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Weekly Horoscope: August 23-August 29

How will your sign fare this week, stargazer?

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Not every week asks you to brace yourself, but this one does — and knowing why before it arrives makes a difference. Uranus squares both the Sun and Mercury exact on Friday, stargazer, which means identity and communication are getting rattled simultaneously. That’s not a small thing. What you think of yourself and how you transmit that to the world are both going to hit unexpected interference before the week is out. It’s coming from a known direction — you can prepare for a disruption you see coming.

The grounding underneath it holds: Saturn trine Jupiter goes near-exact this week, and that’s structural optimism building for months. Virgo season is already demanding precision and follow-through, and Mercury moving into Virgo Tuesday backs it up with analytical muscle. The disruption Friday isn’t the whole story — it’s one day inside a week that’s also building something solid. Keep both of those things in view.

How will your sign fare this week?

Aries: March 21 – April 19

You’ve been focused on what’s blocking you — and there is something blocking you; Saturn squaring Mars all week is actual pressure, not imagined. But while you’re staring at the wall, Aries, you might be missing what’s opening up next to it. Saturn trine Jupiter is building toward exact this week, and that’s a cooperative signal you haven’t had in a while.

These two things are happening simultaneously: one door is stiff, another is unlocking. The instinct is to keep forcing the stuck one because that’s where your energy already is. Don’t. Mars sextile Sun is starting to build a longer arc of forward movement — but only if you’re willing to look up from the fight long enough to see it.

Aries monthly horoscope

Taurus: April 20 – May 20

The pressure that’s been sitting on your desires and relationships for the past two weeks is lifting, Taurus — Saturn’s opposition to Venus winds down, Jupiter’s sextile fades, and what you’re left with is the picture that all that reckoning was building toward. You did the hard part. You looked at what things actually cost.

Now comes the part you’re less comfortable with: moving on to the conclusion instead of circling back to revisit it. Virgo season is already asking for precision and follow-through, and Mercury moving into Virgo Tuesday backs that up. The decision you arrived at about what you want — and what you’re done tolerating — is the right one. Trust it and go. Reconsidering at this point is just delay in a different outfit.

Taurus monthly horoscope

Gemini: May 21 – June 20

Something is going to enter the conversation this week that you didn’t plan for, Gemini — and not in a small way. Uranus squaring Mercury, going exact Friday, is the disruption planet hitting your ruling planet at full force. That’s not a bad thing, but it does mean........

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