Horoscope Today, Aug. 17 -- 01 IST, the Moon in Libra completes a sextile to the Sun in Leo, and then it does nothing at all. No conjunction, no square, no trine, no opposition to any planet for the next ten hours and fifteen minutes, until it crosses into Scorpio at 03:16 IST on Tuesday morning. Astrologers call that stretch a void of course Moon. Anyone who has signed a contract at nine in the evening and regretted it by Thursday has lived through one without knowing the name.

The figure matters more than the label. Most columns published for today will tell you the Moon is in Libra, which is true and roughly as useful as being told it is August. Very few will name the hour the Moon stops speaking, and almost none will say it stays sil...