. We don’t like to feel powerless in life and we are going to need to find a way to deal with this new perspective and still manage to grow.

Mars and Venus are in a square and the overall feeling is one of unhappiness. Venus wants to spread love but Mars can want to pick a fight. The tension between the good and the bad in ourselves and others is heightened. It may come out as competition, and it may come out as feelings of aggression that are directed outward to what some feel is the source of that anger. Deciding to have a conversation to “set the record straight” is an extremely bad idea. All approaches will fail under these planetary tensions.

The advice is to do nothing that will come from an emotional impulse. Chances are that it will blow up in your face.

~Suzanne Wagner~