Horoscope today, 8 August 2026, arrives on a Saturday with almost nothing left to finish. Mercury sits at 27 degrees Cancer, spending its final full day in the sign before crossing into Leo tomorrow. Mars sits at 27 degrees Gemini with three days left of a transit that has run since June. The Moon is a waning crescent in Gemini, travelling from 10 to 24 degrees across the day and losing light the whole way, from roughly 30 per cent illuminated at the start of the Indian day to a little over 20 per cent by its end. Four days from now it goes dark completely.
The steady element is a trine. The Sun at 15 degrees Leo holds a trine to Saturn, retrograde at 14 degrees Aries, and it is the tightest major aspect in the sky. The Sun began closing on that trine on Tuesday, perfected it on Friday, and on Saturday it is still inside a single degree. It is also the only aspect on 8 August that builds rather than releases. Everything else in the chart is either finishing or waiting.
Venus has been in Libra since Thursday and sits at 1 degree of the sign it rules, the one unambiguously fresh placement in the chart. Jupiter is at 8 degrees Leo, close enough to the Sun to keep confidence running ahead of evidence. Uranus is at 5 degrees Gemini, Pluto is retrograde at 4 degrees Aquarius, and Neptune is retrograde at 4 degrees Aries, which means the triple retrograde that opened August has not loosened by a single degree.
All of it runs four days ahead of the total solar eclipse on 12 August, which falls at 20 degrees Leo, reaches greatest eclipse at 17:47 UTC and carries totality across northern Russia, Greenland, Iceland, the North Atlantic, northern Spain and a corner of Portugal. It lands at the Moon’s descending node, which places it on the South Node in Leo, where the lunar axis settled in late July for the first time in eighteen years. That is why this week reads as an ending rather than a beginning, and why the last quarter phase that passed on Thursday set the tone for everything since.
What follows is the daily horoscope for all twelve signs. For readers searching the zodiac signs daily horoscope today, from the Aries horoscope through to the Pisces horoscope, this is 8 August measured against the actual ephemeris rather than against a template.
Aries Horoscope Today, 8 August 2026
Venus has entered your seventh house of partnership, the first sweetening that sector has had since spring. The Moon and Mars sit together in your third house of speech, which makes your delivery faster than your judgement. Saturn retrograde in your first receives the Sun’s trine.
Love: A partner is more generous today than the last fortnight suggested. Accept it without matching it.
Money: Mars in your third makes an impulsive purchase feel like a decision. Give it until Monday.
Career: Saturn reversed in your sign rewards finishing over starting. Close the thing you abandoned in June.
Family: Mercury’s last day in your fourth house makes a household conversation unusually easy to open. Open it before tomorrow.
Lucky Colour: Scarlet | Lucky Number: 9 | Best Time: 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM | Worst Time: 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Taurus Horoscope Today, 8 August 2026
The Moon, Mars and Uranus all occupy your second house of income. Venus, your ruler, has moved into your sixth house of work and health, where the day’s real improvement lives. It has been a hard week since Chiron reversed at the opening degree of your sign, and the residue is still there.
Love: Affection today arrives as competence rather than words. Someone fixing something for you is the message.
Money: A figure changes without warning. Uranus here means the surprise is smaller than the reaction to it.
Career: Venus in your sixth makes routine work pleasant for the first time in weeks. Use it on the task you have avoided.
Family: A remark about your pace lands harder than intended. It is Chiron, not a verdict.
Lucky Colour: Moss Green | Lucky Number: 6 | Best Time: 11:15 AM to 12:45 PM | Worst Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Gemini Horoscope Today, 8 August 2026
The Moon crosses your first house and closes on Mars at 27 degrees, with Uranus behind them. Venus has moved into your fifth house of romance, the softest placement your chart has had in months.
Love: Venus in your fifth makes you easier company than you have been since June. Say yes to the invitation.
Money: Mercury’s last hours in your second house favour closing a figure rather than proposing one.
Career: You are producing quickly, and the quality is holding. Volume is the risk, not accuracy. Send fewer things.
Family: The Moon on Mars in your own sign shortens your fuse by early evening. Eat before the conversation.
Lucky Colour: Pale Gold | Lucky Number: 3 | Best Time: 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM | Worst Time: 6:15 PM to 7:45 PM
Cancer Horoscope Today, 8 August 2026
Mercury spends its final full day at 27 degrees of your first house. Venus has entered your fourth house of home, while Saturn retrograde at the top of your chart holds career decisions open. The Moon and Mars in your twelfth drain more than they show.
Love: Say the accurate thing today. Tomorrow you will be describing it rather than saying it.
Money: The Sun and Jupiter in your second are expansive, and the Saturn trine makes them credible. Build the case now, present it after the eclipse.
Career: Anything announced this week gets reopened later. Saturn reversed in your tenth guarantees the review.
Family: Venus in your fourth makes the house feel like yours again. A small domestic repair is worth more than it looks.
Lucky Colour: Pearl White | Lucky Number: 2 | Best Time: 7:15 AM to 8:45 AM | Worst Time: 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Leo Horoscope Today, 8 August 2026
The Sun in your first house holds its trine to Saturn retrograde in your ninth, favouring qualifications, legal matters and long-range planning over performance. Jupiter is in your first house too, and the eclipse on 12 August falls at 20 degrees of it.
Love: Restraint reads as confidence. The person you want to impress is persuaded by what you leave out.
Money: Venus in your third house makes negotiation easy. Ask for the revised number in writing rather than in a meeting.
Career: The Saturn trine is the week’s best aspect, and it is pointed at your ninth house. Apply it to a course, a licence or a contract, not a pitch.
Family: Mercury’s last day in your twelfth means something unsaid stays unsaid until tomorrow. That is acceptable.
Lucky Colour: Saffron | Lucky Number: 1 | Best Time: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM | Worst Time: 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Virgo Horoscope Today, 8 August 2026
Venus at 1 degree Libra sits in your second house of income, where its taste for fairness is more useful than its taste for attention. The Moon and Mars run through your tenth house of career, making you visible on a day you would rather be precise.
Love: You are less on display than last week and better company for it. Depth returns.
Money: The strongest earning signal your chart has carried this month. Raise the rate, or send the invoice you rewrote three times.
Career: The tenth house Moon and Mars make you conspicuous. Be brief. Anything long gets misread today.
Family: Mercury in your eleventh spends its last day making friends easier to reach than relatives. Use it accordingly.
Lucky Colour: Sandstone | Lucky Number: 5 | Best Time: 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM | Worst Time: 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
Libra Horoscope Today, 8 August 2026
Venus entered your first house on Thursday after a long and unrewarding stretch in your twelfth. The Moon and Mars fill your ninth house of travel and study, which gives the day somewhere to go. Saturn retrograde in your seventh keeps one partnership under review.
Love: The conversation that would not land on Wednesday lands now. Same words, different sky.
Money: Venus in your first improves your terms simply by improving how you ask. Ask today.
Career: The ninth house Moon favours a course, a visa or a longer plan over anything due on Monday.
Family: Saturn reversed in your seventh means an agreement needs rewriting, not defending. Start the draft.
Lucky Colour: Rose Pink | Lucky Number: 7 | Best Time: 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM | Worst Time: 4:45 PM to 6:15 PM
Scorpio Horoscope Today, 8 August 2026
The Sun and Jupiter occupy your tenth house of career, and the Sun’s trine to Saturn retrograde in your sixth adds credibility to the exposure. Venus has moved into your twelfth, which turns your private life quiet rather than empty.
Love: Venus in your twelfth favours the unannounced. Something private is more real than anything scheduled.
Money: Mars in your eighth makes urgency expensive. A move that feels time-critical today will cost less on Monday.
Career: The Saturn trine is doing the work the Jupiter placement takes credit for. Be findable and be brief.
Family: The waning Moon suits you. Remove one obligation and the week improves.
Lucky Colour: Oxblood | Lucky Number: 8 | Best Time: 7:45 AM to 9:15 AM | Worst Time: 2:15 PM to 3:45 PM
Sagittarius Horoscope Today, 8 August 2026
The Moon and Mars sit together in your seventh house of partnership at the end of Gemini, which is a lot of unspent energy in someone else’s hands. Jupiter, your ruler, is in your ninth alongside the Sun, and its trine to Saturn retrograde in your fifth is where discipline improves pleasure rather than spoiling it.
Love: Do not match their pace. The argument only exists if you accelerate to meet it.
Money: Mercury in your eighth finishes a long correction today. A postponed conversation about joint accounts opens more easily than expected.
Career: Jupiter in your ninth expands anything involving publishing, teaching or travel. Accept the introduction even if the timing is poor.
Family: Venus in your eleventh makes friends easier than relatives. That is allowed for one Saturday.
Lucky Colour: Deep Teal | Lucky Number: 12 | Best Time: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM | Worst Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Capricorn Horoscope Today, 8 August 2026
Saturn reversed in your fourth house takes the trine from the Sun in your eighth. Venus has entered your tenth house of career, the most flattering placement your professional life has had this year.
Love: The subject drifts towards permanence. Answer honestly even if the honest answer is that you have not decided.
Money: Shared resources move in your favour this week, though not on your schedule.
Career: Venus at the top of your chart makes people want to work with you. Send the message you have been drafting since Wednesday.
Family: Saturn in your fourth rarely offers a second window. Fix the household matter this weekend rather than in September.
Lucky Colour: Charcoal | Lucky Number: 4 | Best Time: 6:30 AM to 8:00 AM | Worst Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Aquarius Horoscope Today, 8 August 2026
Pluto is retrograde in your first house and the North Node has sat in your sign since late July. The Sun, Jupiter and the South Node fill your seventh, where the 12 August eclipse lands. The Moon and Mars in your fifth make the day livelier.
Love: Someone wants more room than you usually give. Whether that is fair deserves a real answer.
Money: Venus in your ninth favours a course, a trip or a qualification over a purchase. Spend on the thing that compounds.
Career: Saturn retrograde in your third makes your messaging heavier than intended. Cut the third paragraph of anything you send.
Family: The fifth house Moon is the one genuinely light placement in your chart today. Take the evening off.
Lucky Colour: Electric Blue | Lucky Number: 11 | Best Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM | Worst Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Pisces Horoscope Today, 8 August 2026
Saturn and Neptune are both retrograde in Aries, your second house of income, a literal pairing of structure and dissolution. The Sun in your sixth trines Saturn, which makes the checking easy. Home has felt busier than restful since the Pisces Moon that closed July.
Love: Mercury’s last day in your fifth house of romance is accurate rather than romantic. Your read on someone is right.
Money: Check a balance before you spend against it. Neptune reversed here is specific about this failure mode.
Career: Repair one process today and next week costs you less. The Saturn trine is short-lived.
Family: The partial lunar eclipse on 28 August falls in your sign. Treat household friction now as early information.
Lucky Colour: Lavender | Lucky Number: 10 | Best Time: 3:15 PM to 4:45 PM | Worst Time: 8:30 PM to 10:00 PM
What All 12 Zodiac Signs Should Watch Next
The calendar tightens from here without a pause. Mercury enters Leo on 9 August, joining the Sun and Jupiter and concentrating three bodies in one sign three days before the eclipse falls there. Mars leaves Gemini for Cancer on 11 August, ending a transit that has kept collective speech running faster than collective thought all summer.
The eclipse itself is not a long one. Totality holds for about two minutes and eighteen seconds at maximum, and the path of totality is roughly 294 kilometres across at its widest, which is why so much of Europe gets a deep partial eclipse rather than the full event. Madrid and Barcelona reach 99 per cent coverage and London 91. It is the first totality visible from mainland Europe since 1999.
What makes 12 August unusual is not the geometry but the placement. It darkens the degrees the nodal shift made significant in late July, when the lunar axis moved onto Leo and Aquarius for the first time in eighteen years. This is the first eclipse on that axis, and apart from the Pisces lunar eclipse on 28 August, every eclipse through to March 2028 falls there.
Read Saturday accordingly. The waning crescent does not reward launches. It rewards subtraction, and it has been doing so since the Taurus Moon squared the Leo Sun on Wednesday, with the same instruction running back to the Aries Moon that opened the month. Whatever survives the next four days goes into the eclipse with you. Astrology remains a symbolic tradition rather than a science, but the transits keep their schedule regardless of who is ready for them.
