Star Struck Style

With 2024 only a couple of weeks away, I thought that I would have a look at my progressed chart to see if anything interesting was going to happen. I discovered that my progressed moon will finally exit my tenth house and move into my eleventh house about eight months from now.

Just a few weeks ago, progressed Mars moved into my sixth house. I’m not going to see any other significant shifts happen in my progressed chart besides these moon progressions for a long, long time. But the moon just keeps plodding along in a progressed chart, and it can provide a “theme” to an individual’s life for several months. Since it conjoined my midheaven and entered my tenth house, I legitimately discovered a new career. I didn’t expect to be one of the people running the gym where I’ve volunteered for the last three decades, but I am. I suppose that makes sense since the place is my figurative “home away from home.”

In some ways, my social life has suffered because of my employment. The facility used to be the center of my social life when I wasn’t working there. Now I can’t wait to leave when my shift is over. As the saying goes, “absence makes the heart grow fonder.”

Perhaps that will change when the progressed moon moves into my eleventh house. It’s just 55″ away from the cusp of Virgo, too, so I ought to pay attention to what that progression symbolizes. “The Dark Pixie Astrology,” a website I often visit for its explanations of progressions, offers the following interpretation of the progressed moon’s ingress into the eleventh house:

“After spending time with the Progressed Moon in the Tenth House, all about your career, your focus shifts to your friendships and more altruistic endeavors with the Progressed Moon in the Eleventh House.

You may want to spend more time with friends, making friends, and just be around people, so joining a group or organization can come about.

Being around other people may be much more comfortable to you now than being alone, and you feel you can express yourself better in a group than by yourself or among a few intimate acquaintances.

Being able to open up more in your friendships emotionally will help strengthen them for a long time to come. Helping humanity through charitable work may become a desire as you become more socially conscious and possibly pick up a cause or two.

You could find yourself becoming more interested in unusual subjects, modern technology, and futuristic initiatives. Your mind isn’t really comfortable staying within your normal parameters and wants to break out.

Your hopes and wishes, both personally and for the world at large, could be something you want to make reality.”

The same site provides a somewhat contradictory interpretation for the progressed moon’s ingress into Virgo:

“You’re much more critical and analytical with Progressed Moon in Virgo. The details become more important, and you do every task asked of you to the letter.

Perfection may be desired in everything you do, so make sure it’s not unrealistic. Spending time in the self-help section of the bookstore may be something you find yourself doing more often.

Your health can become more of a focus, either by bringing up a health problem or making you more health conscious, choosing a healthier lifestyle. Making a change in your daily habits could come about now.

This is a great time to lose weight and get in shape. You may seem more anal and detached, but it’s really just that you’re focused on the practical needs of life and getting them done just right (or maybe you really are a tightwad, I don’t know). Socializing is less important, and the people you choose to be around will likely have to pass a few tests first. Digestive concerns can come up now, and issues with the abdominal region.”

So, I’m not sure if I’ll be more sociable or less sociable as a result of these progressions. I’d prefer the former because it seems as if all I do lately is go to work. Nevertheless, I am optimistic about this phase of my life because the last time that the moon moved into this part of my chart, I got my first computer and it opened up the world to me. I discovered the chatrooms on Yahoo! and I made friends there that I still have to this day. To be honest, it was the golden age of my social life: I truly found my “tribe” in those chatrooms.

I don’t know what to expect this time around, but I do know that my interest in “unusual subjects, modern technology, and futuristic initiatives” was piqued at that time, and that the friends I met online were a genuine catalyst in the process that led to my career as a successful writer (for a while, anyway). If it wasn’t for the encouragement and inspiration I received from my “online” friends, I probably wouldn’t have become the “World’s Foremost Expert on Astrological Style” just a few years later.

For that reason, I’m looking forward to what this progression brings. It’s been a long time since I’ve wanted to be sociable. Maybe this progression will give me the cosmic kick in the ass I need to get out into the real world — or even the cyberworld — to make some new friends.

I can’t wait to see how this turns out!