New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- Horoscope today, 16 August 2026, turns on one meeting in the western sky that the syndicated daily horoscope will not mention at all. At 12.41 pm IST, the waxing crescent Moon comes to an exact conjunction with Venus at 9 degrees 19 minutes of Libra, on the single weekend of this apparition when Venus stands farthest from the Sun. It is the best hour the twelve zodiac signs get this week, and nine hours later the bill arrives.

Venus reached greatest eastern elongation at 45.9 degrees on Saturday noon IST and still holds 45.89 degrees, burning at magnitude minus 4.4 with a disc close to half lit. That matters because Venus is not a visitor in Libra. She rules it. The planet of value and negotiation stands in her own ...