✨🌐🌑Boundaries, Intimacy & the New Moon Reset: August 15th - 23rd Energies

SatHari Kaur
Aug 15
3 min read

Updated: Aug 18

Intro Note

Mid to late August brings a turning point. The collective moves from testing perseverance into redefining intimacy, with Pluto pressing on limits and the New Moon on August 23 seeding new agreements of connection. This is a time for depth, boundaries, and planting sustainable seeds—less about speed, more about lasting alignment.

WHAT’S INSIDE THIS NEWSLETTER

🌞🌍 Planetary Energies: The Underlying Currents of Mid–Late August
🌕🌙 Lunar Mood & Emotional Climate: Waves & Key Phases
🪷 Guidance & Self-Nourishment: Practical Ways to Navigate the Energies
📅 Upcoming Offerings & Programs: Trainings, Immersions, and Sadhanas
🧘‍♀️ Suggested Yogic Practices: Kriyas & Meditations to Stay Aligned

🌞🌍 PLANETARY THEMES ☿️♀️♂️♃ ♄ ♅ ♆ ♇

Mid–late August continues the recalibration begun earlier in the month. The focus is less on rushing forward, more on integrating lessons of boundaries, intimacy, and sustainable cycles.

Key Planetary Influences (Aug 15–23):

Sun & Earth: This is a journey from mental problem-solving (Gate 4), through perseverance and commitment to intimacy and emotional abundance.
Mercury (Direct): Refining how influence is carried into retreat and reflection. Clearer communication slowly emerges after the 18th.
Venus: Testing expansion, then moving into detailed expression and eventually playful, exploratory stimulation.
Mars: Shifts from correction/judgment- Action focuses on practical problem-solving, not confrontation.
Jupiter: Mid-month marks a pivot from pressure-testing into initiating new cycles.
Saturn (Retrograde): Refinement of compassion, humility, and responsibility.
Uranus (Direct): Subtle collective shifts in presence and responsiveness.
Neptune (Retrograde): Spiritual disillusionment or clarity; surrendering outdated beliefs.
Pluto (Retrograde): The collective moves from fantasizing beginnings into the necessity of limits. Deep karmic restructuring.
Nodes: Interpersonal grace and challenge in communication remain highlighted.

🌕🌙 LUNAR MOOD & EMOTIONAL CLIMATE

Aug 15–19: Deep processing of ideas, communication, and creativity; turning toward stability.
Aug 20–22: Emotional climate turns toward expression, retreat, and recommitment.
Aug 23 New Moon:– A powerful reset around intimacy, bonding, and community. Emotional agreements may need redefining. This is the seeding of new intentions for connection and sustainable support systems.

🪷 GUIDANCE & SELF-NOURISHMENT

Honor Boundaries: Pluto amplifies lessons around limits. Notice where structure is needed.
Stay Patient with Communication: Mercury signals pauses, retreats, and reflection before clarity emerges.
Lean into Depth, not Criticism: Mars’ reminds us to embody solutions, not just see flaws.
Seed Carefully at the New Moon: Choose intimacy and commitments that feel reciprocal and supportive.

🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️ SUGGESTED YOGIC PRACTICES

The Divine Shield Meditation for Protection and Positivity – seals energy leaks and creates safe space for depth work.
Meditation for Self-Love & Radiance – clears emotional heaviness, opens space for authentic connection.
Ajna Stimulating Kriya – sharpens intuitive clarity as Mercury moves into retreat/reflective gates.
Meditation for a Stable Self – balances the solar plexus, reducing overwhelm in emotional highs/lows.
Meditation to Call on Your Higher Self – supportive for planting new seeds in alignment with one’s true path.
Kriya for the Ten Bodies – full-system reset, clears imbalances before setting new intentions.