This week’s celestial activity, featuring a Leo solar eclipse and major planetary movements, heralds a time of heightened awareness around love, value, and leadership, as the sky exposes hidden truths and prompts collective reflection.
The week’s astrology has the feel of a curtain rising on a noisy scene, with Venus, Mars, Mercury and a Leo solar eclipse all crowding the stage at once. In April Elliott Kent’s latest Big Sky Astrology episode, the mood is less about tidy answers than about noticing what the sky seems to expose: how people relate, how they spend, what they avoid and what finally refuses to stay hidden.
Venus is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, moving through Libra and making supportive links to Pluto and Uranus while opposing Neptune. Kent frames that combination as a prompt to look more honestly at love, value and money, especially where wishful thinking may have blurred the picture. The message is less “panic” than “pay attention”: if something looks seductive, unsettled or suddenly clearer, that may be the point.
Mars then shifts into Cancer, where it tends to act from feeling rather than pure drive. According to the episode, that ingress encourages people to protect what matters most and to get on with tasks they have been putting off. Mercury adds its own flurry of activity by opposing Pluto, trining Neptune and sextiling Uranus, a sequence Kent treats as a boost for blunt truth-telling, imagination and fresh insight. Mercury later meets Jupiter in Leo, which gives the week a louder, more expansive note and, as Kent puts it, a chance to speak ambitions into the open.
The centrepiece is the Leo New Moon solar eclipse, described on the show as a dramatic reset point with a distinctly theatrical edge. Astrological calendars from AstroSofa and other transit guides place the eclipse on August 12, alongside Mars’ move into Cancer and the day’s Mercury-Pluto opposition, underscoring just how tightly packed the period is. Kent links the eclipse degree with earlier Leo eclipses and suggests the symbolism points to leadership wobble, overblown pride and a kind of collective reckoning. The episode also answers a listener question about money houses in the horoscope, a fitting detour for a week that keeps returning to the same question: where does the value really sit?
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