• Horoscopes for 8-11-2026

  Horoscopes for 8-11-2026

  “Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere.” (Feste)

  Shakespeare’s 12th Night 3.1.18

  Horoscopes for 8-11-2026

  • Mars into Cancer 8/11 3:32 AM
  • New Moon Leo 8/12 12:42 PM 20°5’ Leo

  Coming soon: San Antonio, TX.

  The Leo

  I got so hopeful, just looking at the array of stellar goodness in The Leo slice of heavens, I almost forgot. Need something to build upon. There is a kind of clarity, an ability to focus, and a way to see your future in a new light, there’s a hope. Birthdays, Jupiter, New Moon, lunar ascendency, and on and on? Sure. Good stuff. But getting your copious Leo attention drawn back to the mundane? That helps. That’s also the point, even now. It’s not about far-reaching, insurmountable, pie-in-the-sky dreams that we all know are clearly impossible, no, this is about single, granular almost, goal that is easily managed. Simple dreams. None of this illusive impossibilities, think: be realistic. It helps you. I’m not talking about being completely grounded, but one foot in the real world helps you have a better birthday.

  Virgo

  I tend to have brief periods of fascination with certain topics. I’ll get interested in a specific subject, then fall down an increasingly dark hole pursuing that topic. Fishing gear and fishing techniques, certainly an obvious tack for this, but then, there’s arcane Shakespeare apocrypha, too. Just pick a topic, have it pique my interests, and watch me “churn and burn” with that until I’ve exhausted the material. As a behavioral quality, it’s served me well as I’ve been able to learn deeply about certain subjects. But for a Virgo this week? This kind of obsessive research might lead us all down to a dark place, and learning too much about just one topic, or even just a subset of a single issue? Does this serve us well? Is this good for Virgo? I’m not sure. I can’t say. Maybe we need further research to know if this is a valid point. However, isn’t that a little tautological, and doesn’t it just cause what I was warning you about, in the first place? I’m not sure, but a good Virgo will chime in here, “Let me see what I can find out about that.”

  Libra

  One of my fishing buddies turned over a new leaf. He was getting older, friend of mine so maybe not wiser, but as he was gracefully aging, he decided he was interested in his Catholic Faith. My buddy made a commitment to go to a morning mass, each day for a month. I think he went for two weeks. The commitment was pure, in the right vein, and suited him, and what he was trying to do. I also know my friends, and I had zero expectations that he would make it a whole month. Think it was five days a week for the first week, then five days the next week, and then something “Came up,” and he couldn’t make it. What happened, though, was a deep discussion in the back of the boat about faith, religion, ritual, and a version of the “Almighty.” I have a much simpler, less complex, form of beliefs, carved out over the years, and dealing with the spiritual nature of astrology as a practice. My buddy? He made progress towards a more substantial approach to his faith, and he does frequently go to mass, now. While he fell way short of his goal of “Every day,” the purpose was served. Libra, what works to serve your purpose?

  Scorpio

  “Easy there cowboy, easy there,” and no, I’ve never heard that applied to me, but in my mind’s eye? I can see that expression as applied to this week’s Scorpio dilemma. Exuberance? Sure. Energy? Yes. Balance? Questionable. “Look, this is merely a fact-finding mission.” Hence the expression, “Easy there, cowboy.” What this means? What the stars spell out? Scorpio’s slice of the heavens is about finding out more before taking action. Accumulate more points of reference. Onboard more data. Research, and that doesn’t just mean looking it up online. Verifiable sources produce verifiable results, and this next few days, Scorpio? Look for data.

  Sagittarius

  There are portions of the Bible that are not legitimately recognized, the Apocrypha. In larger sense, that term applies to portions of anything not part of the accepted canon. Less in a biblical sense, more along the lines of Shakespeare? There are several bad versions of plays that are lumped under the heading of “Written by Shakespeare,” when, in fact, the claim is dubious at best. Early works, missing works, and at least one play that was produced after Shakespeare’s death, all questionable in provenance. Two plays come to mind, though, Arden of Faversham and Two Noble Kinsmen. Both plays have some pacing, structural points, and phrasing that suggest Shakespeare worked on them, if not as the primary author. All part of the Shakespeare apocrypha. Sagittarius is stuck with a certain lack of substantial evidence, and that doesn’t mean it’s not true, but understanding that the circumstances are such that we are best if we note that some things are apocryphal rather than accepted as “for sure.”

  Capricorn

  Fishing buddy calls me up. We talk about his girlfriend. Then he talks about his wife, his truck, his boat, notes that we need to fish soon, then he tells me about his kid, doing something or other. Then he talks about his medication, blood pressure, cholesterol, that kind of boring detail. None of this is mission critical data. For me, it’s all background noise. For my buddy, for my Capricorn fishing buddy, this is all data that needs to be sorted out because each piece is connected to another piece, and that determines when we will be able to go fish together. As Mars gets comfortable in the sign opposite from Capricorn, what I have to learn to do, again, is listen. Capricorn? Learn to listen. Seems like a lot of extraneous details are getting dumped on your Capricorn self, but that detailed inventory helps shape future decisions.

  Aquarius

  I like reading about New Mexico, parts of Arizona. I spent school years out there, and I’ve worked in the area for many years. It’s land and terrain I’m intimately familiar with, and that I adore. Don’t live there at this time, but it’s not out of the question. So when I was reading a novel set in the area, I was busy looking up real geographical points, and making sure the land was real. It wasn’t. Fiction. The cities, those setting were real with historical landmarks, and real hotels used as places, but the location of the action in the brush? Not so much. Felt real, the descriptions sounded real, and it was easy to imagine. Good writing? Good story? Author’s intimately familiar with the landscape? Sure, all of that. But is it real? That’s the question, when looking at a movie, TV, a novel’s setting, is it real, or just based on a fabulist’s dream?

  Pisces

  Got a quick hint to help gentle Pisces. Manage those expectations. Set goals that are easily obtainable. Don’t overload yourself with too much at one time. Outside factors might try and upend this idea, but again, don’t overload yourself. I set two goals for this morning: wake up, drink coffee, and look at the horoscopes I’m gong to write for Pisces. Here I am, killing it. Set a goal that was obtainable, reasonable. Within easy grasp. Make coffee. Open up the word processor. Look at a chart. In that regard, simply put, I was successful. I nailed it. The secret in that short-term goal-setting? I suggested that I just do certain things, certain objectives, little boxes with a checkmark next to them, all done. Nowhere in that did it included completing the horoscopes. I can do that later.

  Aries

  The shaman’s way? It’s a matter of understanding, grasping a design that doesn’t fit with any one system. Ritual, rituals, beliefs, fold in religion, decorate with a religious text, then there are various esoteric beliefs that can get roped into this as well. Works a number of different ways, but for Aries? This is about exploring that line between fantasy, reality, faith, and works. Blind faith is great, but that doesn’t lead anywhere useful. This is ongoing, but what rituals, processes, and action lead to making life better in Aries-land? There’s a degree of faith that works into this, but then, there’s also the notion that some action is required. When I mention “ritual,” too many people think of arcane and elaborate services, like high Latin Mass in the Catholic Church. I was implying something more simple like a prayer and blessing over a morning cup of coffee.

  Taurus

  I would expect, by now, that even the most stubborn of Taurus individuals would have learned how to adapt. Change, shift directions? Mutate as needed be to address new incoming data? Jupiter, the Sun, and so forth? It means that this is a good start, but like you’ve seen before, be prepared to jog ninety degrees to the left or the right, depends on how you’re facing this, but be prepared to take an abrupt hard turn, as need be, as necessitated by the planets, to make the changes, the correct shift, the way to get through this next week. Not bad, just not according to what you thought you wanted. “Looks like the road ahead is closed. Guess I didn’t want to go that way.” See how easy that is to adjust to the shifting conditions?

  Gemini

  I’m digging up a decades’ old superstition. When I worked in border towns, most notably El Paso, before leaving the relatively safe confines of Austin, I would light a Santa Muerto candle. They cost a dollar at the grocery store. Supposedly, there’s a smuggler’s cult arranged around the icon and imagery. While it looks like canonized saint, it’s not. While it looks authentic, it’s not. While it looks cool, it is. To some, it’s a little grisly, and to me? It’s more a cartoonish figure of death, or Death, with a skull in one bony hand and a scythe in the other, all draped in a long cloak. This isn’t about belief, nor borderlands and their religions, it’s about paying homage to the old gods, as one must. Customs in strange lands? I found it’s helpful, to set my scrawny white self right, to light that candle before going where I was a clearly an outsider. The candle your Gemini selves might choose? I hope it’s different than the cartoon caricature of death. Might not even be a candle, could be any number of religious or ritual offerings. Whatever it is? Pay homage to the old ways as customs decrees.

  Cancer

  There is so much you want to do, the timing is right, and the advent of Mars unto thy Moon Child’s sign? The energy is there. The desire is strong. The presence of mind is one, well, you want to get this done, right now. That, Mr. Mars, and the incipient and resultant energies from that New Moon? The timing is right to jump on some of this, and the biggest challenge? It’s one I can’t complain about because I certainly lack a filtering methodology myself. But “filtering” is what needs to be done now, and what can be approached in a week or two, what can be fixed in the next few hours, versus what is a longer, more arduous task? “Filtering.” Filter out what is just noise, and what is the core problem. What can be tackled in this next moment, and what will take longer to address, and therefore? Should be put off until “later.” I think of this as filtering out the noise from the action, what needs to be done, what can be done, and what results in effective actions. “What are you doing right now?” Kramer said, “Filtering.”

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