Explainer: Forecast periods in global astrology
Major events in the Aquarian Age chart
Progressed Sun is parallel birth chart Mars semisquare progressed Saturn and sextile birth chart Saturn
Progressed Mercury is parallel progressed Sun and birth chart Mars
Progressed Venus is conjunction birth chart Neptune
Progressed Mars is parallel birth chart Venus and progressed Uranus
Progressed Jupiter is conjunction progressed Neptune
August 9: Progressed Moon is trine progressed Saturn > ends September 2
August 25: Progressed Moon trine progressed Uranus starts > peak power date is September 18
Major events in the United Nations chart
Progressed Sun is opposition progressed Saturn
Progressed Mars is conjunction birth chart Mars
August 6: Progressed Moon trine progressed Venus starts > peak power date is September 3
Progressed Moon opposition birth chart Mercury ends August 12
Major events in America’s chart
Progressed Sun is square birth chart Mars and parallel progressed Mars, birth chart Saturn and birth chart Neptune
Progressed Venus is sextile birth chart Jupiter
Progressed Midheaven is trine birth chart Mars
Progressed Sun is square birth chart Mars (in house 1) > aspect forecasts political violence and military action
Progressed Moon sextile progressed Pluto ends August 20
August 10: Progressed Moon is parallel progressed Sun (in house 11) > ends October 20
Progressed Moon is parallel progressed Mars (in house 5) > peak power date is September 2 > aspect stimulates progressed Sun square birth chart Mars
Progressed Moon is parallel birth chart Saturn (in house 6) > peak power date is September 4
Progressed Moon is parallel birth chart Neptune (in house 5) > ends September 27
August 12: Progressed Moon parallel progressed Neptune starts > peak power date is October 17
August 22: Progressed Moon square birth chart Venus starts > peak power date is September 15
Major events in Donald Trump’s chart
Progressed Sun is sextile birth chart Mercury and semisquare birth chart Saturn
Progressed Mercury is conjunction and parallel birth chart Mars and sextile progressed Jupiter
Progressed Venus is conjunction progressed Jupiter and square birth chart Saturn
Progressed Mars is parallel birth chart Jupiter and semisquare birth chart ascendant
Progressed ascendant (health issues) is square progressed Saturn and sesquisquare birth chart Uranus
Progressed Moon inconjunct birth chart Uranus ends August 17
Major in-sky astro-events
August 2: Mars is parallel Saturn > event forecast period is July 30–August 6
August 7 and 10: Mars is parallel Neptune > event forecast period is August 3–14
August 9: Mars is opposition Saturn and Neptune > end date for both aspects is August 31
August 12: Saturn is sextile Uranus
August 15: Mars is parallel Saturn > event forecast period is August 12–19
August 29: Uranus is sextile Neptune
September 4: Mars is square Jupiter > events forecast period is August 14–September 25
Jupiter parallel Pluto ends August 22
Saturn is conjunction Neptune > it’s close to peak power from August 1 to August 26 with Saturn and Neptune within one-degree (in Aries)
Uranus is trine Pluto > it’s close to peak power from August 12 to October 27 with Uranus and Pluto within one-degree of a trine > it’s 7 minutes from perfect on September 15
Major astro-events August 2025
July 24: Leo new Moon cycle starts at 7.11pm GMT > Moon is conjunction Mercury (a lot of talk, people making comments and controversy); semisquare Mars (strife, conflict, accidents and fires); trine Saturn (tariffs, economy, safety, security and loss); sextile Uranus (change, reform, technology and protests); trine Neptune (inflation, investors, stocks, oil, movies and drama) and opposition Pluto (groups, division, disunity, coercion and crime) > ends August 23
Progressed Pluto is semisextile Mars in the Pluto cycle > ends August 17
Progressed Saturn is semisquare Venus in the Saturn cycle > ends August 27
Progressed Saturn is parallel Mars in the Saturn cycle > ends August 31
Progressed Uranus is sextile Uranus in the Uranus > peak power date is September 6
Progressed Jupiter is parallel Pluto in the Jupiter cycle > ends September 21
Progressed Uranus is trine Mercury in the Uranus cycle > ends November 16
Progressed Uranus is parallel Pluto in the Uranus cycle > ends May 22, 2026
Progressed Pluto is parallel Uranus in the Pluto cycle September 24, 2026
Progressed Pluto is parallel Mars in the Pluto cycle September 6, 2027
August 2: Mars is parallel Saturn in the sky
August 3: Progressed Mars is parallel Neptune in the Mars cycle > ends August 6
August 5: Progressed Mars is opposition Neptune in the Mars cycle; progressed Mars parallel Mars in the Mars cycle starts > peak power date is August 8; and progressed Jupiter is inconjunct Venus in the Jupiter cycle > ends August 10
August 6: Progressed Mars is sesquisquare Sun in the Mars cycle
August 7: Mars is parallel Neptune in the sky
August 8: Progressed Mars is parallel Mars in the Mars cycle > ends August 12
August 9: Mars is opposition Saturn and Neptune in the sky
August 10: Mars is parallel Neptune in the sky; progressed Mars is trine Pluto in the Mars cycle; and progressed Mars parallel Neptune in the Mars cycle starts > peak power date is August 14
August 11: Progressed Mars is opposition Mars in the Mars cycle; and progressed Jupiter sextile Uranus in the Jupiter cycle starts > peak power date is August 16
August 12: Saturn is sextile Uranus in the sky
August 14: Progressed Mars is parallel Neptune in the Mars cycle > ends August 18
August 15: Mars is parallel Saturn in the sky
August 16: Progressed Sun is square Uranus in the Sun cycle; progressed Mars is inconjunct Venus in the Mars cycle; and progressed Jupiter is sextile Uranus in the Jupiter cycle > ends August 21
August 17: Progressed Jupiter parallel Sun in the Jupiter cycle starts > peak power date is October 5
August 19: Progressed Mars is sesquisquare Uranus in the Mars cycle
August 20: Progressed Pluto semisextile Saturn in the Pluto cycle starts > peak power date is October 14
August 21: Progressed Mars parallel Moon in the Mars cycle starts > peak power date is August 25
August 22: Progressed Mars is sesquisquare Jupiter in the Mars cycle
August 23: Progressed Mars parallel Mercury in the Mars cycle starts > peak power date is August 27; and Virgo new Moon starts at 6.07am GMT > Moon is inconjunct Saturn (security issues, economy, storms and floods); square Uranus (radical change, unexpected developments, social unrest and protests); inconjunct Neptune (exaggeration, deception, lies and drama); and inconjunct Pluto (groups and cooperation or coercion).
August 25: Progressed Mars is parallel Moon in the Mars cycle > ends August 29
August 27: Progressed Mars is parallel Mercury in the Mars cycle > ends August 31
August 29: Progressed Sun is square Moon in the Sun cycle; progressed Mars is inconjunct Sun in the Mars cycle; and Uranus is sextile Neptune in the sky
August 31: Progressed Mars parallel Saturn in the Mars cycle starts > peak power date is September 3
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