August 10–16, 2026
The Great Eclipse in Leo

The eclipse detonates in your fifth house of creative risk, which makes this the single best week of your year to back the thing only you would dare to make. Money follows courage now, not caution — launch the passion project, name your real price, let the work carry your name. Mercury meeting Jupiter from Aug 13 gives you the language to sell it, while Saturn retrograde in your own sign keeps one wise hand on the budget. Bet on your originality; it is your most undervalued asset.

Visibility is the whole assignment, Warrior. A total eclipse in your house of self-expression means the work that carries your fingerprint gets noticed in a way ordinary weeks never allow. From Aug 13 Mercury and Jupiter conjoin in Leo, turning one honest pitch into an unusually large yes — so speak in your own voice, not a borrowed one. Mars entering Cancer on Aug 11 softens your delivery just enough to make the boldness land as warmth.

Venus is still gliding through Libra and your partnership house, trining Pluto on Aug 10 and Uranus on Aug 11 — depth and surprise arrive in the same breath. The eclipse then lights your romance sector, and something that has been almost-said finally gets said. Committed Rams rediscover play; single Rams meet someone through a creative or joyful setting rather than a strategic one. Let love be an adventure again, not a negotiation.

This eclipse is a doorway, not a deadline — whatever you begin on Aug 12 keeps unfolding for the next six months, so choose one intention and make it enormous. Your fifth house rules joy, and the cosmos is telling you plainly that joy is not a reward for productivity but the engine of it. Mars moving into Cancer on Aug 11 asks you to protect your inner world while you shine outward. Rest is part of the plan; radiance needs a rooted place to return to.

The eclipse lands in your fourth house of home and foundations, which for a Builder means property, family money, and the base you build everything else upon. A decision made this week about where and how you live reshapes your finances for the rest of the year — and Venus, your ruler, in fair-minded Libra makes sure the terms are honest. Mercury with Jupiter from Aug 13 brings encouraging news about a home or family matter. Build the foundation right and the house builds itself.

While others chase the spotlight, your advantage this week is the quiet infrastructure nobody else wants to build. Venus in your sixth house of daily work smooths friction with colleagues and makes your standards feel generous rather than exacting. Mars entering Cancer on Aug 11 sharpens your words — use them to advocate for what your team actually needs. Steady, warm competence is a rarer currency than brilliance, and this week it is being noticed.

Love wants to come home this week. The eclipse in your domestic sector invites a real conversation about shared space, shared future, or shared family — the kind that changes the shape of things. Venus opposite Neptune on Aug 10 asks you to see a person clearly rather than idealistically, and by Aug 11 her trine to Uranus makes honesty feel exciting instead of frightening. What is built on truth this week will hold for years.

Eclipses in your fourth house always ask the same beautiful question: what does safety actually mean to you now? The answer you gave five years ago has quietly expired. Let this week retire one inherited story about home, worth, or belonging so that the new foundation is genuinely yours. With Mars entering Cancer on Aug 11, your instincts turn protective and precise — trust them, especially about who gets access to your peace.

Your ruler Mercury opposes Pluto on Aug 11 and then conjoins Jupiter in Leo from Aug 13 — a rare sequence that turns one conversation into a genuine financial turning point. The eclipse in your third house of contracts, pitches, and local deals makes this the week to send the message you have been rewriting for a month. Read the fine print on Aug 11, then speak boldly from Aug 13. Your words are the asset; price them accordingly.

A total eclipse in your communication sector is the loudest possible invitation to start something you talk about — a newsletter, a channel, a course, a role built on your voice. Mercury sextile Uranus on Aug 12 delivers the idea sideways, out of nowhere, exactly as your best ideas always arrive. Write it down immediately; the eclipse gives it a six-month runway. What you name this week, you get to build.

Mercury trines Neptune on Aug 11 and sextiles Venus through Aug 15 — your conversations turn tender, imaginative, unusually intimate. This is a week for the long text, the honest voice note, the sentence you have been editing in your head. The eclipse rewards courage over cleverness, so choose sincerity even if it lands imperfectly. Someone is waiting to hear the unpolished version of you.

Two eclipses this season sit on your communication axis, and this one hands you back your voice after a summer of second-guessing. Notice what you censor automatically — that is precisely the material the eclipse wants freed. With Mars entering Cancer on Aug 11, defend your energy as fiercely as you defend your ideas. You do not have to be understood by everyone to be worth listening to.

The eclipse fires in your second house of income and self-worth — a true financial reset, and the most decisive one you will get this year. Something about how you earn, what you charge, or what you tolerate is about to change permanently, and the change begins with your own valuation of yourself. Mercury with Jupiter from Aug 13 brings an offer, a raise conversation, or a number bigger than you expected. Say the higher figure out loud; the sky is backing you.

Mars comes home to Cancer on Aug 11 and stays until Sep 27 — six weeks of you moving with unmistakable force behind your instincts. You have spent the summer being accommodating; this transit hands back your initiative. Choose one professional goal and pursue it with the quiet ferocity you usually reserve for protecting other people. Your ambition is not a betrayal of your kindness — it is the same energy pointed forward.

With Mars entering your sign and Venus in Libra warming your home sector, love this week is about being wanted rather than being needed — a distinction you have been learning all year. Speak your desires in the first person and watch how quickly people rise to meet them. Venus trine Pluto on Aug 10 makes an existing bond noticeably deeper. You are allowed to be the one who is looked after.

An eclipse in your resource house plus Mars returning to your sign is a genuinely powerful combination — you emerge from this week with more agency than you entered it. The task is simply to stop apologizing for wanting things. Let the eclipse close the chapter where your value depended on your usefulness to others. What you decide you are worth this week, the next six months will quietly confirm.

A total eclipse at 20° of your own sign is the most significant personal reset available in astrology, and it reaches your finances through identity rather than spreadsheets. How you present yourself is about to change what you are paid — the rebrand, the new title, the higher tier. Mercury conjoins Jupiter in Leo from Aug 13, expanding every number you dare to state. Do not shrink the ask to make anyone comfortable.

This is your six-month launch window opening, Sovereign. The eclipse in your first house rewrites how the world sees you, and Mercury meeting Jupiter in Leo from Aug 13 gives that new identity a microphone. Announce something. Take the visible role. Say yes to the thing that requires you to be recognizable. The version of you that emerges from this week is the one who leads for the next half-year.

You are magnetic in a way that has nothing to do with effort this week — the eclipse is in your sign, and people can feel the shift before you explain it. Venus in Libra keeps your charm gracious rather than overwhelming, while Mars entering Cancer on Aug 11 pulls you toward a quieter, more private tenderness underneath the shine. Show someone the unlit side of you. That is where the real intimacy lives.

Every eclipse in your own sign is a rebirth, and this one is total — the sky goes dark so you can decide, in the quiet, exactly who returns when the light comes back. Do not spend it performing. Spend it choosing. Mars entering your twelfth house on Aug 11 asks for genuine rest alongside all this beginning, because a Sovereign who never withdraws eventually rules on empty. Begin boldly, then retreat and let it grow.

The eclipse falls in your twelfth house of endings and hidden things — which in money terms means a quiet clearing rather than a loud launch. Close the dormant account, settle the lingering debt, cancel the subscription to a version of your life you no longer live. Venus in Libra crossing your income house makes this the ideal week to rewrite one number in your favour before your birthday season begins. Empty the vessel now; the pouring starts soon.

Work happens behind the curtain this week and that is exactly right — the twelfth house eclipse is preparing something that will not be visible until the Sun enters Virgo. Use these days for the research, the draft, the strategy nobody sees you writing. Mercury with Jupiter from Aug 13 fills the private notebook with unusually generous ideas. Do not mistake quiet for slow; you are loading the spring.

Love asks for softness rather than analysis this week, Alchemist. Mercury trine Neptune on Aug 11 dissolves the sharp edge of your inner critic and lets someone reach you in the tender place. Forgive an old story — yours or theirs — that the eclipse is clearly ready to close. Compassion offered now returns to you multiplied when your season begins.

This is the deepest, most restorative week of your entire year, and treating it as an obligation to be productive would waste something precious. The eclipse in your twelfth house asks you to release rather than achieve — to sleep, to dream, to let the old season finish properly. Everything you let go of now, you will not have to carry into your birthday. Rest is not the pause before the work; this week it is the work.

Venus in your own sign trines Pluto on Aug 10 and Uranus on Aug 11 — a genuinely fortunate pair of aspects for negotiation, and unusual money can arrive through an unusual route. The eclipse in your eleventh house means the opportunity comes via a network, a group, or a friend of a friend rather than a formal channel. Say yes to the introduction. Your circle is currently your best-performing investment.

A total eclipse in your house of community and long-range hopes opens a six-month door into a new professional circle — the collaboration, the collective, the room you have been orbiting from outside. Mercury with Jupiter from Aug 13 makes the outreach message land warmly. Ask to join something. The eclipse is far more interested in your belonging than your credentials.

With Venus, your ruler, in your own sign, you are operating at full magnetism — and her trine to Uranus on Aug 11 means love shows up unscheduled and slightly off-script. Her opposition to Neptune on Aug 10 asks only that you check whether you are seeing a person or a possibility. Choose the real one; it is far more interesting. Friendship-to-something-more is strongly favoured under this eclipse.

You spend so much of your life balancing everyone else’s needs that an eclipse in your house of personal hopes feels almost disorienting — it is asking what *you* want the next six months to look like. Answer honestly, without adjusting for anyone. Venus in your sign is giving you a rare window where wanting something for yourself costs you nothing socially. Name the dream, and name it selfishly.

The eclipse ignites your tenth house of career and public standing — for a Phoenix, that means income tied directly to reputation is about to move. A title, a promotion, or a visible role changes your earning bracket over the next six months. Mercury meeting Jupiter from Aug 13 puts the right recommendation in the right ear. Let people see the mastery you usually keep hidden; it is worth more in daylight.

This is the most consequential career week of your year. A total eclipse at the peak of your chart marks a genuine turning point — a role ending, a role beginning, or your reputation reorganizing itself around something truer. Mars entering Cancer on Aug 11 sends your ambition through your ninth house, so the opportunity may involve distance, study, or a bigger philosophical frame than your current job allows. Aim higher than seems reasonable.

With your public life this activated, love this week is about whether someone can stand beside you in the light, not just in the depths. Venus trine Pluto on Aug 10 is one of your most powerful romantic aspects of the year — intensity that feels like recognition rather than turbulence. Let a partner see your ambition; sharing what you want is a form of intimacy you rarely offer.

Eclipses at the top of your chart do not ask permission — they simply move you. Whatever position, reputation, or identity you have outgrown is being lifted off you, and the discomfort is only the sensation of ascent. Trust that the sky is not taking something away but making room. Six months from now you will look back at this week as the moment the direction changed.

The eclipse lights your ninth house — the sector of travel, study, publishing, and foreign connection — and money follows the same road. An investment in learning, a cross-border opportunity, or a course that upgrades your whole earning capacity is worth its price this week. Mercury meets your ruler Jupiter in Leo from Aug 13, which is about as generous a signature as your chart offers. Spend on expansion, not on comfort.

Mercury conjunct Jupiter in Leo from Aug 13 is the luckiest professional window of your month, sitting right in your house of vision and long-range possibility. Say yes to the thing that stretches your map — the international role, the teaching invitation, the project you are technically underqualified for. The eclipse gives it six months to become your actual life. Underqualified is just another word for growing.

Love arrives with a passport this week — through distance, difference, or a worldview that expands your own. The eclipse in your ninth house favours connections that teach you something rather than merely comfort you. Mars entering Cancer on Aug 11 deepens your intimacy sector, adding real emotional weight beneath the adventure. You are ready for a love that is both a journey and a home.

Your soul has been quietly restless all summer, and this eclipse names why: you have outgrown the size of your current questions. Book something. Enrol in something. Point yourself at a horizon far enough away to require a version of you that does not exist yet. With Jupiter, your ruler, blessed by Mercury this week, the universe is unusually willing to meet you halfway.

The eclipse detonates in your eighth house — shared money, investments, debts, inheritances, and everything held jointly. A structure that has quietly limited you is ready to be renegotiated, and this is the week to open that conversation rather than endure it another year. Venus in Libra crowns your career sector, so professional credibility strengthens your position at the table. Ask for the restructure; you are negotiating from strength.

Venus in Libra sits at the top of your chart, making you notably persuasive with the people who decide things — use that. Mars entering Cancer on Aug 11 moves into your partnership house, which means your progress for the next six weeks runs through other people rather than around them. Delegate genuinely, collaborate deliberately, and let someone else carry a share of the weight. The Architect builds faster with a crew.

The eclipse in your intimacy house asks for the level of honesty you usually reserve for spreadsheets. What have you been managing rather than feeling? Venus trine Pluto on Aug 10 supports a conversation that goes far below the surface and comes back stronger. Mars entering your partnership house on Aug 11 means someone is moving toward you with real intent — let them.

Eighth-house eclipses are the sky’s way of saying that you cannot carry everything alone and were never meant to. Something ends this week so that something far more honest can be built — a boundary, an agreement, a shared understanding. Let the old structure fall without mourning it too long. You are extraordinarily good at building; give yourself clean ground to build on.

The eclipse lands directly opposite your sign, in your seventh house of partnership — so money this week moves through agreements, clients, and collaborators rather than solo effort. A contract signed or renegotiated now shapes your income for six months. Venus in Libra trine Pluto on Aug 10 makes the terms unusually favourable if you are willing to ask for them. Do not underprice partnership; your half of the equation is substantial.

This eclipse sits on the other end of your axis, which means it works through people: the collaborator, the client, the counterpart who changes the trajectory. Mercury with Jupiter from Aug 13 makes the conversation expansive and generous — someone offers more than you asked for. Say yes to co-creation even though your instinct is to build alone. The Visionary needs a translator, and one is arriving.

A total eclipse in your relationship house is one of the most romantically significant transits you will experience all year. Something in your partnership picture is decisively beginning or decisively concluding — and either way, the honesty is a gift. Venus trine Uranus on Aug 11 makes the unexpected feel liberating rather than destabilizing. Let closeness happen; it will not cost you your freedom.

You have spent years perfecting independence, and this eclipse gently points out that it was never the whole lesson. The Leo-Aquarius axis is asking you to hold selfhood and closeness at once, and this week you get real practice. Notice where you preemptively pull back. Six months of a warmer, better-witnessed life begins with staying one moment longer than is comfortable.

The eclipse lands in your sixth house of daily work and wellbeing — money arrives this week through routine, service, and skill rather than inspiration. A new job, a new rhythm, or a new health practice begun now compounds quietly for six months. Venus in Libra warms your eighth house, so shared resources, benefits, or a repayment arrangement improve in your favour. Tend the practical and the mystical follows.

This eclipse offers a genuine reset of how you spend your working days — the role, the schedule, the systems, the person you work beside. Mercury trine Neptune on Aug 11 lets you feel the right answer before you can justify it; trust that. From Aug 13, Mercury with Jupiter turns a modest idea into an unexpectedly well-received one. Your craft is quietly becoming your reputation.

Mars enters Cancer and your romance house on Aug 11, and for six weeks love becomes noticeably warmer, braver, and more direct — a rare gift for a sign that usually waits to be chosen. Make the first move. Venus trine Pluto on Aug 10 makes an existing connection deepen almost without effort. You do not have to dissolve into someone to love them.

Your body is the instrument through which every vision reaches the world, and this eclipse is asking you to finally treat it that way. Begin one practice this week — sleep, water, movement, stillness — and let it run for six months rather than six days. Mars entering Cancer on Aug 11 brings genuine joy back into your routine, which is the only thing that ever makes a habit stick. Tend the vessel, and the light pours through cleanly.