Your Monthly Horoscopes: August 2026

• New moon solar eclipse in Leo (8/12): revive the fantasy
• Full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces (8/27): bury the hatchet
• Mars in your home sector (August 11-September 27): play nice

Your ruling planet goes from pissing off your siblings to fighting with your parents. Kidding—kind of. Really, August is in many ways a fun month where you reach new heights of creativity, whether that’s artistically, picking up a new hobby or conceiving a child. The month is remarkably good for romance, particularly between the 15th and 17th, so live it up and celebrate love and connection.  

Love Horoscope: Venus, the love planet, enters your relationship house on the 6th, starting off the month with good vibes for your love life. There’s also a party of planets in your dating house, so while the eclipse throws in a wild card around the 12th, love looks like a success story this month.    

Money Horoscope: Especially if you work one on one with clients (but even if you do something else), your money planet is happy this month and things are likely to go well. Borrowing, especially from family, is not likely to come without significant strings attached, so stay away from that if you can.

• New moon solar eclipse in Leo (8/12): home didn’t stay the same
• Full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces (8/27): who are your real friends
• Venus in Libra (August 6-September 10): in harmony with yourself

The best news is that your ruling planet, Venus, is quickly in a much happier and supportive space in the zodiac where Venus cares for both your and others’ needs without too much strain. Your home life is experiencing a lot of changes, as the sun, Mercury and Jupiter all are present for the solar eclipse there on the 12th. Whether you’re literally moving, or just redefining what your foundation looks like, there’s a lot of focus there.   

Love Horoscope: Your relationship planet moves into the house of your local community on the 11th, keeping relationships closer to home. The planet in charge of your dating life hops into the scene at the end of the month on the 25th, so if you want to find the right person for the approaching cuffing season, all the focus should be there.  

Money Horoscope: Both you and your partner’s finances are focused on topics of how to sustain or upgrade your home and household this month. The ground is shifting in this area so it’s harder to figure out and rely on stable income. When Mercury enters Virgo on the 25th, you’re better able to manage resources and know where they need to go.

• New moon solar eclipse in Leo (8/12): new way of writing about the world
• Full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces (8/27): your legacy is stable if you are
• Mercury in Leo (August 9-25): master of communication

Eclipses light up your daily schedule (August 12) and your life legacy (August 27) houses, meaning all things great and small are at full volume this month. Luckily, your ruling planet Mercury just gets better and better throughout the month. It enters the Leo fray on the 9th, and zooms through your communication house, showing itself to be the master of words and charisma. On the 25th it enters your home sector, grounding you in your skills for discernment and excellence.  

Love Horoscope: The planet of love enters your house of dating on the 6th, making this month way flirtier than July. Venus will spend the remainder of August giving and receiving pleasure and indulgences, and it’s well worth enjoying. The pre-shadow of her retrograde this fall starts on the 31st, so more complicated storylines await you for in the coming months.

Money Horoscope: I hope you figured out your financial life last month because the action doubles down in August. Mercury leaves your money house on the 9th, but Mars enters on the 11th and will spend the rest of the month and most of the next one there too. Whether you channel this energy into hustling or trying not to be hustled is up to you. 

• New moon solar eclipse in Leo (8/12): financial new beginning
• Full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces (8/27): decide your educational goals
• Mars in your sign (August 11-September 27): energized to make it happen

Money and career hold the focus for the month, changing the focus from health and your body to what you can do with it. There’s more energy and power when Mars enters your sign on the 11th, which is immediately tested by changes in career and income on the 12th. Mercury coming together with abundant Jupiter on the 15th is a positive offering of more than you’d hoped. The lunar eclipse on the 27th helps you make a final decision about your plans for the foreseeable future.     

Love Horoscope: The status quo prevails. Whatever is happening in your love life is likely to keep happening this month. You might get more in control as to how you appear to others and present a more dominant visage when Mars enters your sign on the 11th, but everything will depend upon your own initiative. 

Money Horoscope: Finances continue to be a huge focus for this month. Mercury enters your money house on the 9th and then the solar eclipse happens there on the 12th. Your company might restructure or you might leave a position for greener pastures, but a new development in your relationship to money is definitely in the cards. 

• New moon solar eclipse in Leo (8/12): glow up!
• Full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces (8/27): consolidate your debts
• Leo pile up of sun, Jupiter and Mercury (August 9-22): you are the moment

The volume is all the way up this Leo season, and after a rough July, so many things get better. Firstly, Venus moves into Libra, improving your finances, your job chances and your communication skills. Then, Mercury enters your sign, and you can find the words again. A solar eclipse on the 12th lights up all things Leo and you shed old identities and step into your power. With the sun, Jupiter and Mercury all in your sign, the megaphone is yours.   

Love Horoscope: The north node just entered your relationship house, calling out a siren song to new lovers and partnerships, be they friendly, romantic or professional—maybe even all three. Your needs and what you have to offer get harmonized throughout the month, and a shared vision of the future will bring you your people. 

Money Horoscope: You can finally make money again as the south node exits your money house. You can pull off self-promotion when Mercury enters your sign on the 9th and become CFO with mastery when it enters your money house on the 25th. Leo season rights the ship, and Virgo season will set your financial life sailing again.

• New moon solar eclipse in Leo (8/12): “what died didn’t stay dead”
• Full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces (8/27): relationship turning point
• Mercury in your sign (August 25-September 10): you’re in command

August is a mixed bag but gets better and more exciting as it goes on. Mercury, your ruling planet, clears the shadow of its retrograde on the 6th, before leaving its two-month stint in Cancer for a spiritual retreat in Leo for much of the month. By the end, all your soul-searching breaks open a powerful inner voice when Mercury emerges into your sign on August 25th. There’s no better position and you know exactly what you need to do. The lunar eclipse in your relationship house is a response to this new you, dramatically altering your plans for the fall. 

Love Horoscope: Relationships will need to be fiercely intimate and have a spiritual dimension or feeling of being meant-to-be to even register this month. What you need from a partner is undergoing a powerful transformation as you learn the deeper parts of yourself and build inner trust.  

Money Horoscope: Self-sufficiency looks a lot better than financial dependence, especially as the month goes on. Your money planet gets a lot happier when she enters Libra and your money house on the 9th and will remain there the rest of the month. However, your ability to borrow money gets strained, especially after the 11th, so rely on your own account balance rather than counting on someone else’s.    

• New moon solar eclipse in Leo (8/12): a new vision for the future
• Full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces (8/27): health issues stabilize
• Venus in your sign (August 6-September 10): finally, it all makes sense

Last month was inward, this one unfolds in a more extroverted manner. Venus enters your sign during the first week and remains there into next month. This brings confidence and allure to your aura and people pay more attention to you. Career becomes a little tense on the 11th when Mars barges into Cancer ready to challenge authority. The eclipse in Leo changes your view of the future in ways that are yet to be seen. 

Love Horoscope: Relationships stabilize this month. There are just way fewer power struggles and planets popping off on each other. You spend more effort and resources loving yourself. It’s a quiet era for relationship developments, which might feel like crickets in your romantic life. 

Money Horoscope: Frustrations and emotional reactivity are likely this month as Mars enters your career house and swells up with ambition. From August 11 to September 27, Mars will be there challenging authority and feeling protective of his territory. Things might reach a breaking point during the eclipse on the 27th and you might not be able to stomach your current workplace.  

• New moon solar eclipse in Leo (8/12): full exposure
• Full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces (8/27): the baby question
• Mars in your education/travel sector (August 11-September 27): launch

Your ability to make plans and take action has been stunted given all the things changing and all the new world order Scorpio has had to integrate over the last several months. August changes that. Mars, your ruling planet, moves into the part of the sky where you decide your future. It’s going to be messy, because Mars in emotive and Cancer is messy, but you have to do it anyways (and you will).    

Love Horoscope: You manage relationships, but do you really participate? Do you know where the difference between honesty and vulnerability lies? There’s an eclipse in your flirty summer fling space at the end of the month, and it likely signals the end of messing around. Either you’re ready to commit or it’s time to call your own bluff and stop playing with people you don’t truly care about.    

Money Horoscope: Both of your money planets come together this month in your life purpose sector, to decide what the point of your resources are. This is the perfect moment to take stock of your net worth and balance the budget on income and debts. The exact day of their connection is the 15th, a conference in the wake of the solar eclipse that sets you off on an entirely new mission.  

• New moon solar eclipse in Leo (8/12): you see the world differently
• Full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces (8/27): finish major home projects
• Mercury conjoins Jupiter (August 15): acome to Jesus moment

August is friendlier than July. Venus moves out of your career house and into the space of friends and alliances, while Mars backs away from conflict. An eclipse in your space of belief systems blows your mind and has you experiencing reality through new eyes. There’s a lot of support and harmonizing for you this month even if the eclipses throw a couple curve balls. 

Love Horoscope: Relationships start seriously thinking about the future around the 9th, and by the 15th, you’ve rethought most of your life, relationships included. There’s so much forward thinking this month, and when Mercury enters your house of personal legacy on the 25th, you might be ready for some big commitments.

Money Horoscope: Your personal hustle can slow and consolidate wins while Saturn is retrograde, but shared resources like joint accounts or loans look like dicey territory this month. Mars creates conflict and money can result in big emotional reactions from the 11th onward.

• New moon solar eclipse in Leo (8/12): who has power and control?
• Full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces (8/27): accept what is
• Mars in your relationship house (August 11-September 27): adversarial

Venus moves into your career and legacy house on the 6th, which definitely sets the month off to help you in that area. It’s a nice change from last month. An eclipse in your house of debt also signals a new era in your relationship with money, but also psychological debts and those who hold power over you in emotional ways. Mars enters your relationship sector, bringing fire to that area. Whether it heats things up or burns them down is really up to you.     

Love Horoscope: Dating is off to a good start this month as the love planet’s condition is much improved after the 6th. But Venus doesn’t want just anything, she wants power and prestige. Mars moving into Cancer on the 11th makes it easier to be assertive in your relationships, but also easier to cause offense. 

Money Horoscope: This month cools things down from all the drama in your money house last month. Your house of shared resources changes after the eclipse on the 12th, so you’re building new habits as you shed old codependent ones. The lunar eclipse on the 27th helps you accept the outcome of things, even if they frustrate you.

• New moon solar eclipse in Leo (8/12): how you show up in relationships has a major reset
• Full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces (8/27): financial goals met, with a twist
• Mercury in your relationship house (August 9-25): talk it all through

August really highlights your relationship sphere. This can mean your close friends, spouse or significant other, or your clients if you work one on one with people. The solar eclipse on the 12th mirrors one we had eight years ago in August 2018, so take a look back for some historical context. Jupiter is there this time though, so there’s an effortless buoyancy and the urge to upgrade and optimize these spaces this time. 

Love Horoscope: You are in a new era of your relationships, especially after the eclipse on the 12th. From there, Mercury gets serious on the 9th and wants commitment and a glorious, shared purpose together. Venus is happier all month too, smoothing out any rough contours. When Mercury enters the house of intimacy on the 25th, things only get deeper. 

Money Horoscope: Both your money planets connect in the sign of relationships this month. Their exact connection happens on the 15th, providing an annual budget forecast and planning session. This happens in the wake of the eclipse in that space, so there’s a lot to unpack. After the 25th, you are very good at discerning where your financial best interests lie. With that, a final eclipse in your money house on the 27th seeks to stabilize the financial era you’re in.   

• New moon solar eclipse in Leo (8/12): change your job, change your life
• Full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces (8/27): call your own bluff
• Jupiter in your embodiment house all month: daily life upgrade

So much of this month rests on one question: What are you willing to accept? Your relationships have been tumultuous, your home life going through some changes and work may need to change too. Not your career as much as your job, because your daily life needs a big change. Leo season is about how you feel in your body from moment to moment. Pay attention to your sensations and follow what feels right. 

Love Horoscope: The month starts off OK, but challenges may arise mid-month when the planet of conflict enters your pleasure sector. The communicator Mercury will come to the negotiating table by the end of the month to figure out a collaborative path forward.  

Money Horoscope: Your shared resources improve significantly after the first week of the month, but by the next week you may find your kids are a money sink. Back-to-school shopping and squeezing the last bit of fun out of summer might feel like a squeeze to your wallet as well.