With Venus, planet of money, desire and the laws of attraction due to reach your financial sector next Thursday, it's a little too soon to either define your financial expectations let alone set them in concrete. Where things stand on the financial front now, both in terms of your reality and your expectations, is not where they'll stand in just a few weeks and definitely not in a few months time. With Mars reaching your financial sector the week after, the bar is being raised along with your financial desires and your fighting spirit. Until then continue to keep your options open, while making the most of the Moon's visit to your income sector between Monday and Wednesday. Pay attention to any intuitive or emotional reactions to things on the income, earnings or spending front.

Venus, planet of money, desire and the laws of attraction and your ruling planet is not only the lead planet in your work sector, due to leave next Thursday, she's in her last full week and in a more urgent mode. Venus has a vested interest in steering things in the most profitable direction and even if you're not consciously focused on the money, it's where your heart leads on the work front that you're also more likely to find the money. That's because Venus gives your heart a financial compass and an instinctual sense of where the money or the most personal satisfaction lies. It's the Moon's visit to your income sector between Wednesday and Friday that enhances this further, giving you the Midas touch and an uncanny sense of where the money is.

Now in his last 2 full weeks in retrograde motion in your financial sector, pressure that Pluto has been under is dramatically easing, allowing him to focus more on second chances and ensuring that no stone has been left unturned. With growing support from the Sun and Mercury in your home and family sector this puts any home, family or property financial matters into a much better light, giving you a chance to resolve anything you've been working towards. Due to turn direct on the 14th September Pluto, planet of change and revolution is a lot more focused on ensuring there are no room for regrets before turning his focus onto the future. It's the Moon's visit to your income sector over the weekend that gives things a nudge in the right direction.

A week on from the Sun's departure from your income sector last week and any fears that the momentum already gained would drop off have proved unfounded, while already you're more likely to have your financial game hat on. You're taking your power back, realising that it has nothing to do with what financial opportunities might drift your way and everything to do with how you're able to manage things. It's a very positive association between the Sun and Mercury in your communication sector and Neptune and Chiron in your financial sector, that is giving an already vivid financial imagination the means to be turned into plans and strategies. Instead of hoping and wishing you're now more likely to be planning and strategising.

There is a growing sense of financial patience and confidence in the air this week, especially when it comes to your income. With a New Moon in your income sector next week, growing job confidence and Mercury and Pluto still in retrograde motion, even if you felt inclined to push things there's no need and you wouldn't necessarily achieve anything. Instead, with Mercury in retrograde motion in your income sector until the 13th September and Pluto in retrograde motion in your work sector until the 14th September, enjoy the opportunity you have to work behind the scenes and to ensure no stone has been left unturned. An alignment between the Sun and Mercury in your income sector on Friday brings the past and future into context giving you both hindsight and foresight to work with.

What a difference a week makes. Just a week ago you were still recovering from a Saturn/Jupiter opposition that had your income and financial sectors in conflict which only ended a week ago on Sunday. Yet as you move into the new week you're not only into the second week of recovery, but you're starting to feel a lot more confident and a lot less likely to see opportunities slip through your fingers. This is Venus, planet of money, desire and the laws of attraction's last full week in your income sector before leaving your income sector next Thursday and it's also Jupiter, planet of luck's last full week before he leaves your financial sector on the same day. In conflict just a few weeks ago they're now working together to make every moment, choice and action count.

There is a deceptive element in play at the moment, for while Uranus is back in your work sector and fate and synchronicity are once again at work, there's no real sign of any real opportunities, either on the job or the income fronts. That's what's so deceptive, for what this hides is just how close you are to a turnaround, both on the job and income fronts as soon as later next week. It's next Thursday that there is a dramatic and sudden shift, for on the same day that Jupiter, planet of luck, returns to your work sector Venus will move into your income sector. Instead of staying for the 3 ½ weeks she normally allocates to getting things moving on the income front, Venus will stay for 3 ½ months, the longest time she's spent here since 2002.

You're moving into the new working week with an uncanny sense of timing, especially when it comes to your work situation with Jupiter, planet of luck, now in his final days. There is still no planetary activity in either of your money houses but with Mars, planet of passion, drive and ambition due to reach your income sector on the 28th October, opening the door to a very lucrative period that extends out to February 2011, you're already building towards that time. It's effort that Jupiter's putting in now, to get things moving on the job front that will bear fruit from late October onwards. Meanwhile the Moon makes a visit to your financial sector between Wednesday and Friday, giving you a chance to get your bearings and pay attention to what your instincts are alerting you to.

Just as things are becoming more settled on the professional front and you have a much better handle on where you've been and where you're going, your earnings confidence is increasing. This is no coincidence, with the Sun and Mercury's position in your career sector seeing both moving into an increasingly positive angle with Pluto and your income sector as the week progresses. This peaks on Friday, on the very day that the Sun and Mercury align in your career sector. This not only brings a much greater sense of professional awareness but of how this ties in financially. This comes just weeks before a professional and income turnaround is due, mid September. The Moon's visit to your financial sector over the weekend will give you a chance to get your financial bearings.

It was only last week that the Sun left your financial sector, taking pressure off Neptune and Chiron in your income sector, but already your financial confidence is rebounding. It's the 10 months your financial sector had been active that is only now proving its value, for you're a lot more financially savvy and up with the play than you thought, allowing you to think and act on your feet. At the same time it's Venus, planet of money, desire and attraction's last full week in your career sector, before leaving next Thursday that would be creating a financial bias anyway, but a growing allegiance with your income sector makes this even more potent. This brings a new sense of professional and earnings confidence that if anything is underestimating your options.

At the same time that the Sun and Mercury draw closer in your financial sector, with the Sun focused on the future and Mercury on the road behind, Uranus is opening the door to second chances on the income front. Together they all hint of what's possible, but it won't be until next week that things will really fall into place. It's next Thursday, just a day after Wednesday's New Moon in your financial sector that Jupiter will return to your income sector and Venus, planet of money, desire and the laws of attraction will reach your career sector. Within the space of just 24 hours your professional and financial options will open up, but until then you need to keep your options open and trust that anything is possible, professionally and financially.

At last a truce has been called with forces that were in opposition just a few weeks ago now more likely to be working together. For this is both Venus, planet of money, desire and the laws of attraction's last full week in your financial sector and Jupiter, planet of luck's last full week in your income sector and they know that they have no option but to work together. With both leaving next Thursday, there is a new sense of urgency developing on both the income and financial fronts, but there shouldn't be any pressure. Any financial choices need to have a positive impact on your income options and any income choices need to have a positive impact on your financial situation as a whole. While that's as it should be, that hasn't been the case over recent weeks.