August 2025 offers a rich tapestry of intention, illumination, and awakening—guiding us to step forward from old loops into new sovereignty. Tune in, hold your heart, and trust the transforming power of the cosmos this month. Here’s some key astrological events we will experience this month.

Mars in Libra — From August 6

Mars moves into Libra, shifting assertive energy into relationship zones and collective dynamics. This encourages you to assert your needs with grace, while honouring others’ boundaries. Expect tension between action and harmony as Mars in Libra challenges you to stand up with diplomacy and clarity.

When fiery Mars moves into Libra, the sign of balance, partnership, and diplomacy, our drive and energy take on a more relational tone. Mars is the planet of action, ambition, and assertion — it wants to charge ahead. Libra, ruled by Venus, seeks harmony, fairness, and mutual understanding. Together, they create a cosmic lesson in how to stand up for yourself while also keeping the peace.

Mars in Libra is less about solo battles and more about teamwork, collaboration, and win–win solutions. This is a time to refine the way you go after what you want — not through force, but through charm, strategy, and connection.

It’s also a transit that can highlight the tension between people-pleasing and authentic action. Libra loves to keep everyone happy, but Mars demands honesty about our desires. This is where growth happens — finding the sweet spot between assertiveness and diplomacy.

Two days later, Mars forms oppositions to Saturn and Neptune. These create a karmic tension—raising questions of timing, boundaries, and illusions holding you back. It’s a call to root your actions in authenticity even in the face of resistance or confusion.

Lion’s Gate Portal — Peak on August 8

This energetically potent portal opens as the Sun in Leo aligns with Sirius, offering magical manifestation power, especially around personal purpose and creative rebirth. It’s a sacred window to consciously realign with what feels most meaningful in your soul’s calling.

Every year, from late July to mid-August, a powerful energetic alignment occurs known as the Lion’s Gate Portal, peaking on August 8th (8/8). This is a time when the Sun in Leo aligns with the star Sirius, the Orion’s Belt, and the Earth — opening a high-frequency channel of light, activation, and manifestation energy.

In numerology, the number 8 represents abundance, balance, and infinity — the flow of energy between the spiritual and material realms. On 8/8, this vibration doubles, offering a potent moment to align your soul purpose with your earthly path. It’s a day that invites expansion and reminds you of your ability to co-create with the universe.

Full Moon in Aquarius / Major Air Alignments — August 9

The Aquarius Full Moon brings illumination around collective norms and unseen emotional undercurrents. Simultaneously, Mars, Uranus, and Pluto form a Grand Air Trine—opening pathways for surprising insights, breakthroughs in communication, community vision, and creative ambition.

When the Moon is full in Aquarius, the air hums with a unique blend of illumination and rebellion. Aquarius energy is electric, forward-thinking, and deeply connected to the collective. This is the moon of truth-telling, awakening, and breaking free from outdated patterns — both personal and societal.

Aquarius is the visionary of the zodiac: the innovator, the humanist, the one who sees beyond the here and now to a future that’s freer, fairer, and more authentic. It is an air sign ruled by Uranus (planet of sudden change and liberation) and traditionally Saturn (planet of structure and responsibility), giving it a rare mix of revolutionary energy and long-term vision.

Under this moon, we are invited to see the bigger picture — to lift our gaze from the small stories of daily life and ask: What’s my role in the greater whole? How am I contributing to the future I want to see?

This moon can feel both emotionally detached and intellectually charged — Aquarius is less about emotional indulgence and more about clarity, objectivity, and forward motion. This detachment can be powerful: it gives you the perspective to release what no longer serves you without becoming entangled in old emotional cycles.

The Full Moon in Aquarius is a reminder that we are part of something bigger — a vast human tapestry, constantly evolving. It calls us to step into our role as co-creators of the future, to liberate ourselves from what no longer fits, and to walk forward with clarity, authenticity, and heart-centered vision.

Mercury Direct in Leo — August 11

Mercury stations direct in Leo on the 11th, especially helping with creative self-expression, cleared communication, and a renewed sense of how you present your gifts to the world. It helps untangle any issues rooted in Leo’s themes—like confidence or visibility—that may have felt stuck during retrograde.

When Mercury, the planet of communication, thought, and connection, turns direct, it’s as if the mental fog finally begins to lift. In Leo, this shift feels bold, heart-driven, and creative — inviting us to speak our truth with confidence and to express ourselves without apology.

Leo is the sign of self-expression, authenticity, and living from the heart. When Mercury stations direct here, it reopens the channels for clear, passionate communication. If you’ve felt misunderstood, hesitant to share your ideas, or creatively blocked during Mercury’s retrograde, this is the cosmic green light to step forward again.

During retrograde, Mercury in Leo can stir up old doubts about worthiness, visibility, or whether our voice truly matters. Now, as it moves forward, those lessons become fuel for greater authenticity. You’ve reflected. You’ve rethought your approach. Now it’s time to show up fully.

Mercury direct in Leo is a reminder that your words have power — and when they come from the heart, they can inspire, uplift, and create change. This is your moment to be bold, to shine, and to trust that your authentic voice is exactly what’s needed in the world right now.

Virgo Season & New Moon — August 22–23

As the Sun enters Virgo and a New Moon forms shortly after, the energy shifts toward practical renewal, healing routines, and refining intentions. This is a prime moment for planning, health resets, or setting aligned tasks that honour your boundaries and wellness.

As the Sun moves into Virgo, we enter a season of grounded practicality and soulful refinement. Virgo’s energy is both gentle and discerning, encouraging us to care for our inner and outer worlds with mindfulness, structure, and intention. This is a time for simplifying what feels overwhelming, strengthening healthy routines, and aligning our daily actions with our higher purpose.

Virgo is often misunderstood as purely about “perfection” — but its deeper gift is about alignment. It’s about making the small, consistent choices that support your physical well-being, mental clarity, and spiritual connection. It’s the healer, the helper, the craftsperson — dedicated to service, but also to the sacred art of refining life so it works in harmony.

The New Moon in Virgo is a cosmic invitation to plant seeds of intention rooted in clarity, order, and devotion. Unlike fiery or impulsive lunations, Virgo’s new moon energy asks for thoughtful, realistic steps toward our goals. This is a time to commit to the changes that will nurture you long-term — whether that’s a healthier routine, a clearer workspace, or a more intentional mindset.

Virgo Season and its New Moon offer a grounded, healing pause between the height of Leo’s fiery creativity and the deep transformations of the months ahead. It reminds us that the path to our dreams is paved with mindful, daily choices — and that tending to the details can be an act of devotion to the life we’re creating.

When you work with Virgo’s energy, you’re not just organising your outer world — you’re creating a clear, sacred container for your inner light to shine.

Venus in Leo Opposes Pluto — Late August

Venus enters Leo on August 25, activating warmth, creativity, and abundance in how you express love, home, and personal joy. But by August 27 it opposes Pluto—this adds depth and intensity to emotional and relational dynamics. Expect revelations around power dynamics, self-worth, or regenerative endings in partnership or creative expression.

When Venus in Leo stands opposite Pluto, the planet of transformation and truth, we enter a cosmic moment of intensity, revelation, and emotional depth. Venus governs love, beauty, pleasure, and self-worth. Leo adds warmth, passion, and a desire to shine in relationships and creative expression. Pluto, from across the sky, acts like a mirror that doesn’t just reflect your light — it reveals the shadows behind it.

This alignment can feel magnetic and thrilling, but also raw and confronting. It brings the truth to the surface — about what we desire, what we fear, and where power dynamics are shaping our connections.

Pluto’s influence often feels like emotional excavation — digging beneath the surface to reveal what’s been buried. When it comes to love, money, or beauty (Venus themes), this can be deeply confronting. But in Leo, Venus reminds us that facing the shadow is what allows us to shine more authentically. This is about courageous vulnerability — the willingness to be truly seen.

Themes & Energies to Work With:

• Balance through boundary‑setting: Mars in Libra asks you to speak your truth—softly but strongly—within relationships and alliances.

• Manifest with intention: The Lion’s Gate Portal invites deep creative alignment; journal, vision board, or meditative manifestation routines may be especially powerful.

• Illuminate inner structures: The Aquarius Full Moon plus air trines can bring clarity around patterns that feel outdated or collective myths that need release.

• Reclaim your creativity: Mercury direct pulls you out of expression inertia. Step into leadership, sharing, or spiritual offering—especially if Leo themes have felt blocked.

• Plan with clarity and care: Use Virgo’s energy to routinize self-care, home order, and intentional rhythms.

• Dive into emotional truth: Venus opposing Pluto can trigger existential shifts around love, money, or identity. Surrender what no longer serves—reclaim what nourishes.

How to Flow With This Energy

• Meditate or journal on themes around self-expression, boundary, desire vs. appearance.

• Invoke intention setting rituals around the Lion’s Gate (Aug 8) and Virgo New Moon (Aug 23).

• Stay grounded in body and breath during Mars-Saturn tension days (especially Aug 8–9).

• Initiate creative or relational offerings after Mercury turns direct on Aug 11.

• Use the last week of August for introspection: what can be released, what deserves more radiant embodiment?