Capricorn August 2026

No one’s more determined than a Capricorn, and you may not realize what a gift this is! Maybe because it has often been associated with pain and endurance in the past. Well, now, it gets easier. It’s a world of difference – you will see. August brings in more money for you, which changes the landscape of your options. You end the month with more choice than you’ve had in years.

You experience your first taste of this as July ends — under the full Aquarius Moon in your second financial house on July 29.

Which you’re going to need — more money — as there are rumblings about changing your abode: renovating, decorating, or even moving. Three retrograde bodies in your fourth house of home: Saturn, Neptune, and Pallas. It feels like it is definitely time, and perhaps overdue.

You’re so good at what you do, and you work so hard. Like the grasshopper who worked and saved all summer while all the other grasshoppers partied, you survive well this month!

And you do better than survive – you feel JOY. And love hasn’t deserted you – quite the opposite. Having given so much, you can now take a real break. Enjoy your sexuality.

Enjoy it as this and use the experience to value yourself even more. Treat yourself and do what you love. Guilt-free. All the powers that be declare: Take that holiday. Ingest those mind-altering books. Dive into a foreign affair. Whatever it takes. You deserve it.

Look at the support you – finally – have for this.

In your eighth house of shared monies, inheritance and financial settlements, 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 (at 1:36pm ET)

And your eighth house, traditionally ruled by astute and psychic Scorpio, covers these areas of your life:

Shared monies and mutual resources

Mergers

Merging

Sex, sex, sex

Sharing your deepest truths

Death and rebirth

Sharing your toys: playing nice with others

Taxes and settlements and inheritance

Letting go of the past

Shedding an old persona

Clearing out outdated clothes, remnants of a past self

Healing

Regenerating

Recovering your unconscious

Summoning your psychic powers

It’s also time to acknowledge your limitless ambition.

Everything has been about taking care of your career, your career, your career. Not enough, you cry! Never enough! And everyone wanting everything from you on top of it…

Well, after you’ve been away – either by help of an airplane or your own imagination – you come back to a much sexier career. No neglect there. It’s super improved and will get hotter. You should enjoy it more. I see you positively glamming it up.

With the sails at your back, you are ready to sail.

You also reach an understanding, a completion with a certain person in your immediate environment at this time. This will be very healing for you.

You will see why this person could never be a lover. A warrior perhaps, not a lover. You are able to forgive.

At work be careful about what you say, lie low and take it easy. Go home early. There’s a chance that something explosive could issue from your lips in response to an absolutely maddening individual.

Because Uranus, the planet ruling electricity (so it shocks) is in your sixth house, you could receive sudden, unexpected (and shocking) news about your health.

Without warning, surprising you. Be ready to — finally — consult that specialist you’ve always wanted. I see a positive outcome here, with your ruler, Saturn, in retrograde, accompanying Uranus in your sixth house.

Then after re-connecting with your roots, a true break for your soul, you’re back in the saddle for an exciting Autumn. Your future is about to open up majorly, ready to take on opportunities from farther away, another town, even internationally. This has you flying beyond your wildest dreams.

While you may have wondered about your direction in the past, you are definitely in the know now.

Your sign is one that is slated to receive the maximum benefit of this month’s catapulting stars. To plan expansively for your future – this includes exciting travel plans! – but not to get carried away by anyone’s outrageous schemes.

I am so excited by the transformation coming up for you here.

As you lift your head to the sunlight, let us look and see what we can see:

You have your pick of work offers.

And

Any marriage difficulties you have been experiencing are at an end. Get ready to make peace.

In terms of your career:

Follow your ambitions

Only consider those commitments that do NOT have the stress of the past.

Approach individuals and companies with whom you want to work.

Go slowly and carefully when making monetary deals with other persons and companies.

You will benefit, dear Capricorn, you will benefit!

A negotiation that was halted or simply waiting in the wings can now move forward. And it does. You, surprisingly, at the helm. You are really the master, and can ask pretty much for what you want. How great is that?

Dealing with others suddenly becomes so much easier after you have had some time to yourself.

This new path will be for the best, deleting that which was not helping your impressive progress.

Especially as you are going to be now connected more on a global scale. In your ninth “global” house you have the greatest planetary energy — the planet of love, Venus, until August 6. I predict a marriage or a business deal overseas! What say you, Capricorn? I know you weren’t planning for it, but now it just might behoove you to be OPEN to it.

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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.

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