#August 2026

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Antares: Decan 16 - Transformation & Willpower (August 17-26)
Books 11 min

Antares: Decan 16 - Transformation & Willpower (August 17-26)

The photons entering your eyes right now left Antares in 1475. This red supergiant, 680 solar radii across, is simultaneously expanding outward and collapsing inward, transforming through every stage of nuclear fusion toward an inevitable supernova. The Rival of Mars refuses to be confused with something that borrows its color from another source.

Zubeneschamali: Decan 15 - Balance & Justice (August 7 - August 16)
Books 19 min

Zubeneschamali: Decan 15 - Balance & Justice (August 7 - August 16)

The photons entering your eyes right now left Zubeneschamali in 1840. At 185 light-years, this fierce blue-white star marks the northern pan of the celestial scales, and for over two millennia, reputable observers have reported seeing it as green, a color no known stellar physics can produce. Decan 15 opens with the light of abolitionism and the ancient question of what the scales reveal when you weigh honestly.