Full Moon in Aquarius — August 2022 Astrology Forecast Part 2
This astrology forecast will discuss the Full Moon in Aquarius and all the astrological events right up to the New Moon in Virgo in late August. The first section will review the general astrology, followed by sign-specific horoscopes. These horoscopes are written for your rising sign, but please feel free to read your Sun sign and/or Moon sign. Learn how to pull up your chart and find your rising sign here.
The Full Moon in Aquarius arrives on August 11th at 9:36pm EDT. The Moon is conjunct Saturn, the planet of restriction and limitation, and we may feel a heaviness in the air or a little more detached from our emotional needs and ability to connect within. Saturn often provides us with a sense of responsibility and constraint, asking us to push aside necessary personal desires and feelings to address material requirements and societal expectations.
We may feel like things are moving along slowly in that area of our life that is ruled by Aquarius, but there is opportunity within this restriction. The slowness of Saturn is intentional – it asks us to really refine and review our actions so whatever we build has structure and the ability to withstand time. To be long-lasting is to be able to handle all conflict and hardships within the experience.
Uranus is also squaring this Full Moon, which may throw us a curveball or unexpected event that may require us to rework our path and outlook. It may also feel like we are pulled in another direction while simultaneously dealing with our desires and limitations. On the same day, Venus enters Leo. This will help us unify any parts of ourselves that feel a little unsettled and disrupted from stability, and maybe even open up doors for us to share our experience with others who care and can help.
A few days after, on August 14th, we will still be feeling the effects of this Full Moon. Whatever challenge or boundary placed on our identity and ability to understand ourselves reaches the peak opposition with restrictive Saturn. It may feel like something has to give in this intense moment, and it may be a constant push and pull to find some harmony and ease. At the same time, whatever inspiration that flows in will be supported if we choose to take action on it.
Mercury makes a supportive aspect to Uranus on August 16th, and this is a good day for writing, communicating, analyzing, and putting out work that is a little more on the edge, disrupting, and not your usual spiel. It may also be a good time to fully process, intellectualize, and understand what came up for you during the Full Moon, and organize whatever is left.
On August 18th, Venus makes a very sweet aspect to joyful and abundant Jupiter. This is a great day to have fun with those you love and enjoy the magic with higher spirits and optimism. Creative projects and passions may get a boost, and it may feel like a break from the restrictive aspects we’ve been dealing with lately.
Mars enters Gemini on August 20th, starting a new era for Mars in general. Mars in Gemini adds more emphasis on our role and place within society, how we communicate and interact with different groups of people, as well as expressing our ideas, and starting new ventures. But Mars will be in the sign for a long time — it will station retrograde here at the end of October until January 2023 and won’t leave Gemini until March 2023. Whatever house Gemini represents for you will be a big theme and area of increased energy for the next several months.
Virgo season arrives on August 22nd, and Mercury makes connections to Neptune and Pluto around the same time. This day and all the way up to the 25th are great days for organizing, cleaning, and analyzing your life from a practical standpoint. It’s also useful for any writing and communication projects, or simply expressing knowledge of future plans, goals, and actions. As the Moon is decreasing in light, it’s a great time to finish up projects or goals you have started around the New Moon in late July.
Mercury will shift in the social Libra on August 25th, right before the New Moon in Virgo. However, Mercury is now in its shadow period and will station retrograde on September 9th, so be prepared to review decisions, conversations, or ideas that start to come up for you around this planetary ingress. In Libra, Mercury offers more emphasis on communicating with groups, friends, and other people as well as developing relationships, learning and receiving ideas from other people, and expanding social circles. This offers a little bit more of a lighter energy after focusing so much on analytical and practical desires.
Let’s look at specifically where this Full Moon is happening for you:
AQUARIUS & AQUARIUS RISING
This Full Moon highlights you, Aquarius, and the work you have been putting into yourself, your own needs, and self-growth. The Moon shows the consistent effort you have when it comes to making changes and the personal growth you’ve experienced over the past six months. Saturn co-present has the opportunity to solidify those changes for a lasting transformation, even if progress has been slow. Other people within your life, especially within close and personal relationships, may have been an important aspect in finding your own self and what you need as an individual.
As Venus enters this sign on the same day, there’s an opportunity for you to have a sweeter relationship experience and find a little lighter love with someone close to you, either personal or professional. And at the same time, your home life is demanding your attention and focus. Sudden, unexpected changes or challenges with your living situation or your parents (and in-laws) may be demanding much of your time and energy. However, when Mars leaves Taurus for Gemini on the 20th, this will create some space in that area of your life and refocus it onto your creative side, creative play, sex, children, and your relationship with each, will be a steady focus for the next several months.
Virgo season begins to draw attention to your partner’s resources and what they bring to the table. This also includes collaborations with other businesses or people, or the potential of opening a loan, or working with other people’s money. There’s a lot of attention to detail needed in these arrangements. But as Mercury leaves for Libra on August 25th, things will begin to shift to a long-term focus, and you’ll be wanting to communicate about your long-term goals, dreams, and plans.
PISCES & PISCES RISING
Your hidden thoughts, inner processing, and mental health is highlighted under this Full Moon. There may have been a feeling of limitation or slow growth in this area of your life, but there has also been profound healing and beautiful development, especially over the past six months. Celebrate the work you have done within yourself as well as the work you are producing the in outer, physical world. Work routines, daily work life, and relationships with employers and employees has been growing throughout this Leo season, and when Venus also enters the sign, it may allow for a little more ease and peace within your daily work environment and body health.
Changes and disruptions within your neighborhood, or with siblings, daily communication, and daily rituals may pull your focus away from your own personal work and force you into problem-solving mode. Once Mars enters Gemini on August 20th, some of the intensity will be lifted, and your desire for action will transition to your home, family, parents, and private living environment. Gemini will be in this sign for several months, so notice what comes up for you during this period and create action plans as needed.
Virgo season will shift attention to your committed partnerships, both personal and work-related. This has been growing in your life as Mercury progressed through this sign, and now you have the chance to see how these relationships may help you develop yourself personally. Mercury’s move into Libra will ask you to evaluate and analyze your partner’s contributions and finances, as well as collaborations and work with other people and their money, as perhaps even some hidden aspect or area of your life will be brought to light and asked for review.
ARIES & ARIES RISING
Aquarius’ Full Moon highlights your friend groups and overall community. Perhaps you haven’t been able to spend as much time involved within it as you want, but at the same time lasting relationships have been made and a strong support structure has the potential to be built with Saturn transiting through this sign. At the same time, this isn’t the same community you have grown in within the past six months, and this Full Moon wants you to celebrate that even as you continue to shine and grow with creative projects and new inspiration, as well as your sex life, and children. Venus entering Leo can make your creativity radiate with a little more sweetness and maybe provide blessings from fun relationships.
Challenges and disruptions in your work life and how you make money, and your overall income stream, may conflict with this Full Moon and pull you away to deal with practical matters. But as Mars shifts into Gemini, some of this conflict will ease and more attention will be shifted to your communication, writing projects, and/or siblings, your neighborhood, and daily routine. Mars will be here for several months, so take notice of what gets dug up around this time.
Virgo season adds more emphasis to your work life and daily work routine you face as well as your employer and employees. Analyzing this routine and the changes that need to be made so there is a little more ease and joy will make this season easier. Mercury moving into Libra on the 25th will move focus onto your one-on-one relationships and partnerships, both professional and personal. Notice what is said during this period and know that a retrograde Mercury will review this conversation later.
TAURUS & TAURUS RISING
This Full Moon is all about your career and the long-lasting growth you have put into your work in the world. This growth may have been slower and a little more challenging with obstacles to push through, but you have grown so much within the past six months and it’s time to celebrate that work you’ve completed and shared with the world. Whatever you have been building in your career has the potential to be a stable structure of which you can continue to manifest and grow into. Even so, a lot of attention has been on your home life as well. With Venus also entering Leo, there’s an opportunity for a little more sweetness and gifts to be obtained in that area of your life centered around home, family, parents, and your childhood past.
At the same time, you have been going through a shakeup and reevaluation of yourself, your goals, and your dreams including how you present yourself to the world and how other people see you. There may have been conflict there as you pave the way for your new spirit to shine and the rebelliousness that pushes against the old traditional structures and roles society asks us to fit into. Some of this conflict will ease when Mars moves into Gemini on August 20th. Much of your attention and desire to take action will focus on your resources, how you make money, and how you spend it for your own needs and personal growth. Mars will be here well into 2023, so notice what starts to come up for you during this transition.
Virgo season wants you to feel inspired and motivate others with your creativity, maybe using a lot of that creative energy to find new ways to bring in resources and work with others. Towards the end of the lunation, Mercury will move into Libra, focusing time and communication on your daily work life and work routines.
GEMINI & GEMINI RISING
Long-term goals or a new long-distance travel and/or a trip may be on the horizon for you, Gemini, as this Full Moon highlights your future, your goals, dreams, and aspirations for how you want your life to look like for the next five years. This area of your life may have been filled with roadblocks and weird turns, but you can’t deny the overall growth you have achieved within the past six months and how that is means for celebration. Slow growth is still growth, and perhaps it has a little more structure now that you’ve established your boundaries here. At the same time, your neighborhood, siblings, daily talks and experiences in life have been your focus for the past Leo New Moon. As Venus moves into this sign, look out for little gifts and blessings in this area of your life as you work through paving your future plans.
At the same time, you may be drawn away to your hidden spaces and needing to focus on mental health and your own personal spiritual growth as Uranus has been disrupting and shaking apart this aspect of yourself. This involves realizing your own role in the development of your life, including the ways you may participate in self-undoing and putting roadblocks onto yourself. Some of this hidden tension will begin to ease when Mars moves into Gemini on August 20th, and you’re reborn with the motivation and desire to take action and implement changes for yourself. As Mars works its way through this sign, you are working your way through yourself and how you want to grow, especially into 2023.
Virgo season shifts attention onto your home life, your living situation, and your parents and family as well as your past childhood. There is an opportunity for healing and analyzing what parts of your home life need a change or refresh. When Mercury enters Libra not too much later, you’ll be shifting focus onto your creative projects, creative needs, sexual desires, and/or the needs and focus of your children.
CANCER & CANCER RISING
Aquarius’ Full Moon highlights your collaborations with other people, including those that involve money and potentially your partner’s resources. With Saturn here, it may have often felt like you’re left to carry the burden with providing for yourself and your family, but now there’s a noticeable growth and ability to receive help and support from others. While still limited, you know that the structure is there if you need it. Your own resources and the ways you bring money into your life have been the focus for much of Leo season, and when Venus enters that sign on the day of the Full Moon, there’s another opportunity for you to receive little gifts and blessings, perhaps in the form of monetary resources, your own self-esteem, and/or personal support.
A lot of change and maybe even conflicts and/or disruptions and transformations have been taking place in your larger friend group and community. Perhaps what you have thought was a stable foundation within the group is no longer certain. This has been an area of intense focus for you lately, but as Mars moves into Gemini on 20th, you will start pull away from the outer groups to your own inner sanctuary. Here you will be taking action and working through your mental health and inner subconscious, as well as any spiritual practices, and hidden projects or beliefs you are working through yourself, well into 2023.
Virgo season will draw attention to your neighborhood, siblings, daily rituals, and any communication or writing projects you may been developing in August while Mercury transitioned through this sign. Mercury’s move into Libra on the 22nd will move a little more attention into your home, family, and overall living situation as well as relationships with your parents or other family members, including your relationship with your childhood and past.
LEO & LEO RISING
One-on-one relationships and personal connections, both platonic and romantic, are highlighted for you during this Full Moon. You have been going through intense growth of yourself and your own personal needs and desires during Leo season, and this Full Moon shows how your partnerships are helping you define yourself and your own needs. Perhaps there has been emptiness or space in this area of your life, but it’s not without reason. Saturn wants to ensure that whatever relationship you do end up growing will be long lasting and helpful to you in the long-term future. Venus entering into Leo on the same day will help you unify parts of yourself that have been hidden or separated from you, or what you have been working on behind the scenes of everyday life.
Your career has been a point of increased attention and energetic focus for you lately, and may pull you away from your work with yourself. There may have been conflict and instability in this area of your life, but once Mars moves into Gemini on the 20th, the intensity will begin to lighten. Your drive and desire for action will shift into your larger friend group and overall community you’ve been working with. This will be a large part of your focus well into 2023.
Virgo season draws attention onto your money and resources that you have been focused on developing since the beginning of August. The work that you’ve done with yourself needs support and resources to continue to grow. As Mercury moves into Libra on the 22nd you will shift some attention over to your neighborhood, siblings, and communication projects that will be subject to review in September.
VIRGO & VIRGO RISING
This Full Moon is all about your daily work routine and daily work life, and how that structure has been growing during the past six months. There’s been slow expansion within this area of your life, but with good reason as you’re envisioning the structure and ideal work environment you want to develop within your life. Leo season has been all about your mental health and hidden projects or beliefs you’ve been mulling over, outside of the external environment. With Venus entering this sign on the day of the Full Moon, there’s opportunity for you to heal and connect these parts of yourself that may have felt disconnected or simply unsure how to integrate.
At the same time, so much of your energy and attention has been brought into your long-term plans and goals, as well as long-distance travel and philosophy views. Beliefs that you’ve thought have always been true may have been disrupted or dismantled, and you’re experiencing radical change in the way you want to grow in the long-term future. Once Mars moves into Gemini on the 20th, some of the tension you may have felt here will ease up and your drive and action will shift into your career and overall career goals. You career will experience great change within the next several months, so notice what starts to develop for you during this ingress.
Virgo season pulls you out of your mental and subconscious realm to fully integrate and focus on yourself, how you see yourself, how you present yourself, and how other people perceive you and your new vision for your overall growth. This is nothing new for you, as you’ve been communicating and analyzing yourself since August. Once Mercury moves into Libra on the 22nd, you’ll shift some of that attention to your money and resources, and how you will overall support this new self-growth and development.
LIBRA & LIBRA RISING
Aquarius’ Full Moon highlights your creativity, creative projects, inspiration, as well as your children’s growth and your own personal creative and fun part of self. Growth and inspiration here may have felt slow or overrun with your own responsibilities and work needs, but this Full Moon still asks you to celebrate what you have grown and accomplished for yourself personally during the past six months. Leo season has you expressing yourself in your community and overarching friend groups, and when Venus enters this sign on the same day, there’s opportunity to have some fun and receive some joy and blessing with these groups of people. Don’t be afraid to let your light shine with the people that support you the most.
Uranus has been shaking up and destabilizing your collaborations and resources you share with others. There may have been a lot of focus on working with your partner’s money or business collaborations, as well as actions like trying to obtain a loan or other resources from others. Things may have been moving slowly and/or there may have been conflict here. Once Mars moves into Gemini on 20th, your drive and energy will shift to your long-term plans, goals, visions for the future as well as long-distance travel. You may be encouraged or driven to grow your philosophical mind or head back to school. Notice what starts to come up for you as Mars stays in this sign until March 2023.
Virgo season pulls you away from your larger friend groups and community, and demands that you spend time analyzing and focusing on your own mental health and development, as well as digging through your subconscious and inner needs. You have been experiencing some of this through August already, but once Mercury shifts into Libra more attention will be into integrating that hidden information and expressing yourself, your needs, and how others perceive you.
SCORPIO & SCORPIO RISING
This Full Moon highlights the structures of your home, family, parents, and overall living environment and what that may look like for you. There may have been a limiting force or slow movement in this area of your life, but you have still come a long way from how you were living six months ago. Celebrate the growth you have done here as well as the structures you will continue to build to create a stable and lasting home. Leo season has had you focusing on your career and career growth in the world, and with Venus also entering into this sign, there’s an opportunity for blessings and gifts as well. Maybe a new relationship that helps you further expand your career goals will present itself.
Your one-on-one relationships, both professional and personal, have equally been demanding your attention and time. There may have been a lot of changes and moving pieces within these relationships, as well as potential conflict as you work out the changes with yourself and your partner(s). Once Mars enters Gemini on the 20th, some of this will ease and your drive and attention will be focused on your collaborations, perhaps with work, other people’s resources and money, and potentially even your partner’s finances and how they are supporting you within this period of your life.
Virgo season provides gifts and attention onto your friend groups and larger community within your environment. You’ve been analyzing throughout August who has your back and has been able to offer lasting support during your transitions. With the Sun entering into this sign, it gives you an opportunity for you to shine your light within this community and circle. Mercury will shift into Libra not too long after, and some of your communication and focus will move into your house of the hidden subconscious, spirituality, and inner needs.
SAGITTARIUS & SAGITTARIUS RISING
Your neighborhood, smaller community and close friends, as well as siblings and even your communication or writing projects get illuminated by this Full Moon on Thursday. This is probably an area of your life that has been moving slowly, but you have still developed lasting structures and places of stability within the part of your life that involves your daily routine and rituals with life. Leo season has been pushing you to focus on your long-term goals, direction for the future, and philosophical and/or educational expansion. Venus entering into this sign will bring some blessings and gifts for your future plans and help unify a goal you weren’t sure how it was going to play out.
Your daily work routine and daily work structure has been a point of instability and potentially constant conflict pushing you into problem-solving mode surrounding work but also with employees and employers. Mars’ ingress into Gemini on the 20th will help ease some of this tension and build up, and have you focusing on your one-on-one relationships and partnerships. Here you will have more drive and motivation to work with people close to you, both professionally and romantically. Notice what starts to come up for you as this theme unfolds into 2023.
Virgo season is all about your career, and how you have been communicating and analyzing your goals professionally. Now the Sun asks you to find ways you can shine in your public roles and how you find meaning for yourself personally. Mercury’s shift into Libra not long after will put more focus onto your friendships and larger overarching community. Have some fun here, and find some ease away from all the work changes and developments.
CAPRICORN & CAPRICORN RISING
Money and your own personal resources are being highlighted for you under this Aquarius Full Moon, Capricorn. With Saturn transiting this sign, there may have been challenges or slow growth in this area, or a limitation to the full access of your resources. But you have still achieved and accomplished so much growth and structure here, especially over the past six months with how you make money and how you spend it. Leo season has put a lot of your own focus and growth within your collaborations, or how you have been supported through your partner or other people’s resources. With Venus entering this sign, notice what little gifts or blessings that may come in the form of you receiving benefits and help from other people. Being open to receptivity will make this easier for you.
Your creative life and projects, as well as sexual needs and the needs of your children have been an area of change and perhaps even disruption or instability. There’s been an intense and increased need for growth in this area, but also may have brought some conflict and frustrations. With Mars entering into Gemini on the 20th, attention will focus away from your creative and fun aspects of life into your daily work routines and daily work projects. You’ll be driven to work through developing your work life and your relationships with your employer or employees, if relevant.
Virgo season brings more emphasis on your long-term plans, goals, and direction you wish to pursue for the future. You’ve already been thinking and perhaps communicating some ideas about the direction you wish to take, but this will be further emphasized as Sun moves here and you evaluate the goals that make you feel fulfilled. Mercury moving into Libra will shift some of that focus into your career and your public roles in the world, how you are seen, and what you wish to accomplish with your work.
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