Daily Horoscopes for Monday 17 August 2026
Aries    Aries   Mar 21 - Apr 19
While the Moon is making its ordinary monthly visit to your relationship sector and everything that goes with that, the difference this time is that you have Venus, the planet of love on board. There will still be strong emotional responses and a clash with the three planets in Aries as the Moon moves through is still going to put some strain on a balance between your own and your relationship needs. This time, you not only have Venus using this to better understand and get what you want from your relationships, but with the communication support a lot more stripped back and reliable.
 
Taurus    Taurus   Apr 20 - May 20
While the Moon’s return to your work sector yesterday has already set the scene for a positive start to the new working week on the income, work and career fronts, with a lot still to take in and absorb before it leaves tomorrow. With your subconscious able to download information faster than you can process at the time, this first visit since Venus returned and since the departure of planets on the income and career fronts has led to a more stripped back team that is here for the long haul, the more you can listen to your heart and gut without overthinking things the better
 
Gemini    Gemini   May 21 - Jun 21
For the first time this year, in the lead up to the Moon’s return to your work sector tomorrow and moving through a playful and creative part of your chart and it asks that you keep your work hat off, there is no activity in either of your two professional houses to protest. Instead, the Moon’s since Venus returned has a heavy lean towards the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence that will make this hard to ignore. This f since the lunar nodes ended their 18 month policing of your work/life balance, is a chance to put what you have learnt into practice.
 
Cancer    Cancer   Jun 22 - Jul 22
When the Moon returns to your home and family sector each month, as well as putting the focus on things close to home while bringing a chance to become more emotionally and intuitively engaged and aware, a clash with the planets in your career sector as it moves through will see it deliver its monthly work/life balance reminder. The difference this time is you not only have Venus here, making home where your heart is, but all three planets in your career sector are now in retrograde motion, making it not only easier to find the right work/life balance, but you are more likely to want to.
 
Leo    Leo   Jul 23 - Aug 22
While the Moon is making its ordinary monthly visit to your communication sector, something that every four weeks will make it easier to give your emotional responses a voice, for the first time this year while there are planets here. With the Sun not due to return until later next month, this first visit since Venus turned is giving her mission to give your heart and your relationships a voice an additional boost. With the lunar nodes now monitoring a balance between your own and your relationship needs and with Mercury, the planet of communication a week into his short 15 day transit through Leo, all hands are on deck to get the communication lines open.
 
Virgo    Virgo   Aug 23 - Sep 22
When the Moon returns to your income sector, this is something that every four weeks can sharpen your nose for money, act as a trigger and clash with the three planets on the other side of the sky in your financial sector, before moving on and doing it all over again next month. However, for the first time this year the Moon has returned to find that the balance of power has shifted and instead of no planets here Venus, the planet of money has returned to begin the most lucrative months of 2026. At the same time, with all three planets in your financial sector now in retrograde motion and money matters in review mode, the balance of power is more evenly split.
 
Libra    Libra   Sep 23 - Oct 23
From the moment the Moon returned for its monthly visit to Libra yesterday, it was clear that this was more than just the chance that you get every four weeks to check in and become more emotionally and intuitively engaged and aware. While there are the normal ups and downs and emotional swings that this can bring but this time, with Venus on board with a better sense of which shore this is pushing or pulling you towards. With heart and gut on the same page, you are likely to have strong reactions to what you do and don’t want.
 
Scorpio    Scorpio   Oct 24 - Nov 21
When the Moon moves through a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart each month, it is a given that it is going to clash with the three planets in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart as it moves through. The difference this time is that while things are getting into position to get the new working week off to an empowered start on the job and career fronts, Venus is here with the Moon and the three planets in your work sector are in retrograde motion. Venus will have you wanting to get this monthly reminder when it comes to knowing when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off right.
 
Sagittarius    Sagittarius   Nov 22 - Dec 21
While separating from its alignment just after it returned to a social and serendipitous part of your chart yesterday, with the Moon’s first visit since Venus returned still here them in harmony. Venus rules through the laws of attraction and this is an area that operates under the laws of synchronicity, with the two coming together while she is here. Having the Moon here has increased your intuitive and situational awareness and with heart and gut on the same page, you will find it easier to find yourself in the right place at the right time.
 
Capricorn    Capricorn   Dec 22 - Jan 19
With the Moon not leaving your career sector until tomorrow and having already energised things across the income, work and career fronts when it returned yesterday, this is helping to get the new working week off to an empowered start. While an ordinary monthly visit, for the first time this year and the Moon has returned to find that there are planets here and there is already movement on the career front. That is Venus kicking things off that makes all the difference, for she has brought the laws of attraction into effect, just as the Moon has returned to sharpen your professional instincts and act as a trigger.
 
Aquarius    Aquarius   Jan 20 - Feb 18
With things having already taken a busier turn and even more so from tomorrow, there was always going to be a call to embrace today’s adventurous lunar vibes. Even though Mars has returned to begin what he will be working to make some of the busiest seven weeks of the year, until the Moon returns to your career sector tomorrow, even the professional gods are calling for a wait and see approach. At the same time, this Moon’s first visit to an adventurous part of your chart since Venus returned to begin the first planetary activity this year, these adventurous lunar vibes have a lot more weight behind them.
 
Pisces    Pisces   Feb 19 - Mar 20
While both sides of the financial fence are vying for attention and this is making any balance issues between money coming in and money going out more obvious, at a time when both sides are well resourced and supported. It is the Moon’s monthly visit to your financial sector that has it clashing with the three planets in your income sector. However, just as they have the support of the Sun and Mercury in your work sector and the Moon’s first visit to your financial sector since Venus returned will have the planet of money using any financial tension this might create as motivation.
 
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