Star Struck Style

I haven’t published a blog post for a couple of days. I’ve been bored and sort of annoyed with my everyday routine. Thankfully, that’s all about to change.

When I wake up on Sunday morning, the sun will have moved into my fifth house. I’ll still have Mercury, Venus, Mars and Pluto in my insular fourth house, but a change will do me good.

The sun rules over the fifth house. It’s the part of one’s chart where the sun performs at its best. We put ourselves and the qualities that we like to show off into the spotlight when the sun transits the house over which it rules. “Café Astrology” describes the annual transit as follows:

“The Sun illuminates your fifth house for the next month or so. After a period of nesting, you are coming out of your shell, ready to perform and to express yourself creatively. This is a very playful period of the year, when you are inspired creatively and emotionally. After a period of self-protectiveness, you are now more spontaneous and more willing to take risks.

You take more pride than usual in your creations, your love affairs, your children, and your hobbies. Pleasure and amusement play an important role in your search for freedom of self-expression now. Show off your best colors! You want others to take notice, and you are more sensitive to whether people appreciate you.

More than any time of the year, this is the cycle in which you focus on having fun, enjoying romance, and expressing yourself creatively. Your hobbies, leisure time, moments spent with children, gaming time, and so forth, all come into focus at this time of year. This is a cycle in which you find joy in expressing who you are — when your “inner child” comes out to play. This is a time when you are more flirtatious than usual, and when you might take a few risks in life — not only gambling with games but with life itself. You might be a bit of a showman at this time. You are likely feeling good in general, and you tend to spread the joy.”

What’s even more exciting is that Mercury will join the sun in my fifth house by next weekend, right around the time that transiting Venus and Mars start forming conjunctions with my natal Venus and Mars. It’s a good time of year to be me!

Now if I can just get through the next couple of days without feeling as if I want to kill someone . . .