Star Struck Style

Transiting Mars opposes my natal Saturn early tomorrow morning. Strangely enough, I was able to leave work early yesterday and I came home to a gloriously quiet house. This morning I’m all alone, too, and I’m feeling quite unbothered.

However, I do have to teach a class at the gym in a few hours and I have to go to work tomorrow and the next day when this uncommon aspect will still be testing my patience and urging me to turn my back on anyone who annoys me so that I don’t get into arguments. My horoscope on astro.com describes the transit as follows:

“For many people, this is an extremely irritating influence, requiring great patience and forbearance as well as willingness to keep yourself in the background for a while. During this time you may feel lonely and cut off from others, as if you couldn’t get through to them. At this time you can do work that requires great concentration of energy and meticulous care. If you have been working on a project of this sort, it may now approach completion or reach a critical culmination. Often other people’s aggressive actions will have blocked your success, but also you may have not prepared adequately for the challenges that any personal initiative must face. Make sure not to strain your body unnecessarily now. Try to relax and avoid situations that produce needless tension.”

This is the slow season at my place of work, so keeping myself “in the background” isn’t going to be that difficult. I do have a project that I would like to complete that could potentially have me sitting at a computer for the next couple of days. Maybe that’s what I need to do to “avoid situations that produce needless tension.”

I don’t recall the last time that this aspect occurred, and a simple search of this blog didn’t turn up much in the archives. As I’ve mentioned a million times before, Mars is not personalized in my horoscope and I often don’t feel its more-detrimental effects when it is forming tense aspects to my natal planets. I guess that I can thank my lucky stars for that!

Anyway, I hope that this opposition is nothing more than background music over the next few days. Still, if I can plan to be off in my own little world for a while in order to avoid this “irritating influence,” I might as well do it, right?

The universe has spoken. I’d be a fool not to listen to it . . .