Star Struck Style

This is the week that progressed Mars finally moves into my sixth house. Thirty-five years ago, progressed Mars moved into my fifth house, so this has been a long time coming.

I understand how having Mars in my fifth house drove my desire to seek out the spotlight for more than three decades of my life. I actually got to flirt with fame briefly — long enough to discover that it wasn’t for me. Now that I’m over that, I hope to discover some genuine satisfaction with my career. Even at my advanced age, I still don’t feel like I’m doing what I was supposed to be doing all along. I suppose that has something to do with my third-house sun and Mercury placements. I’ve been a Jack-of-all-trades for my entire life.

But with progressed Mars moving into my sixth house, perhaps I’ll be able to find something rewarding that I can focus upon until I get to an age where I choose to retire. I’m not unhappy with the job I’m currently doing, yet I often feel as if I could be doing more. I believe that my talents are underutilized.

Anyway, I did come across an interesting interpretation of this progression on a sample report for some astrological software called “Cosmic Patterns.” The report, generated in 2009, was created using Julia Roberts as a sample case. The interpretation reads as follows:

“Mars in the houses indicates the departments of life in which you express your actions and desires. It shows where you need to use your energy and initiative to achieve the best results. In the sixth house of the Progressed chart, it indicates energy and skill expressed through work. You are likely to have extremely good mechanical ability as well as an excellent understanding of how mechanical things work. This includes the mechanics of the human body, for many great surgeons have Mars in the sixth house. If you work for others during this time, it will be extremely necessary for it to be a well-organized, efficient operation. Beware of perfectionism and over-concern for details — also for the tendency to overwork while Mars is in this house in the Progressed chart.”

I don’t believe that I’m going to have to watch the “tendency to overwork” during this new phase of my life. For the first time ever, I’m finally starting to cut myself a little slack now that my energy levels have declined a bit. I’m still remarkably energetic for my age, but I’m finally admitting that every trip to the gym doesn’t need to be a gold-medal performance. My body is actually responding well to my kinder, gentler workouts. I’m looking like the sculpture in the photo above, only my wiener hasn’t fallen off just yet.

But I digress! Maybe this new phase is going to lead me into personal training or some other sort of discipline that involves “the mechanics of the human body.” It wouldn’t be a stretch for me to move from the service side of the fitness business into the side that actually delivers the programs. I’ve been telling myself for years that I would like to be a yoga instructor. Still, the one thing that is holding me back in that respect is that I’m not sure that I can be the role model I would need to be for people my age because I don’t really like working with people my age. Old people are so crabby.

Nevertheless, I’m going to keep my options open and see if Mars’ progression changes what I’m passionate about and where I choose to direct my energy. As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, Mars is not personalized in my chart, and I need to be sure that I don’t overrate the importance of its placement in my horoscope or its position in my progressed chart.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go figure out what else I have in common with Julia Roberts. I forgot that she’s almost as old as me . . .