Star Struck Style

Today marks six months since I quit my full-time job. Today is also the day of the solar eclipse and the second consecutive new moon in Virgo. Summer officially ends tomorrow, and that seems to add another marker of significance to this day for me.

For months, I’ve been telling myself that I would take everything more seriously this fall. I felt as if I needed a mental health break after leaving my job and spending much of my time since exploring why I suddenly came to the realization that I hated everything I was doing earlier this year. What’s interesting to me is that I feel as if I’ve already accomplished what I set out to do when I quit: to be a happier person.

Yet this journey isn’t quite finished. As the saying goes, as one door closes, another one opens. I feel that is an apt metaphor for the year that I am experiencing, except that I’m walking back and forth through a series of doors like the ones in the photo above — never quite sure which one is the entrance and which one is the exit. That makes sense with planets like Saturn and Neptune vacillating between signs throughout 2025; I called this “The Year of False Starts” in a previous blog post for that reason.

Personally, I don’t believe that I’ve been making false starts, but that’s because I’ve taken my own advice and I’ve avoided taking on any major projects this year. Instead, I’ve been preparing myself for what’s to come by regaining my own trust in my physical and mental integrity. Today’s new moon eclipse actually favors that process for all of us. “Café Astrology” offers the following advice regarding the event:

“In the sign of Virgo, work and health matters will be a significant focus on a personal level in the months following this eclipse. This lunation is about new beginnings with work, attention to detail, fitness, health regimes, habits, and daily routines. It’s a time to commit to managing the details of our day-to-day lives in a more organized manner so that we can free our minds of clutter.”

I do believe that I’m already there, and with this new moon and the sun moving into Libra tomorrow, I’m ready to experience these new beginnings. If I discover a new door to walk through tomorrow, I might just take the opportunity to not only walk through it, but to shut the door behind me. I’ve given myself six months to get my shit together, and I genuinely believe that I’ve done that.

It’s time to move forward . . .