Jessica Adams has prepared your monthly astrological forecast for August. Discover what the stars have in store for you this month including your Premium Extended Forecast
The tempo increases with your house, garden, land or apartment around August 11th and 12th, 2026, as your ruling planet Mars changes signs. A carve-up and compromise are inevitable by September as the control must be shared in a new way. This may be about a relative, live-in partner, flatmate/roommate, tenant, landlady and so on. Mars is like a red rag to a bull for Aries and, perhaps, if your issue is broader (your country or your local area and your sense of patriotism or belonging), you need to have a strategy. In general, Mars requires a game plan. Don’t rush at this and do choose your battles.
The outcome seems certain to alter your lifestyle for the better eventually as from the middle of 2027, Jupiter with all his sweeping solutions and big opportunities will assist with housework, gardening, cleaning and detailed life maintenance. The steps you take to get there are many, but this is the start.
Avoid the eclipse on August 12th (allow a day either side) for choices about workload or wellbeing. You could go wildly off course all too easily then. An eclipse is a blind spot or cover-up. You will be having important discussions about your job (say) or your medical care (for example) from the final week, and these will ultimately take you to a far, far better outcome next year. In the interim, skip the eclipse.
I have left your personal life until last, Aries. Skip the August 12th eclipse for choices about the bedroom, dating, babies, children, teenagers and younger adults. You cannot see (and will not know) what would normally be visible. Yet, despite this blind spot, August is about long overdue options and answers. Luck is with you.
The discussion or news after August 9th is central and if you can zigzag around that eclipse, the close of August and start of September suggests something or someone so much bigger and better is waiting for you. If you have Leo factors in your natal chart, you can double that message. This is a classic cycle for pregnancy but also for a new sexual relationship. It can also chime with decisions to end a bad marriage, say, or an unhappy tryst.
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You keep returning to these questions about brothers, sisters, cousins and/or neighbours. In fact, ever since 2025, it’s been an ongoing concern (and a growing concern) for you. What happens next raises the tempo. Why? Well, on August 11th, 2026, Mars enters Cancer and on August 12th, Ceres enters Cancer. This is 48 hours of rapid horoscope change for you. In fact, you could call it Part Two of what started last year. Mars is best managed with a strategy and some mental chess. Reacting in the heat of the moment is not useful unless you absolutely must.
There is clearly a new arrangement ahead. In fact, by September, it looks as though your sibling, cousin and/or neighbour will be at the heart of a new deal. Do you have Gemini factors in your birth chart? Double this message. What is happening is a revolution. It will unfold in sudden stops and starts in 2026 and 2027. It is also the revolution that will set you or them free. Independence is on offer if you are prepared to make a break with the past.
This emphasis on close relatives and/or neighbours tallies with a rare period of growth, solutions and opportunity. Your family circle but also your house, apartment, garden or land shows long overdue benefits. Just avoid the eclipse below, please. (Allow 24 hours on either side). An eclipse conceals, it never reveals. Yet, just look at that unusual Jupiter and Saturn trine that ends August. This suggests that September will increase your chances with flatmates, live-in partners, roommates, tenants, relatives and the extended family too.
For around 2000 years, Jupiter has been associated with ‘best and greatest’ and what you are looking at here is a chain of fortunate events stretching into 2027 which will turn things around for you. I would expect the paperwork or news to be there from the 9th of August. As I’ve mentioned, the last day of August tips you into September and a far bigger range of choices. Do you have Cancer natal factors? Then the family, household, real estate or home situation will move rapidly in the second half of August.
Taurus, if you have Leo natal factors, you can double the following message about sexual relationships, or the part younger people play in your life. August is a milestone as July was too. Whatever your chart looks like, key dates are below:
Please skip the eclipse and allow 24 hours either side. An eclipse is a black spot and blind spot rather like driving with one headlight. So don’t ‘drive’ a choice about babies, children, teenagers or young adults then. Don’t ‘drive’ a decision about dating, marriage or an intimate relationship.
The ’do’ part of the story is actually next year. Everything you line up in August 2026 pays off in about 12 months. So, you may be adopting, pursuing pregnancy or moving in together. It’s on that level. If a potential new lover appears in the final days, rest assured he or she will not go away as Jupiter in Virgo from mid-2027 suggests a second chapter to your total benefit in around a year from now.
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Gemini, I hope you took the opportunities to save or make money in 2025 and earlier in 2026. Now, things will move rapidly, near the dates below. Do you have Taurus natal factors? If so, a maverick or outsider will take you by the hand and show you options for your money, shares, business interests, charity, valuables or accounting which are jaw-dropping (to some). Whatever your chart looks like, there will be a division or ‘fair share’ agreement by September with your money, house, apartment or assets. Keep the heat out of it as Mars has a reputation for potential conflict, so play down the cut and thrust. This is not about a fencing game. It is about coming up with a sweeping compromise that you can both/all live with comfortably for the rest of the year and beyond.
Into the Third House of brothers, sisters, cousins and neighbours Mercury goes. Gemini, this is an historic time for those relationships in your natal chart as Uranus (radical change) is also picking up your own Sun. You shine brightly at your brilliant best when neighbours and neighbouring places give you that space. Now you are being offered freedom and independence. The Shock of the New.
I would expect you to be in key discussions from August 9th, no matter if this is a tenant in your granny flat or the organisation a mile or two from your front door. Of course, you can have choices about neighbours as well as brothers, sisters and cousins on this cycle. Massive opportunities and solutions are here. Just skip the eclipse below, please and allow 24 hours either side.
Your ruler, Mercury the Messenger, is at large so you will feel quite at home with the pace of life in August. Lines of communication open up. A flurry of discussion or paperwork follows. Then as August ends, we have a whopping decision for you, Gemini.
Things can change so quickly when karma ends. Your karma with your house, apartment, garden, family circle and sense of home (even your town or country) stopped at the end of July. Are you thinking about a major family or property choice from mid-2027 into mid-2028? If so, your stars are aligned.
First things first. August is pivotal for you with those at home or in the extended family circle. The spotlight swings and everyone can see. There is some very new ‘news’ on your radar from the final week. Just skip the eclipse you see below. Gemini, I would describe August as the soft launch for something terrific from this time next year. Moving, renovating, investing in real estate, reshuffling the family and so on. Even emigrating.
Do you have Cancer natal factors? If so, this is personal. Life will move very rapidly in the second half of August with all this. Try to reduce the speed and turn down the heat if you can as it will simplify things. One final note – skip the eclipse for career, academic or purely vocational choices. It’s a blind spot or a cover-up.
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Cancer, your profile improved or grew in 2025/2026 – It may have been the beard, the weight loss, the hair colour change, the profile shift or the new title This is the second relaunch and, once again, it is about the way you look or appear. It happens from around August 11th/12th as below:
Resist the temptation to do everything three times as quickly and to let this all become an area of conflict for you. It need not be like that at all. Yet, there is a compromise coming by September. We may be talking about your reputation, your name, your uniform or your personal appearance. Ceres works best in your chart when you are prepared to negotiate the turf and territory (yourself) with one eye on what is practical. Park the emotions at the door even if you are an emotional water sign by nature. If you have anything in Aries in your natal chart, this is twice as important. Seldom has your ID or identity, your face online, your YouTube or phone camera filter and so on mattered quite as much.
This is the most important financial cycle for many years with major choices about your bank account or any real estate ahead. The turning point dates are below:
Cancer, this is really about the communication as well as the numbers. Anyone can see how much you stand to save or make until the middle of 2027. The opportunity is staring you in the face. The issue is being heard, read and understood. And, of course, to quote XTC, ‘Are You Receiving Me?’
This goes beyond the figures into what money cannot buy. Integrity. Peace of mind. Credibility. Freedom. All those things! So, that person, group or organisation needs to know what you mean explicitly and what you need. Just avoid the eclipse please. Allow 24 hours either side of August 12th. An eclipse conceals it never reveals. There is often a cover-up.
Do you have Taurus factors in your natal chart? A figure who is a cross between the young Malcolm McLaren and the old centaur Chiron himself is galloping into your life. This rank outsider has no place in the usual economic or financial system, but that’s the point. Will you get away with it? The thing is – with Chiron, people usually do in the end.
Cancer, if you have natal factors in Gemini, then the revolution with or for these people is on. Unpredictable, highly unusual, unprecedented and unique. You will hit one U-turn after another with a brother, sister, cousin and/or neighbour. Even if your natal chart is Gemini-free, I would still expect a far bigger and better future in 2027/2028 to be set up in August 2026. One last thing – skip the eclipse above for foreign travel, export, foreign translation, emigration, import and so on. It’s a blind spot.
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Some key dates for the long, slow process of rebranding and relaunching are listed below. Please skip the eclipse and include the day on either side of it. You will not see and cannot possibly know what is happening then (even if it is to your advantage). The transits in your solar First House suggest gains from being front-and-centre, upfront and in the front line of any situation.
Face forward, Leo (or best face forward). It is not narcissism or ego to realise people are judging your book by its cover in August. In fact, until your birthday in 2027, you seem certain to take up more space on the stage of life with a better production, a new script and some costume changes. The key dates for that ‘bump’ you will feel in the wings are below. Do you have Aries factors natally? Then double this message. It’s all about you, you, you – the costume, the mask, the reputation, the title – well into 2027 too.
It all happens as August ends, Leo. Light is shed on your finances and property from August 22nd as the Sun enters Virgo. The talking and paperwork begin in earnest from August 25th as Mercury enters Virgo. Clearly, September will be the end of a paper trail or some crucial calculations.
Please avoid August 27th, 28th and 29th as the Full Moon in Pisces in opposition to the Sun in Virgo is also a Partial Lunar Eclipse. Allowing for all world sleep and work cycles, the close of August is a blackout of information or a cover-up. Yet, you stand to make or save a lot of money from mid-2027 to mid-2028, so the fancy footwork you do in August is part of that big outcome as next year brings huge solutions and opportunities not possible in 12 years.
Do you have Taurus and/or Scorpio factors in your natal chart? There is new, maverick guidance in your life. An accountant who has no interest in conventional ‘rules’ is a classic example. So is a charity, business or real estate mentor who is an outsider. Chiron in Taurus is with you in 2028 as well. Someone is galloping through your life showing you where the goalposts are moving to. If it’s outrageous to some, it’s likely to be in your field of vision now.
August 10th – 13th lets you know how central religion, therapy, Tarot, hypnosis, psychics, oracles, self-help, counselling, dream interpretation and so on will be. So will solitude, Leo. The ingress of Mars and Ceres 24 hours apart is spelled out below:
Cancer rules your Twelfth House, so this is also about mediumship, your spirit, soul, psyche and subconscious mind. Mars suggests a sharp increase in speed as wheels turn faster. Ceres reveals a tremendous compromise – perhaps, ‘making a deal with God’ to quote your fellow Leo, Kate Bush. Or bargaining your way into an agreement to differ and divide – perhaps, with a priest, psychologist, clairvoyant and so on.
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You and Sir Keir Starmer both. This has been quite a year for allies, groups, the hive mind, people power and your inner circles. British politics aside, you can cast your eye at any Virgo and see what’s been happening with the business of friendship. You have a lot of quick choices to make about these people in the second half of August. The power has to be shared. The control has to be divided. It may be about time and energy. It may be about turf. Territory! Slow down and cool down if at all possible and make space for others to do the same in their lives.
Do you have Aquarius natal factors? The situation with friends and groups is powerful. It is either empowering if you use your willpower or disempowering if you throw your hands up in the air and let yourself be controlled by ‘that’ or them. Self-control will give you control, but the situation is heavily karmic and owes much to what happened 18-19 years before, Virgo.
Rare transits in your Twelfth House suggest religion, therapy, psychics, meditation, hibernation, spirituality, Tarot, mediumship, dreams, chakras, the aura and so on and require time alone. Skip the eclipse on the 12th and allow 24 hours either side. You wouldn’t join a new church then, for example. You wouldn’t book an appointment with a clairvoyant. Why? An eclipse conceals; it never reveals. It is always a blind spot or information blackout. As above, so below. As without, so within. Key dates for new talking points are below:
August 2026 is about a hugely successful relaunch from mid-2027 with a new title, look and profile by mid-2028. That is, if you set it up! That last one is best avoided. Don’t go in for a hair transplant, cosmetic surgery or a new public relations campaign on an eclipse. Yet, wheels are turning for a 2027 relaunch around your birthday next year.
One last point – Avoid the eclipse above for choices about a partner of any sort. This also applies to enemies, opponents or adversaries. Do not choose a path on a partial lunar eclipse. Or any eclipse.
Key dates for ‘Me, me, me’ are below:
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You are now being pushed to compete or speed up in your career, academic career or main unpaid role. Events move swiftly near August 11th and 12th. September seems like the final sign-off for a compromise over new arrangements. It may be job-sharing, a redundancy package, a division of control or command at university and so on.
Ceres tends to encourage deep feelings but as these impede a practical arrangement with others, you may prefer to park these and do all you can to help others do the same. If the new professional, academic or vocational deal in your life is to stick comfortably, strong emotions don’t help. August does suggest a break with past patterns as at the very end of July 2026, you signed off from a long period of repetition with your daily routine, workload, lifestyle, duty to others and so on.
This is the second month in a row you have been shown new opportunities and sweeping solutions with friends, allies, your social media accounts, your social life as a whole and specific groups. In fact, soon after August 9th, there will be much discussion.
Please avoid August 11th – 13th for decisions, Libra, as you will be flying blind. It’s like being part of an R.A.F. scramble with goggles on. However, at the end of the month, the rare Jupiter-Saturn trine suggests simple luck has a lot to do with a serious choice. The benefits from this extend to mid-2027. Your friendship and/or your circle of people power has been timed by Jupiter with the biggest and best possibilities in many years available to you. Should you have Aquarius factors in your birth chart, this pal or network is the key to proper transformation. You would change each other, but also an aspect of life which could only ever alter if enough people made a commitment.
From mid-2027, a new cycle of welcome change, growth, hope, optimism, expansion and overdue solutions begins. Nobody else will see or understand as the process will be solitary – at best with one other person like a counsellor, psychic or priest. The launch pad for this is now. In fact, soon after these dates below, you will realise what is unfolding is long-term.
Please sidestep the eclipse on August 27th, 28th and 29th – particularly, if you have anything at 4 degrees in your birth chart. An eclipse conceals; it never reveals. As well as being about your solitary, secret self and life, this one is also about your wellbeing and workload. Avoid the partial lunar eclipse as it will blot out what you need to see and know.
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At home or abroad, a compromise is inevitable with people from other nationalities or cultures. The accent or language may be different, but the language of negotiation is understood by both or all of you. Somehow, this must end in a fair split in control. In fact, close to the middle of August (see dates below), it becomes imperative that you ice some decisions and choose a cool, calm approach to others. Strategy is the name of the game – no matter if somebody is at work, at home or across the map. By September, a new world is possible with them, him or her. It will redistribute the power far more evenly. Mars and Ceres both have a reputation for encouraging strong feelings. But, if possible, distance yourself from those emotions and do your utmost to ensure others do the same.
You are now aware of just how much bigger and better your C.V. or list of accomplishments could be. I hope you took the solution or opportunity you saw in July. There will be a second opportunity in August, or you will see the original plan expand to your advantage. When Mercury enters Leo (see dates below), a signature may be required by September.
The only real issue is eclipse avoidance. August 11th – 13th is unsuitable for a choice about your career, unpaid work or academic career. An eclipse covers up, it never shows. Don’t be hoodwinked or misled. Yet, at the very end of August, conditions are right for what is a vast answer (long overdue) or a welcome open door (also a long time coming). The more ambitious you are, the more you will savour it.
There may be a secondary story here about your mental or physical health and the decision you make near August 31st that will help you to combine goal setting with reality.
Scorpio, this month lays the foundations for an exceptional 12 months for your social life, friendships and group involvements commencing in mid-2027. It’s the kind of transit when garage bands win recording contracts or football teams go up a league. If you are a social mountaineer, Everest will be glimpsed in August and, perhaps, reached by this time next year. Just avoid the eclipse please as friends and groups are unclear to you then and there may even be a cover-up. The final week looks like lift-off for all that you want to achieve with a collective or community next year.
One last word – this eclipse on August 28th (allow 24 hours either side) is unsuitable for choices about the bedroom, dating, babies, children, teenagers and a younger generation. When you cannot see the full picture and do not know the full story, why decide?
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The calculations will be done rapidly from August 11th, 2026, when Mars changes signs to Cancer and a memorable deal will be struck by September as Ceres also transits your Eighth House. This is about marriage and mortgage, a de facto partnership and lease, a family inheritance, a trust fund and so on. Ceres is an ancient symbol of territorial feelings and inevitable compromise. Even if you, he, she or they feel very strongly about what is at stake (which goes far beyond the numbers), it is best to focus on facts and figures rather than emotions.
Do you have Cancer natal factors? This is clearly about the house, land, garden or apartment. Cool down and slow down. Do not react in the heat of the moment should you be confronted with that. Remember there is no rule that says you always have to meet fire with fire.
Opportunities and solutions with foreigners at home or abroad roll for the second month. Just avoid the eclipse on the 12th of August (please allow 24 hours either side). It’s a blind spot or deliberate attempt to conceal, so do not have the wool pulled.
Your ruler Jupiter makes an historic trine to serious Saturn at the end of the month. This is commitment writ large with another accent, nationality, culture or pin on the map evident. It augurs well for you, Sagittarius, as luck is on your side.
Your new career, award, outstanding success, promotion, top academic result, honours and so on reveals itself from the future. If you try, then all this could be yours in 2027/2028. Breaking news from the 25th of August may bring a keynote signature or discussion in September. Just avoid the eclipse please (dates below) and allow 24 hours either side. Skip August 27th -29th for choices about a house, flat, garden, block of land, relative, flatmate/roommate or live-in partner. You cannot see the reality and will not know the full story.
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Choose your battles in August 2026, Capricorn. If you can only have one, then make it worthwhile and do aim for a compromise solution. A genuine treaty is possible by September. The dates below show a shift in tempo and emotional temperature with him, her or them. Negotiation is imperative.
As much as this is about the other side, it is also about your other half. The partnership may be personal, professional or platonic. Power and control, turf and territory and rights and responsibilities require a second look. Even though the emotions are understandably intense, try your level best for a level playing field. It’s just not cricket to have a game only one can play. You must both start a new arrangement by September and preferably without any loss of patience or any increase in differences between you. A reasonable number of Capricorn people will end or begin marriages or de facto partnerships now.
This is a crucial period for all that you earn, own or owe, Capricorn. The dates below show when the numbers begin to change. Avoid the eclipse with a 24-hour window either side. That window will be firmly blacked out in total blackout conditions. When you cannot see and do not know the true nature of a financial or real estate story, why read further? Wait until you have cleared the eclipse in your country. Yet, the end of the month suggests an overdue solution or enormous opportunity not possible in 12 years. If you have anything in Taurus in your birth chart, a maverick outsider may well take you by the hand. An accountant who some would call a heretic may well be your teacher.
This time next year you will be offered opportunities to travel, import, export or even emigrate not possible in many years. The foundations are laid now. On the dates below, the tides start to turn slowly in your favour. In fact, the final week will bring news that makes 2027/2028 seem far more open in terms of life abroad or foreign cultures at home. Skip the eclipse on and around August 28th for choices involving your sibling, cousin or neighbour. You cannot see the full picture then, so why decide?
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You will have to use action not words with your workload issues and wellbeing priorities now. In fact, close to the dates below it will become clear that others cannot wait. Time and tide wait for no woman or man, and this is a rushing current you’ve not seen in years.
Aquarius, a deal or compromise of sorts will emerge by September. This may be about your lifestyle as a whole covering your mental and physical health as well as the work you are expected to perform every day, be it paid or unpaid. If you have anything in Virgo in your birth chart, you ended a long period of karma as July also ended. Now, you are free to actually affect the future, and so, overdue decisions can roll.
This is a boom period for partnerships of all kinds which can grow enormously between now and mid-2027. If you have any sort of rival, enemy or opponent, then this is the only cycle in which you gain from the cross-purposes involved. In fact, Jupiter in your Seventh House can result in a weak opponent handing you a triumph.
August 2026 is the second of a two-part story about a partnership which began in July. When you two balance the scales, you find that something rare and special takes place. The scales themselves double and then treble in size and begin to accrue their own lustre, sheen and weight in gold. A marriage qualifies, but so does a tennis pair.
If you are single, this is a happy hunting ground until mid-2027. The only caveat is the eclipse on August 12th best avoided. In fact, to be on the safe side, avoid the day before and after. Eclipses always conceal. They never reveal. September will encourage your optimism though as what you decide to do about/with the other person as August finishes promises great things then. It is a solution you have always wanted or a door that is now finally open, Aquarius.
What you do with the numbers now saves or makes you a fortune from the middle of next year. Start small, think big. Close to the dates below, you will experience a new angle on the calculations. From next year into 2028, substantial solutions and opportunities appear. One date to avoid, though, is the partial lunar eclipse (below). Allow 24 hours either side. You will not know and cannot see important numbers then. If you can choose any time, choose quite another.
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Pisces, use your ability to merge with others and imagine (or feel) their point of view in the bedroom this month. This also applies with babies, children, teenagers and a younger generation. You are sensitive enough to know how easily one situation could become conflicted. To avoid this, you will need an action plan. Nobody really wants battle stations in an intimate relationship, no matter if it’s marriage or a fling. This is also the case with your children, godchildren and so on. It is also relevant in the case of Generation Z as a whole.
Yet, Pisces, from all this mid-August rise in feelings, heat and the need for speed comes a deal. Child custody is not unusual on a Ceres transit. But, more broadly, this is about splitting the control and sharing the power in a new arrangement. This would be very much about your love life or your life as a parent, godparent, aunt, uncle, grandparent, teacher, children’s entertainer and what have you. By September 2026, you will have bargained your way into a completely different set-up. Do you have Cancer factors in your natal chart? If so, this is absolutely about the extended family circle. Slow down and cool down and encourage others to do the same.
Things are on the up with your workload and wellbeing on this new Jupiter cycle. Assuming you got off to a flying start in July, August and September suggests a welcome turnaround long overdue. It may be food, drink or drugs. It may be mental or physical health. The work can be paid or unpaid. We might say it’s about your lifestyle as a whole, but news after the 9th of August changes a great deal with a major decision as August ends. Just avoid the eclipse on August 11th – 13th as it’s a blind spot or cover-up.
It may be your former wife, a lover you regret or a foreign agent. It may be your work partner or a former friend who turned against you. Pisces, your Seventh House is triggered in August and there will be discussions. Be this marriage, a de facto duet, a platonic pair or a purely professional coupling, you will find the last week makes it all public. At that point, you also start talking seriously. Or putting things in writing. News is on the way, and September will bring more choices about/for this person.
This month is about your other half or the other side. You are creating a platform for welcome, overdue change from the middle of 2027 and by 2028, you should be able to look back at August 2026 and know this when it all started. Marriages and welcome divorces have started in a small way on cycles like this, but your personal birth chart will tell the story (especially if you have Leo factors). The key dates are below. Just avoid the eclipse please from August 27th -29th as it is a blind spot. Skip August 28th and the 24 hours either side of it for decisions about your face, name, publicity, self-promotion, public relations, hair, shape, style and so on. An eclipse conceals it never reveals. Don’t just walk into this, walk right around it.
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