{"id":57180,"date":"2013-08-11T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sasstrology.com\/?p=47053"},"modified":"2013-08-11T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T09:00:26","slug":"love-horoscope-for-the-week-of-august-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=57180","title":{"rendered":"Love Horoscope for the Week of August 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sasstrology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/weeklylove.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-42147\" alt=\"weeklylove\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sasstrology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/weeklylove.gif?resize=125%2C250\" width=\"125\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>Mercury tends to not grab as much attention astrologically as perhaps it should. As the ruler of thought processes and communications, it&#8217;s certainly important but not terribly sexy. Currently, <strong>Mercury is in Leo<\/strong> &#8212; which is generally not thought of as being its best placement. Mercury in Leo has more of a reputation for creativity and\/or drama than for more Mercurial qualities, like &#8220;looking before you leap.&#8221; Well, even Mercury has to cut loose sometimes &#8230; and this week, poor little neglected Mercury has a couple of opportunities to shine &#8212; or perhaps to jump out of the shadows and make trouble for you, depending on your circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Although <strong>Jupiter opposite Pluto<\/strong> was exact last week, it still remains very much in effect. In fact, <strong>last week&#8217;s New Moon<\/strong> cemented this opposition as arguably the most important aspect happening this week. Your conception of committed relationships and what constitutes &#8220;a good time&#8221; may be subject to <strong>unusual and sudden pressures to change<\/strong>. If you are in a committed relationship, there&#8217;s a good chance it will take a rather dramatic turn. Don&#8217;t panic though: for many of you this will be good news. For the rest of you, <strong>Venus in Libra<\/strong> later in the week will give you a chance to regroup and rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, <strong>Mercury trine Uranus<\/strong> will spark new and inventive ideas as to how to communicate what you want and need from people. A little quick thinking can make the difference in your workplace or your love life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On Friday, Venus enters Libra<\/strong>. That same evening, many of you will be entering bars or other social places looking for romance. Think of Venus as your &#8220;wing man&#8221; for these purposes. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, in Bro-speak, a &#8220;wing man&#8221; is a buddy you take to the bar who runs interference for you while you pursue the woman of your choice. Being a wing man is generally a thankless job, and frankly that tactic never works as well as it sounds like it should (not that I&#8217;d know or anything). Just because Venus is strongly placed in Libra doesn&#8217;t mean it will do all the work for you. However, if all you need is a little more smooth presentation and some refinement of your dating tactics, the next five weeks should prove to be just what you need. Those of you with <strong>important placements in the early degrees of the fire or air signs<\/strong> should particularly benefit from this.<\/p>\n<p>In general though, it should be a smoothly functional week. Just  don&#8217;t give in to that Mercury in Leo urge to open your mouth and say something dramatic, followed by the inevitable Foot Insertion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one ever expects Mercury to make trouble, until someone opens their mouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=57180\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[650],"class_list":["post-57180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-forecast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekXVE-eSg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57405,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57180\/revisions\/57405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}