Star Struck Style

Today is Canada Day. It’s also the first day of the seventh month of the year, which means that 2025 is already half over.

I haven’t had a bad year. I said “good riddance” to a full-time job that was driving me crazy. As a result, I’m a much happier person. I’ve also stopped spending money like an idiot as a coping mechanism to deal with stress. By doing that, I’ve discovered a little more joy in the things that I do to feel good about myself. In that respect, I suppose that I have lived up to my new year’s resolution to “make the most out of what I already have.”

Nevertheless, I’m not entirely satisfied with myself just yet. I’m still allowing myself to consume too much corporate media, and that stresses me out. I need to focus more on the country that I live in. Even though I’m in the province that has the worst, most MAGA-like Premier, I can thank my lucky stars that I’m not an American.

I’m going to resolve to continue to travel this path throughout the rest of the year because I feel as if I’m inching toward a more-satisfying future. I’m also going to resolve to be a better Canadian. Maybe that means paying less attention to the shitshow south of the border, or perhaps that means becoming more involved in Canadian politics.

Where do you find yourself at this halfway point of 2025? Are you happy with what you’ve accomplished so far or do you feel the need to make a fresh start? With both Saturn and Neptune going retrograde and Uranus moving into Gemini in the first half of July, I’ve predicted that false starts will characterize the next several months. That makes this July a good time to reflect upon what has worked so far rather than to speculate about what might work in the future. Acknowledging my stressors has allowed me to have a pretty good year, so I need to be sure that I don’t do anything that causes me to fall back into old habits — like getting a new job that keeps me up at night so that I can buy fancy clothes that I have no place to wear.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a holiday to celebrate . . .