Weekly Astrology Forecast: August 4th - 10th, 2025
Full Moon in Aquarius & Mars Movements Bring Deep Soul Shifts
Welcome to a powerful week in the cosmos. From August 4–10, 2025, we move through a deeply charged portal of growth, healing, and inner recalibration. This week holds significant astrological events that work directly with the psychological landscape of your life, your patterns, your emotional needs, your subconscious drives, and your soul's call toward transformation.
This blog offers a grounded yet intuitive exploration of this week's energy from a psychological astrology perspective. Think of this as your gentle, insightful guide to aligning more fully with your inner truth.
Overview of Key Transits This Week:
August 5: Moon enters Capricorn
August 6: Mars enters Libra | Sun square Lilith
August 7: Moon enters Aquarius
August 8: Mars trine Uranus | Mars opposite Saturn
August 9: Full Moon in Aquarius | Mars opposite Neptune
August 10: Mars trine Pluto | Moon enters Pisces
Current Planetary Backdrop:
Sun in Leo
Mercury Retrograde in Leo
Mars in Virgo/Libra transition
Jupiter in Cancer
Saturn Retrograde in Aries
Uranus in Gemini
Neptune Retrograde in Aries
Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius
Lilith in Scorpio
Chiron Retrograde in Aries
North Node in Pisces
Let’s explore how these cosmic influences can support your evolution this week.
August 5: Moon Enters Capricorn - Grounding Through Inner Authority
The week begins with the Moon moving into Capricorn, offering a grounding influence after the emotional and expressive energy of Sagittarius. Capricorn energy supports structure, clarity, and self-containment. Emotionally, this is a time where you may feel drawn to simplify, focus, and stabilize.
From a psychological astrology lens, the Capricorn Moon activates your internal sense of responsibility. You might become more aware of where you're craving maturity in your emotional responses. This isn’t about fixing yourself, it’s about recognizing your ability to create safety from within.
Self-inquiry: What emotional boundaries bring me peace? How can I be my own source of stability today?
August 6: Mars Enters Libra & Sun Squares Lilith - Rebalancing Power and Expression
Mars shifts into Libra, beginning a new cycle in how you express and direct your energy. Mars in Libra encourages conscious action rooted in fairness, harmony, and connection. There’s a shift here from individual effort to relational awareness. In psychological terms, this invites an integration of the inner warrior and the inner peacemaker.
At the same time, the Sun in Leo forms a tense square with Lilith in Scorpio. This aspect can stir emotional material from the depths, old wounds around power, rejection, or truth-telling may rise. Lilith speaks to the exiled feminine, the parts of you that have gone underground because they were too bold, too raw, or too honest.
This is a chance to reclaim the full range of your inner voice and your right to take up space without apology.
Self-inquiry: Where do I suppress my truth to keep the peace? How can I reclaim my expression with grace and power?
August 7: Moon Enters Aquarius - Emotional Clarity Through Detachment
As the Moon enters Aquarius, the energy turns more objective, intuitive, and future-focused. Aquarius encourages you to take a step back from emotional reactivity and observe from a higher perspective. This is helpful if you're processing heavier feelings from earlier in the week.
Aquarius is deeply aligned with individuation. In psychological astrology, it represents your capacity to detach from groupthink or conditioning and follow your unique inner blueprint.
This lunar energy supports emotional insight through clarity, allowing you to process complex experiences from a more expanded state of awareness.
Self-inquiry: What perspectives open when I release attachment to outcome? What part of me is seeking liberation right now?
August 8: Mars Trine Uranus & Mars Opposite Saturn - Innovation Meets Structure
This is a pivotal day. Mars forms a harmonious trine with Uranus, inviting breakthroughs, fresh starts, and inner liberation. Uranus represents the higher mind, and when it flows with Mars, you may feel inspired to try something new or approach a familiar situation with a new strategy.
Later in the day, Mars forms an opposition to Saturn. This is a different tone, it slows things down and introduces a reality check. Saturn asks for patience, integrity, and responsibility. It can bring up internal resistance, especially if part of you is rushing toward something unresolved.
Together, these aspects create a dynamic interplay between change and containment, spontaneity and discipline.
Self-inquiry: Where am I ready to take a new step? What structures or boundaries can support that expansion?
August 9: Full Moon in Aquarius - Awakening the Authentic Self
This Full Moon is the emotional high point of the week. Occurring at 16°59' of Aquarius, it brings themes of individuation, vision, community, and liberation. Full Moons bring culmination and illumination. This one shines a light on where you are ready to release outdated roles, ideas, or identities that no longer match who you're becoming.
In psychological astrology, Aquarius Full Moons are connected to inner awakening, an urge to align with a future self that honors your true nature. There may be emotional release, breakthroughs in clarity, or a sense of relief in choosing freedom over familiarity.
Mars also opposes Neptune today, further softening the drive to act and deepening the call to listen inward. This is a beautiful day to create, meditate, journal, or simply rest.
Self-inquiry: What parts of me are ready to be witnessed? What version of myself am I ready to honor moving forward?
August 10: Mars Trine Pluto & Moon Enters Pisces - Empowered Action and Inner Surrender
This week concludes with Mars forming a flowing trine to Pluto, a deeply empowering transit. Mars represents drive, Pluto symbolizes transformation, and their harmony supports action that is aligned with your inner truth. This is a time for decisions that come from the core, from the parts of you that know what must evolve.
As the Moon slips into Pisces, you may feel more open emotionally and spiritually. This is a beautiful time for inner work, creative expression, or simply allowing space to feel what needs to be felt.
Self-inquiry: What does empowered action look like for me today? Where can I offer myself more grace and space to receive?
Closing Thoughts: Navigating This Week With Compassion and Consciousness
This week offers a profound opportunity to deepen your awareness of how you move through conflict, change, and emotional insight. Mars touches many major players in the sky, Uranus, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto, while the Full Moon in Aquarius opens a portal to greater authenticity and liberation.
This is a beautiful time to reflect on your inner landscape. What stories are ready to shift? What actions feel most aligned with your core values? Where can you soften into a deeper trust in your process?
Psychological astrology teaches us that every challenge holds an invitation for healing, every emotion holds a message, and every planetary movement mirrors the deeper cycles of the soul.
As you move through this week, remember: your awareness is the key. Your inner work is your empowerment. And your truth, however quietly or boldly it wants to be spoken, deserves space to live fully.
With warmth, wisdom, and steady care for your becoming.
