✦ Monthly Horoscope · August 2026 ✦

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Scorpio

Oct 23 – Nov 21 · Ruled by Pluto

1 August: Moon in Pisces · Waning Gibbous

Your core self is forged in depth and intensity.

Pluto square your Sun

Pluto squares your Sun for something like two years, most often in three separate passes, and the weight falls on the chart's core: the voice that says I am this, I do this, this is what I am for. A square forces a decision. Pluto does not decorate or advise; it removes what cannot hold and leaves what can, and it does that slowly, by steady pressure rather than one blow.

Jupiter square your Sun

Jupiter squares your Sun across a few weeks, and a retrograde near the degree can turn that into three separate passes over several months. Your Sun is the centre of you: the purpose you act from and the self you would defend. Jupiter inflates.

Sun square your Sun

The Sun squares its own birth position twice a year, roughly three months before and three months after your birthday, and for about two days the year's plans meet a test. The aims you set when this solar year began rub against what is actually happening, and the gap can show up as impatience, tiredness, or a short temper with yourself. It works as a checkpoint, not a verdict.

Mercury square your Sun

Mercury squares your Sun briefly, two days at most, and your meaning and your words come slightly apart. Explanations land crooked, messages get misread, and a point sometimes has to be made twice because it did not land the first time, which is its own irritation. This is easily taken personally, as if your ability to express yourself had suddenly failed.

Sun-sign horoscopes read the sky against your Sun. For the most accurate read, also read your rising sign — if you know it, that version is usually the truer story.

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