Star Struck Style

I published this post a month ago, not realizing that I was going to experience two new moons in my fourth house. Tomorrow’s event occurs about five hours before the sun moves into my fifth house — just a quarter of a degree before the cusp.

Anyway, I have been diligently attempting “to make my own little world a place that I want to live in,” as I resolved during January’s new moon. The only obstacles I have encountered so far are people who don’t want to give me the space I need to enjoy myself. However, extricating myself from situations that make me unhappy has been easy for me.

Hopefully, I’ll continue to follow my bliss throughout this new moon cycle. With a few planets transiting Pisces — and conjoining both my natal Saturn and my natal Chiron while they are there — I do run the risk of allowing myself to suffer through unpleasant circumstances just to make myself look like a martyr. I need to avoid behavior like that at all costs. I spent the last few years telling myself that things would get better if I just stuck around at a job that was making me miserable. Things never got better. I’m not going to put myself in a situation like that again.

But I am going to put on my Daruma doll shirt and welcome the Chinese Year of the Horse today. I’ll be burning my old Daruma doll symbolically in my mind as I walk away from the Year of the Snake confident that I’ve slithered into a more auspicious future where I won’t ever allow a misguided sense of duty to fuck up my life. For as nostalgic as the fourth house can be in Western astrology, it’s also the house where sentimentality gives way to instinctive self-preservation. I’ll be galloping into my future confident that my instinct to look after my own needs is the secret to my success in 2026.