"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." - so wrote fellow Capricorn Zora Neale Hurston (the great writer and anthropologist born January 7, 1891). And so love will make your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

You have been going at it solo for so long - even married Capricorns have felt they were acting alone or on their own - and now it is time to admit that you might need others' help. This is particularly true for financial arrangements. Beneficial collaborations and fresh agreements are spectacularly blessed.

August is a month for your gain, not for your loss. Relationships promise a lot, but if a particular relationship is not working out, it is time to cut the cord and leave.

You cannot lose by this action. Planet of love Venus is now blessing your seventh house of relationships and soul mates.

This includes partners, including business and creative partners.

You have the community. You have the friends. The lesson to be learned now is in the art of sharing.

Just look at all the planetary action in your eighth sharing house!

In here, you have: the glorious, almighty Sun; brilliant Mercury (in retrograde August 2 - 26, more on that anon); sweet and beautiful Venus from Thursday, July 28 to Sunday, August 21; and an exciting new Moon on Saturday, July 30.     

All that your eighth house rules:

Intimacy

Shared resources and joined monies (including joint bank accounts)

Financial settlements

Mergers

Merging with your soul mate - sex, sex, sex!

Sharing your deepest truths

Letting go of the past

Shedding an old persona

Clearing out outdated clothes, photos, remnants of a past self

Healing

Regenerating

Recovering your unconscious

Summoning your psychic powers

For some of you, you gain in terms of a legacy or an inheritance. You profit monetarily through taxes or a money gift.

For others of you, you connect with Divine Love. And yes, this includes sex.

But because mischief-making Mercury causes delays and mixed messages, your divine love may not be the person you thought it would be. Give this love a chance, no matter what your preconceptions!

Single Goats: you meet someone new, entirely unexpectedly and in close proximity to you.

Dating Goats: you start to demand more of what you are worth. You get it, too. This weeds out a lot of people who are a Waste of Your Time.

Exclusively Dating Goats: You're lucky. The sex moves to a new level and your relationship becomes more intense.

Married Goats: You realize there's no one better. Maybe you finally accept your spouse as The One.

This makes you surprisingly sure of yourself, and unexpectedly, very happy.

Separating Goats: As I said at the beginning of your horoscope, if a particular relationship is not working out, it is time to cut the cord and leave. To let the past go, and begin on a new lease of life.

Remember, it is gain, gain, gain for August. It is a no-lose month.  

All the new people coming into your life can be watched like a merry-go-round. You decide what you want to do with them.

Your sense of self is crucial. You have experienced Capricornian lack of confidence for too long.

This is about to change. You will see.

It is up to you. You call the shots.

You can convince partners, both in business and in love, of almost anything in August's first week. Your plan is brilliant - go for it!

Details are tricky during Mercury retrograde (from August 2 - 26), and so watch for delays, mishaps, impatience - and your own temper with those close to you. Yes, 'tis Mercury retrograde! Remember, everyone goes through this - everyone on the planet - and everyone makes mistakes - so be kind and compassionate to everyone out there.

The official day Mercury goes retrograde is Tuesday, August 2. This lasts - for everyone in the world - until Friday, August 26.

This is the time to take a break, go zen, play a little. Because, for everyone, no matter how hard you try, business is not as usual.

The hardest thing is to have patience. But with patience, come the rewards!

For everyone Mercury rules cell phones, as well as land lines, computers, cars, planes - and all thought and movement, including all forms of travel. He likes to go fast - he is the winged messenger who flies.

But he's going to be retrograding for twenty-four days.

If you are traveling during this time, just relax.

You will be noticing how travel is delayed, phones aren't working properly, and everyone keeps changing times on you.

You need to be aware that you could lose or misplace things - such as your wallet, your phone - cars break down - appointments are forgotten or broken - and the ordered universe generally goes awry.

The good news? It only lasts twenty-four days!

Mercury particularly affects electronics and any form of travel. Back up your computer files. Mercury rules all forms of communications, including, from the 1940's, computers. Computers go wonky during Mercury retrograde, as do phones, and anything that has to do with communication.

The work you can do?   

RE-trograde means to go backwards. The past becomes very powerful. You can re-examine it. Old people pop up in your life.

A great deal of healing is possible at this time. Mercury, after all, also rules healing.  

Retrograde rules all the RE-words.

See, Capricorn, which of these REsonate with YOU:

Reduce, recycle, remix, repurpose, recreate, repair, refresh, reinvigorate, refine, redo, reinvent, recommit, refocus, revive, reconnect, reuse, reform, rejoice, re-evaluate, relive, rethink, renew, reorder, regnerate, respect, reactivate, rearrange, reclaim, revisit, relate

Reciprocate

Receive

Reconstruct, revise, re-engage, rewind

Release, recruit, rewrite, respond, reflect, review, relieve, rebound, remember, reward, reface, reassign, reinforce, rework, revere, refuel, regain

Regard, reinterpret, reconsider, re-educate, repeat.

And, finally, RE-lax. It's really the best thing you can do during a Mercury retrograde. Not to get, as the English say, your knickers in a twist, if things don't go according to plan. That's life!

It will be over Friday, August 26, and by that time you will be under the grip of something so you won't much care. A magical spell pleasantly threatens and I see you so in love with someone or something who / which promises to make you feel over the Moon. ENJOY, dear Capricorn.

Speaking of making your life better and improving your luck - and wealth - here's me talking about Jupiter and my book on The Today Show! Take a look-see! (And please feel free to leave a comment on youtube.)

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I look forward to reading you, dear Capricorn.

YOUR LUCKY DAYS! Capricorn Sun and Capricorn Jupiter, your times of destiny are:

(Eastern Time) Tuesday, August 9 from 4:38 PM; all of Wednesday, August 10; Thursday, August 11 until 11:47 PM.  

Check both your Sun sign and your Jupiter sign: double your fortune!

Take care.

With love,

Madalyn Aslan