Even though you're in a period of feeling unusually carefree and creative, you can't escape certain responsibilities which tend to bog you down. With the abundance of career activity coming your way, it's important for you to be selective in where you focus your energies so as not to spread yourself thin. By month's end, you'll resolve how to proceed on a new project or enterprise.

Emotions will be high due to a change in a personal relationship or in the way you see yourself in relation to others. Career and public image will go hand in hand this week, allowing for improved communication with just about everyone and for things going smoothly in you working environment. A raise or advancement of status is likely. A career-related matter will be resolved by Sept. 2nd.

You'll experience a period of inner blossoming, especially where your talents are concerned. A temporary frustration or disappointment in career could, in fact, open up to you a whole new sense of who you are, leaving you with tremendous insight as to how you should proceed in the future. A test of your abilities by week's end could put you in line for a raise or promotion.

Things in your working environment couldn't be better now, this period allowing for clear-headed organization for future projects, especially if creative, and for establishing yourself in ways that make for your long-term financial success. Resist the temptation to impulsiveness; planning is essential. A temporary setback around the 1st energizes your talents to make your position stronger.

Don't expect to breeze through your work situation this week, as career and work responsibilities will keep you jumping, putting extra demands on your already busy schedule. Use this activity to your advantage by being discriminating in where you focus your energies. A conflict of egos, or a period of power plays, will be resolved by week's end.

You'll find yourself being pressured into making a commitment with a group or company, or being drawn into an affiliation with a new class of people. Even though this may go against what you feel are your true career aspirations, indications are such that much will come of commitments made now. A surge of creative energy around the 29th could lead to a new financial direction.

You're in a period of facing facts or accepting responsibilities in personal relationships. Either you'll find extra demands placed on you with regard to your partner or you'll bear an extra burden for the sake of love. At work, you'll figure prominently in a major transaction, and could benefit through a parnership or collaboration. A group project shows promise after Sept. 1st.

A burst of physical energy now will help to overcome health concerns and pull you out of a long-standing lethargy. You'll feel strangely motivated to action in career matters, your behavior seeming inappropriate or uncharacteristically aggressive to others. Your energy is best spent in the professional arena where you'll appear bigger than life and unusually charismatic.

Your keyword for professional matters this week is integration, that is, bringing some personal aspects of your life into your work or career activities. The degree to which you maintain a genuine sense of yourself against outside pressures, in fact, could be the telling factor in the promising period you are entering. Around Thursday, you'll have uncanny powers of persuasion in business.

Although you're picking up double meanings in personal relationships and from your peers, it's up to you to make sense of what's happening through casual, non-threatening communication. You may be divided between old friendships and new contacts coming your way, the latter offering opportunity for great benefit. Around Tuesday, you'll be given a direction for your heart to follow.

You'll be able to shine in terms of your own abilities, with the added plus of your being able to make a favorable impression on others. There could be shakeups in your work situation, but this can actually work to your advantage. While others obsess over trivialities, you may calmly assume a leading role or position. Your ability to survive in tough business situations may be tested.

You'll have moments of intellectual brilliance this week, finding a solution to a long-standing problem or discovering within yourself some untapped resources. You could, however, suffer in career efforts if you try to stand alone without the cooperation of co-workers, friends or family. With financial and work-related pressures of the past few weeks being lifted, you can now move ahead unhampered.