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General for Week Commencing: Monday 11 August 2025

	Aries	Monday 11 August 2025	Mar 21 - Apr 19
By the time you move into the new week, Mars has only been in your relationship sector for four days, but already he has managed to shake things up. Mars is not only the first planet to reach your relationship sector since the Sun left in October 2024, but the first since Saturn and Neptune, who are still aligned in Aries returned. Mars clashed with both over the weekend, with Saturn for the first time here in three decades and with Neptune for the first time in 150 years. This is not the first time that planets have moved into opposition here, putting a balance between your own and your relationship needs under pressure, but nothing this powerful. As well as giving you something to fight for from the start, it was also over the weekend that Mars formed a friendly aspect to Uranus in your communication sector, for the first time in eight decades. These are planets that are getting together to shape not just the year, but the coming decade.

	Taurus	Monday 11 August 2025	Apr 20 - May 20
While the Moon left your career sector on Sunday, bringing Saturday’s Full Moon to a close, the fallout will continue and that includes across the income, work and career fronts. What turned the ordinary Full Moon that will fall here at around this time each year into a game changer was Mars’ return to your work sector on Thursday, something that kicked off the first planetary activity on the job front this year and some of the busiest months of this professional year. While a Full Moon during Mars' early days was always going to get things off to a powerful start, by the time you move into the new week, he is separating from a friendly aspect to Uranus in your income sector and another with Pluto in your career sector is just peaking. It was also over the weekend that there were some important work/life balance reminders and when it comes to knowing when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off.

	Gemini	Monday 11 August 2025	May 21 - Jun 21
From the start, the stars are sending two very different messages and that will not only remain the case for the rest of the week or even the month, but the rest of the year. All of a sudden, it makes sense that since January, the lunar nodes have been monitoring your work/life balance. On the one hand, the week not only starts with the Moon in your career sector, but just as a friendly aspect between forces on the job and career fronts peaks on Monday. By the time the Moon leaves on Tuesday, a friendly aspect between Venus and Jupiter in your income sector will be peaking, bringing the element of luck and the laws of attraction into play. Yet at the same time, it is on Monday that a friendly aspect between Mars, as he moves into his first full week in a playful and creative part of your chart and Pluto in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery not only peaks, but on the back of the weekend’s Full Moon there. Both sides of life’s fence are powering up and it’s going to stay that way.

	Cancer	Monday 11 August 2025	Jun 22 - Jul 22
It is just as you move into the new week that on Monday Venus will catch up with Jupiter, beginning their first alignment in Cancer in over a decade. This is an alignment that will peak on Tuesday, bringing the element of luck and the laws of attraction together, just as Jupiter is opening major new doors and Venus is giving you the confidence to follow your heart. This will have a powerful impact on the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence and not just because the Moon begins the week in an adventurous part of your chart and at a friendly aspect to both Venus and Jupiter. The Moon will also start the week aligned with the North Node in an adventurous part of your chart and at a friendly aspect to the asteroid Juno in a playful and creative part and with Venus set to do the same by the end of the week, locking this into place. This comes just as the last of the five planets in your career sector turns retrograde on Tuesday, making it easier to take your foot off the gas.

	Leo	Monday 11 August 2025	Jul 23 - Aug 22
Apart from a clash with Pluto when he first returned to Leo last month to begin your birthday month and new solar year, the weekend’s Full Moon was the only other hurdle the Sun will face before leaving later next week. With the hardest part behind you and the wakeup calls delivered, it is all plain sailing from here. Taking advantage of this is Mercury’s direct turn on Monday, taking the brakes off while offering a chance for a fresh start. At the same time, even though the Moon left your relationship sector on Sunday, bringing the Full Moon to a close, any personal and/or relationship tension this might have created or buttons pushed are already turning into an opportunity. With Mercury, the planet of communication not only turning direct on Monday but Mars moving into his first full week in your communication sector at a friendly aspect to Pluto in your relationship sector, with everything needed to give anything flushed out a voice. This leaves you a lot more aware of your own and your relationship needs, while also feeling more empowered.

	Virgo	Monday 11 August 2025	Aug 23 - Sep 22
The week not only gets off to a positive start on two different fronts, but on each front, this is a result of a coming together of three different factors. On the one hand, the week gets off to a positive start across the communication, social and relationship fronts and not just because it begins with the Moon in your relationship sector. However, this is an advantage, with a chance to ensure you are emotionally engaged and aware as a friendly aspect between forces on the communication and relationship fronts peaks, while closely aligned with Venus and Jupiter, who begin the week aligned in your friendship sector. Meanwhile, Mars not only moves into his first full week in your income sector in two years aligned with Pluto in your work sector, but separating from a friendly aspect to Uranus in your income sector over the weekend. It was the weekend’s Full Moon that helped to galvanise a team that over the next few months, is going to change the dynamics of the year across the income, work and career fronts.

	Libra	Monday 11 August 2025	Sep 23 - Oct 23
While it could be seen as too much of a good thing, thankfully the lunar nodes have been in position and monitoring how well you know when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off since January. The difference now is that as things power up on both sides of the financial fence, this is more important than ever. It is not only starting the week with the Moon in your work sector, but just as a friendly aspect between the North Node here and the asteroid Juno peaks that was always going to get the new working week off to a positive start. However, it comes just as the week also begins with Venus and Jupiter aligned in your career sector, bringing the element of luck and the laws of attraction together. Meanwhile, on the heels of the weekend’s Full Moon in a playful and creative part of your chart, Mars not only moves into his first full week in Libra at a friendly aspect to Pluto there, but while he is still separating from a friendly aspect to Uranus in an adventurous part over the weekend.

	Scorpio	Monday 11 August 2025	Oct 24 - Nov 21
What a difference a few days can make. It was over the weekend that you were hit with a double whammy, with a Full Moon putting your work/life balance to the test, but just as Mars had moved into opposition with two of the five planets in your work sector, putting how well you know when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off to the test. This is a message that the stars really wanted to get through and for good reason, for it allows you to get the most out of the coming week. After clashing with the Sun in your career sector to create the weekend’s Full Moon, the Moon’s return to your work sector on Tuesday will not only put them back in harmony but will energise things on both fronts in the heart of the working week. However, before then, the Moon will not only begin the week in a playful and creative part of your chart, but just as things are also powering up on the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence.

	Sagittarius	Monday 11 August 2025	Nov 22 - Dec 21
Compared to some intensity over the weekend, when there was both a Full Moon and several planets jockeying for your attention, this week’s stars are not only a lot more harmonious, but this could be as lucky and empowering week. Helping to get the week off to a positive start is an alignment between Venus and Jupiter that will peak on Tuesday, bringing the planets of money and luck together here for the first time in over a decade. Two months into Jupiter’s 12 month quest for financial growth and expansion and as Venus works to make this a good month for money matters, this will give both a boost. Meanwhile, the week also gets off to an empowered start on the communication, social and relationship fronts. On the heels of the weekend’s Full Moon in your communication sector, Mars not only moves into his first full week in your friendship sector at a friendly aspect to Pluto there, but while he is still separating from a friendly aspect to Uranus in your relationship sector over the weekend.

	Capricorn	Monday 11 August 2025	Dec 22 - Jan 19
Starting the week with the Moon in your communication sector couldn’t come with better timing. While the Moon will leave on Tuesday, it will be here and at a friendly aspect to Venus and Jupiter, just as the planets of love and luck start the week aligned in your relationship sector. This is the Moon’s last visit to your communication sector before Saturn returns in three weeks and before returning itself as a total lunar eclipse next month. By the weekend, Venus will have moved into a friendly aspect to the North Node in your communication sector, further cementing the support between the communication and relationship gods. Meanwhile, Mars is not only moving into his first full week in your career sector in two years at a friendly aspect to Pluto in your income sector, but he is still separating from a friendly aspect to Uranus in your work sector over the weekend. By the time you move into the new week Mars has only been here for four days, yet already the weekend’s Full Moon has helped to galvanise this game changing team across the income, work and career fronts.

	Aquarius	Monday 11 August 2025	Jan 20 - Feb 18
What a difference a few days can make. It was over the weekend that a Full Moon in Aquarius may have created some personal and/or relationship tension, pushed some buttons or just evoked some strong emotional responses. This is a Full Moon that will always fall at some point during the Sun’s month long visit to your relationship sector and at the halfway point in your current solar year, putting a balance between your own and your relationship needs to the test. Yet even before the Moon returns to communication sector and back into harmony with the Sun, Mercury, the planet of communication’s direct turn in your relationship sector on Monday will start getting the communication lines open. As well as leaving you more aware of what you want from your relationships and what they need from you, this has been personally empowering and while playing a part in a powering up of the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence that is here to stay.

	Pisces	Monday 11 August 2025	Feb 19 - Mar 20
As Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos moves into his first full week in your financial sector, he is fighting fit and pumped up, thanks to starting the week at a friendly aspect to Pluto in an intuitive and imaginative part of your chart. This has brought the planets of war and revolution together, something that is pumping high octane fuel into Mars’ financial passions and fighting spirit, before his feet have had a chance to hit the ground. In the meantime, just as Mars has returned with a chance to take your financial power back and to fire up the side of the financial fence where it is more about what you do with and how you manage the money you have, on Tuesday the last of the five planets in your income sector will turn retrograde, turning their focus onto the past. Meanwhile, while the weekend’s Full Moon may have put how well you know when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off to the test, this will help you navigate a positive week on the income and job fronts, just as the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence is also powering up.