Hey, my name is Chris Brennan and you're listening to the Astrology podcast in this episode.

We're going to be talking about the astrological forecast for August of 2023 joining me today.

Our astrologer's Austin Copic and Michael J Morris. Welcome both of you.

Thank you so much. All right, so we're going to do I'm going to give a quick overview of the month ahead

over the next minute. Then for the first hour of this episode, we're going to review news and events

and check in on how the astrology has worked out since our last forecast. Then in the second hour

of this episode, we're going to talk about the astrology of August itself and look forward to the

future. So if people want to just jump ahead to the forecast, then you can find timestamps on the

astrologypodcast.com website. So let's go ahead and jump right into it. So here's the planetary

movements calendar that shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the month and how far

through the signs the zodiac they'll get by the end of the month. And here is the planetary

alignments calendar that shows us the astrology of August. Our first major astrological aspect of

the month is a full moon in the sign of Aquarius on August 1st. And of course, the month opens with

Venus is still in the early phases of her retrograde cycle that started way back on July 22nd,

very recently. And then in the third week of August, we get one of our first major alignments,

which is the Sun Venus Kazimi, which is exactly halfway through the Venus retrograde cycle on

August 13th. Then on the 16th of August, we have a new moon in the sign of Leo. On the 22nd,

Mars opposes Neptune and Pisces. Then the next day, the Sun moves into Virgo while Mercury stations

retrograde in the same sign of Virgo on the 23rd. The following week Mars ingresses or moves into

the sign of Libra departs from Virgo. Then the next day on the 28th Uranus stations retrograde

in Taurus. And then two days later, we get our third Lunation of the month, which is a full moon

in the sign of Pisces on the 30th of August. So we'll be talking about that and a bunch of other

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