2024.08.07 august outlook
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[00:00:00] So happy August, this month is really characterized by being a time to kind of slow down, tune into your body and maybe reassess your path a little bit as we. Moved towards the end of the year as we move towards eclipse season, especially mercury retrograde right now, Saturn retrograde, I'll say more about the shifts happening in August, 2024, specifically. On this podcast episode.
[00:00:26] And so also. I was just, this is the final live recording. Of Yogi scopes lives. So for the last, this is the third week now I've been having folks join me, live on zoom, and it's been super fun. It's also been, especially now that Mercury's actually retrograde. So we were in the shadow period for the last couple of weeks.
[00:00:46] I said more about that on the last two podcasts episodes. Um, but since I've been doing this, we were in the shadow period. Now mercury is officially retro grade and I feel like I'm doing all the things. Um, to try to minimize like tech glitches and district distractions, but they happen. Um, I'm recording in the Mars hill yoga barn, which is my new this year in person studio.
[00:01:07] Cause. The AC is out in my house and it is like ungodly hot in there. Um, and so it might be a little extra echoey in here. The wifi is weird down here. So I've tried to do everything ahead of time, which I'll say more about that. On this podcast episode, you might be doing something like that. This month where you're just like trying to double check things, take extra extra steps because your original plan or what you might normally do might get thrown off because of all of this retrograde energy. So let's dive into what's going on in August.
[00:01:40] And of course, as always yoga practices and journal prompts to help you better. Like embody the energy. So first I'd like to extend you a warm welcome to the Yogi scopes podcast. I'm your host. Rosemary Holbrook. I am a yoga therapist and a Vedic Siberian astrologer. So all of the things that I say are happening, this is the little point of confusion for some folks is using this idea. Zodiac, which is. Typically about a sign ahead or sorry. Assigned behind whatever, if you're just out there on social media, out there on the internet and you just Google like astrology. If they're not distinguishing, it's probably Western astrology and it's probably using the tropical Zodiac, which is less astronomically accurate.
[00:02:28] And so that's all I'll say about that for now. Um, if you have questions or, you know, I want to chat more about it. I'm here for you. I have resources. If you go to Yogi scopes.com and click on articles, you will find some articles that might help you start to dive into. The stuff on the blogs. So. Yeah, all this stuff I'm saying is from that side cereal perspective.
[00:02:50] And if you want to get your side cereal birth chart, your baby birth chart. It's going to look different than the Western chart or the tropical chart. And I have resources for that as well. Just go to Yogi scopes.com/chart. There's a free calculator. There's also a free resource, um, PDF guide worksheet thing to help you understand what you're looking at, because it can look like a foreign language at first. So let's dive into what's happening. In August, usually just to kind of give you a rundown. This is like the, I guess trauma informed teacher in me.
[00:03:22] I'm like, I like to tell you where we're going before we go there. So you know what to expect. And so usually on these monthly outlook episodes, I like to. I just kind of rattle off some dates, like here's, what's happening. And if you're newer to astrology that might make your head spin and you might be like, what?
[00:03:38] I didn't just, just try not to like, turn your ears off, especially, you know, if you're doing something else, like going for a walk or driving or doing chores, whatever. Um, that's fine. Just like, bring your brain back when I get. But some people care, but if you're newer to it, um, that part can kind of make your head spin and kind of make your ears turn off for two notes.
[00:03:57] So. Just bear with me and then I'll get into like what that actually means. And, um, then as always the yoga practices and journal prompts for how to work with it, because. It's one thing to kind of like, know what's going on and maybe have some sense of like, oh yeah, that resonates. It's another thing to like intentionally use your yoga practice.
[00:04:19] That's the yoga therapy piece. Use your yoga practices to more like embody the energies. And use the journal prompts to see if well, do you want to do something different? Cause there's I should know who said this quote, cause I use it all the time. Um, some famous Sage Joe Tishi right. Um, Said. Like in regards to your birth chart or your karma and the astrology and freewill, and all of that conversation is like maybe it's in your karma or in your birth chart, right.
[00:04:47] To get hit in the head with a rock. But your actions are going to determine if you get hit in the head with a Boulder or a pebble. And so that's kind of what we're trying to do here is use these yoga practices and journal prompts to make it a pebble. Instead of a Boulder, right? And so stick around to the end.
[00:05:03] So what we've already had happened as I'm recording this, it is Wednesday, August 7th. Sometimes I get these out before the month starts. Um, this time, the talking about mercury retrograde specifically felt. More time-sensitive to me. And so we've already covered that. So on Sunday, August 4th, mercury went retrograde in Leo, and then on that same day, we had a new moon in cancer.
[00:05:28] So I highly recommend diving into those two episodes and the companion blog posts on my website. Um, with the signed by signs, if you haven't already dive in, dive into those two resources, because those things, that's why I went over them first are going to have a big. Um, influence over like the vibes of this month.
[00:05:52] So when I get into the overall energies, of course, they'll come back up and I'll summarize it. But if you want to go deeper with it, there's resources for you. To revisit on the podcast on Yogi scopes.com on the website. Um, I send them out as a email newsletter on Fridays, but. I also pissed them on the website if you go to articles.
[00:06:13] And so, um, next thing happening, the next shift isn't until Friday, August 16th, when the sun is entering Siberia, Leo. So if you're newer to astrology or you've been paying attention to tropical astrology, Western astrology, or if you're just on the internet, They just call it astrology. Usually people only distinguish when it's something other than like Vedic, astrology, you know? Um, so anyway, Um, That happens for us that use the site of your yield Zodiac.
[00:06:45] When I guess the Western astrologers are out there, like saying it's almost Virgo season. So I'll, I'll have more to say about like this Leo season, Virgo season, whatever season kind of idea, because it comes up a lot. And so, um, but right now, the important thing to know is that in Vedic, astrology, Um, we focus more on the moon.
[00:07:07] We call it it's a lunar based system. So we're not really putting all of this importance on the sun, the way tropical astrology or Western astrology is. So the sun will enter Leo. I'll say more about that in a moment because actually somebody that's here live with me. I was asking beforehand, I was like, you have any questions or things you want me to really focus on in this episode.
[00:07:28] And somebody mentioned. Um, they can Donta zone and the karmic knots, the spiritual knots that I was talking about in the last couple of episodes. And so as the sun moves into Leo, it will also be moving through that. Into zone. So I'm going to say more about what that means. For you and, and how to work with it in your life in a moment.
[00:07:46] And then after that, we have a full moon in Aquarius. And so that's on Monday, August 19th. Um, shameless plug. There's still spots available in our day retreat at here in the yoga barn. On Saturday, August 17th, it runs from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM. We'll have yoga, we'll have journaling, um, more in depth than the journaling we do on here on the podcast. Um, I'll provide a vegan Ayurvedic lunch.
[00:08:13] We'll also have forest bathing where you get to go out and these beautiful woods that you can't see right now, but there. Lovely mountains of Western North Carolina, blue Ridge mountains, and go spend some mindful time in nature. It's really healing. It's really transformative and you can still sign up. Sunday, August 17th.
[00:08:28] If you just go to Mars hill yoga.com, you'll find it. So, um, that's for the full moon in Aquarius and all of course, to do a separate episode. Diving more deeply into that, particularly that specifically, but the important part right now is that Saturn is retrograding in Aquarius. And so that really affects the vibe of this month to. And then on Wednesday, August 21st, mercury will retrograde back to cancer.
[00:08:57] I covered that. Very very in depth on the mercury retrograde podcast episode. But basically what you need to know is that mercury will then begin. Again, be moving through that conduct to zone through that. We'll talk about in just a moment. The good Dante zone. Just quickly is a time to kind of. Either, um, kind of grind patterns in more deeply and, and kind of dig a rut or a groove more deeply, or to untie these spiritual knots.
[00:09:31] So it's really important. And you're here doing the work. If you're here listening to this podcast, it's really important. To pay attention. And sharpen your awareness about what things might be coming up so that you can, if you don't intentionally choose something different. Your default pattern is probably going to be, um, cranking on that spiritual, not we might call it or digging the groove into a rut.
[00:09:55] Um, your default pattern will. Dig the karma deeper basically. And if you're paying attention, which you are, because you're here listening to an astrology podcast, um, you have a better chance at, at choosing something different. If that's what you want to do, it might be that you don't. Right. Um, but yeah, just keep paying attention, keep listening, keep sharpening your awareness and you'll be all right.
[00:10:17] And then the next thing happening is on Saturday, August 24th. Venus enters Virgo. And so right after that, I'm going to talk about these things. Two things together right now on Monday, August 26, Mars enters Gemini. And so then when they are. Um, when Mars is in Gemini. So not right at the moment when Venus moves into Virgo, but when Mars moves to Gemini, It will then be aspect in Venus and Venus in Virgo is considered debilitated.
[00:10:49] And of course, I will say more about that because y'all know, I don't like fear based language. Um, and debilitated sounds a little scary. Um, and it will be conjunct with K2. And right. This is right where the eclipses are happening is, um, on the Virgo and Pisces axis, Siberia Lee. So that's the thing I want to keep making that. Caveat because people on YouTube will correct me.
[00:11:18] And so that's the important part that you need to know is this idea really we're talking about. The eclipses in September and early October, we'll be on the Virgo and Pisces axis. Venus will be there. Um, You know, late August into September Venus's debilitated and Virgo. That sounds super scary. It's with K2.
[00:11:41] Of course, I have some ideas of how you can make it less scary. So just keep listening. Um, and then when Mars enters Gemini, it will then be aspect thing that conjunction of Venus and, um, K2. In Virgo. And also. Mars will then soon after that. Well, not that soon as. It's October, but, um, Mars will enter the shadow period, basically the, the space where it's going to retrograde later in the year.
[00:12:10] So that's been a big, big. Topic this year. Um, probably the biggest thing that I've been watching personally, or maybe worrying about may or may not be the right way to describe that. But at the end of the year, Um, Like around the time of our presidential inauguration in the us next year, January of 2025. Um, And so late this year, Mars will be retrograding in cancer.
[00:12:39] So around the time of election season here in the U S, which we all know is very heated already this year, especially. Um, Mars will move to it's it's sign of debilitation of cancer. And, um, that just kinda makes emotions more fiery, makes people a little bit more likely to lash out emotionally in general. Um, and of course I'll say more about it as we get closer. But then it will retrograde in cancer for a little bit and be retrograding in cancer around the time of that inauguration in January.
[00:13:14] And then it will move back to Gemini and retrograded Gemini for a little while. And then go direct and Gemini in late February of 2025, which is then incidentally right before we're going to start having these huge conjunctions in or huge. Stellium lots of planets in Pisces at the same time, culminating with a Saturn RA who conjunction in Pisces that I've been talking about. For, uh, like over a year now, probably on the podcast here and there, it keeps coming up.
[00:13:47] Cause I'm like, it's a big deal. And we're having these little things that are kind of. Foreshadowing into, what's going to feed into that time. So it's a big deal. And why I'm bringing it up now is because Mars entering Gemini at the end of this month, we'll kind of start a cycle that will carry us into that time.
[00:14:06] If that makes sense, because Mars will be going. Um, direct in Gemini and then. Shortly thereafter, moving back to cancer again and being debilitated again around that. Time of, you know, if you're here in the Northern hemisphere spring. Of. 2025. And. So what you need to know for the short term. About that is. Um, Mars and Gemini is kind of related to like quick thinking quick action, but it can also be like, it can create the kind of vibe where you just like, say the first thing that comes to mind.
[00:14:47] And it's like maybe a little more fiery than you intended, and that's not until the end of the month. So I'll have more to say about that. Um, when we get to the overall energies portion, the last shift that you need to know about for the month of August is on August 28th. Mercury goes direct in cancer. And I encourage you to listen or revisit that mercury retrograde special episode.
[00:15:11] I put out a couple of weeks ago for more details about that. Um, but it'll be important this month as well. So if you notice, like the whole vibe of this month is pretty much everything. I pointed out was around. Cancer and Leo, like a lot of the energy this month is around the signs of cancer and Leo. Um, because.
[00:15:38] Um, I guess that's what we would call Siberia. Leo season is well, we have Venus in Leo already. Mercury is retrograde in Leo right now. As we speak the sun, doesn't enter Leo until the middle of the month, but it's spending a week, roughly August 12th to 19th. The sun will be moving through that condone to zone between cancer. And Leo.
[00:16:03] So, um, I'll say more about it in the overall energies, but basically. Cancer. And Leo are the only two signs in the Zodiac that are ruled by the luminaries, the luminaries being the sun and the moon. And some astrologers, not me personally, associate. Um, the sun and the moon with the sixth chakra, the third eye chakra.
[00:16:28] I personally my approach and I teach about this in the astrology for yogis course, my, um, trauma informed Vedic astrologer certification. That I offer is I think the only place I have this right now, but how the planets aligned with the chakra is, and from my perspective, the moon is the third eye because the moon represents your intuition, right. And that's a pretty good connection there.
[00:16:53] And the sun being the soul's planet is like the seventh chakra or your crown chakra, your aura, your soul, right. Um, and so those two things are like, we could think of as like the highest spiritual Ascension, maybe. Um, whereas the other, the lower chakra is especially are more concerned with like day to day or like your physical body, which is just as important.
[00:17:18] And I of course will have more to say about that in regards to the Venus and. K2 conjunction in Virgo. Um, and how the body is, the body keeps the score, right? Like that book that's super popular. Um, The body is super important and, um, So also though, it's like, we're trying to do all these things so that we can. Maybe reach this like spiritual Ascension or something. Um, and so that's that's cancer and Leo they're ruled by the luminaries are the only signs that are the rest of the signs are ruled by other planets.
[00:17:54] The luminaries only rule one sign each the sun rules, a Leo moon rules cancer. And so. Yeah. So that's, that's a big part of the vibe. Is this like cancer cancer into Leo season this month? Um, and just quickly. I'll say, because I always like to kind of point out, cause I'm like, if you resonate with tropical astrology, like fine, like I'm not there.
[00:18:21] I'm not here to stop you. Um, but some people may be more on the fence or, or more unsure of like which system resonates more right with you individually. And so. What I just want to call your attention to is.
[00:18:39] I think it's what is it around the 20th, 21st, 22nd or so? Um, that when the sun moves signs in the tropical system, I can't remember. I want to say it's the 21st of every month or the 21st or the 20th or something. Um, it's around there. And so.
[00:18:59] Just consider if August in general feels like. Um, We're moving into Virgo season, which is very like getting back to routine. Getting back to, um, Health practices, maybe daily routine, that kind of thing. Um, I like to think of it as like getting your shit together. Energy, um, is like Virgo season. It's very like back to school vibes or is August more of this, like, Reveling and stuff that's like maybe more slow, maybe more, um, soul filling, right?
[00:19:39] Like that connection to the sun. Um, cancer that connection to like, you're like finding comfort your home, maybe kind of like retreating, uh, to find comfort and stillness a little bit. Um, and so that's like cancer season Leo season. And just in my perspective, I'm like, I know. Like traditionally, at least here in North Carolina, where I live in, probably in a lot of parts of the us. Traditionally schools start about that third week of August, which would be around the time. Of. Tropical Virgo season, right? Um, but.
[00:20:17] In my opinion, in my experience, like from when I was in school, is it doesn't really feel like the first couple of weeks of school are always kind of like a wash.
[00:20:24] Like, you know, you have a syllabus day, like in college, Um, where you're just kind of going over the rules and you don't really get down to business until like after labor day. Right. And, and that's my been my experience teaching yoga too, is like after labor day is when people are getting their shit together.
[00:20:41] Right. And getting that kind of back to school vibes, even adults. And so. Hopefully that helps paint a picture of like the Virgo vibes versus like the cancer earlier vibes, because that's really what I'm talking about this month. Um, because the majority of the month is characterized by these cancer. And Leo vibes and it's not until the end of the month that we see first Venus moving into Virgo.
[00:21:06] And it won't be until September that the sun moves to Virgo Siberia. Really. So just a couple other important points before I move into sort of the like recap, um, that I want to maybe saver or hang on. Is, um,
[00:21:26] The fact that there is a full moon where Saturn is retro grading. Makes it a good time. To consider. Um, okay. So let me back up Venus and Virgo. Because we were there first talking about Munis and Berg Virgo. Being Venus being the sign of debilitation. Or sorry, Virgo being the sign of debilitation for Venus.
[00:21:50] Um, that sounds scary. That sounds like. Um, oh gosh, is everything going to go lock wrong and like love and relationships because that's what we know Venus represents. Love relationships relating to other people while Venus's here in Leo for the majority of the month, the vibe is more like, um, you might be feeling extra social while Venus is in Leo, which is for the majority of the month, because it's not until what the 24th. The Venus enters at Virgo.
[00:22:21] So. Malvinas is in Leo, you might be feeling extra, social, extra, um, extravagant in these kinds of things. And these Venus related traits like, um, you might be feeling more outgoing, more flashy with your appearance. Uh, you might be like feeling yourself more, right? Um, cause that's a Venus in Leo vibe, you might also be feeling like maybe you like showing off your relationship.
[00:22:45] If you're in one, that kind of thing. That's Venus in Leo. And so when Venus moves to Virgo, that's really the beginning of what we would consider harvest season. And so this is how I like to explain it to folks too. Um, and I remember saying this in like the yearly outlook, because it's in the Yogi Skip's planner. Um, That we go over, like at the beginning of the year. Or the end of the previous year.
[00:23:10] And, um, Venus is exalted in Pisces. And debilitated in Virgo. And so when Venus is exalted, it's when we're seeing, when Venus moves through Pisces, it's like springtime. It's when we're seeing all this new growth forward. Um, And Venus moving to Virgo is like harvest time. And so when we think of it being debilitated, it's not because everything's going to go wrong and your relationships. Um, it's because. It's a time to peel back and harvest rather than maybe put forth new things as much.
[00:23:45] Right. So. There's that part, right with Venus, uh, moving to Virgo, bringing this kind of harvest vibe towards the end of the month. And so right around then when we have this full moon in Aquarius. Uh, specifically right now, this isn't necessarily characteristic of all the full moons in Aquarius, but right now, and last year, Um, while we've had Saturn here and Aquarius and have this full moon happen. In Aquarius. Um, that Saturn retrograde. And Aquarius, which I want to say, I did a special episode about that too.
[00:24:22] Back in June or July, whenever it went retrograde, but maybe I didn't, I don't know. Um, The. The vibe is like, Saturn in Aquarius is very much like what are your longterm goals? And what are you? Your daily habits, like how are your daily habits like bringing you closer to those long-term goals or not? And so the full moon in a query is, is a time to. Uh, maybe release the habits or goals or pursuits or ways of being that are no longer serving those longterm goals. Um, for the purpose of bringing you more in line with those long-term goals or with your Dharma. And so Virgo also has a very similar. I guess concern with like Virgo energy is equally as concerned with specifically your health.
[00:25:14] Um, And. You're like how your day-to-day habits are either contributing to or detracting from that health. And so Saturn and Aquarius Saturn is also very much habits. And how that's, um, T getting you closer to, or further away where you want to go while Saturn is in Aquarius, it's more related to your long-term goals and specifically how those long-term goals. Sort of serve the collective.
[00:25:42] And so with this Venus and Virgo and full moon and Aquarius, that's another big overall energy for this month is, um, Releasing right. Starting to move towards that harvest time. And towards that. Um, maybe bringing to fruition and releasing the things that are not aligned anymore, or maybe didn't work out for this year or whatever. Um, so that's kind of the. The, um, Foreshadowing happening this month.
[00:26:12] I don't know. Like maybe you notice, you'll start to see like some leaves turn yellow. Like August is still very much summer, but just look around like the lead there. The leaves are yellowing, right. The fall is creeping in, even though that's why I'm down here in the barn today, because my house is hot as blazes without the AC.
[00:26:30] And I have AC down here in my yoga barn. And it kicked on a few minutes ago and hopefully the sound's not too loud and bothering you. Um, But then. The other. Thing.
[00:26:45] I hope I covered the good daunted zone enough. And now I want to say more about. Um, Venus with K2. Conjunction. So I've talked about Munis in Virgo. And that's Venus in Virgo in general, but right now, specifically, Um, K2 is there, which doesn't happen. Always K2 actually takes 18 years before it comes back to assign, um, because it's in assigned for 18 months. And so, um, yeah, to go through all of the signs. That takes 18 years. And so. With Venus with K2.
[00:27:24] Now we've explained, we thought about what Venus in Virgo means. Vena specifically in Virgo specifically. Now let's think of what happens when we add K2 to the mix. And so K2 is the body of a snake without a head. It's the, um,
[00:27:42] Uh,
[00:27:45] I, if I could just put it in a simple way. It's the like karmic embodiment it's whereas RA who the north node, as we call it invaded or Western astrology, they call it north node. Vedic astrology. We call them Ranu K2. K2. The south node. Rah, who is the head without a body. So they were one, there's a whole story about it.
[00:28:05] And they were once, you know, one snake and they got severed and, um, RA who is the head without a body. Um, and so I guess it just points to the importance of like, meeting both like the head without a body takes in. We take in the majority of our sense sensory information from our head, like, are our sight or sound or smell or. Are. Tastes, and it's all processed. In the head. Um, our brain makes this story or this interpretation from all of our sensory information. But our body. Has to process has to do our digestion.
[00:28:42] So anything that we take in with our mouth, the body is responsible for in fact, the gut is there's a statistic out there that says like, your gut is responsible for like 90% of the serotonin. That your body produces. So your gut is the gut brain access is very real. Like your gut does influence your brain. And so K2 is more of that gut feeling more of that body mint. Embodiment and like, what is your body telling you without your sensory input?
[00:29:13] Um, Clouding that right. And so. The way we might think of that from a yoga perspective is K2 is very related to Pratyahara that sense? Withdrawal and turning your awareness instead to your sensory experience. In, um, you know, Peter Levine's framework the guy who wrote waking the tiger. Um, and some other books. He kind of coined the term.
[00:29:38] I believe he did. Um, Or popularized, the term felt sense. So K2 is very related to your felt sense of it. And so Maddix. Right. And so when.
[00:29:50] Um, and so the scary part, I guess, is for folks. Um, we often hear K2 represents detachment or K2 is cutting. It will cut you away from things. And so when we're pairing. Venus. Which is responsible for relationships, luxury, um, That like. That sense of feeling luxurious within yourself. Right. And we pair that with K2, who is like very like spiritual nomad vibes, um, detached from the world. Vibes is like the vibe of K two.
[00:30:26] And we think of those words of like detachment and, and cutting away. The surface level interpretation is like, oh gosh, am I going to get cut away from my relationships? Um, Well, Venus and K2 can join every year. Every year. It happens because Venus moves through all the signs every year. And, um, So there are relationships that lasts multiple years, so it doesn't have to mean like divorce or, um, losing your relationship or whatever.
[00:30:57] That's kind of the thing of like the bolder, the pebble, like which one are you going to get hit in the head with? Like, what are you going to do about it? Um, and I've, I've had this conversation with. Um, one of my students before that was like,
[00:31:11] She felt like her relationship was like coming up on a period because of things like this that, um, looked like it might signify divorce and I'm like, no, it signifies a period of disconnection and that disconnection can lead to divorce.
[00:31:23] Right. Or it can not, you can do something about it. Um, and so that same thing applies with the Venus and K2, um, conjoined in Virgo. Virgo brings that vibe of like health and habits. And it's like, maybe you're not feeling so good in your body, or maybe you are. Feeling detached from that sense of like luxuriating in your body maybe, or maybe you tap into somatics, which I'll get into in the yoga practices so that you can, um, Tap into that connection.
[00:31:56] And so the same applies for relationships. So somatic work is going to be big. It's going to be kind of the antidote to, um,
[00:32:05] You know that feeling of disconnection from venous things from Virgo things. Right. If that makes sense. So I'll say more about it than yoga practices section. And then.
[00:32:17] I'll reiterate the good daunted zone thing, just because I feel like I kind of covered it, but just in case before I get into what is a good month or a bad month for, and your yoga practices and journal prompts to finish this off. Um,
[00:32:30] As all these planets move through, they can Dawn to. Zone, which is the last few degrees of cancer. The last few degrees of any water sign, which cancer is a water sign through the first few degrees of any fire sign. Leo is a fire sign. So as these planets, as they do multiple times a year, moved from water signs to fire signs, um, move through the daunting. And to zone, if you're not paying close attention, if you're not heightening your awareness and having self-awareness, which is what you're doing by listening to an astrology podcast.
[00:32:59] So I promise you're good if you're into this and you keep following that pursuit and that curiosity. You're doing the thing with the awareness that I'm talking about. So you're okay. Um, But. If you're not paying attention, it is likely that you will be presented with opportunities to either double down on the pattern, the karma, right.
[00:33:20] That's not serving you or to do the hard thing and choose something different to what we would say, like release that karma or untie that knot. And so. Revisit the mercury retrograde episode, if you want to hear more about that specifically, because that's pretty in-depth but with the sun transiting there.
[00:33:38] So this next week, August 12th to 19th, the sun will be transiting, um, from. Cancer Toledo specifically moving on. I believe it was the 16th. I said, this is why I say them at the beginning. Cause I'm like, if you want to know. Here it is. I'm saying it now you can write it down, whatever. Um, because I don't keep them in my head either.
[00:33:58] That's why I make the planner so that it doesn't have to live in my head. I can just always have it because I've got better. Use for that brain space than just memorizing dates. And I hope you do too. Um, which is why I do it that way, make the resources that I do. So anyway, On that day that the sun moves much.
[00:34:16] Like we saw with mercury, we saw big tech glitch because mercury a tech glitch that impacted travel. That was a very like mercury retrograde thing to happen. So with the sun moving through. The Zone, um, The sun doesn't ever go retrograde. So that's not a factor here. But the sun is related to authority. To, um, government, right.
[00:34:43] That, that kind of thing. And so.
[00:34:47] Leo is happens to be Donald Trump's ascendant. So when I talked about that a little bit, I think on the mercury retrograde episode, Um, So maybe we could see like a sudden event. Globally related to authority figures to things like that. On that day that it moves, but in your personal life, this is what I always prefer to focus on is like, what do you all like all that the world stage is very entertaining, I suppose.
[00:35:16] And we can affect it marginally, but I think we can affect. Um, this is very like mother Teresa thing, right? Like if you just focus on making your own little corner of the world brighter by like making your light shine brighter, like that has a bigger impact than. Um, Trying to affect the whole world.
[00:35:36] Right. If we all just made our own little corners brighter, that the world will be a whole lot brighter place already. And so on a personal level, it's like, um, especially with Leo it's like, what is your sense of comfort within yourself cancer? And, and then moving that into self-expression. Can you consider that, um, Like maybe something around being comfortable with yourself and moving that into, like letting you expressing some part of yourself that maybe. Has been lying in wait.
[00:36:08] And so that I covered a lot more too on the mercury retrograde. Podcast. So. Let's get into the recap it with all of that in mind, all of the stuff going on this month. The major energies of the month, the shifts happening this month, it is a good month for starting or continuing work on lineage, healing, generational trauma, or like being a cycle breaker.
[00:36:30] And so that specifically has to do with this mercury retrograde. And a big theme of it is. Nervous system regulation. Do you come from a long line of. Dysregulated people that really sounded like the intro to an infomercial. Like, do you come from a long line of dysregulated people you might be entitled to compensation?
[00:36:50] No, you should probably work on that this month. Um, so this is the kind of stuff I'm talking about. That's kind of always present. Um, this came up actually in our Q and a after the podcast last week is like, Um, you know, the Denine which we might call the soul's progression divisional chart is like this idea that you will be presented with new karmas to work through in your life.
[00:37:13] And there's a good chance that maybe you go to therapy. Maybe you do personal work. Around some of the karmas, you were born with some of the karmas that show up in your birth chart, but they're the kind of lessons that keep presenting themselves over and over. Again. And so this that's your, the stuff that's showing up in your birth chart.
[00:37:30] That's also very related to lineage healing and generational trauma because your ancestors are largely responsible for the hand. You've been dealt in your life. AKA. What shows up in your birth chart? And so working on at Walmart three is retrograde will reverberate beyond this month, beyond this mercury retrograde.
[00:37:47] And especially as we move into eclipse season next month, which I'll have more to say about. In coming in the coming weeks. Um, it's also a good month for somatic trauma healing. So not just intellectualizing this stuff, but seeing really where it lands in the body. And honestly like shameless plug again.
[00:38:06] Like this is what I specialize in y'all. This is like what I went to yoga therapy school for, this is what I do. So I'm happy to help with that. Um, But also just finding a somatic practitioner. In your area. Or something can help or just diving into that. Like where is that stuff landing? In the body.
[00:38:26] It's also a good time for. With mercury retrograde double-checking everything. Like I mentioned, I was like just making, cause I'm in this different place. Cause my AC is out. This thing happened. And so I'm like I'm being extra careful to try and prevent mishaps with my podcast recording. So double check stuff like that for yourself this month, this whole month.
[00:38:47] And also it's a good month for clearing and making space. Whether that's like mentally, emotionally, physically, digitally, the kind of stuff that we used to do in the mercury retrograde challenge. If you ever. Participated in that I didn't run it this time. I might bring it back. Let me know if you want me to bring it back. Um, Maybe I will, maybe I won't, who knows, but that kind of thing, like decluttering, just making space, organizing reorganizing.
[00:39:11] And so then with that is as well, is this sort of harvest vibe starting to move in and starting to peel back. Shed think about your harvest for the year in regards to that Venus and Virgo in regards to the full moon and Aquarius with the Saturn retrograde. And so, um, also just touching on that thing with the luminaries I mentioned before, It's time to like tap into your like soul shine.
[00:39:37] Right? So August. This is a quote I heard it was like August is like the Sunday of summer. So can you kind of like save her on it and like tap into that sort of sweet soul self care feeling like that's the cancer and Leo vibe that I was talking about. And so it's a bad month for having a sharp or cutting tongue.
[00:39:58] So really like think before you speak, tap into nervous system regulation practices. Um, and so that's related to the mercury retrograde. That's also related to, um, Especially once Mars moves to Gemini. That's not nearly till the end of the month. It's like the 26th or something. I don't know. I said it. It was, uh, back there.
[00:40:17] You can find it. Um, And then it's also a bad month for. Taking action. Before, like. Like acting on a whim, if that makes sense. So Mars and Gemini brings this like quick thinking vibe, but especially while it's overlapping just for a couple of days with mercury retrograde, just a think before you act. Um, but then once Mars does move into Gemini and mercury goes direct, which will then be after the 28th, I believe is when mercury goes direct.
[00:40:48] Um, then that quick action and quick thinking will totally be supported, but that's not until the end. So the great majority of the month is like, just chill out. Um, remember that feelings aren't facts, and maybe think twice before you act. And so your yoga practices. Restorative yoga, highly, highly recommended this month.
[00:41:10] It's very hot. So, um, at least here in the Northern hemisphere, restorative yoga can be like a more cooling practice. We don't really want to add to the heat. Of Pitta season. If you're here, the Northern hemisphere. Um, and restorative yoga has a specific focus. I would say more so than you in yoga, for example, on nervous system regulation and relaxing. Um, so. That's great for this mercury retrograde.
[00:41:38] It will also, it, at least the way I teach restorative yoga, which is on Sunday nights. At 6:00 PM. If you're in the Asheville area and want to come. At the Mars hill yoga barn. Um, it's so Maddick the way I teach it. It's not always somatic. Um, but just facilitating that awareness of sensations and of, of how things are landing in the body.
[00:41:58] Restorative yoga is a great container to explore that. And then somatic movement, which is. The newest buzzword is somatic movement and somatic movement. Isn't like a certain sequence like Ashtanga. Yoga is a sequence, right? Somatic movement is any so restorative can be somatic. A flow class can be somatic. Um, and both of those things can equally be not.
[00:42:23] So MADEC what makes it, so MADEC is that focus on the awareness of sensations and awareness of where things are landing in the body? Um, and so it's also a good month for you for your yoga practices, heart opening practices cause cancer. Um, Is sort of this heart, this like breasts chest area, heart area. Um, and so. Also just tapping into kind of like the Venus vibes tapping into that.
[00:42:50] Self-love. Um, Just heart opening all month. And then it's good for grounding practices. So maybe it's not restorative yoga, maybe it's something else that makes you feel grounded, emotionally grounded, um, from a nervous system perspective. And as we start to move into Vada season, which is coming soon and move into eclipse season. Um, grounding will just be extra. Important and Saturn retrograde can also be ungrounding.
[00:43:20] So. Here's your journal prompts. And, um, after I promised I would have a special. Announcement. So I'm going to leave this on the podcast recording. Too. So that will go out live Friday, but the folks. Live get the first access to the special announcement. I'll say after the journal prompts. So one, what does emotional security mean?
[00:43:44] And how can I cultivate more of it in my life? Um, so that's just a kind of reiteration of the mercury retrograde and new moon and cancer journal prompts, a vibe that we were going over then. Number two, what intentions do I want to set around my home family and personal life, especially consider this is related to that generational healing thing I was talking about. How this may differ from any, from like whatever home and family life looked like to you growing up.
[00:44:15] And what do you want to integrate or what do you want to leave behind? Can you get really clear about that? Um, like was your home a really peaceful place or was it not. Right. And then number three, what have I accomplished so far this year? And what am I most proud of? Like really celebrate your wins and then what habits or beliefs are no longer serving your longterm goals.
[00:44:38] This, and we'll dive more into this on the full moon. And Aquarius podcast episode, but maybe you start thinking about it now. Um, and then where do I feel? Dissatisfaction or detachment in my life. And how can I address those feelings? Somatically, can you start to explore where that's landing in your body?
[00:44:56] Maybe? Um, and then what does true luxury mean to me? Like how specifically dive into like what feelings somatic, right? Like what feelings you're having in your body, what CRE, when you experience luxury, what is your felt sense of that experience? Like what are you, what are you experiencing and how can you cultivate more of that?
[00:45:16] Especially once Venus moves into Virgo so that you can kind of keep that vibe, even if it feels hard, Especially in terms of relationship, like what makes you feel loved and lovey-dovey and like, how does that land in your body and how can you cultivate that? Maybe as it gets hard. When, especially, you know, if you're in relationship. As Venus conjoins K2 in Virgo, it's sign of debilitation.
[00:45:38] And so what areas of my life still need nurturing or attention as I move into the latter part of the year. And eclipse season, just start thinking about it. You don't have to have it like. Um, You know, quite, you don't have to have it all. Figured out right now, I guess is what. I'm saying. And so, um, that's your yoga practices and journal prompts.
[00:46:02] Here's the special announcement of like a very new container I've come up with. So maybe. You know if like, if you've been enjoying these live. Podcast recordings, where we've had a chance to like dive deep into usually like most majority of the time we're like looking at specific areas of somebody's chart and. Uh, thankfully these containers have been pretty small.
[00:46:23] And so I always try to cultivate this container where folks feel really safe to share deeply about what's going on. Um, and I've kind of always done that in a group format and I shut down. The community membership earlier this year. And I thought my announcement today was going to be that I was reopening it.
[00:46:42] Well, it turns out. I'm not. And not yet, maybe I will later, but right now I'm opening a special one-on-one. Container with me that, um, I've never offered before and. I think it will create that vibe where you hopefully feel really safe to like ask these kinds of deep questions, get this really holistic attention.
[00:47:07] It incorporates things like your birth chart. And this yoga therapy work that I've been doing while also like making change in your life and not just thinking about it in the, um, like a, like a course would be a course is like, let's just get theoretical. Um, so this is called the container is called focus and flow sessions.
[00:47:29] It is a 12 month this, so get this, this is the cool part. Unlimited micro coaching. Containers. So instead of having like one hour sessions every single week, which is like a huge commitment, it's 15 minute sessions unlimited. So we'll have a 30 minute onboarding call where we'll kind of go over it. And if you sign up. Right away.
[00:47:53] There's only five spots. If you get one of those five spots, we'll have the onboarding call. We'll also do a birth chart, reading. Um, where we'll dive really deeply into your bird chart so that, that can kind of inform our sessions as we go. And then from there, um, I'll give you homework. It might be something like a journal prompt.
[00:48:11] It might be something like, oh, it sounds like you've been putting off a conversation. Go have that conversation. It could be anything. It could be. That's the thing about astrology and yoga therapy is it's holistic. It could be physical in nature. It could be spiritual in nature. It could be communication skills, um, career related, right? We're going to touch on all the areas. Of your life. Um, and you'll just have these little bite-size homework things to do.
[00:48:37] And as soon as you do that, you book again with me. So that could be later the same day. It could take you a week. It could take you a few days, like whatever unlimited they're like it's truly unlimited. Um, and so. Let me just think of any more. Specific details I want to share on the podcast is. Basically, what people have told me is that astrology feels really overwhelming.
[00:49:02] We all are clearly into this and we want to like apply it to our life, but it can get really heady. It can get really cerebral. Um, and so I think. What we've really done in these Q and a sessions. And the office hours I used to offer was like, we'll dive deep into a specific small topic and think about how to apply it.
[00:49:22] And so this container just allows you to do that in digestible ways. That's not a huge commitment because that's the other thing people tell me is like, they don't have necessarily time to take like a whole big astrology course. Um, Or, um, to like do all that learning. Like we want to reap the benefits without having to like know every single little thing.
[00:49:43] And so that's what this will hopefully. Help you with is kind of digest it all. Get out of that state of overwhelm. And just like complexity and move more towards clarity and practicality and like, what are you actually going to do about it? In your life. So yeah, unlimited coaching sessions with me. One-on-one and that's the other piece that feels really exciting to me.
[00:50:08] Cause I'm like, that's the kind of support I want to offer. Anyway, um, is like super intimate small group. And this is one-on-one. Um, so there are five spots available available, and if you want to get the full details, you'll go to Yogi scopes.com/focus flow. And that will take you to the special. Um, There's a discount code.
[00:50:35] And if for some reason it doesn't show up or gets removed, it's focused fast as the discount code. So I'll put the link in the show notes. Um, I'm going to stop the recording. So we have time for our Q and a while we're here live, and you can get more details. You can always email me, obviously, if you were thinking about working one-on-one with me, I hope you feel comfortable shooting me an email of like what your questions are. So please remember to keep your feet on the ground.
[00:50:58] You're heading the stars and stay in the light. Until next time.
