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Jupiter or Zeus is the Chief of the Gods, god of thunder,
god of storms, god of the Sky -- god of the heavens, in
every sense of the word. Zeus commands lightning. He possesses great wisdom. For food, Zeus consumes nectar and ambrosia [sweet spiritual substance], which reinforce immortality. The abode of Zeus is Mt. Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece, symbolic of heaven, or some "high place" where earth and heaven intersect.
There are two sides to Jupiter: the worldly and the
spiritual.
Jupiter is a huge planet, the King of Big, and the driving force behind the game of Bigger-Better-More. Anything Jupiter touches, it expands, makes bigger than in normal life. We want to improve circumstances. Whatever we have, we want more of it. There are no limits, no end in sight. And why should there be, when life is there for the taking. Carpe diem! We can have and experience it all, or as much as we want anyway, because nobody really wants it ALL - where would you put it?!
Jupiter Derailed
Detours: arrogance, ego, overconfidence, hubris,
grandiosity, too big, too much, inflated ideas about self, unrealistic visions, probabilities misjudged, what it takes to complete projects is over-, under- or otherwise mis-estimated, overweight, self-indulgence, uncontrolled growth.
Abundance and Waste
We can have so much, and go through experiences so quickly, that we can end up wasting, throwing away, or otherwise releasing much of what we've sampled. And this can happen when a person is in a big growth period. They will go through possessions and experiences quickly, at a high "burn rate," so will end up getting many new clothes, new furnishings, new libraries, new art, new music, etc. to match their present-time energies. In order for the new energies to come in, the person may need to release old and energetically-outworn materials that no longer match the current growth phase or vibration. It's a a viable exercise to "waste" occasionally in order to remind ourselves that we can create or manifest whatever we need, that resources are in abundance, and there is plenty to go around. Nature "wastes" with fruit trees and seeds - huge numbers of fruits and even more seeds are produced, far more than a family could ever use - a redundancy is built into the natural system that provides enough to eat, enough to give away, and still more to waste or return to the earth.
Nature provides a rhythm and a cycle of circulating
resources by producing fruits and seeds in season, sun and
rain in season, so too there is "a time for every purpose, under Heaven," everything in its right time, which is the timing of Spirit, not necessarily what our limited, ordinary minds want or have planned. Plans give us the illusion of doing something constructive until Spirit moves and sweeps us into the flow of Life. Our responsibility in the matter is to get out of our heads (ordinary mind) and to align and flow with Spirit.
Prosperity and Scarcity: Arbitrary Agreements
Being in the flow of Life includes circulating of energy,
love and other resources. If everyone keeps resources circulating, there is no scarcity of quantity. Take money, for example. Even though there's a finite amount of money on the planet at any given time, money is not scarce unless we fail to circulate it. Even saving or investing money is circulating it, since the banks are loaning it out to other people for houses, home improvement, new cars and business development. The only way to make a finite amount of money scarce is to not circulate it, to put it under the mattress or bury it in your backyard for many years.
When enough percentage of the public agree to circulate
money, then we have a boom, financial prosperity, lots of
new jobs, new houses, business is good, the future looks
golden and bright. If enough percentage of the public agree
to not-circulate money, we have a recession or depression,
and the future looks grey and grim. But much of what we
call good times and bad times are just collective agreements that actually create reality. These agreements are arbitrary, and they can be changed, but the short term solution for yourself may be found in your spirituality, your character and ethics, your competence, your public reputation, and the relationships you're deeply involved in co-creating, which in turn create a subculture or superculture of agreement and a distinctive reality that now operate outside the larger collective agreements.
The Dark Side: Arrogance, Infidelity and Abuse
Speaking of operating outside larger collective agreements, I'll digress for a moment to mention that Jupiter is associated with infidelity. Not only is Jupiter a shapeshifter, with a reputation for making his shape pleasing to the one he wants to seduce, he breaks down normal inhibitions regarding fidelity and especially fidelity in marriage. Perhaps this the arrogance of one who wants and expects to have it all? Does Jupiter have double standards? Or is this merely a youthful, impulsive nature that knows no reason why he can't have what he wants - now - whether that's too much sex, too much spending, too much alcohol, too much smoking, too much cocaine, too much, too much - just TOO MUCH!
Jupiter is known to have a tremendous immunity to weapons, possessing that prized quality that we would call "resilience." He may assume that others are equally immune and resilient, which is a false assumption that allows for abuse and for the denial and rationalization that may follow abuse. These are dark sides of Jupiter that are not commonly seen, but when Jupiter conjoins the Sun, Mars, or Pluto, the potential for abuse is there, again perhaps based on arrogance and a lack of empathy, too high an opinion of oneself in comparison with others.
Providence and Co-Creation with God
God's goodness, benevolence and omnipresence give us Divine providence. What's behind abundance is that God just says "YES." God allows us to HAVE the experiences we want, and allows us to have them in order for us to grow, to refine our desires, and to return consciously to His companionship and the companionship of the saints (those of pure heart who are consciously living from spirit). To the extent that we're stuck or blocked, it's our own limited thinking, programming and conditioning, lack of experience, and arbitrary agreements that get in the way of us having what we want. As the saying goes, "God doesn't make junk" - it's people who louse things up!
God's way of creating gives the prototype for our own successful creation, if we so choose to avail ourselves of it. We *as spirit* learn how to provide, manifest, and multiply, within the larger Life of God that is Divine Providence and Infinity.
The process of manifesting abundance involves:
1) spiritual consciousness,
2) postulates or creative ideas made by consciousness,
3) the creation of spiritual substance,
4) the circulation of spiritual substance, and
5) love, relationships and material wealth that are
the manifestation or "outpicturing" of the previous four.
All creation is affirmative, formed from creative ideas
dreamed by pure spiritual consciousness (you!), and riding
on the golden spiritual substance that you emanate, based on who you are as a being and on the quality of your consciousnness.
All creative ideas are identical with or derived from
what I have called in other writings "the ultimate Ideas":
the classical Greek Ideas of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful - or Goodness, Truth, Beauty.
Your creations, as affirmative, validate and affirm who you
are as a being.
Havingness
Jupiter relates to expansion, inclusion, and havingness. I define "havingness" as the ability to have and enjoy anything that you want or need. This does not mean you need to own or possess something exclusively. You can own things, or you can not own things as you please - just enjoy the use or simple experience of them (such as borrowed library books, beautiful natural settings, leased cars, rented suites, admiring museum art objects or other's wardrobes). Not having to actually own something, but rather to use or simply experience it, adds a lot of richness and freedom to life, to say nothing of the joys of "traveling light" in life.
A Lifetime of Havingness
Because of the scarcity agreements commonly found in today's world cultures, a child may grow up being denied many things he wants. He goes off to college with all of his worldly possessions packed into his Volkswagen bug. At the end of ten years, he has acquired many more possessions and more space to put them into. By the time he's 40 or 50, he most likely has a family and a houseful of possessions, and he's wondering how so much stuff could accumulate - it's a constant job to keep his possessions pruned down to a dull roar. He has a sense of having "been there, done that" and the name of the game is "simplify." Now, "less is more." He has the wherewithal to buy or rent many things, but he would prefer not to. He already has much more than he needs. He's now more selective.
Know that even your stacks and piles of "stuff" - a whole
lot of "stuff" - is part of your abundance. Any time you encounter a whole lot of something, whether or not you own it, whether or not you see it as desirable, it's part of your abundance. Acknowledge and validate that. Then move to sculpt and perfect your space, selecting the objects you wish to see in that space.
Our friend (you?) can periodically do "spring cleaning" and purge his possessions, taking loads to the Salvation Army, the public library, and the dump. But he has a "havingness level" he has built up, and if he creates a vacuum by removing, say, 20% of his possessions, he will soon find that he has filled up the space again with new things. It's a truism that "nature abhors a vacuum" but in the case of personal possessions, the vacuum is filled by havingness level, just as we "eat to level" every day based on our internal "appestat." This intuitive sense of "fullness" or level of possessions is related to Jupiter, our maturity on the subject of abundance, and how to manage our abundance.
By the time our friend is 80, he gives many of his
possessions to his children, younger friends and protegees
and moves into a place about the size of his college studio apartment. He wonders how he could have been so interested in all that stuff, how it was an insatiable process of acquisition for many years, how it seemed like there was never enough, or there was always room for one more book, one more painting, one more program, one more CD, one more photograph. In many respects, our 80-year old has reached the ultimate freedom. He has the wherewithal to manifest whatever he needs or wants, but he wants very little. He prefers the simple pleasures - most of these don't cost money, but are the product of thoughtfulness, warmth, and caring. We should all be in such a position, as we might eliminate earlier compulsive consumption borne of a feeling of not-enough, or that we are not good enough, or attractive enough, or educated enough, unless we have this or that.
The Fullness of Space
A most wonderful thing to enjoy, but which cannot be owned outright, is a open, clear space that has a safe and inspiring feeling to it - this is one of the greatest treasures in the world. Such spaces may be found in nature, in temples or cathedrals, in homes, in relationships, in consciousness, hearts and conscience. We are normally focused on what goes into a spaces, that we tend not to see the space itself. But in time, the space becomes more interesting and valuable than what's in it, or what could be in it, and we come to appreciate the space itself and the unique quality of that space.
In Buddhism, fulfillment is being aware of emptiness and the clear light of the void. This void is a luminous void. Mother Teresa said that if you're poor and have nothing to give to God, give him your nothingness, your emptiness, and let him fill you with His love and spirit. Kabbalah echoes this sentiment in saying that we are receivers of G-d's blessings.
Such simplicities are an advanced stage of Jupiterian abundance, and perhaps what Mother Teresa referred to when she said that "poverty is a gift from God" - that simplicity provides fewer detours and distractions on the road to spiritual wealth, providing one has "run out" worldliness in its natural cycle of timing. I do feel that these detours and distractions are necessary at some point on the path of earth incarnations in order to exhaust worldliness, to go into the center of worldliness and craving, experience it fully, revel in it, play with it, and come out the other side free, clear and simple. We must remember the long path of the soul in its journey in the earth, and that even old souls in today's high tech cosmopolitan environments may get caught in the snares of compulsive bigger-better-more, yet are exhausting that route more and more quickly.
Workable Assumptions
Whatever you want, know that it is already done and existing
at some level, in some dimension, else you would not have
had the desire. Be aware of the essence of your desire,
the heart of your desire. Experience the essence NOW. The essence is yours to experience immediately and anytime you want, as the essence is already a part of your own nature. Assume you have that thing, or that your projects and needs are funded, it's just a matter of time until they manifest in the physical. Then watch them show up in beautiful timing, and often in better form and more easily than you ever imagined.
Blessings
Jupiter gives great blessings and gifts, and hints at
treasures stored up in heaven - good karma. What most
people call "good luck" is karma coming back around in
its right timing. (For more information, see "Transits"
below.)
True wealth is spiritual - it's your birthright,
and no one can take that away from you. Spiritual wealth
can manifest in the physical, "as above, so below."
Jupiter shows vision, intuitive understanding and great
wisdom in one or more areas. Jupiter placements show a
natural vision and grasp, inclusiveness, expansiveness, vast holdings, "lands," "territories," and "domains." Jupiter tends toward an optimistic, "can-do" attitude.
Jupiter shows us how to make more of something, how to
multiply our resources and holdings, so illustrates the metaphysical law of multiplication. Jupiter not only multiplies quantity, it multiplies quality, in giving what the Mormons call "a fullness of understanding," based on knowledge of spiritual fundamentals, from which any related or applied understanding can now be derived. Jupiter is the planet of development and unfoldment, derivation from a basic creative idea, blueprint, and/or telos (goal or purpose).
Jupiter is joyous, and Jupiterian adventures can get our endorphins going! With Jupiter, we experience joy, fun, expansion, exuberience, ebullience, resilience, goodwill, benevolence. We enjoy parties and celebrations. In a religious mode, we celebrate with rituals, liturgies, pagentry. These religious activities bring our consciousness into the earth, bring us closer to manifesting our ideals all the time. With religious celebration, we have renewed confidence, joy, faith, and an open heart. Our primary relationship is with God/Spirit, and our devotion and open-heartedness there is the prototype for all other friendships and relationships. Jupiter is a planet correlated with the heart chakra and, as such, symbolizes not only God the Creator, a God of love, peace, generosity, blessing, but also the Christ Consciousness that lives in every heart.
Inspirational Quotes:
"The whole earth is full of His glory." Isaiah 6:3.
"That ye might be filled with the fullness of God."
Ephesians 3:19.
"That ye might stand perfect and complete in all the will of
God." Col. 4:12
"According to His abundant mercy." I Peter 1:3.
"God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand,
in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle,
and in the fruit of thy land, for good." Deuteronomy 30:9.
"In thy presence is fullness of joy." Psalm 16:11.
"A faithful man will abound with blessings." Psalm 28:20.
"Delight in the Lord and He shall give you the
desires of your heart." Psalms 37:4.
"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness,
and all these things shall be added unto you." Matthew
6:33.
"Lay up for yourselves treasures in Heaven." Matthew 6:20.
"The kindgom of Heaven is like unto treasure." Matthew 13:44.
"Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over." Luke 6:58.
"Come, blessed of God, inherit the kingdom prepared
for you from the foundations of the world." Matthew 25:34.
"It is God's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." Luke 12:32.
Jupiter Music:
Bach, "Magnificat".
Haydn, "The Creation."
Handel, "The Messiah."
Mozart, "Exultate Jubilate."
Beethoven, "Choral Fantasy".
Verdi, "Triumphal March" from the opera Aida.
Martha and the Vandellas, "Dancing in the Streets", 1964. "Celebration". Huey Lewis and the News, "The Power of Love." Constance Demby, "Novus Magnificat." Sister Act 2 [movie], "Joyful, Joyful" chorus. Sri Rama Singers, "Jaya Shambho!" album
INTERPRETING JUPITER
Jupiter represents growth, opportunity, expansion,
vision, faith.
WHERE IS JUPITER BY SIGN, BY HOUSE, AND BY ASPECT?
Jupiter by SIGN and HOUSE shows some natural gifts and
talents, vision and nderstanding. Most people will do well
to consider and capitalize on their Jupiter SIGN in terms of formal or informal education, advanced learning style, building healthy self-esteem and self-confidence, career planning, reputation, social and religious vision. Since Jupiter goes through one sign per year, school teachers have been known to remark that each year's graduating class is very different with its own unique quality, and can be astrologically correlated to the fact that most students in the class have Jupiter (and the other slow moving planets) in the same sign as a common denominator.
Jupiter's HOUSE relates to boons and blessings that allow
for more abundance, opportunities, resilience, fun, and fulfillment in life, in right spiritual timing.
As in all astrological factors, a spectrum of manifestation
is possible - from the most exalted and masterful where the person is an exemplar - to the most perverse and degraded where the finest potential of the archetype becomes reversed through ignorance or abuse.
Here are a few keynotes of JUPITER IN THE SIGNS. This
should NOT be considered an exhaustive list.
JUPITER IN ARIES: Leadership and innovative ideas. High
energy. Quick to grasp essentials.
JUPITER IN TAURUS: Practical, inclined toward finance,
agriculture and/or fine arts.
JUPITER IN GEMINI: Quick study when interested, aptitude
for teaching, training, writing, information
gathering.
JUPITER IN CANCER: Empathic intuitive, cares for family
and home needs, helps others feel safe and secure.
JUPITER IN LEO: Leadership, dramatic, and artistic talents.
JUPITER IN VIRGO: Focus on detail, craftsmanship, education,
health, analysis, restoration.
JUPITER IN LIBRA: Diplomatic, sociable, gracious, fine arts
appreciation.
JUPITER IN SCORPIO: Executive ability, in-depth research,
mining, surgery, therapy, regeneration.
JUPITER IN SAGITTARIUS: Vision and faith, quick study,
writes well, sense of humor.
JUPITER IN CAPRICORN: Executive ability, builder,
construction, structures, architecture.
JUPITER IN AQUARIUS: Civic-minded, world cultures,
civilizations, fine arts, politics, science,
education, metaphysics, wide vision, future.
JUPITER IN PISCES:
Empathic intuitive, charities, general welfare,
healing, religion and spirituality, fine arts.
Here are some notes on JUPITER IN THE HOUSES. This should NOT be considered an exhaustive list.
JUPITER IN 1st HOUSE: Confident, gregarious, lucky,
weight may be an issue at some point in the life.
JUPITER IN 2nd HOUSE: Above-average personal income and
handsome possessions. Can be lucky with money.
JUPITER IN 3rd HOUSE: Good for learning and teaching,
vehicles such as cars and trucks, general
communication. May be talkative. One or more
siblings may be philosophical or prophetic.
JUPITER IN 4th HOUSE: Auspicious early life circumstances
with parents, family, and religious basics.
One or both parents may be philosophical or
prophetic.
JUPITER IN 5th HOUSE: Knows how to have a good time and
make life into a game. Enjoys leisure time,
expressing affection, hobbies, sports and
recreational pursuits. One or more children may be
philosophical or prophetic.
JUPITER IN 6th HOUSE: Tends to give resilient health,
but care should be taken to not overindulge in food
or drink, to protect the liver, and to not become
overweight. Ample work opportunities and talented
staff.
JUPITER IN 7th HOUSE: Solid marriage when the soul timing
is right, partner tends to make above average
income, partner may be philosophical or prophetic.
JUPITER IN 8th HOUSE: Good regenerative powers, prophetic
dreams, strong possibility of inheritance, partner
makes above average income, good for business and
investments.
JUPITER IN 9th HOUSE: Strong opportunities for higher
education, publishing, spiritual and religious
studies, foreign travel. Prophetic dreams and
visions.
JUPITER IN 10th HOUSE: Good reputation among teachers,
bosses, mentors, the powers that be. Many
opportunities for leadership and career
advancement.
JUPITER IN 11th HOUSE: Very popular socially, gains through
like minded friends, groups, societies, associations,
networking, sports, community and religious contacts.
High idealism, goal oriented. May be a civic
leader.
JUPITER IN 12th HOUSE: Periods of solitude benefit, many
blessings from past lives and the angel kingdom.
Opportunities in spirituality and psychology,
energy medicine, government or large organizations,
hospitals or institutions.
ASPECTS to JUPITER (mathematical relationships of the other planets to Mars) and RULER OF JUPITER yield additional information about growth, expansion, religious experience, and the phenomenon of "bigger-better-more." A Jupiter that's well-aspected tends toward ease in the above areas and constructive action, a steady building throughout life, and a certain amount of apparent "luck," which can come from a jovial attitude and confidence, as well as good karma. A Jupiter that's stressed by aspect tends toward challenges in the above areas, over-confidence, over-optimism, naivete, ego, arrogance, overdoing, incorrect estimation of reality and consequences, over-extension, and self-indulgence. However, challenges may be just what's needed to gain a thorough understanding of how life works in an area, and to learn how to tackle and overcome obstacles, whereas if things are too easy, we may take them for granted and not learn much. Some aspects such as the conjunction have both ease and challenge associated with them, especially Jupiter/Sun, Jupiter/Mars, and Jupiter/Pluto conjunctions.
DWADS are a secondary Sign influence underlying the exact degree and minute of your Jupiter. Dwads reveal an added dimension and can give outstanding supplemental information, especially for those working on deeper and more psychological levels, and can help explain why someone is not the typical Jupiter in Taurus, for example. It's very useful to know the dwad under your Jupiter, as this deeper information tends to aid in the understanding of your natural gifts and talents, and further qualifies your natal Jupiter.
RELOCATION astrology shows where to go in the continental United States and in the rest of the world to place Jupiter on the angles of your chart using "astro-cartography." These places are especially auspicious for career and relationship success, and personal confidence. Another system called "local space mapping," which I have researched extensively for 10 years now, shows where to go in the world to gain support for your Jupiterian projects - where to go to foster prosperity, growth, faith, vision. My relocation report combines both systems above.
RELATIONSHIP COMPATIBILITY. "Synastry" analysis places the Jupiter of one person (P1) into the chart of another person (P2), and vice versa, showing attraction patterns. One person's Jupiter in the chart of another is often quite significant, showing where they provide a special blessing, generosity, or gift to the other person! In relationship charts, Jupiter/Moon conjunctions suggest that the Jupiter person puts the Moon person at ease and allows them to feel safe emotionally. A man's Jupiter conjunct a woman's Mars brings her sexual confidence and maybe even experience - it's not uncommon for a young woman to unconsciously seek out a man with Jupiter conjunct her Mars for early sexual experiences. Jupiter conjunctions to any planet are auspicious.
Using another compatibility technique, the Composite Chart,
the composite Jupiter represents the merger of two
individuals' Jupiters, the third energy that's formed in
their coming together, and its sign and house placement are
a focal point of growth and expansion.
PROGRESSIONS are one way to bring the natal chart up to date
in present time, and show long-term developmental trends. Jupiter progressions are very slow, but sometimes Jupiter progresses into another sign or house during your lifetime, showing growth opportunities.
TRANSITS are a way to update the natal chart into present
time. Transits are where the planets are now, and how they relate to your natal chart. Jupiter transits around your entire chart in 12 years, and transits through each house in your chart in about 1 year per house. As Jupiter transits around your natal chart, it "lights up" the houses of your chart in succession, highlighting windows of opportunity for growth, learning, vision, expansion, gaining new confidence, and blessing. There is usually at least one major "gift" that comes to you related to the house that Jupiter is transiting. Much depends on what you do with these windows of opportunity, rather than depending solely on externals to determine your "luck" or experience. The blessings of Jupiter are often related to karmic payouts or bonuses, coming due in cycle, in their season. Jupiter transits in the last third of life can relate to mushrooming bank accounts and real estate profit-taking, difficulty controlling weight with a slower metabolism, or growths in the body - cancer often begins to multiply when Jupiter transits a person's Sun or 6th house, for example.
Death at any age is nearly always correlated with Jupiter transits, especially in older persons, showing that release from the body can be a freedom, a fullfillment, an expansiveness, a blessing, a spiritual experience. The fact that we usually see Jupiter transits in the passing of younger persons as well suggests that it is soul timing that determines the passing, regardless of our preconceptions or outer circumstances.
For Further Reading [non-astrological]:
"The Great Work of Liberation"
available by email request, with message SEND GREATWK.
"On Conditioning & Programming," with message SEND PROGRAM.
Carol Willis, MA
Sunnyvale CA
September 29, 1997
cbwillis@lightlink.com
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