Jupiter in Capricorn - and Pluto on its Heels
Headline: The High-flying Optimism (and Perhaps Over-extended Wishfulness) of Sagittarius Gives Way to the Sobering View of Reality of Capricorn!
Whether this is seen or experienced as a plus or minus depends on one’s willingness to adjust meaningfully and maturely to Saturnian, get-the-job-done energy.
Undoubtedly, it’s time to work. With Jupiter into Capricorn, the intuitive mind begins to whiff that there are opportunities to ground some of the insights afforded by the previous year of Jupiter in Sagittarius.
It might be time to go to school or class of some kind to put into actual practice (manifestation) some of the rad theoretical stuff that we’ve been collecting. It might be time to slow down anything and everything in order to be sure that we can get and stay real about how things are actually working - Capricorn being the sign of adjusting to and responding to reality.
With Pluto’s ingress to Capricorn, we’re looking at the opportunity to deepen our relationship with the reality of authority. Who’s in charge, and why? How did they get there? What do they have that we think we don’t? What do we have in common that we may not have seen? Anything in there we can learn to ground and stabilize to develop and manifest our authority in new, better, healthier ways?
Pluto presents us with the tools to dig below the surface, and invites us to turn over the soil in a recognition that change is inevitable. If you’ve followed Pluto transits in your own life, you can correlate its level of difficulty with your willingness to change…wait a minute! - no one told you that’s the secret of prospering and growing during Pluto transits? Well, it’s time you got the memo.
Pluto in Capricorn will present us with many reflections of our conditioning, and you’ll treat yourself well if you choose to be willing to see how you’ve adapted to the suggestions, requirements and edicts of external models of authority. Who do you think is in charge of your life? Who gets to direct things in your consciousness? How are you doing at learning to be in charge of yourself? Whose idea of reality is currently the ultimate one?
Capricorn is the sign of normalization, of leveling to a common demominator that’s based on the order necessary for the greater good. Capricorn aims to fit everyone into the bell curve, an impossible attempt not at homogenization but at a decomplication to allow a given amount of work to positively serve the greatest number of people.
Let Pluto’s ingress show you what’s really happening in your life related to that necessary order and that greater good. See where you can ground. See what you can do to get more real about what’s happening and what needs to be done. And above all, keep your eyes, minds and hearts open.
Tom is available for spirit-guided, soul-centered astrology consultations. Contact him via his website.
December 29, 2007 By Tom Jacobs
Near the Jupiter return in Cap/3rd
I was about to get back on my little 250 cc motorcycle this AM outside the grocery and an older dude came out and we talked about bikes, his was next to mine. He offered to sell me his 1200 cc BMW, almost new and very low mileage, for half the price he payed last year. It’s much too big for me (I’m headed next for a 750 cc at most), and more than i want to spend, but I had to laugh - it’s Jupiter in Capricorn in the 3rd - an 87 yr old guy offering me this great, great deal on a vehicle upgrade.
Tom is available for spirit-guided, soul-centered astrology consultations. Contact him via his website.
December 23, 2007 By Tom Jacobs
The Transiting Lunar Nodes Shift to Leo-Aquarius
Building on my very first blog post, on the transiting lunar nodes entering Virgo-Pisces, here are some thoughts on the imminent shift to Leo-Aquarius (December 18th).
Where Virgo-Pisces focus on service, Leo-Aquarius focus on creativity and expression. What’s the right place and form of expression? Should it be aimed at, inspired by, the personal or the collective? Is it for the present moment or is it to look ahead to a desired future? Should it be sparked and driven by the passions or the intellect?
With the transiting South Node in Virgo we’ve been facing our issues with the desire to serve by bringing in our analytical, hands-on and control- and precision-oriented faculties. The growth opportunities have been in opening to Piscean opportunities to trust, to learn to go with the flow and see the perfection in the whole as it is, and to work with the Universe instead of trying to control it.
As the nodes shift to Leo-Aquarius, the focus moves to confronting our issues with our personal here-and-now, our desire for recognition of our particular contribution (tr. South Node in Leo) with the growth opportunities involving gaining perspective, learning objectivity, and thinking ahead to what we want our particular contribution actually to manifest as and achieve down the road (tr. North Node in Aquarius).
The Sun and Uranus, the planets ruling this axis, are nothing if not creative. Their inspiration and methods differ considerably, but the emphasis with these two is definitely on creativity. Notice over the next few weeks any issues you see arising in yourself about the right kind of creativity your energies seem best suited to. And if you find yourself wanting to check out of or cut ties with groups you’re associated with because of personal differences (Leo), check yourself before making any decisions. Not that you shouldn’t make changes, but be aware of why you’re making them.
Aquarius is the sign of the collective, and many of us might be soon invited to re-evaluate the basis on which entered into any sort of group associations that involve creativity. How do we get where we’re going? Is it under our own steam or by working with others? This can even manifest as whether or not we share our creative ideas with others: Can we risk opening up to others’ input, when, while it might expand our perspective redically, it might also result in dilution of the purity of our personal voice?
Often we hear that Aquarius is the sign of friends, hopes and wishes. What’s behind this archetype as relating to friends is that we need to ally with others of like mind in order to create the kind of future we want. It’s the archetype of creating the kind of future we want to see realized. And we can’t do this by ourselves.
This is inherent in the progression of Sagittarius to Capricorn to Aquarius: In Sagittarius, we intuitively put our finger on and go with what we think is probably the most true. In Capricorn, we endeavor to take it into the world and manifest it. In Aquarius, we understand that creating a future as we wish it to be requires working with other people.
Keep an eye out for any shifts around creativity and groups. The growth opportunity for the next approximately year and a half is in learning to balance these two energies in our lives, which requires healing outstanding Leo/Sun and Uranus/Aquarius issues we may be holding on to. And with Jupiter and Pluto headed for Capricorn, the issue of who’s really in charge is about to become front and center. Given that Aquarius follows Capricorn in the natural zodiac, let whatever comes up for you about authority inform and feed what you’re experiencing about where to put your creative energies.
Tom is available for spirit-guided, soul-centered astrology consultations. Contact him via his website.
December 13, 2007 By Tom Jacobs