This week draws us into a vibrant meeting of mind, heart, emotion, and expression. Leo energy fills the skies, inviting creativity, courage, and a return to who we are beneath old roles and expectations. Meanwhile, Mars enters the waters of Cancer, asking that our actions arise from what feels meaningful. With a Solar Eclipse opening a new cycle, this is a week of release, renewal, and reconnection with our natural aliveness.
August 9, 2026: Mercury enters Leo
Mercury enters Leo on August 9, where it will remain until August 25, 2026. Here, mind meets heart, voice becomes art, and communication takes on greater warmth, courage, and creative possibility.
Mercury speaks to how we think, learn, perceive, process, remember, and express. In Leo’s fire, these parts of us are animated. Ideas carry more spark. Words become places of creation and connection. We are invited to communicate from the heart, name our needs and desires, and allow honesty to become an opening for healing.
This chapter offers room to play with inspiration, joy, and vision. It reminds us that our words – whether spoken, written, thought, or privately held – can reshape how we see ourselves, one another, and what might be possible. Our voices can connect, create, and restore.
August 11, 2026: Mars enters Cancer
As Mercury moves through fire, Mars enters water. From August 11 until September 27, 2026, our drive, will, ambition, and movement travel through intuitive, sentimental, and feeling Cancer.
Under this influence, action is guided by emotion and motivation is filtered through intuition. Moving simply for the sake of movement no longer feels sufficient, particularly when outside messages about productivity or worthiness do not ring true within us. We want our efforts to matter. We want them to contribute to a life that feels emotionally nourishing, secure, and like home.
Mars in Cancer is less concerned with speed than with calm strength. It brings our relationship with safety to the surface, allowing us to witness the fears, desires, truths, memories, and patterns held there. From this awareness, a more meaningful direction can emerge.
August 12, 2026: Mercury opposite Pluto
Mercury in Leo’s opposition with Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius brings the week’s questions of voice and inner truth into sharper focus. As courageous expression meets the fears, hurts, and internalised narratives that have shaped us, we may recognise where our thinking or communication has been restricted.
This is a space for honest witnessing. Which words belong to us, and which were learned through the need to fit in? Where have we hidden what is true, sought permission to speak, or allowed the projections of others to define us?
By meeting these patterns, we create room to loosen them. Expression becomes a form of reclamation: a return to the mind, voice, and truth that have always been our own.
August 12, 2026: Leo New Moon Solar Eclipse
The second Eclipse Season of the year begins with an alive, creative, and courageous New Moon Solar Eclipse in Leo. Eclipses include the lunar nodes and speak to soul growth, intuition, and an innate sense of purpose. This New Moon meets the South Node, bringing a beginning catalysed by closure, release, and rebirth.
As the South Node begins its journey through Leo until 2028, this eclipse celebrates personal uniqueness, natural expression, and our belonging within life. Yet it also reveals the inner and outer influences that have muted that aliveness: inherited emotions, old hurts, and internalised stories suggesting we must perform a particular role to be accepted.
There is tenderness here. The heart remembers being dismissed or unseen, along with every moment we turned away from ourselves to secure outer approval. The invitation is to honour that grief while releasing the shapes created around it – to reclaim our expression, occupy our natural space, and remember that who we are is already enough.
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August 15, 2026: Mercury conjunct Jupiter
The week closes with Mercury and Jupiter meeting in Leo, magnifying voice, perspective, ideas, and creativity. Mercury brings the mind and communication; Jupiter offers expansion and optimism; Leo contributes courage and expressive fire.
Ideas, possibilities, desires, and visions that have been quietly forming can grow louder now. The new beginning opened by the eclipse is amplified, along with a readiness to speak honestly, think expansively, and restore channels of expression that were once hidden or closed.
This conjunction inspires confidence, faith, and big thinking. It can feel like a pendulum moving away from self-silencing, shrinking, and waiting for permission. It supports the journey back to natural expression, reminding us of the joy and vitality available when we trust our own voice.
Weekly Astrology August 9 – 15, 2026
Leo’s presence runs throughout this week, inviting a celebration of who we are. Emotions may rise through Mars in Cancer and the Solar Eclipse, but every feeling carries information: hurts expose untruths, longings reveal direction, and honest emotion leads us home.
This is a week to remove what has covered our aliveness, one layer at a time. Beneath old patterns and projections waits our own frequency: our joy, creativity, courage, and natural expression. The invitation is to remember it, make space for it, and allow it to shape the life now beginning.
Weekly Horoscopes for Your Zodiac Sign
As the planets shift in our cosmos, they simultaneously shift through our astrological chart, highlighting different areas of our human experience. By looking to your zodiac sign – in particular your rising sign for your horoscope forecast, we can begin to discern those shifts and invitations.
Read on for your weekly horoscope for the week of 9 August to 15 August, 2026. For a greater in depth reading based on your astrology chart, explore our Transits Astrology Reading.
Aries Rising
Expression, creativity, and joy are asking to be remembered this week, Aries Rising. Notice where these parts of you have been hidden, restrained, or shaped by the expectations of others. Any tenderness that surfaces can guide you toward the stories ready to be rewritten. This is an invitation to reconnect with your inner child – the part of you that knows how to create, play, and follow inspiration without needing permission. Let honest words and meaningful movement return you to what feels naturally alive within you.
Taurus Rising
This week invites you inward, Taurus Rising, toward the inner spark, creative spirit, and joyful self waiting for your attention. You may meet memories of moments when this part of you felt forgotten, denied, dismissed, or shamed. Let the emotions connected to those experiences be acknowledged rather than pushed aside. Expression can help them move, whether through words, creativity, physical movement, or quiet reflection. As you tend to what has been held inside, you create greater safety for your natural aliveness to return.
Gemini Rising
Ideas want to move and words want to inspire this week, Gemini Rising. Your inner voice is returning to its own tone, untangling itself from narratives, expectations, and ways of thinking that never truly belonged to you. Create room for journalling, visioning, honest conversations, and any form of expression that allows inspiration to flow. At the same time, your relationship with safety, money, and worthiness asks for compassionate review. Listen for the deeper feelings beneath your choices; they can show you what genuinely matters.
Cancer Rising
Movement wants to take place through you this week, Cancer Rising, but it must arise from something emotionally true. You are shedding identities, expectations, and old layers that no longer feel like home. Give your emotions space for expression, release, and renewal, allowing them to guide rather than overwhelm your next steps. A new relationship with worthiness, creativity, aliveness, and abundance is beginning to form. Let your actions support that emergence by choosing what nourishes you, strengthens inner security, and returns you to yourself.
Leo Rising
This is a powerful week of release and renewal for you, Leo Rising. Old identities and patterns that have restricted your expression are ready to loosen, making room for joy, creativity, and inner light to guide how you move through the world. You are being invited to reclaim your natural presence without reshaping yourself for outside acceptance. Alongside this emergence, create space for solitude and quiet listening. Your clearest inspiration, motivation, and intuition may arrive in softer moments, when you are no longer performing or seeking permission.
Virgo Rising
Spaciousness is part of your medicine this week, Virgo Rising. Make room to feel, review, release, and clear what has quietly accumulated beneath the surface. Silence can become healing, bringing you closer to your heart and to the subtle presence of meaning within ordinary moments. Changes are unfolding beneath conscious awareness, preparing you for a new chapter that will soon begin. Do not rush the process. Inspirations are also waiting to be noticed, and they may become visible only when you soften the noise and allow yourself to listen.
Libra Rising
This week asks you to reconsider your relationship with the future, Libra Rising. Visions and possibilities are calling, yet old fears, hurts, or distortions may be standing between you and the direction that feels alive. Stories about belonging, fitting in, and earning acceptance are ready to be recognised and released. Let honest reflection show you which hopes are truly yours. Questions of purpose, security, and safety also deserve your attention. The clearer you become about what matters, the more freely you can move toward it.
Scorpio Rising
This week looks inward while also drawing your attention toward what lies ahead, Scorpio Rising. You are being asked what you genuinely want and what matters enough to shape your life around. Fears connected with being seen, trusting your heart, or feeling worthy of your desires may rise for acknowledgement. Rather than allowing them to determine your direction, observe what they reveal. Explore what belonging truly feels like, along with the deeper motivations behind your ambitions. Build outward from the truth you discover within yourself.
Sagittarius Rising
Life is opening an expansive and animated conversation with you this week, Sagittarius Rising. Themes of intuition, meaning, belonging, desire, and purpose move closer to the surface, asking for your presence. Allow your mind and heart to open together, giving each space to speak more clearly. Your inner truth carries direction, but hearing it requires honesty about your needs, fears, and motivations. Notice which longings enliven you and which movements feel emotionally meaningful. They can help you recognise the path that is genuinely your own.
Capricorn Rising
This week holds depth, release, and reclamation for you, Capricorn Rising. Projected shame, inherited fears, and expectations that have weakened your trust in yourself are ready to be witnessed differently. You may recognise where you learned to hide, minimise, or reshape your aliveness to satisfy the outside world. Let this awareness become medicine rather than another judgement. The heart is also asking for healing, particularly around patterns that restrict honest, loving connection. Reclaiming your truth creates more space for intimacy, belonging, and emotional safety.
Aquarius Rising
This is a week of the heart, Aquarius Rising – its knowledge, creativity, courage, and capacity to heal. Let its quieter direction become part of how you make sense of what is unfolding. Old walls may be ready to soften, along with patterns that have kept others at a distance or made connection feel unsafe. At the same time, listen carefully to your energy levels. Allow your body to determine the rhythm and pace of your days. Meaningful change can arise through gentleness, honest connection, and responsive movement.
Pisces Rising
This week invites you deeper into your body, Pisces Rising, where guidance can be felt before it is fully understood. Listen to its signals and allow trust in its voice to be restored. Old patterns may be ready to move through somatic or emotional release, creating more room for you to experience belonging within yourself. Creative expression offers an important pathway for healing, giving feeling somewhere meaningful to travel. Let joy, movement, words, or art reconnect you with your natural rhythm and the truth living underneath old layers.
