Star Struck Style

In a week from today, the new moon arrives in my tenth house. It simultaneously forms an opposition with my natal Mars/Venus conjunction. It’s interesting to have these annual events line up in this manner. It’s also terrific to have this all happening on a Sunday morning. I get off work early Saturday afternoon and I don’t go back until Tuesday morning because it’s a long weekend where I live.

Why does that matter? The new moon should welcome a positive change of pace for me. I’m a Capricorn with a Cancer moon, so the both the moon itself and the tenth house are personalized in my horoscope. “Café Astrology” describes the event as follows:

“Heightened sensitivity to your standing in society and your goals for constructive progress are highlighted this month. It’s a good time to develop new business plans and goals, assuming the New Moon is not very afflicted, and a sense of renewal and reinvigoration with regards to your career goals is a potential. It is a time to focus on the elements of your personality that you are projecting to society and as a professional. Goals for self-mastery and self-discipline should be made at this time. This is a phase when you will be busy with career and/or public responsibilities.”

This new moon, however, is “afflicted” by the oppositions it will form. It’s just lucky for me that the affliction occurs at a time when I don’t have to be around the people who would push me off my place at the top of the mountain. I can’t get into trouble at work when I’m not even working, right?

For that reason, I’m looking forward to next weekend. A new moon in the tenth house is typically a powerful time for someone like me. I’m able to focus my sense of self-discipline this time of year. The stars give me a figurative “kick in the pants.” What’s even more encouraging is that transiting Jupiter enters my ninth house next weekend, too. That’s a positive development that should help my professional “standing” because I will be less likely to annoyed by the petty distractions that drive me crazy at work.

So, when I go back to work a week from this coming Tuesday, I should be in a better place than I already am. Things have been going well for me lately, and there is no reason to believe that they won’t continue to go well. Knowing that the worst of what the stars have to offer this August will happen during my time off is a blessing. I need to thank my lucky stars that I will still be standing when this is all over. Looking down at all of you from my up here is what this goat was born to do.