New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- Horoscope today, 10 August 2026, opens on a sky with one exact aspect in it, and that aspect is a brake. The Moon spends all of Monday in Cancer, the sign it rules, and at one o'clock India time it squares Saturn, still retrograde at 14 degrees Aries. Nothing else perfects. Two nights out from a total solar eclipse, that is an unusually narrow instruction, and a clear one.

The Moon begins the Indian day at 6 degrees Cancer and ends it at 21, thinning from roughly 12 per cent illumination to under 6. It also reaches perigee at about 363,300 kilometres, its nearest approach to this orbit. That proximity is not decorative. A Moon this close presents a larger disc, which is why Wednesday's eclipse is total rather than a...