Transit calendar · Asteria

Collective transit calendar · 2016–2032

Ingresses, stations, eclipses, and moons. No chart required.

August 2018 · UTC

August 2018

20 events

A retrograde turn pulls things back for review, and an eclipse accelerates a turning point, 3 sign changes shift the collective tone, the lunations mark the month's open and close, a slow outer-planet aspect colours the backdrop.

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Upcoming transits · the agenda

2Aug · Thu
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Mars square Uranus
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Mars square Uranus: the sky shifts.
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Mars square Uranus perfects, pulling drive, conflict, and heat into contact with rupture, invention, and the plot twist.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
2:39 AM
6Aug · Mon
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Sun square Jupiter
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Sun square Jupiter: the sky shifts.
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Sun square Jupiter perfects, pulling identity and visibility into contact with growth, belief, and scale.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Uranus stations Retrograde in Taurus
11:27 PM
6Aug · Mon
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Venus enters Libra
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Venus enters Libra.
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Venus enters Libra, shifting love, money, and what you are willing to keep in the collective chart.
Notice what changes flavor this week.
Sky context Uranus stations Retrograde in Taurus
11:27 PM
7Aug · Tue
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Uranus stations Retrograde in Taurus
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Uranus stations Retrograde. Rethink how you pivot.
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Uranus stations Retrograde in Taurus, turning innovation inward. The changes you rushed may need editing before they ship.
Review the experiment. Keep what works. Cut what was only shock value.
4:50 PM
8Aug · Wed
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Venus trine Mars
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Venus trine Mars: the sky shifts.
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Venus trine Mars perfects, pulling love, money, and what you are willing to keep into contact with drive, conflict, and heat.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Uranus stations Retrograde in Taurus; Solar Eclipse in Leo
12:33 AM
9Aug · Thu
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Mercury Cazimi
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Mercury Cazimi: heart-of-the-Sun clarity around speech, contracts, and timing.
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Mercury meets the Sun in Cazimi, seated in the heart of the solar fire where a planet is briefly purified instead of burned. This is concentrated weather for speech, contracts, and timing, not background noise.
Claim one clean truth and act on it before the window closes. Cazimi rewards backbone, not spectacle.
Sky context Uranus stations Retrograde in Taurus; Solar Eclipse in Leo
2:06 AM
10Aug · Fri
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Venus square Saturn
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Venus square Saturn: the sky shifts.
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Venus square Saturn perfects, pulling love, money, and what you are willing to keep into contact with limits, duty, and what must be earned.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Uranus stations Retrograde in Taurus; Solar Eclipse in Leo
1:34 AM
11Aug · Sat
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Mercury square Jupiter
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Mercury square Jupiter: the sky shifts.
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Mercury square Jupiter perfects, pulling speech, contracts, and timing into contact with growth, belief, and scale.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Solar Eclipse in Leo
6:31 AM
11Aug · Sat
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Solar Eclipse in Leo
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Solar Eclipse in Leo: a fast door around visibility and heart. Step or notice.
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A Solar Eclipse is a New Moon with the volume turned up. In Leo, it plants a seed in visibility and heart, often before you feel ready. Doors appear. Timelines compress.
You do not have to force a dramatic reinvention. You do have to stop pretending the opening is not there. Eclipses reward honest participation, not performance.
Deep dive
Thematically, Leo Solar Eclipses rewrite the chapter about being seen without shrinking. Watch what arrives uninvited between now and the matching Lunar Eclipse season.
Use the light you refuse to dim as your compass. Solar Eclipses are launch windows, not forever moods.
Collective note: cultures feel eclipses as interruption. Expect headlines, reversals, and the kind of week where everyone is processing at different speeds.
Gravity and hope: something older is being replaced by something more accurate. Tell the truth once, plainly.
9:57 AM
13Aug · Mon
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Mars re-enters Aquarius
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Mars enters Aquarius.
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Mars enters Aquarius, shifting drive, conflict, and heat in the collective chart.
Notice what changes flavor this week.
Sky context Solar Eclipse in Leo
2:14 AM
18Aug · Sat
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Mercury sextile Venus
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Mercury sextile Venus: the sky shifts.
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Mercury sextile Venus perfects, pulling speech, contracts, and timing into contact with love, money, and what you are willing to keep.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Mercury stations direct in Leo
3:35 PM
19Aug · Sun
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Mercury stations direct in Leo
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Mercury stations direct. The stalled sentence can land.
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Mercury stations direct in Leo, and communication unclogs. The conversation, contract, or plan you kept revising is ready to move.
Say it plainly. Sign what is true. Travel with margin anyway.
4:25 AM
19Aug · Sun
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Jupiter trine Neptune
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Faith and expansion hold hands. Dream bigger, but keep receipts.
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Jupiter trines Neptune and the appetite for meaning swells. Compassion, art, and spiritual curiosity rise; so does the risk of buying a beautiful story with no floor under it.
Say yes to what enlarges your life ethically. Check the fine print on anything that promises salvation by subscription.
Sky context Mercury stations direct in Leo
7:45 AM
23Aug · Thu
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Sun enters Virgo
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Sun enters Virgo.
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Sun enters Virgo, shifting identity and visibility in the collective chart.
Notice what changes flavor this week.
Sky context Full Moon in Pisces
4:09 AM
25Aug · Sat
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Sun trine Uranus
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Sun trine Uranus: the sky shifts.
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Sun trine Uranus perfects, pulling identity and visibility into contact with rupture, invention, and the plot twist.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Full Moon in Pisces; Mars stations direct in Capricorn
4:38 PM
25Aug · Sat
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Sun trine Saturn
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Sun trine Saturn: the sky shifts.
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Sun trine Saturn perfects, pulling identity and visibility into contact with limits, duty, and what must be earned.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Full Moon in Pisces; Mars stations direct in Capricorn
10:07 PM
26Aug · Sun
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* Full Moon in Pisces
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Full Moon in Pisces: dissolution and compassion reaches the surface. Look without flinching.
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The Moon fills in Pisces, and Full Moons do not whisper. Whatever you built around dissolution and compassion is visible now. You may get clarity, or you may get the bill for what you kept semi-dark on purpose.
Use this Full Moon to separate completion from theater. Celebrate what is actually ripe. Release what only looked finished because you were tired of carrying it.
Deep dive
Keep the tide that returns either way nearby. Full Moons in Pisces expose where you stayed loyal to a version of the story that no longer fits your spine.
Illumination is information, not indictment. What you integrate now becomes usable strength by the next New Moon.
Sky context Mars stations direct in Capricorn
11:56 AM
26Aug · Sun
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Venus square Pluto
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Venus square Pluto: the sky shifts.
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Venus square Pluto perfects, pulling love, money, and what you are willing to keep into contact with power, depth, and what will not stay buried.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Full Moon in Pisces; Mars stations direct in Capricorn
7:21 PM
27Aug · Mon
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Mars stations direct in Capricorn
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Mars stations direct. Creative drive returns to the surface.
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Mars stations direct, and action stops circling the draft. What you rehearsed in Retrograde is ready to perform.
Move with heat, not haste. Aim the spotlight where it matters.
Sky context Full Moon in Pisces
2:05 PM
28Aug · Tue
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Mercury square Jupiter
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Mercury square Jupiter: the sky shifts.
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Mercury square Jupiter perfects, pulling speech, contracts, and timing into contact with growth, belief, and scale.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Full Moon in Pisces; Mars stations direct in Capricorn
5:32 AM