The Jupiter

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Jupiter The Astrology Planet

Jupiter's position in the chart shows how you set about broadening your own horizons through channels in which you have considerable faith, probably because you were brought up to place a high value on these channels. Your opinions about what is good and should be developed enthusiastically are also indicated by Jupiter.

Jupiter is the largest planet and turns on its axis the fastest. As the first of the huge, gaseous planets outward from the Sun, it presents expanding opportunities and widening horizons. It stands for wisdom, the higher mind, prophecy, organized religions, universities, law, ceremonies, and rituals. It establishes far-ranging connections between people and ideas. It is the planet of abundance, prosperity, generosity, joviality, fortune, optimism, finance, and world commerce, but it tends to excess, over-confidence, self-righteousness, and complaisance. It rules the ninth sign, Sagittarius, the twelfth sign, Pisces, and the Ninth and Twelfth Houses. It orbits the Sun in just under twelve years.

Jupiter (Zeus, Thor, Wotan), king of the gods is the largest planet in the solar system, and it’s symbolism bears this out. Jupiter is the principle of expansion: expanding the mind to superconscious realms and philosophy, expanding our physical horizons through long journeys, and expanding the physical body through putting on weight (or just plain being large). It is also a kind of cosmic Santa Claus: generous, optimistic, or, if afflicted, extravagant, excessive, fond of display, opinionated, fanatical and boastful. Jupiter is the promoter par excellence, the teacher or the con man, the priest or used car salesman, the gambler or the crusader. It represents the higher mind, lifting up our eyes (the arrow of the Sagittarian centaur) with visions of truth, idealism, understanding, wisdom, and aspiration.

Jupiter’s symbol is the crescent of personality raised above (or uplifted by) the cross of matter. It represents man’s (the crescent’s) triumph over earthly experiences (the cross) through his understanding of universal law gained through just those experiences. Saturn is those experiences and the testing through which this wisdom was obtained, and hence their symbols are each other’s turned upside-down. Thus the wisdom and understanding of Jupiter is the way through the tests of Saturn.

In the body Jupiter rules the thighs, liver, hips, pituitary gland, and assimilation on all levels. Its house position shows what activities shaped your social principles and ethics. Just as the liver produces bile to help you digest food, so too does your ethical, religious and social training produce the principles and values that help you digest life’s experiences.

Jupiter is a planet with a lower and higher manifestation. If well placed by sign or house or well aspected it can signify subtle understanding of life’s deeper principles, learning through travel or higher education, general good fortune or luck, and material abundance. If poorly placed or afflicted it symbolizes indiscriminate sensuality, self-indulgence, wastefulness, greed, avarice, dilettantes, and wanderers. Jupiter rules Sagittarius where it embodies all the planet’s positive aspects, and is exalted in Cancer where it expands the nurturing, mothering principle.

Jupiter Keywords

expansive principle, good fortune, religion, philosophy travel, material abundance vs. waste and extravagance, understanding and higher education vs. wanderer/dilettante, integration into society, optimism rules thighs, liver, hips, pituitary gland, cell nutrition,Optimistic, philosophical, jovial, liberal-minded.