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Slim Whitman (source: Ebay)

Something in the sky is telling me that I need to be leaner. Typically, I’m fat this time of year because I can’t stop eating all the crap people buy me around Christmas. Participants of the classes I lead at the gym come bearing gifts like bottles of wine and holiday fruitcakes. I have no self-control when I’ve got things like that around my house. For that reason, I try not to fill my cupboards with junk.

But I’m not just thinking about slimming down in a literal sense. I want to clean out closets and empty junk drawers. I want to have a little less of everything, including consumer debt and job-related stress. I feel as if I need to hope for the best but prepare for the worst. The last time I felt like this was when COVID hit and I actually spent a couple of weeks getting rid of all of the crap that had collected in my garage and in my basement.

I don’t know if there is an astrological influence that is compelling me to slim down right now. Chiron ends its retrograde phase today, stationing just 1°21″ from an exact opposition to my ascendant. Perhaps that has something to do with the way I’m feeling. I have discussed Chiron’s influence on me dozens of times on this blog because it is personalized in my chart. In fact, when I Google the aspect, one of my own posts comes up second in the search results. However, the only insight I glean from reading my own take on the transit is evident in the final sentence:

“This won’t be the first time I’ve patched myself up, and I’m sure that it won’t be the last . . .”.

Right now, I feel as if patching myself up is the order of the day. I don’t feel broken, but I do feel like I could be more prepared for whatever it is that my future holds. The post I alluded to above mostly relates to Chiron’s transit through my seventh house, but this close opposition to my ascendant is something more personal: a call to fix myself before it’s too late.

If that includes getting back on track with diet and exercise, so be it. If that includes financial solvency, I’ll be happy to have less red ink on my ledger. If that includes possessing less stuff, I will welcome the opportunity to get rid of some junk.

I’ve already made a new year’s resolution to put into motion tomorrow when the new moon in Capricorn arrives, but there is no reason that I can’t welcome 2025 with a second resolution. Chiron is telling me that I need to be a leaner version of myself in the new year. I’d be a fool not to listen to what it has to say.