Aries August 2026

You’ve gone through the hardest part, Aries. You’ve fought, stretched, adapted, and gotten knocked around. And it’s been a lot. And you’re still here. Maybe more cautious, suspicious even, but still standing. Pure resilience. As the time this horoscope begins, July 23, the beginning of Leo season, you’re in the eye of the storm where you catch your breath — and then you keep going. And soon, it’s to celebrate! Hallelujah. I see you taking your first real breaths of relief under the full Aquarius Moon of Wednesday, July 29. You deserve it, Aries. You have earned it. Brava.

Because this full Moon is in your eleventh house of community and professional colleagues you receive positive acknowledgement from both that Wednesday. You will not be condemned. You will be honored. I see a wonderful confirmation coming your way. As well as a feeling of inclusion. Which, despite your external bravado, you don’t always feel.

And you know what? You’re not even done yet, and that’s powerful. August is about finishing what you started, with your integrity and soul intact. A creative project, a blossoming love, an ancient part of you giving birth. But it’s also about honoring and celebrating what you’ve done. For it is great. It truly is. For the strongest and most positive planetary forces are now in your fifth house of fun!

In here you have:

Awesome, life-giving Sun

Lotto lucky Jupiter

Brilliant thought and word planet Mercury after August 9

A total solar eclipse new Leo Moon on August 12

And your fifth house, traditionally ruled by confident Leo, covers these areas of your life:

Conception: a launch, a start-up, a baby, artistic masterpiece, business plan, brilliant idea

Your creativity and giving birth to new projects

Your child or children

Your inner child

Romance

Fun

Falling in love

Love affairs

Your desires and sexual self

Artistic performance

Playing and entertaining and dressing up

Parties

Theater

Speculating, gambling, leaps of faith

If you feel like you’ve been going too long unrecognized, well, you’re right. Now as the tide begins to turn in your favor, though, take it easy, go slow. Enjoy like a glass of fine wine: sip, don’t gulp.

This is what it must have felt like these past few months as you pushed yourself so relentlessly forward with so little reward.

Begin now, dear Aries, to let your wishes and desires ignite again – into a slow burning flame. That full Moon in your eleventh house Wednesday, July 29 brings your coronation!

Then it’s a slow, take-it-easy kind of month, to enjoy the fruits of your labors. This includes literal fruit as well, as in nature. As in trees, flowers, fruits and vegetables. I see you spending some of the happiest days of your life outside this month. Go outside and recapture your love of the earth. If you don’t have a garden, go outside, anywhere you can, to experience the beauty of nature.

In a nutshell, your environment has become musty, and the windows now open wide. You’re leaving the stale overused air you’ve been breathing and regurgitating for fresh breezes.

It may also be a time to be more self-protective, especially when it comes to people around you.

About people, remember your sister Aries writer Maya Angelou: When people show you who they are, believe them.

Don’t let anything like Chiron (wounded self) turning retrograde August 3 in your second financial house chip away at your confidence. Greater funds begin flowing in. You’re in a more solid position than you think. And because benevolent Jupiter is now blessing your fifth creative house, as of June 30, money is to be made from your ideas, your work, your efforts. You see your labors bear profitable fruit in these areas over the whole next year. Until June 27, 2027. This is a spectacularly lucky time which only comes round every twelve years, so please utilize while you have it.

Then, give yourself permission to slow down, relax…even party. You don’t need to be all things to everyone. No one will get lost without you.

Go ahead and feed your soul a bit more, please. Because you do need to be all things for yourself.

I will explain.

Write it down and record it, if it helps. You are here to make the record straight.

What you’ve done. What you can do better. How you can make your life better.

Wise old Saturn, your toughest lesson, is in retrograde in your sign and first house. No use blaming others here. Saturn wants you to take the responsibility yourself. It’s to do with how you’re perceived and received. Some frankly insane projections from others. You’ve learned some hard lessons, and now you’re guarding your progress like it’s sacred. Because it is.

The most positive part of this is that you name to yourself the people with whom you feel most comfortable. Those with whom you can really relax with and be yourself. Your true self. Those who support you and won’t fight you. Those who are perhaps a bit more constant in their behavior. That’s priceless. Can’t be bought.

Acceptance is hard to obtain, mostly because it can’t be taught. You have to learn it yourself. As the great philosopher Kierkegaard says, “Life is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson after.” You’ve had enough changes and challenges recently to pass your test with a flying A+.

New Leo Moon and total solar eclipse in your fifth creative love house on August 12! To be exact, 1:36pm Eastern Time on Wednesday, August 12, is when the total solar eclipse occurs. A sacred time. That week a miracle idea comes to you, possibly a new lover. Is it time, Aries? I’d say!

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In the mute August afternoon
They trembled to some undertune
Of music in the silver air;
Great pleasure was it to be there
Till green turned duskier and the moon
Coloured the corn-sheaves like gold hair. – August by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

The future is space, earth-colored space, cloud-colored, color of water, air, black space with room for many dreams — Pablo Neruda, The Future is Space

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