POWERFUL MAGICAL MYSTICAL PORTAL ECLIPSE SEASON! Aug 16-22 2026 Horoscopes For The Collective & Each Sign

Now, Monday this week, the 17th of August is a super active astrological day.

There's a lot going on in the sky.

And I'm going to start with Mars making a very interesting configuration.

On the one hand, connecting with Pluto, in a quincunx.

This is a type of connection where the energies come on quickly.

They might feel a little jarring, but they have the potential to be resolved very quickly as well.

But what's also happening is that Mars is speaking with Neptune in a conversation of tension.

And that can be disillusioning, uncertain.

Whereas Mars and Pluto can trigger deeper feelings, angers, traumas, frustrations, the potential is there to find resolution within them.

The thing to remember is with Mars and the sign of Cancer, it isn't just about anxiety.

everything that's stirring, but how it is that it reaches beyond just this moment.

It isn't just about where we feel frustrated or angry or buttons being pushed, but how deep those roots go, whether it is our experiences with someone now or whether it is that they're triggering something from long ago, something very deep from our past or even our childhoods as well.

We bring all of ourselves to any given moment, everything we've ever been through, all the ways in which we might have interpreted so many of those experiences.

Well, they all determine how it is that we might be viewing a moment right here, right now, today.

And that sense of disconnect, that sense of needing to ask ourselves, okay, is it about what's happening right now or not? That is part of the potential here that the eclipse season just might grant us, might grant us just that little bit of respite to say to ourselves, is what happening right here, right now, really about this moment, really about this person, or are there other layers at play here? Once we're aware of that, that's where genuine empowerment can be found because ultimately that is what Mars wants.

For us to be empowered, for us to understand our power, our focus, our drive, and our greater ability.

Mars is an energy of owning our power to move our lives in the direction we desire to go.

And when it is that we come at those actions from a place of self-knowledge, also represented by Mars, well, we just might feel very unstoppable until we realize that there's only so much that we can do.

I always think of Mars as representing the serenity affirmation, which is, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Being able to have an appreciation of what that wisdom is, what that distinction is, what that contrast is for us, well, that might be part of what's showing itself to us now.

Where we are on the one hand with that Mars-Pluto quincunx very aware of the line between power and powerlessness.

A lot of us are feeling that and at the same time Mars squared Neptune can be a lot of wasted energy.

It can be not just disappointment, but realizing that we've poured a lot of energy in a particular direction that now we might even feel depleted.

Now, there are ways in which that energy feeling depleted isn't always a bad thing.

And there are ways in which that can really feel more consequential.