Over the next 48 hours, Jupiter stations direct and Mercury enters new territory since beginning its most recent retrograde in Libra and Virgo. Together, these planets are associated with a lot of signs, and this represents both progress and new adventures.
Jupiter stations direct Tuesday at 12:34 am EDT, that is, overnight tonight. It turned to retrograde motion in Aquarius on June 15, with the triple conjunction of Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune within one degree of precision. Jupiter retrogrades last about four months (coincidentally, enough time for the Sun’s longitude to advance 120 degrees, a perfect trine).
Jupiter has a 12-year orbit. Compare that to Mars, whichВ has a two year orbit; followed by most asteroids, which are in range of four years (including Ceres, now technically a ‘dwarf planet’). Saturn, the next planet beyond Jupiter, takes about 28 years to go around the Sun, and was for eons considered the last planet out. Jupiter has properties of both an inner planet and an outer planet, and is one of the more tangible energies we experience. So this station direct is significant, and we’re likely to notice both the ripple and how certain elements of our lives that seemed stalled start to move forward. Moving forward comes with its own sense of challenges, things we haven’t quite experienced yet, but at least it’s a new adventure.
Glimpsing into the future, Jupiter will cover the last half of Aquarius and ingress Pisces on January 17. It will move swiftly through Pisces, entering Aries on June 6 in a triple conjunction with Uranus and the Moon — exact on the Aries Point. So, from the time of the station direct, Jupiter is on a direct course for its every-14-year conjunction to Uranus, and this will occur on the Aries Point. That’s to say, Uranus changes signs at around the same time, and this is up there in the biggest astrological news of the decade. I will have a lot more to say about this in Cosmic Confidential, the 2010 annual edition of Planet Waves.