After spending the last couple weeks fussing over the table settings and getting the mood lighting just right, Venus sashays into its air domicile of Libra on August 15th/16th. Much like a gracious host slipping into their cocktail attire before the guests arrive, Venus is ready to make it all look effortless again and enjoy the social atmosphere that took so much care and effort to cultivate.
Of course, most people realize that playing host can take you somewhat out of the moment. Planets on their own turf have a lot of responsibility, and Libra is a cardinal sign that doesn’t wait for anyone else to get things started. Venus in Libra is about accord, peace treaties, and getting along.
It’s also about working the room and introducing your single friend to a coworker you think they’d like talking to, because you want everyone to enjoy themselves on your watch. Like any good trendsetter, Venus in Libra suggests that it might as well be you who extends the olive branch or anticipates the other person’s needs.
If you’re working on a project that needs an edit, the opportunity arrives on August 18th when Mercury joins Mars in Virgo. Mercury in Virgo is a fierce editor at the best of times. Conjunct Mars: it wields an exacto knife. There’s no line you can’t cut, no typo you don’t catch before you click “send.” While your projects may benefit from this fastidiousness, it’s easy to overdo it. Use this opportunity to edit the editor also. If all you can see are the ways this project or that venture aren’t working, it’s a sign to give the editing a pause. Return later with a fresh perspective.
August 22nd brings the second of two Full Moons in Aquarius. The first, on July 23rd, felt less like a grand finale, and more like a thesis defense or workplace evaluation. Under the influence of Saturn, the Full Moon’s light may have illuminated chinks in the foundations: information that is crucial to receive, but rarely welcome at the time. The Full Moon on August 22nd, meanwhile, offers a less critical gaze on all that you’ve accomplished. Being honest with yourself doesn’t actually mean being hyper-critical — it involves acknowledging your triumphs too.
The following horoscopes invite you to fill your cup more than halfway full, to delight in the pleasures of exchange, and to connect with those who exhilarate your head and heart at the same time.
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The following horoscopes were written by Steph Koyfman (The Daily Hunch), Thea Anderson, and Eliza Robertson.
Aries & Aries Rising
Roll out the rose petal trails for your lovers and shake hands with your co-conspirators. Venus in Libra is here to serve you damiana tea and strawberries while you enjoy your couple’s massage. Starting August 15th/16th, your collaborations and business ventures feel sweeter too, especially if you’re negotiating some sort of contract.
Your social life might benefit the most from these smooth gusts of balmy air. Working a room becomes a little more effortless, and seeing eye-to-eye with the folks you’re trying to build community with becomes less complicated than you thought.
Extend those social graces to yourself too.
Around August 18th, you’re wearing a pair of fault-finding goggles, with nothing looking quite right, or how you imagined it. It can be tempting to think that what dwells in the imagination is “perfect,” that its realization in the real world somehow corrupts the potential of your dream.
But perfect is another word for “complete,” and you can’t finish something if you don’t take the first steps to realize your plan.
Situations with friends or community that niggled at you last month feel smoother on August 22nd. It’s time to celebrate, to gather with the folks under the Full Moon who have witnessed your progress and take a moment to rejoice in all that you’ve accomplished. Taking a moment to revel in your achievements can refuel your motivation for the journey’s next leg.
Taurus & Taurus Rising
Venus in Libra arrives just in time to remind you what seamless teamwork is really about. No matter what your job or routine obligations entail, Venus greases the wheels and brings some degree of social synergy into the picture. Even the drudgeries of life become easier when people are getting along.
Your wellness habits find a more harmonious flow as well. In the sign of balance, Venus is huge on “everything in moderation,” infusing more pleasure into your self-care, lest that begin to feel like a grind too.
On August 18th, it’s easy to over-sterilize what were once instruments of play. When the search for standards veers towards perfection, then withhold biting comments or critique. Rip up the outline if it’s too rigid and doesn’t allow for invention.
This weekend’s Full Moon in Aquarius invites you to bask in what is going exceedingly well. Professional situations you confronted last month now recede in the rearview mirror. In their place, you’re left with that swell of satisfaction at having conquered an arduous task.
Your efforts at work may well be acknowledged out loud over the coming weeks, and the first taste arrives on August 22nd. Reflect back on the hills you’ve climbed over the past month(s), and how you have learned, wisened or grown from these experiences.
Dare to feel proud.
The second of two Full Moons in Aquarius takes place on August 22nd. With lucky Jupiter on its arm, it’s laced with a dash of extra magic. Harness the abundance with journal prompts + a meditation on the CHANI app.
Gemini & Gemini Rising
To whatever extent you can, put your vacation responder on and schedule in date nights, jam sessions, museum outings, and birthday parties as a top priority. Venus has returned to Libra to massage the tension out of your shoulders and help you relax into your best romantic evening mood.
Blowing off some steam can provide you some much-needed balance if you’ve been buried in your studies. Sometimes you need play to inform your philosophy. Making a painting, or writing a song, is an act of devotion to the Goddess herself.
Whatever deep cleans you’ve been overseeing at home over the past few weeks reaches a flashpoint on August 18th. While it might be time to fish that errant chunk of zucchini from under your stove, it will be easy to take this home-improvement bender one step too far, such that you DIY “repair” to the point of now needing to call a professional.
If you’ve been applying that same fastidious gaze toward your courses of study, wisdom traditions or spiritual pursuits lately, you’ll find a more forgiving lens on August 22nd. This weekend’s Full Moon is the second spotlight to this area over the past month, and this one highlights the growth potential and wisdom that you’ve been working toward.
There’s more work to do, but right now is a moment to revel in what you’ve already learned and accomplished.
The second of two Full Moons in Aquarius takes place on August 22nd. With lucky Jupiter on its arm, it’s laced with a dash of extra magic. Harness the abundance with journal prompts + a meditation on the CHANI app.
Cancer & Cancer Rising
Leo & Leo Rising
Your group chats, email exchanges, and coffeeshop flirtations are about to get a lot cuter over these next few weeks. Your “what I’m reading/what I’m listening to” selections become more gorgeously curated, and your daily rituals are imbued with a greater sense of being tapped in.
When Venus sweeps through Libra, everything ranging from your news feeds to your regular circuits around town to your relationships with your siblings and besties becomes sweeter, more harmonious, and “win-win-win.”
Over the past week, you’ve also been encouraged to crunch numbers, listen to wealth-building podcasts, and generally ferret out new info on how to build abundance. If this brick-by-brick approach to erecting new wealth structures feels cumbersome by August 18th, it helps to take a step back and look at the whole system that supports you — financially, but also on a substantial inner level.
The weekend’s Full Moon invites you to do just that. No one ever said relationships were easy, and that might have felt tediously true over the past few months. However, they’re also one of the ways we do our best growing and learning.
Whether you’re composing sweet texts of appreciation to your besties or telling your partners or collaborators how much you value them, this is a time to relish the riches connection itself can provide.
The second of two Full Moons in Aquarius takes place on August 22nd. With lucky Jupiter on its arm, it’s laced with a dash of extra magic. Harness the abundance with journal prompts + a meditation on the CHANI app.
Virgo & Virgo Rising
In Libra, Venus pours sugar into your wallet, takes you shopping, and reminds you that every act of commerce is fundamentally an act of relationship. While this quick boost to your coffers might literally encourage funds to come your way, you’ll also encounter some teachable moments around nurturing connections and fair exchange.
Libra is famously the sign of balance. How balanced are your balance sheets? If the tilt of reciprocity in your life has been leaning askew, particularly if you’re the one who’s been coming up short, this transit might help restore the equilibrium so that you walk away feeling full.
On August 18th, that same attention to balance should be applied to your personal pursuits, especially if your commitment to “self-development” has become a little ruthless of late. Like the ouroboros, the ancient snake or dragon who chows down on its own tail, perfectionism is a self-defeating monster.
If your self-talk is starting to feel punishing, lavish yourself with compliments in equal measure, even if it involves taping affirmations all over your bathroom mirror.
This weekend’s Full Moon is all about celebrating the progress you’ve made at work or in your health practices. Maybe you were able to run an extra mile, or meditate an extra minute, or conquer enough of your to-dos to feel like you can proudly call it a day.
Do so. Pour yourself a glass of something fizzy and don’t even think about what’s next on your plate. There will be time enough for that. For now: you deserve a breather.
The second of two Full Moons in Aquarius takes place on August 22nd. With lucky Jupiter on its arm, it’s laced with a dash of extra magic. Harness the abundance with journal prompts + a meditation on the CHANI app.
Libra & Libra Rising
Let the hairdresser work their magic, flaunt your best style, get some updated headshots, and let everyone else remind you why you’re their favorite. Better yet, take it upon yourself to be the intermediary between the Goddess and the incarnate world around you.
For the next few weeks, Venus blesses you with glowing selfies, on-point looks, and a booster shot of your favorite weapon: charm. More than just an extended good hair day, though, Venus’ transit through Libra also restores you to yourself, filling your cup with enough grace to impart onto your immediate sphere, be it to beautify, to harmonize, or to make it more just.
Despite how right you feel in your body, the occasionally demoralizing self-talk doesn’t just disappear. Around August 18th, it might even keep you tossing and turning, as you review all that still needs refining in your life.
Keep a journal or notes recorder by your bedside to get these thoughts out of your buzzing brain and into an external container. Sometimes expressing your fears out loud is enough to dispel or neutralize them.
Meanwhile, this weekend’s Full Moon gives you many reasons to indulge. Instead of asking yourself whether you’ve earned your break, go in with the knowledge that yes, you deserve this. And then some. Instead of fixating on what’s not ideal about your creative projects, acknowledge the quality of what’s poured forth from you so far.
Whether or not it’s actually harvest season in your corner of the world: it’s time to taste the fruits.
The second of two Full Moons in Aquarius takes place on August 22nd. With lucky Jupiter on its arm, it’s laced with a dash of extra magic. Harness the abundance with journal prompts + a meditation on the CHANI app.
Scorpio & Scorpio Rising
For the next few weeks, Venus decamps to your private greenroom to make your secret hideaway into a little bit more of a luxe resort. Even if this is usually the hotel where you go to cry and process a painful breakup, Venus sees to it that there’s plenty of Michelin-quality food and vibey ambiance to go around during your visit.
To some degree, this is not just about healing your bruises more completely or making peace with loss. It’s also about getting to know yourself as someone who secretly yearns to be liked, who wants to trust nice people simply because they haven’t yet given you a reason not to.
Even if you’ve had to fortify yourself against empty pleasantries and honey-tongued betrayals, this might not be the worst time to simply hang out with your soft, vulnerable self. Preferably poolside, with a cocktail.
If online discourse or group chats get derailed by one point on August 18th, ask yourself if it’s worth the time and attention. The best way to help the collective efforts may be to step back and evaluate the larger picture. The tiny dots of a pointillist painting only cohere into an image once you behold the whole.
Meanwhile, if ceiling stains or dirty windows at home drove you up the wall last month, they appear pleasantly “rustic” with this weekend’s Full Moon. What you deemed as an imperfection is now part of your home’s charm.
The same mentality might be applied to family dynamics, where your attention gravitates toward all that you appreciate, even if there are still tensions to detangle.
The second of two Full Moons in Aquarius takes place on August 22nd. With lucky Jupiter on its arm, it’s laced with a dash of extra magic. Harness the abundance with journal prompts + a meditation on the CHANI app.
Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising
Capricorn & Capricorn Rising
Aquarius & Aquarius Rising
Venus’ transit through Libra is one of the very best times of the year to feed your worldly appetites. Sophisticated and in-the-know, Venus in Libra takes you on literal and conceptual adventures into the museums, opera houses, film schools, temples, astrological observatories, and storied halls of history.
Though this could come and go as a particularly pleasant time to travel, learn, or take in culture, Libra’s justice-seeking side might also take you on a journey involving a legal or social cause you care about deeply. When in doubt, consider where you can apply pressure to rebalance the scales.
On August 18th, the balancing act rears itself in your close collaborations too. The impulse will be to pull out the masking tape to delineate clear boundaries between yours and theirs. It won’t take long before that precision starts to kill the mood.
Before long, flexibility, surprise and inventiveness offer good potions for the problem solving side of you. When you bring these assets to the table as an offering, it’s downright enchanting.
Speaking of “enchanting,” the second of two Aquarius Full Moons this season occurs on August 22nd. While the lunation last month may have exposed the problems still to be resolved, Sunday’s Full Moon illuminates the solutions.
It’s relatively rare to have two consecutive full moons in the same sign, so you might take this as a divine message that there’s no limit to the amount of “second chances” you can grant yourself.
There’s work to be done, but there’s also so much to celebrate now.
The second of two Full Moons in Aquarius takes place on August 22nd. With lucky Jupiter on its arm, it’s laced with a dash of extra magic. Harness the abundance with journal prompts + a meditation on the CHANI app.
