Believing in the Life You Desire

This week reminds us that there is medicine in releasing whatever we have been holding that isn’t ours to carry. In so doing, we make space for what we truly desire life to look like. Not long after the Sun transits into Virgo, the new Moon starts its cycle again in the same sign. It’s a time to clear the noise of what the world tells us and find a return to what is destined for us. Your weekly horoscope for August 17-23, 2025, holds answers for coming back to this knowing.

Weekly Horoscope for August 17-23, 2025, Preview

August 18 | Moon enters Cancer
August 20 | Moon enters Leo
August 22 | Sun enters Virgo
August 23 | Moon enters Virgo; New Moon in Virgo

Virgo Season

This week the Sun crosses a threshold as it enters the constellation Virgo on August 22 or 23, 2025, depending on where you are in the world, and remains there until September 22, 2025. Whenever the Sun shifts, the channel through which our life force is expressed moves along with it.

Leo, our fire sign where the Sun has been for the last month, brought creativity, play, and love. Virgo is our mutable earth sign, a living frequency, an archetype within each of us that grounds energy into form and holds us steady as we transition from one season to the next.

Virgo is a sign of detail, organization, and practical movement. It is a sign of refinement that clears away the excess—whether noise, energy, clutter, or thoughts—so that we can clarify our direction and devote ourselves to it. In Virgo, we turn toward our everyday rhythms and the small steps that either nurture or drain us—our sleeping patterns, our primary thoughts, the information we take in.

As the Sun shifts into Virgo, we are drawn inward. Here we can observe how to best channel our ideas into form through tangible action. Virgo reminds us of the power in considering each moment as intentional, each day as a representation of the life you desire, each step as partial attainment of your goal.

New Moon in Virgo

Just hours after the Sun enters Virgo, the Moon does as well. It then begins its cycle again on August 22 or 23, 2025, depending on where you are in the world, as the new Moon in Virgo.

A new Moon occurs when the Sun and Moon align. The sky is dark. The cosmos quiet. The moment still. We can’t see the Moon. It is hidden from our sight. We can only feel her, sense her, know her from within. There is something within us that knows we, too, are about to begin again.

This is our first of two new Moons in Virgo, with September bringing the second in the form of an eclipse. The initial new Moon begins a story that continues into the next month and beyond. It is a lunation of preparation. It is a lunation of listening, aligning, and from there, creating space for patient clarity and grounded action. The Virgo eclipse next month holds something beautiful and powerful for us all.

Weekly Horoscope for August 17-23, 2025

Listen. Tune in. Feel. Attune to your desires and your vision of how you want your life to look. First through feeling, then through grounding. Virgo is patient, refined, intentional. It is a sign of tangible action guided from inward connection. And it is a sign of service—of dedicating your mind and body to the way that love, beauty, creation and life wants to uniquely move through you. How do you want to spend your time and efforts? How can you direct your everyday movements, both inwardly and outwardly, in support of that? Your weekly horoscope can help you better understand how. Read for your rising sign.

Aries Rising

Come back to your body. Remember it as sacred, intelligent, and forever speaking to you. If you had only love for the tangible form that allows you to move through this world, what decisions would you make about it? How would you act toward it and yourself?

Taurus Rising

Listen to what your heart is saying. What sparks you at its expression? What brings you to tears at the thought of creating it? Consider how you can express that through your life, your art, your sharing, and your playing. This week wants to see your inner connection spill into outward expression.

Gemini Rising

Which of your narratives and patterns formed in your younger years—whether inherited from family or learned from the world—would benefit from updating? You have learned there are other ways to navigate. Bring your evolved perspective to your past conditioning so you might come into the present.

Cancer Rising

Consider the mind as a realm that you can enter, explore, and update anytime with intention. What does the realm of your mind look like? Feel like? What exists within it? This week escorts you into this realm so that you might begin discerning what belongs there and what does not.

Leo Rising

Remember the belonging you have in this world. Do you allow yourself to receive resources and support? Feel the realignment of your self-worth on all levels—mental, emotional, physical. Let the days ahead bring worthiness, trust, and embodiment to your every moment.

Virgo Rising

This week brings clarity around who you believe yourself to be. How do you show up in this world? Who you have become over the last year? You are not who you once were. Let your identity adapt and update so the truth of your essence can speak louder than past identities.

Libra Rising

This week brings sanctuary, silence, solitude, and sacred moments. It asks you to step away from noise and release anything you choose to no longer hold. Let it be a week of turning inward and remembering, communing, and surrendering.

Scorpio Rising

There is a realm of energy, ideas, and potential asking for your attention. To achieve your visions of the future, however, you must clear your thoughts and your field from the collective noise. Step away from what is so you can tune into what will be.

 Sagittarius Rising

There is a north star guiding you this week and asking for your focus and dedication. It’s time to take up more space and remember yourself as your own authority. How can you strip away the noise and distractions—those from within and without–so you can hear what’s calling you forward?

Capricorn Rising

Life is reminding you that more exists beyond the structure of your perspectives and current ways of being. This week asks you to liberate yourself and explore all that wants to dance and play with you.

Aquarius Rising

There is medicine that can be reached only through intimacy with your emotions and surrender to your depths. This week supports emotional clearing, restructuring of patterns, and the acceptance of your fears as self-reclamation. The days ahead bring depth and feeling, empowerment and release.

Pisces Rising

Your weekly horoscope draws you into your body and into your relationship with the humanness of this world—practicalities, mundane rhythms of your days, and matters of the heart. It asks you to embrace these everyday spaces of living, which will only heighten and make sweeter your dreams, your sacredness, and your relationship with the magical.