FORECASTERS MONTHLY HOROSCOPES (06 AUGUST)

TAURUS (05 August US/Canada/UK/Europe - 06 August NZ/Australia)
 
Mars and Saturn, the powerhouse planets creating the momentum in your work sector, are now close enough that their energies are starting to combine. It’s Mars’ fighting spirit and Saturn’s discipline and focus that gives you the motivation to get things started and the tenacity to see things through. With Venus in her final days in your income sector motivation won’t be a problem, but it’s definitely time to start making things happen.

Monthly General

The overwhelming focus as you move into the month is on the work and income fronts, with Venus finally wrapping up her epic 4 month visit to your income sector on the 8th August, just as Mars and Saturn are coming together to really drive things home on the work front. It's in this atmosphere that this month's Full Moon will fall in your career sector, on the 2nd August. With Mars not leaving your work sector until the 24th August, Saturn stays on until October and lucky Jupiter remains in your income sector until June 2013, on both fronts this will remain a work in progress for some time. Yet as the month unfolds the extreme focus on your professional game and income situation will ease back, allowing life's diversity to take hold. With the Sun in your home and family sector until the 23rd August, Mercury in retrograde motion here until the 8th August, but not leaving until early next month and a New Moon on the 18th August, your home and family situation and matters will feature strongly this month, making it important to work on establishing the right work/life balance from the get go. It's towards the end of the month that your personal life finally gets some support, thanks to the Sun's return to your romantic sector on the 23rd August, Mars' return to your relationship sector on the 24th August and the North Node's return on the 30th August. With so much happening on the professional and personal fronts, the key to everything this month is balance.

Monthly Love

Mars' departure from your romantic sector on the 4th July has not only left you with no planetary activity on the romantic front, but with your relationship sector not usually active until October, no help there as well. At least that's how things stand at the start of the month and for the first 3 weeks you're basically on your own. Things start to change with the Moon's visit to your romantic sector, from the 18th August to the 20th August, giving you a taste of things to come, but it's during the Moon's visit to your relationship sector, from the 22nd August to the 24th August that everything changes. It's within the space of 24 hours that you'll go from having no support on either the romantic or relationship fronts, to having the love gods' full attention. It begins with the Sun's return to your romantic sector on the 23rd August, taking over from where Mars and his romantic passions leave off, while at the same time opening the door to a romantic chapter that will take until late October to run its course. It's just a day later that the most dramatic shift takes place, with Mars' return to your relationship sector not only opening the door to his own 6 week visit, but to a complete revamp of your relationships that will take until late 2014 to complete. The game changer is the North Node's return to your relationship sector on the 30th August, setting the scene for a series of eclipses, including a total solar eclipse in November. From this point fate will take the wheel.

Monthly Money

On both the income and financial front August is a month for setting your intentions and putting things on the track that you want them to continue on, for two very different reasons. On the 8th August Venus, planet of money, desire and attraction will finally leave your income sector, wrapping up an epic 4 month visit, her longest in 8 years. It's the desires, expectations and a sense of entitlement that Venus leaves you with that will keep Jupiter, planet of luck on track for the rest of this year and during the first half of 2013. Jupiter won't leave your income sector until the 26th June 2013, with the desires and expectations being cemented now determining much of what you'll achieve during that time. If Venus leaves you with a sense of wanting more and that you deserve more, then she's done her job, however it then becomes a work in progress that will take until mid 2013 to complete. The Moon's visit to your income sector from the 11th August to the 13th August, will give you a nose for money and clues on how to transition into a longer term focus. In the meantime, the lunar nodes are shifting at the end of the month, with the South Node leaving your income sector on the 30th August, on the same day that the North Node will leave your financial sector. This is why you've had a series of eclipses here over the last few years, but like a pair of trainer wheels on both the financial and income fronts they're about to be withdrawn, making it important to follow the natural current they're creating, allowing you to keep on track once they're gone.

Monthly Business

Since Saturn returned to your work sector in October 2009 there has been no such thing as a dead month on the professional front, with at least some activity in either your work or career sectors keeping things ticking over, but in comparison August is usually a fairly quiet month. The most active time on the career front is usually February/March and the most active time on the work front is usually October/November yet Mars, planet of passion, drive and ambition and the warrior planet of the cosmos is not bound by the same rules that the Sun, Mercury and Venus have to follow and visits wherever he wants, whenever he wants. Mars returned to your work sector last month and after a few teething problems are coming into his own this month. Mars is a planet of action and a planet that encourages you to put everything you have into everything you do, doing whatever it takes for as long as it takes. As Mars draws closer to an opposition with Saturn mid month, their last in your work sector for another 3 decades, Mars' fighting spirit will fuse with Saturn's endurance, giving you the power to move mountains if you have to. Even after Mars leaves your work sector on the 24th August, you'll have that fighting spirit and passion under your hood for months to come. What is likely to get the ball rolling in the early days of the month is a Full Moon in your income sector on the 2nd August, just 6 days before Venus is due to leave your income sector.

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