Jupiter
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- Sagittarius
Modern
Jupiter, in the modern reading, is Jupiter is growth and meaning: expansion, faith, optimism, opportunity, generosity, and the search for the larger picture. It is where you reach for more, find significance, and are inclined to trust and give. Wherever Jupiter falls by sign and house, and however it aspects the rest of the chart, this principle is colored and located, becoming one of the central themes of the personality.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
In the tradition, Jupiter is the greater A planet that tends to help and ease, traditionally Venus and Jupiter. Its contacts usually bring support, comfort, or opportunity., signifying expansion, fortune, religion, law, philosophy, wealth, and generosity; warm and moist, a Belonging to the daytime team in a chart. A diurnal planet is more comfortable and better behaved when the chart is born during the day. benefic, he governs the liver and the thighs, and shows priests, judges, and where blessing and increase are found. Read its sign for how it expresses, its house for where, its aspects for how it gets along, and its dignity and condition for how well it does its work.
Lean in — Develop Jupiter's principle consciously; it is a core part of who you are.
Watch for — Disown Jupiter; what it governs will act out anyway, less consciously.
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Sources
- Ptolemy, TetrabiblosGives the nature and significations of Jupiter in the foundational tradition.
- Valens, AnthologiesRecords the significations of Jupiter in Hellenistic practice.
- Arroyo, Astrology, Psychology and the Four Elements (1975)Frames Jupiter as a core principle in modern psychological astrology.