Hello you beautiful people and welcome to Aligned Advantage for August!
I’m so excited to go on this deep dive of each month’s calendar together using the power of the woo-woo tools my momma taught me. 😉
Hooray!
It’s time to tackle the August calendar so here we go!
NOTE: Our Zoom on August 21st will be about September’s magic. Scroll down to get registered to be a part of that *next* session! ’til then, it’s all about August.
As always, we’ll cover what the numerology of the days mean, what the moon phases tell us, and of course how all this plays out in your favor in the most intriguing and powerful ways! During the Zoom, you’ll get a chance to hop in the hot seat — be sure to bring your chart (render it at a site like Astro.com) so I can work my magic with you — and we’ll talk about how the woo of the month aligns with YOU!
Special for our July 23rd Zoom (replay below): I’ll be doing my grand tour of the 5 things you must know to navigate your chart! Be ready to take notes, y’all!
Please feel free to ask questions in the comments area below and while some will be best-suited for our live Zoom, certainly I’ll do what I can to help explain some of how I make the calendar work for me in the comments before and after our Zooms.
If you need support materials for interpreting the various notations on this calendar, head back over to your Aligned Advantage Welcome page, where I have stored all sorts of goodies for you!
And now… the replay of our live Zoom session about the August calendar and all its juicy goodness! Enjoy!
Here’s a useful place to poke around, if you’d like to explore more of these things ’til our next meeting. You’ll see more about the ages of the signs, the body parts they rule, days of the week that are ruled by planets, and so much more. Just go in and start building your fluency. Post questions on those blog posts or here on this page! I’ve got you!
My goal with these 5 big things we need to know to read a chart is to just get you building the language around more than JUST “your sign.” I’m going to now shoot that same hour of goodness as several smaller vids to try and help with the overwhelm of it all. 😉 I’ll be sure to let y’all know when they’re avail.
If you are hankerin’ for a “You in the Stars” report or if you’d like to book a one-on-one with me for more woo, all the info on these offerings is here. Woo HOO!
Questions? Keep ’em comin’! I love these discussions SO MUCH and really enjoy sharing all this learning with you.
Y’all, thank you for joining me in this exciting woo-woo venture! I’m so proud to be the astrologer’s daughter and I know Charlsie is so happy to see this happening right now. 🙂
All my love,
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In looking over my notes and trying to see “where in the chart” other personality traits come from (like fascinate advantage, 4 tendencies, etc), I feel like the 2 best analogies for this is that it’s script analysis or putting together a jigsaw puzzle. You can come at it from any angle and it’s all going to point you in the same direction/give you the same outcome. Do you start with your want statement or does the relationship stick out as the easy way in? Do you start with the edges or is there a unique image that is easy to put together first? While I understand everything individually, seeing how they all fit together is like putting together a gigantic 3D puzzle, which I guess, in essence, is what we are.
PERFECT way of framing this. Yes. Choose the point of entry that has the least friction so you can start in on the script analysis and get closer to the WHY of the character. And the point of entry with the least friction is going to vary, person to person. 🙂 No one right way in!! Yay!
Y’all! I have posted a couple of prompts for some homework in my Stories at Instagram. If you’re looking for them after they expire from the main Stories feed, they’re pinned on my Highlights here. Enjoy! Lemmeknow what you come up with. 🙂
I saw the prompts and thought, ” more????”.
Ha ha ha! 😉 Just trying to gamify the calendar a little bit. Keeping it fun, like a logic puzzle. So it’s something you’re not too scared to try to tackle (and then before you know it, you’ll know exactly how a day is going to feel before it even happens). 😉
Follow up. Say you have a birth date (and therefore their numerology), birth location, and you’ve used google to pinpoint the moon at birth, if you are unable to obtain the time of birth, is it possible to solve for x and come relatively close to a somewhat accurate birth chart using all the other info available? Obviously it’s a lot more work, but in re-reading my numerology life path numbers I was able to more easily see the correlations to the astro. Is that Aquarius enough for you?
It’s a pretty advanced move. I only just did this for the first time last week, after having a client who had already worked with another astrologer to try and get it narrowed down whether she was more likely to be a top-wheel or lower-wheel resident (meaning, her life and things she’s experiencing thus far, at the age of 30-something, show she’s gonna have more placements above or below the equator of the chartwheel itself). That astrologer got it narrowed down to 6 potential Rising signs (so she eliminated half of them, obviously) and gave us the times of day that would be each of the remaining 6 options.
I worked up a chart for the 3 of those 6 that felt like they could possibly be accurate, having worked with this client for like 4 years now and being pretty clear about her Rising sign-like behaviors and choices. From there, I could see where that would put her HOUSES (very important) and I could also see where the other personality planets/placements were (so Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Midheaven) and with that, plus the Sun and Moon we already know, I could see what I know to be true about her that wasn’t showing up UNLESS she had X Rising. And that put her birthtime within a half-hour block of that day.
We’ll never know for sure because she was adopted and there are no birth records beyond the day she was born and in what city, but based on her feedback for the whole “You in the Stars” report, she’s elated because it all really clicked for her (even with the stuff that I don’t know about who she is/how she behaves, thinks, and feels about things).
So, yes, it’s do-able. TL;DR though? It’s an advanced move. 😉
Got it. Moving on.
I don’t know my exact birth time either but based on what my mom told me it’s somewhere around 8 am, so we used the exact 8 am and it worked. It might be a few minutes off, but I feel like it fits me anyway. 🙂
Here’s what I’d suggest, if ever you’re uncertain about any of the placements — take a look at the DEGREE of the placement. So, Ivett, for you, let’s look at your Rising, which is at 2 degrees Gemini. That’s “early” in the sign, because we go from 29 degrees Taurus to 0 degrees Gemini, and then to 1 and 2 degrees. And Rising is something that changes ALL throughout the day. If, when you read your Rising, it didn’t FIT for you, I’d encourage you to play with Planet Watcher for your date of birth and change the time back and forth around that 8am time of birth (remember to check the time zone in which Planet Watcher is tracking, of course) to see at what time your Rising would’ve been Taurus (IF you felt more Taurus Rising than Gemini Rising, of course). From there, you look at ANYTHING ELSE that also changed signs (unlikely with big/far out planets, of course) and read about those changes to confirm or rule out that new birth time. JUST using that as an example. 😉 I agree that your chart feels pretty much spot-on for who you are, at least for what I know of you!! 🙂
Very interesting and helpful. Gonna try this when I take a closer look at my family. Apparently recording birth times on birth certificates wasn’t really a big deal back in the 40s.
Many folks find a call to the hospital will help. They — sometimes — have the times noted in old records THERE even if they didn’t make it onto the birth certificates themselves. I’ve seen some find the info on those footprint documents (baby’s footprint and parents’ names? Have you seen one of these?) so there can be some very interesting places to go looking!
Laughing about how chatty this Libra moon made me. I had to specifically talk out alllllll my issues the last three days (including today, Sunday, so it spilled over into today for me even though it says Scorpio moon now).
I talked through things out loud by myself and then out loud to my man. Many times. Haha. Poor guy! 😉
After the second time of me doing the talky talk, I thought wait – we’re in a Libra moon, this makes so much sense! And then the talky talk continued. So funny.
I love that you’re tracking patterns like this, Abby! So good! Because you may be someone who gets so much momentum going off a certain moon phase that you keep going with that vibe even after the moon itself has changed signs.
Of course, you already know that we see these changes as “turning the dial” rather than “flipping the switch.” So definitely that could be some of what you’re experiencing and, again, I LOVE that you’re tracking it!! 🙂
Yes, exactly – about “turning the dial.” I was so glad you taught us that concept because I reminded myself of it that day and it helped so much! <3
And great point on seeing if I go with that momentum from the one sign to the next. Will pay attention to see if that happens!
I don't always do the tracking do the best ability of how I'd want to ultimately do it, but I'm giving myself grace with it and when it happens I enjoy it and it gives me more motivation to keep doing it. 😉
To all –
I furiously take notes during all our AA calls and have a shit ton of them.
Last session I found/remembered I had started a document where I took all the main points we’ve learned and compiled them into just one, more concise document (it’s still a lot!).
So – I wanted to share it with you all in case it’s helpful!
I saw someone made a comment on the last call about being overwhelmed, so when I re-discovered I had this, I figured it might be perfect timing. 🙂
It’s a Google Doc link. I will be updating the document each time we have new main points to add to it.
All the notes are pretty much verbatim of what Bon says – I just basically transcribe what she’s saying as she’s talking. Haha! So, it should all sound familiar and in the “Bon way.”
But, if something doesn’t make sense, please let me know because I only just did a quick glance at it and didn’t go through and proofread anything.
🙂
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zs7lFXv0MO-kg4t7_oHCZ0OW2t_AL_esV38ny9_dY7g/edit?usp=sharing
Oh, boo! I was eager to see your notes! It’s requiring a login to see. Oh well, even without seeing this, I’m so glad you’re doing it and sharing it! 🙂 You rock!
I’ll be creating mini-lessons off the essentials soon and putting them up in a super easy-to-get-to place, so hopefully we can continue to reduce the overwhelm. It’s real, I know!!
Well, balls! I was even being super conscious to make sure I had the link viewing settings right! Guess not. Haha
This link should work …
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zs7lFXv0MO-kg4t7_oHCZ0OW2t_AL_esV38ny9_dY7g/edit?usp=sharing
And work it does! Abby, I’m seriously in awe of this document. I mean, I know all this stuff but you SO CLEARLY captured so much of what I feel is sometimes rambly and unfocused when I’m talking about it. Wow! THANK YOU for this. I may even use this as the starting point for the Aligned Advantage Welcome Kit I’m working on right now! 🙂 You are amazing. Thank you for hearing me (and Charlsie) so well! 🙂
You’re welcome, Bon! I’m so glad it’s helpful for you! <3
I'm so happy and grateful to be able to hear you and Charlsie and for it to influence my life in such a positive way.
And it doesn't come across as rambly and unfocused at all by the way. 🙂 <3
Phew!
This is great. Thank you for sharing Abby.
Today at work was a clusterfuck of missed appointments and mixed messages. While being exhausted from a long day, I found the energy to continually laugh to myself. August 1: confusion in communication. As if I wasn’t already a believer…
It would be weird if it weren’t so damn accurate, right? LOL Get some rest, lovely!
Things I learned so far: I actually like Scorpio moons. I know a lot of people don’t but it has been working for me so far. I always get a date or at least an invitation for a date. Lol. But I really really don’t like Cancer moons. It makes me cry about everything and nothing works and I don’t want to do anything.
I’m curious about this Pisces moon coming up in a couple of days. Water signs are fascinating to me in general.
Awesome, Ivett!! That is such good intel! Scorpio moons can be very sexy and attractive and sensual! And they’re also quite good for research and getting to the bottom of things (with caution if you tend to get obsessive or perfectionistic about data though). It’s just the intensity of the Scorpio moon that can rattle some folks or get ’em too sensitive about things (depends on how much Water is in their natal charts).
Definitely hear you on the Cancer moons. The “feeling everyone else’s feelings” thing is for shit right now. There have been times the collective FEEL is really good and exciting and fun. Not for a few years now, honestly, so it’s good to know you really feel that even more so.
Love the data-focused approach you’ve got for the forthcoming Pisces moon! I’ll remind you though we’ll be coming right off a full moon (which always intensifies the feelings of everything) and we also have some very interesting astro going on this week with Uranus and Jupiter and Mars so really look for things that are Pisces-like in tone (meaning, emotional, other-worldly, not at all rooted in TIME or PLACE, intuitive, magical, musical) for a true sign of how you’re feeling during that moon phase.
Excited to learn what you learn!! 🙂
Bon, I’ve seen a two different people mention the Lions Gate / Lions Gateway coming up. One person said it was on August 8th.
Do you have any opinion/insight on it?
Thank you!
What is that? Can you share more info? I’ve never heard these phrases.
Below is what Christiane Northrup said – trying to also find the other place I saw it …
Every year on August 8, there is a cosmic alignment called the Lion’s Gateway, or the Lion’s Gate. This occurs when the sun is in the astrological sign of Leo (the Lion), and when Earth and the star Sirius (representing abundance and fertility) align. The zodiac sign Leo is associated with the heart center and represents your individual expression of the Divine.
Astrologically, Lion’s Gate is a time of increased cosmic energy flowing between the physical and spiritual realms. Symbolically, the infinity signs (8-8), coupled with the 2 archetypal lions of the past and future, make this all about more fully awakening our Divine light.
If you look up to the sky during the opening of the Lion’s Gate portal, you will see Sirius appears very close to Earth. Sirius is twice the size and 26 times brighter than our sun. In fact, it is often called the Spiritual Sun. The intense light from Sirius is said to awaken our DNA, activate our human energy fields, and transmit high-vibrational frequencies and codes of awakening.
The Lion’s Gate portal opens on August 8, but the activation of the Lion’s Gate actually started on July 26, so many of you have already been feeling this energy. (Interestingly, during the Lion’s Gate portal, the constellation Orion’s Belt aligns directly over the ancient Pyramids of Giza. The 3 Pyramids of Giza are a reproduction of the 3 stars in Orion’s Belt and were believed by some to have been created to serve as a gateway to the stars.)
No matter where Leo is in your birth chart, the energies associated with the Lion’s Gateway and alignment are powerful and transformative because they feed into the “I am” aspect of your highest self––the embodiment of the Divine in physical form. The best way to work with these energies is to clear whatever is blocking the flow of Divine energy in your body and your daily life. You may need to clean up your diet to allow this energy to permeate your cells. Or perhaps you need to employ practices to help clear your chakras of stagnant energy to allow for transformation.
Here is one practice you can try: Stand outside barefoot facing the early morning or late afternoon sun. Place your left foot slightly in front of your right. Hold your palms in a receiving position. Imagine the energy of the Sun pouring into your body from above and imagine the Earth’s energy being pulled up right into your heart. Allow your body to be a vessel for higher-vibration energies and set your intent to receive them. Say out loud or to yourself: “I am a wide-open vessel for the transforming and life-giving energy of the sun. I gratefully receive this energy fully and completely.”
Wow! Never heard of any of that. Sounds pretty cool! Let us know how you feel on and after the 8th, especially if you do any of that ritual goodness! 🙂
I had an interesting moment that day – I had a full mind/body sensation where I felt completely free and void of one of my major health issues. It was so surreal. I literally felt like I did not have it AT ALL.
While it was only for that moment, it was very powerful.
I think about it a lot and really try and tap into how I felt then to “recreate” that sensation as much as possible.
That’s my experience!
Did anyone else feel anything in particular?
Can the birth/life path numbers of those who were highly influential in your upbringing have a “trickle down”affect on you even if you don’t have that number in your birth number? Or is more the fact that we all have influences of each number but we’re strongest (either positively or negatively) with our own numbers? I don’t have a 7 but I really identified with a majority of it in a deep way. A very close, parental-type figure for me is a 7 (25/7 to be exact) so it got me thinking.
Sort of like nature/nurture, huh? Yeah, that’s a cool idea. There’s someone in this group who has an astrological placement that usually goes with behaviors she has been taught — very harshly in some ways, early in life and then ongoing — NOT to have. So… does that mean she doesn’t have what she’s born with? No; it means she learned how to survive tucking those things in. At some point, they’ll want to come out.
I’d imagine if that’s true, then the inverse is true as well. And that there can be influences in our lives that are not necessarily in our birth make-up at all, but feel so aligned for who we are at our core. Especially when it comes to beliefs and thoughts and behaviors!! Yes, I think so.
Hi Bonnie,
I want to learn about all this, but I am in such overwhelm over it at the same time. Is this unusual or do others start off like this. Life is so completely overwhelming in general…pandemic, politics, the heat, conspiracy theorists full of hate, and then my own creative self trying to figure things out. I want this to help me with grounding myself but right now I am feeling the opposite. Just checking….
Totally get that. The “big astro” things going on aren’t helping that feeling, honestly. Meaning: There’s a LOT of energy swirling around that contributes to overwhelm.
Just today I shot a series of mini-training vids for you, so those will be available before month’s end (just have to create the accompanying workbook and get everything edited and uploaded in the course space). Bear with me, as I *do* have ways to break this down into way more bite-sized bits and we will be taking it very easy in Friday’s session.
Under tonight’s new moon, plant some seeds/set some intentions for how you want the next six months to FEEL. Just write in your journal and light a candle if it feels good to do so. Remember to hug yourself. This IS a lot. We’ve got you!
There has been sooooo much going on in my personal and professional life the last 3 weeks that I am feeling scattered and unproductive when normally I am the organized zen one. I’ve returned to using crystals, lighting candles (especially my “money” one), and have started checking the Woo calendar every morning. I’m amazed how accurate the calendar is!
I’m not sure if we’re doing the 2 gives/1 ask in this group but I’m a huge fan of sharing my toys. Since music always helps center me, I’ve build a couple of Spotify playlists as mood boosters and wanted to share the links (I hope this is OK, Bonnie). My current favorite list is “Not Today Satan” that I built as an antidote to toxic masculinity that I encounter regularly as a result of being a female CEO in a man’s world. My other mood booster is “Badassery” which is all the power diva women I love like Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Lady Gaga, Joan Jett, etc.
Not Today Satan
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5T35H4ODyokdh4CWKI73Pq?si=x4ov2_CKRT6XO39NKP9d4w
Badassery
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7nSYnerxVRamz17MfKaha7?si=pQgNNRIKSIKQuUUsziNb4A
Enjoy!
Marie
Great playlists, Marie! Thank you for sharing. You got this and we got you! Hang in there.
You’re welcome!
Okay, those playlists are fire. Thank you, Marie!
Loving how the Aligned Hustle Calendar is giving you some really good boosts in your life, even through the hectic of it all.
We don’t have to do two gives for every ask in curriculum spaces but, hey, we’re never gonna hate a give, right? 🙂
So glad you’re loving this, Marie!
These are amazing and came at such the perfect time! Really need these now.
Thank you so much for sharing, Marie!
Big hugs <3
Also meant to say that the titles you named them are SO spot on for me right now, too.
I literally use the phrase “Not today, Satan” right now, and my other mantra is to be brave – so of course the Badass one is totally appropriate, too.
Love the synchronicity this space always shows and provides!
<3
LOL I’m all about making sure my Spotify playlist titles tell a story. For example “Last Call” is all songs that have a name of an alcohol in the title and “Martins and Moonlight” is a Rat Pack list. All my playlists are public so feel free to poke around.
Rewatched and had a couple random, curiosity questions.
1. How often (if ever) do we re-experience our exact natal chart?
2. If for whatever reason the date of birth was different from what it was “supposed” to be based on conception (you were 3 months premature, 2 weeks late, induced early, etc). would you feel a bit “off” in life from what your natal chart ” should” have been?
3. I think this ends up being answered in September. Figuring out what sign rules our houses, basically start with your AC and then keep counting each sign through 12, correct?
I thought I had a really good handle on all this info at the time but in rewatching I realized how much it’s all settled in more fully just through absorption. I heard things again and thought, “Oooooh, now I get it. Now that really makes sense.”
I love that! How very cool! 🙂 It’s fun when some of this begins to click differently and feel more like, “Oh yeah. I get that.” Yay!
As for your questions…
1. Never. It’s as unique as a fingerprint. Because each planet moves in a different orbit, at a different pace, while we will experience certain things again (our Solar Return, our birthday, of course, is every year — but the only thing in position at that time, for sure, is the Sun; our Saturn Return happens three times in our lives if we live to near-90), we won’t live long enough for the exact combination to sync up again (like, it takes a couple hundred years for Pluto to make it through all the signs) and by then, it’s not having the same other planets in the same place or certain ones retrograde again, etc.
2. Shouldn’t make a difference, per most astrologers. I’m sure there are some who would say there’s some karmic pull around the date of the “should” (whether early or late) as well as stuff about whether you’re delivered vaginally or via C-section, but the majority I’ve heard speak on this say the chart is rendered as a snapshot of your first breath and the incubation period for that instant isn’t a factor.
3. There are signs that rule the houses for EVERYONE (meaning, what it is that each house represents is ruled by specific signs, before we even take OUR chart into consideration; like if we just looked at the houses — not anyone’s birth info — the 7th house, for example, is about partnership. Guess which sign is its ruler. Yup, Libra. Because partnership. 8th is Scorpio [research, shadow work, other people’s money]. 9th is Sagittarius [higher learning, travel, exploration]. And so on) and then there’s what WE HAVE in each house, which is the convo we were having during the Zoom (specifically about the 6th house, of course). Just wanted to mention the GENERAL house/sign relationship that exists irrespective of your natal placements because you’ll hear people referencing that and I don’t want it to be confusing when you notice that and I tell you, “Yes, you heard them right.” 😉
It’s not quite as simple as identifying your AC (Rising), saying that’s what rules the 1st house in your chart, and then all 12 signs line up with all 12 houses, always. That’s why I say YES to your question for the 1st house = AC/Rising… but then look at that little box on the left side of the chartwheel document from Astro.com to see what it says your 2nd, 3rd, 11th, and 12th houses are. It MAY just so happen that it lines up exactly like you’ve asked whether it does. But because FOR SOME PEOPLE (like Rhianna, if you’ve looked at the comments in September’s replay page at this point) it does NOT line up like that, it’s not as straightforward as just a simple “Yes. AC/Rising = 1st house and label the signs to the houses counter-clockwise from there.”
I also link to a site that does a great job of rendering your natal chart with all 12 houses’ rulers for you in those comments for the September convo. 😉 Let’s continue this discussion there. Woo HOO!