A Jupiter Transit
By Tom Jacobs
The predominant thinking about Jupiter in Tropical astrology is that everything’s perfect when it’s involved; the house it’s in will benefit enormously, whether natally or by transit. Jupiter will bring you the biggest, the best, the most bestest of everything when it comes knocking! we’re told.
This is great news, except that…it doesn’t. What Jupiter does is enlarge everything it touches. Natally it confers a bigness to the house it occupies and the bodies and points it aspects. By transit it will augment whatever’s already happening. Basically put, Jupiter brings opportunity, and sometimes that looks positive at first glance, and sometimes it doesn’t, as things that don’t serve you must be released in order to make space for things that will.
I was prompted to note these thoughts after a recent Jupiter transit of mine, to my natal Moon (Sagittarius/3rd house, conjunct Mercury & Neptune in the 2nd). In fact, it’s still technically in orb of my Moon, so I’m still in it. Given that the Moon symbolizes home, women in general, the mother in particular, the feeling nature/feelings and our general sense of security, traditionalist thinking would have all these things getting just greater and more fabulous during this transit, but in actuality the opportunity of this transit for me was to become aware, on a deeper level and with an astonishing clarity, certain of my insecurities.
If I were to approach this situation from a traditionalist mindset I’d probably be pretty disappointed about the transit in general…and after two days of seeing it that way, I remembered the subtler layers of opportunity available (to release what doesn’t serve). As soon as I admitted the feelings behind the insecurities, I’d named my fears and was in a position to see where I could change some things in my life to make it better.
So, then, I have to give up some things. Since we’re talking about the natal Moon being transited, we’re talking about the personal stuff. The full benefit that’s settling in after giving air to those fears and making some decisions to change I can’t foresee, but the feeling of it is here. The opportunity of this Jupiter transit is not in having my home somehow become more beautiful, or having my mom win the lottery, etc., but in infusing the courage to be honest (Jupiter) about my emotions and emotional needs (Moon). It’s a feeling of peace, and I have to say that it pretty much beats the other feelings hands down.
The mundane ramifications include leaving a job I’ve had for almost three years (but a type of job I’ve had for many years), a job I’ve kept to support myself for fear that my work as a healer won’t, and selling the car I didn’t want to buy in the first place (relocating from the East Coast to LA, it seemed like a good idea, given the spread-out geography) to replace it with an electric scooter. The intangible ramifications, however, are even better than creating the space and freedom to do the work I want to and getting around town in a way I feel good about: The understanding of the importance of honoring my feelings. It turns out that if you never speak them, it’s pretty easy to avoid honoring them.
What’s Jupiter touching in your chart these days? What’s your opportunity?
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April 3, 2007 By Tom Jacobs