Work and money troubles consume your mind at present. Take a short trip to distract yourself. Write, photograph, engage in activities that satisfy your creative spirit. New opportunities await and along with them another source of income. Legal concerns and paperwork take center stage. The time is ripe to enter an alliance or bond. Meet hardships head on and victory is imminent. Even if you are behind, a sustained sense of confidence and self-control will give you an edge that results in triumph.

The sky’s the limit starting Saturday as mental Mercury zings into expansive Sagittarius. The messenger planet will be activating your boundary-busting ninth house until January 8, bringing a flurry of possibilities into your line of vision. Write them all down so none of your best ideas fall through the cracks. To flex your personal-growth muscles, you might sign up for a class, pitch an entrepreneurial venture or connect with a far-off collaborator. Choose your own adventure, Ram. Just make sure you get it all arranged before Mercury spins retrograde from November 25 to December 15. On Sunday, it’s your ruler, molten Mars, who blasts into a new sign: Leo and your fun-loving, artistic fifth house. Between now and January 6, you’ll have oodles of energy to make serious headway on a creative project. And since this house also rules amour, that red-hot Mars energy can turn a sultry exchange into explosive chemistry. Are you ready to take an existing bond to the next level? Initiate the action, bold Aries. But do it fast! On December 6, Mars flips into a two-and-a-half-month retrograde that could force you to backtrack and move at a more measured pace.