Star Struck Style

Mercury caught up to the sun in my eighth house last night while I was in bed. I woke up this morning believing that I was on the verge of financial ruin. It took me a few minutes to convince myself that I wasn’t.

I’m not a paranoid person, but the meeting of these two planets in this introspective part of my chart had me on a downward spiral. It was only when I stopped to take a good look at my personal finances that I realized that my fears were all in my head.

I have already picked up a few more shifts in July at one of the two part-time jobs I’m working, and the opportunity to work more is always available to me. I don’t have a lot of financial obligations to worry about, so I don’t know where this panic attack came from. However, the eighth house is associated with both the notion of “obsession” and the concept of “other people’s money,” so it’s not difficult to pinpoint the cause for my concerns.

Next week, both Mercury and the sun will move into my ninth house. I’m looking forward to these ingresses because I’m quite eager to have less emphasis on the eighth house of my horoscope. While I can honestly say that I’ve learned a lot about myself while this part of my chart has seen so much activity, it’s time for me to move on. I don’t mind feeling introspective, but I truly believe that I am an extravert. This is not a normal state of affairs for me. That is why I reacted so poorly to the pile-up of planets that occurred in my inward-looking fourth house during the pandemic.

Of course, Uranus is still transiting my eighth house, and Venus will be speeding through the same sector soon enough, but I’m not going to see another eighth-house stellium occur in my chart for the foreseeable future,. That makes me believe that I’m not going to spend the rest of the summer worrying about whether or not I’m going to be able to pay my bills.

My paranoia is unwarranted. I’m going to be just fine. Bring on the ninth-house transits and all the optimism that’s supposed to come with them!