Let’s face it ladies, we all need recess. Look closely at what is in your fifth house. Whatever planets are in your 5th house or inner sandbox- that’s where all the pent up, crazy, fun and total joy is.  

Some of us are workaholics and wouldn’t know a sandbox from an office cubicle. Doing what floats your boat and rocks your chi isn’t a small thing- but it’s the only way to reap the awards and gifts of your 5th house. Without living up to your 5th house, your inner royalty loses her crown and becomes raggy Cinderella with her mop and dirty shoes on.

So if you live in a New York apartment the size of a shoebox and work 3 jobs, you still have to find some road to the fun, some time for play.  Why? It’s the only way to total Zen-dom. Have you ever seen a miserable monk? And they walk on hot coals on Wednesdays.  

Search for what keeps you ticking and do just that no matter what anyone thinks. No matter the cost.   There’s a bigger price for avoiding your happy place.  The price to pay to forfeit your 5th house (which is the house of love, fun, hobbies, children, recreation, pleasure in general, and expressing your inner child) is the 11th house- which means, all work and no play equals one miserable, underused aorta, a lion turned mouse.  

The 11th house is the house of Aquarius. This is the opposite house from the 5th. The 11th house is where you are ahead of your time, making groundbreaking changes. It’s where you are a reformer, innovating your vision in unique ways.

Which house are you playing in?

A miserable 5th house means a more miserable 11th house. With a wacked-out 5th, meaning you never stop and smell the roses ever, you make for a wacked-out, boring 11th and that means no reason to get out of bed in the morning. You are traveling in dull and boring land and starting to look like a Zoloft commercial. With no pleasure in your life, your 11th house of goals and dreams get diminished and your like-minded friends- may fall off the face of the earth. The remedy- shake up that 5th house, it’s a house of bricks nobody can blow down, it’s your secret magical safe place where you express your creativity.

So if you know what planets are in your 5th house, live those stories with passion. We are the stories we tell. What’s yours?  If your Sun is in the 5th house, your ego must shine when it comes to finding your passion. If Saturn is there, you have to know the rules and structures of the game before you play. With Saturn in that 5th house, in love, you are as serious as a heart attack. You must find your own balance beam. What did you do at age 7 for fun when you didn’t have rent to pay?

So what have we learned? Don’t put off pleasure until your two-week vacation.  Every child gets recess. We get taller and more annoyed with time, it’s true, but astrology reinforces the fact that we need to play on the swings as well. Somehow, some way, find your own playground and balance it into your insane life. We think your nieces and nephews can help with that.