Astrology Explored

June 16, 2008

Dear Beth,
I’ve been thinking of retiring and wondered if I could do art work then. My birthday is November 20, 1945, at 5:15 am, in Norwich, Ct. Best, Taffy

Taffy,

The planet that represents your emotional center, the Moon sits alongside your planet of individuality Uranus, conferring a strong need to have what you want when you want it! This combination is in easy energetic connection (trine) with your planet of expansion, Jupiter. Your planet of communication, Mercury, is in friendly energetic connection (sextile) with Jupiter. You certainly have an abundance of creative energy!

Currently you are under the influence of mover and shaker Uranus movingly slowly through your fifth house of creativity. Here, this planet is urging you to explore your individuality through creative endeavors.

You are engaged in work that leaves your need for creative self expression unfulfilled. I say this because your planet of communication, Mercury sits in your second house of income opposite your Moon and Uranus in your eight house of other people’s income. Your pedestrian day job involves taking care of other people’s assets, literally wringing the life out of you as you do it. There is a part of you that yearns to break free. However, Neptune in the sky right now in challenge to your Saturns shows that at this point in your life, you aren’t willing to risk the security of your job to run off to explore your wild side.

But retirement is a three years off for you. For people born in 1945 the age where you can collect full social security benefits is age 66. Do you really want to wait that long to discover yourself? Your need to become involved in the creative process is only going to grow more urgent as Uranus travels throught that fifth house. It will change sign in the fifth house too, just at the time you retire, into the sign of take charge Aries making you even more driven to explore this part of your personality.

So yes, you can pursue art when you retire. But I urge you to take classes now, if only to provide relief from the boredom you feel in your current job.

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