{"id":56855,"date":"2012-05-11T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T04:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=56855"},"modified":"2012-05-12T09:37:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T13:37:25","slug":"drops-of-jupiter-in-taurus-venus-retrograde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/drops-of-jupiter-in-taurus-venus-retrograde\/","title":{"rendered":"Drops of Jupiter (in Taurus); Venus Retrograde"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sky continues to put on a spectacular show in Taurus, with Mercury being the most recent planet to join a concentrated grouping there. It joins asteroids Vesta and Ceres, a lunar point called the osculating apogee, plus the Sun and Jupiter.<\/p>\n

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Jupiter about to eclipse one of its moons, Ganymede, in 2007. Ganymede circles Jupiter about once a week, but this particularly useful occultation, which allowed scientists to measure the haziness of Jupiter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking of: the latter two points — the largest in our solar system — join together on Sunday in their one and only conjunction in Taurus. There can be just one conjunction of the Sun and Jupiter each year, and since Jupiter takes a year to go through one sign, that means this is the only Sun-Jupiter conjunction in Taurus till May 19, 2024.<\/p>\n

So if you’re born under this sign, or if you’re a fan of Venus, or if you love and appreciate all of the good things that Taurus has to offer, this is a happy moment. In truth this will influence everyone slightly differently, though it represents a windfall or opportunity of some kind for everyone. Soon after this event, Jupiter moves onto Gemini.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Gemini: Venus stations retrograde there on Tuesday. This is the third inner planet retrograde of the year, though it’s a special one — it includes the Venus transit of the Sun on June 5. Venus then stations direct on June 27, just three days after the first of seven Uranus-Pluto squares. Gemini is an inherently androgynous sign, and we are going to get a taste of what it’s like to embrace that quality. Venus, perhaps the most feminine influence in astrology, penetrates the Sun as it makes its exact conjunction on June 5.<\/p>\n

We are also in the season of eclipses across the Gemini-Sagittarius axis, which happen just prior to the Venus transit. The first eclipse takes place within hours of the Sun’s ingress into Gemini on May 20, a little over one week from now. More on these events next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sky continues to put on a spectacular show in Taurus, with Mercury being the most recent planet to join a concentrated grouping there. It joins asteroids Vesta and Ceres, a lunar point called the osculating apogee, plus the Sun and Jupiter. Speaking of: the latter two points — the largest in our solar system … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}