Virgo

VIRGO

The eclipse exposes secrets, yours and everyone else’s

The South Node in Leo asks what you’re ready to leave behind

Mercury meets Jupiter for a real plot twist

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Entering a Fairytale

Life is stranger than fiction this week; you’re entering a fairytale complete with challenges and, ideally, a happy ending! The sky is romping with Leo energy, stranger than The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. You, too, may feel you have entered Narnia or are traipsing down the yellow brick road.

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The Nodes Shift

There are many confusing celestial elements to this week. The South Node and North Node have changed, bringing a vast shift in our life path and karma. The South Node is our place of letting go; everything we have outgrown and need to leave behind is in the spotlight. With the South Node in Leo and the upcoming intense eclipse, a reckoning is coming.

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Your 12th House Awakens

The leaping lion sky is in your 12th house of illusion, disillusion, spiritual revelations, cycle endings, and intuitive insights. Oh, and let’s not forget whimsy and romance. These two transits alone will not let you hang onto fantasies that are holding you back. You will see people for who they are. If there’s a charmer giving you the old razzle-dazzle, or you sense a liar but haven’t been able to confront it, it all comes out this week.

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Honesty Is Everything

The transits can also work in reverse: if you have been keeping a secret, that too might be exposed. Honesty is everything this week. You are purifying your life and moving to a space of grounded decision-making.

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Mercury Guides the Way

What’s helping is that Mercury is also in Leo, giving you psychic insights and weird coincidences that support you. Mercury is hooking up with other planetary heavyweights to make sure you are guided onto the right path. Neptune awakens your primal power, Uranus brings a work opportunity, and Venus grounds you with solid loving.

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Closing the Week

After the eclipse, you should feel liberated and free. With Mercury conjunct Jupiter, you could have an enchanted plot twist that takes your hand and leads you toward your destiny.

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In a Nutshell

It’s a revealing week, Virgo. Mercury moves into Leo on the 9th, settling into your twelfth house of secrets and intuition. Mars enters Cancer on the 11th, the same day Mercury opposes Pluto and trines Neptune, so expect old illusions to crack. The solar eclipse arrives on the 12th, right in that same twelfth house, exposing whatever’s been hidden, yours or someone else’s. Mercury sextiles Venus on the 13th, and by the 15th it conjuncts Jupiter for a real plot twist that points you toward where you’re meant to be.

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9 Aug — Mercury enters Leo (12th)

10 Aug — Venus in Libra trine Pluto in Aquarius (2nd/6th)

10 Aug — Venus in Libra opposite Neptune in Aries (2nd/8th)

11 Aug — Mars enters Cancer (11th)

11 Aug — Mercury in Leo opposite Pluto in Aquarius (12th/6th)

11 Aug — Mercury in Leo trine Neptune in Aries (12th/8th)

11 Aug — Venus in Libra trine Uranus in Gemini (2nd/10th)

12 Aug — Solar Eclipse at 20° Leo (12th)

12 Aug — Mercury in Leo sextile Uranus in Gemini (12th/10th)

13 Aug — Mercury in Leo sextile Venus in Libra (12th/2nd)

15 Aug — Mercury conjunct Jupiter in Leo (12th)