This Week in the Sky (August 9–15): Eclipse New Moon in Leo

The week of August 9 to 15 belongs to Wednesday. The New Moon in Leo lands at 17:36 UT on August 12, and this one is a total solar eclipse, the event the whole month has been building toward. Around it, the week stacks five exact aspects, every one of them a flowing angle. Behind everything, Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto stay retrograde, so the season’s review mood continues under the fireworks.

The week, day by day

Sunday, August 9. The Moon enters Cancer in the morning, and the week opens close to home: food, family, the people and places that restore you. A soft start before a loud middle.

Monday, August 10. Venus in Libra trines Pluto in Aquarius. A trine is the frictionless angle, and this pair deepens whatever it touches. Conversations that usually stay polite tend to go somewhere real. A strong day for the talk you’ve been circling, the negotiation that needs substance under the charm.

Tuesday, August 11. The Moon enters Leo, moving into position for tomorrow’s eclipse. The volume starts to rise.

Wednesday, August 12. The eclipse New Moon in Leo, with three exact aspects on the same day: Mercury sextile Uranus, Mercury trine Neptune, and Venus trine Uranus. A New Moon is the reset point of the lunar cycle, and an eclipse version of one tends to mark a louder chapter break than usual. In Leo, the themes lean toward visibility, creative work, and what you do with attention. The Mercury pair gives the day a quick, imaginative mind, sudden ideas with intuition backing them up, while Venus trine Uranus favors the unexpected connection and the fresh take on an old relationship. Eclipses reward watching what surfaces rather than forcing an outcome. Full background on this one lives in the total solar eclipse of August 12.

Thursday, August 13. Mercury in Leo sextiles Venus in Libra, and the Moon moves into Virgo around midday. After Wednesday’s peak, this is the graceful follow-through: the thank-you note, the warm message, the conversation that smooths what the eclipse stirred. Virgo’s Moon points the energy at details and cleanup.

Saturday, August 15. The Moon enters Libra in the afternoon, and the week closes social and even-handed.

Underneath it all, the retrograde trio keeps the deeper current pointed at review, commitments, ideals, and long-term structure each getting a second look while the surface week runs bright.

Make it yours

The sky above is everyone’s week. Where it lands is not. Wednesday’s eclipse falls in one specific house of your chart, and that house names the life area getting the chapter break, career for one person, home for another. Open your chart in MysticAlmanac and find the house holding Leo. That’s where this week is talking to you.

New to the vocabulary? Start with what a birth chart is, then the aspects that give a trine or a sextile its meaning, and Saturn retrograde 2026 for the longest-running of the three retrogrades in the background.