While they are not in direct competition with each other, the key to getting the most out of a week where the stars could be sending mixed messages is having guardrails in place when it comes to a balance between work and play. It was over the weekend that the Sun’s return to your career sector brought you to a point in the year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto your career and professional situation, matters and options. Normally this is something you can ease into, but after Mercury retrograded back out and took the brakes off last week, as Mars, the warrior planet of the cosmos moves into his final three weeks in your career sector on Monday, it is with his foot firmly on the gas. Yet at the same time, Mercury has not only retrograded back into your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery, but just as in the heart of Venus’ last full week here she will move into a friendly aspect to Jupiter in a playful and creative part of your chart. This is not the first time the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence has powered up, with the Sun and Mercury having done this last week but this time, with the element of luck and the laws of attra