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Your fate, as read from a porch.

The Duxbury horoscope: twelve signs, read fresh each month, for people who know what a beach sticker is. This is astrology, offered in the same spirit as reading tea leaves, which is to say for fun. For the actual sky, the eclipses, meteor showers, and constellations you can verify with your own eyes, see the Stars page.

LAST UPDATED: JULY 21, 2026 · COVERING AUGUST 2026

The readings: August

Written fresh each month for this town specifically. Two eclipses and a new moon in Leo make August what astrologers call eclipse season, a stretch for endings, beginnings, and dramatic gestures. Here is how it lands, sign by sign.

Mar 21 – Apr 19

Aries

The Leo new moon on the 12th lights your courage. Say the bold thing at the cookout; someone useful is listening. By the eclipse moon on the 28th, take one old grudge to the transfer station with the rest of the recycling.

Lucky: dawn high tide · the bridge rail · ember red
Apr 20 – May 20

Taurus

Home is the project. The urge to redo the porch is real, so price it out before Virgo season makes you cautious. A neighbor repays an old favor near the 28th, probably with zucchini.

Lucky: low-tide flats · iced coffee regular · sea-glass green
May 21 – Jun 20

Gemini

Your words carry farther than usual this month, like sound over calm water. Send the message you have been redrafting since July. Small talk at the farmers market turns into an actual plan.

Lucky: mid tide · the Bluefish River bench · chart cream
Jun 21 – Jul 22

Cancer

The new moon points at your money house: ask for it, list it, invoice it. You are ruled by the Moon, and this month yours gets eclipsed. Let the 28th loosen your grip on one thing you have held too tight.

Lucky: full-moon high tide · a quiet mooring · moon silver
Jul 23 – Aug 22

Leo

Your season, your new moon, and a meteor shower for a birthday sparkler. Make one clean start on the 12th and tell exactly two people about it. The sky is doing enough announcing for both of you.

Lucky: midnight tide · a blanket on the beach · gold, obviously
Aug 23 – Sep 22

Virgo

Rest before your season opens on the 22nd. Fog mornings count as self-care and require no explanation. What you quietly fix in August gets loudly appreciated in September.

Lucky: ebb tide · the monument lawn · hydrangea blue
Sep 23 – Oct 22

Libra

Your calendar is crowded, so choose the invitations that end outdoors. A friendship shifts into something steadier around the eclipse. Bring dessert, not opinions.

Lucky: sunset slack tide · Snug Harbor · rosé pink
Oct 23 – Nov 21

Scorpio

Career house lit. Someone senior is watching how you handle a small mess, so handle it like a harbormaster. Your own red star Antares hangs over the bay all month, reminding you to burn steady, not hot.

Lucky: spring tide · the highest view you can find · deep navy
Nov 22 – Dec 21

Sagittarius

Wander. A ferry, a rail trail, a town you never bothered with. The meteor peak on the 12th is an archer's sky; make one wish per fireball and mean at least one of them.

Lucky: outgoing tide · 3A with the windows down · horizon orange
Dec 22 – Jan 19

Capricorn

Shared matters surface: bills, boats, in-laws. Untangle one knot on paper before the 28th and the rest loosens on its own. An oyster dinner settles more than a meeting would.

Lucky: dead low · the raw bar · ledger black
Jan 20 – Feb 18

Aquarius

The eclipses land across your relationship line, and partnerships of every kind want plain terms this month. Say what you actually want. Watch the moon get swallowed on the 28th and let one arrangement end well.

Lucky: king tide · the far end of the bridge · storm gray
Feb 19 – Mar 20

Pisces

The lunar eclipse on the 28th happens in your sign, the closest thing August has to a personal note. Feelings run like a moon tide: real, strong, and temporary. Swim early, decide late.

Lucky: incoming tide · the warm side of the sandbar · pearl
Navigation note: everything on this page is astrology, offered in the same spirit as reading tea leaves on a porch: for fun. For the sky you can actually verify, eclipses, meteor showers, and constellations checked against NASA and standard references, see the Stars page. Plan your eclipse viewing by that page and your porch redo by your own judgment.