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Every month, there are two videos on the Full Moon and New Moon. The Full Moon this week falls on Saturday August 9th, 2025.
Aries – This Full Moon is about Pluto in your Eleventh. It’s a full stop for friends and groups. Be this AC/DC or Reform, the world of social (not aways social) media or a club, there is a bridge to cross. You will now be put through experiences which challenge your ability to hold the reins in the area of life which Pluto is affecting – those brotherhoods and sisterhoods around. How much power do you actually have?
These are important questions during the many years that Pluto is steadily transforming your life. Interestingly, no matter if you feel you are holding the reins or losing them now, the impact on you will be the same. In both cases, it will be vital for your soul that you look inside yourself to find your deeper qualities. Pluto challenges you to look inside yourself to the very core and find what you are really made of. It is these qualities which will empower you now. The start of 2026 seems likely for a reshuffle or big decision by you. It’s set up now.
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Taurus – This Full Moon is about Pluto in your Tenth. Your ambitions, your ideas about success and your mission in life will trigger a journey of deep soul-searching now and result in dramatic changes in your path once the Full Moon is over – early 2026 is the time. A complete change of position, status or employment is possible. So is a new place in the world which gives you extraordinary power. If you currently feel disempowered, then willpower will sort that out.
This cycle will give you some critical, extremely intense times when you are forced to accept how powerful or utterly powerless you have become in the particular game of success or achievement you have been playing. It’s not enough to be the former Prime Minister. You now need to figure out the mountain differently – even find a new peak to climb. This cycle wants you to dig for your substance – the stuff you are really made of underneath which will empower you and give you control of yourself and your life on your own terms. This process is slow. It may take months or years. But, in many ways, you have no choice. Use this Full Moon as a full stop, then continue the chapter.
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Gemini – This Full Moon is about Pluto in your Ninth. It’s a full stop with foreigners and foreign countries or foreign culture. Pluto is the planet which brings new or final chapters in your life which force you to confront yourself as you really are. This always results in a new beginning and a new kind of life – usually one which gives you far more control and power if you use your willpower. What finishes or begins in August 2025, but also early 2026 is about that.
In this cycle, you will experience Pluto through travel, relocation (for work or home reasons), study, publishing and the world of other languages or accents. That’s quite a mixed bag. But it covers every situation, place and person which expands your horizons geographical or intellectual. During these next few years, fate will make sure that you travel or just travel in the mind with the biggest endings (and enforced new beginnings) involving those who are foreign or from a radically different cultural or religious background. The plans too may involve you with ideas, subjects or places which are foreign to you.
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Cancer – This Full Moon is about Pluto in your Eighth. Expect a full stop with money or property. This cycle will dramatically change the amount of control and influence you have in terms of money, property, business interests and your assets and possessions. The changes will come as a result of dramatic turning points involving other people’s stake, share, debt or other position. You already saw this in parts of 2023/2024, and this week is the end of a paragraph. A new chapter starts in early 2026.
Power and control are the questions (ongoing) as you have been involved in certain money, property or business arrangements testing that. If you feel either in charge or not in charge, the Pluto lessons are the same. Look inside yourself and get to know all of you – not just the bits you were trying to work with for the time that various deals or understandings were in place. It’s your whole self that Pluto is interested in – not the version of yourself you were trading with before. That whole self is what you must now take forward into a new life with money or property in early 2026. Once this Full Moon is over, set the co-ordinates in a direction which serves you rather than other people or even the world at large.
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Leo – This Full Moon is about Pluto in your Seventh – a full stop for a duet or a duel. This cycle is all about your marriage, relationship, former partner or current/ex work or business partner. It is also about anyone who is against you – an opponent, rival or enemy. The effects are the same no matter if you are madly in love, getting married, divorcing, dealing with bereavement or managing a feud. Pluto’s challenge to you now is to dig deeply inside yourself for the aspects of your personality which empower you. You’ll do this because of an ending (a departure or other dramatic change) or a beginning (a new relationship or a new level of commitment).
First is the full stop. The end of the paragraph. Next comes the new paragraph, but the complete full story only arrives in early 2026. The endings may arrive as a marriage or relationship fails, a work partnership transforms as one partner passes the baton or as the partnership changes shape for other reasons. The endings may also come when an enemy, difficult ex partner, rival or opponent gets the controls, or you do and so on. Your natal chart will tell you more.
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Virgo – This Full Moon in Aquarius is about Pluto in your Sixth. This cycle is quite long but will transform the way you approach your health and wellbeing. It will strip away what is unnecessary and encourage you to get rid of ideas, habits or set-ups which aren’t empowering anymore. Not surprisingly, this cycle often sees dramatic changes in the way people eat, drink, exercise and also in the way they approach addictions (anything from sugar to cigarettes falls into this category). It can also change the way they think about the connection between their mind, body and spirit. Pluto is about your willpower and self-control and how this gives you control.
This week is a full stop. A pause! Pluto says, “It’s time you went more deeply into this stuff, you know…” And one way or another, you will be forced to do so. In the process, you’ll find yourself finally coming to terms with aspects of your body, your mind and your soul that have not been an issue before. You first saw this in part of 2023/2024 and now it’s here to stay. This covers mental and physical health, Virgo.
What matters is your ability to sit quietly with yourself long enough to discover what it is about yourself physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually that’s actually empowering. Make sure that those incredibly empowering lifestyle, medical, diet or alternative health choices you are making are shared. At this time, your breakthrough could also make a difference to others. Walking for weight loss or depression? Share.
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Libra – This Full Moon is about Pluto in your Fifth. Expect a full stop with courtship, the bedroom, heirs, spares and pretenders to your throne. If you have anything in Leo in your natal chart, you have been delayed or are seeing reversals with important discussion, paperwork or a digital trail for weeks. This is Mercury Retrograde in your natal Fifth and stops at the end of August 2025.
Whatever your chart looks like, this week is about pausing for thought. There are power and control issues here. Your relationship with the world of babies and children, teenagers and young adults will go through a deep transformation during this cycle. There is a peak decision in early 2026 coming which owes a lot to this week. Your son or daughter may move from childhood to adolescence or adolescence to adulthood at this time which is one obvious cause of big change. Another possibility? You will have dealt with the realities of abortion, adoption, miscarriage or IVF treatments in 2023, 2024 or 2025 and find that your old attitudes and expectations fall away to be replaced by a new outlook. There are many different ways in which the changes involving children and younger people will manifest now.
As with all Pluto cycles though, this one is about letting go of what ends and accepting what begins in its place. A new order is coming. This Full Moon now is the full stop after the first chapter. The second chapter is in January/ February 2026. Your connection to children or young people may be less personal now. You may experience this cycle through your job (for example, if you nurse or teach infants or teenagers), through your interests outside work or the young people in question may be godchildren, nieces, nephews, stepchildren or grandchildren. So, empowering new beginnings now and dramatic but equally empowering endings which force you to find your power are in play. Quite naturally, this transit is also about sexual relationships where the bedchamber leads to questions about the line of succession (or once did).
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Scorpio – This Full Moon is in your Fourth. Your extended family circle, hometown, homeland, real estate, house, garden, apartment and household bring you to a full stop. Do you have Cancer natal chart factors? This is a very useful full stop. In fact, you will gain from substantial solutions and opportunities afterwards until June 2026.
Whatever your chart looks like, this Full Moon triggers Pluto in your Fourth. Property will be an intense business in this cycle. Make no mistake, no matter if you are renting, owning or, perhaps, investing. Your newfound power or lack of it in the property game will have a far-reaching impact on your own or other people’s emotions. This was the case for part of 2023/2024 and is the case now too. In fact, a crossroads choice is coming in early 2026.
If you have been feeling the lack of control with Fourth House matters – once the emotions have been processed, you need to promise yourself you will play a different game. Try an alternative strategy that better suits who you actually are when you are at your most self-disciplined. Perhaps, you have the upper hand. Where you live and how you live is your key to influence now. Your lifestyle, your address, the look or feel of your home – it all adds up to power.
Quite apart from the bricks and mortar though, this cycle is primarily about your relationship with your birth family (parents, siblings and relatives) as well as any family you have created (partner, children or in-laws). It is no exaggeration to state that this cycle will do more to permanently transform the state of play within your family than any other in your life. This week’s Full Moon asks you to measure the compromises to date – the division of the turf or territory.
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Sagittarius – This Full Moon is in your Third this week triggering Pluto (also in your Third). This house of your chart rules brothers, sisters, cousins, neighbours, local and regional travel, the internet and the media as well as publishing and education. A mixed bag – but they often meet in the middle on this transit.
With the North Node in your family zone, recent karma involving relatives may have been far more about your siblings or cousins than usual. The karma would be all that you owe or are owed. Perhaps, from life as it was 18-19 years prior. This week, you will come to see that the balance of power in the clan has shifted. You need the full stop of the Full Moon to deal with that. The long pause.
The Third is also about publishing and issues about power or control. Perhaps, you now hold the controls with your words, ideas, projects and plans. Maybe you feel you don’t. Either way, after this Full Moon, a decision is coming in early 2026. Pluto in Aquarius is very much about taking the wheel on that road, sharing it or taking it back. This week does remind you of that.
There may also be questions about the neighbours or neighbouring places. Canada or Mexico if you are in America. Maybe, York to Devon. Auckland to Christchurch. If so, you may prefer to wait until the Full Moon has gone so the feelings can be allowed to dissipate. Do you have Gemini factors in your chart? If so, all of the above areas constitute a revolution for you now – a main event and radical change which will also set you free.
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Capricorn – This week, the Full Moon is in your Second while Pluto is also in your Second. You will do all the analysing in the money, property and lifestyle game after this full stop in your life. You will also experience final chapters (or new chapters) in early 2026 as a result. Capricorn, the purpose of this Pluto cycle is the same. Rich or poor – unless you dig deeper and find out what and who you value most and what is really priceless – you’ll never have control. In fact, it’s probably power.
If you wear a frock that sells out on a website because you wear it well (to quote Rod Stewart, your fellow Capricorn), then that’s potency. It takes many forms. Realising you’re bankable in other ways (you’re box-office) is also empowering. If you are also giving your power away because you’re ‘making it’ with property or finance for as long as they decide you’ve got what they want, that’s a different matter. This is a great time to privately set your own agenda. Use the money (or lifestyle) to really get what you need.
This cycle also brings decisive, dramatic, final chapters affecting what you earn, own or owe. If you have felt overpowered or overtaken on some level, that will hit a crossroads on this Full Moon. You need to transform not just change. That is what this transit asks you. This means an inward search for what’s genuinely valuable. Priceless qualities. Precious ethics. Valuable skills. In all cases, it’s an excellent time to ask yourself what you value most.
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Aquarius – This Full Moon is in your First and it triggers Pluto (also in your First). This is about externals. The world is not responding to you now – it is reacting to your name, your face, your style, your persona and your image. As are you. And what you realise from the last couple of years is that this needs to be under your control. You will be acutely sensitive to this over the Full Moon in Aquarius because Pluto in Aquarius has a way of reminding you that there will be a strong sense of ‘me in here’ and ‘them out there.’ What Pluto asks now is that you take whatever steps you have to – to gain by changing the game. This is transformation. It’s slow but it will peak near your 2026 birthday.
This week is a full stop about yourself. How will you change the game with you as one of the counters now? You have quite a few choices. If this week profoundly affects your reputation or even your appearance, you can be iron-willed about it. So, emerge with a new agenda and a new sense of your own power. “That was then, this is now,” you can tell the world as you set about pursuing you as you see yourself and to master yourself and your own cameo or portrait.
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Pisces – The Full Moon in Aquarius is about your Twelfth which is where also find Pluto. Your Twelfth House is about psychics, hypnotism, religion, meditation, therapy and your inner life. The confessional and the couch. Also dreams. The Twelfth can be even more esoteric and involve the impact of prescribed and illegal drugs on the mind – but best leave well enough alone. You were born with the Sun in the Twelfth, so you don’t really need to depart reality any more than you already do, Pisces.
To say there is transformation happening inside is an understatement. It began in part of 2023 and 2024. In 2025, it is a known phenomenon. People quit alcohol on this transit and join AA, or they realise they are mediums. They go into therapy to remedy childhood issues, or they convert to Buddhism. Or C.B.T. Your own birth chart shows the Sun in the Twelfth, and you currently have the North Node there too in transit. So, life 18-19 years ago is playing its karmic part.
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