WEEK OF August 18 - 24, 2025
Are you working for a living, Cancer—or living to work? If that question stings a little, don’t retreat into your shell. You’ve still got a few more days of Leo season, with the Sun energizing your second house of income and security until Friday, August 22. Use them to tie up loose ends on financial projects, send the overdue invoices or make a purchase you’ve been researching for weeks. This grounded, resourceful energy can help you wrap up summer with your accounts in good shape.
Then, on Friday, the Sun shifts into Virgo and your buzzing third house of communication, community and kindred spirits. For the next month, life gets livelier, your social calendar fills and you’re back in the loop with friends, neighbors and collaborators. The very next day, Saturday, August 23, a new moon in Virgo turbocharges the momentum, opening a fresh six-month cycle for connection and collaboration. And with another Virgo new moon arriving September 21—this one a solar eclipse—what you start now could build into something truly game-changing.
Expect to hear from people you haven’t spoken to in months, maybe years, and welcome the chance encounters that come from simply showing up. Your third house rules local action, so keep much of your focus close to home: the cafe down the street, the boutique with the enticing window displays, the French bakery where you’re on a first-name basis with the owner. Make yourself a regular and support the places that give your neighborhood its soul.
Virgo season is also about sharing ideas and resources. Where have you been trying to do it all alone when a collaborator could help you go further, faster? This lunation is ideal for testing the waters—co-host an event, swap services or brainstorm with a peer who speaks your language. Small, intentional partnerships can blossom into lasting alliances. By the time the second Virgo new moon arrives in late September, you could have a whole new crew in your corner—and a calendar filled with the kind of invitations that make you excited to get out the door.
If you’ve been bottling up feelings, Cancer, Sunday’s tense square between the Virgo Sun in your communication sector and provocateur Uranus in your subconscious twelfth house could bring them rushing to the surface. Normally you can let things slide, but this cosmic combo might push you past your limit. The key is to express yourself before frustration boils over—otherwise you risk saying something in the heat of the moment that you’ll wish you’d handled differently. Choose your words with care, speak your truth without blame, and let this energy motivate you to clear the air and move forward instead of stewing over what hasn’t happened yet.
