Aspects
Jupiter Opposition Pholus
The catalytic Pholus principle and your urge to grow sit across from each other, so it is often an outside teaching, opportunity, or person that unlids a whole new horizon for you, setting off expansion you did not initiate. Doors swing open from chance encounters. You may feel growth keeps arriving as upheaval from beyond your control, or be the one who opens vast doors for others. The resolution is to stop treating it as luck or fate done to you: meet the catalyst actively, take part in the expansion, and become a conscious agent of the growth that erupts rather than only its beneficiary or its trigger.
Lean in — Meet the catalyst actively and take part in the expansion.
Watch for — Treat sudden growth as luck or upheaval done to you.
- projected-expansion
- outer-opening
- balancing
Sources
- Reinhart, To the Edge and Beyond: Saturn, Chiron, Pholus and the Centaurs (1996)Reads Pholus among the centaurs, its catalytic small-cause-large-effect principle as it meets the Jupiter.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Pholus-Jupiter aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Pholus-Jupiter contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.