Star Struck Style

I’ve got a lot of planets at the bottom of my chart right now.

I’ve complained about this annual phenomenon many times before on this blog. However, this year it doesn’t seem so bad. Venus moves into Capricorn tomorrow morning where it will join both Mercury and Mars. Mars is about to conjoin my natal sun on Thursday, and Mercury does the same on Friday. All that action is happening in my third house: a part of my chart where I don’t mind a little excitement. In the meantime, the sun is moving out of its conjunction with Pluto in Aquarius in my fourth house. Pluto is the only long-term resident of my fourth house at the moment because all the other planets that took up residence there over the past few years have finally moved on.

This all puts me in a much different place than I was the last time I discussed a stellium forming at the bottom of my chart. I feel good: energetic and optimistic about my future. The insularity that I often feel when planets first contact my IC and then linger in my fourth house is the furthest thing from my mind right now. I’m quite confident and outgoing lately, which is the opposite of how I felt during the pandemic when — to use a cliché that I hear at least once during every episode of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” — I was trapped inside my own head.

The timing of this particular alignment of planets couldn’t be better because I have a week off from work. Outside of a root canal later this morning, I really don’t have any plans. But I do want to get out and about to see what’s going on in the world. I also want to get a little exercise because I haven’t been keeping up my old routines since I fell and cracked a rib a few weeks ago. I’m back to a place where I don’t have to be so cautious when I work out, which is where I need to be when Mars is teaming up with my Capricorn sun.

So, if you’ll excuse me, I need to do something besides sitting down. This fat ass isn’t going to get any smaller parked at this computer . . .