Hey my name is Chris Brennan and you're listening to the astrology

podcast in this episode astrologer Austin Kopik is joining me and we're going to be

talking about the astrology of August 2024. Hey Austin welcome.

Hey Chris how's you doing? how's you doing?

How's you doing?

I am doing great.

It has been a crazy, crazy month, so we're going to talk about it.

We're going to catch up and spend the first hour of this episode talking about news and events that happened since our last episode and what the astrological correlations were that explained them. And then in the second half of this episode, we're going to jump to the astrological

forecast for August, where we have a big month that I'm calling the Battle of the Benefix and Malefix

because we've got Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus all battling it out in like T squares all the way across the middle of the month.

So we have a lot to talk about.

As always, there's going to be time stamps in the

description below this video on YouTube or on the astrology podcast website if you

want to jump ahead to the forecast, but otherwise let's get into it. So first I wanted to show the planetary

alignments calendar to give a quick overview of the astrology of August before we get

into the news. So right at the top of the month we have a new moon in Leo on August 4th and Venus departs from Leo and Ingresses into the sign of Virgo.

Then our major transit for the first week of the month is Mercury Stationing Retrograde on the 5th of August and it's going to be Retrograde for three weeks all the way until the end of the month.

On the 7th of August, the Retrograde mercury conjoins Venus in early Virgo.

Then we jump to the next week where we have some of our most explosive combinations of the month,

starting with Mars conjoining Jupiter and Gemini on August 14th. of the

monjoining Jupiter and Gemini on August 14th,

the same day Mercury retrogrades out of Virgo and back into Leo.

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