This is the eclipse week.
In the small hours of this morning, Monday 10 August, Mercury slipped into Leo, so words everywhere get warmer and braver. On Tuesday afternoon, 11 August, Mars strides into Cancer, and our energy turns toward home, family and the people we protect.
Then in the early hours of Thursday morning, 13 August, at 1:36 AM Perth time, a total solar eclipse New Moon lands at 20 degrees of Leo. We will not see it from Perth, but a New Moon this powerful is felt everywhere, and what it plants unfolds over months.
August is a Universal Month 9, the number of completion, so this eclipse seeds its new beginning in a month built for clearing the decks. And the clever Fire Monkey month is fresh, reminding us there is always another way in.
The theme for everyone: let something old finish, so the eclipse has somewhere to plant.
Read for your Sun sign, and your rising sign if you know it.
Aries
Thursday’s eclipse lands in your house of creativity, romance and joy, a powerful new beginning in the part of life that makes you feel most alive. And your ruler Mars moves into your home corner on Tuesday, so the energy this week wants to be poured into your own four walls.
Taurus
The eclipse plants its seed at the base of your chart, in home and family, and a fresh start there has been waiting for exactly this. Mercury in Leo warms your household conversations from Monday, so say the kind thing out loud.
Gemini
Thursday’s eclipse lands in your house of words, and for you that is the engine room, a new voice, a new conversation, a new way of being heard. Mars slips into your money house on Tuesday, bringing drive to your finances, so aim it deliberately.
Cancer
The eclipse seeds your house of money and worth, and the question it plants is bigger than the bank balance, what are you actually worth? Mars arrives in your own sign on Tuesday for the first time in two years, and your energy comes home with it.
Leo
This is your eclipse. It lands in your own sign, a once in years reset of who you are and how you are seen, and with Mercury newly in Leo your words carry real weight this week. Begin the thing.
Virgo
Thursday’s eclipse lands in your quietest house, the inner room, so your new beginning starts out of sight, in rest, in dreams, in what you release. Trust that seeds planted in the dark still grow.
Libra
The eclipse seeds your house of friendship and wider circles, so watch who arrives and who steps back this week, your people are being rearranged for the better. Mars climbs to the top of your chart on Tuesday, lighting a fire under your ambitions.
Scorpio
Thursday’s eclipse lands at the very top of your chart, in career and public standing, one of the strongest professional new chapter signatures the sky can send you. Let the 9 month finish what needs finishing so the new chapter has room.
Sagittarius
The eclipse seeds your house of horizons, travel, study and belief, and something far bigger than your current map wants to open. Say yes to the wider view, even if you cannot see the whole road yet.
Capricorn
Thursday’s eclipse lands in your house of depth, trust and shared resources, and something carried jointly is ready for a completely fresh footing. Mars moves into your partnership house on Tuesday, so bring the energy to the table together.
Aquarius
The eclipse seeds your partnership house, and a one to one bond, love or business, steps into genuinely new territory. With Mercury in Leo opposite your sign, the conversations that matter this week are the warm and direct ones.
Pisces
Thursday’s eclipse lands in your house of work, health and the daily round, and the reset it offers is in how you spend your ordinary days. Mars lights your creativity from Tuesday, so let some of that new energy go to play.
Whatever your sign, the week carries one instruction.
Clear a space, and let something truly new be planted in it.
What are you making room for this week?