Horoscopes for the Week of August 9th

Your weekly horoscope is here. Find out what is in store for you. [View this email in your browser]( [CHANI logo] Horoscopes for The Week of August 9th . [The High Priestess Tarot Card and link to www.chaninicholas.com]( While Venus in Virgo tends to leave the house equipped for all weather patterns, Venus’ cute-yet-windproof umbrella is no match for Neptune’s monsoon on August 9th. With more planets entering the earth sign of Virgo in the coming weeks, this irrigation may be just what we need to stay hydrated, but it’s unlikely to arrive with a clearly labeled off-switch. If you’ve been grasping onto rules, standards or expectations too rigidly, Neptune has a way of loosening your grip. When you struggle against the current, you’re more likely to wear yourself out. If you can coax your body to relax a little, however, you may just find you can float. On August 10th, Mercury opposes Jupiter, offering one of those mind-bending moments, where you observe, for one instant, the dazzling big picture. Of course it can be hard to hold the whole universe in a grain of sand, and whatever flash insights you receive may take some ruminating over the coming weeks. This opposition is bound to make more than a few people louder than usual too, with a general tendency to preach, pile it on and prophesize. However, the pomp is short-lived, as Mercury enters Virgo on August 11th. As a precursor to Virgo season, we return to the details again, oiling every cog to ensure the integrity of the whole. On the same day, Venus and Pluto swap smiles, encouraging us to remember the ways we are well-resourced and resourceful, shining a miner’s lamp on the talents we often forget we have. Your horoscopes are meant to be read as inspiration. If you know both your rising sign and sun sign, please read both horoscopes. You’ll know which one resonates more for you from week to week. Take what works for you, and leave the rest. If you want to share this work, please credit the source by quoting it and providing a link to this post and website. Thank you for your support and for spreading the work around. We really appreciate it and you. The following horoscopes were written by Steph Koyfman (The Daily Hunch), Thea Anderson and Eliza Robertson. This week Mercury enters Virgo to 'magic' away any messes. To learn about where this is happening for you, listen to your reading for the week ahead on the CHANI app. [Aries glyph] []Aries & Aries Rising While your recent efforts at work may have gotten you praise around the office, or at least some delightful discussions around the watercooler (virtual as it may still be), the week begins by making a mockery out of your best-laid plans. On the one hand, the current astrology is similar to knocking a glass of water on the paper to-do list you’ve spent the last three weeks color-coding. On the other hand, it may remind you to get some much-needed rest. If you can listen to what your body needs right now (sleep! food! hydration!), this moment could be extremely generative. And it won’t last for long. As an analytical dust wind arrives at your work desk on August 11th, when Mercury enters Virgo, you’ll get busy systematizing all your toil into tidy categories. Now is the time to leverage new collaboration tools or virtual assistants. Or, go analog and jot down to-do’s with a freshly sharpened no. 2 on crisp stationery, cleaning up whatever spills occurred. As you disassemble the Monday - Friday machine into its steampunk parts, you are free to discard old habits that previously dampened productivity. Yet, be kind to yourself. The impulse to be exacting is counterproductive if not engineered towards purpose. [Taurus glyph] []Taurus & Taurus Rising This week, you're bound to get your mascara a little smeared — hopefully for delightful reasons. Life can rub you the right way if you let it meet you where you are, and if there were ever a year to ease up on your desire for a perfectly curated good time, or to let it all hang out in your creative process, you’re looking at it now. While you may have spent the last 3 weeks in fits of editing or revising, Monday asks you to back away from the Delete button. This is an invitation to relax your expectations about how the final product should look and discover where you land when you have no destination in mind. If it feels like a blip in your production schedule, know that this pause is a mere moment in time. As Mercury spends the next two and a half weeks in Virgo, the tendency to prune gives way to creations that delight and inspire. However, it’s easy to over-sterilize what were once instruments of play. If the search for standards veers towards perfection, then withhold biting comments or critique. Rip up the outline if it's too rigid and doesn’t allow for invention. [Gemini glyph] []Gemini & Gemini Rising Whatever primping you’ve been overseeing in your domestic sphere — ironing your drapes, bleaching the mold out of your shower grout, chipping the wax off your altar spaces — may perform an about-face on Monday. The beginning of the week sees you discovering the freedom of getting downright sloppy — placing a cool drink on your coffee table without a coaster, just to see how it feels. Peak abandon beckons. Give yourself permission to slip in between the sheets early, slide out of hard clothes ASAP, and spend that day vision-boarding your dream bedroom scenario. This wanderlust won’t last long, however (so enjoy it while you can). Soon enough, no discarded magazine will be left unturned, no corner left for cobwebs, as you’ll be back to inspecting your floorboards, window shutters, and everything in between. When you find that there is nothing left to mop up, the task is to tackle familial dynamics that could use a similar purification process. If conversations with roommates or cohabitants feel prickly or critical, this too shall pass. See if the deep purge energy can be applied to inherited patterns from childhood that collect their own dust bunnies. [Cancer glyph] []Cancer & Cancer Rising Over the past few weeks, you have been perceiving which aspects of your daily routines, close relationships, and regular correspondences are cramping your style. It’s as if once you notice one flaw, you start witnessing them everywhere, at least until Monday’s downpour rinses everything away. While it may feel like staring down the barrel of a Super Soaker, the beginning of this week could serve as an ablution of sorts, if you go in with the right mindset. Which hypercritical voice is preferable to rinse away? What sense of overall satisfaction can you learn to relax into? Come August 11th, the comings and goings of your life will receive a tune-up as Mercury enters Virgo. This is the messenger planet at its practical best: precise, exact and adept at organizing all your channels of communication. Watch as the daily updates, lists, and collaboration tools really begin to work for you. Over the next couple of weeks, you’ll learn the most through the sheer force of your curiosity. Consider switching up your regular commute by venturing down new streets. There’s a secret garden to be found around each corner. Trust that you have the key to unlock new learnings from dabbling in this soil. [Leo glyph] []Leo & Leo Rising The last few weeks have found you digging through closets, releasing items that feel like extra weight, and doting on the objects you do treasure: dusting them off, anointing them with Brasso. Your fastidious care gets waterlogged at the beginning of the week. When confronted with the ocean of another person, or your shared venture, the numbers that designate “yours” and “theirs” start to smear. This smearing may contain a level of bombast on your part, especially if you’re sharing yourself with a significant romantic or platonic other. Around August 10th, the urge to preach or parade your peacock feathers reaches a temporary peak. You have extra powers to think expansively around this time, but note when your deserved confidence tips into bravado. Mercury will enter Virgo on August 11th, delivering you back to earth and restoring attention to all that anchors you here. Now is an ideal time to delve into finance literature or adopt tricks to solve old conundrums around building abundance. If the brick-by-brick approach feels laborious, it will help to step back and look at the whole system that supports you — financially, but also on a substantial inner level. [Virgo glyph] []Virgo & Virgo Rising While you may have felt even more bewitching since Venus entered Virgo on July 21st, the extra attention you’re receiving could exacerbate your tendencies to strive toward rigid beauty standards. Any mental corset you’ve laced yourself into needs loosening now. Relaxation is the greatest enhancer, and joy is the most flattering accessory we can adorn ourselves with. Lavish yourself with them. With your magnetism dialed up, the urge to play hooky is most likely going to lead you towards regenerative, healing practices. These pleasure pit-stops do more than delight; they actually prepare you for the efficiency fairy to land at your personal pilothouse. Starting August 11th, Mercury in Virgo helps clarify, distill, and refine the goals you’re working to achieve. For the next two and a half weeks, you give the 411 on the most efficient life-hacks available. Obstacles beware. [Libra glyph] []Libra & Libra Rising When you bump up against expectations (of prettiness, politeness, demureness) that you’re constantly feeling pressured to perform against, it’s a clear signal to unpack a few boxes that have been delivered to you by popular media. This week will actually help you to dismantle any oppressive status quos, and if you can find it in yourself to surrender to that process, something like inner peace may float to the surface of your mind. When Mercury enters Virgo on August 11th, you receive help puzzling the pieces back together and building the algorithms to crunch your most subliminal problems. If you’ve got a tricky issue to solve, allow yourself to crawl into bed with the Sandman — daydreams and meditation weave solutions right now. Family or home life could help you feel more grounded around now as well. Conversations with loved ones will provide you with the courage to enter those shared histories and shadow-realms, to acknowledge all you’ve been through together and how triumphantly far you have traveled. [Scorpio glyph] []Scorpio & Scorpio Rising For the last few weeks, Venus has been revitalizing contacts in your social sphere, giving you excuses to gather and make merry, or at least make meaningful encounters. Allowing yourself to sit back and enjoy the garden of friendship you’ve weeded with so much love gives you a chance to actually enjoy the fruits of your diligence. However, at the beginning of this week, you may forget the hose is still running. Your desire to let loose and be one with everyone and everything around you can create quite an after-party mess to clean up. Reality is no one’s forte under Monday’s skies, but while this deluge isn’t helpful for maintaining order, what it can do is remind you what it feels like to park your skepticism for a minute, and soften into the present moment. By Tuesday, your PR campaigns reach their target audiences and then some. If you’re up for a presentation or evaluation around this time, the inclination will be to go huge or go home. Stay in the game. Enjoy the pomp and ceremony while it lasts. Any imperfect details you willfully un-saw may pebble back to the surface, but you’ll also find the acumen to resolve them. Your friendship arena may even provide the ideal marketplace for your ideas. Copy-edit a zine with your crew. Offer your skills as a resident tech troubleshooter. Your knack for solving puzzles is an asset to all who call you a friend or colleague. [Sagittarius glyph] []Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising Despite the accolades you’re receiving in your career, you may struggle to feel satisfied with your accomplishments. That word may even feel alien to you, because it suggests something is indeed accomplished, and the truth is: your work in the world never feels complete. This is about more than just learning to take a compliment, and yet — can you suspend your disbelief long enough to receive the flattery in that testimonial someone wrote you? Early in the week, the instinct to edit your project report until there’s nothing left but white space gets interrupted by an impromptu unmooring. Trust the minor derailments — there’s a chance that you’ll emerge from the puddles better able to appreciate the dream you’re striving toward. Mercury will enter Virgo on August 11th, refurbishing you with the brain-power to organize, catalog and outline your pursuits. This is a time to parse through your plans and calls to action and craft ideas into specific doable tasks. The enviable quality of your work speaks for itself. [Capricorn glyph] []Capricorn & Capricorn Rising Over the past few weeks, you’ve been asked to check in with your values, which is to say, your heart. While you tend to interact with your beliefs from a place of healthy questioning, the (rare for you) temptation to give yourself over to wild trust is heightened now. Any tendency to get hooked on the not-quite-right details of a philosophy or spiritual belief will be deluged by a wider flood of information or emotion. There may be so many signals coming at you on Monday that you have no choice but to take it all in. Help is on the way. By Wednesday, you get support digesting far-flung dreams into practical next steps. Complete the application and/or register for a course of study so the grand plan can manifest itself. Your library of self-wisdom always deserves a robust card catalog system. What once seemed wildly impossible now narrows into helpful pro/con lists. Just remember to allow the Odyssey to unfold. Life’s journey tends to deviate from our itineraries, yet it creates sacred geometry along the way. [Aquarius glyph] []Aquarius & Aquarius Rising With the planet of connection bringing you closer to collaborators since July 21st, you’ve been learning what your partnerships need to thrive at optimal levels. If you tend to draw clear lines in the sand between what’s yours and theirs, these furrows get washed away early in the week. As demonstrated by the toddler who refuses to lend out their crayons, sharing can activate primal responses. Such feelings could be inundating you now, but try to trust the security of what you’ll always have — yourself. When Mercury enters Virgo on August 11th, the messenger intervenes on your behalf, bestowing you with tools of crisp thinking and lucid communication to think your way out of the muddle. For the rest of August, you have the ability to create a magical mixture between you and another person. Mercury in Virgo can be exacting, and there may come a point where the product of your union wobbles under harsh scrutiny. Words can be pointy and sometimes the efforts to co-create flawlessly can feel punishing. Take the bird’s eye view as only the winged messenger can. Your witchy gifts are in discerning both the forest and the trees. [Pisces glyph] []Pisces & Pisces Rising For the last few weeks, studying the love languages of your people has been a top priority. If you’ve lavished your all on someone else in the process, and it’s somehow left a weird aftertaste, it’s time to course-correct. Your heart’s yearnings may feel unwieldy right now, as could nostalgia or your tendency to daydream. However, if you are generous with the waters of self-love they’ll soak back into the garden soil, leaving you with a patch of verdant life. Mercury enters Virgo on August 11th, helping you refine your most cherished relationships, and what you most seek in a partner. If you’ve tended to see others through the most flattering Instagram filter, the real deal will crisp into view. From Wednesday onwards, you’ll be more inspired to demonstrate your commitment as a helper to the apples of your eye. Tuning into what another wants/needs is always the work of being in relationship. At times, shifting perspectives mean you’ve got to recalibrate or clarify the contract. Trust that the messages delivered to you now are the right ones to improve your bond. [Instagram]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Website]( Copyright © 2021 Chani Nicholas, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at my website. Want to change how you receive these emails? 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