Work Hard to Increase Your Pleasure This Month

By Jeff Jawer
Provided by Tarot.com

Your ruling planet Venus, which is associated with love and relationships, is backtracking through your chart this month. This retrograde period marks a time when reviewing your desires and your assets helps you reevaluate your partnership potentials. It may be tempting to reconnect with an old flame, but unless one of you has changed dramatically, the outcome is likely to be the same. However, a trip down memory lane can rekindle visions of past love that remind you of what you want in the future.

Patience is essential with Venus moving so slowly at this time. Venus' high-energy right angle square with passionate Mars on August 7 can stir you to fight back or take chances in stepping forward to connect with someone. If you're already in a relationship, it's one of those days that can begin with conflict and finish with canoodling. The tone is very different on August 13 when serious Saturn intercepts Venus' arrows of love and burdens you with doubt, or so much responsibility that play seems a million miles away. Fears on the home front can undermine self-confidence, yet there are more profitable things to do than have a pity party. Make a commitment to yourself and your happiness. Take one concrete step towards bringing more art, beauty and pleasure into your life. This is an excellent time to turn around your relationship life by building up your own sense of worth, a process that doesn't require the approval or permission of anyone else.