Aspects
Ceres Conjunction Jupiter
Your urge to grow and your instinct to nurture are fused, so you care expansively, giving generously and wanting to feed, teach, and provide for as many as you can reach. There is real abundance in you, a benefactor's warmth that makes others feel there is always enough. The gift is large-hearted nourishment, care that lifts and encourages. The shadow is overdoing it: over-feeding, over-giving, smothering with generosity, or believing you must provide for everyone and taking on more than is yours to carry. Let your care be generous, but trust that people can grow on their own, and that some hunger is not yours to fill.
Lean in — Give generously while trusting people to grow on their own.
Watch for — Over-feed and over-give until you carry what is not yours.
- generous-nurture
- abundance
- benefactor
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Gives Ceres's principle of nurture, sustenance, and loss-and-return as it meets the Jupiter.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Ceres-Jupiter aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Ceres-Jupiter contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.