Jupiter in Aries

JUPITER IN ARIES

Jupiter moved into Aries on May 10th. He continues moving through Aries until he hits 8 degrees on July 28th, at that point he will retrograde back through Aries until he finally ingresses back into Pisces on Oct 28th. He'll spend two months in Pisces until he rejoins Aries on Dec. 20th, at which point he will move through Aries unimpeded for the next several months before he finally ingresses into Taurus in May of 2023.

When Jupiter is involved I can't help but think philosophically.

When I was 19, at the month of my first nodal return, my Mother did something that would radically change the course of my life. She bribed me, with $500 to participate in the Landmark Forum.

For those unfamiliar with Landmark, it is the child of "EST training" one of the first of it's kind in the human potential movement, created by Werner Erhard in the 1970’s.

Erhard had fallen in love with Martin Heidegger’s work, and went on to study with both Alan Watts’, and Zen Master rōshi Yamada Mumon. Through these early studies he birthed an extremely popular, yet equally controversial seminar called “EST”.

Like Icarus, Erhard flew too close to the Sun, and when his stardom fizzled, students of his reworked his material into the long enduring, less confrontational, Landmark Education.

Though I participated in different courses for the next 15 years with Landmark, none transformed me as much as that first weekend, at the ripe age of nineteen. I learned some of the fundamental skills I still use today to live, parent, and be in a relationship.

On day two, our forum leader drew two intersecting circles on a chalkboard. Exactly like a vesica pisces. On one circle he wrote, “What Happened” and on the other, he wrote, “What I made it mean” and the overlapping part in the center represented the way our human mind constructs meaning. We went on to spend the entire day deconstructing with participants how the mind often collapses the two.

For instance, on the minor end of the spectrum, if my husband comes home from work huffing and puffing, it’s easy for me to make that mean he is irritated with me, or something that has to do with the house. On the large end of the spectrum, a child who is abandoned by a parent, may make that mean that they are fundamentally unlovable.

The purpose of this exercise was to uncollapse the fact that the parent left, and demonstrate that it was us who created the meaning. For me personally, to get that my mother’s choice to place me for adoption meant absolutely nothing about me as a person, was huge. I hadn’t realized until that point how many “stories” I had “created” out of the “what happened”. I got to go in a like a psychic surgeon and dissect the plethora of threads around my inherent worthiness and goodness.

As participants on our dinner break, we spent much time debating which philosopher Erhard had developed this model from. Was it Kirkegard, Satre, or Heidegger? Oh the fun and beauty of philosophy. In the end it turned out to be a combination of secular Buddhism and western philosophy.

Jupiter himself governs philosophy. Not just the big Greek philosophies, or Existential kind. But the philosophy we apply to living. He helps us discern the fundamental truth about our lives, and our place in the universe.

In fiery Aries, the place of the Zodiacal “I am”, we may get great flashes of insight that will help us reignite any stagnant passion we have around our integral work in the world, the work that most lights us up. He is a planet of luck, abundance and expansion, and in Aries, can help us move quickly to turn our grand plans into a reality. However, because of Aries’ impulsivity and desire to act or move when “instigated”, we are at risk of not properly or accurately distinguishing meaning beforehand.

The shadow side of Jupiter is Hubris. The Greek Philosophers, before the time of Rome, and Christianity, found that it was not sex or birth that was the original, or great sin, but instead thought Hubris was.

The being full of oneself, the ego inflation that comes along with being so sure we know something. An over-confidence. And for the Greeks, hubris came to be defined as overweening presumption that leads a person to disregard the divinely fixed limits on human action in an ordered cosmos. Hmm, sounds like an apt "warning" for a "devil may care" Aries.

In Aries, a sign ruled by Mars, and the type of fire that is characterized as the initial spark, there can be an excess of reactivity. Which will be amplified in an almost dramatic and excessive fashion if Jupiter is being triggered.

That is why I wanted to illustrate the model of “what happened, what I made it mean” as a way to successfully move through the Jupiter in Aries journey. So we don't inflate our stories, or even reality for that matter as he makes his trek through this feisty sign. It's a phenomenal model to assist in the art of "distinguishing".

I am personally so excited that Jupiter has moved into this sign. There is so much energy and action available to us in all the areas he governs. If only we don’t exaggerate or become impulsive, especially in the realm of Hubris.

I have affixed a short 15 minute video I made for a group I was in on 2021. We were exploring the weaver dreamer archetype, and how our stories sometimes create confusion. I was demonstrating how this model can be used to get to a place of emptiness, which leaves us at choice. I was also quite nervous, which will come through. However, there is enough clarity that I’m comfortable sharing. One of my growth edges in the last year is to allow myself to be seen, in my full imperfect humanity. 🫠

If it is wisdom for you, here is the video.