Another turning in the Wheel of Life
that was noted in the General Forecast for 2013:
Jupiter Enters Cancer (June 25 until July
16, 2014)
The Lord of Truth and Principles moves into the sign of Cancer,
and your journey of discovery brings you home again to consider the root nature
of what you hold to be true. Your steady growth is founded upon starting with a
good foundation, and Jupiter in Cancer will help you deepen your experience of
being centered upon what matters most.
I
discussed the blessings that Jupiter is offering this year in the 2013 Forecast. With the Grand Trine of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune and then the
Grand T‑Square with Uranus and Pluto, you could say that Jupiter is playing the starring role in the spiritual forces shaping your world this year…Here is most
of that entry again:
…Jupiter
will bring to bear a message from the Foundation-Source, the ever-renewing
wellspring of life that flows from the sign of Cancer. Jupiter rules the
Principles, Truths and Beliefs that give and form the meanings of your life
journey, that form the steady guide for your self-unfoldment and purposeful
growth. Jupiter is offering this spiritual message from the heart, from the
source, from the roots of your life. For as you struggle to find your way
between Uranus and Pluto, between Freedom and Order, between self-assertion and
self-sacrifice, you will need this cooling, calming and refreshing reminder of
what you stand upon, from whence you have come and what holds you true to one
another.
Jupiter
in Cancer serves to restore and renew your feelings of security that originate
in your most intimate and profound experience that you are connected or part of
something greater than just yourself. As you grow and develop, in life after
life, you will find your own true center by being and belonging with one
another. It will usually begin in your affections and bonds experienced in your
immediate family group, and it will slowly and increasingly extend itself in
any life, (and over many lifetimes, in life after life), into your ever-unfolding
expansion of consciousness and spiritual connectedness.
This
sense of belonging, of rootedness and security, expands from your immediate
family outward to your village, and then perhaps it may move out further to a
local area of several communities. Then it continues to grow outward even
further in your belonging to some grouping perhaps grounded in your identity
with an ethnic group, and then perhaps into some greater grouping of many
ethnicities. Eventually you find an even larger sense of identity and meaning
within an ever more complex culture and society, until you finally experience
your profound familiarity with all who journey in the family known as
“human”.
This
fundamental spiritual truth of connectedness will finally blossom forth, as you
reach the “promised land”, the profound spiritual epiphany of
understanding that all life is one, all beings are one with one another, that
everything in this cosmos is a spark of the one Great Spirit in whom we live
and love and find our true being.
As
Jupiter forms its Square and Opposition, it will bring to bear these influences
upon the dynamic struggle of Uranus and Pluto. The challenge for every person
and for all groupings of people will be to hold to the highest levels of
inspiration that Jupiter can provide here, reminding one and all of their
common bonds and interests, eliciting a desire for greater inclusiveness and
generating greater considerations for the well-being of one another. If they
can do this, then the struggles of Uranus with Pluto can be modulated and even
mitigated by finding that deeper center where all can join together, founded
upon these shared feelings of belonging.
With
Jupiter’s influence the fervent drive for freedom by Uranus can be soothed,
with a gentle reminder that as much as you must assert and be freer yourself
you must equally acknowledge your need to care for one another too. The
Plutonian drive to create, maintain and extend your own sacred space must be
equally balanced by the consideration you show for the sacred space of one and
all.
But
there is also the very real possibility of individuals and groups reacting in a
more parochial way to this challenge, and out of fear-formed echoes of their
past be steered by the emotional ties of Jupiter in Cancer to react in more
exclusive or defensive ways. They will act more narrowly, and identify with
whom they belong, whether family, tribe or culture by building walls not
bridges and so create an even greater gulf between “us versus them”.
Then this opportunity for growth and self-transcendence could be lost in those
ego-driven fears that have echoed throughout other historical periods faced
with similar demands for self-transformation.
The
challenge will be laid down, either to rise up to a higher understanding and
conduct with one another, to make some mutual sacrifice and unite…or to face
the divide within and between us by refusing to join in a greater whole, to
give into fear and so increase those separations from one another. And this
fear-based failing would most certainly quicken the descent to a more difficult
destiny for one and all. The choice will be there, and each must decide…but
there is hope…
Yes,
it is from Jupiter’s meanings as modulated by the Sign of Cancer that you can
find the first of three offerings to help you navigate the year ahead. But
there is much to be hoped for here, because Jupiter is but one part of a gift
of inspiration and meaning that comes within a three-fold blessing from your
Starry companions this year. For what Jupiter is anchoring and carrying forward
to you in August is the meaning and message of the other great alignment this
year, and which will most thankfully still be in force during Jupiter’s August
alignments with Uranus and Pluto…it is the radiant beauty of the year, the
Grand Trine in Water of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune.
We
can forget as we go about our busy lives “down here”, we can forget
how magical and how full of meaning were the patterns discerned by our
ancestors. How they marveled at what stood revealed in this great pageantry
that sweeps before us every day and night by our Starry company, those constant
companions who dance and form beautiful, intricate and meaningful patterns all
around us. Yes, we can miss the signs and portents because we do not see them
or even look for them anymore, but they are there…these Guardians of Life
continue their wondrous weaving, helping us to understand our great unfolding
journey through the spaces of space, our walk among stars.
Sometimes
these planetary patterns are harder to discern, and their true significance and
meaning even more hidden from you. But this mid-summer alignment of Jupiter,
Saturn and Neptune will, even if not seen, be felt by many…it will be
beautiful to behold and its message is sweet and deep.
The
aspects between planets, formed by their angular separation from one another,
can be understood by dividing the Circle of Life by a particular number. The
division of the Circle, which is 360 degrees in circumference, by the number 2
creates the opposition of 180 degrees. The division by the number 4 creates the
square aspect of 90 degrees. And for our purposes this July, the division of
the Circle of Life by the number 3 forms the Trine aspect of 120 degrees.
Whenever
three planets line up equally spaced from one another, it is called a Grand
Trine because the pattern is formed by dividing the circle of space around you
into three equal portions, and finding that at each dividing point there stands
a planet equally distant from the other two along the circle. This division by
three resonates with a harmonic that represents a poised balance of energies
that are being focused through three distinct avatars, in this case by Jupiter
in Cancer and Saturn in Scorpio and Neptune in Pisces. The Grand Trine of July
is all about the Meaning and Power of the element of Water. It is through these
three Avatars in Water that you will receive inspiration to help you walk your
path of destiny in this time of great and transformational change.
Having
already observed the contribution of Jupiter, let us turn our attention to the
other two Lords, and then turn and see how all three avatars will combine and
contribute to a greater influence too.
The
message of Saturn in Scorpio resonates with the strength, power and depth of
feeling that abides in the experience of Union. For as much as Jupiter in
Cancer upholds the truth of finding your connection to one another by looking
to the past, to what you and all around you have come through and from, Saturn
in Scorpio holds out the necessity of dealing with your ever-resurgent need,
your yearning necessity to cross the divide that seemingly separates you from
one another and so find your greater strength in joining together in your
sacred unions. For when two or more are gathered together, united in a common
purpose for which each has made a rightful sacrifice, it is from such acts that
the magic and power of spiritual growth is in fact realized and released. For
it is not enough to remember and honor from where you came, it is equally
important to work together, to forge deeper understandings, to share in the
joys and burdens of life and so continue to walk this spiritual path of your
self-becoming, self-unfoldment…together.
The
message of Neptune in Pisces, like bells pealing in a dew kissed morning,
thrill with the third and final form of Water-Feeling, which is that numinous
force that resides within each particle of this creation, providing the impetus
that inspirits the lives of all who journey within this cosmos. The creative
force that is behind all of the phenomena in this universe is known by many
names. For many it is called Faith, some would say it is their Dreams or the
power of the Imagination, but none can truly capture the mystery behind what
flows through each and every being, that leads them out from within, as they
unfold as the sparks of the Divine, these self-becomings who ever strive to
grow, to become something more.
For
it is this feeling that binds all as one and one to the All, and that leads all
out so as to grow beyond what they have so far created, to walk the pathways of
light and love outward into the spaces of space, out upon their wondrous,
spiraling journey. It is this Great Journey which will eventually bring them
back to return as something more, having become so much more than what they
were, when they return home again.
For
as much as Jupiter in Cancer will provide you with your foundation of feeling,
and Saturn in Scorpio will teach you about the courage you have within you to
reach out and join with one another, it is Neptune in Pisces who completes your
circle of life, Neptune brings it all together by singing to you of your
ever-renascent power, forged in your beginning by your nature as a spark of the
Divine and that holds you as one of countless creators who need but dream of a
better world…and it will be so.
For
this is how the Universe came to be and continues to become, because your
Spirit is the very essence of it all, the power behind your Imagination, Dreams
and Faith…The Power of your Becoming, The Power of your Self.
Together
these three, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune can show you once again that you are
the maker, you are the Creator of what you face now. That you can feel more
truly the roots that hold you all together, that you can feel the greater joy
that comes from joining with one another, and that you can love and create a
better world by believing and dreaming for one another.
Yes,
this will be a year to remember, and quite a summer indeed. The energies
delineated above will be building in towards the end of June, growing through
July and climaxing in August. The continuing challenge laid down to you by
Uranus and Pluto may be somewhat eased by these spiritual emanations that come
from this grand alignment of Planetary Lords, and equally and most challenging
activated by the T‑Square formed by Jupiter too.
There
is much to be hoped for here. There is the hope offered in the Grand Trine that
perhaps the things which divide the many from one another will be surpassed by
this greater understanding of our mutual need to sacrifice for the greater good
of one another.
Let
us hope, may we dream…and it shall be…
So
now you enter your time of Challenge and Opportunity, of these grand and great
formations which will elicit, inspire and guide you too…Today Jupiter
moves into Cancer and begins a series of Super Alignments in both the Grand
Trine of Water with Saturn and Neptune, and the Grand T‑Square with Uranus and
Pluto…
So
it is right and proper that you should bow your head and give thanks for these
Gifts of the Spirit that this most Benevolent Lord bestows…and to all the
Starry Host who are there for you too…
Your
Cosmic Companions Sing and Dance the Truths of Life, for it is what they have become, but in this they
also serve…For they are a part of a great Spiritual Hierarchy…And, in time,
you too will more fully awaken to these self-same meanings and blessings in
your own life and World, you will understand, you will lift up you and
yours…and you too will love and serve…
For
these Truths and Energies are within you, and your only illusion is the
experience of separation…
For
you came from the Stars, you are one with the Stars…
and
your destiny is to return one day to be a Star among those Stars.
You
are on this Journey of Self-Becoming as are these great Lords of Life and
Spirit.
You
are never alone, not ever, for you travel in this Great Company of Light and Love.
Together
you journey through the spaces of Space, and that Self-Same spark of the Divine
within you is also with them…as it is with one and All.
Today
is a day to celebrate your Family in Spirit, your Family of Life, your Family
of Love.
Today, Jupiter enters the Halls of Cancer.
Today,
Jupiter brings you Home to your Beginning.
Today,
Jupiter reminds you who you are, and
how your Origin is your Destiny.
For you are one of the ones of the One…and,
You are here to Love and care for one another.
You are here to be one with the One.