Jul 29, 2026 · 16 min · 8 segments
Today, Sarah is back with a preview of your August 2026 reading. As one of the most transformative months of the year, August invites you to cultivate greater consciousness, move through the alchemy…
Sarah Faith GottesdienerHostI would, like, pay money for this overview on its own because they are both accurate energetically, and they also give us tips, tricks, techniques, reminders when you are losing it or you forgot what it is you're doing.
So I'm gonna read and then I'm gonna pull cards for us that we can also use as a compass, as a guide, as support for August.
How do you know when you are most conscious? How do you know when you're acting from a place of reactivity, habit, comfort, defensiveness, fear, or shame? This is the month to actively notice your consciousness, especially in times when you're being tested, when you feel backed up against a wall completely alone, times when your deepest wounds are being blown up under the harsh light of a trigger.
While scholars of alchemy attempt to distill the process down to a linear timeline, similar to a grief or healing process, alchemy is not linear.
This month, prepare to be thrust into all four stages of alchemy, but out of order.
And if you hear-- Um, this is my commentary on what I channeled, like, over a year ago, well over a year ago because I do Many Moons in the spring.
Alchemy is not linear, and obviously this is because we're in eclipse season.
What's going on with you, especially when you're pressured, especially when you're afraid, especially when someone is saying something that triggers you or a pattern is playing out that is, like, one of your big patterns that you are aware of but seems almost impossible to change.
And that's what this reading is gonna talk about for this month, so stay tuned for that.
That's gonna be the point of the reading is: How are we going to consciously change- Into how we would like to be and we would like to respond, not react.
This month, prepare to be thrust into all four stages of alchemy, but out of order.
To refresh your memory, the four stages of alchemy are nigredo, chaos and darkness or observation; albedo, cleansing and clarity or acceptance; citrinus, illumination and dawn or integration; and rubedo, integration and wholeness or action.
We just gave you the map to your life, [laughs] and to this month and next.
So we're gonna be toggling in between the chaos, the darkness, the shadows, and then the illumination of it.
I see I'm getting pulled into the pattern." So we might not reach rubedo.
I would, like, pay money for this overview on its own because they are both accurate energetically, and they also give us tips, tricks, techniques, reminders when you are losing it or you forgot what it is you're doing.
So I'm gonna read and then I'm gonna pull cards for us that we can also use as a compass, as a guide, as support for August.
How do you know when you are most conscious? How do you know when you're acting from a place of reactivity, habit, comfort, defensiveness, fear, or shame? This is the month to actively notice your consciousness, especially in times when you're being tested, when you feel backed up against a wall completely alone, times when your deepest wounds are being blown up under the harsh light of a trigger.
While scholars of alchemy attempt to distill the process down to a linear timeline, similar to a grief or healing process, alchemy is not linear.
This month, prepare to be thrust into all four stages of alchemy, but out of order.
And if you hear-- Um, this is my commentary on what I channeled, like, over a year ago, well over a year ago because I do Many Moons in the spring.
Alchemy is not linear, and obviously this is because we're in eclipse season.
What's going on with you, especially when you're pressured, especially when you're afraid, especially when someone is saying something that triggers you or a pattern is playing out that is, like, one of your big patterns that you are aware of but seems almost impossible to change.
And that's what this reading is gonna talk about for this month, so stay tuned for that.
That's gonna be the point of the reading is: How are we going to consciously change- Into how we would like to be and we would like to respond, not react.
This month, prepare to be thrust into all four stages of alchemy, but out of order.
To refresh your memory, the four stages of alchemy are nigredo, chaos and darkness or observation; albedo, cleansing and clarity or acceptance; citrinus, illumination and dawn or integration; and rubedo, integration and wholeness or action.
We just gave you the map to your life, [laughs] and to this month and next.
So we're gonna be toggling in between the chaos, the darkness, the shadows, and then the illumination of it.
I see I'm getting pulled into the pattern." So we might not reach rubedo.
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