Your Daily HomeScope for August 19, 2025

August 19, 2025



If home is where the heart is, why shouldn’t it follow the same stars that we do? Our relationships with our homes are sacred, and like most, could use a bit of counseling here and there. Tap on your sun sign and start making your house more of a home today!

Aries

Workaholic you needs to member to take time for fun. Regular hotels are fine for quick business trips, but if you are going to add a weekend stay after the work is done, check into a bed and breakfast that lets you revel in the ambiance of the city.

Taurus

It is a good day to turn table on the housemate who thought it was fun to put plastic spiders in your bed. Use a clean rubber spider stamp and food coloring to decorate the edges of white plates at dinner. Yikes! What's under my roll?

Gemini

Spell-casting is second nature to you. Bewitch and beguile the love of your life with a little note about the time he saved you from that scary spider. Puff him (or her) up -- they need an ego boost even if they're the last to admit it.

Cancer

Cozy and warm is nice in the snow, but sitting under the roof on a porch swing, watching the rain come down and the lightning break open the sky with your family can be a bonding experience. Drink soup for bug mugs, and enjoy nature's show.

Leo

Hustle, bustle, juggle, rest. Repeat. Skip all but the rest today. Curl up on the veranda or in your partner's easy chair (with him or her in it) and take a nap. You'll see things from a less frantic perspective when you wake up.

Virgo

With a holiday approaching, you are beginning to think you might need a new outfit or two. If you find it is too late to find the perfect one on sale, see if a friend might be your size and can let you borrow something.

Libra

You've decided you've spent the last moment ever gnashing your teeth over the price of semi-fresh herbs at the grocery store. Perennials such as thyme, rosemary, marjoram, bay and tarragon do well in indoor pots.

Scorpio

Scraggly plants are annoying and can make you doubt your ability to maintain a close-to-perfect home. Train hoya or wax plant around a wire hoop for a look of abundance. Nothing lovelier than green.

Sagittarius

Don't fret thinking only you could kill a pothos plant when it seemed to be growing so thickly. Avoid re-potting future plants in a planter too large for its size. A couple inches bigger each time is best.

Capricorn

While cleaning out the big utensil drawer you noticed how icky your pastry brush was getting. An easier way to coat something lightly with oil is to put it in a squeeze-trigger bottle.

Aquarius

You may be prone to preventable accidents in the kitchen. Put a towel under the cutting board to prevent slippage. You're too busy right now to nurse a sliced-open finger or a sprained ankle. Minimize injuries; maximize enjoyment.

Pisces

Too bad you temper isn't as easy to contain as the water ready to boil over in the pot. The water can be tamed with a whisk. You might think of whisking yourself away before you say something you'll regret.