There’s a lot of energy shifting this week, and with Mars currently transiting inquisitive Gemini - we’ll adjust to our surroundings with flexibility - or we’ll abandon old ways, in order to pave brand new roads. As we continue being busy, doing and creating…. we should ask ourselves ‘what do I want my actions and behavior to communicate’?

You have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you. Gordon Mackenzie

Whatever our intentions, we’re being more observant, precise and efficient at this time. An investigative Mercury/Pluto trine on Monday August 22 can help us to see issues from a much deeper level for transformation and healing. Sun (identity, ego) will leave generous Leo, and enter penny-pinching Virgo for the next four weeks. While we intend to help others under the Virgo Sun cycle, we intend to help ourselves too - but we’re not going to lose ourselves along the way - which is why awareness and order may be necessary.

Sometimes I feel like I’m losing everyone. But in reality, I’m just losing myself. Anonymous

As we attempt to create a sense of balance - which includes logic and accountability, Uranus (change, awakening, independence, truth) in Taurus will station retrograde on Wednesday August 24. Some of us may feel out of sorts with our surroundings, as we begin to lose touch with ourselves. We could struggle from not being able to express ourselves correctly. Something feels different, which is causing us to rebel with a fixed sense of stubbornness; defiant against whatever and whoever ‘seems’ to be in our way. If we’re aware and awake, it’s likely that we are the ones who are getting in our own way. 

With Uranus retrograde during the next five months,  we can politely step back from what/who we remain in disagreement with. In doing so, we can learn how we operate, how we’re triggered, how we manage to sabotage ourselves and our relationships. It’s a favorable cycle to reinvent, renovate and reform our independence and individuality. If we want to really shake things up, we can ‘be the change’ by experimenting within and embracing our inner weirdo, or unique self.

The dark side of this disruptive energy can produce surprising changes as well as breakdowns with communications, phones, computers, technology toys, gps’s, appliances, weather, heavy machinery and vehicles… which can unleash impulsiveness, lack of direction, nervous energy, defiant outbursts, crossed wires, anxiousness, and disobedience. Expect the unexpected.

Blaming is pointing out there, rather than in here, into your own mind, when you find yourself in a painful or uncomfortable experience. Blame means shifting the responsibility for where you are onto someone or something else, rather than accepting responsibility for your role in the experience. Iyanla Vanzant

If we’re willing to do the work and get out of our own way, we can learn how to listen and to be teachable again as Mercury moves from critical Virgo, into diplomatic Libra on Thursday August 25. This three week period with Mercury in Libra can be an opportunity to utilize the art of communication with finessed negotiating skills, flexibility, self-discipline, open-mindedness and sweet charm. Through the reflection of others, we can really get to know ourselves - if we stay aware.

The fastest way to lose what we call our good character, is to lose our honesty. Anonymous

As life could possibly unravel into chaos; we can find shelter by returning back home within… under the gentle Virgo New Moon, on Saturday August 27. Embrace this lunar energy to reduce the noise and clutter; to reconnect with our higher self or inner guru. Simplify life, as this is where our efficiency, security, order and peace may be found. Plant seeds of intention; make a wish, dream and fantasize about a new beginning, a fresh start-up project, and/or a new approach to unresolved situation. Then apply yourself, to make it happen!

Weekly tarot message: Getting a head start but with too much chatter. [AceWands/KnightSwordsRx]. For more insight, check out your monthly tarot card in the August 2022 Tarotscope. Stay connected: Subscribe to my writings. Much love. ~Suzi

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