Saturday, 18 June 2011 14:40
Jupiter enters Taurus, cooling his heels after a year-long trek through Aries on June 4th, 2011. Jupiter and Pluto will then enjoy a trine to each other for about a nine month period from June 2011 through March of 2012 (with three exact trines: July, October, and March). Jolly, optimistic Jupiter meets brooding, intense Pluto…hmmm. At first glance, these two don’t seem too compatible. However, they are meeting by the trine, a harmonious aspect. The trine aspect generally means that both planets will be in the same element. Jupiter is in matter-of-fact Taurus, and Pluto is in let’s-get-real Capricorn. So what happens when these two planets meet by a trine in the earth element?
Taurus is about our connection to the physical world, our bodies, and what we value on the material level. Jupiter in Taurus can help us to reconnect to the positive aspects of our physicality. What is good about life within these bodies? With Pluto trining Jupiter, we may be confronted with where we have been neglecting our health, and perhaps healing is found in the simplicity of Taurus medicine – relaxation, good food, rest, and quiet.
Pluto connects us to the cycle of endings and beginnings: in order for something new to be born, the old must die. Pluto has been traveling through Capricorn since 2008, and we have certainly seen the literal endings of governments and the crumbling decay of the world economy. But while Pluto connects with Jupiter, we might at least for this time more easily be able to see the advantage in letting go of the old, and in so doing become optimistic toward the birth of the new.
For the collective, a Jupiter-Pluto aspect will embolden both these planets’ energies on the world stage. We recently saw the results of the last contact between these two when they last formed a square (exact on February 25th and within range for a couple weeks on either side of that). February of this year was marked by an increase in the momentum of the Arab Spring, the uprisings in Libya, and the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. The Jupiter-Pluto square was most notably also still in orb at the time of the Honshu, Japan earthquake on March 11th. However, Jupiter was in fiery Aries, making a stressful aspect – a square – to Pluto. The upcoming trine between the two planets does not in itself carry the same signature of unrest, catastrophe and upheaval.
But even with a trine, there is always a shadow possibility – that each planet brings forward the dysfunctional behavior of the other. The dark side of Jupiter in Taurus is a rigid adherence to dogma, an over-attachment to wealth, and gluttonous tendencies. Pluto in Capricorn’s shadow, which we’ve had the opportunity to become acquainted with over the course of the past three years, includes coldness, cruelty, and power-mongering. But ultimately, Jupiter and Pluto now coming together for an extended trine offers us access to gifts of healing and regeneration after a rough period.
One of astrology's gifts is that is allows us to remain aware of both the opportunities and the dark possibilities of potential in any planetary signature, and to act consciously. Ultimately, this is a time to count our blessings, reconnect to the earth and its creatures, and remember where our “true source of nourishment lies.”*
*From the passage for the rune “Fehu,” The Book of Runes by Ralph H. Blum.
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2012 ASTROLOGICAL ALMANAC
Weekly Good Timing Tip
Your key to Good Timing This week May 11-18, 2012.
Starting Monday the l4th there NO good final results all week for new starts! That’s pretty amazing since it’s a 3rd Quarter Moon, a time when we’re not supposed to be starting new projects. So take a tip from the Universe! In addition there are two long Time-Out periods on May 15th and May 17th. So take a break those days and use them to catch up on old projects.
This week's tip courtesy of Madeline Gerwick and her Good Timing Guide
