Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of August in your romantic sector, the solar spotlight is always on matters of the heart and all things romantic at this time of year. However, this year things not only had a head start, but by the time the Sun returned, it was to find Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion here and the early weeks of what he is working to make your luckiest year for love, matters of the heart and all things romantic in over a decade already underway. By the time Jupiter returned at the end of June Venus, the planet of love had been here for over two weeks and was gone by the time the Sun returned last month. Yet while Venus got the ball rolling, events since then are setting the scene for something even more special this month. It was late last month and four days after the Sun returned that the South Node returned to your romantic sector, something that over the next 20 months will give matters of the heart an anchor while at the same time, turning the New Moon when the Moon moves through from 11th August to 13th August into a total solar eclipse. To have both a total solar eclipse and Jupiter in your romantic sector is a rare chance to bring the element of fate and luck together, while creating an opportunity for major new beginnings. Meanwhile, Venus' early return to your romantic sector this year will be repeated when, on 7th August, she becomes the first planet to return to your relationship sector since last year. Nearly seven weeks before the Sun is due to return on the September equinox, returning this early will have implications. Already, Venus will be slowing down ahead of a retrograde turn that, instead of moving through in 24 days will keep the planet of love here for over five weeks, while a retrograde turn will see her return in October to spend another six weeks here. This is something you will get a better read on when the Moon moves through your relationship sector from 16th August to 18th August.