Mars leaves your sign this week and, until November 25, helps you to not only come up with ideas but actually make money from them. If your finances need attention, stop avoiding the numbers and start rebuilding. Mercury also sharpens your wit and makes communication more playful, creative and entertaining. Enjoy getting reactions, but don't become the person who thinks cruelty counts as comedy. Laugh at life instead and focus that sharp mind productively.

September asks a simple question: what's the point of looking successful if your private life is a mess? Work could demand more than you've realistically got to give, and it may be time to face home, family or living issues you've tolerated because ringing changes has felt like too much hard work. Professional recognition awaits, and you deserve to enjoy it. Praise is lovely, and proper compensation is better, but do remember that saying about working to live, not living to work.