August 2008 forecast

June is your Beautiful Mind month when ideas will just spill out of you, as will conversations, plans, and to-do lists so you should expect a barrage of emails, phone calls and short car trips. This is because Venus will be in your solar third house of communication until the 7th, joined by Mercury until the 11th and the Sun until the 23rd, making it Ideas Month for Geminis.

Great days to come up with everything from the bleeding’ obvious to jaw-dropping, now-why-didn’t-I-think-of-that ideas include the New Moon of the 1st, 5th, 9th and 21st, where you could have conversations, emails, letters or phone calls that change your life direction. You could get an attack of fuzzy-head, unable to work out what people are saying, suffer an unusual amount of gullibility, or worse, just get plain lied to on the 6th, 15th and Full Moon of the 16th .

The other Department of Life for you this month is home and family with five planets taking up residence here, including Saturn (until October 2009), Mars until the 20th, Venus from the 7th, Mercury from the 11th and the Sun from the 23rd. Your home zone could become a huge focus for you with the possibility of relocation, redecoration, real estate dealings, household repairs, family responsibilities, home entertaining, new flatmates or boarders, creating a nursery for impending arrivals or even a home office for that fledgling business idea.

With Saturn here, many of your home-related decisions are likely to be practical, a little restrictive and/or to do with money – can you afford it, will it add value to your home etc etc. Good days to concentrate on your home base include the 13th, 15th, 17th (in the morning) 18th and 21st and you could move or change your house(hold) in some way from the New Moon of the 31st. Beware of getting horribly frustrated and taking potentially regret-inducing home- or family-related action on the 6th, 17th (from lunchtime), 23rd, 28th and 29th that could get loved ones offside.