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General for Week Commencing: Monday 17 August 2026

	Aries	Monday 17 August 2026	Mar 21 - Apr 19
After last week saw four planetary shifts and a total solar eclipse, things are a lot more settled this week, though with the dynamics of the year having shifted. While she made her move a week earlier, the week begins with the Moon in your relationship sector and making its first visit since Venus, the planet of love returned. This is early in the year for any of the faster planets to reach your relationship sector and with the Sun not returning until the September equinox each year, this will eventually force her to slow down, turn retrograde and wait. As a result, instead of moving through in just 24 days, between now and December Venus will spend more time here than she has in any one year in decades. The Moon will leave on Tuesday, but not before helping you start the week emotionally engaged and connected. Meanwhile, with the Sun not returning to your busy work sector until Sunday and Mercury two days later, they are both working to keep the focus on the playful and creative side of life’s fence, just as Mars and the dwarf planet Ceres have returned to power things up on the home front.

	Taurus	Monday 17 August 2026	Apr 20 - May 20
Moving into the new working week with the Moon in your work sector is always going to be an advantage. Apart from being emotionally and intuitively engaged and aware from the start and even when it leaves on Tuesday, with everything needed to navigate the rest of the working week with your finger on the pulse and ear to the ground, this is going to get the week off to a positive start on the income, work and career fronts. By Monday, the Moon has already aligned with Venus and formed a friendly aspect to Uranus on the income and Pluto on the career front, just as you have reached a pivotal point in the year on both fronts. After Mars and the dwarf planet Ceres left your income sector and the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment left your career sector last week, Uranus and Pluto are on their own and will continue to work together for years, are here for the long haul. Meanwhile, the Moon’s return to your relationship sector from Tuesday to Thursday will be a chance to get the most of Mars and Ceres’ first full day back in your communication sector, while Juno’s return to an adventurous part of your chart is a chance to revisit your bucket list.

	Gemini	Monday 17 August 2026	May 21 - Jun 21
When Mars and the dwarf planet Ceres left Gemini last week, this brought you to a turning point in the year itself. There has been continuous planetary activity in Gemini since Venus and Uranus returned at the end of April, Venus to spend just 24 days updating your wish list for the coming year and Uranus to spend the next seven years acting as your guide and internal compass. Since then, a parade of planets has moved through even before your birthday month and new solar year began the dwarf planet Ceres has returned to begin her first deep dive into your personal needs and priorities in four years. When Mars returned to begin a new two year Mars cycle, this gave you a better sense of where to channel his passions, drive, warrior and competitive spirit. Their departure last week leaves Uranus on his own and in a stronger than ever partnership with Pluto in an adventurous part of your chart. Meanwhile, as Mars and Ceres settle into their first full week in your income sector, they are taking over from and running with what the planets before them have achieved.

	Cancer	Monday 17 August 2026	Jun 22 - Jul 22
All of a sudden, things will not only be looking and feeling brighter, but with more energy and hungry to get back into life again. When Mars returned to Cancer last week, he didn’t just return to begin a new two year Mars cycle or to begin firing up your passions, drive, warrior and competitive spirit. After over six weeks in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart, where in the final weeks of your old Mars cycle our batteries are normally flat and we are running on empty, that has changed. Helping to get an early read on when, where and how to direct Mars’ influence and energy is that the dwarf planet Ceres, who returned to Cancer last week to begin her first deep dive into your personal needs and priorities in four years. While Mars is only here for seven weeks, with Ceres not leaving until May 2027, this is more the start of a journey of self discovery. Meanwhile, with the Sun leaving your income sector on Sunday and Mercury two days later, they are giving you everything needed to capitalise on last week’s total solar eclipse. It is the Moon, who returning to your work sector on Thursday, will bring the week to a positive end across the income, work and career front

	Leo	Monday 17 August 2026	Jul 23 - Aug 22
Thanks to last week’s total solar eclipse in Leo, you are moving into the final days of your birthday month with a tailwind at your back, your head in the game and eyes on the road ahead. Held back by a retrograde turn, it was Mercury’s return last week that means you now have his smart and practical influence, but more importantly, what as the planet of communication, he can do to get the communication lines open. This is a combined effort by the communication gods, for the Moon not only begins the week in your communication sector, but is making its first visit since Venus, the planet of love returned to begin her extended mission to give your relationships a voice. With the lunar nodes now monitoring a balance between your own and your relationship needs, that couldn’t be more important. While the Sun will leave Leo on Sunday and Mercury two days later, Jupiter is here until July 2027 and Mars is returning next month to help you explore even more options. Meanwhile, the Sun’s return to your income sector will put the solar spotlight on what is already in motion across the income, work and career fronts.

	Virgo	Monday 17 August 2026	Aug 23 - Sep 22
While the Moon will leave your income sector on Tuesday, this is more than just a chance to move into the new working week with a sharp nose for money and a lucrative sense of direction from the start. While an ordinary monthly visit, for the first time this year the Moon has not only returned to find planetary activity in your income sector, but that it is Venus, the planet of money, desire and attraction who is kicking things off. The Moon has also returned at a fortuitous time professionally. Last week saw three planets leave your two professional houses, leaving behind just the planets that are here for the long haul. By Monday, the Moon has already aligned with Venus and formed a friendly aspect to Uranus and Pluto, the planets that have begun a seven year partnership. This will do more than just get the week off to a positive start on the income, work and career fronts, for with Venus slowing down and not leaving until December, this is a window into the planets that will shape the rest of this professional year. Meanwhile, helping to keep things balanced are the old doors opening on the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence.

	Libra	Monday 17 August 2026	Sep 23 - Oct 23
Moving into the new week with the Moon in Libra will always be an advantage. While an ordinary monthly event, this is something that every four weeks brings a chance to check in, get your personal bearings and become more emotionally and intuitively engaged and aware. The difference this time is that the Moon is not on its own, having returned over the weekend to find Venus, the planet that rules the heart and your ruling planet here. With the Sun not returning to begin your birthday month and new solar year until the September equinox each year, this is early for Venus to return. So early that she will eventually be forced to slow down and wait for the Sun, something that instead of racing through in 24 days, will keep her here for five weeks and then, a retrograde turn will bring her back in October and then she won’t leave again until December. This is giving you plenty of time to give your heart a voice and a say in what you want from the coming year. At the same time, Venus’ partnership with the planets on the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence is keeping things balanced as Mars fires things up professionally.

	Scorpio	Monday 17 August 2026	Oct 24 - Nov 21
As much as moving into the new working week with the Moon in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart and clashed with all three planets in your work sector before leaving on Tuesday might not sound like the ideal start to the working week, but on both sides of life’s fence this will work to your advantage. It is not just the Moon but Venus, moving through a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart as well, who is delivering the same message when it comes to knowing when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off. The difference is Venus is making this something you will want to lean into. Meanwhile, as it is from Thursday, that moving into the Sun and Mercury’s final days in your career sector, the Moon is going to usher in an empowering and insightful end to the week on the income, work and career fronts. With Jupiter still in the early months of a 13 month quest for professional growth and expansion and all three planets in your work sector in retrograde motion, this speaks to a need to pace yourself.

	Sagittarius	Monday 17 August 2026	Nov 22 - Dec 21
While the Moon left your career sector over the weekend, as well as a chance to move into the new working week with your professional instincts sharp, finger on the pulse and ear to the ground from the start, after some significant changes last week across the income, work and career fronts, this has been a valuable chance to check in. At the same time, this first visit since Venus left and ahead of the Sun’s return to your career sector over the weekend is a chance to regroup. Meanwhile, the Moon not only begins the week in your friendship sector, but this first visit since Venus returned is doing more than just getting the week off to a positive start on the communication, social and relationship fronts. Just having the Moon here while Venus has the laws of attraction and synchronicity in effect and with heart and gut on the same page, is setting the scene for some serendipitous moments and/or encounters. However, just as there has been a stripping back of the number of planets on the communication and relationship fronts to the core planets that are here for the long haul.

	Capricorn	Monday 17 August 2026	Dec 22 - Jan 19
After four planetary shifts and a total solar eclipse last week, things are a lot more settled and until the Sun leaves your financial sector on Sunday, with a chance to adjust to the changes already made. As you move into the new week, four planets are in a different part of your chart than they were at the start of last week, with time to adjust and get your bearings. While Mars and the dwarf planet Ceres’ return to your relationship sector has put a lot more focus on your relationships, with a chance to have piggybacked off the over two months Mercury, planet of communication had spent there before leaving last week. At the same time, having Mercury in your financial sector in the lead up to the Sun’s departure on Sunday is a chance to use his smart head for money to get your head in the game and to think on your feet. Meanwhile, for you personally, the most important was the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment’s return to Capricorn. Having begun the year here before leaving in March, Juno has returned with a chance to revisit the intentions and resolutions made earlier in the year.

	Aquarius	Monday 17 August 2026	Jan 20 - Feb 18
After last week’s total solar eclipse in your relationship sector, the Sun and Mercury, the planet of communication are still here and the lunar nodes are still in the early weeks of their 20 month monitoring of a balance between your own and your relationship needs. While Jupiter is still in his early months here and he won’t leave until July 2027 and with Mars returning next month the journey this will take you on has barely begun, it is while the solar spotlight is on your relationships and Mercury is here that you have a chance to draw an authentic line in the sand, while working to get the communication lines open. Meanwhile, as Mars settles into his first full week in your work sector and with what he will be working to make some of the busiest seven weeks of 2026 underway, having the dwarf planet Ceres here is a massive asset. Having both returned last week, Ceres’ first deep dive into your needs and priorities on the job front in four years will give you a better sense of where to channel Mars’ warrior and competitive spirit. At the same time, helping to keep things balanced is having Venus in an adventurous part of your chart and the Moon here until Tuesday.

	Pisces	Monday 17 August 2026	Feb 19 - Mar 20
It is a good thing that you now have the lunar nodes policing how well you know when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off, because this is one week where you are going to need this. On the one hand, you are not only heading into the Sun’s final days in your work sector before leaving on Sunday with the tailwind from last week’s total solar eclipse at your back, but with support from the planets in your income sector from the start. The Moon’s return to your career sector on Thursday will be a chance to move into the Sun’s final days with your professional instincts sharp, while ending the week on a positive note across the income, work and career fronts. Yet even when Mercury leaves early next week, Jupiter is staying on and the support from the planets in your income sector will only increase. This is where having Mars in his first full week in a playful and creative part of your chart and the Moon moving through an adventurous part from Tuesday to Wednesday makes the lunar nodes' monitoring of how well you know when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off all the more important.