Astrology of August 2026: Emerging Into the Light

It’s been a few months since I’ve written one of these monthly astrology overviews. I’ve missed it ~ reflecting on our cosmic weather-patterns helps me make sense of the season I'm living through. My double-Virgo mind exhales when everything finds its place and purpose.

This summer, every ounce of my attention has been devoted to bringing Heavenly Bodies Tarot into the world. After years of painting, writing, editing, designing and manufacturing, the deck is finally here. We have the inventory. We’ve shared it with our closest friends and family. We gathered together at the Summer Solstice to celebrate what felt like the completion of a very long creative journey.

We had hoped that gathering would also mark our public launch. But, as it turns out, self-publishing asks a great deal of you. Blu and I often joke that we’ve been building this airplane while flying it. Every week has introduced a lesson we couldn’t have anticipated. As challenging as it’s been, there has also been something deeply rewarding about learning every piece of this process ourselves. We’re now just days away from opening the doors, and we couldn’t be more excited to finally place this work into your hands.

Alongside all of this, another chapter has come full circle. After five years with my longtime publisher, I regained the rights to Heavenly Bodies Astrology. For the first time, both Heavenly Bodies Astrology and Heavenly Bodies Tarot now live together under Heavenly Bodies Studios. Having my two creative babies finally under one roof is deeply meaningful to me. One represents where this journey began and the other represents everything it has grown into.

Perhaps that’s why I’ve continued to reflect on the Summer Solstice, a month after it’s activation…

Every year, the Summer Solstice arrives as the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere (June 21) ~ the moment the Sun reaches its greatest strength before slowly beginning its descent toward autumn.

Within the zodiac, this turning point coincides with the Sun’s entrance into Cancer.

Cancer reminds us that life begins in hidden places. The brightest season of the year is born from months spent beneath the surface. Long before we witness blossoms, harvests or abundance, there is a period of cultivation taking place underground. Seeds soften, roots deepen. Life gathers itself before anyone can see it.

I’ve found myself returning to that image again and again this summer.

For years, Blu and I disappeared into our little studio in Topanga Canyon and devoted ourselves to building this world and asking the cards to reveal themselves to us. So much of creativity unfolds in private.

The visible moment ~ the launch, celebration and finished work ~ is only a tiny fraction of the story. The tip of the iceberg. The greater part is lived in the unseen.

I reflected on this while sitting with the Solstice ~ how perfectly this season has mirrored our own creative process. The light we’ve been celebrating all summer was shaped by months of darkness before it ever reached the surface.

Creation asks the same of us.

As much as I’ve missed writing here, I also knew I didn’t want to write simply because I felt I should.

We’re living through an extraordinary moment where technology can generate endless words in a matter of seconds. There has never been more pressure to remain visible, consistent and constantly producing.

If something arrives in your inbox with my name attached to it, I want you to trust that I’ve actually lived with it. I’ve sat with it long enough for it to become something I genuinely want to share. My relationship with astrology has never been about reporting on transits. It’s about allowing the cosmos to reveal deeper context for the season we’re living through.

And, over the past few months, my attention simply belonged elsewhere. I wasn’t sitting in front of my altar contemplating planetary movements. I was learning shipping logistics, editing printer proofs, reviewing Amazon listings and making hundreds of tiny decisions ~ all to bring something beautiful into existence.

Looking back, I can see that the astrology was describing this season all along. And once I stepped back far enough to see it, the symbolism became almost impossible to miss.