Weekly Astro Forecast: August 23-30
Release Under the Pisces Full Moon Eclipse
🗓 Sunday, August 23
- Moon in Capricorn
📨 Monday, August 24
- Moon in Capricorn
📌 Tuesday, August 25
- Moon enters Aquarius at 2:02 am PT
- Mercury enters Virgo at 4:04 am PT
🚀 Wednesday, August 26
- Moon in Aquarius
🌝♓ Thursday, August 27
- Moon enters Pisces at 12:04 pm PT
- Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces at 9:19 pm PT
- Mercury conjunct the Sun in Virgo (Cazimi)
🚧 Friday, August 28
- Moon in Pisces
- Sun squares Uranus
- Mercury squares Uranus
⚡Saturday, August 29
- Moon enters Aries at 7:38 pm PT
🏃🏻 Sunday, August 30
- Moon in Aries
Welcome to a powerful week. We are in Virgo season now, the part of the year that asks us to sort, refine, and tend to the details of our lives. Into that grounded energy comes the biggest moment of the week, a Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces on Thursday. This is the final eclipse in the Pisces and Virgo series, a chapter that has been asking us to balance the practical with the spiritual for the last two years. Something is completing. This week is your invitation to let it.
Eclipses speed up time. They pull the truth to the surface and ask us to release what we have outgrown so something new can arrive. This one lives in Pisces, the sign of surrender, dreams, and compassion. It is not a week to force. It is a week to feel, to let go, and to trust the space that opens after you do.
🗓 Sunday, August 23
We open the week with Moon in Capricorn, and the mood is steady and focused. This is the day to make your plan for the week ahead. Capricorn loves a clear goal and an honest look at what needs your attention. Use this grounded energy to organize your life before the eclipse asks you to feel more deeply. A little structure now becomes a soft place to land later.
What is one goal you are ready to commit to this week?
📨 Monday, August 24
The Moon in Capricorn continues, and your discipline is a gift today. Virgo season and Capricorn energy work beautifully together, both practical, both devoted to doing things well. Handle the task you have been avoiding. Answer the email. Tend to the small responsibility that has been weighing on you. Every bit of order you create this week frees up energy for the release that is coming.
What have you been putting off that you can complete today?
📌 Tuesday, August 25
The Moon enters Aquarius early this morning and lifts your perspective. Aquarius pulls you out of the daily details and reminds you to think about the bigger picture and the community around you. This is also the day Mercury enters Virgo, sharpening your mind and helping you communicate with clarity and care. Say the clear thing. Write down the idea. Your words carry precision now.
What truth is ready to be spoken clearly?
🚀 Wednesday, August 26
Moon in Aquarius keeps the energy open and future facing. You may feel a pull toward something new, a different way of doing things, a fresh idea about your own life. Let yourself dream a little bigger than usual. The eclipse tomorrow will ask you to release the old, so today notice what you actually want to make room for.
What future are you quietly ready to move toward?
🌝♓ Thursday, August 27
This is the powerful day. The Moon enters Pisces at midday and meets the Sun in Virgo tonight for the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse at 9:19 pm PT. This is the final eclipse in the Pisces and Virgo series, and it lands like a closing of a long chapter. Feelings you have been carrying may rise all at once. Let them. Pisces asks you to surrender, to soften, to release the dream or the story or the version of yourself that is no longer true. Mercury meets the Sun today too, so insight arrives with the emotion. Something you have needed to understand becomes clear.
Do not try to control this one. Eclipses work on their own timing. Your only task is to feel it fully and let go of what wants to leave. Release and let go. Trust that what is meant for you stays.
What are you finally ready to release?
🚧 Friday, August 28
The Moon in Pisces holds you in the eclipse afterglow, and you may feel tender or tired. Be gentle with yourself. The Sun and Mercury both square Uranus today, so a surprise, a change of plan, or a sudden realization is possible. Instead of resisting the disruption, ask what it is trying to free you from. Rest, drink water, and let your body process everything that moved yesterday.
How can you give yourself more rest and softness today?
⚡ Saturday, August 29
The Moon enters Aries this evening and brings fire back to your energy. After a week of releasing, Aries wants to move. You may feel a spark of courage, a readiness to begin again. Notice it. This is the universe showing you that after every ending comes a new beginning. Start small. One brave step is enough.
Where is your courage asking you to take the first step?
🏃🏻 Sunday, August 30
The Moon in Aries closes the week with momentum and drive. You have released, you have rested, and now you are ready to act on what is calling you. Set an intention for the week ahead from this fresh, alive place. The eclipse cleared the path. Now you get to walk it. Trust your strength and trust your timing.
What new beginning are you claiming as yours?
Tools to Align With This Week
🌙 Moon Workbooks: This Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces is one of the most powerful release points of the year. Our Moon Workbooks walk you through the reflection and ritual to work with it intentionally, and the Virgo season workbook helps you ground the fresh clarity that follows. Shop the Moon Workbooks here.
📱 Moment App: Follow every lunar shift this week, from Capricorn to Aries, right on your phone with daily guidance for each transit. Download Moment here.
🎧 The Spirit Daughter Podcast: This week we welcome Amanda Kloots (airing 8/25), followed by our Tenth House mini episode on 8/28. And coming 9/1, a special solo episode, It Is Not Just Saturn: Your Astrological Returns. Listen here.
📖 The Spirit Daughter Book: A guide to living in alignment with the Moon and the seasons, perfect companion reading for eclipse season. Get your copy here.
Sending you so much love as you move through this week. Release what is ready to go, and trust the new beginning waiting on the other side. You are exactly where you are meant to be. 🤍
