Star Struck Style

Jupiter went direct last night while I was in bed. I actually woke up for a while right around the time the planet moved out of retrograde. I’m typically quite a sound sleeper, so I don’t know what was up with my restlessness. Nevertheless, I fell back asleep and lingered in bed quite late this morning. I feel terrific as a result.

The planet had stationed just twenty-nine minutes away from forming an exact opposition with my natal sun. My lack of ambition lately — professionally speaking — can be attributed to this transit. However, I have no plans to become more ambitious for a while as I’ll be recuperating from my upcoming surgery. I’m really not going to be in a place to do anything different with my life until May. That’s fine with me. At the end of May, Jupiter will conjoin my midheaven as it moves into my tenth house. Perhaps I’ll think about becoming more more professionally ambitious then.

In the meantime, I’m going to enjoy this break in my routine. I haven’t had time off from the fitness classes I lead since the pandemic arrived six years ago. I’m sure that I’ll be thrilled to get back to that routine once I’ve recuperated from my surgery, but I could benefit from a change of pace. I believe that Jupiter’s return to my ninth house — the house it inhabited on the day I was born — has been urging me to see “the big picture.” In that scenario, my actual profession ranks quite low on my list of priorities, far behind my health and happiness. Choosing to find ways to enjoy my life more over the past year has been good for my soul. If Jupiter is supposed to be the planet that helps us expand our horizons, it has performed its job perfectly during this transit.

That makes me think that I should reevaluate how Jupiter will perform once it reenters my tenth house. I sometimes go overboard when trying to interpret these transits and believe that sudden change is imminent. Jupiter isn’t as slow-moving as Saturn, but it certainly isn’t as swift as Mercury or Venus. At my age, I shouldn’t expect its influence to change my circumstances overnight, but that’s kind of what it does: it inflates my expectations. It often lives up to my expectations, too, just not quickly enough for my liking.

So, I’m going to try to take this lesson I’ve learned from Jupiter’s transit through my ninth house and try to set some realistic expectations for its transit through my tenth house. I’ve got retrograde Mercury conjoining my natal Saturn as I write this post, so I should be exceptionally realistic at this moment in time. It’s a good day to be a practical old goat, and a good day to set a reasonable course for the future.

Good things come to those who wait, right?