One thing alone is beautiful: setting off.
— Ko Un
Tonight, Jupiter and Pluto begin a relay of sorts that will include Venus and Mars in a daisy chain of flow, connecting all three earth signs for 48 continuous hours. The configuration, called a grand trine, is matter in motion. The planets making up the trine indicate how its energy will express. The time frame gives both the opportunity for this expression and its context. To make this astrology real, break from your routine sometime today or tomorrow, breathe in, feel your immediate material desire, make a space inside for it, visualize its location, and take one step in that direction. Just one step should be enough to get things rolling, like Jupiter and Pluto are about to do. Jupiter is the part of you that opens up to take things in.
When you are aware of your breathing, conscious of what you are eating, offering a hug or opening your door, that’s Jupiter real and present for you. Jupiter is in Taurus right now. As one would expect from a fixed quality and an association with elemental earth, Taurus is where life gloms on to matter, making more of both. Jupiter in Taurus is thus an invitation to open up to life and make more of it.
What life can make of you is where Pluto comes in. Pluto does not express as an invitation, but that does not mean that it is anathema to living. On this planet, at least, the process is cyclical, motivated and molded by the seasons, ending and renewing in succession. The inevitable changes wrought by the cycles of your life are Pluto up close and personal for you. Pluto has been in Capricorn since 2008 and will remain there until another decade has elapsed. As one would suspect from a long voyage through the realm of cardinal earth, Pluto’s mission is to re-initiate its authority as the common connection between you and every other being. What Jupiter and Pluto have in common right now is their position in signs that are distinguished by the same element. That’s a very special connection with a defining geometry.