"I am Sacred" August 2025 Newsletter
“The soul grown not by addition but by substraction” – Meister Eckhart
Dear Soul Family,
As we step into August, nature reminds us of abundance—long days, ripened fruits, and golden light. This is a time to harvest not just crops, but inner wisdom. Whether you’re feeling grounded or in transition, August invites us to pause, align with our spiritual truths, and embrace the fullness of life.
Let this month be one where you realign with purpose, connect deeply with your higher self, and expand in love.
🧘 Practices to Support You This Month
Gratitude Journaling: Write 3 things daily you are grateful for—especially intangible blessings.
Solar Plexus Meditation: Strengthen confidence and willpower by visualizing a bright golden sun in your core.
Sacred Silence: Take a morning or afternoon in quiet—no phones, no tasks. Just presence.
🌀 Spiritual Themes for August
Leo Season (July 23 – August 22): A time of heart-centered courage, expression, and leadership. Step into your authentic power.
- Pachamama Day / Mother Earth day (Aug. 1 is the main day but it is celebrated the whole month):“Pachamama” is derived from Quechua, where “pacha” means space, time, universe, or world, and “mama” means mother. Thus, Pachamama literally translates as “Mother Earth,” but its meaning is much broader. It represents all of space and time, as well as the maternal embrace that sustains life. Pachamama is the fertility goddess in Inca mythology, responsible for planting, harvesting, creating mountains and earthquakes, as well as the very existence of life on Earth.In this day and the whole month, take a moment to honor Pachamama, take a walk, hug a tree, be in nature, connect to a mountain and feel her fertility within you!
Lughnasadh / Lammas (Aug 1): An ancient Celtic festival celebrating the first harvest. Honor your spiritual growth and give thanks.
🌕 Moon Phases & Planets Wisdom
✨August 9, 2025, Full Moon in Aquarius.
On August 9th, 2025, we have a Full Moon at 16° Aquarius.
Aquarius Full Moons typically highlight the tension between individual expression and collective belonging – the classic me vs. the group, my desires vs. society’s expectations. They invite us to step outside ourselves and soften that Leo-style focus on ‘me and my truth’.
This Full Moon invites a broader view – one that balances Leo’s heart with Aquarius’ mind, helping us align our personal truth with a greater cause or community.
Ritual Suggestion:
Write what you’re ready to release on paper and burn it safely, visualizing freedom and lightness.
✨August 9th, 2025 – Mars Opposite Saturn and Uranus, Trine Uranus and Pluto
Mars in Libra is throwing a cosmic party! On August 8th, 2025, Mars at 1° Libra opposes Saturn and Neptune in Aries and trines Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius, forming a dynamic configuration called Envelope.
This alignment gives us just enough action, just enough perspective to read the room and make smart moves when timing is right.
Like in any party, you might get a bit of fun, a bit of drama, but most importantly, you gain access to a space where new energies and unexpected opportunities can emerge.
✨August 11th, 2025 – Mercury Goes Direct
On August 11th, 2025, Mercury goes direct at 4° Leo. This particular retrograde cycle has left many of us feeling more disoriented than usual – and there’s a reason for that.
In the part of the zodiac where it retrograded, Mercury had very few aspects to ground or guide it. For much of the retrograde, Mercury was literally unaspected.
When you combine Mercury’s usual retrograde fog with a lack of cosmic input, you get a confused, slightly lost Mercury in Leo – one that’s no longer receiving the attention, interest, or feedback it normally thrives on. Simply ‘being ourselves’ wasn’t quite landing.
However, this existential no-one-is-interested-in-what-I-say-or-think crisis has pushed Mercury to dig deeper and ask: What’s truly different about me? What do I stand for? What’s the real message underneath the layers of identity and performance?
Now that Mercury has turned direct – close enough to Pluto to gain depth and perspective – we have the chance to start again. This time, with a better understanding of what makes us special and the true value we bring to the world.
Maybe what we thought made us stand out was just surface-level – and what truly matters lies deeper. Or maybe it’s the same truth we’ve always known, but now we’re expressing it with more nuance, maturity, and authenticity.
✨August 22nd, 2025 – Sun Enters Virgo
On August 22nd, 2025, the Sun enters Virgo. Happy birthday to all Virgos out there! Virgo season is when we get back to work, school, or whatever space where we show up to create value and be productive.
Holiday time is great, but let it stretch too long and even the most devoted party-lover will start craving something real – a return to structure, to progress, to doing something that actually matters.
Virgo season is that time of year when we reconnect with what gives us a sense of purpose.
✨August 23rd, 2025 – New Moon In Virgo
On August 23rd, 2025, we have a New Moon at 0° Virgo. The New Moon is square Uranus in Gemini, bringing friction between the 2 Mercury-ruled signs.
Virgo wants to fix problems, streamline systems, and deliver tangible results – but Uranus in Gemini throws a curveball, challenging her to rethink the approach.
Do we have all the data? Are those assumptions actually sound? Or is there a big elephant in the room, stomping around and waving its trunk?
This New Moon in Virgo is a metaphor for those “researchers have found that…” headlines – like “smoking is good for you” (then later: it’s not), or “margarine is better than butter” (also: it’s not).
This reflects the urge to act on incomplete information – a Virgo-style rush to be useful, even when the facts aren’t quite there yet.
A bit like offering unsolicited advice: well-meaning, but misaligned. That classic “I was just trying to help” energy – when the help being offered doesn’t quite match what’s really needed.
The New Moon in Virgo highlights the tension between our drive to be useful and the cognitive biases that cloud perception – helping us find that middle ground at the heart of Mercury’s true function: neutrality, discernment, and a willingness to keep asking questions.
✨August 25th, 2025 – Venus Enters Leo
Ladies and gentlemen, may I have ALL your attention? Lights, camera, action, drums… cheering, applause… On August 25th, 2025 Venus enters Leo!!!
This “Madonna/Jason Momoa” ingress will light up our desire to be seen, to shine, and to feel good in our creative self-expression.
This is a time to celebrate beauty, confidence, and the unapologetic joy of being who we are – loud, bold, and full of heart.
📖 Sacred Poem of the Month
🪷 “August ” – Edith Nesbit
Is on me, and I will not break the spell;
My head is on the mighty Mother’s arm:
I will not ask if life goes ill or well.
There is no world!–I do not care to know
Whence aught has come, nor whither it shall go.
I want to wander over pastures still,
Where sheared white sheep and mild-eyed cattle graze;
To climb the thymy, clover-covered hill,
To look down on the valley’s hot blue haze;
And on the short brown turf for hours to lie
Gazing straight up into the clear, deep sky,
I want to walk through crisp gold harvest fields,
Through meadows yellowed by the August heat;
To loiter through the cool dim wood, that yields
Such perfect flowers and quiet so complete–
The happy woods, where every bud and leaf
Is full of dreams as life is full of grief.
I want to think no more of all the pain
That in the city thrives, a poison flower–
The eternal loss, the never-coming gain,
The lifelong woe–the joy that lives an hour,
Bright, evanescent as the dew that dawn
Shows on this silent, wood-encircled lawn.
I want to pull the honey-bud that twines
About the blackberries and gold-leaf sloes;
To part the boughs where the rare water shines,
Tread the soft bank whereby the bulrush grows–
I want to be no more myself, but be
Made one with all the beauty that I see.
Oh, happy country, myriad voiced and dear,
I have no heart, no eyes, except for you;
Yours are the only voices I will hear,
Yours is the only bidding I will do:
You bid me be at peace, and let alone
That loud, rough world where peace is never known.
Yet through your voices comes a sterner cry,
A voice I cannot silence if I would;
It mars the song the lark sings to the sky,
It breaks the changeful music of the wood.
‘Back to your post–a charge you have to keep–
Freedom is bleeding while her soldiers sleep.’
Oh, heart of mine I have to carry here,
Will you not let me rest a little while?–
A space ‘mid doubtful fight and doubtful fear–
A little space to see the Mother’s smile,
To stretch my hands out to her, and possess
No sense of aught but of her loveliness?
Ah, just this power to feel how she is fair
Means just the power to see how foul life is.
How can I linger in the sacred air
And taste the pure wine of the dear sun’s kiss
When in the outer dark my brothers moan,
Nor even guess the joys that I have known?
Back the least soldier goes! To jar and fret,
To hope uncrowned–faith tried–love wounded sore–
To prayers that never have been answered yet,
To dreams that must be dreams for evermore;
To all that, after all, is far more dear
Than all the joys of all the changing year.
🌸 Affirmation Corner
“In this season of abundance and change, I align with divine timing. I trust the journey, honor my inner wisdom, and open my heart to the blessings unfolding before me. I am grounded, guided, and growing.”
🧘♀️ Practice of the Month: Solar Plexus Activation
Each morning, place your right hand on your Solar Plexus (area above your navel) which is the center of personal power and confidence:
Place your hand on your stomach, breathe in golden light, and affirm:
“I trust my inner fire. I move forward with clarity.”
Breathe out with the certainty you are releasing what doesn’t serve your body, mind and spirit.
🌞Sacred Ritual for August
Sun Gratitude Walk
Every other morning this month go outside and walk either around a park or barefoot in your backyard. With each step, connect to the mighty Sun and offer Gratitude:
“Thank you for my breath.”
“Thank you for this light.”
“Thank you for this life.”
Let the sunlight remind you that you are alive, whole, and growing.
💫 Soy Luz Events
🌞8/8 Lion Portal Gate: A Celebration of Love & Light -Friday 8/8 5:00 – 8:30 pm
🌬️“Embracing my inner light”, A Shamanic Breathwork Journey – Tuesday 8/12 1:11 pm online event
As you move through August, may the warmth of the sun mirror the warmth in your heart.
Shine brightly, love deeply, and walk in truth.
With love and light,
✨ Luz
