Star Struck Style

Retrograde Jupiter reenters my eight house early tomorrow morning where it will remain until March. In a passage called “Fortunate Changes,” my horoscope on astro.com offers the following prediction:

“During this time you are likely to benefit from other people’s resources. Consequently this is a good time to enter a relationship in which you and another person have to pool your resources, such as a business partnership. This is also a good time to request a loan from a bank. In general, other people are more than usually willing to help you out in some way.

On another level, there will be many powerful but fortunate changes in your life at this time. It may not always be obvious, but any sweeping change that happens now will be for the best and will make your life richer and more rewarding in the long run. It will also give you a much greater understanding of the psychological patterns that operate in your life. If you have recently been through a time of psychological stress or are encountering one now, this influence will help the healing process within you.

Sometimes this influence can indicate a time of religious and spiritual regeneration, what used to be called a ‘conversion experience.’ Certainly you would derive great benefit from studying occult and mystical literature at this time in your life.”

I’m encouraged by this forecast. I’ve already set up a meeting with my fellow supervisors at work because I need to discuss the changes that will make my life “richer and more rewarding in the long run” if I choose to stay in my current position. But what encourages me more is the simple concept of fortune. I go on and on about the eighth house and its association with Karma. I believe that I deserve a Karmic break. I haven’t been an unlucky person, but sometimes I think I’ve put a lot more into the Karmic bank than I’ve gotten back. At my place of work, I’ve led about five thousand classes as a volunteer group fitness instructor over the past thirty-four years. It would be nice to feel as if the universe was rewarding me for all my hard work.

Even if that doesn’t happen, I do tend to focus upon my finances when the eighth house is highlighted in my horoscope. Lately, I feel as if I’ve regained control of my compulsive shopping habits and I’m working on being at peace with myself by eliminating stressors in my life. I spend money to make myself feel better when I’m stressed out, and that just stresses me out more. The passage above mentions “a greater understanding of the psychological patterns” that mess me up. My spending habits are at the top of that list.

Still, I do enjoy spending money. Maybe the “fortunate changes” alluded to in that forecast include a lottery win. That would solve everything, and it would also make me feel as if fate doesn’t owe me anything else. Do you hear that, universe? I really could use a lucky break while Jupiter is backtracking through this part of my chart. Don’t let me down . . .