Weekly Reading for August 23 - 30, 2026: The eclipses continue

This is the week Pisces eclipses end, and they are not leaving through the gift shop. Friday's full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces is the last one we'll have in this sign for many years, and it's going out in a direct square to Uranus, which is a bit like a houseguest who's been staying with you since 2023 announcing their departure by pulling the fire alarm on the way out. If you've been here a while, you know the Pisces corner of your life has been under construction for years. Saturn moved through and made you grow up there. Neptune finally left after nearly a decade of fog. Last year stacked a Venus retrograde and a Mercury retrograde on top of it all, and eclipses have been detonating in this same territory the whole time. Whatever delusions, romantic thinking, or too-dreamy assumptions you were running in this part of your life, they've been getting stripped out one by one. It has not been comfortable. It has, however, made you extremely hard to rattle here. Give me what you got. We were raised in this asylum. So yes, an eclipse squaring Uranus means all bets are off. Eclipses are unpredictable by nature; Uranus is the planet of the plot twist; putting them together means something changes this week, full stop. Life speeds up around eclipses, the landscape shifts in a matter of days, and you look up on the other side going, wait, when did all of that happen. That's the deal. You don't get a vote on the timing. **Key moments of the week:** - Sunday, August 23: Sun in Virgo trine Chiron in Taurus (3:29PM) - Tuesday, August 25: Mercury in Leo opposite North Node in Aquarius (2:57AM) - Tuesday, August 25: Mercury enters Virgo (7:04AM) - Tuesday, August 25: Mercury in Virgo trine Chiron in Taurus (2:56PM) - Thursday, August 27: Sun conjoins Mercury in Virgo (1:03PM) - Friday, August 28: Lunar eclipse in Pisces (12:14AM) - Friday, August 28: Full Moon in Pisces (12:18AM) - Friday, August 28: Mercury in Virgo square Uranus in Gemini (3:24AM) - Friday, August 28: Sun in Virgo square Uranus in Gemini (6:18PM) To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store: Get started on the website iPhone and iPad apps Android app