Star Struck Style

I’ve spent a lot of time discussing Mars’ recent (and upcoming) conjunctions with my midheaven. I’ve also spent a lot of time discussing Uranus’ lingering sextile with my midheaven. Now it appears as if Saturn is about to enter the chat.

The ringed planet is currently in orb of forming a trine to my Cancer MC. It’s exact next week and will be influencing me rather acutely for the next couple of weeks just as Mars makes its final conjunction with my midheaven. While this transit might not portend another drastic change in my profession, it does offer me some support at a time when I’m not really sure where I’m going. My horoscope on astro.com describes the uncommon alignment as follows:

“This time is usually characterized by self-confidence and assurance. You are able to see where you are going now and to obtain help in getting there. At the same time you are very concerned with knowing yourself on a deep inward level, usually to facilitate achieving your ambition.

This is a time when you try to rely primarily on yourself. You will not refuse help from others, but it is more desirable to go it alone or at least on your own. You need to prove yourself to yourself and, to a lesser extent, to others. It is also necessary to establish patterns in your life now that will lead to accomplishment later on. You must develop disciplined work habits and learn specific ways to deal with situations that arise. Here too you must rely on yourself, because you will be able to judge your effectiveness only if you know that what you are doing is entirely your own.

Most people are rather conservative in their ways of doing things at this time. You may be rather reluctant to experiment with new ways, but that is a pitfall. This should be a time for making careful and considered changes. Such changes can be made voluntarily and without much difficulty now, but later they will be forced upon you in a manner that may be quite unpleasant. Getting into a rut now will ensure the survival of inappropriate behavior patterns, which will create trouble later on.

You should specifically examine your attitudes toward authority figures, work and achievement, responsibility, change and most important, although somewhat abstract, your attitude toward reality. If you are trying to live by attitudes that you have been told to have and that are not really yours, you will feel tense and uneasy when you think about them. Normally you suppress these feelings because you consider it important to maintain your attitudes. But these are the attitudes that have to be changed, because they signify that your thinking is divided about that issue and that you cannot really put energy into making that part of your life work.”

This is all very encouraging considering I only have two days left at my current full-time job. Breaking free of the rut I have got myself into was my goal all along. I’m already sleeping better and feeling better about myself.

What really fascinates me about this time in my life with my MC highlighted over the past few months is that I’ve completely reconsidered what my ambitions are. As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, I wrote “I need to be a happier person” in my resignation letter. That’s all I really want right now. Astrologically speaking, it’s funny that Mars, Saturn and Uranus are the planets that have convinced me to achieve that goal. Who could have seen that coming?

Astrology is amazing . . .