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ASTROLOGICALLY SPEAKING / AUGUST 2026 joy is the most revolutionary thing available right now
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I've said I don't give a fuck what people think about me. It was a lie. I've bent over backwards for approval. And in a comment section of thousands of thousands of comments, the one comment that degraded me or poked at a flaw I contained became an obsession of mine. I equated likes with how well I was received, like I equated growth with how much I was growing. And it's not just me. You said the thing at dinner and then spent the whole drive home running it back. You sent the text message and watched for the three dots. Somewhere along the way we all picked up an instrument for measuring how we're landing, and almost none of us built the instrument. Two dates, and they want opposite things from you
The 12th brings a total solar eclipse at twenty degrees of Leo, sitting on the south node, which moved into Leo on July 26 and stays about eighteen months. A south node eclipse is a subtraction. Something gets taken out so you can hear what was underneath it. The 8th is different, and I'll be straight with you. 8/8, the Lionsgate. There's no transit that day. Anybody telling you the sky does a specific thing on August 8 is filling in a blank. Here's what is true, and I think it's better. The Sun is in Leo and Jupiter is in Leo, both, and that hasn't lined up on an 8th of August since 2015. It won't again until 2038. Jupiter is the gospel planet, and it turns whatever it touches into a philosophy. And enough people have decided to treat that day as a door that the deciding does something. A collective agreement kept by strangers, changing how a day feels. That's the most Aquarian thing there is (Leo's perfect opposite), and the only way in is to show up as yourself and make something, which is the most Leo. The ego is not the enemyEvery forecast about the eclipse will land in the same place. Kill the ego. Humble yourself. Sit down. Stop needing to be seen. I think that's wrong, and it does real damage to people who learned young that wanting to be seen was dangerous. The ego is not the enemy. Our lack of awareness of ourselves and each other, that's the separation. Sometimes giving a fuck is evidence that you're paying attention. The problem was never that I cared. The problem was the barometer, and somebody handed me that barometer and I called it my own judgment. My own south node is Leo, and this eclipse lands seven degrees off it in the middle of my nodal return, so I'm inside this one too. Joy is the revolutionary positionThe coldness and the detachment feel tethered to a truth that is itself outdated. And look, I get it, the world is right now. But perhaps the most revolutionary spin on this crisis point moment we're living in is that of joy. Of inspiration. Of the feeling of bringing a smile to someone's face through your expression of joy. Being an example of the life we wish to preserve!
Leo is the aliveness that is human. The embodiment of our creative potential. Fixed fire. Fixed will. Fixed light. Hoarding the spotlight defeats the purpose. But sharing the spotlight is what makes us all feel seen and witnessed and valued and heard as these beautiful little fragments of the collective spirit. Two things to do this week
Underneath both is a question I've stopped trying to answer. Would you still do the thing you do if nobody clapped? Would you still be YOU if someone wasn't praising you? Who would you be if nobody was watching? It's never gonna be enough until you fully embrace your enoughness. And that is a delicate dance.
I'll see you in it, DanĂel
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