As Mercury transits into the creativity part of your chart so you come alive with clever ideas about how to live your life. All of August is about using your brain to come up with a compelling enterprise that enables you to find success combined with the intellectual stimulation to fulfil your heart.

Prepare for a change in circumstances that may cause suspicion, hostility or jealousy around your home. Tension is also felt in both romantic circles and social life; this pressure could be the catalyst that induces a fresh start or immediate ending of an old, familiar relationship.

Be careful as Mercury, moves signs and links up with Neptune, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto over the week ahead: an intoxicating cocktail which means focus on what really matters to you mentally. Avoid straying into blurry, illegal or sensitive areas and get wise to what’s possible and what’s not.

Cash and commercial areas concern you more than ever. Apart from honing your negotiating skills you must be aware that some things you are involved with are merely pie in the sky. Don’t throw good money after bad in the vain hope that a good tip was worth it; be practical and prudent currency-wise.

From today Mercury flies into your sign bringing major news leading to important events and decisions. A mental re-appraisal of all that you hold dear will occur between now and September: out of it all a clearer life picture will emerge, one you can confidently follow to a final conclusion.

Your thoughts veer away from the practical to the spiritual as religious and philosophical issues. Mercury makes you subconsciously aware of the inner riches, merits and talents you possess that you’ve not been using to their full advantage. Your psychic powers will be unlocked this August.

New opportunities for widening your social circle is promised but there is the danger of getting mixed up with the wrong crowd. Over the weeks to come, avoid people who are out to mislead, deceive or delay progress, instead team up with folk who are totally honest and upright in their dealings.

Be discriminating about the people you trust in your career world this August or you could be sharing your secrets with a rival. It’s a fine time for getting ahead of the rat race but you won’t make your mark by dropping your guard. Be warned of pursuing a red herring planted just for you.

A vacation is not enough to keep your restlessness at bay; what you need is something consequential like a house-move or emigration. Whatever your plans, you have your supporters and those who oppose you. Batten down the hatches as you are about to enter the storm before the calm.

Sex and finances are the demons that play psychological games with you between now and September. You must confront deep-seated problems relating to either or both. If the latter is getting you down, you won’t be in the mood for a bit of the other. If you’re living a lie, then get out the closet.

Mercury wings his way through Leo marking a time when you must concentrating on your relationships. Bonds and agreements will be made, broken, rehashed or re-established. Even the most meaningless conversation will have a far-reaching impact or implication the future of a love, marriage or affair.

Don’t wait until things start going wrong before you put them right; if you see something’s about to give, take steps to sort it out. Pertinent stars gives you greater insight into the practicalities of life as you are now more able to perceive the needs that others can’t or won’t put into words.