Star Struck Style

Mercury entered my fourth house this morning at exactly midnight. My horoscope on astro.com offers the following prediction for the three-week transit:

“This is a time of intellectual withdrawal, but not in a negative way. You aren’t withdrawing to avoid a confrontation with reality but to reflect and think about all the ideas you have encountered recently. It is a good time to examine your personal and domestic life and to make plans or evaluate whether it is meeting your needs. This is an excellent time for discussions with your immediate family about matters that are important to all of you. Your thoughts may drift continually back to events that occurred in the past, and you may wonder why you cannot focus on the concerns of the present. You are able to voice your innermost thoughts at this time, and you should if you feel that something must be said. Do not allow pressures to build up within you that you do not express toward the people around you.”

The last line of this passage seems especially relevant as I am stressed-out right now, but also completely aware that bottling things up isn’t going to do me any good. Nevertheless, over the past couple of days I have had three difficult conversations with people in my immediate orbit about my intentions to make some changes to my life. That is something that is exceptionally difficult for me to do. Now that Mercury has moved out of my communicative third house, perhaps I can take the advice provided to me in the first line of this passage. My temporary withdrawal doesn’t have be negative.

The new moon next Wednesday evening in my fourth house is followed by the sun’s annual conjunctions with my natal Mars and Venus. Mercury forms the same aspects shortly afterward. My fourth house is not only going to be the most populated sector of my chart, but a place where positive aspects occur almost every day at a time that I could really use some support from the stars. So, even if I do choose to withdrawal from society temporarily, I feel as if this is all for the best.

Now if I could just get through the next few days at work without drifting away . . .