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It’s Leo season, and as I watch my cats go from lying down dead asleep to fighting each other in two-minute increments, I am thinking about how Leo the lion is kind of just a giant housecat—and the astrology this Leo season is kind of like my cats fighting at maximum zoomie speed at 2 AM, running up and down the house sounding like bowling balls wearing tap shoes.
This is to say—there is a lot of astrology.
The big story of the sun in Leo takes place in the mutable signs of Pisces and Gemini, with Virgo briefly joining the fun towards the end of the month. Jupiter and Mars will be conjunct in Gemini from the 13th–18th, and Saturn in Pisces will square them during that time and hang onto his square with Jupiter until the start of Virgo season on the 24th. Towards the end of that square, Venus in Virgo will briefly oppose Saturn and square Jupiter/Mars, forming a two-day transiting T-cross. During the peak day of that astrology—August 19th—we will also have major astrology in fixed signs, with the full moon in Aquarius, sun conjunct Mercury in a transiting T-cross to Uranus in Taurus.
Two T-squares, a full moon, and a Mercury retrograde cazimi. Did I mention it’s the first day of the Democratic convention in the USA?
This astrology is: tense, changing, unstable, and yet: stubborn, unrelenting, change resistant, and yet; unreliable, confusing, and yet; expansive, opportunistic. Sounds exactly like US politics.
Although there’s plenty of memes and reasons to get more into US politics with these horoscopes, I’ll back off that content in favor of what I do best: the personal.
These peak hot days of August will be confusing, busy, and intense. They will be ripe with opportunity for interpersonal conflict, feelings of resentment, and interpersonal 180º surprises.
One thing I love about a T-square is that they’re lovely to interpret. They’re common in natal charts, frequent in transits, and have a nice key for understanding how to balance them. Tracy Marks describes T-squares as a three-legged table in which the table is missing its fourth leg, and instead of balancing out the table by replacing the leg, we pile stuff up on the corner opposing it to prevent it from tipping over. It’s much more efficient to simply replace the leg, but we get lazy and hyper focus on temporarily patching the problem instead. When interpreting them I consider the opposing point of the focal planet of the T-square—I consider the point where the table is missing a leg.
For these horoscopes, I am focusing on the mutable T-square with Mars/Jupiter as the focal planet and Sagittarius as the release point. To translate: I am focusing on the astrology that sees a lot of tension between signs that are about adaptability, and which bring a lot of attention to planets about anger, violence, and expansion. To combat that, I am asking us to consider growth, learning, and foreign experiences.
With hopes we can all find that wisdom,
Amelia
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