Hey, my name is Chris Brennan. You're listening to the astrology podcast. In this episode, Austin Coppick is joining me. We're going to be talking about the astrological forecast for August of 2025.

Hey, Austin. Welcome back. Hey, Chris.

Hey, all right. It's been a long, busy month. We've got a lot to talk about, both in the news section and the forecast section. We're going to spend the first hour of this episode catching up and talking about news stories

that we have a pretty striking astrological connection to make and talking about the

astrology of things in the news. And then in the second half of this episode, probably

around the second hour, we're going to jump into looking at the

forecast for August and doing a deep dive into the astrological alignments over the next four

weeks. So as always, there'll be timestamps either on the podcast website entry for this episode

or on the YouTube video. So you can jump ahead if you want to skip the new section. But other than

that, before we get started, let me jump into doing a quick overview and

preview of the astrology of August to give you an idea of what we'll be talking about later

in this episode.

All right, so here is the planetary movements calendar that shows where the planets will start

at the beginning of the month and how far through the signs of the zodiac they'll get by the end of the month.

We've got several important alignments this month.

So the Mercury retrograde is about halfway through, and we're going to be finishing up that

Mercury retrograde for the first week or so of this month, with Mercury

eventually stationing direct on August 11th and then starting to move forward again and

eventually finishing its shadow degree by August 25th.

This month, our primary aspect and most important and also most difficult aspect is this very

tense Mars-Saturn opposition that's really going to be peaking around August 8th, and then the

days leading up to that and the days following it.

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