You are excited about taking off on your magic carpet to experience the sounds, tastes, colors, and scents of new cities, towns, and hamlets, very possibly based abroad. You may have started to travel in late August, and as September dawns, you see no reason to stop and return home - not yet anyway. You are under superb planetary vibrations for all topics international. You may be getting ready to study abroad, or may be applying for a grant to conduct a research project in a foreign country. If you are dealing with an immigration issue, such as for a visa, green card, or passport, you are closer to success than you may have assumed.

You are not likely to turn your attention away from this glorious trend anytime soon, for the solar eclipse, September 12-13, is likely to set in place more opportunities for you to travel and meet people with backgrounds different from your own in the weeks and months ahead. With Pluto, the Great Transformer, in ideal angle to this solar eclipse, get set to be changed in a positive way by all you experience. If you simply can't get away, foreign people may be on the phone with you a great deal in coming weeks as you work on a project together. Or you may be hosting executives from abroad in your city, and if so, your time with them will be fun, and broadening too.

A publishing or broadcasting project may go exceedingly well and receive the green light from higher-ups that you had long awaited. If you teach or work in a university, or are a student at one, your goals for a higher education will advance smoothly now, quite joyfully. The area of your chart so lit up is an intellectual one, so the idea of getting your mind trained in new topics is exciting to you, and rightly so.

If you are in the real estate market, you will have a superb day to buy, sell, lease, or renovate property on September 8. If you need a mortgage, or want to refinance one, all will go well if you apply on this same day.

Mercury's turn to retrograde on September 17 until October 9 will slow down your progress on various fronts. Put off signing papers within this period, and don't purchase electronic products until mid-to-late October. You will start to see the coming mix-ups and lapses of judgment (yours, and that of others, so typical of a Mercury retrograde period) as soon as September begins, so be careful in dealings even prior to September 17. This time Mercury will retrograde in Libra and your tenth house of career, so expect your career to be the main area where you see delays, backtracking, and postponements. It would be best during this period to focus on projects you finished that still can be polished, or long-term business relationships that can be renewed and strengthened by face-to-face meetings.

Over the past several years, Capricorns have been nearly forced to focus on home, and many moved more than once. Now a total eclipse of the moon in Aries, due September 27, will again bring changes in your home and family life. You may be moving on this date, or seeing a renovation or repair project finish. You may hear that a family member who is close to you is about to move away, for lunar eclipses often bring on powerful endings or life events that affect us strongly, especially emotionally. Still, changes you see to your home or family now should work to your advantage. If this is not obvious now, this truth will become clear in time. Lifestyle changes that affect your home usually require large amounts of funding, but it appears you will have all the money you need to enact your dream situation.