The Sun and Mercury move into Virgo together prompting you to give more thought to your lifestyle and health. If there is room for improvement through diet, regular exercise or kicking a bad habit, make a start now. Stick with your good intentions between now and Halloween to see a bold difference.

Your love life will be the source of inner joy and spiritual comfort as relationships, both old and new, take on new levels of intimacy. A longing to love and be loved is your ultimate priority this autumn when romance sizzles with a fresh sense of vitality and sexual fantasy become reality.

Satisfaction with how current projects are faring could spur you on to even further and more imaginative ways of doing things to replace the old and busted. In the weeks ahead a more positive attitude helps you to escape from tense situations and take impressive steps to improve your home world.

A buzz of excitement hovers around your everyday environment. Office reshuffles, technological changes, neighbourhood and community opportunities are just some of the things presenting new options and fresh challenges. Don't get left behind, seize the chance to take up a challenging gauntlet.

Let the entrepreneur in you have its head and lucrative opportunities are ripe for the picking. The final third of this millennium year is full of potential for you to make a personal and fiscal mark on it. You have dreamed of creating an impression since the year began, so don’t waste it.

Bring forward plans to present schemes or ideas to people whose support or backing you need to advance your personal cause. With the Sun and Mercury coming into your sign, the time for laying the foundations of your future and promoting your self-interests gives you the wings to spur you on.

You are more intense and spiritually aware from this day on, bringing a subtle change in your personality. You will notice a strong yearning for time alone as your psychic sensitivities are awakened and new insights are gained through meditation and working on your inner self. Find time to muse.

Whatever else can be said about your friendships between now and Halloween they certainly won’t be dull. The Sun and Mercury usher in a fresh social cycle when a long-awaited event takes place and group activities inject more stimulating interests and people into your personal orbit.

As the Sun and Mercury hit the Virgo together so a desire to make something of yourself is ignited more than ever. You are driven by a dynamic lust to achieve something lasting and worthwhile, powered by a strong need to gain success or at least some recognition for what you do well.

You are on the brink of something big and exciting as the Sun and Mercury change signs heralding a new direction in religious, intellectual or international matters. A fresh sense of purpose motivates you, as you aim prove yourself as never before. A move to a new location brings opportunity.

Time consuming it may well be but very necessary: this is a crucial time to get bang up-to-date with joint financial matters. Check all insurance policies are valid, bills or demands that affect work or business have been paid and grants you are both entitled to are applied for and received.

Every cloud has a silver lining and though life isn't easy at the moment, your world is about to make a remarkable recovery. Any partnership marred by misunderstanding can be healed if you are both prepared to find the middle way. The test of a true love is one that lasts through thick and thin.