Daily Highlights
Aug 01, Saturday. Traditional Lammas. The waxing out -of-bounds Moon is passing through the late degrees of Sagittarius and is visible in the constellation of Scorpio. Venus (1 Cancer) opposite Pluto (1 Capricorn)Aug 02, Sunday. The waxing out-of-bounds Moon is crossing the Galactic Cross where the plane of the Solar System and the Plane of the Galaxy intersect near the center of our Galaxy. Mercury enters Virgo until August 25. Mercury is .59 degrees NNE of RegulusAug 03, Monday. Mercury trines Pluto. Aug 04, Tuesday. Moon moves into AquariusAug 05, Wednesday. The Aquarius Full Moon Penumbral Lunar Eclipse (14 Aquarius) exact at 5:55 pm PST.Aug 06, Thursday. Moon conjuncts Jupiter (23 Aquarius) visible 3.1 degrees NNW of Jupiter, Chiron and (24 Aquarius), Neptune (25 Aquarius)Aug 07, Friday. Astrological Cross-quarter. Moon moves into Pisces. Mercury sextiles Venus.Aug 08, Saturday. 8/8 Sun (16 Leo) in the Lion’s gate or the constellation of the Lion.Aug 09, Sunday. The Moon conjuncts Uranus and then moves into Aries.Aug 10, Monday. Mars (21 Gemini) squares Saturn (21 Virgo)Aug 11, Tuesday. Moon moves into TaurusAug 12, Wednesday. Tomorrow Mars (22 Gemini) trines Jupiter (22 Aquarius)Aug 13, Thursday. Last Quarter Moon (21 Taurus)Aug 14, Friday. The Moon occults the Pleiades in the morning sky as it moves into Gemini. Sun (22 Leo) opposes Jupiter (22 Aquarius)Aug 15, Saturday. The Moon passes 9.5 degrees N of Aldebaran and is 3.2 degrees North of Mar.Aug 16, Sunday. The waning Moon moves into Cancer crossing the Galactic Cross near the Galactic Edge.Aug 17, Monday. Sun sextiles Mars, Mercury passes 2.9 degrees SSW of Saturn about 26 degrees from the Sun. This is the first of 3 passes due to Mercury’s retrograde next month. Sun (25 Leo) opposes Neptune (25 Aquarius) and the Moon conjuncts Venus at the fifth gate, third charka.Aug 18, Tuesday. Moon passes by Pollux and Castor passing out of the Sacred Hoop and moving into the seasonal sign of Leo. Mars (25 Gemini) squares Uranus (25 Pisces)Aug 19, Wednesday. Moon reaches perigee (closest approach to the Earth just a few hours before the New Moon possibly affecting weather patterns. Venus sextiles Saturn.Aug 20, Thursday. Leo New Moon (28 Leo near Regulus) 7 am PST.Aug 21, Friday. Moon moved into Virgo yesterday and will conjunct Saturn passing about 6.1 degrees SSW of Saturn this evening. Moon passes 2.6 degrees SSW of Mercury (25 Virgo). Plus, Virgo is opposite Uranus (25 Pisces). The North Node enters Capricorn returning to this area of the sky every 19 years.Aug 22, Saturday. The waxing Moon conjuncts Mercury and then moves into Libra. Venus trines Uranus and the Sun moves into Virgo.Aug 23, Sunday. The Sun trines Pluto. Aug 24, Monday. The Moon passes 3.1 degrees SSW of Spica before moving into Scorpio. Mercury is at greatest elongation in the evening sky 27.4 degrees from the Sun. Vesta and Venus are conjunct in the Morning Sky.Aug 25, Tuesday. Mars moves into Cancer returning to the place where it went retrograde in 2007 and travels through here until October 16. Mercury moves into Libra staying in this area of the sky until October 28 due to the Mercury Retrograde that begins September 6.Aug 26, Wednesday. Mercury squares Pluto. Venus moves into Leo until September 20.Aug 27, Thursday. The Sagittarius First Quarter Moon is 5 Sagittarius and then the Moon occults Antares.Aug 28, Friday. Mercury is sextile VenusAug 29, Saturday. The Moon crosses the Galactic Cross for the second time this month as it passes into Capricorn and conjuncts Pluto.Aug 30, Sunday. Mars is reaching its greatest declination north in this cycle at 23.6. In 1993 Mars reached 27 degrees North Declination. Neptune at 24 Aquarius has retraced its steps to align again with Deneb Algeidi a fixed star marking the tale in the constellation of the Goatfish (a.k.a. Capricorn).Aug 31, Monday. The Moon moves into Aquarius.