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Updated August 23, 2025 05:11AM
The week ahead offers expansion and grounding, change and refinement, self-love and creative expression. With outer planet activations and the movement of Venus into Leo, there’s an awakening taking place. Your weekly horoscope for August 24-30, 2025, explores where to focus your awareness so you can observe the way these vaster energies want to move through you. Where do they want to open you? Where do they want to show you more of yourself, more possibility, more magic? How are you feeling called to rewrite the script of who you are and what life is?
Weekly Horoscope for August 24-30, 2025, Preview
August 24 | Sun Square Uranus
August 25 | Venus Enters Leo; Moon Enters Libra
August 28 | Uranus Sextile Neptune; Moon Enters Scorpio
August 30 | Moon Enters Sagittarius
Sun Square Uranus
The beginning of the week highlights a square between the Sun in Virgo and Uranus in Gemini. A square is a 90-degree angle with a profound amount of energy moving through it. Squares heighten tension, and with that tension, they ask that we move, make a change, and act on what it is that is being illuminated from within. It’s an aspect with a profound amount of potential moving through it.
Our recent entry into Virgo brings refinement to our everyday rhythms and routines. There’s a sense of order, grounding, and structure. Uranus in Gemini brings constant change with flashes of inspiring yet disruptive ideas. As these two planets connect, the way we relate to order, structure, routine, and peace is restructured. Our belief systems and perspectives are stretched while more inspiration, excitement, and belief in what could be moves through our bodies.
As the heightened moment of the square begins to subside, we can still draw on it to ground us through our usual rhythms, routines, action taking, and everyday thinking even as we show up to the world in a new way. This square is a cosmic wake-up.

Venus Enters Leo
The following day welcomes Venus into Leo. Whereas Leo is fire, bold expression, and creative self-expression, Venus is beauty, connection, and self-worth. They each are magnetic and channel the heart. Together, these archetypes offer passionate love, playful creative expression, and a healing of our innate worthiness.
They teach us to embody our beauty, uniqueness, and magic that makes us who we are. To remember life as art. To recall what it feels like to authentically emanate our vibe as we move through the world. To step into our version of confidence and to heighten the need to express ourselves, to feel seen, and to be love.
Venus in Leo reminds us that we are love itself. We are created by love, animated with love, and sources of love. Love is not something we need to search for, seek to be worthy of, or find only in another. Love is our truth. Throughout this transit, which continues through September 19, 2025, we stand in our worth so that we can draw to us what—and who—are meant for us.
Uranus Sextile Neptune
Whenever two of our slower-moving, outermost planets form an exact aspect with one another, it’s a moment of tremendous change. It signals a larger reorganization of the tapestry that holds our collective existence together throughout time and space. This week meets one of those moments with a sextile between Uranus in Gemini and Neptune in Aries on August 28, 2025.
The meeting of Uranus and Neptune hasn’t happened since the 1960s, yet it is the first of five taking place through 2027. Outer planet movements and aspects require vast time to be integrated. They offer the kind of change that, when we look back, reveals profound transformation that has taken place, especially in the spaces of creativity, innovation, imagination, identity, and spirituality.
Uranus and Neptune sextile signifies awakenings, heightened creative visions, and a liberation from old structures, both inner and outer. It blurs the line between science and spirituality and urges us to turn dreams into innovative action and to expand our identity to include a larger essence of truth beyond only this physical expression. It is a greater awakening to and realization of the self as a part of the collective—the cosmos, nature, humanity. It is a symbol of the larger collective change we find ourselves within.

Weekly Horoscope for August 24-30, 2025
Throughout the week’s many aspects is space to turn your awareness toward yourself. The way you see yourself. The way you relate to change. The way you celebrate your beauty. The way you express your love. The way you feel at one with larger forces in this Universe and beyond. The way you want to pursue the dreams that continue to whisper your name.
All of this wants to be updated. Not in the sense that you are becoming someone different. More in the sense that you are becoming even more of yourself so that you can hold more of your own love and creativity, weave more of your imaginations into form, and reach more into your sacred and spiritual nature.
Observe the way these vaster energies want to move through you. Where do they want to open you? Where do they want to show you more of yourself, more possibility, more magic? How are you feeling called to rewrite the script of who you are and what life is?
With all this opening, updating, and expansion moving through your being, the week invites you to remember the grounding medicine of the Sun in Virgo. This looks like simple acts of devotion to yourself. Routines and habits that nurture and bring you home to yourself. Your weekly horoscope explains. Read for your rising sign.
Aries Rising
Make space for creative expression. Who are you? What exists within you? How does that want to be shared? What message, feeling, or idea wants to come to life? Allow your sense of self to expand, update, and express itself.
Taurus Rising
This week supports a more profound sense of belonging within your mind, your body, and your relationships. It asks you to explore the sacred essence that is you and become more aware of your way of taking up space. If life were offering you anything, what would you ask for? Know that there is healing to be found in the art of receiving.
Gemini Rising
Who are you? This week asks you to set aside any existing narratives and perceptions about who you are and who you need to be. Instead, consider whether you can meet yourself as you are. Can you allow this freedom of movement, expression, and being?
Cancer Rising
There is vast support weaving through the unseen. How do you want it to help you in the tangible world? Allow your mind to expand beyond the everyday. Listen to what the cosmos has to offer and declare how you want to be supported.
Leo Rising
As you peer into your imagined future, what do you see? This week focuses your attention on embracing more of your light. How does it feel to emanate your essence, to weave your beauty into each step, and to allow your passion to lead? From this space, the future is speaking to you.
Virgo Rising
Authority. Leadership. Trust. This week invites you to remember yourself as the sacred architect of your life, the self that you can follow, trust, and be guided by. It invites both a surrender to the support and love of the unseen, and an empowering ownership of your depth, strength, and creative power.
Libra Rising
This week asks you to listen. To let your intuition take up more space and allow your hunches to guide you with authority. Life is speaking directly to you, and it desires to show you more. As you expand your awareness, you will be reminded of your oneness with the vaster rhythms of life.
Scorpio Rising
This week brings the realization of your creativity, your strength, and your ability to choose who you are and how you create your life. How do you desire to interact with the world? Keep checking in with yourself so you can ensure you’re expressing your inner desires through your outer actions.
Sagittarius Rising
What do you want to create? What do you want to share? Who do you want to share with? How do you want it to feel? This week brings insight around the potential for change in your personal relationships and reminds you of your dreams throughout every waking movement.
Capricorn Rising
Let your sense of self expand. Let life show you more of who you are underneath your stories related to your identity. Let this change the way you relate to your depth—the foundational patterns within your body and your psyche. And let it change how you move through the world.
Aquarius Rising
Look within. There you’ll find a reminder of your strength and your truth. You’ll also experience a call for even more outward expression. As you reclaim more of yourself, how does that shift the way you express, create, relate, love, and move through the world?
Pisces Rising
Your weekly horoscope brings a sense of belonging and a reminder that your authentic self-expression is your chosen home. So are your chosen people and the potential you find in each day. What needs to be updated, both from within and without, so you can feel this belonging?