Monthly Horoscopes

A monthly horoscope reads the sky as if everyone born under one sign shares a single chart, so it is a useful sketch rather than a precise reading. The transit dates and degrees are exact; the house placements are approximations based on your Sun sign. For accuracy, read the same forecast for your rising sign or generate your full birth chart.

Both, ideally. The Sun sign version describes the broad theme of the month. The rising sign version is usually more accurate for house placements, because houses in a real chart are measured from the ascendant.

Each month's forecasts are published around the start of the month, so you can plan around key dates such as the New Moon, Full Moon, sign changes and retrogrades.

A daily horoscope tracks the fast-moving Moon and immediate aspects, so it changes every day. A monthly horoscope covers slower structural transits, lunations, sign ingresses and outer-planet stations, and gives you the shape of the whole month.

A degree pinpoints exactly where in a zodiac sign a planet or lunation falls. It matters because a transit only activates part of your chart. Knowing that a New Moon falls at 18 degrees Virgo rather than simply in Virgo is what lets you see which of your natal placements it actually touches.