Star Struck Style

“A period of culmination” is the title of my astro.com horoscope detailing Jupiter’s conjunction with my midheaven at the end of May. The passage describes the upcoming event as follows:

“This is a period of culmination in which you make a greater effort to get where you want to be. And your efforts appear to produce results more easily than at just about any other time. Therefore you feel better about yourself and your life than at other times, and you feel confident that you can handle anything that comes your way.

If you are involved in any kind of business activity, you should be careful not to expand too rapidly or overextend yourself. You might leave yourself vulnerable to the more difficult times that will eventually come. Make sure that all expansion is carefully planned and that you have safeguards against future times of difficulty.

Another negative side of this influence will come up if you do not get the recognition that you feel you deserve. If others do not acknowledge you openly, you may feel cheated and go on to assume the station and privilege that you think you deserve. Even if you are recognized, you may act arrogant and smug. Be careful of this, because it creates a negative energy that could lead to your total downfall when this influence is no longer in effect.

In general the sphere of your activities will broaden at this time, and you will probably meet new people from unfamiliar parts of the country and even from other parts of the world. They may come into your expanding sphere of action, or you may travel to their worlds. All of this is most likely to happen through your public or social life rather than your personal life.”

That all sounds terrific to me. When I look back at the posts I have published regarding Jupiter’s initial entrance into my tenth house and its subsequent return to my ninth house during its retrograde cycle, I’m fascinated by the way in which I was compelled to trust myself that something better was on the horizon for me. I’ve allowed myself to become much more open-minded about what the word “success” means to me over the past year or so, and that has resulted in me finding happiness in who I am rather than in what I do. Now I don’t want to be ambitious just to have more things in my life to make me happy. I want to be ambitious to be able to find joy in my own little world. I want to get to the top of the mountain to enjoy the view.

This is going to be an interesting year with Jupiter transiting my tenth house and Saturn transiting my sixth house. I initially thought that these transits might make me feel like a workaholic, but now I’m starting to think that they may have the opposite effect as I rediscover what it means to find pleasure in almost everything I do.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: it feels good to feel good.