Star Struck Style

America (source: Bluesky)

In about two weeks from now, Mars backtracks into my ninth house where it will remain until April Fool’s Day. “Café Astrology” has this to say about the transit:

“During this period, you are especially enthusiastic and more bold than usual. Some restlessness and hunger for adventure is experienced now. Essentially, you are looking to expand your activities, and you may find that you have a lot of energy for higher studies, travel, or simply new subjects. Negative potentials include being excessively opinionated or getting easily fired up over differences in points of view, or legal fights.”

I’m always worried about being “excessively opinionated,” but I have learned to keep my thoughts to myself over the past few years. Wait — that’s not exactly true. What I have learned is to deliver my opinions like a death blow. I keep my mouth shut until I know that my words are going do exactly what I want them to do: kill the conversation. I don’t need to argue anymore when I’m the last man standing.

Anyway, I am encouraged by the promise of “restlessness.” I always complain about feeling as if I’m on house arrest this time of year because I live in a place where winters are dark and cold. With numerous planets often transiting my fourth house simultaneously, I sometimes choose to stick close to home and then complain about it. Perhaps this transit will get me out of the house and away from social media. I’ve overcome my addiction to cable news programs. The next thing for me to do is to restrict my use of social media. I can do with daily updates on the dumpster fire that America has become. I don’t need to be connected 24/7. Getting out of my house will likely help me to get off the grid occasionally.

In the meantime, I’ve given myself until the time that Mars conjoins my midheaven to consider whether or not I want to stay in the job that I have. The next couple of weeks are going to be interesting for a lot of reasons, but mostly because structural changes that would make my job less-stressful are finally being discussed. I left a long meeting at work yesterday feeling as if there was a glimmer of hope on the horizon. It’s been a long time since that happened.

So, I’m hopeful about what this transit might bring. I’d like to be “especially enthusiastic” instead of “excessively opinionated,” but I’ve got a feeling that it’s probably going to be a bit of both . . .