Star Struck Style

I published this post last year around this time just as I was emerging from the darkness of seasonal affective disorder and the realization that I needed to quit my full-time job in order to regain my lust for life. While I feel much brighter today as a result of the changes I made last year, I still can see how having too many planets pile up in my fourth house can get to me. Yet I’m learning how to handle it.

Hopefully, Mercury’s ingress into my fifth house tomorrow morning — the first of many over the next few weeks — will imbue me with “a playful spirit.” Current events have my thoughts turning to serious matters far too often. I’d like to get “out of my head,” as the saying goes, and this transit should help me do that. Venus follows Mercury into my fifth house this weekend, the sun joins the party mid-month, and Mars moves into that sector of my chart a week later. However, Mercury will actually linger there the longest because of its upcoming retrograde phase.

I suppose that getting of my head also means getting out in a more literal sense. The weather here isn’t bad for this time of year, so I don’t really feel like a prisoner in my own house. I’m eager to be out and about, so this shift in the stars couldn’t have come at a better time. Spending the next few weeks celebrating the arrival of spring sounds a lot more fun than sitting alone in my house wondering what else Donald Trump is going to do to fuck up the world. I’ve had enough of that to last me a lifetime.

Bring on the fifth house transits!