August 2024 New and Full Moons
In August we have a Leo New Moon and an energetically charged Aquarius Full Moon. This month brings feelings who you “really are”. It’s a time to carve inward space to determine what it means to be your most authentic self.
This is after the security oriented Cancer-Capricorn axis of new and full Moons in July, so we are feeling collectively more playful and lighter, which can help in offloading anything weighing down hearts.
This month is extra luminous for all of you with major points in the Fixed signs: Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius!
New Moon at 12°33 Leo 4 August 2024
The New Moon is in the fire sign of Leo. A New Moon in Leo is an excellent time for formulating goals regarding “all things Leo.” Favoured activities include: romantic life, or just enjoying and romantising life in general, creative endeavors and hobbies, and relationship with children, as well as build our self-confidence and healthy pride in ourselves.
All of us have Leo somewhere in our charts and we can use the coming month to improve those areas of life. It’s time to awaken our “inner child” and find ways to express ourselves creatively. The new Moon is time to make some plans and set the stage for reaping the rewards from our new beginnings, as little or big as they may be, approximately two weeks after the Full Moon occurs.
This allows us to utilise the energy of the New Moon for new pursuits that we feel aligned with and actually feel inspired to pursue.
Though Leo is known to be dramatic and loud, it is a fixed sign that prefers to accummulate and gather resources growing over time. It is a brilliant time to commit to your personal goals that reflect the positive energies of the sign of the Crab.
A New Moon in Leo is time to shine the light on what we really, really like. Only when we are aware of our personal talents and strengths, can we grow our esteem and be in confidant in relationship with others. This time supports creative projects and ideas that match your personal values and honourable intentions.
What to expect
While New Moons are typically linked to new beginnings and a time for optimism; however at the very outset of a new moon, the energy is still young — we are in the valley of the Moon cycle at a low point.
Thus, a New Moon offers us an opportunity to take stock of our surroundings and our internal state, and then think carefully about what we want to take with us into the next phase. This point of renewal and rebirth is the best time to engage in manifestations.
Click here to learn about tapping into New Moon energy.
This New Moon harmonises with Mars and Jupiter as these planets approach alignment in the sign of Gemini. This helps us feel especially enterprising and bouyant in energy. If you were lacking confidence before, you can reap it back in spades now.
With Saturn and Neptune retrograding in Pisces, the energy of this moment is literally begging you to go within and change things up a little.
Venus enters Virgo the next day after on the new Moon in Leo makes it an auspicious time to set intentions around starting a creative project—like writing a book, starting a blog, or trying anything new to you.
With Mercury in retrograde most of this month, it is a good time for creative projects needing courage and finesse — writing a blog or a book, learning something new to you.
The New Moon in Leo on this 5 August 2024 invites new energy into your life related to fun and enjoyment, creative projects, and letting your inner child, inner voice, inner dreams shine.
Look to your chart to find out which area of your life the New Moon transit affects.
Best practices for a New Moon
With a Leo New Moon, pencil in your “me-time”. This does not mean wanton fun or careless debauchery; Leo is ruled by the life-affirming Sun, and it does best when you actually take on projects that honour your highest self.
The energy supports these themes:
Children / babymaking / fertility support
Presenting or showing your projects
Laughing / joy / having fun
Love language skills
Emotions
Gathering esteem
Full Moon at 27°14 Aquarius 19 August 2024
Whatever you started 6 months ago is coming to fruition now. The Sturgeon Moon is the year's fourth and final supermoon.
Aquarian themes are extra strong now in all aspects — it is the sign of freedom, authenticity, and innovation relating to the collective. This Full Moon turns your focus to belonging, community, and our role within certain groups.
What to expect
This is the last supermoon of the year. A Full Moon creates an opposition in the sky, as the moon sits in one zodiac sign and the sun sits in that sign's opposite sign.
This triggers a push-pull effect between two areas of our life, and you find the task of learning how to integrate both of the opposing energies.
As a result, these lunations can be dynamic and energetically draining. Tend to your nervous system, drink extra water, and carve out time for reflection and rest.
This last degree of every sign at 29 degrees holds supercharged energy that tends to be triggered as a sense of crisis energy with transits like these. So, if you are feeling extra stressed out, overwhelmed during this phase, make like a Cancer and take a soothing break!
Aquarius’s traditional ruler is Saturn, which offers an insight into growing through this time. Get a square look at your limiting beliefs and behaviours that is affecting how you relate to yourself and others.
Check where this Full Moon lands in your chart for more clues about the areas of life it is
Journal prompts & Inner Work for the July New & Full Moon
This is the year’s only Leo new moon. Where it falls in your own chart shows where you get a boost of fresh energy to clean house.
With Mercury turning retrograde the next day after the new moon, introspection is favoured so be discerning about how you talk and think about your aims this month.
Whatever choose you begin this time continues to grow over next six months. (The next New Moon will be in February 2025, closing the cycle). Focused questions and Journalling prompts can help you connect with the energy and spiritual significance of this new moon:
How do you connect and collaborate with others? Are your team efforts strengthening your own self-worth and lead to inspiring ideas or developments?
What are your major milestones that you are grateful for this year? And milestones will be most meaningful to YOU in this coming 6 months?
More about New Moons in Astrology
New Moons in astrology are a time for new intentions and manifestation. This the best time to direct energy to your passions so you can watch your creation grow. Let go trying to engage in something “because”. Do something just for you, and allow your self to envision what could be.
Learn about each of the 2024 new moons.