ENERGIES OF THE WEEK 11–17 AUGUST 2025 ✨🎇🌀

MERCURY STATION DIRECT, SATURN-URANUS SEXTILE, VENUS-JUPITER-SIRIUS CONJUCTION

In the heart of August, after the light of the Full Moon has pierced us, illuminating dreams, the future, and the relationships worth following or letting go, the invitation for change and a new direction remains open.

This week unfolds like a dance between desire and action, offering a precious opportunity for clarity and expansion, to see clearly what we want to create and what wishes to be expressed through us.

The messenger of thought and speech, Mercury, stations direct this week in Leo, forming a harmonious sextile with Mars in Libra, opening pathways for effective communication and diplomatic assertion. Meanwhile, the momentous Saturn–Uranus sextile offers both individually and collectively the opportunity to build on solid foundations something that can radically change our future. At the same time, the rare alignment of Venus, Jupiter, and Sirius in Cancer promises fertility, abudance and new possibilities.
Toward the end of the week, the Last Quarter Moon in Taurus grounds us, inviting us to hold on to what nourishes and has true value, while releasing what weighs us down.

✨🌀On Monday, 11/8, retrograde Mercury, since July 18, stations direct at 4° Leo. Everything that was held inside, misunderstood, or silently burning, now finds the way to be expressed again with even greater strength.

Though Mercury remains in its post-retrograde shadow until August 25, it now illuminates the path forward, allowing us to connect the dots, engage in effective discussions and negotiations, and resolve delays or blocks that previously frustrated us.

After its descent into the underworld, Mercury returns with fresh insight and clarity, allowing us to make wiser decisions, speak from the heart, dare to try something new, and implement creative ideas based on what has been revealed to us.
This transit favors all Fire and Air signs until September 2, who will feel particularly empowered in their creative expression and determination in all pursuits.

✨🌀On Tuesday, 12/8, the most important alignment of the days, the second of three Saturn-Uranus sextiles perfects at 1° Aries-Gemini, following the initial one in April (Pisces-Taurus) and preceding the next in January 2026.
This aspect, part of the cosmic triangle involving Neptune and Pluto, describes one of the most creative and enlightening periods of our lives.
With Saturn and Uranus now settled in their new signs, in the early degrees of Aries and Gemini respectively, we are called to build new systems both individually and collectively, seize opportunities in the houses they occupy, and make constructive changes that promise stability and growth.

On a personal level, this aspect supports you to take bold steps by combining experience with risk. It gives you the ability to lead and build something new based on ideas you might not have dared to pursue before, through mature choices and responsibility.

On a collective level, it opens roads we had not imagined, promoting new ways of communication, learning, and social interaction, which in the coming years will shape a new reality on social, political, economic, and cultural level.

On the same day, the rare conjunction between Venus and Jupiter, with Jupiter in its exaltation, and their alignment with Sirius—visible in the early morning sky—is a moment of pure blessing for all, primarily for the second decan of the Water and Earth signs. Especially if your choices align with the soul and stay away from the desire for validation or excess.

The union of the two benefics in the sign of protection, family, motherhood, and emotional memory creates a fertile, energetic field that nourishes and strengthens optimism and hope. It is an ideal moment for healing ancestral wounds and relationships with the mother and the feminine principle.

This conjunction at 14° Cancer softens past tensions, opens the heart, and promises emotional renewal and fortunate connections. Wherever it falls in your chart, it brings luck, abundance, and the fulfillment of heartfelt desires. This is a perfect time to nurture yourself and those you love, feeling joyful, safe, and whole.

At the same time, collectively, this energy may inspire enhanced social support, repatriation, healthcare infrastructure, and a boost to real estate, wellness industry, family businesses, and women-led initiatives.

Interestingly, the Sabian symbol for this degree, “A group of people who have overindulged and are enjoying themselves,” reminds us of the value of moderation and warns against overexposure, overestimating, and overspending emotionally and materially.

It invites us to stay grounded in what nourishes us spiritually and emotionally and to leave space for the divine to flow in.

✨🌀On Friday, 15/8, the sextile between Mercury and Mars at 5° Leo-Libra is perfect for putting into action the insights gained during Mercury’s retrograde. This energy favors clear, calm communication free of exaggeration or drama—imbued with confidence, courage, self-mastery, and objectivity.
It supports diplomatic and strategic discussions that honor balance, harmony, and justice.

 Fire and Air signs of the first decan receive a boost to express themselves passionately yet considerately, fostering mutual trust, support, and win-win compromises, and if you are one of them, you can expect fluid, responsive energy in relationships and collaborations.

✨🌀On Saturday, 16/8, the Last Quarter phase of the Moon 🌗 at 23°36’ Taurus ♉, is an invitation to release false securities, unnecessary attachments, and energies that no longer serve you and create space for true abundance.

Half illuminated, half submerged in shadow, the Moon reminds us that every cycle needs closure before a new one begins. It is a time of maturity, recognizing the fruits that blossomed and letting go of what no longer nourishes your soul. Just as trees shed old leaves to nourish the soil, so you are called to release what no longer gives life—relationships based on habit, feelings that weigh you down, possessions held out of fear or guilt.

The Moon’s square to the Sun in Leo may stir tension, conflicts of desire, or exhaustion, but it highlights what truly matters, what feeds your security and feel safe, and what cannot be sustained any longer.

The Last Quarter in Taurus urges you to create space for true abundance to root and flourish. And though letting go can be hard, it opens the door to the next gift life is preparing for you.

The cosmic cycles this week continue to open new paths, with planetary alignments acting as guides through unknown waters, sometimes urging us to dare, other times encouraging patient waiting for the right wave.

In this flow, as so many energies rise in the early degrees of the signs, hold within your heart the knowledge that we stand at the dawn of a new era, and every choice we make now plants a seed destined to bloom in a new world awaiting us. With every step, may we discover more of who we truly are and the power we have to create.

Have a blessed week ahead!✨🎇🕊☮

With love💓💓💓

Sofia Semeli