Your Wellbeing Horoscopes: Sky Map for Week of 10 August 2026

There is a specific kind of quiet that falls over a sky about to lose its Moon entirely. On the morning of 12 August, that is exactly what happens. The Moon slides in front of the Sun, Europe and the North Atlantic dim in the middle of the day, and a week that already had more happening in it than most months settles into its central event.

What is overhead before the eclipse

The Moon spends the start of the week crossing out of Cancer and into Leo as it thins toward the exact New Moon on the 12th. Venus and Mercury are both unusually active in the days leading up to it. Venus forms a trine to Uranus, a loose, easy aspect that runs from the 9th to the 14th, while Mercury, fully clear of the retrograde shadow it spent most of July shaking off, moves through a fast sequence of its own, opposite Pluto on the 11th, trine Neptune the same day, then sextile Venus on the 13th. None of this is subtle astrologically. It is a sky doing a great deal of talking in the days before it goes quiet.