Star Struck Style

With Mars in my tenth house, and transiting Jupiter about to conjoin my natal Jupiter in my ninth house, I probably should be feeling more ambitious at the moment — at least as far as my career is concerned. However, I’m enjoying being underemployed too much right now to give a rat’s ass about how much money I’m making.

That’s a big shift in my way of thinking. The economic anxiety that I’ve experienced over the past few years has abated. Now I’m more worried about how to spend my days doing things that don’t stress me out. Yesterday, for instance, I visited the duck pond by my house. It was a lovely way to spend my morning. If I was still working full-time, I probably would have had a dozen other things that I would have prioritized over that experience, and none of them would have been nearly as rewarding.

Something has clicked in my head since I decided to quit my job. I’m just being nicer to myself. I expected this configuration of planets to make me more eager to work. Instead, it had redistributed my work load so that I’m looking at my life more holistically. I also seem to be engaging in less self-sabotaging behavior now that I’m not so stressed-out. I’m doing less stress-eating, and stress-gambling, and stress-shopping, etc.

Even after Jupiter conjoins itself in my horoscope next week, it remains in my ninth house for a while. Once it enters my tenth house in October, it then goes retrograde and returns to my ninth house for the last two weeks of December and the first five months of 2026. I’m going to be in the thick of this transit for a long time, so I need to pay attention to the way that it is shifting my priorities and changing the way that I look at “the big picture.” As I already mentioned, a holistic approach to my everyday existence has already started paying dividends because I’m starting to feel “richer,” even with less money coming into my bank account. It’s funny how that works, right?

Now if you’ll excuse me, I think I need to go visit some ducks . . .