Dena DeCastro & I talk about Jupiter and Jupiter Transits and do a reading based on these themes.

Jupiter Notes by Dena DeCastro

Positive: faith, expansion, growth, optimism, luck, opportunity, abundance, fortune, confidence

Negative: overindulgence, over-extension, arrogance, narcissism, pretentiousness, hubris

Rulerships: Sagittarius / 9th House, and Ancient Ruler of Pisces / 12th House

Jupiter transits can last from just a few weeks to a longer period of several months, depending  upon where and when Jupiter turns retrograde. Jupiter transiting one of your natal planets points toward the need to take a leap of faith, and search out new experiences and adventures in the area ruled by that natal planet.

Transits Through a Sign or House:

Jupiter takes about one year to transit through one sign, and will take about the same through one house in your chart, depending upon the size of the house. When Jupiter is in a sign, it shows us where we collectively need to take a leap of faith, and go beyond our current limitations. As it transits through a house in your natal chart, it points toward the themes of that house as they are activated by Jupiter. The message of this year-long period points toward believing in yourself, not settling for less-than or what is just adequate, taking risks, and pushing yourself to grasp opportunities that are heading your way.

Your natal Jupiter’s placement can also indicate where, when you take that leap of faith, you are able to tap into a source of good luck, wealth, and opportunity. Its house and sign placement can also point toward where your own “inner life coach” resides: what activities help you to gain a sense of confidence, faith and optimism.

JUPITER Handout

Invoking Jupiter Spread

1. What Opportunities are Available?
2. Something to be Optimistic about.
3. How Can I Be Generous?
4. What Brings Good Luck to Me?
5. Where Will I get an Even Break

Resources:

• Astrology for the Light Side of the Brain
• Jupiter in the Signs
• Renaissance Astrology Planetary Magic Mini Course

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Dena DeCastro

A professional astrologer in the Portland area for several years, Dena has appeared on local radio shows, taught workshops, and given lectures on topics in Evolutionary Astrology. The evolutionary perspective is that our souls progress from lifetime to lifetime. The focus of Dena’s readings is upon your chart as the dynamic representation of your highest potential, and the guide toward achieving it. Dena hosts the podcast Evolutions of Astrology featuring interviews with astrologers and other readers, as well as discussing various topics of astrology and chart interpretation.

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Music Credits

• Opening Music: The Oracle Speaks by William Wilde Zeitler from Elegy for Atlantis
• Closing Music: Transition Music: Planets by Cat Malojan from We’re Allright

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For Shame: The Hanged Man

This is one of my least liked tarot card trumps. I’m not sure it’s anyone’s favorite given its uncomfortable depiction of torture, but my main beef with this card is not only does it tell me that what I want requires a very long wait, but in the meantime I’m not going to be enjoying that wait. Unlike the Star that also depicts that my goal is afar off, this card says the intervening time is pretty much going to suck for me, though I will learn a lot from it. Bah. Take your life lesson and hang that from a tree, ok?

To even attempt to understand the meaning of this Major Arcana card, one really does need to get the historical perspective. Times have most certainly changed since the creation of Tarot and this card references something that people of the 1500′s would have readily recognized that we in the 21st Century have no current context. Well, we do, but not in this manner. This picture of a man hung upside down by one foot is what was known in Italy as a pittura infamante, a defaming portrait. It was used as a kind of rag publication that showed thieves, traitors, those guilty of bankruptcy or fraud in this punishing position and displayed in centers of public view. Those paintings weren’t literal, in that the depicted victims were not actually hung in this manner but were shamed by the portrait. They were akin to our political cartoons except that they were approved and even requested by the municipal civil authorities as a form of public punishment. They began to lose popularity when they began to be appreciated more as an art form, like the political cartoon, rather than be seen as a form of punishment. The intended effect, shame, was lessened, and the practice diminished. (read the full post)

Ginny Hunt

Ginny Hunt is a Professional Tarot Reader from Maryland. Her interest in the spiritual and metaphysical has been a lifelong passion. She has been a practicing counselor, both professionally with adolescents and para-professionally as a volunteer with abused women. She offers professional reading services through 78 Notes to Self.

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• 78 Notes Music: Winter Moon by Rhonda Lorence from Winter Moon (Magnatune)

 

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