Star Struck Style

I’ve got the house to myself for about a week starting tomorrow, just like I did when I published this post two years ago. I’m going to relish this opportunity to be left to my own devices because it doesn’t happen nearly enough.

In the meantime, this morning’s new moon in Scorpio conjunct retrograde Mercury has me feeling as if I can continue to make some positive changes in my life by looking back at what hasn’t worked for me. Slowly, but surely, I feel as if I’m moving into a new era where I’m happier just to be exactly who I am. I might have a bit of a setback over the next couple of days while Mars is forming a tense square to my natal Saturn, but it’s hard for me to be grouchy when no one is around to piss me off.

A second-house new moon could have me behaving a little more decadently than usual, but I have already resolved to stay on the same path that I have been traveling for much of this year. I even negotiated a work-from-home deal with one of my bosses that will give me a financial boost at a time when I could use a little extra “mad money.” I might actually get through this holiday season without succumbing to the usual seasonal stressors that have me shopping for things I don’t need as a coping mechanism to deal with stress.

That’s some wishful thinking, but I honestly feel empowered by these cosmic circumstances. Sometimes I get a little too single-minded when too many planets crowd into a single house of my horoscope, but I don’t feel as if that’s happening at the moment. Perhaps these second house planets are feeling supported by transiting Saturn in my fifth house forming a trine to transiting Jupiter in my tenth house. My current frame of mind would seem to support that theory. I’m feeling grounded.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to hide away in my basement for the rest of the day so that no one spoils the good mood I’m in on a day when I should be determining a course of action for the next month or so. I want to continue to be a happier person. This new moon should make that easy for me.