Year: 2012

Sun-Jupiter: An Expressive Moment

Swimming hole for dogs and humans at a place called The Slide on the Grandmother Land in High Falls, New York. I was trying to illustrate the deep green color of this pool, which is more luminous when you look at it. It’s the deepest spot on the Coxing Kill (it goes down about eight feet, deep enough for diving or losing your sunglasses; ‘Kill’ is allegedly a Native American word for stream, probably twisted beyond recognition). Photo by Eric Francis.

Much of the astrology of the past year has been introspective — including many inner planet retrogrades that recall interior reality, help us review the past and shift perspective away from the work-a-day world. With Mercury stationing direct one week ago, those are now over. We also have a pair of eclipses behind us, and are on our way into the next phase of astrology.

As of this writing early Monday morning, the Moon is in early Leo, where it’s making many aspects — a trine to Uranus in Aries and a square to Saturn in Scorpio (which together comprise some mixed signals, or a bit of blockage and a lot of flow — the image of solving a problem, discovering another problem and solving that one too), and then a square to Venus in Scorpio (Love me! Fuck me! Pretty please! But I am NOT desperate! Just feeling very, very friendly!!).

Trees dressed up for Sagittarius on the Grandmother Land in High Falls, New York, facing easterly. Photo by Eric.
Trees dressed up for Sagittarius on the Grandmother Land in High Falls, New York, facing easterly. Photo by Eric.

Mars is still in Capricorn, fresh off of a conjunction to Pluto. Desire on one level is a practical matter. It’s practical to set aside guilt and work your Little Black Book. Venus is in Scorpio. Feel the power — as in the heat of the night, including during the day.

Meanwhile, don’t let your pride get too caught up in anything (good luck under a Leo Moon). Rather, feel good about yourself and others are more likely to treat you like you matter to them, and if they don’t, you’re less likely to care. If you can do this, you’re enlightened by 21st-century western world standards, which are set way too low.

As for solar aspects: we have an expressive moment currently, in the form of the Sun opposing Jupiter. This is an alignment across 11+ degrees of Gemini-Sagittarius. Imagine the Sun (a star) and Jupiter (the largest planet, a gas giant nearly 1,200 times the size of the Earth), in an alignment with the Earth in the middle, the approximate size of a pea compared to a beach ball (only hotter, the Sun) and a softball (but less dense, Jupiter). This is a powerful polarity that may have felt a little like a Full Moon over the weekend and into today. If you’re up at 3 am reading this, now you know why.

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