Your Queer Weekly Horoscope: August 22-28

Welcome to your Queer Weekly Horoscope, a bite-sized look at the coming days broken down by your zodiac sign.

Virgo season has arrived! A properly detailed rundown of the entire season shall arrive in due course. In the meantime, let’s focus on the minutiae of the next seven days. Mercury is set to accelerate the sense of speed while Venus throws a fit all over Leo. All the while, the Moon will be spinning along, making happy triangles for several signs.

We’ll begin with Virgo and scroll forward around the wheel until everyone’s fate has been decreed. If you know more of your placements than your Sun Sign alone (Moon, Rising, Venus, etc.), check their entries also to get a fuller picture of your weekly horoscope.

Click here to jump to a sign:  Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo.

• The Sun arrives in Virgo on Monday, hitting the entire zodiac with a manic burst of meticulous energy. Your ruler Mercury remains in your sign for the first few days of the work week, amplifying the jolt of Virgo energy from Monday to Wednesday.
• Prior to departing for Libra, Mercury forms an auspicious trine aspect with Pluto and a friendly sextile to the Moon. The nearest planet to the Sun can be astrologically tricky, arguably causing more chaos than any of the other celestial influencers, but Mercury loves you. Make moves during the early part of this week: Your emotional state is scheduled to fall into productive alignment with your biggest goals, with the Sun offering an approving spotlight  on your success.
• Once Mercury departs on Thursday, however, it’s time to settle in for a quiet weekend. Both the Sun and New Moon jointly square with Mars on Saturday. This is not the time to get into a fight.

• Your major astrological event this week happens on Thursday, when Mercury sweeps into your territory. This should build on the surge of energy you’ll already be feeling from the dawn of Virgo season.
• On the same day, the Moon — ruler of emotion — moves into conjunction with your patron planet Venus. You’re scheduled for a deep sense of contentment with yourself going into the back end of the week, leaving you feeling comfortable and decisive about your direction.
• Unfortunately, your sign ruler Venus is up to violence in Leo this week. The aspects involved are so dramatic that you, too, may see blowback in both creative and administrative aspects of life. Hold tight to yourself! You have an avenue of retreat this week, whereas poor Leo just has to ride it out.

• At the start of this season, Virgo ruler Mercury forms a trine aspect with your sign ruler Pluto. Mercury’s all about rapid movement, while Pluto’s about ponderous, permanent change. Taken together as the Sun moves into Virgo, it’s likely you’ll feel a compulsion to launch full force into a project that will take a very long time to complete. Fortunately, that’s sort of your thing.
• A couple days later, when Pluto stubs up in opposition to the emotional Moon, you’ll probably have an agonizing existential crisis regarding the effort you’ve just committed to undertake. While you don’t enjoy feeling that way, this what-is-the-meaning-of-it-all mood swing is also inarguably sort of your thing.
• After passing through the shadow of its new phase, the Moon makes amends with Pluto on Sunday, forming a lucky trine with your dwarf planet ruler. The mopey midweek moment should lighten as you enjoy a renewed sense of dedication.

• The busy spirit of Virgo season doesn’t affect you in the same way as most of the zodiac. Virgo’s ruler Mercury, that ball of astrological incitement, only has a muted influence in your house. Even when it does affect you, it just doesn’t have quite the grip that it does on others like your sibling sign Gemini. That’s not to say that you aren’t driven and dedicated to achieving your goals, it’s just that your progress often stems from ineffable motivations that seem incomprehensible to the rest of the zodiac.
• Step easy into the start of the season. On Monday, the Moon squares with your sign ruler Jupiter, which could find you screwing up your own luck with misinterpretation of your feelings.
• That’ll pass quickly, though! By Thursday, the Moon falls into a fortuitous trine formation with Jupiter and you’ll be back to your usual self, moving through your life in your familiar strange ways.

• On Monday, Mercury trines with your long-time housemate Pluto. Friendly contact between those two indicates the start of of major — but good! — change.
• Aside from whatever the Mercury/Pluto team-up entails, you’ve got an unremarkable week up until Friday, when the almost-New Moon pulls into a combative opposition with your sign ruler Saturn.
• You may feel unsettled going into the weekend, as if the customary laws of physics have changed just slightly. It may be connected to whatever springs from the Mercury/Pluto action at the beginning of the week. Sudden upheaval is tough, but the Moon doesn’t hold as much sway over Capricorns as it does over most other signs. Pragmatically stepping around otherwise intimidating obstacles, the average Capricorn has a superpower of accomplishing enormous tasks by persistently tackling them piece by piece. Keep your mastery of that ability in mind whenever you feel unsteady.

• Your business this week is all about the Moon, your sign ruler Uranus, and your former astrological boss Saturn, who’s currently camped out retrograde to supervise over your shoulder.
• The early week should be gentle, as the waning crescent Moon aspects pleasantly in sextile with Uranus.
• The middle of the week gets rockier, with the Moon squaring Uranus and moving into opposition with Saturn. Remember to breathe and perhaps try not to think too hard as the Moon, which represents emotion, fights with both of the bodies that most strongly affect your space.
• All’s well again by Sunday, when the Moon tops its earlier sextile aspect to Uranus with an even more pointedly promising trine. Life is best when your emotional state cooperates with your imagination.

• On Tuesday, the Moon forms a lucky trine aspect with your ruler Neptune, currently retrograde in your sign.
• As we’ve previously discussed, your sign’s famed sensitivity allows you to feel the retrograde influence of Neptune’s perspective motion, even though retrogrades of the long-orbiting outer planets aren’t typically harmful in the same fashion as retrogrades of the quicker inner planets can be. Though Neptune’s backwards presence in your sign is a net positive, it aches occasionally like a growth spurt.
• The Moon’s position early this week should help align your emotional state to your sense of intuition. Enjoy the respite before your instincts begin stretching the limits of your understanding again.

• Your sign ruler Mars has moved into Gemini, and your fiery nature will flare up with an influx of fresh oxygen from the mutable air sign.
• You’re still hosting Jupiter, retrograde but still lucky, and Chiron, which is also retrograde and insistent that you continue to focus on healing your trauma.
• Of the fire signs, your perpetual ambitious sense of drive is most similar to that of Virgo, the sign of the season. Keep doing whatever it is that you’re doing this week. The brisk nature of the next month should prove beneficial to you.

• You’ve been spending a lot of time with Uranus this year, and perhaps have even grown accustomed to its bizarro influence over your life. Well, buckle up, buttercups: this week it goes retrograde and twirls through a roller coaster of ups and downs with the Moon.
• Honestly, Uranus pivoting retrograde may actually come as a relief. Whereas retrograde motion from inner planets such as Mercury and Venus can cause a sort of crashing-backwards-through-a-crowded-shopping-aisle effect, retrogrades of the outer planets tend to have a more muted influence. In this case, Uranus will remain quirky and rebellious, but more like it’s chilling on your couch after an edible rather than hyperactively attempting to rearrange your furniture.
• This should soften the effect of the Moon’s square aspect with Uranus midweek, which might otherwise have instigated a well of emotion about something weird. Both early and late in the week, the Moon aspects positively with Uranus, so you may find yourself feeling inspired.

• You’ve just caught the zodiac hot potato that is Mars, the red ball of rage! Good times!
• Mars will give you most of the week to get used to each other before starting shit. Given the onset of a Mercury-ruled season that could easily escalate angry vibes, this is a blessing.
• You need to beware on Saturday. Both the Sun and the New Moon, in conjunction with one another, square Mars combatively. That’s the entirety of both your external and internal circumstances collaborating to provoke your urge to conflict! If you must fight, try to ensure it’s in service of a righteous cause, and preferably do it far from your own home.

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• This week, you’re attended by Lilith and the waning crescent Moon: a heady blend of shadows.
• While in your space, the Moon will form favorable aspects with Uranus, Neptune, and Mercury, but encounter friction with Jupiter and Pluto.
• The best outcome here requires a measure of removal and reflection. This won’t be an ideal week to start a major new project, but conditions are perfect for some intense daydreaming about your future.

• Venus is going absolutely wild in your sign this week. First, the planet of love and attraction makes a sharp, shiny triangle formation with Chiron, which represents healing from trauma. Then, beaming beatifically, it flips one middle finger at the representative of your destiny, the other middle finger at the ruler of progress and innovation, and proceeds to spit a “fuck you” right in the face of traditional, authoritative Saturn.
• The Moon will swing through for a few days to serve as the gay gadfly BFF character in the romantic drama that Venus is scheduled to enact on your week. Friendly with Mars and Jupiter, the Moon will sneer at Uranus and Saturn hand-in-hand with Venus.
• Honestly I don’t know what to tell you about this forecast. It scares me a little. At best, this is something out of a melodramatic romance novel. I would recommend avoiding contact with exes, but I’m not sure if whatever’s going to come of this is even avoidable. Good luck! I can’t tell you how to proceed here, but please tell me all about it next week.

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