The astrological energies of August 2026
Welcome to eclipse season, where life loves a plot twist and the universe has a habit of rearranging your plans without asking first.
Welcome to eclipse season, where life loves a plot twist and the universe has a habit of rearranging your plans without asking first.
Not every ending arrives with a dramatic goodbye. Sometimes you simply wake up one day and realise you're ready to put something down. That's the feeling of this Pisces lunar eclipse.

July is slightly unhinged in the best possible way. The universe seems to have found the fast-forward button this month so expect life to speed up, exciting new possibilities to appear from nowhere and a surprising amount of clarity about what simply isn't working anymore.

November has a dreamy, slightly surreal vibe, like you’re half in a daydream, half getting your life together. It’s slower and quietly magical. With both Neptune and Saturn back in Pisces, this is about closing a 30-year cycle with compassion and clarity.

This eclipse season zeroes in on the Virgo-Pisces axis, that push and pull between holding on and letting go, control and surrender, structure and flow.
Welcome to eclipse season 2025! Get your ginger tea and grounding crystals at the ready, because things are about to shift in a big way. With the south node rumbling through health-conscious Virgo, this is the time to release anything sticky and toxic from your day to day habits and lifestyle.
New vibe just dropped! The outer planets have shifted into the early degrees of fire and air signs, creating rare alignments that are reshaping the collective energy for good. This month, Mars in Libra activates these groundbreaking energies, bringing clarity to your thoughts, relationships, conversations and more. Everything is getting a mental refresh. At last!
There’s a new frequency buzzing in the collective, and it’s loud enough to disrupt your autopilot. On 7th July, 2025, Uranus, planet of innovation, rebellion and sudden insight, leaves earthy Taurus and enters electric Gemini for the first time since 1941. That’s nearly a lifetime ago! And this isn’t a subtle shift. It’s the kind of celestial plot twist that rewires your brain while you’re still mid-thought.

Leo energy is all big hair and bold moves, but when Mercury goes retrograde in this super-glam fire sign, it’s less about centre stage and more about backstage rewrites. The light’s still on, the mic’s live, but now you’re giving a monologue to yourself.
Venus in Cancer isn’t interested in the highlight reel. It’s the part of love that lingers long after the moment has passed. The kind that wraps around you when you’re not feeling your best. The kind that feeds you, listens to you, remembers you.
The Capricorn full moon wants more for you, and it’s not subtle about it. And the timing? Wild! This is the first full moon since the 1940s to land under the erratic-genius frequency of Uranus in Gemini, sending electric currents through our mental circuits.
That shiver in your bones? It’s real! Uranus enters Gemini on 7th July for the first time in over 80 years, crackling through the air like static before a storm. Ideas arrive like lightning. Conversations open up whole new timelines. If May was fire and June was water, July is pure electricity.
Jupiter is now in Cancer and it’s pouring love into the places you usually try to hold together with coffee and grit. This is cosmic expansion with softness at the centre. Think real safety. Emotional clarity. Success that doesn’t come at the expense of your wellbeing.
Jupiter’s swimming through Cancer, and suddenly the universe is less interested in how busy you are and more concerned with how emotionally safe you feel in your own space. This transit doesn’t reward grind. It rewards comfort. And not performative, beige blanket comfort. The real kind. The kind that makes your body unclench and your dreams come out of hiding.
Alright, exhale. Seriously. After the wild ride of fire and air that was the merry month of May, June is like walking barefoot on cool grass after dancing all night. The energy shifts to something softer and way more heart-led.
Saturn and Neptune in Aries don’t want perfection, they want you in the ring, showing up with fire and focus! Whatever you’re building now, spiritually, creatively, emotionally, deserves time, patience, and long-term commitment. Ask yourself: what can I begin today that will still matter in five years? What foundation do I want to be standing on a decade from now?
Saturn and Neptune will be in Aries between 25 May 2025 and 13 April 2028. This energy ( that no-one alive today has ever experienced) challenges us to be both dreamers and doers. To believe in the impossible and then dare to make it real. This transit is about moving forward even when the path isn't clear, and trusting that each brave step shapes the dream into reality. As these two heavyweights align in the first degrees of the Zodiac, a new era begins.
Buckle up because May is a big one! The main event is Saturn stepping into Aries and honestly it is a huge deal. We haven't seen Saturn in Aries since the mid-90s and this time he's heading straight for a once-in-a-lifetime meetup with Neptune in 2026. These two planets have not come together in Aries for over 160 years so yes, we are entering seriously historic territory.
April opens into a whole new vibration with Neptune now in the fiery realm of Aries. This is a subtle yet powerful change, as Neptune begins stirring dreams and ideals in a more courageous, action-driven direction.
If you’ve been tuned into the cosmic currents you’ve probably heard the news that this month is a little bit… sticky.