horoscope-2026-08-23

With Venus having already moved through your romantic sector and Mercury leaving in two days, as the Sun leaves today and the solar spotlight shifts off matters of the heart, this should be the beginning of the end of all planetary activity on the romantic front. While that would normally be the case, this year you not only have Jupiter here until July 2027, but with Mars returning next month, things are still warming up.

The weekend will make it easier to embrace the Moon’s return to an adventurous part of your chart and a few hours later the Sun’s return to your romantic sector. While for now this will make it easier to embrace the spirit of romance and adventure, this is something that will spill into the new working week and beyond, but with time for this to first become established.

Before leaving your relationship sector today, the Moon is not only spending its final hours at a friendly aspect to the Sun, but just before he is due to leave your communication sector today as well. While there are planets staying on in your communication sector, including Mercury, the planet of communication who is here for another two days, the Sun and Moon will be using their final hours to get things over the line.

Within the space of just a few hours, first the Moon returns to your relationship sector today, followed by the Sun’s return to your communication sector. From the start, the Sun and Moon will be in harmony and as the Moon’s first visit since the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment retrograded back into your relationship sector last week, with a chance to kickstart the communication lines on the relationship front.

It is in the final hours of your birthday month and just before the Sun leaves Leo today that the Moon will spend its final hours in your romantic sector at a friendly aspect. A week that began with the Sun at a friendly aspect to the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos in an adventurous part of your chart will see the Moon do the same, ending your birthday month on a high and with a mix of romance, adventure and nostalgia in the air.

It is just a few hours before the Sun returns to Virgo today to begin your birthday month and new solar year that the Moon returns to your romantic sector. With Venus, the planet of love having already moved through Virgo and the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment having retrograded back into your romantic sector last week, this is getting your new solar year off to a romantically charged start.

By the time the Moon leaves your communication sector today, it will have formed a friendly aspect to all three planets in your relationship sector and to Mercury, the planet of communication. This came just as a clash between Venus and Saturn was putting a balance between your own and your relationship needs to the test, creating the potential for a communication and/or relationship breakthrough.

Whether it is the Moon’s return to your communication sector today or the Sun’s return to your friendship sector a few hours later, they will both move straight into a friendly aspect to Chiron in your relationship sector. This is the Moon’s first visit since the planet of healing turned retrograde, with the day taking a positive turn, while at the same time making it easier to give your emotional responses and relationships a voice.

Before leaving Sagittarius today, the Moon is not only spending its final hours at a friendly aspect to the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos in your romantic sector, but just as in his last weekend in an adventurous part of your chart, Mercury is doing the same. In the Sun’s final hours in an adventurous part of your chart and after his friendly aspect to Eris earlier in the week, this is amplifying a mix of nostalgia, romance, passion and adventure.

Both the Moon, when it returns to Capricorn today and the Sun, when a few hours later he returns to an adventurous part of your chart, will spend their early hours in a friendly aspect to Chiron in your romantic sector. This is the Moon’s first visit since Chiron, the planet of healing turned retrograde and now with the support of the Sun, a mix of romance, adventure and nostalgia in the air is going to be healing and cathartic.

It is just as the Sun leaves your relationship sector today, something that at this time each year will always take the solar spotlight off your relationships, that a friendly aspect between Mercury, the planet of communication here and the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos in your communication sector peaks. This is the same aspect the Sun formed earlier in the week and with Mercury leaving in two days as well, with a push first to get the communication lines open.

While the Sun’s return to your relationship sector today is the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto your relationships, with some noticeable differences. Having left at the end of last month, the Sun returns to find that the lunar nodes are no longer policing a balance between your own and your relationship needs, for the first time in decades there are no planets in Pisces for it to clash with and for the first time in five decades to find Chiron, the planet of healing in your communication sector.