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Heads Up!The Writer’s August Astrological Almanac
by Kathy Watts on Aug.02, 2010, under Forecasts
It’s a month of retrogrades and long-lasting conjunctions. Life may seem stuck in low gear, but the low gears are the strong ones. Venus and Saturn are within orb for conjunction from Aug 2 till Aug 13. Heads up for any unwarranted feelings of self-sacrifice or self-pity. Mars is deep in the mix, too.
Mars will be in a separating conjunction with Saturn until Aug 11 or so. Be on guard against feeling so strong that you’re willing to be a doormat.
Then we have Venus and Mars, ah! This gives charm and beauty to the world, and reckless flirtation, jealousy, and temper.
Now that’s a Heads Up configuration!
They begin an applying conjunction on Aug 6, reach exact conjunction on Aug 20 (the same day that Mercury goes stationary retrograde), do the exact conjunction again on Oct 1 (shortly before Venus goes stationary retrograde on Oct 8), and they don’t pull away from one another until Oct 12. Then there’s Jupiter and Uranus, still conjunct in the borderlands of early Aries and late Pisces. It lasts till the end of the year, and then some. This is the stuff of Big Business, big and generous authority, and big surprises. Make friends with these conditions and Heads Up all month. Get all that? Did it stick? Me, neither. That’s why I need to look at the sky day by day, night by night.
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