Star Struck Style

This is a big week for changes in my chart. First, the north node moves into my fifth house tomorrow. On Friday, Mercury slips into my seventh house, and on Saturday, the sun enters my eighth house.

I’ve been feeling a lot more “out there” since I quit my full-time job just because I’ve been able to get “out there.” I haven’t been stuck behind a desk for forty hours a week. However, the sun’s ingress into my eighth house might have me looking inward once again. “Café Astrology” offers the following prediction for the transit:

“For the next month or so, the Sun energizes your sector of transformation, change, sexuality, personal growth, regeneration, others’ money and resources, addictions, and taxes. As a result, this is not the most gregarious of months for you. You take a step back, focus on intimacy with a partner, or simply retreat a little from the hectic pace of life.

This is an excellent time to create a budget or financial plan, or to rid yourself of bad habits that undermine your sense of personal power and self-mastery. All that is deeply personal comes into focus now. Intimate matters are especially important to you during this cycle. Just how well you are handling your life comes up for inspection.

Your self-mastery skills and psychological predisposition matter to you more than usual. This is the time of year when you are most desirous of change on a deep level. Clearing out psychic ‘junk’ or ridding yourself of bad habits may be part of the picture now. You are more willing than usual to explore life’s secrets.

This cycle brings greater in-depth understanding and an inclination to delve beneath the surface of matters to get to the bottom of them. Research uncovers new material that allows you to develop a better overall picture of the year’s events. This is an especially introspective cycle during which you have the chance to truly uncover your personal strengths and talents. On a more practical level, you may be dealing with joint finances and shared resources now more than usual.”

I don’t mind delving “beneath the surface” in the name of “personal growth.” In fact, that has been a big theme for me over the past several weeks. However, I’m not really convinced that I am any less “gregarious” this time of year. I love the month of May and I believe that everyone I come across can see how happy I am during my favorite month.

Perhaps the idea that I typically “retreat a little from the hectic pace of life” should be my takeaway from this passage. I know that May is my busiest gardening month, and I often get lost in my yard for hours at a time. Nevertheless, I don’t believe that I get stuck in my head as much when the sun transits my eighth house as I do when it transits my fourth house. That is literally and figuratively the darkest part of my chart.

So, I’m going to take a few of the promises this forecast offers with a grain of salt. Instead, I’m going to put a smile on my face like the guy in the photo I posted above and get out into the world. Everything else in my horoscope is telling me that’s what I should do, so that’s what I’m going to do.

It’s time to put the “Greg” in “gregarious” . . .