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Month of August
Aries
Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of August in your romantic sector, the solar spotlight is always on matters of the heart and all things romantic at this time of year. However, this year things not only had a head start, but by the time the Sun returned, it was to find Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion here and the early weeks of what he is working to make your luckiest year for love, matters of the heart and all things romantic in over a decade already underway. By the time Jupiter returned at the end of June Venus, the planet of love had been here for over two weeks and was gone by the time the Sun returned last month.
Yet while Venus got the ball rolling, events since then are setting the scene for something even more special this month. It was late last month and four days after the Sun returned that the South Node returned to your romantic sector, something that over the next 20 months will give matters of the heart an anchor while at the same time, turning the New Moon when the Moon moves through from 11th August to 13th August into a total solar eclipse. To have both a total solar eclipse and Jupiter in your romantic sector is a rare chance to bring the element of fate and luck together, while creating an opportunity for major new beginnings.
Meanwhile, Venus' early return to your romantic sector this year will be repeated when, on 7th August, she becomes the first planet to return to your relationship sector since last year. Nearly seven weeks before the Sun is due to return on the September equinox, returning this early will have implications. Already, Venus will be slowing down ahead of a retrograde turn that, instead of moving through in 24 days will keep the planet of love here for over five weeks, while a retrograde turn will see her return in October to spend another six weeks here.
This is something you will get a better read on when the Moon moves through your relationship sector from 16th August to 18th August.
Taurus
Right now Venus, the planet of love is both racing ahead and slowing down, something that means that even though it is not until the Sun returns on 23rd August that the solar spotlight will shift onto matters of the heart and all things romantic each year, she will have been and gone by then. Venus is so far ahead of the Sun that this will eventually force her to turn retrograde, something that will see her make an early return to your relationship sector next month, where she will turn retrograde and spend an extraordinary amount of time. Venus is already slowing down and this month this will have implications on the romantic front.
When Venus returned to your romantic sector earlier last month, the Sun was still over six weeks away, kicking off the first planetary activity on the romantic front much earlier in the year than is normally the case. By the time you move into the new month, Venus is still here and she is also slowing down and while she will normally move through in 24 days, by the time she leaves on 7th August, she will have been here for four weeks. Those six additional days might not sound like much, but each extra day with the planet of love is like money in the bank.
It also means that with the Sun not returning until 23rd August and Mercury to do what as the planet of communication, he can to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page until 24th August, there will be a gap between when Venus leaves and they return. Helping to at least partially fill that gap and keep the spirit of romance alive will be the Moon's return from 13th August to 16th August. Meanwhile, the Moon will make its last visit to your relationship sector before Venus returns next month from 18th August to 20th August.
As well as a chance to check in and become more emotionally engaged and aware, this will be the Moon's first visit since Mars' return to your communication sector on 11th August to begin his first war on communication roadblocks and barriers in two years.
Gemini
Love is in the air this month and it is set to have implications for months to come. Over six weeks before the Sun's return to your romantic sector on the September equinox, the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto matters of the heart and all things romantic, Venus will return on 7th August to begin the first planetary activity on the romantic front since last year and the most romantically charged months of 2026. To have the planet of love return this early in the year can mean only one thing and that spells good news for matters of the heart for not just weeks, but for months to come.
There is only so far ahead of the Sun that Venus can get before having to turn retrograde in order for him to catch up and returning this early, she is reaching that limit. Venus won't turn retrograde until after she leaves your romantic sector, but already she is slowing down and instead of moving through in 24 days as she normally would, by the time she leaves next month she will have been here for over five weeks. It also means that after turning retrograde, this will bring Venus back for a do over, one that will see her return in October, but not leave again until December.
Over the last five months of 2026, Venus is going to spend at least some time in your romantic sector, including the whole of November, making her early return on 7th August the start of not just the most romantically charged weeks, but months of the year. This will get an additional boost when the Moon moves through your romantic sector from 16th August to 18th August, making these some of the most romantically charged days of an already romantically charged month. Meanwhile, with no planets in your relationship sector and Venus' retrograde turn meaning she won't return until the New Year, the Moon's return from 20th August to 23rd August will be a valuable chance to check in and become more emotionally engaged and aware.
Cancer
There are a lot of moving parts that are together making for a special month on the communication, social and relationship fronts, while at the same time there is a call to start making your life as love friendly as possible, ahead of some stunning developments on the romantic front next month. While there are other planets involved, it is a set of three minor planets that are making this a special month on the communication, social and relationship fronts and while they won't all be here at the same time, they are influencing each other. The main player is Venus, who until leaving your communication sector on 7th August, will be working to give your heart and your relationships a voice.
While the planet of love will be gone by the time just five days later and over four and half months after leaving the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment retrogrades back into your relationship sector, she will have spent four weeks getting the communication lines open ahead of time. Meanwhile, it is while Venus is still here that Chiron, the planet of healing will turn retrograde in your friendship sector on 4th August. With Venus and Chiron having spent four weeks working as a team, Juno's return will see her slip into that same position.
The Moon's return to your relationship sector from 18th August to 20th August will see it form a friendly aspect to Juno and Chiron as it moves through, creating some special days for friendship and relationship building, just as both are holding the doors open to the past. Meanwhile, while there are no planets in your romantic sector and by the time the Moon moves through from 18th August to 20th August the Sun will be over two months away, there is a need to pay attention. This will be the Moon's last visit before Venus, the planet of love's early return next month will see her turn retrograde and spend the majority of the last three months of the year here.
Leo
After not only the Full Moon in your relationship sector late last month but the return of the lunar nodes to begin a 20 month monitoring of a balance between your own and your relationship needs, as you move into the new month, things are just starting to settle back into a new normal. This was the Full Moon that at some point during your birthday month, will always put a balance between your own and your relationship needs to the test and until Pluto returned in November 2027 to spend the next 20 years in your relationship sector, this was a brief reminder that once the Moon moved through was over.
Instead, every planet returning to Leo each year is going to get pushback from Pluto and vice versa, starting with Venus' return in early June and Jupiter's return a few weeks later.
This year it was also to find the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment in your relationship sector, though she will retrograde back out on 12th August. By the time the Moon returned as a Full Moon, you were used to these reminders, though this and the planetary clashes were for a few days at most. It was three days before the Full Moon that all that changed, with the South Node returning to Leo and the North Node to your relationship sector, where they will remain until March 2028.
The lunar nodes are always in opposition, locking in a constant monitoring of a balance between your own and your relationship needs, that will ensure both grow and thrive without one dominating the other. The Moon has left your relationship sector by the time you move into the new month but only just, with a chance to start the month emotionally engaged and aware, before it comes full circle from the Full Moon from 25th August to 28th August. Helping to keep the communication lines open will be Venus, the planet of love's return to your communication sector on 7th August and Mercury, the planet of communication's return to Leo on 10th August.
Meanwhile, with no planets in your romantic sector, the Moon's return from 20th August to 23rd August will help to keep the spirit of romance alive.
Virgo
This month we have something completely new or at least a shift in focus from the last few months. While there have been no planets in your relationship sector since April, the North Node had been here since January 2025 and along with its partner the South Node in Virgo, since they returned in January 2025 they have been monitoring a balance between your own and your relationship needs. As after 13 years Neptune only left in January, this has been enough to keep the focus on your relationships.
Except at the end of last month the lunar nodes left, ending their 18 month watch over things.
The Moon will begin the month in your relationship sector and until leaving on 3rd August, this first visit since the lunar nodes left will be a chance to check in, regroup and begin the month emotionally engaged and aware. However, while the Moon will return again from 28th August to 30th August, there will be no other planetary or cosmic activity on the relationship front until early next year.
This is where the shift happens, for while there has been no planetary activity in your romantic sector since the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment left at the end of March, a retrograde turn will bring her back for a do over on 12th August.
Just as the continuing focus on your relationship ends, planetary activity on the romantic front that was supposed to be over until later in the year, all of a sudden is back on. Not leaving until 24th October, this opens the doors to the past and second chances, while shifting the focus from your relationships and onto matters of the heart.
While Venus will leave Virgo on 7th August, the Moon's return to your romantic sector late last month had put Juno's approach on your over the horizon radar and this is helping to influence the planet of love's mission to update your romantic and relationship desires, hopes and aspirations for the coming year. The Moon will make its first visit since Juno's return from 23rd August to 25th August and with Chiron in retrograde motion in an adventurous part of your chart by then, with a strong sense of romance, adventure and nostalgia in the air.
Libra
In the final five days of July, the North Node returned to your romantic sector, where until March 2028 it will act as your heart's internal compass while keeping a constant focus on the future and there was a Full Moon that was able to jump start matters of the heart. While this was the Full Moon that will always fall in your romantic sector at this time of year, at what is usually a quiet time of year for matters of the heart, can give things a much needed boost. That is not the case this year, with the spirit of romance now well and truly on your radar.
Because the Moon has just left your romantic sector by the time you move into the new month, this is something you are still getting a feel for. Helping you to hold onto and capture this is the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment, who having returned at the end of March, will retrograde back out on 12th August. However, not before locking in the resolve to keep the spirit of romance alive, while promising that she will return in October to spend the rest of the year here.
Until the Moon comes full circle from 25th August to 28th August, the North Node and Pluto will keep the spirit of romance alive.
It helps that Venus, the planet of love's return to Libra on 7th August will be in time to capture Juno's final days, especially as she has returned to update your romantic and relationship desires, hopes and aspirations for the coming year. While the Moon will move through your relationship sector from 3rd August to 5th August, when Venus returns, it will be to find the three planets there all in retrograde motion.
Venus will get a better look at your relationship expectations and you will get another chance to check in and become more emotionally engaged and aware when the Moon returns for a second visit from 30th August to 1st September.
Scorpio
It was late last month that after 18 months the North Node left your romantic sector, ending all continuous activity on the romantic front until early next year. However, as the North Node has not only just spent the last 18 months acting as your heart's internal compass but was here during the final 12 months of Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams' 13 year transit through your romantic sector, you no longer need the love gods holding your hand. A sense of direction and of what you want from love has been banked and the Moon's return every four weeks will be enough to keep the spirit of romance alive.
However, it helps that in this first month on your own, the Moon will make two visits to your romantic sector. The Moon will begin the month in your romantic sector and having returned five days after the North Node left and not leaving until 3rd August, this will get the month off to a romantically charged start. At the other end of the month, the Moon will come full circle from 28th August to 30th August, ending the month on a romantically charged note as well.
By then Venus, the planet of love will be in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart and there will be a lot more romantic nostalgia.
Venus will return on 7th August to begin what is normally a short 24 day nostalgic trip down love's memory lane. Instead, slowing ahead of a retrograde turn after she returns to Scorpio next month, by the time she leaves, she will have been here for over five weeks.
This will see Venus return three days after, on 4th August Chiron, the planet of healing will turn retrograde in your relationship sector, something that will see him retrograde back out again next month. The Moon, who returns to your relationship sector on 5th August, will still be here when Venus returns on 7th August, but will leave a few hours later, ensuring you are emotionally engaged and aware as the doors open to the past.
Sagittarius
While your romantic sector has been continuously active for decades, there are not only new planets here this year, but you are also about to get a feel for the now continuous planetary activity and the focus that is now on your relationships as well. While Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams returned in January to spend the next 13 days in your romantic sector and Saturn, a few weeks later to spend the next two years here, it wasn't until the last of the faster planets left in April that it was clear that these core planets were here to stay.
Along with the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos, who has been here for over nine decades, these are the three core planets that will remain the force behind matters of the heart and by the time you move into the new month, all three are in retrograde motion.
You will have a better sense of the doors they have opened to the past and second chances when the Moon moves through from 3rd August to 5th August and again from 30th August to 1st September. Meanwhile, on the relationship front, things are getting ready to reach that same stage, though not just yet.
It was at the end of April that Uranus returned to spend the next seven years in your relationship sector, acting as a guide and to keep things real and authentic.
However, with continuous planetary activity on the relationship front since then, you haven't yet reached the point where, on the romantic front, things have dialled back and it becomes more about the journey. You will reach that point when Mars leaves on 11th August and the dwarf planet Ceres on 13th August. This is Ceres' last deep dive into your relationship needs and priorities for another four years, something that Mars is using to know what to fight for or put his energy into.
Helping to get the most out of these final days will be the Moon's return from 7th August to 9th August.
Capricorn
It was at the end of June that after 12 months Jupiter left your relationship sector. By that point Venus, the planet of love had moved through, the Sun had begun his month long transit a week earlier and Mercury, the planet of communication had returned at the beginning of June for what is normally a 14 to 15 day chance to focus on getting the communication lines open. By the time you move into August, all planetary activity on the relationship front should be in your rear view mirror and the planets long gone.
Yet that is not the case and in a case of perfect timing by the Moon, there won't be a moment this month or for the rest of that year.
The Sun has moved on and Venus and Jupiter have long since been and gone, but over two months after his return in early June, while back in direct motion, a retrograde turn will keep the planet of communication here, doing what he does best until he finally leaves on 10th August. That should end all planetary activity on the relationship front for the year, but on 11th August Mars will return to spend seven weeks firing up your energy and passions and two days later the dwarf planet Ceres will return on 13th August to begin her first deep dive into your relationship needs and priorities in four years.
Like Mercury, Ceres will turn retrograde later in the year, keeping her here until May 2027. Meanwhile, with Mercury leaving on 10th August and Mars returning on 11th August there should be a gap but instead, the Moon's return from 9th August to 11th August will cover that. As if waiting for Mars, the Moon will leave seven minutes after his return, ensuring you are emotionally engaged and aware from the start and during Mercury's final hours.
Likewise, the Moon's return to your romantic sector from 5th August to 7th August will put it here a day after Chiron, the planet of healing turns retrograde here on 4th August and during Venus, the planet of love's final days in an adventurous part of your chart.
Aquarius
By the time you move into the new month the Moon has just left Aquarius, not only wrapping up the Full Moon that had put pressure on the Sun and Jupiter in your relationship sector, but days after the lunar nodes returned to spend the next 20 months policing a balance between your own and your relationship needs. Until leaving in March 2028, the North Node in Aquarius and the South Node in your relationship sector will be permanently in opposition, keeping each other in check. It was only two days after they returned that the Moon returned to begin the lead up to a Full Moon that at the halfway point in each solar year will bring the same message.
This is important for you and your relationships and with the Sun always spending the first three weeks of August in your relationship sector, but Jupiter having returned at the end of June to begin your biggest relationship year in over a decade, knowing what you want from your relationships and what they need from you couldn't be more important. As the Moon has only just left as you move into the new month, this is something you will still be unpacking. Especially as when the Moon moved through Aquarius, it also formed a friendly aspect to all three planets in your romantic sector.
With Mars leaving your romantic sector on 11th August, the dwarf planet Ceres ending her last deep dive into your heart's needs and priorities for another four years on 13th August and Uranus then staying on for the next seven years, there will be a romantically charged start to the month. This will be especially so when the Moon moves through your romantic sector from 7th August to 9th August. Meanwhile, while there are three planets in your relationship sector, there will be more targeted support when Mercury, the planet of communication moves through from 10th August to 24th August.
Meanwhile, when the Moon moves through from 11th August to 13th August, having the South Node here will turn the New Moon into a total solar eclipse and with it a chance for major new beginnings.
Pisces
The stars are dialling up a special month on the romantic front and with it, a real twist. By the time Jupiter ended his 12 month transit through your romantic sector at the end of June Venus, the planet of love had already moved through, the Sun had just returned for his month long visit and Mercury, who will normally move through in 14 to 15 days had been here for nearly four weeks. A month on and July ended with the Sun gone, but as you move into the new month, two months after returning on 1st June, Mercury is still here, still working to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page.
It was a retrograde turn that kept Mercury here so long and this will have ongoing implications. Back in direct motion, Mercury will finally leave on 10th August, the point when all planetary activity on the romantic front for the year should come to an end. Instead, on 11th August Mars will return for his first chance in two years to fire up your romantic passions and fighting spirit while two days later the dwarf planet Ceres will return to begin her first deep dive into your heart's needs and priorities in four years.
Mars is here until the end of August, but Ceres won't leave until May 2027, keeping the spirit of romance alive all year.
In the same way that Mercury has stayed on to keep the romantic flame burning until Mars returned, the Moon is playing a role in ensuring that there is even a moment where there is no activity on the romantic front. Returning from 9th August to 11th August, the Moon will be here during Mercury's final hours and just seven minutes after Mars' return will leave.
Meanwhile, there will be a gap between Venus, the planet of love's departure from your relationship sector on 7th August and the Sun's return on 23rd August. The Moon's return from 13th August to 16th August will partially bridge the gap, making it important to hold onto the relationship desires and expectations Venus leaves you with.
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