Your August Horoscope Is Here — & Something In Your Life Is Reaching Its Final Chapter

Illustrated by Wenjing Yang.Welcome to eclipse season! August begins on a softer note with Venus at home in Libra for four weeks, bringing more harmony, beauty, pleasure, and peace into our relationships after a period of heightened scrutiny. We may feel more open to love, more willing to compromise, and more inspired to create beauty around us without overanalyzing every detail. Then, on August 9th, Mercury enters Leo after an extended stay in Cancer due to its retrograde, making our communication styles bolder, warmer, and much more confident during the final stretch of Leo Season.On August 11th, Mars enters Cancer for six weeks, increasing our sensitivity, protectiveness, and desire to spend more time at home or with the people who feel like home. Emotions may motivate our actions more than logic, so it will be important to notice when we are responding from intuition and when we are reacting from defensiveness. This transit can also make us fiercely committed to protecting our peace, our loved ones, and the private dreams we are still nurturing behind the scenes.AdvertisementADVERTISEMENTThen, on August 12th, we experience the Leo solar eclipse New Moon, the first solar eclipse in Leo in over a decade. Solar eclipses accelerate fresh starts, often catapulting us into a new chapter before we feel fully prepared for it, and with Jupiter also in Leo, this eclipse carries major expansion energy. Whatever next level of your life, confidence, creativity, leadership, or visibility you already know you are meant to step into, this eclipse can move you much closer to it. Pay attention to the opportunities, invitations, endings, and sudden realizations that arrive around this time, because eclipse season has a way of clearing the path quickly.The sun enters Virgo on August 22nd, bringing grounding energy and helping us process everything that has shifted. Then, on August 28th, the month ends with a lunar eclipse in Pisces, the final lunar eclipse and final Pisces eclipse of the Pisces-Virgo cycle we have been moving through for the past two years. Lunar eclipses reveal what was once hidden and bring necessary closure, whether we feel ready for it or not, so the end of August may feel emotional, cathartic, and deeply releasing. Give yourself space to feel what comes up. Something that has been unfolding for years is reaching its final chapter, and the release can make room for a life that feels much more aligned.Read your horoscopes for your Sun and Rising signs for the most in-depth forecast.Illustrated by Wenjing Yang.Aries Sun & Rising: Aries, August begins by asking you to make more room for love, creativity, and the people who bring out your best. Venus spends most of the month in Libra, activating your partnership sector and making relationships feel more harmonious, romantic, and mutually supportive. Mercury enters Leo on August 9th, giving your voice more confidence and helping you express yourself with greater warmth, humor, and creative flair. Then your ruler, Mars, enters Cancer on August 11th and shifts more of your attention toward home, family, and your emotional foundation. You may feel motivated to move, redecorate, resolve a family issue, or protect your peace more fiercely than usual.AdvertisementADVERTISEMENTThe Leo solar eclipse on August 12th lands in your fame, romance, creativity, and inner child zone, making this one of the most exciting fresh starts you’ve experienced in years. This is the first Leo solar eclipse in over a decade, and with Jupiter also in Leo, whatever begins around this time could catapult you toward greater visibility, confidence, joy, or recognition. A creative project may take off, a romantic chapter may begin, or you may finally give yourself permission to pursue something that makes you feel fully alive. The main-character energy is strong, Aries, so act like the role already belongs to you.Virgo Season begins during the final third of the month, helping you slow down and integrate everything that has shifted. Then, on August 28th, the final Pisces lunar eclipse lands in your spirituality, solitude, and subconscious realm, bringing a deeply personal chapter to a close. After all the excitement and visibility of the Leo eclipse, this lunation asks whether the life you’re building still feels true to your spirit when no one’s watching. Rest, reflect, and release what’s been draining you. The month ends with a reminder that your brightest new beginning still needs a peaceful inner foundation.Illustrated by Wenjing Yang.Taurus Sun & Rising:Taurus, August begins by asking you to build a daily life that gives you more freedom instead of constantly tying you to maintenance mode. Venus spends most of the month in Libra, activating your realm of wellness, work, and routine and helping you create habits that feel more balanced, sustainable, and enjoyable. Mercury enters Leo on August 9th and moves through your home and family sector, making it easier to speak up about what you need at home, though you may need to watch the urge to become the household CEO overnight. Then Mars enters Cancer on August 11th, energizing your communication zone for six weeks and making your ideas more creative, intuitive, and emotionally charged. This can be a strong month for writing, teaching, content creation, difficult conversations, and finally saying what has been sitting on your chest.AdvertisementADVERTISEMENTThe Leo solar eclipse on August 12th lands in your home, roots, and family zone, opening a major new chapter around where and how you live. This is the first Leo solar eclipse in over a decade, and with Jupiter also in Leo, a bold decision around moving, renovating, relocating, downsizing, or changing a family dynamic could catapult you into a completely different timeline. Pay attention to what your home is asking for, because the answer may be bigger than buying a new lamp or reorganizing a closet. The more courageously you create a foundation that reflects who you are now, the more supported you’ll feel stepping into everything that comes next.Virgo Season begins during the final third of the month and activates your realm of fate, creativity, and romance, helping you feel more at ease with the decisions you’ve been making. Then, on August 28th, the final Pisces lunar eclipse illuminates your friendship, community, and social network sector. This eclipse may reveal who you can truly count on, which connections have reached their natural ending, and where you need more support instead of trying to carry life alone. Some friendships may deepen while others fade peacefully, making room for a community that actually fits the new era you’re entering.Illustrated by Wenjing Yang.Gemini Sun & Rising:Gemini, August gives you plenty to say, create, and flirt your way through, but it also asks you to get more intentional about what you’re building. Venus spends most of the month in Libra, activating your fate, romance, creativity, and inner child sector, making you more magnetic, playful, and open to pleasure. Then your ruler Mercury enters Leo on August 9th and lights up your communication zone after its extended stay in Cancer, so your voice becomes bolder, funnier, and much harder to ignore. Mars enters Cancer on August 11th and energizes your money sector for six weeks, which can motivate you to earn more, pitch new ideas, or get serious about your financial priorities, though you’ll want to watch impulsive spending when your emotions are doing the shopping.AdvertisementADVERTISEMENTThe Leo solar eclipse on August 12th lands in your communication, learning, and local community realm, opening a major new chapter around your voice and how far your ideas can travel. This is the first Leo solar eclipse in over a decade, and with Jupiter also in Leo, something you write, teach, announce, publish, pitch, or begin learning could catapult you into a more visible and influential era. A conversation may change your direction, a short trip may open an unexpected door, or a creative idea may finally become something tangible. Speak with confidence, Gemini, because the message you share around this eclipse could have a much bigger reach than you realize.Virgo Season begins during the final third of the month and turns your attention toward home, family, and the emotional foundation beneath all this expansion. Then, on August 28th, the final Pisces lunar eclipse illuminates your career and public image sector, bringing a professional chapter that’s been unfolding for the past two years toward a culmination. A role, goal, title, or version of success may be completed, revealed, or released, especially if it no longer reflects who you’ve become. Let the month end by showing you which ambitions still feel meaningful and which ones you’ve outgrown.Illustrated by Wenjing Yang.Cancer Sun & Rising:Cancer, August brings your attention back to what makes you feel secure, supported, and fully at home within yourself. Venus spends most of the month in Libra, bringing more harmony, beauty, and ease to your home and family sector, so you may feel inspired to redecorate, host loved ones, repair a family dynamic, or simply make your space feel more peaceful. Mercury enters Leo on August 9th and activates your money zone, helping you speak more confidently about your rates, needs, and financial goals. Then Mars enters your sign on August 11th for six weeks, giving you a major boost of drive, courage, and momentum, though your emotions may be much closer to the surface. Move your body, act on what matters, and give yourself a pause before turning every feeling into a mission.AdvertisementADVERTISEMENTThe Leo solar eclipse on August 12th lands in your money, self-worth, and security zone, opening a powerful new chapter around what you earn and what you believe you deserve. This is the first Leo solar eclipse in over a decade, and with Jupiter also in Leo, a new income stream, business idea, pricing decision, or financial opportunity could catapult you into a more abundant timeline. You may also feel ready to stop minimizing your talents or accepting less than your work is worth. The choices you make around this eclipse can have long-term impact, so let your confidence catch up with the value you already bring.Virgo Season begins during the final third of the month and helps you organize your thoughts, make practical plans, and communicate with more precision. Then, on August 28th, the final Pisces lunar eclipse illuminates your realm of travel, education, spirituality, and expansion, bringing a two-year journey to completion. A belief, course of study, business vision, relocation plan, or dream of seeing more of the world may reach a turning point, and something you once hoped for could finally reveal its full meaning. Let yourself release any version of the future that no longer fits. The path ahead may look different than you imagined, but it can also feel much more aligned.Illustrated by Wenjing Yang.Leo Sun & Rising:Leo, August puts your voice, identity, and personal direction front and center, so there’s very little room left for playing small. Venus spends most of the month in Libra, bringing more charm, ease, and connection to your communication sector, which is excellent for writing, pitching, networking, short trips, and conversations that open doors. Mercury enters your sign on August 9th after its extended stay in Cancer, helping you speak with more confidence and say exactly what you mean. Then Mars enters Cancer on August 11th and activates your spirituality and solitude zone for six weeks, so even while your outer life is accelerating, you’ll still need enough privacy, sleep, and reflection to avoid running on pure adrenaline.AdvertisementADVERTISEMENTThe Leo solar eclipse on August 12th takes place in your sign, making this one of the most defining fresh starts you have experienced in over a decade. With Jupiter also in Leo, the choices you make around your appearance, identity, leadership, personal goals, and the way you want to be seen can catapult you into an entirely new era. You may feel ready to reintroduce yourself, launch something major, take up more space, or finally become the person you’ve been preparing to be. This is your eclipse, Leo, and the main character energy isn’t subtle, so stop waiting for the room to confirm what you already know about yourself.Virgo Season begins during the final third of the month and helps you ground all this expansion through your realm of money, values, and self-worth. Then, on August 28th, the final Pisces lunar eclipse illuminates your intimacy, transformation, and shared-resources sector, bringing a financial, emotional, sexual, or energetic entanglement toward closure. A debt, dependency, trust issue, outside funding matter, or bond that has shaped the past two years may finally reveal what needs to be released. The month begins with you stepping into a bigger version of yourself and ends with you clearing anything that can no longer come with you.Illustrated by Wenjing Yang.Virgo Sun & Rising:Virgo, August begins by helping you move with more confidence around money, healing, and the goals you’ve been preparing behind the scenes. Venus spends most of the month in Libra, bringing more ease to your money and self-worth sector and making it easier to attract support, raise your standards, or enjoy more of what you’ve worked for. Mercury, your ruler, enters Leo on August 9th and activates your spirituality and solitude sector, helping you process what the past few months have taught you and make peace with ideas or emotions that needed more time. Then Mars enters Cancer on August 11th and energizes your friendship and community sector for six weeks, pushing you to reconnect, collaborate, and be more proactive about the people and networks connected to your future.AdvertisementADVERTISEMENTThe Leo solar eclipse on August 12th lands in your spirituality, healing, and subconscious zone, opening a major internal chapter before your birthday season begins. With Jupiter also in Leo, the breakthroughs may happen privately first through stronger intuition, vivid dreams, emotional closure, or the sudden realization that you’re done carrying something that’s drained you for years. This eclipse can help you end a self-sabotaging cycle, release a hidden fear, or commit more seriously to rest and spiritual care. Give yourself room to disappear from the noise when needed, because the transformation taking place behind the scenes is preparing you for a much more visible new beginning.Then the Sun enters your sign on August 22nd, officially launching Virgo Season and your solar return chapter. This is your annual reset, Virgo, so celebrate how far you’ve come, refresh your goals, dress like the new era has already started, and let yourself be excited about taking up more space in your own life. The final Pisces lunar eclipse on August 28th lands in your partnership sector, bringing a relationship story that has unfolded over the past two years toward a powerful conclusion. A commitment may deepen, a connection may reveal its true nature, or you may finally release a dynamicthat no longer reflects who you are becoming. Your birthday season begins with greater clarity about yourself and who’s actually capable of meeting you there.Illustrated by Wenjing Yang.Libra Sun & Rising:Libra, August begins with your magnetism turned all the way up. Venus, your ruler, spends most of the month in your sign, making you feel more attractive, socially at ease, creative, and connected to yourself after a period of overanalyzing everything. Mercury enters Leo on August 9th and brings more confidence to your friendships, collaborations, and online presence, so this is a strong time to reconnect, network, share your ideas, and let people know what you’re building. Then Mars enters Cancer on August 11th and energizes your career sector for six weeks, increasing your ambition and visibility while also making you more emotionally invested in how your work is received. Move boldly, but avoid taking every professional delay or critique as a personal attack.AdvertisementADVERTISEMENTThe Leo solar eclipse on August 12th lands in your friendship, community, and future-goals zone, opening one of the most significant social chapters you’ve experienced in over a decade. With Jupiter also in Leo, a new collaboration, audience, friendship, team, or digital opportunity could catapult you toward a dream that once felt much farther away. You may enter a powerful new circle, become more visible within your community, or realize that your next level requires people who can think and build bigger alongside you. Say yes to the invitation, make the introduction, and let yourself be supported by a network that genuinely believes in where you’re going.Virgo Season begins on August 22nd and moves you into a more reflective, private phase before your own birthday season arrives. You may need more rest, space, and time away from constant social stimulation to process how quickly things are changing. Then, on August 28th, the final Pisces lunar eclipse lands in your health, work, and daily routine sector, bringing a two-year story around your body, schedule, employment, or relationship with productivity to a close. A habit, role, or work style may finally reveal that it has run its course. Let this eclipse help you release the routines that keep you depleted so you can enter your next personal year with more energy for the life you actually want.Illustrated by Wenjing Yang.Scorpio Sun & Rising:Scorpio, August begins with more movement in your career, your long-term vision, and the healing happening beneath the surface. Venus spends most of the month in Libra, activating your realm of spirituality and solitude, so you may crave more privacy, beauty, rest, and time away from people who drain you. Mercury enters Leo on August 9th and brings greater confidence to your career and public image, making this a powerful time to pitch, speak up, negotiate, or let people see the authority you carry. Then Mars enters Cancer on August 11th and energizes your travel, education, publishing, and expansion zone for six weeks, giving you more courage to pursue a big idea, book the trip, return to school, or take your work beyond its current limits.AdvertisementADVERTISEMENTThe Leo solar eclipse on August 12th lands in your career and legacy sector, opening one of the biggest professional chapters you’ve experienced in over a decade. With Jupiter also in Leo, a promotion, launch, leadership opportunity, public recognition, or completely new direction could catapult you into a level of visibility you’ve been preparing for behind the scenes. You may be asked to claim more authority before you feel fully ready, but this eclipse rewards courage and self-trust. Let people witness your work, Scorpio. The next version of your career cannot grow if you keep your brilliance hidden in the basement.Virgo Season begins on August 22nd and turns your attention toward friendship, collaboration, and the people connected to your future. Then, on August 28th, the final Pisces lunar eclipse lands in your fate, romance, creativity, and inner child zone, bringing a two-year emotional story to a close. A love connection, passion project, dream, or chapter around being seen and chosen may finally reveal what it was meant to teach you. Celebrate what’s blossomed, release what kept you waiting for permission, and let the end of August return you to the joy that feels most honest.Illustrated by Wenjing Yang.Sagittarius Sun & Rising:Sag, August begins by widening your world socially, mentally, and emotionally. Venus spends most of the month in Libra, bringing more ease, pleasure, and opportunity to your friendship, community, and social network zone, so the right people may help you feel more inspired and connected to what’s possible. Mercury enters Leo on August 9th and energizes your travel, education, and expansion sector, making your ideas bolder and your voice more persuasive. Then Mars enters Cancer on August 11th and activates your intimacy and wealth sector for six weeks, pushing you to address debts, outside funding, trust issues, or emotional entanglements that require more honesty and follow-through.AdvertisementADVERTISEMENTThe Leo solar eclipse on August 12th lands in your expansion sector, opening one of the biggest fresh-start chapters you’ve experienced in over a decade. With your ruler Jupiter also in Leo, a move connected to travel, school, teaching, publishing, entrepreneurship, spirituality, or taking your work to a larger audience could rapidly change your trajectory. An opportunity may arrive that asks you to think beyond your current environment and trust the version of yourself who already knows there’s more out there. Book the ticket, submit the application, or take the leap that has been calling your name.Virgo Season begins on August 22nd and brings your career, reputation, and long-term goals into sharper focus, helping you turn all that inspiration into an actual plan. Then, on August 28th, the final Pisces lunar eclipse lands in your home, family, and roots sector, bringing a deeply personal chapter from the past two years toward completion. A move, family dynamic, living situation, or emotional pattern from childhood may reach its final turning point. As your outer world expands, this eclipse asks you to release whatever no longer feels like home and create a foundation strong enough to support where you’re headed next.Illustrated by Wenjing Yang.Capricorn Sun & Rising:Capricorn, August puts your career, relationships, and shared commitments in motion all at once, so pacing yourself will matter. Venus spends most of the month in Libra, bringing more charm, visibility, and support to your career zone, making this a strong time for interviews, pitches, launches, networking, and being recognized for the work you’ve already put in. Mercury enters Leo on August 9th and helps you speak more openly about intimacy, money, debt, investments, or what you need from the people you’re building with. Then Mars enters Cancer on August 11th and energizes your partnership sector for six weeks, increasing passion and momentum in your closest relationships, but also making tension harder to ignore. Choose direct conversations over passive-aggressive calendar invites.AdvertisementADVERTISEMENTThe Leo solar eclipse on August 12th lands in your realm of transformation, intimacy, and shared-resources, opening a major new chapter around trust, financial support, and how deeply you allow yourself to merge with others. With Jupiter also in Leo, this could bring outside funding, a loan, investment, inheritance, debt breakthrough, or a relationship that requires a much greater level of vulnerability. Whatever begins around this eclipse can change how supported you feel and how much you believe you have to carry alone. Let yourself renegotiate the terms, ask for what you need, and release control where trust has actually been earned.Virgo Season begins on August 22nd and activates your travel, education, and expansion sector, helping you reconnect with the bigger vision behind all the practical decisions you’ve been making. Then, on August 28th, the final Pisces lunar eclipse lands in your communication and creativity sector, bringing a two-year story around your voice, mindset, writing, teaching, or relationship with a sibling toward completion. A message may finally be delivered, a conversation may reveal the truth, or an idea you’ve been developing could reach its final form. The month ends by asking you to release the thought patterns and unfinished conversations that no longer deserve permanent residency in your mind.Illustrated by Wenjing Yang.Aquarius Sun & Rising:Aquarius, August expands your world while also putting your closest relationships and daily responsibilities under a brighter spotlight. Venus spends most of the month in Libra, bringing more ease, beauty, and opportunity to your travel, education, and expansion zone, so you may feel inspired to book a trip, study something new, share your work more widely, or connect with people from different backgrounds. Mercury enters Leo on August 9th and activates your partnership realm, making important conversations in love and business more direct, expressive, and difficult to avoid. Then Mars enters Cancer on August 11th and energizes your health and routine sector for six weeks, giving you more motivation to improve your habits and handle what has been piling up, though your schedule may become much busier than expected.AdvertisementADVERTISEMENTThe Leo solar eclipse on August 12th lands in your partnership zone, opening one of the most significant relationship chapters you’ve experienced in over a decade. With Jupiter also in Leo, a romantic commitment, business partnership, collaboration, or pivotal one-on-one connection could quickly expand your life and change the direction you thought you were headed in. Some Aquarians may meet someone important, deepen an existing bond, or receive an opportunity through another person that places them on a much larger stage. Let partnership stretch you without abandoning your individuality, because the right connection will make more of your future possible.Virgo Season begins on August 22nd and turns your attention toward intimacy, shared money, and the emotional work happening beneath the surface. Then, on August 28th, the final Pisces lunar eclipse lands in your money, self-worth, and security sector, bringing a two-year financial or confidence story to completion. An income stream, spending habit, pricing decision, or belief about what you deserve may finally reveal what needs to end. Let this eclipse close the chapter where you kept accepting less, so the new relationships and opportunities entering your life can meet you at your actual value.Illustrated by Wenjing Yang.Pisces Sun & Rising:Pisces, August asks you to get more honest about what you share, what you carry, and what actually makes your daily life feel good. Venus spends most of the month in Libra, bringing more ease to your intimacy and transformation zone, which can support deeper trust, financial agreements, debt repayment, outside support, or a more fulfilling sex life. Mercury enters Leo on August 9th and helps you communicate more clearly about work, health, and the routines that need to change. Then Mars enters Cancer on August 11th and energizes your fate, romance, and inner child sector for six weeks, making you more passionate, playful, and willing to pursue what excites you instead of waiting for inspiration to politely knock.The Leo solar eclipse on August 12th lands in your realm of health, work, and routine, opening one of the most important lifestyle chapters you’ve experienced in over a decade. With Jupiter also in Leo, a new job, wellness plan, team, schedule, or daily system could quickly expand your life and help you become more productive without draining yourself. Your body may also make its needs impossible to ignore, showing you exactly where your current pace has become unsustainable. Whatever begins around this eclipse should make your everyday life stronger, healthier, and more supportive of the future you’re building.Virgo Season begins on August 22nd and brings greater focus to your relationships, commitments, and the people standing across from you. Then, on August 28th, the final Pisces lunar eclipse takes place in your sign, bringing a deeply personal two-year chapter toward completion. An identity, dream, emotional pattern, appearance, or version of yourself may be ready to fall away, and the realization could feel both raw and liberating. Let yourself grieve what you’ve outgrown and celebrate who you’ve become. This eclipse is closing one of the biggest eras of your life so you can stop carrying the person you had to be and fully step into the person you are now.AdvertisementADVERTISEMENT