Star Struck Style

Venus enters my fourth house in about an hour from now. “Café Astrology” interprets the transit as follows:

“During this cycle, you are especially fond of the life of the home and family. You are more receptive and gentle on a romantic level, and tend to be sentimental or nostalgic now. You may particularly value the aesthetics in and around your home during this period. If things are out of whack on the home front, you will do whatever you can to create a peaceful and stable atmosphere. Loyalty and sensitivity in your relationships are more important to you than typically. You might focus on ways to earn money in or from your home. This is a calming influence — a time when simple pleasures most appeal.”

I had already planned to spend the day at home catching up on domestic chores. I had also resolved to make my immediate environment — “my own little world” — a place where I want to be in 2026. That’s my new year’s resolution for the upcoming months that I will declare to the universe when the new moon arrives this coming Sunday. By that time the sun, the moon, Mercury and Mars will have joined Venus in my fourth house. It should be easy for me to focus on creating “a peaceful and stable atmosphere” with half of the solar system on my side.

I just spent the previous week having a ball while celebrating my sixtieth birthday. Now it’s time to get back to the real world as one tends to do once the holidays are behind them. At the same time, I am quite eager to find ways to take more pleasure in the world around me. I am a decadent person, so completely depriving myself of the things I enjoy tends to backfire on me. Still, it’s not difficult for me to strike a balance between my disciplined Capricorn sun/Cancer moon combo, and my pleasure-seeking Libra rising.

Curiously, my natal Venus and Mars are both at home in the fourth house. I spent a lot of time complaining about having too many planets transiting this part of my chart during the pandemic, but the current cosmic climate doesn’t seem to bother me. Perhaps this stellium of swift-moving planets is telling me that I’ll be fine if I stick closer to home. In 2020, several slow-moving planets ganged up in my fourth house while I was literally housebound. It was not a pleasurable situation. In fact, it felt more like home arrest.

I’m confident that I won’t feel that way this time; this seems like a more-natural state of affairs. The anxiety I’m feeling due to current events is just as palpable as it was during the pandemic, but I’m already sensing the “calming influence” that this forecast portends. I know that I’m going to be just fine.