Overview
- On 23 August the Sun is reported to leave Leo and enter Virgo, a moment horoscopes treat as a Virgo solar return that many outlets frame as the start of a new personal year for people born under that sign.
- German sites note the same date also marks the end of the traditional Hundstage, a late‑summer period tied to the heliacal rise of Sirius that has long signalled a shift from high summer heat toward calmer seasonal routines.
- Coverage highlights that the Perseid meteor shower peaked in mid‑August but its trailing activity will remain visible through the month, a detail used by writers as a symbolic chance to tie wishes or intentions to the seasonal change.
- Mainstream outlets published daily and weekly horoscopes for the 17–23 August period and promoted AI tools such as BILD’s Cosma and Hey_ to produce personalised readings, while explicitly reminding readers that astrology is interpretive and not a natural science.
- Commentators single out Gemini, Pisces and Libra for consequential decisions in late August and point ahead to a lunar eclipse on 28 August as a further possible catalyst for emotional closure or change.