Your Daily Horoscopes for August 21

Things are returning to normal after yesterday’s wild emotional ride. Today’s lovely Libra Moon asks us to reflect on the beauty around us. Even if we have to deal with a difficult set of circumstances, the Libra Moon suggests that we may be able to find a way to balance the negative with the positive. Although the Moon’s opposition to serious Saturn in the evening issues a temporary reality check, we are still enamored with our hopes and dreams.

 

Aries Horoscope
Aries Horoscope (Mar 21 – Apr 19)

This is a day of compromise for you sometimes-uncompromising Rams. The good news is that you are willing to soften your hard edges now. Your uncharacteristic gentleness enables you to meet others halfway. In turn, this sensitivity allows you to avoid unnecessary conflict. But don’t give in too quickly or you’ll end up settling for too little and resenting your current situation.

Taurus Horoscope
Taurus Horoscope (Apr 20 – May 20)

You may wish that you could take the day off, but you have responsibilities that need your undivided attention. The sooner you accept that work comes before play today, the easier it will be to improve your attitude. Although just meeting your obligations will get you by, don’t take the lazy way out now. Be practical and make use of the Moon’s visit to your 6th House of Habits by making positive changes to your daily routine that move you in a healthier direction.

Gemini Horoscope
Gemini Horoscope (May 21 – Jun 20)

Your most important responsibilities may be temporarily put on the back burner for a while today. But your need to relax doesn’t automatically mean you can avoid your obligations. Then again, you don’t need permission from anyone to honor your needs as long as you also deliver on what you promised. Go ahead and be spontaneous. Have yourself some good old-fashioned fun, but cover your bases.

Cancer Horoscope
Cancer Horoscope (June 21 – Jul 22)

You might be required to make a decision that affects your home and family today; however, you would prefer waiting to see how things develop. Unfortunately, things can come to a head so you really should take your current situation seriously. Ambivalence won’t get you through this one, but hiding your feelings won’t work either. Come out of your protective shell and show your true colors, even if revealing your opinions feels like risky business.

Leo Horoscope
Leo Horoscope (Jul 23 – Aug 22)

Your even-handed approach to life now can be your greatest strength. Being fair and objective takes some mental effort, but is well worth it. The alternative is to rely on your charm, but this strategy will likely leave you short of your goal. Use your common sense to sift through a variety of possibilities and then do your best to find common ground that’s acceptable to all.

Virgo Horoscope
Virgo Horoscope (Aug 23 – Sep 22)

It’s time to think about new ways to accomplish your goals now because the old methods may be growing stale. It’s helpful to take a few deep breaths before you act so you can think about what’s most important to you. Even if you already made up your mind yesterday, review your decision today. But don’t wallow in self-doubt; pick a path and be confident as you proceed.

Libra Horoscope
Libra Horoscope (Sep 23 – Oct 22)

Although you’re moodier than usual with the evocative Moon in your sign, you can trust your feelings now. Even if you’re dreaming of a perfect day today, you’re also thinking about some deeper psychological issues that you have wrestled with before. Thankfully, you have newfound hope for resolution or change. Use your natural instincts to look at both sides of the situation before choosing which one to support.

Scorpio Horoscope
Scorpio Horoscope (Oct 23 – Nov 21)

There’s a lot you’re not saying today, but then again, you may not be aware that something is still missing from the picture. Unfortunately, what you don’t notice now can come back and bite you later on. Your best defense is to think about the unthinkable. Push your own buttons by exploring your fear of change. If you can face the dark, you might just realize that the unknown is not as scary as it seems from a distance.

Sagittarius Horoscope
Sagittarius Horoscope (Nov 22 – Dec 21)

You’re no stranger to living in the future since you often aim your arrows of thought toward the next possible adventure. However, you must bring your big ideas down to earth today or you might face disappointment later on. Instead of fantasizing about an unrealistic journey around the world, start planning a less ambitious activity that you could actually manifest. It’s better now to set a goal that you can reach than one that will remain beyond your grasp.

Capricorn Horoscope
Capricorn Horoscope (Dec 22 – Jan 19)

Other people are depending on you and the pressure is palpable today. Escape might sound like a good idea, but you know that you cannot quit before the job is done. Although you may feel as if you are in over your head, don’t entertain the possibility of failure now. Fortunately, you know exactly what you must do, so bite the bullet and get to work. There will be time enough for rest once you’re done.

Aquarius Horoscope
Aquarius Horoscope (Jan 20 – Feb 18)

It feels as if you’re riding on a roller coaster lately. Although you might have been lost in fantasyland yesterday, there’s very little room for any kind of escape today. There will be no idle dreaming of your alternate life on a tropical beach because you have serious work to finish now. Instead of being angry about the unchangeable circumstances, use your emotions to fuel your superhero efforts. It seems like you’re facing a final exam, but with dedication and perseverance you’ll surely pass with flying colors.

Pisces Horoscope
Pisces Horoscope (Feb 19 – Mar 20)

You have something important to say now, but it’s hard to put your complex emotions into words. Ironically, you’re just as impatient with others for not understanding you as you are with yourself for not speaking clearly. The harder you try to get your point across, the more confusion sets in. Be smart and watch the signals; if your message isn’t connecting with anyone, stop pushing. You’ll be more successful if you start up the conversation again tomorrow after everyone has had time to chill out.

Daily Cosmic Calendar for Tuesday, August 21

Mars in cahoots with Neptune (9:54AM PDT) — in this morning’s parallel — can send out disturbing, confusing and chaotic signals throughout humanity. As a reminder, be aware that a parallel occurs when two celestial bodies are the same number of degrees north or south of the Celestial Equator. On the other hand, zodiacal aspects are calculated via the Ecliptic — the apparent Sun’s path in the sky. Parallels can be just as potent as conjunctions in the zodiac.  Mars conspiring with Neptune can increase the worry and misery indexes worldwide and, simultaneously, create hazy business conditions and illusions on the romantic horizon. It doesn’t help that the Moon chimes in by forming a parallel with both Neptune (10:55AM PDT) and Mars (10:58AM PDT). Being too pushy and belligerent will not win you friends or help you to influence people.  In the meantime, the lunar orb is making other tidal waves of potential disagreement by uniting with Saturn (5:01PM PDT) and Mars (11:26PM PDT). While psychic storms are omnipresent, the Moon forming a trine with Ceres (9:19PM PDT) can provide some nurturing vibrations while the Sun in the last degree of Leo is interacting with the first magnitude star Regulus — the so-called Little King of heavenly Leo the Lion. If you think like a winner — someone with regal bearing and background — you may be able to tune out troubles of your own making.

Calendar of the Sun for August 21

Calendar of the Sun

21 Weodmonath

Consualia: First Harvest of Rome

Color: Brown
Element: Earth
Altar: Upon a brown a cloth display the preserved fruits of the harvest thus far. There should be a pot of fruit that has been cooked to charring as a traditional offering, a wreath of flowers, and a chalice of wine. Outside, the underground stone altar of Consus is dug open and revealed.
Offering: Burned fruits.
Daily Meal: Food out of the garden.

Consualia Invocation

Hail, Consus, Lord of the Storehouse!
As our ancestors stored things deep underground,
So we have opened the earth
To give you what is your due.
For it is not enough to grow what must be grown.
Our sustenance must also be cultivated,
Plucked from vine and stem,
Cleaned and prepared,
And if necessary preserved.
You are the keeper of next year’s seeds
Which we must save as if our lives
Depended on those tiny cradles of life.
You are the keeper of next year’s grain,
And may we all come to love and understand
The cycle of seed and fruit on which
Our table, and our bellies, depend.
Hail Consus, keeper of the seeds,
May your blessing carry through
To next year’s garden, and each year forever.

(All go out to the garden, where the open hole reveals the carved stone of Consus’s altar. The burned fruits are laid in as an offering, and the wine poured in on top. Then the altar is covered again with earth, and the wreath of flowers is laid over it.)

[Pagan Book of Hours]

Current Moon Phase for August 21: Waxing Crescent Moon

Crescent Moon

(waxing/30% illumination)

The Moon is in zodiac sign Libra

Current Moon Phase is from August 17th to 24th

During this Moon phase, there is a slight slowing down of enthusiasm due to an emerging desire to produce tangible results from the energy being expended. The issue of values enters into the equation and an urge to tie together the data available so that you can utilize current opportunities. There is still plenty of forward motion, and this is a great time to continue initiating and progressing forward. This Moon phase favors gaining more information and the input of others to further your plans.

Witches Almanac for Tuesday, August 21

 

Witches Almanac for *Tuesday, August 21

*Tuesday (Mars):  Passion, sex, courage, aggression, and protection.

Consualia (Roman)

Moon Sign: *Leo

*Leo: Draws emphasis to the self, central ideas or institutions, away from connections with others and other emotional needs. People tend to be melodramatic.

*Waxing Moon

*The Waxing Moon: is the ideal time for magick to draw things toward you.

Incense: Cedar

Moon Phase: First Quarter

Color:  Gray

Good Tuesday Afternoon, dear friends! Once Again, Please Forgive Me!

Good Tuesday afternoon, my dearies! I am feel I owe you an apology. I am very sorry for yesterday and especially today. Yesterday at the doctor’s office, we spent all day there. The doctor had an emergency, so we sat and sat. We didn’t see the doctor till almost 3:00. I was upset, angry and pissed off. Our appointment was for 10:00. They wanted to know if we wanted to reschedule but it take months and months to get in to see the doctor and hubby said no. Which I wanted to kick him, but…..he knows how he feels and I went along with it. I believe I read every magazine in the waiting room. Then when we did get  to see the doctor, he wanted to run in and out. And it was like, “I don’t think so!” We sit out there for almost 5 hours waiting on you and you are going to sit down and listen to hubby. So the doctor actually slowed down and took time to sit down and listen to him. It amazes me, when we checked in, the first thing I got hit with was, “Well, you don’t have insurance and we need $187.00 upfront before you can see the doctor!”  That was like a slap in the face. I mean really, what has happened to the medical profession. If you don’t have a dollar are they going to let you die? The medical profession has turned into a business instead of a caring profession. Well, I wrote them a check and I ain’t guaranteeing it is going to clear but anyway.

You have to understand why I was so pissed. I have been going to this doctor for 14 years. I have never, ever owed them a dime. When the insurance didn’t pay the full amount on hubby, I paid them promptly. Now they want $187.00 upfront! Thinking about it makes me so mad, I can’t put on here what I really want to say. I ask the lady at the front desk, if they could take payments and she said no. They didn’t take payments from anyone anymore because they weren’t getting paid. That is when I showed my ass. I reminded her that I had been going there for all those years and never owed them anything. I was a prompt pay, a good patient and I had brought my husband to them because I thought he was a good doctor. Well, there are other doctors in town and that will be our last visit to him. I even told the doctor that. He left the room and came back in and handed me my check back. He called me by my first name and told me to make payments to him and pay it when I could. He would take care of the woman upfront. Well, I got over having to wait for him for 5 hours and wanted to hug him. Truth be told, I have been going to him for so long I feel like we are friends instead of patient, doctor. So I would really have hated to switch doctor’s. But after all that, we went to the pharmacy, got something to eat and we finally got home around 5:30 yesterday.

Today, I thought it was going to be normal, HA! I went out to feed all the critters and check on them. I didn’t take time to play with them yesterday, so I forgot the time. About 11:00, I got a phone call from a local vet. He wanted to know if I had room for 4 baby bobcats. A hunter had shot their mother and they weren’t weaned yet. Oh, brother! How could I say no. So I went to the vet and picked them up. I have them on the porch in a box. They are so little and need feeding every two hours. A lot of sleepless nights ahead, lol! but it will be worth it. They are beautiful. My husband told me, don’t get attached, we already have one bobcat we don’t need another one. And Razzy knows they are here. She has walked the floor growling and doing her loud cry that she does. She doesn’t want to play mother, she wants to kill them. She has no motherly instincts at all. When I came back home, she pounced me and smelled me from one end to the other. And then she rubbed all over me and marked me with her scent. She is fixed so she doesn’t know she isn’t marking me. But she still pretends too. So the baby bobcats are here and I have sit up their feed schedule. I have already feed them once and they take the bottle good. So there is a good outlook for them. I just hate getting the ones that won’t take the bottle, you know what is going to happen and you do everything in the world to prevent it. I have a few finger tips that have been gnawed off but the baby lived. So I feel like a few missed finger tips is worth it. I am a huge animal lover and besides my finger tips always grow back, just a little shorter each time, lol!

Well I wanted to explain to you what has been and is going on. I do have good news though. Through it all the store is moving right along. I am in the process of adding merchandise to it right now. At least some is going right, lol! I am going to run for now and get busy.

I hope you understand and have a great Tuesday,

Luv & Hugs,

Lady A

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Daily Feng Shui Tip for Aug. 20 – ‘National Radio Day’

Today’s ‘National Radio Day’ energies are music to my ears. I once learned a Feng Shui cure that entailed positioning a radio in the ‘Children/Creativity’ area of your main floor. This cure maintained that if you tune to a radio station that plays the music that you most love to dance to, you could reap beneficial health and happiness rewards. So, today place a radio in that same ‘Children/Creativity’ location and tune it to a station that that gets you jumping and jiving. Spend a few minutes letting go of all your worries and woes and just groove to the music and then see how much better you feel. This adjustment is said to lower blood pressure while oxygenating the blood and lifting your mood. An all-purpose panacea that brings balance to the dance!

By Ellen Whitehurst for Astrology.com