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Jupiter basics

Jupiter moved from Taurus to Gemini on May 25th, and will remain in Gemini until June 9th, 2025.

Traditionally, Jupiter is viewed as an extremely positive planet that represents “more” in the same way Saturn represents “less”. Jupiter is by far the largest planet in our solar system – Jupiter is 2.5 times bigger than all of the other planets in our solar system combined! So it makes sense that Jupiter’s meanings include growth, expansiveness, and “more”!

However, there is more to Jupiter than just “more”. More isn’t always better, and Jupiter understands that. Jupiter represents the archetype of not only “big”, but also “good”. He represents the King of the Gods and the traditional “Santa Claus” figure – big, larger-than-life, and bearing many gifts.

From a health perspective, Jupiter represents the physician, the medicine that helps us feel better, the test that finally shows us the root cause of our problem. Whereas Mercury represents learning and categorizing new information, Jupiter represents synthesizing that information into something greater (or “more”) than the sum of its parts. Jupiter turns disparate bits of knowledge into wisdom.

Jupiter in Taurus – the old!

Whenever Jupiter changes signs, both the way we synthesize information into wisdom and the area of life in which we find wisdom, shifts.

Jupiter in Taurus allowed us to find wisdom in nature. Wisdom in freeing ourselves from the past and from the future and just “being”. Wisdom in earthy grounded things like the most supportive place for us to live, the most supportive job we could have, the foods we could eat that would help us feel the best.

As this giant, gaseous planet moves from grounded, 3-dimensional Taurus to airy, curious Gemini, we will begin to find wisdom in ideas and philosophies.

Jupiter in Gemini – the new!

One thing I always tend to forget is that Jupiter is in detriment in Gemini. I often forget this because Jupiter feels so positive and productive in Gemini. However, positive and productive doesn’t necessarily mean “at home”. Where Gemini wants to gather facts for facts’ sake, Jupiter wants to synthesize existing facts into something profound. So there is something inherently at odds about what Jupiter wants to do, and what Gemini wants to do.

What Jupiter in Gemini is incredibly good at, however, is getting more facts and evaluating them objectively. Gemini is one of the least emotional of the zodiac signs and, when given enough objective facts, Gemini can generally make excellent, if not wise and profound, conclusions. So with Jupiter in Gemini, we get an expansiveness of fact-collecting – more than enough to let us evaluate the merit of an idea. We may not make profound connections between facts, but we can definitely see what the “connect-the-dots” picture of facts is painting for us!

What is Jupiter in Gemini “good for”?

Jupiter in Gemini tends toward a clarity of ideas. In our current era of artificial intelligence (AI) and an increasing skepticism over what is real vs what is fake, Jupiter in Gemini will come in like a deep breath of refreshing air – giving us an intense clarity on reality. This is especially true since Jupiter in the early degrees of Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius – the biggest signifier in the rise of AI. So even as Pluto in Aquarius ushers in AI on a red carpet, Jupiter in Gemini gives us a clearer view of what is real and what is fake within that AI.

One of Gemini’s most notable traits is its curiousity. This of course results in accumulating many facts, but it also encourages us to consider ideas we wouldn’t previously have considered. If we have become stuck in a mental model and been blindly following it, Gemini will encourage us to re-evaluate that model. Gemini will ensure we have looked at other alternatives before just accepting a default set of beliefs, or a set of beliefs that may have resonated with us five years ago but actually doesn’t anymore.

As a result, Jupiter’s time through Gemini over the next year will be a wonderful time to discard limiting beliefs, whether about ourself or others. i.e. “He will never change.”, “I will never be any better than this.”, “I don’t have enough money”, “I can never get the job I want”. Jupiter doesn’t believe in the word “never”, and Gemini refuses to stick with a single thought or idea, no matter how ingrained that thought or idea might feel to us. Jupiter in Gemini will be open-minded enough to picture all of the ways our lives could be more amazing. Sometimes all we need is to be able to visualize the change we want, and we feel more confident about making it happen. If nothing else, Jupiter in Gemini will shake us loose from feeling stuck hearing the same repeating thoughts from our inner voice. Even if Jupiter in Gemini doesn’t result in profound wisdom and deep philosophy, there is something pretty valuable about that!

Also, in the spirit of considering new ideas with Jupiter in Gemini, after this article, I am moving my blog from this website to an email-only newsletter. With Artificial Intelligence scraping the web and copying all content from authors, I want to use this Jupiter/Pluto trine to keep the content I create available just to the people who want to read it – not to the AI that wants to use it as training data! 🙂 If you want to continue receiving my blog posts, please either subscribe to the blog by entering your email at the bottom of this page, or send me an email at magicofthemoonastrology@gmail.com. I will only send emails for two things.

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I look forward to seeing how particular Jupiter in Gemini idea will play out. 🙂

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I have been reading so much about the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction that is coming later this week. Astrologers are going a little crazy over it, and I will be honest – I am going crazy too! After a lot of heavy energy, starting with the Saturn/Pluto/Jupiter/Mars conjunctions that kicked off the pandemic through the frightfully long Saturn/Uranus square that basically continued for a year and a half, we are all feeling ready for some “easier” times! In some ways, the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction will deliver on this, but it likely won’t be the one-stop-shop solution to all of life’s problems that we may be hoping it is.

Just so that we get the facts down first: This conjunction is exact on Saturday, 4/20, around 7pm PT. This occurs while Mercury is still retrograde and just after the Sun also moves into Taurus (just in time for the “lucky” fireworks caused by this conjunction)!

Every person will feel this conjunction pretty intensely, but it will feel especially life-altering for those with planets around 21 degrees of the fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius).

Uranus

Uranus heightens our sense of rebellion against anything in our lives that doesn’t resonate with us. It is extremely difficult to conform to the status quo and “do what we’re told” when Uranus gets involved.

However, breaking out of the status quo can be incredibly scary and destabilizing! Our job, partner, living location, etc may not be working well for us, but at least it is a known! Uranus asks us to burn everything down and rebuild. Burning down the part that isn’t working feels intensely satisfying, but when that dust clears, we are left with nothing. Not something that works for us, and not something that doesn’t. It is up to us to rebuild!

Because of this, I view Uranus transits as positive in the long term – they keep us from staying stuck! And generally the changes they provoke are necessarily ones. However, in the short-term they can feel very destabilizing. Yes, we got rid of the stuck feeling, but now we have nothing at all!

Jupiter

This is where Jupiter really shines and makes this conjunction significantly more “short term positive” than Uranus transits are by themselves. Historically viewed as the greater benefic planet, Jupiter won’t let us stay paralyzed by fear after the Uranus explosion. Jupiter gives us the optimism and the “luck” to land on our feet and to start rebuilding immediately.

However, as is always true with planetary alignments, there is no perfect silver bullet. There are always challenges to overcome with even the most “positive feeling” aspect. In this case, if we don’t do deep enough work with Uranus to understand exactly what is causing a lack of resonance in our lives, we may wind up rebelling against the wrong thing.

For example, imagine a person who hates their boss. They use this Uranus energy to tell their boss off and quit their job. Only when they quit their job do they realize that the things they hated about their boss weren’t unique to that individual person; they were side effects of the industry itself. Now the individual, rather than feeling liberated from their boss, faces the choice to get a similar job in a similar field working for a similar boss, or they have to change careers entirely. They didn’t do their Uranus work first to understand exactly what they were rebelling against, and projected their problems onto a specific person rather than correctly identifying their industry as the problem.

The caution for Jupiter is: don’t be blindly optimistic! Jupiter may make us feel like we have the world by the tail. We may tell ourselves that if we quit our non-resonant job, we can quickly be making a huge salary starting our own business. We neglect to inject reality into the situation. Starting a business is incredibly time-consuming and typically takes a long time to become profitable. If we rashly quit a job without a full plan and instead rely on Jupiter’s “luck” and optimism to get our salary back quickly, we may be disappointed.

Retrograde Mercury

Both the shadow sides of Uranus and Jupiter are especially worth considering for this conjunction, because Mercury is retrograde during this time. Whenever Mercury is retrograde, it is more important to double check what we are doing. Unless we double check now, we are likely to have to revisit later!

Retrograde Mercury makes it more likely that we will quit our job in a blaze of glory on Friday afternoon, realize over the weekend that starting a new business is more difficult than we thought, and then sheepishly ask to “un-quit” our job the following Monday. Retrograde Mercury encourages us to measure twice and cut once. If we methodically think through (Mercury) our urge to make changes (Uranus), and carefully consider the alternatives we want to pursue (Jupiter), we are well on our way to using this conjunction well! In its best form, if our souls have wandered off of our best path, this conjunction is about making much-needed, likely scary pivots in our life back toward our authentic path. In its worth form, this conjunction is about blowing things up in our lives and then belatedly wondering if we put the dynamite on the correct target.

I am so excited for this conjunction, and I can tell that other astrologers are too. Let’s just all make sure we make the most of this and don’t view it as a free pass that banishes our difficulties and showers us with abundance. As with every astrological event, we will get out of this conjunction what we put into it. Put in thoughtful, meditative, soul-level consideration, and you are likely to create changes in your life that will reverberate in the best way for years or decades. This may be a time you refer back to as an incredibly important turning point in your life.

Discounted reading

Unlike some other astrological events, this is an event where it actually is very important to understand what house it is in in your chart and how it impacts you specifically. There is a big difference between big changes in your career vs your love life vs your family! I am giving a 10% discount on all astrology and tarot readings purchased before the end of April to help people navigate this energy more effectively. If you want to take advantage of this, please use the code Jupiter2024 at checkout!

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