Leo — Tuesday 11 August 2026

The Sun is at 18 degrees of your own sign, and Jupiter is right there alongside it at 9 degrees, which means you're operating under conditions that technically favour you. The problem with conditions that technically favour you is that Leo takes this as permission to say the loud part and skip the quiet part that makes the loud part worth hearing. *Mercury* is sitting in Leo too, at 2 degrees, and it's in a tight opposition to *Pluto* in Aquarius. What this produces, in practice, is someone who says something pointed and correct and then, instead of letting it do its work, says it again, slightly louder, in case it wasn't appreciated sufficiently the first time. Someone today will agree with you. You will fail to notice because you were already mid-sentence. *Venus* is doing something quietly interesting in Libra – trine Uranus, nearly exactly opposite Neptune – which means the emotional atmosphere around you is more fluid and more charged than usual. You won't pick up on this, because you're still talking. The Sun in Leo is warm and bright and everything orbits it. A solar system is an elegant arrangement. A conversation isn't.