Jupiter in Taurus
May 2011 Newsletter
Jupiter in Taurus
by Steven Forrest
I am looking forward to Jupiter crossing the line into Taurus on the 4th of June. From the evolutionary point of view, my favorite Jupiter question is, how have you been under-estimating yourself? To get an experiential reality check on this idea, think of Jupiter’s recent passage through Aries, which began in June 2010. The Ram – or the Warrior, as I prefer to call it – is always about courage and personal power, among other things.
I find it inspiring to think of the young people in the Arabic world who had been written off as passive, dispirited, and utterly irrelevant as anything at all except suicide bombers by so many of the pundits. Along came Jupiter and they realized how powerful they could be. Even in places where their revolution has not overthrown their oppressors, it is hard for me to believe that the genie will be back in the bottle anytime soon. And now the same energy is spreading to Spain.
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And of course we have an enduring Jupiter-in-Aries image now in the form of the daring raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Again, Jupiterian audacity was rewarded with Arian victory.
So what about Jupiter in Taurus? After we win a war, we must face the more difficult task of winning the peace. Thus does Taurus follow Aries in the eternal order of the archetypes. The grounded, earthy energies of the Bull call us toward quiet, consolidation, and serenity. There are probably areas of your life that have been touched by the fiery onslaught of Jupiter’s passage through Aries. Maybe you won, maybe you lost. In either case, it is time to place more value on resolution and less on winning. The universe will favor deals more than victors, reason more than bombast, and the middle more than the ragged edges. It is time to take a breath and let it out. That is true on the geopolitical level, but also on the personal one.
Find a rock and sit on it. How have you been under-estimating your ability to feel at ease in your body and in your world? Happiness is wanting what you already have.
Jupiter will remain in Taurus from June 4, 2011 through June 11, 2012.
-Steven
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June 16-19, 2011
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Through the birthchart, we can distinguish clearly the shape of that perfect engagement of our inner nature and our outward course, of our soul’s purpose and the “biography” we actually live.
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