Star Struck Style

I’d like to claim that I’m having a great year, but I would be lying. However, I’m having a good year. The reason for that is that I’m learning to extricate myself from situations that don’t do me any good.

With Jupiter in my ninth house, I figured that this would be a year where opportunities would fall from the sky. Maybe that will still happen, but the opportunities that I’ve encountered so far in 2025 have had to do with me heading for the exit, or giving up when I can see that things aren’t going my way.

So many interpretations for Jupiter’s transit through the ninth house focus on very specific topics rather than an overall theme. I’ve found myself focusing on those topics as a result. What I realize now is that the broadness of this theme includes the specifics that I’m currently experiencing. After providing a list of the typical subjects related to Jupiter, “Café Astrology” gets to the heart of the matter in its interpretation of this cycle:

“You are less inclined to sweat the small stuff. Your priorities are easier to see, as you gain perspective on your life and its meaning. Your creative juices flow, and you generally benefit from robust health. Faith in your purpose and in a higher meaning to your life helps to ease stress and open doors for you.”

Those “open doors” seem to be both exits and entrances: I suppose they are the same thing depending upon one’s perspective. That seems to be lesson I’m learning this year. With Mars currently transiting my twelfth house, perhaps I’m more concerned with the notion of extrication at the moment. I suppose I’ll find out soon enough when the red planet enters my first house. Jupiter’s transit through my ninth house will end in October, but the planet’s retrograde cycle will take it back to that sector of my chart shortly afterward. For that reason, I doubt that I’m done with this lesson. I might be walking back and forth through this door a few more times over the next few months.

That doesn’t bother me at all. I’m thrilled to feel as if my innate adaptability is serving me well. With the cadent houses of my horoscope highlighted through transits (Saturn in the sixth house; Jupiter in the ninth house; Mars in the twelfth house), I seem to be less likely to “stick it out” when a change of scenery will do me good. I just need to remember that when these planets take up residence in cardinal and/or fixed signs. In the meantime, I’ll keep heading to the exit every time I’m feeling like I’m going nowhere. It’s a strategy that’s serving me well at the moment.