Star Struck Style

There are plenty of things going on in my chart over the next couple of days. I’ve already published a post about tomorrow morning’s full moon that occurs in my eighth house just moments after the sun moves into my second house. Mars moved into freedom-loving Sagittarius just a couple of hours ago. The red planet is also transiting my second house at the moment alongside nearly-stationary Mercury. And nearly-stationary Jupiter is hovering a degree away from my midheaven in my tenth house.

I saw all of this coming a long time ago, and I’ve written several posts about how I believed that my life would change this October. What I didn’t see coming was my lack of motivation to make a drastic change to the path I’m currently walking.

Allow me to explain myself. Early this year, when I decided to quit my full-time job, my thoughts immediately turned to finding a new job that would make me happier. I expected Jupiter’s ingress into my tenth house to provide me with the opportunity to find that new job. That still hasn’t happened. However, what has happened is that I’ve come to the realization that I’m perfectly content right where I am at the moment. Curiously, the interpretation for transiting Jupiter conjunct the midheaven on astro.com alludes to the way I’m feeling, but almost as an afterthought:

“This is a period of culmination in which you make a greater effort to get where you want to be, either in your profession or in some other area. And your efforts appear to produce results more easily than at just about any other time. Therefore you feel better about yourself and your life than at other times, and you feel confident that you can handle anything that comes your way.

If you are in business for yourself, you should be careful not to expand too rapidly or overextend yourself. You might leave yourself vulnerable to the more difficult times that will eventually come. Make sure that all expansion is carefully planned and that you have safeguards against future times of difficulty.”

The most prescient advice from the passage above is the line that tells me to be sure that I “have safeguards against future times of difficulty.” That’s what I’ve been working on for the past few months. I’ve got both my physical and mental health back to a place where I feel like I can take on the world. My financial future is much brighter now that I’ve addressed my longstanding debt problem, and I’m not nearly as broke as I thought I would be. I believe that I’m prepared for opportunity to come my way, even if I thought it would have come my way already.

But maybe it did. Perhaps the opportunity Jupiter has afforded me is the chance to prepare for a brighter future where I’m not making myself feel miserable just trying to keep up.

With the changes happening in my chart this week ahead of Jupiter’s upcoming retrograde cycle, this realization could not have come soon enough. Even if I find myself doing exactly what I’m doing when Jupiter returns to this same spot in the sky about six months from now — right about the time when the full moon occurs in my second house while the sun is in my eighth house — I don’t think I’ll be disappointed with how I’ve spent my time during this Jupiter transit. Perhaps this “period of culmination” represents an end to the notion that I need to work a forty-hour week at a single job in order to be happy.

I think I just figured this all out . . .