With Venus, the planet of love having spent the majority of July in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart and the asteroid Juno having spent most of the last three months in retrograde motion in your romantic sector, the love gods have been taking your heart on a nostalgic trip down love’s memory lane. However, as you move into the new month, it will be clear that all that has changed and if it feels like this is something that has changed overnight, that is because it has. While Juno, the queen of commitment turned direct on 11th July, she not only spent weeks at a near standstill, but with Venus still taking your heart on a nostalgic trip down love’s memory lane, a sense of romantic nostalgia will have hung over virtually the whole month. It wasn’t until literally the 11th Hour that the veil lifted, when Venus left and finally returned to Cancer on 31st July. The first day of the new month is Venus’ first full day in Cancer and as the first day of a new Venus cycle, with a chance for a fresh start. While Venus won’t catch up and form a friendly aspect to Juno until 17th August, as the planet of love and the queen of commitment draw closer, they are working together from the start. Helping to get this off to the perfect start is having the Moon move through your romantic sector from 1st August to 3rd August. As well as getting the new month off to a romantically charged start, as Venus is on a mission to update your romantic and relationship desires and expectations for the coming year, as the Moon’s first visit since Juno turned direct, this will have both immediate and long term implications. Venus will leave on 26th August, so won’t be here when the Moon returns from 28th August to 31st August. However, Juno will still be in your romantic sector, where until backup arrives in October, she will continue to keep the romantic flame burning. Meanwhile, the Moon’s return to your relationship sector from 6th August to 8th August will be a brief chance to check in and become more emotionally engaged and aware.