Eclipses and Political Alignments

In episode 457 astrologers Chris Brennan and Austin Coppock look ahead at the astrological forecast for August 2024. We spend the first hour of the show discussing recent news and events surrounding the Mars-Uranus conjunction over the past few weeks, and then in the second hour we jump into looking at the astrology of August. The first part of the month is dominated by Mercury going retrograde in Virgo and Leo, and then in the second week Mars moves into a tens conjunction with Jupiter as well as a square with Saturn. The biggest outer planet alignment of the month is Jupiter squaring Saturn in the third week, and around that time Venus in Virgo swings in to square Mars and Jupiter and then oppose Saturn. By the end of the month Mercury finishes its retrograde period and stations direct, while Venus departs from Virgo and moves into its home sign of Libra. This episode is available in both audio and video versions below. New eBook Version of Chris' Hellenistic Astrology Book https://theastrologypodcast.com/books/ Austin's Websites https://austincoppock.com https://sphereandsundry.com Timestamps 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:00 Quick overview of August astrology 00:03:29 News segment begins 00:04:00 Mars-Uranus conjunction 00:10:15 Trump assassination attempt 00:16:48 Documents case dismissed 00:20:14 Vance picked as VP 00:23:02 Biden gets Covid 00:26:36 Largest tech outage in history 00:30:47 Biden steps aside 00:36:30 Kamala Harris becomes nominee 00:43:52 Other news stories 00:53:58 Halftime 00:57:32 August forecast begins 00:58:15 Major transits this month 01:03:14 Mercury retrograde & New Moon in Leo 01:20:40 Mars conjunct Jupiter in Gemini 01:33:33 Jupiter square Saturn 01:40:37 Mars square Saturn 01:53:26 Venus T-square with Jupiter, Saturn & Mars 02:05:06 Parallels with 1968 02:13:45 Mercury direct + Venus in Libra 02:16:56 Uranus station + Pluto returns to Capricorn 02:24:29 Final reflections 02:29:03 Credits Watch the Video Version of This Episode Watch the video version of this episode on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbeJvbew8fg - Transcript A full transcript of this episode is available: Episode 457 transcript Listen to the Audio Version of This Episode Listen to the audio version of this episode or download it as an MP3: