Star Struck Style

Mercury’s retrograde phase in my tenth house ends early tomorrow morning. One of the reasons that I haven’t aggressively tried to find more-gainful employment over the last few months is that I knew that this Mercury retrograde would occur entirely within my tenth house at a time when other propitious transits are just over the horizon. Also, the potential to make “false starts” this year is something I’ve alluded to in previous posts where I have discussed the retrograde cycles of Saturn and Neptune and their current vacillation over the Pisces/Aries cusp.

I don’t expect everything to change overnight once Mercury starts moving forward, but I do believe that I’m going to start to see new opportunities pop up out of the blue soon. In about ten days from now, Venus conjoins my midheaven and joins Mercury in my tenth house just as the sun moves into my eleventh house. I am encouraged by that layout of planets because I’m probably a better self-promoter when the sun transits that part of my chart. Curiously, the description of Mercury stationary direct in the tenth house on “Café Astrology” even refers to my ability to market my own talents:

“The best-laid plans for self-promotion may have been getting tangled during the last three weeks, but the wind is changing and you’ll begin to find it easier to chart your course, especially career-wise. Correcting misconceptions about yourself is an important task to undertake, as you can’t benefit if others don’t really know where you’re at. That especially applies where you are trying to nurture valuable connections that will buoy you up in weeks to come. When you make things perfectly clear, that’s just what they become, and clearing up confusion clears the skies in general.”

Perhaps there is something in my resume that is off-putting that I don’t even realize, or maybe I come off as smug in my cover letters. Or maybe I just need to meet face-to-face with the people I want to hire me. I’ve already concluded that making “valuable connections” would be the secret to my success once Mars conjoins my Libra ascendant in early September.

Until then, I’m going to give myself the opportunity to explore the vibes I give off when I attempt to communicate with potential employers. I’ve never considered my confidence to be threatening, but maybe it is. Perhaps I can rediscover a little humility once the sun enters Virgo. Whatever happens, I’m quite confident that I’m biding my time for all the right reasons. This Mercury station is just one of them.