Star Struck Style

“Do Nothing” is the title of my daily horoscope on astro.com tomorrow. The computer-selected passage refers to the transiting moon’s opposition to my natal Saturn which occurs exactly one minute after the arrival of the eclipse. The interpretation of the aspect reads as follows:

“This influence, although brief, can have a disruptive effect on your relationships. The problem is that it tends to make you feel very lonely and isolated, as if there is no one you can communicate with. And this can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Perhaps unconsciously you send out signals to others declaring that you do not want to be bothered. You may get into a depressed mood that baffles the people around you, so they give up on you for the time being and stop trying to help you. There is a strong tendency to look on the dark side of life and to react much more strongly to disappointments and failures than to reinforcement from others and success. The best way to handle such feelings is to do nothing. Don’t take them seriously and don’t make any decisions based on the way you feel now.”

At the moment, I am not feeling as if the current cosmic weather is so bad. Maybe that will change tomorrow. On the other hand, Venus moves into my sixth house not long after the eclipse occurs. Mars moved into my fifth house yesterday. I’m actually feeling like these changes will do me some good as I have been comfortable with both of these planetary placements in the past. I’m on the uphill climb after a long winter with several planets lingering near the bottom of my chart.

I do have plenty of things to do over the next few days that will help me to occupy my time productively as I attempt to distract myself from the worst of what this eclipse might bring. I also have a new perspective regarding current events and everything else that is going on around me: people can fuck up their own lives without fucking up mine. I made a new year’s resolution to be happy in my own little world, and I’m sticking to it. If sending out “signals to others declaring that you do not want to be bothered” is wrong, I don’t want to be right. That’s not going to take me to “the dark side of life.” In fact, it’s going to keep me from visiting that place altogether. My own little world is a lovely place.

So, I’m going to turn off the news and try to stay off social media for the most part over the next couple of days. I’m going to keep my nose to the grindstone and focus upon things that might need to be done before my hernia surgery next week. I’m not going to let this eclipse — or anything else, for that matter — get to me.

It’s all uphill from here . . .