You enter June with big plans and ideas. The new moon that occurred several months ago on March 7 has lit your determination to rewrite your life's script. Your need to gain greater control and freedom from conditions is gaining momentum, and you'll continue to be bent on breaking old restrictive bonds.

Much of your new, liberated attitude is being expressed in your soaring creativity, and the fresh look to your work has started to garner the attention of all the right VIPs. A career breakthrough is imminent, something you will see this month. You and I will examine your career prospects in a moment. We are getting a little ahead of ourselves - let's start at the beginning of June, for home is about to be a big focus, too.

The new moon in Gemini will open the month on June 3 and help you to plan for several home-related improvements that you've meant to do for some time. If you need to move, start looking at spaces, for you're likely to find ones that interest you.

Mercury will retrograde in your fourth house during June's first three weeks, so if you do find an apartment or house you want, try not to sign the lease or finalize the closing just yet. Ideally, you can wait until Mercury turns direct, after June 19 - but better yet, I would advise you wait until June 23 and 24 before you commit to new projects and ventures. That will be your ideal timing.

Home repairs are an ideal activity in early June. Reupholster your couch, refinish your dining room table, or get all the windows squeaky clean. It would not be a good time to pick out and purchase furniture or sleek electronics - not with Mercury retrograde - but you can browse and get prices and estimates now so that you can be ready to order your choices after Mercury turns direct. Act on June 23 or later, but alas, not before that. Your patience will pay off.

If you are trying to sell or buy property prior to June 23, prepare for changes to come up that may force you to refine your strategy. For example, if you are trying to sell your house, your buyer may not be able to sell their own house, delaying their purchase of yours. Or they may be unable to get the mortgage they need to buy your house. There are many ways this all may play out - the situation may be reversed for instance, if you are the buyer, but you get the idea. Remain flexible. From June 23 onward, everything becomes easier, and delays, cancellations, mix-ups, and confusion become things of the past.

While you are tidying things up at home, going through boxes of your possessions may bring on a flood of sentimental memories, and may also bring to light a few long forgotten treasures that you forgot you owned. Another perfect activity for you to work on in early June would be to take precious old family photographs and scan them into your computer's backup drive for future safekeeping. Old VCR tapes will disintegrate some day, but can be archived if transferred to digital form, say, on DVDs.

You may be focused on a family member too, and if you need to make a big decision about that person's care, perhaps for a child or parent, do research for the first three weeks, but act on your most fortunate days, June 23 or 24.

If you don't want to move, renovate, fix up, or in any other way improve your home or other property, entertain your friends! With Venus so prominent in your home sector at the new moon, it's sure to be a hub of activity. Plan a tea for two, a pizza party for six, a sit down dinner party for eight, a barbeque for 20, or a cocktail party for 50. The only caveat is that you give your party at home, not at a club or restaurant because home will be your luckiest place. Give your gathering on your best home-related day, Friday, June 6.

Now let's go back to your career, which is about to bring huge news at the full moon June 18, plus or minus four days. It looks like you are about to close a very big deal and when you do, the whole industry will be buzzing about your victory.

This career news that culminates at mid-month should be exciting because Pluto will move back into your tenth house of fame and honors from June 14 until November 26. You may get a second chance to launch a past project that you loved but weren't able to get approved previously. Give it a new look and spin - you have a good chance of getting it right this time. Everything old will be new again!

If you are offered a new job, it seems that it will be a very prestigious one - a true step up the ladder of success. Mercury will be retrograde until June 19, but will still be filled with static and confusion at that time. If you can, wait to give word (or, if you have already given word, to start) on June 23 or 24. Both those days will allow you to take full advantage of the stabilizing energies of Saturn to the Sun at that time, in addition to having a strong, swift direct orbit of Mercury.

On a day-to-day basis, with Mars tearing through your sixth house of work, you'll be tap dancing quickly, trying to keep up with all the deadlines and requirements that others are asking of you. It appears to be an exhausting time, so pace yourself and take rest breaks. This trend of Mars that will so increase your workload first started on May 9, but thankfully will wind down and allow your life to become much more manageable again from June 30 onward.

The picture of your day-to-day work life is interesting in that with Mars in Leo, lots of assignments will come to you and business will be good - but oddly, with Mercury in retrograde and Mars opposed to Neptune, none of the VIPs you are dealing will be able to articulate precisely what they want. It's hard to please higher ups or clients in the absence of clear-cut goals and directives. In the absence of leadership, you will be left to your own devices. Use your judgment. Pisces is known to be prescient, so call the shots as you see them. You will be right on the money and will be poised to score a big breakthrough at this full moon, so barrel forward.

On the very same day that Mars is due to leave your work sector, Pluto and Mars will buddy up, tying your work (sixth house) to acclaim and applause (tenth house) on June 30. It sure will be a superb moment to shine. You may enjoy special VIP praise or get some exciting publicity. If you are in the process of interviewing for a new job, that would be a great day to schedule a meeting. In fact, you may even get an offer on that day, or start a new job then.

Pisces is not known to be a robust sign. You tend to passionately give your "all" to your projects, but in so doing wear down your health. This month, near the June 18 full moon, devise a workout regimen that you do can do consistently each day before you go into work or after you leave for the day. Play squash, take a vigorous run on the treadmill, or lift weights. Make it a little strenuous and make it fun. You'll appreciate being able to clear your mind for the hour or two that you work out, and you'll return refreshed and relaxed afterwards.

Romantically, your prospects are finally looking up. Venus, planet of beauty, gifts, love, happiness, and all sorts of embellishments, will move into the divine-for-Pisces sign of Cancer from June 18 to July 12.

This when you should allow yourself more time off after work, for your chances of finding and enjoying affection and true feeling will rise significantly. Mercury will be getting ready to move from retrograde to direct, so spend a little money on yourself in the last week of June, whether for a new look from a stylist or new clothes from your favorite department store.

Summary

Lots of people travel in June, but you'd do best to focus on making your home more comfy and inviting instead. With Venus standing by to give you great decorating ideas, you have the best month of the year to browse model rooms, magazines, TV shows, and books. Start a swatch book and cut out photos - you'll be on your way! Begin your research June 3.

Indeed, Mercury retrograde is the perfect time to redesign, rethink, reorganize, and restructure. Change your home, and change your life. You'll feel rejuvenated and energized, for the ancient astrologers wrote that home was the foundation onto which your life is built.

Think of June as your planning month. It would unwise to order furniture or sign contractor estimates now, as Mercury will be retrograde until June 19 (and you should allow a little time AFTER that date). This month, focus on painting, cleaning, repairing, and reorganizing furniture and closets, drawers, and boxes. The new moon, June 3, will turn you into a paragon of productivity.

You may wind up working on your home improvement plan for longer than this month if it's a big plan; the critical point is that you BEGIN it shortly after that new moon appears. If you do, you'll have the momentum you need to go the distance.

Not interested in redecoration or renovation? Give a grand dinner party for six on the evening of June 6 for great success.

At the full moon, June 18, you'll be nearly ready to announce a huge career breakthrough. Pluto is now back in your house of fame, so whatever comes up at this full moon is about to make you a force to be reckoned with. It will be a key moment in your timeline of 2008, and one that seems to put you on a new level in your industry. Mercury will be retrograde until June 19, however, so try to give that date a bit of space, and make your final commitment June 23 or 24 at the earliest.

On June 30, when Mars sends Pluto a golden beam, you'll be proven right.

Romantically, you'll have to be clever to fit a busy social life into your calendar, but by July you'll find it much easier to do so. One strong point: Venus will enter Cancer, to tour your house of true love from June 20 to July 12. This phase will usher in an ideal time for a pampering "good looks" update. Afterward you will feel ultra-confident and desirable. Enjoy the results!

If you are attached, your relationship may have had a few rough patches, particularly if you are a February-born Pisces. It looks like your day-to-day interaction with your established partner hasn't been easy. (That is, if you have a partner.) If you need to find a road back to share feelings together, you'll have that ideal day on June 25, thanks to Saturn in solid angle to the Sun.

Dates to remember:

Rethink your home or decor, or schedule repairs: June 3 - 19

Don't spend large sums while Mercury is retrograde: June 1-19

Your career brings many demands and clients that have no idea what they want: June 18.

A good day to talk, share feelings romantically: June 25