New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- Horoscope today, 18 August 2026, begins with a release and ends with a handover. At 3.16 am IST, the Moon crossed out of Libra into Scorpio, closing a void-of-course window that had run for ten hours and fifteen minutes since it last touched the Sun at 5.00 pm on Monday. Just under twenty-three hours later, at 2.04 am IST on Wednesday, the mean lunar node slides out of Pisces into Aquarius, completing a shift of the karmic axis that happens once every eighteen and a half years. Tuesday sits in the gap between those two events, and it is a stranger day than any syndicated column will tell you.

The strangeness is measurable. The Moon makes exactly two aspects on 18 August, and both finish before lunch. It squares Plut...