While Venus often comes to mind when we think of love and intimacy, when it comes to marriage, there is a much better cosmic indicator. Juno, Goddess of Marriage & Sacred Sexual Union, jointly ruled by Scorpio/Libra, constellates relationship freedom, equality, intimacy and sharing. Juno harnesses mutual trust and understanding to create new, more balanced forms of partnership. Juno is that degree of sensitivity and awareness we bring to the other person in a long-term, committed union. At the occult level, Juno represents tantric sexuality, soulmates and marriage as alchemical union.
Crowned by a glittering veil, Juno is accompanied by a peacock and a rainbow. The month of June is sacred to her. Long after we’ve forgotten Juno and her essential teachings, June remains one of the most popular months in which to wed. Embodiment of the triple Goddess, during the Age of Taurus, Juno was worshipped as a cow-eyed sky queen. She is representative of the feminine passage from maiden to mother, and uses sexuality to transcend personal identity through committed intimacy. She is the perfected state of bride and consort signifying the urge for full mystical union which is emotionally, sexually and psychologically fulfilling. To learn more about Juno, read my BEAUTYSCOPE “Juno: Queen of the Three Gems.”
In ASTEROID GODDESSES: The Mythology, Psychology and Astrology of the Re-emerging Feminine, Demetra George and Douglas Bloch outline how the psychic development of the feminine as consort/wife can be symbolized by the progressive stages of the asteroids known as Lilith, Juno and Psyche. Lilith prefers isolation and loneliness to subjugation, and in our natal charts she often represents where we are deceived or deceive in love, as well as where we experience and process feelings of isolation and separation. Unlike Lilith, Juno chooses relationship. Although she never derives true satisfaction from it, Juno evolves into a guardian of marriage, childbirth and conflict resolution. While Lilith’s ‘Women on Top’ status and notoriety are inspiring, Juno’s dedication to compromise lays the groundwork for Psyche to realize soulmate union. Astrologically, we associate Juno with commitment, steadfastness, loyalty, devotion and willingness to remain in a relationship within the context of separation and return.
Who is Juno’s Husband? Called the ‘Gas Giant’ aka ‘The Great Benefic’ aka Greek Zeus, Jove, Mythic Ruler of Heaven, King, Lawmaker, Arbiter of Fate, Demiurge and World-Creator, Cosmocrat, ‘Our Father Who Art in Heaven,’ aka Father of Light, Shining Father, The Bright One, Lord of Purposeful Pattern, Divine Mind, Divine Breath, Heavenly Psychopomp, Conductor of Souls, multidimensional Puer Aeternus (root of the ‘Peter Pan Complex’)…to which I’d add… the home wrecker and sisterhood-destroyer of the zodiac. Ultimately, it’s unsettling how much we know about Jupiter, how little about Juno. Given the planet’s significant size, in ancient times, whole charts were read and oriented around Jupiter. Despite being colloquially known as the ‘Great Benefic,’ as we read on, we’ll discover why only analyzing Jupiter in terms of optimism and good fortune is a trap…
In the royal court of the zodiac, Jupiter is the advisor and priest of all planets. Astrologically, planet Jupiter signifies expansion, adventure, philosophy, grace, luck and space for change. Laughter is perhaps Jupiter’s purest medicine, particularly when we can laugh at ourselves and at life. Humor, like Jupiter, is one of the best antidotes to fear. Physiologically speaking, laughter benefits the heart, lungs and muscles while releasing feel-good endorphins that alleviate stress. While Jupiter often moonlights as the class clown, he can just as easily become the bully who mocks and scapegoats. Mythically speaking, it’s complicated. Literally, em(bed)ded in the Great Benefic’s lore are not only countless pregnant women practically left for dead, but so many uncomfortable, troubling paradoxes – all of which we find mirrored back to us in real life. Whether sublime and ridiculous, dark and brutal or joyful and resplendent, Jupiter as Father of heaven is all-encompassing, and yet, don’t women hold up half the sky?
In myth, Jupiter is the destroyer of Juno’s Goddess cults, forbidding her to worship the divine feminine way, enforcing her chastity-belt-buckled monogamy while flaunting his infidelities. As Juno and Jupiter’s toxic tango highlights, with the rise of the written word came the heroic, hyper-masculine mega-lords and the demotion of female deities to brides and wives. Goddess of Marriage, Queen of Heaven, eternal consort epitomizing the principles of right relationship, with divorce rates at an all-time high – it’s no wonder Juno went MIA!
Juno, revered for her loyalty and fidelity to Jupiter, was originally called Hera, root meaning ‘Earth,’ recalling the role of female deities as all-powerful bridge ensuring the fertility of land and clan. As Hera the wife of Zeus, her pairing was symbolic of the merging of two distinct and separate cultures. Like Juno and Jupiter, Hera and Zeus experienced a brief period of sexual ecstasy prior to their marital bliss erupting into a sadomasochistic combat zone. Zeus punished Hera by hanging her from the heavens, her wrists bound by golden bracelets. While strict monogamy deprived Hera of the sacred sexual customs ancient to Goddess-worship, Zeus’ disloyalties took a destructive attitude towards her cult and customs. Which brings me to another star-studded rockstar emblazoned with the more sinister side of the zodiac’s Gas Giant, a woman I only truly discovered while reading Liz Greene’s book By Jove! The Meaning of Astrological Jupiter. Before we fully disembowel Juno’s marriage to the Conductor of Souls, let’s take a journey back in time to the age of the naked spy, known affectionately as Mata Hari, a feminist martyr reclaimed, a utopian dreamer, and a timeless ‘girl gone wild’ in one Dutch bombshell.
What do we know about Mata Hari, the iconic Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan, natal Jupiter in Scorpio in the 1st? Speaking for myself, her life story gave me chills and a sense of déjà vu all at once. Having turned 41 this year, the exact age in which Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad in 1917, part of me started to have this gnawing feeling I was her in a past life. Ladies, ya feel me? The burned witch revived, the scapegoat of white male patriarchal imperial colonialism, the muse and lover of the elite male power structure – chewed up and spit back out? Executed on a cross like the female Christ, defiantly blowing a kiss to her firing squad with her last breath. The scene is difficult to find a historically accurate portrayal of, as it has been mythically recreated by numerous artists since Mata Hari’s death over a millennium ago. No better signature of Jupiter in Scorpio than a femme fatale on blast.
As Greene and various documentaries about Mata Hari (real name Margaretha Zelle) divulge, no one is even certain if she was ever a so-called ‘spy’ and double agent. Clearly, she was known to many of the government officials on both sides of WWI – as a lover, concubine and pawn. A great scorpionic mystery, catalyzed and blown out of proportion by Jupiter in the first house of self, still hangs over her death. Having lived a life of magic, artistry, fame and glamour, only to spend her last days in jail. Having had so many lovers, only to have no one claim your body after death. Like the Venus Hottentot, part of her body was embalmed and preserved at the Musée d’Anatomie in Paris. Unlike the Venus Hottentot (whose remains were returned to their ancestral lands of South Africa after a lengthy and righteous battle), Mata Hari just disappeared one day, never to resurface.
A creature of reinvention, her story is a cautionary yet all-too-familiar tale. From fleeing poverty into a military marriage in Java that became abusive, to her rise to edgy Parisian stardom (what subsequently tarnished her image to the point of losing custody rights to her only daughter), to her ‘legal’ execution for supposedly being instrumental in the deaths of 50,000 soldiers. We won’t even get into the fact that she was the poster child for cultural appropriation before it was common parlance, having claimed to be a Javanese princess of priestly Hindu birth to wow Parisian audiences with her culturally ambiguous and sensuous ‘East meets West’ hybrid and self-created form of dance. While her notoriety spiked to impressive levels, as others copied and remixed her sacred dance, near strip-tease style of movement, she was eventually replaced by younger, newer faces, and, finding less and less paid work as a dancer, she became a concubine to the well-monied men of Europe. “Her past died completely with each successive and entirely opportunistic incarnation,” concludes Greene, reflecting on Jupiter’s always dazzling powers of shapeshifting and hubris at work in Mata Hari’s 1st house of self, physicality, appearances (how others see us), self-interest and unfettered ego.
With Sun conjunct Mars in Leo square Jupiter, Mata Hari was a woman “never lacking in courage – or foolhardiness, depending on one’s point of view,” forewarns Greene, writing of Mata Hari’s Jupiter in Leo as expressive of theatricality, brazenness, boldness and courage, self-absorption, shamelessly deceitful cleverness and a refusal to live according to the conventions of the time. In Scorpio, however, the sunny leonine power takes on a more enigmatic quality, reflecting her life and legacy as a navigation of darkness, a type of high-stakes survivalism, with each milestone driven, if not crushed, by the scorpionic cycles of crisis and renewal. Like Zeus, Mata Hari lived by her own morals. Unlike Zeus, being a mortal and a mother and all, she dearly paid the price for it.
Just as Mata Hari was eventually extinguished by the very same Eurocentric, white-male-dominated culture that created her life of dramatic highs and lows, in the case of Jupiter, we see that it is his heavenly consort and wife, Juno (if not his own children), who pays the damages for his reckless maneuvers. Providing creative inspiration for artists and poets for many centuries, the list of our Father of Heaven’s amours, from mortal women and young boys to titans, nymphs, and goddesses, is too long to name. Zeus would spawn many of the Greek heroes through his sexual assaults on Hera’s priestesses and worshippers (her former sisters, whom she became pitted against in deadly rivalries). Which begs the question, shall thee hate the player, or hate the game?
Once Hera was fully humiliated by Zeus’s infidelities and the shame and hate it inspired in her, she retreated into solitude, bathing in a spring to renew her virginity. Even as they both would come to initiate more and more women into the rites of marriage, Hera and Juno were denied the same fulfillment. Which brings us to asteroid Juno’s lower expressions – infidelity, jealousy, subjugation, betrayal, emotional attachment and possessiveness, emotional/sexual power games, projection and reflection, giving away our power, over-identification with partner or children, woman as malcontent and subtle manipulation. Sound familiar, ladies? Juno’s chief distortion being jealousy, her archetype expresses the need for deep sacred union as well as the range of suffering and neurotic complexes that arise when it is denied (and sometimes even when it is achieved!)
Perhaps you initially learned of Juno in reference to the NASA spaceship of the same name, currently on a $1.1 billion mission to study Jupiter. An article in Business Insider went as far as to call NASA’s naming of its new spaceship Juno a ‘grand joke,’ as if being feminine in this culture were itself a joke. As if we need a billion-dollar space mission to tell us that many men feel entitled to cheat on their wives. Author Sarah Kramer writes, “When NASA named their solar-powered spacecraft for Jupiter’s jealous wife, Juno, it could be seen as all in favor of this grand joke,” referencing how several of Jupiter’s Moons have been named after his lovers in myth. Kramer goes on to highlight commentary on Reddit and Twitter, such as “@NASAJuno boy will Jupiter and his mistresses be in trouble after the wife shows up! Thanks for ruining the party NASA!”
Kramer concludes, “Planet Jupiter, a gas giant, has also mostly been hidden from view by local cloud cover. By skimming the tops of the clouds, NASA is hoping Juno gets a (less salacious) view of what’s really going on with Jupiter in unprecedented detail.” How many times do we read about a famous woman artist, referenced in the press as some more famous male’s ‘wife?’ When will men’s infidelity cease to be a grand joke and women’s emotions and bodily autonomy be taken seriously? As we delve into studying the largest planet of all, and the mini solar system of moons that have been named after his many mistresses, we must acknowledge the inheritance from older, patriarchal, Eurocentric astrology models rooted in simpler, more polarized worldviews that disavow the feminine and the Earth.
As the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter’s diameter is approximately eleven times that of Earth, and its mass is two and a half times that of all the other planets combined. And yet, ultimately, Jupiter’s size really doesn’t matter. Lacking an accessible solid surface like that of Earth, Jupiter has an inner core estimated to be as small as the Earth, and possibly considerably smaller. Taking approximately twelve years to orbit around our Sun (called a ‘Jovian Year’), Jupiter is surprisingly nimble for its size. Highlighting the hot, moist, and temperate planet’s dominance in the night sky, in myth, the name Zeus is derived from an ancient Indo-European Sky God called Dyeus or Djeus, with the root meaning ‘to shine.’ Likewise, the Roman counterpart ‘Jupiter’ is a contraction of the archaic Latin ‘djeus’ (daylight) with ‘pater,’ the Latin word for ‘Father,’ making the name we call this planet’s literal meaning ‘Father of Light’ or ‘Shining Father’ or ‘The Bright One.’
In By Jove! The Meaning of Astrological Jupiter, what I draw from throughout this BEAUTYSCOPE, astrologer Liz Greene introduces the planet by saying that we tend to be ‘upbeat’ about Jupiter. Writing that Jupiter’s expression is “usually outweighed in textbook descriptions by the planet’s reputation for generosity, adventurousness, inspiration, optimism and faith,” Greene cautions that the planet’s collective influence “is rarely simple and sometimes anything but benefic.” While the most negative attribute assigned to Jupiter is excess (don’t forget gluttony and egocentricity), as evidenced in the above NASA commentary, we tend to overlook Jupiter’s amorality in myth as in life, just as we assume politicians, athletes and other men in power are free to womanize and get away with it. In many mythic stories, Jupiter’s hostility towards all creatures born of the womb – often portrayed with serpent features – must be eradicated for their very association with the Earth, the underworld and the femmes of this world.
Aside from his appalling behavior towards women, what about the God’s potentially foul temper, envy, paranoia and sudden bouts of spite and destructiveness? Literally a ‘Gas Giant,’ Jupiter is full of hot air. As the personification of ‘Divine Mind,’ Jupiter represents the essence of an intelligent, all-knowing and inherently teleological cosmos. Astrologically, warm and moist Jupiter rules the liver, that organ of the body which dispels waste. And yet, when we identify a Jupiter return, transit or aspect, we are taught to assume that something good will happen. More often than not, here is where we expose ourselves to disappointment.
Endowed with a multitude of meanings, before you completely write off this bad boy, consider that Jupiter’s shapeshifting ability makes him more multidimensional than a simple identity-politics or feminist-informed view can encompass. He did, after all, once bear a child out of his thigh, descend like a brilliant shower of gold and moonlight as a graceful swan. If Jupiter is hot air, his lovers are rock and ice. With a faint ring system formed when chunks of the latter collide with the planet, a growing list of upwards of seventy moons (Metis, Thebe, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, among many more) orbit the Great Benefic. As we read on, we’ll learn about some of Jupiter’s greatest lunar liaisons ala Greek mythic storytelling. Don’t forget Amalthea and Adrastea, the pair of nurses who looked after the newborn Jupiter in infancy, who have their own moons named after them too. Europa, the namesake of Europe (the Goddess not the moon) is roughly the size of our own moon. Given her ice-water surface and atmosphere primarily composed of oxygen, this celestial body is currently considered to be the most likely candidate in our solar system to support some form of extraterrestrial life. In Greene’s text, we discover that Jupiter’s mini solar system, “presaged in the ancient world by stories of the god’s extensive catalog of paramours,” reflects an important dimension of the meaning of Jupiter as an astrological symbol.
Along with Zeus, we can equate Roman Jupiter with relative archetypes such as Norse Thor and Hindu Indra. Another alternative name for the Roman god was Jove, pronounced ‘yo-weh,’ from which we derive the adjective ‘jovial’ (meaning cheerful or friendly). Greene highlights how Jove, as the Romans pronounced it, is phonetically similar to the Hebrew ‘Iaweh’ or ‘Yahweh’ (Christian Jehovah). She states that while traces of Jupiter have nearly disappeared from modern religion, planet Jupiter has become the astrological symbol most reflective of religious and spiritual belief systems used by astrologers today. Sometimes hailed as the ‘narcissist’ of the zodiac, before we get into classical Greek and Roman myth, let’s look deeper at Jupiter’s roots, what Greene traces back to ancient Orphic texts equating planet Jupiter with ‘air’ as in, “the Divine Mind: the essence, intention, and plan of the cosmos and everything within it.” In Orphic myth, Zeus isn’t a planet, but an archetype signaling, “air as pneuma, Divine Breath, emerging from nous, Divine Mind, and breathed into everything in the form of moira or fate,” writes Greene.
According to many a classical myth, the first deity to emerge from primal chaos was Ouranos, the ‘starry heaven.’ However, a collection of earlier Orphic poems titled Rhapsodies refers to a more primal god, Phanes, as having preceded Ouranos. Phanes, an image of the eternal, endlessly creative life force, was said to have emerged from a fire-filled cosmic egg which emanated from Nyx (Night) and Chaos. Also called Protogonos, which means ‘firstborn,’ Phanes was parentless. According to the Orphic Hymns, Phanes was a male deity described as beautiful, golden-winged, hoofed, and hermaphroditic, capable of generating new life from within himself. From Phanes’ creative power emanated Ouranos, the ‘starry heaven’, and Gaia, the Earth, who in turn produced the Titan Kronos, who fathered Zeus and his siblings with Rhea.
Greene highlights how many of the complexities of the original Phanes and pre-classical Orphic currents were undermined in more modern interpretations, leading to a growing divide between the physical body (soma) and the psyche (soul), with the body being deemed the vehicle of human sin by religious authorities. Greene writes, “The Orphic portrayal of Zeus equates his Divine Breath with fate and teleology. Teleology implies an entwined relationship, or even a hidden unity, between fate and free will.” In his book Liber Novus, Carl Jung named Phanes as the ‘incoming god of the new astrological aion,’ writing that contemporary humanity is finally beginning to recognize that the divine is not somewhere ‘up there,’ transcendent and outside creation, but inherent in life itself on every level of existence, including the human psyche, an estimation which very much reflects our modern astrological understanding of Jupiter.
As the youngest child of Titan Kronos (Roman Saturn), King of the gods, immediately after Zeus’ birth, he went into hiding in a cave with a goat for a mother and a bunch of dancing female guards. Born of a Father known for swallowing his own children, lest they overthrow him as the oracle prophesied, Zeus, the infant, was hidden in a cave guarded by nine warrior-dancers or daimons, appointed by his mother Rhea. Raised by two goat-nurses, outside his cave-dwelling, female daimons clashed cymbals and banged spears on their shields at all hours to mask the cries of baby Zeus. Greene writes, “If this were a human child, we wouldn’t expect him to be especially well-adjusted. A psychiatrist might even consider conditions reflecting severe emotional damage, such as ‘post-traumatic stress disorder’ or ‘narcissistic personality disorder.’”
Eventually, a small army was formed and Lord Kronos was overthrown. After the battle, Gaia, Zeus’ grandmother, retained rulership over the Earth. Zeus received rulership over the heavens, enjoying superiority over his brothers, who ruled the underworld (Hades/Pluto) and the seas (Poseidon/Neptune). To express his gratitude to the goat Amalthea, who had nursed him in infancy, Zeus appointed her to the heavens as the zodiacal constellation of Capricorn. Creating his thunder shield (the Aegis) from her hide, one of her horns became the horn of plenty, the cornucopia or horn of Amaltheia, a symbol of the endless nourishment provided by Cardinal Earth Capricorn, the feminine ‘wise elder’ of the sky.
In a natal chart, it’s best to think of Jupiter in terms of ‘wisdom,’ in the sense of a purposeful plan or design of unfoldment of hidden patterns in our lives which offer us meaning, even when things go sour. Greene writes that the astrology of Jupiter does not offer “foreknowledge in the sense of predicting a future determined by some external fate. It’s a recognition of what we are and what we need to become.” Can we truly envision a meaningful, intentioned cosmos? Jupiter, in its highest expression, represents just that – our intuitive perception of life as meaningful. Co-ruled by Pisces (Water) and Sagittarius (Fire), Jupiter is traditionally in dignity in these signs, in detriment in Gemini and Virgo, in exaltation in Cancer, where it is right now, and fallen in Capricorn. While Jupiter is sometimes associated with air mythologically, the planet’s status of detriment in its opposing sign of Gemini demonstrates how air/intellect is not the same as ‘divine mind.’ In fact, the hyper-rationality of Mercury-ruled signs Virgo and Gemini typically resists those intuitive, unseen dimensions of life that Jupiter orchestrates. Rather, as Greene informs, “Zeus as divine mind is the source and symbol of order, purpose, and meaning of the universe and everything in it.”
While Jupiter is often associated with risk-taking, optimism and luck, Greene dives deeper to explore how risk-taking often stems from “a compulsive displacement of the Jupiterian need to feel connected to a purposeful pattern.” While the rewards of risk-taking can inspire a sense of our specialness, in her book, Greene highlights how equally as often, Jupiter’s confidence overcompensates for other areas of lack. Jupiter loves to step in and compensate for those other areas of our chart where we may experience challenging aspects or weak points. Just as he is known to ravage any and every queen, damsel or maiden, Jupiter engenders meaning by constellating the expressions of other planets in the chart.
Maybe, rather than ask if we are worthy of Jupiter’s advances, we might ask, do we prefer wifey or mistress status, and which affords more freedom? In other words, no one’s questioning whether Jupiter’s confidence can encourage us to pursue opportunities we might otherwise miss. What is important to distinguish, however, is the caliber of Jupiter’s confidence in relation to our flavor of masculine, solar power. As one of the father figures of the zodiac, having sired everyone from the Goddess of the Moon to the Lord of Ecstasy (according to the Greeks at least), when it comes to our Jupiter mojo, we must not conceive of it as an indication of our individual specialness, which is the realm of masculine power and agency associated with our sun-sign. As the planet of wisdom and expansion, Jupiter tells us about our place in a larger, unfolding universe. “A conviction of meaning and purpose rather than a sense of personal self-esteem” informs Greene.
It’s interesting that despite all of her jealousy, Juno wasn’t ever capable of actually harming Jupiter. So she settled on destroying all that he created, becoming a menace to all the other women and children associated with her husband’s immensely fertile and promiscuous ways. Just as Jupiter in a natal chart can indicate restlessness and risk, shapeshifting and reinvention, Jupiter of myth had an extremely low threshold for boredom. While he sired at least five ‘legitimate’ children with his wife Juno, among them Apollo (Sun God) and Artemis (Moon God), Mars (God of War) and Eris (Goddess of Discord), Dionysus (God of Ecstasy), Athena (The Warrior Princess) and Hermes (God of Thieves)…his endless string of extramarital affairs resulted in many more semi-divine babes. In order to achieve his various seductions and rapes, he was quite the chameleon. Never frequenting the same lover twice, his great love of disguises included moonlighting as an animal, a swan, a poor traveller or shepherd, his chosen lover’s husband, if not a magical substance such as a shower of gold or a cloud of darkness. And while his amours were anything but unimaginative, it was during the gestation period between the sexual act and the birth of his offspring when the real danger ensued.
Very much an absent or distant father figure, Jupiter appears, in a natal chart and in myth, very much like an intangible force. Greene suggests this very volatile and unpredictable nature, more so than even Uranus, reflects how “Jupiter’s transits aren’t always discernible at the time, and the gestation period as well as the birth may be profoundly uncomfortable.” Unlike mortal men, Jupiter doesn’t produce male pregnancy hormones that encourage him to nest. While the ‘Father of Light’ proved unavailable to his baby-moms and future children, what he did provide was a kind of inherent sense of destiny, inspiration and intuitive vision. Much like the Christianized God as Heavenly Father concept, Greene writes that Jupiter “keeps a watchful eye on his faithful from an invisible heavenly domain.”
What did all the ‘Shining Ones’ bastard children contribute to the grand scheme of mythic humanity? For one, many great works of Art. Zeus’ seduction of Danae was immortalized in many a painting, particularly because in this story, Zeus achieved his deception and seduction of Danae by descending on her like a shower of gold. In this story, we find an echo of Zeus’ own birth, mirrored in the Father who fears being overthrown by his own child. From his union with Danae came another great hero who would come to threaten the established order, namely, Perseus, who beheaded Medusa. Much like his unruly father-figure, Perseus’ faith in his future part in a divine plan helps him snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, a lesson recycled in many a Jupiter myth. Greene writes that Zeus appearing as a shower of gold reflects Jupiter’s dimension of “good fortune” and “transformation as a fertilization of the imagination” through “an experience of inner divinity.”
Very much in this same fashion, Jupiter works in our natal chart – fertilizing, shapeshifting, inspiring us to engender meaning in unexpected places. Green calls the offspring resulting from Jupiter’s many amours suggestive of the greater cosmic forces at work, writing that his hopelessly “enmeshed family” is symbolic of “the interconnection of archetypal patterns as a kind of woven tapestry.” In her book, she highlights how each of the gods’ seductions involves a different metamorphosis, a different manner in which the deity generates new progeny. Joseph Campbell echoes this principle in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In Campbell’s tale, we meet Jupiter in the form of all those ‘universal,’ natural, mythic motifs that are symbolic of nearly every culture. Calling the “cultural specificity” now demanded by much of the academic establishment a displacement of the need for faith, Greene suggests that not only are the archetypal patterns behind culturally specific myths universal, but also that “These two perspectives – the universality of mythic patterning and their unique cultural adaptations – are not mutually exclusive.”
If you’ve been reading my BEAUTYSCOPES, you know that I love to call out the unsung heroines of the zodiac, the misunderstood, misplaced, and disavowed feminine. I also like to highlight bridges to relative cultural myths and decolonize astrology. Did you know that Gemini is not two-faced, but four-faced? That we’ve forgotten the female twins? Blame it on Zeus’ conquest of Leda, a famous seduction he succeeded at by camouflaging himself as a swan. While most popular astrologers name ‘Castor and Pollux’ as the twin boys associated with Gemini, according to myth, born of Swan Queen Leda’s twin eggs came Helen and Pollux, Clytemnestra and Castor.
As for the seduction of Leda, whose name means ‘Queenly Woman,’ Zeus seduced her on a night during which she also made love with her husband, and the quadruplets are the result of being pregnant by both men. As retold in William Butler Yeats’ poem Leda and the Swan, when the pair of eggs finally hatched, each egg contained one semi-divine child, the progeny of Zeus, and one mortal child, the progeny of Leda’s husband, King Tyndareus. The male twin Polydeukes (translation ‘very sweet’) was semi-divine, taking after father Zeus, while Kastor (translation ‘shining’) was mortal. When Polydeukes begged Zeus to allow his brother to share his immortality, the God transformed them into the constellation of Gemini, the twins.
In the sign known to straddle the heights of heaven and the depths of hell, curious that it is the female twins who are not only mythically associated with the less seemly side of Gemini duality, but frequently expunged from pop astrology altogether. Helen (whose name means ‘torch’ or ‘light’) went on to generate chaos and destruction as Helen of Sparta, where she reigned as Queen in between abductions before causing the Trojan War. As for Queen Clytemnestra, whose name means ‘famous for her suitors,’ she became known for murdering her husband and being murdered in turn by her own son – as eulogized in Aischylos’ tragic trilogy The Oresteia.
One of the great ironies of this story is that in addition to disguising himself as a swan, Zeus gained Leda’s favor by pretending to be fleeing from an eagle, the animal he was known for. In myth, Zeus often embodies a solar symbol to cover up his true identity, in this case, the swan (animal of the Sun God Apollo). Socrates once declared that swans sing the most beautifully before their deaths because they know they are returning to the Sun-god Apollo, to whom they belong, as evidenced in the colloquial phrase ‘swan song.’ Whether death-defying or death-wielding, chaotic, destructive or both, we find that the outcome of Jupiter’s restless thunder can be generative in itself. Greene writes about how an Orphic understanding of mythic Zeus encompasses the notion that, as the embodiment of the teleology of Divine Mind, the Destruction of Troy unleashed by Zeus’ liaison with Leda was necessary to generate a new world order. As the saying goes, there is no such thing as a ‘bad’ child. In fact, they are essential to the unfolding story as the good ones, if not more. And so it goes with the supposedly ‘Great Benefic’ Jupiter, who does not bestow blessings as much as faith in the divine plan. Greene writes, “With anything involving Jupiter, we can only trust in the ultimate meaning of what we can’t foresee…”
Speaking of Sun God Apollo, let’s talk about Leto, his Mother. In this story, Zeus appears to Leto, a fellow divine being, in his true form. With no suspicious baby father or husband lurking around, in this sacred drama, Zeus had only to contend with his wife Hera’s spite. As Leto became pregnant with twins, Hera made sure that the expectant mother was driven out of society in exile, going as far as kidnapping her own child with Zeus (Eileithyia, Goddess of childbirth) to ensure that Leto’s labor proved unmanageable. Finally arriving at Delos, the magical floating island beyond Hera’s command, it was there that, surrounded by swans who guarded the land, Leto gave birth to the Sun God Apollo and the Moon Goddess Artemis.
Another one of Zeus’ lovers was Metis, the Titan whose name means ‘wisdom’, ‘skill’, or ‘craft’, and the Mother of Pallas Athena. Metis, a goddess of wise counsel, deep thought, and magical cunning, was a daughter of the Sea. Although technically one of Zeus’ day ones, one day an oracle declared that Metis would not only bear Zeus a daughter wiser than her mother, but a son who would one day overthrow him. Zeus, attempting to cheat fate, turns himself into a giant fly and swallows Metis. Meanwhile, Metis, now inside Zeus’ stomach and already pregnant with Athena, forged a suit of armor for the growing warrior princess. When Zeus complained of headaches from all the banging and hammering, he demanded that his son Hephaistos, the divine smith, split his forehead open with an axe. Hence, we have Athena, who not only sprang forth fully armed as the goddess of wisdom from her father’s head but also signaled, through her androgyny, the end of the primacy of Goddess-worshipping cultures.
Forevermore, the ‘Warrior Princess’ of the zodiac, she’s now the namesake of the third-largest asteroid in the belt. Asteroid Pallas Athena’s placement between Mars (action) and Jupiter (wisdom) signifies bridging the consciousness of the personal and the transpersonal. Having sprung from the head of the King of Heaven, shouting a piercing battle cry, a full-grown warrior queen in armor, Pallas Athena would become instrumental in catalyzing the transition from matriarchal to patriarchal culture, declaring victory for the Father-right. With Zeus’ heavenly transcendence pitted (often violently) against wombs and serpentine creatures representative of the Earth Mother, in order to be gender neutral, Athena is born from her father’s head, rather than her mother’s womb. Likewise, we associate her energy with ‘winning the battle but losing the war.’ Which begs the question, is the womb really just matter to be triumphed over by yet another love-drunk heavenly father? Or, as the gateway of life, the psychedelic portal of birth, is the cervix cosmic and transcendent in its own right? Interesting that not only does Athena concede Father-right to the culture at large, but her fatal flaw – hubris – is also one of Jupiter’s signature traits. As a child of ‘Divine Mind’ disavowed of her mother’s womb, hubris, translation, ‘deadly pride,’ is the shadow Athena inherits.
From the illustrious cosmic union of Zeus and Mnemosyne, we are blessed with the birth of the Nine Muses. In this story, Zeus transforms himself into a humble shepherd to seduce Mnemosyne, Goddess of Memory (technically speaking, his aunt). Having made love to the Goddess of Memory for nine consecutive nights, during this time all nine of the muses – Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Euterpe (music and lyric poetry), Erato (love poetry), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (hymns), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy) and Ourania (astrology) – were conceived. In Orphic thought, Mnemosyne presided over the underworld’s ‘Pool of Memory,’ that which allowed thirsty souls who drank from its depths to recall their divine origin and avoid the wheel of rebirth. Quite the fitting mother for the muses, figures known to reconnect humans – through the vehicle of the sacred arts – with the memory of their divine origin.
In order to seduce Semele, a mortal princess whose name, like Hera’s, means ‘Earth,’ Zeus transforms into his full and lethal divine glory. When Zeus began courting Semele, his wife, Hera, disguised herself as an old nurse and persuaded Semele to ask Zeus to reveal himself in all his glory to her, which Hera knew would destroy the nubile princess. Semele insisted, so Zeus complied, which resulted in burning his lover to death, no mortal being able to withstand the impact of the lord’s immortal radiance. Just at the moment of her passing, she conceived Dionysos, who was rescued from his dead mother’s womb by Hermes and sewn into Zeus’ thigh. Ultimately, it was Zeus who gave birth to Dionysos, who was hence known as ‘twice-born.’
But if only that were where the story ends. Like the great wheel of time itself, the story is never-ending. After Zeus seduced his auntie to produce the Nine Muses and Semele to produce Dionysos, in time, the worshippers of Dionysos, known as the maenads (ecstatic women), went on to rip apart the poet Orpheus (just as Dionysos himself was ripped apart by the Titans in Orphic myth). As depicted in 19th-century French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau’s masterpiece, The Head of Orpheus, after the Maenads ripped Orpheus to death, his head continued to sing. Greene writes that Orpheus’ singing head suggests a link between art and prophecy (and the cruel price artists often pay for their sensitivity to unseen forces). Moreau’s painting portrays the scene in which the Nine Muses arrive to gather up the severed fragments of Orpheus’ body, and how, despite the poet’s death, his head went on spewing cosmic secrets as it floated down the river to be found by the muses. In the painting, it is most likely Calliope, Muse of Epic poetry (Orpheus’ mother in some stories), who carries his head on a platter.
To conquer Maia, midwife of consciousness and transformation, Zeus transforms into a cloud of darkness. Maia (translation ‘mother’ or ‘midwife), from whom the month of May takes its name, was the eldest of seven sisters known as the Pleiades, and the official bringer of rain. Astrologically, the Pleiades is a grouping of bright blue stars visible to the naked eye within the constellation of Taurus. Often called the “Seven Sisters,” the V-shaped Pleiades cluster, according to Astrologer Molly McCord, exerts a powerful energetic influence upon us earthlings. Due to its relative proximity, approx. 444 light-years away from Earth, McCord informs that it is the primary force guiding humanity’s evolution and ascension. As an energy system that awakens psychic abilities, the Pleiades star groups’ influence includes opening the heart chakras of humans here on earth as well as increasing our faculties of empathy, compassion, intuition and telepathy. Interesting that Zeus’ union with the eldest sister of this highly evolved celestial sisterhood resulted in Hermes (Roman Mercury), the god who not only straddles heaven and earth, but relates to the process of alchemy and the merging of opposites. Descending as a cloud of darkness, Zeus seduced Maia in her solitary cave, a liaison which birthed the alchemist and wing-footed trickster of the zodiac, the original consort of Venus before her affair with Mars.
One of the most iconic of Zeus’ lovers was Europa, namesake of the continent of Europe, mother of King Minos of Crete. In this ferocious story, Zeus transforms into a bull. A Phoenician princess from Tyre, Europa’s name means ‘wide-seeing.’ When she came upon the white bull, an embodiment of Zeus, she admired the creature and climbed onto its back naively. Zeus, still in his bull shape, instantly rushed to the sea and began to swim, with the terrified princess clinging to him. After fathering three sons with her, the eldest of whom became King of the Land, Zeus commemorated his union with Europa by placing the white bull in the heavens as the constellation of Taurus. Here again, we find that Zeus seems to have appropriated the symbol of another deity.
Prior to its association with the Venus-ruled sign of Taurus, in archaic Greek thought, the bull was the primary animal form of Poseidon, reflecting the raw power of nature, particularly the destructive power of water, which topples cities and floods and purges the land. Greene writes about how, in this story, we perceive Jupiter’s destabilizing power via “a strikingly apt symbol of a psychotic break: subterranean emotions, long-buried, erupt and flood the earth-bound rational ego,” illustrating the connection between Jupiter and the sea in the planet’s traditional rulership of Pisces. As for Zeus taking on the likeness of the bull, long-held symbol of sexual potency, this embodiment reflects how, “powerful sexual desire can be one of the most potent instruments that drives us to become what we are meant to be – often at great cost and risk of a metaphorical earthquake or tidal wave in our personal lives,” writes Greene.
The last of Zeus’ canonical amours we’ll dissect occurs with Alkmene, technically Zeus’ great-granddaughter and the mythic mother of Herakles. In this troubling story of infidelity and incest, Zeus transforms into Alkmene’s husband Amphitryon. Alkmene, whose name means ‘strength of wrath,’ was a loving and loyal wife. With her husband absent on a military expedition, Zeus transforms himself into the missing husband and effectively seduces his wife. The result of their union was Herakles, the greatest of Greek heroes and the bitter life-enemy of Hera. That is, Hera, who drove the great hero batty. Herakles, deemed heroic for destroying the enemies of humanity, went on to murder his own wife and children in a deranged state. What do we make of all those families torn apart by suspicion, jealousy and fear? I know some of our readers are thinking ‘oh hell no!’ And many others, something more along the lines of ‘sounds familiar.’
Did Zeus know what kind of destruction his children would spawn? According to Greene, asking that question misses the point. Just as natal Jupiter reveals what dimension of our lives is ripe to be ‘inspired’ and ‘fertilized,’ where we find that we are “presented with a succession of doors opening unto a path into the future,” writes Greene; what the planet does not offer is “clarity about the precise course of events in the concrete world.” At best, Jupiter inspires an intangible sense of hope and faith. A sense of transcendence, yes, if we are able to articulate the term beyond the machinations of patriarchy. Which brings us to a lesser-known and certainly less complementary epithet of our hero: Zeus Labrandios, ‘The Raging One.’
When Prometheus stole fire from Zeus’ lightning bolt and brought it to the human beings of Earth, Zeus became ‘the Raging One.’ In swift and ruthless retaliation, Zeus chained Prometheus to a rock. Each day Zeus’ eagle would peck out Prometheus’ liver, and each night the liver would regenerate. Prometheus, being immortal, was therefore condemned to suffer said punishment for eternity. Enter Chiron, who earned his ‘Wounded Healer’ title by sacrificing his own immortality to release ‘Fire Stealer’ Prometheus from bondage. Meanwhile, Zeus, still enflamed with animosity towards all humans, instructed Hephaestus to create Pandora, a hybrid creature/box/jar containing every possible evil that could inflict human beings.
Reflecting above all else the human condition full of suffering, envy, pride, greed and other deadly sins, “Zeus’ revenge through Pandora describes everything that makes us suffer as living beings,” writes Greene. And yet, Pandora’s box also contains hope. While Nietzsche wrote that hope only “prolongs man’s torments,” calling it “the worst of all evils,” here again we encounter that great paradox. Ultimately, Zeus’ stolen fire serves as a metaphor for knowledge united with vision. As an astrological symbol of Divine Mind, Greene writes that Jupiter’s inspired vision encompasses “forethought, ingenuity, and creative inventiveness,” which enables us to “face the future with hope and make the best use of our potentials.”
Just as Jupiter’s ‘benefic’ potentials are not necessarily accompanied by fun, good fortune, and happiness, it is both in the potentials and pitfalls of life that Jupiter works its rather jarring magic. As humanity continues to evolve, so should our lexicon of heroic qualifiers. Luckily, with the recent discovery of several dwarf planets, we’ve found a ‘higher octave’ for planet Jupiter in the form of Quaoar, named for the creation deity of the Tonga people indigenous to Los Angeles. If Jupiter is ‘blind faith’ or perhaps even a type of ‘dumb luck,’ Quaoar is the smart luck of turning each moment into a dynamic meditation, a bridge between spirit and matter. As the deity that sings and dances the world into existence, Quaoar reminds us that virtually anything can become a practice that brings spirit into our lives.
Source of creative vision, or source of our demise? That’s on you. And we haven’t even gotten into Jupiter as malignant narcissist and the Peter Pan complex! Is the Heavenly Father’s distaste for humans a kind of spiritual superiority or an ego trip? We all know that person, Greene refers to them as the “ideological zealot” who “must stamp out any person or attitude that isn’t aligned with his own truth.” Call it spiritual ego, or simply an overzealous missionary, this too is Jupiter, working through each of us in its own unique way. How does it all end? Mythically speaking, Zeus decides to finally obliterate those recalcitrant creatures known as humans by sending in the Great Flood. Contrary to all of the other flood myths, he couldn’t even find anyone worth sparing. And yet, from the stones turned to bones of two elders past reproductive age, rescued from the flood by Prometheus, in an act of fate and faith (blessed ambiguously by Zeus), this final couple begins to magically repopulate the Earth, and humanity begins to multiply once again.
Little did we know that terms like capricious, arrogant, narcissistic (driven to wipe out anyone that challenges one’s own supremacy) are as much the psychology of Jupiter as good faith and belly laughs. Before we dive into your personal Jupiter placements by sign, let’s explore why the ‘Great Benefic’ is also the bedfellow of psychological narcissism. Keep in mind that Jupiter does not ‘cause’ narcissism any more than Pluto causes obsession, although they are certainly conditions that reflect these highly specified planetary energies. As above so below, the stuff stars are made of churns within us, provoking our natural potentials.
It’s no secret that the term ‘narcissist’ is being misused. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need AI, social media, or a fellow angry girlfriend to diagnose your ex as a closet narcissist; rather, most of us would be better off focusing on our own issues. While highly fashionable as of late, we often call someone a narcissist because they have, writes Greene, “been selfish enough to ignore our own needs and wishes.” And yet, narcissistic personality disorder, the clinical diagnosis at least, is actually rooted in an absence (rather than an excess) of self-love. As Greene’s practice as a psychological astrologer reminds us, we can work with astrological symbols without having to fall back on assumptions as to what is ‘normal’ or ‘abnormal,’ ‘healthy’ or ‘pathological.’ Just as each planet has a higher and lower expression, narcissism is a spectrum, rather than a single fixed behavior pattern.
Greene writes that while “Jupiter’s most characteristic defenses are reflected in what we think of as the typical behavior patterns of narcissism: self-aggrandizement, lack of empathy, the need for everyone’s focus to be on oneself, the inclination to be spiteful and vindictive in response to a perceived slight and the inability to cope with any form of rejection, criticism or failure,” more often, underlying this overlay of ego is a poorly aspected Saturn or Chiron. While Jupiter has a healthy ego, in a clinical narcissist, the ego is too weak. Saturn or Chiron being associated with inner wounds, failure, limitations and self-flagellation – what is more often than not happening is that Jupiterian attributes are being mobilized as a defense.
In the Greek tragedy of Narcissus, the father of narcissism grows up never being permitted to truly see himself. With no idea what he looks like, he is unaware of his own beauty and therefore incapable of generating any sense of self-love. Lacking this important ingredient, he is unable to love others and becomes known for treating his many suitors with cruelty and contempt. One day, stumbling upon his own reflection by accident, he gazes obsessively into his own eyes, and unable to stop, eventually starves himself to death in the process. In an alternative version of the myth, he drowns himself in despair. Here we find that ultimately, Narcissus is an innocent child, the victim of an over-doting, jealous, smothering mother and another one of those deadly oracle predictions. His narcissistic wound is the lack of healthy parental ‘mirroring.’
Greene reflects on the conditions that create psychological narcissism, saying, “There’s no encouragement to become an individual through parental mirroring of the child’s unique personality.” Rather than develop a coherent and solid sense of self, the narcissist is forced to become what their parent or caretakers needed them to be, which is often a mirror to their own fledgling sense of self-worth, unfulfilled longings, and dreams. The narcissist comes to believe that others’ love must be earned, that they must perform. They may have been the gifted child, the parent of their parent, the little man that a lonely mother needed to have cosplay a healthy male partner that didn’t exist. Essentially, life becomes a performance, and yet, there persists “a hole, an empty space, hidden at the core of the personality,” informs Greene.
If we have been partnered with a narcissist, or the child of one, we might be asking ourselves, am I the drama? Beyond all the drama and fireworks, the gaslighting and manipulation, we come to discover a lonely person who can’t maintain healthy relationships because they feel unlovable and worthless inside. Jupiter is not the root of the narcissistic personality; it is the desperate defense mechanisms that mask it. Which is why narcissism isn’t a mental illness; it’s a personality disorder, and likewise, very hard to cure. While Jupiter can and will mobilize against the corrosive feelings of worthlessness, the planet’s compensatory inclinations don’t find it very easy to, according to Greene, “face ordinary human limits and conflicts.”
Underneath the overconfident, grandiose, brash, bold, inventive showboat that is Jupiter often exists a severely wounded child. If others are regarded as mirrors, rather than individuals in their own right, empathy becomes nearly impossible to achieve. Others are there to mirror, not to be seen and valued as separate individuals. “Narcissists require acolytes, not equals,” writes Greene, and they can be frighteningly vengeful and even violent when they don’t feel like they are the center of attention. Personally, I feel that we live in an age of narcissism. Greene echoes this sentiment, writing, “Every one of us has an element of narcissism because we all need to be mirrored in order to bolster flagging self-esteem. There’s no such thing as a perfect parent who can give us perfect mirroring. But it’s a question of degree as well as self-honesty.” If we can work with the narcissistic wound as a spur to self-understanding, to self-mastery, healing, and integration, we can begin to enjoy the ups and downs of life, and others’ needs and desires, without mistaking it for a measure of our personal worth and lovability.
While a narcissist will do virtually anything to avoid being truly seen, the deeper work lies in facing the complex feelings that underlie the regressive pattern. As one of Jupiter’s most painful and problematic dimensions, many would prefer to project the inner narcissist elsewhere – and we’ll find easy targets in the worlds of politics, fashion, entertainment, and business, where so many display narcissism in obvious ways. The societal rewards bestowed on the narcissistic within Western society only more so mask the dysfunction. Narcissus became so obsessed with his own reflection that he ignored the most basic of human needs, and yet, Jupiter is not here to deny us or guide us astray. Moreover, Jupiter is igniting our fate and faith in life, so long as we do not passively bow to it, nor assume we are above natural law.
In other words, when we come to think we are ‘favored by the gods,’ we inevitably invoke backlash. There is always a ‘cosmic response’ to Jupiter’s arrogance, just as after hubris follows nemesis, the mythic goddess of consequence. Mythic depictions envision Nemesis as the Earth itself striking back against man’s transgressions of natural law in the form of plagues, earthquakes, floods and tidal waves. Hurricane Melissa’s recent devastation of Jamaica comes to mind. Particularly, the way in which young climate activists like @mikaelaloach are taking fossil fuel corporations to task as never before. In a reel posted in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa’s devastation, Louach calls out inequality and environmental racism, terming the devastation ‘a fossil fuel disaster,’ rather than a ‘natural disaster.’ Louach highlights how not only did research conducted by fossil fuel companies document in advance these very specific geographic outcomes, but these companies have spent years engaged in climate denial while making huge profits off the ‘hot seas’ that churned the storm.
Whether we call Jupiter’s most relentless enemy nemesis, climate change, climate activism, Juno, Gaia, Mother Earth, or the myriad serpentine monsters antagonizing the heavenly father’s domain, the opposition never ceases to bite back. Hera, whose name means ‘Earth,’ is both Zeus’ divine consort and inseparable enemy, “the collateral damage arising from a universe that’s imperfect, still in formation and full of divisions, polarities and constant creative conflict and change,” writes Greene.
Psychologically speaking, we can call Jupiter’s hubris ‘inflation,’ which is both a typical response to the narcissistic wound as well as one of the main weaknesses of the puer aeternus, sometimes called the Peter Pan complex. It’s honestly something I discuss with my therapist a lot, asking, ‘We know Peter Pan, but who is Wendy?’ Wendy is not la puella, the feminine equivalent of the antiquated Latin term for eternal youth embodied in Aphrodite/Venus. Wendy, we eventually discover, grows up and has a family, looking back on her love for Peter as a distant dream. Somewhere along the way, Wendy stopped accepting the bare minimum. She wrote that article in Vogue explaining how, in 2025, having a boyfriend is just plain embarrassing! Wendy, Juno, Hera, the laundry list of lovely lovelies who have dared to dance with Jupiter goes on and on…
Father Right, or another excuse for the patriarchy to deny women fundamental equality and feminine desires? Or is the puer aeternus, the ‘eternal youth,’ a quintessential and ultimately genderless archetype? Like a little bird freshly hatched from its egg, this archetype is symbolic of the very specialness and immortality that Jupiter righteously conveys. Youthful, adolescent, callow, and immature, Zeus’ perennial restlessness and penchant for holy shape-shifting reflect how in Roman texts, Jupiter was described by the adjective iuvenis, from which we derive our modern term ‘juvenile.’ Calling the puer aeternus multidimensional to say the least, Greene highlights how our value judgments of the archetype more likely reflect our own conditioning and life circumstances than any one truth.
Jung referred to the puer in the context of its opposite, the senex or (Saturnian) ‘old man,’ but one half of a fourfold masculine archetype (including the warrior and poet). Initially, writes Greene, Jung looked down on the puer, calling it both problematic and illusory, going as far as to call the figure “a parasite on the mother, a creature of her imagination, who only lives when rooted in the maternal body” in his 1912 book Symbols of Transformation. After many more years exploring alchemy, Jung distanced the puer from the mother-complex, while still maintaining how this type lacks both a capacity for empathy and deep commitment. In The Problem of Puer Aeternus, author Marie-Louise von Frantz acknowledges the attractiveness and magnetism of the puer type, saying, “Many have the charm of youth and the stirring quality of a drink of champagne.” Nonetheless, her writing emphasizes the puer’s reluctance to take responsibility for the consequences of its actions and inability to tolerate more committed emotional bonds. Why do so many of us still lust after them?
Maybe it’s his elusive and near-magical qualities, being so young at heart, spiritually and imaginatively focused to the point of childlike arrogance and mischievousness. Invigorated by its near dreamlike state of endless intuitive possibilities, the puer is free of the limitations of ordinary life, certainly of adult responsibility. For the eternal youth, the pull of all those imagined future potentials makes the dreariness and indignity of an ordinary mortal fate too much to bear. No matter our chronological age, courting or playing puer often looks like taking risks, booking a last-minute flight, dressing to the nines, driving an expensive, flashy car, or dating someone much younger.
Illuminating the apparently amoral attributes of Jupiter’s planetary power and the gift of grasping paradox, Greene writes, “Jupiter can reflect the best and worst of the puer. It depends on the individual’s capacity – and willingness – to integrate his archetypal pattern according to how it ‘sits’ in the birth chart and relates to other natal planets and the balance of elements.” She notes that sexual fidelity does not always reflect deep emotional commitment, nor does emotional commitment guarantee sexual fidelity. Here we might ask ourselves whether we are measuring our capacity for commitment against some golden standard, or putting it in the context of our partners’ needs, or our own? Or are we content to simply abide blindly by tradition? Commitment for a Plutonian looks much different than commitment for a Venusian, Neptunian or Martian.
Whatever soils the joyful fantasy, insensitivity to the feelings of others is certainly part of Jupiter’s destructive face. Like the child that complains to mother he is ‘bored,’ the puer tends to feel chronically stifled by worldly reality, not to mention any constraint in a relationship. When the relationship is otherwise able to provide that vehicle for the puer’s pursuit of the endlessly shiny and new, unobtainable, impossible, and/or the illicit – well, that is another story entirely. The uncanny thing about the puer is that while they might be able to carry out responsibilities at work, they don’t seem to tolerate limits to their romantic life with such grace. Assessing whether someone is ‘appropriately’ committed can be highly subjective. One partner’s need for ‘space’ might feel like utter betrayal to his or her mate. Which is to say, if you’re dating or committed to one, avoid becoming the partner-turned parent from whom they seek containment they can’t tolerate. While the puer archetype inspires many polarized judgments, our personal opinion of it more likely boils down to whether we were the one who strayed or the one who stayed. For Jupiter, “there’s always light at the end of the tunnel, even if more sensible people insist that it’s really an oncoming train,” writes Greene.
What’s the silver lining? For those of us who tend to feel more on the betrayed and abandoned spectrum of love, the Peter Pan or puer is like our kryptonite, the toxic karmic partnership we love to hate, the lover we court like a moth to flame, only to feel increasingly embittered and embarrassed by our own poor boundaries (which is really a lack of self-understanding). And so we call the archetype pathological, cruel even, the source of our unending misery. And yet, there’s a seedling of the puer in each and every one of us. Are we identifying with it at the expense of our loved ones? How about our own financial or emotional stability? Are we mobilizing puer aeternus against other, more vulnerable dimensions of our personality uncritically? Or might it be permission to embody the joy and potential of youth, the inspired pursuit of possibility and the boundless fertility of the creative imaginary? Green writes that not only does this aspect of Jupiter “fuel our will to live,” it’s essential to finding “joy and meaning in life.” If we were to condemn the puer to a corrosively polarized view, we are also simultaneously “Condemning all older people to a grey, twilight existence in which they’re expected to ‘act their age,’” concludes Greene.
Lest we forget that Jupiter’s badge as the ‘Great Benefic’ does not preclude hot air, legendary charm and flightiness. Faith and optimism are two keywords often associated with Jupiter, words that hint at something which is both greater, higher and deeper than reality but also intangible, ineffable and ephemeral. When Jupiter becomes a shower of gold he is usurping the Sun’s metal. Just like the ‘inner sun’ or ‘inner child’ that solar power represents, gold is incorruptible, always shining, resplendent, royal. Jupiter’s metal, however, is tin, as in the gleam cheap costume jewelry delivers for one or two wears before deteriorating into trash. Jupiter, above all else, symbolizing our efforts to find a connection with the intelligence of nature and with the inherent purposefulness of life, many understand it to be interchangeable with the religious instinct. While the sun is forevermore radiant and resplendent, Jupiter, in its unfathomable, but untouchable proportions, is beyond simple physical pleasure or personal satisfaction. The planet’s sense of hope is rooted in a sense of meaning that ensures us that life’s vicissitudes aren’t random. That our lived experience, tragic as it may be, is part of a larger interconnected web of existence. Jupiter isn’t concerned with the “I” of our existence, but asks, what am I contributing? What is my role in the ever exquisite and unfolding miracle that is life?
Can we find contentment without all of the fireworks and applause? In the astrological glyph for the planet, we see a combination of the cross of matter below the crescent of the soul, a form symbolic of the triumph of spirit over matter. While many consciously or unconsciously mobilize Jupiter in pursuit of some type of worldly success, Jupiter isn’t about celebrity status so much as becoming the best possible version of ourselves. More often, the object of the longing masks something hidden deeper in the depths of the psyche. In creeps those impossible aspirations, compulsions and addictions, all those excesses that create a loss of reasoned judgment and a susceptibility to being duped. Maybe we’re a sports fan channeling religious fervor, or chanting activist slogans like prayers. Perhaps we bolster our sense of purpose by canceling others who do not share our fixed views. Virtually anything can become a surrogate of Jupiter’s longing for transcendence and higher wisdom, whether it’s ‘identity politics’ or addiction to eBay, we don’t always recognize our dependency along those more socially-acceptable avenues, nor do we find the true spiritual satisfaction our Jupiter craves.
While we’d better not throw out the baby with the bathwater (although Juno sadly might), the key is in seeing the objects or aspirations as symbols, bridges or gateways, rather than as ends in themselves. Greene notes how, long ago, folding a sprig of myrtle into one’s wedding bouquet wasn’t simply an offering to Aphrodite. Myrtle, being Aphrodite in her floral form, was not just asking the Goddess of Love to bless your wedding; you were bringing her to the wedding. “The challenge isn’t to try to pin Jupiter down to one ‘legitimate’ path,” writes Greene, but rather to “try to do our best to ensure that our pursuit is life-enhancing rather than life-destroying.”
While the consequences of Jupiter’s glory can be catastrophic, wherever we land on the spectrum of functional narcissism, with power and influence comes responsibility. If we’re stuck in hubris, dawning Jupiter’s shadow face of intolerance and fanaticism like a little black dress, then we can expect that one day, all those who envy us, including all those we claim to represent and serve, will inevitably strike back. Is elegant dogmatism disguising one’s hunger for worldly power? Are we operating like petty messiahs, puffed up with Jupiter’s brassy virtue in the holiest of club rooms? As the old saying goes, the Devil is every God who exacts obedience.
In a natal chart, Jupiter reflects our capacity to experience symbols as meaningful gateways to a sense of connectedness. If we refuse to tolerate an alternative or relative truth, we have failed to recognize the symbol and merely deified the object, person, religion, or other surrogate of faith. A lesser-known aspect of mythic Jupiter is his role as heavenly psychopomp, as conductor of souls. In Roman mythology, Jupiter, in his eagle form, was known for carrying the soul of a deified hero or emperor to the heavens, a role previously carried out in earlier myths by Mercury. The ascent of the soul to the heavens was called katasterismos by the Greeks, meaning ‘to place among the stars.’ Just as the quadruplets Zeus made with Leda became the constellation of Gemini, Jupiter in our natal chart very much reflects the freeing of the soul from the burdens of the body.
When did burdens become shorthand for sins? The carnal sin most associated with Jupiter, other than sexual licentiousness, is surely gluttony. For Liz Greene, gluttony is a versatile offense. It can manifest in our unending quest for knowledge, as we stuff our minds with facts. Alternatively, we might come to feed off other people’s adulation and praise, failing to ever feel full or acknowledge the deficit of our own unworthiness and self-doubt. While envy is actually Saturn’s sin (the Sun’s sin is pride), it has been known to follow in the wake of Jupiter’s flights of fancy. Enter Juno’s wrath and the husbands, parents and suitors of all those folks Zeus seduced and left out in the cold.
While Zeus’ amours always left a trail of extremely angry people in their wake, the most danger posed was often to his own newborn child. At a deeper psychological level, Greene reveals a “politics of envy” at play. As in, how human beings who happen to feel unlucky, uninspired, unfortunate, or unworthy often will spend loads of time and energy hating those who seem to have it all, or simply those who had the nerve to try and fail. Greene writes, “When the astrological Jupiter has symbolically impregnated us with a new vision, a new idea, a new inspiration, or a new possibility, others may sometimes feel anger because they wish they could have the same kind of vision…along with the sheer nerve to pursue it.” Just as envy follows the solar types that shine with too much light, envy follows Jupiter and his mysterious, intuitive spark, his ability to become a joker of reinvention that strikes out into the unknown.
The truth is, Jupiter is nothing if not unstable and unpredictable. There’s no way to discern if our Jupiterian vision is really a narcissistic fantasy, nor to determine the outcome of our next infectiously juicy risk. Just as Mars constellates our symbolic ‘uncontrollable’ impetus to fight and win as a necessary dimension of human experience, the only true failure of Jupiter is that failure to find the optimism to believe in a meaningful future and take the risks required to get there. Which is not to say all be damned on the divine mind’s enduring quest for meaning. We are not excusing Zeus’ many rapes and infidelities, nor the damage that ensued within his violently enmeshed family and many inflammatory love triangles. Rather, Jupiter, like any planet, offers an opportunity to cultivate a more holistic, heart-centered, nuanced and self-aware understanding of life. Including the understanding that “archetypal patterns, when they erupt into our lives, can do so forcibly and without our conscious consent,” thereby causing us to “feel emotionally violated by events, inner forces, and compulsive patterns we don’t understand,” writes Greene.
Jupiter isn’t inflated for nothing; he’s expanding what is good about us and over-compensating for those wounds and insecurities we don’t have the courage to face. In swoops Jupiter – our sense of connection with a greater purpose in life – as a defense. Call it Divine Mind, Divine Breath, or simply the World Soul; our human need for an intuitive perception of a greater design at work in life cannot be denied. Jupiter brings us joy when we humble ourselves enough to feel as though we are in exactly the right place at the right time. Yes, Jupiter’s natal placement by sign and house may very well indicate how the ‘Great Benefic’ can potentially expand and benefit that area of our lives. The more we come to feel connected to a larger pattern at work, the more we develop the clarity and consciousness necessary to not only show up but weather the storms that life sends our way. Just like Jupiter, we human beings are constantly transforming, shapeshifting, fertilizing, and emerging, the material vehicle of the spiritual forces of life being lived through us.
While most of us readily associate Jupiter with Sagittarius, it’s often forgotten that the planet technically governs both Sagittarius and Pisces. Both signs thriving on connection, on perceiving that invisible web that binds, Pisces symbolizes emotional connections and Sagittarius mental ones. Both signs being at home in liminal spaces, neither will submit to being boxed in. Perceiving all those links that others miss, both signs are predisposed to put visions before reality, belief before logic, and perceived truth before fact. What follows is less nirvana, as one would hope, and more along the lines of gluttony, inflation, or fanaticism. Both of these mutable, ‘doubled bodied’ signs failing to adhere to a single modus operandi, goal or purpose, like Jupiter, they are more so the bridges of the zodiac, containing multitudes and shapeshifting as needed, both signs often baffling others in the process.
In a birth chart, the house of natal Jupiter reflects the domain where you’ll focus your longing to discover the bigger story and your individual place in it. Whereas the sign more so qualifies the manner, mode or style in which we pursue and interpret said quest for meaning. Meanwhile, Jupiter in aspect to other natal planets can reveal how our search for higher wisdom will interact with (and often conflict or deflect from) other equally valid needs.
As for human suffering, Jupiter compensates for it in various creative ways. “Jupiter is always ready to act as a compensation for pain, as well as providing meaning and context for the pain,” writes Greene. Jupiter’s tendency to activate, sometimes inflate, at the onset of pain not only links it with narcissism, but exemplifies this type of reality collision that happens when our Jupiter somehow convinces us we are above reproach, godlike and incapable of failing. While the instinct is often to pat ourselves on the back when things go our way, what’s more important to acknowledge is, good or bad, our life circumstances are not here to tickle the ego, but to help our soul evolve. When we fail to elevate to the higher path of Jupiter, then we travel the lower road, which looks like a descent into narcissism as self-protection, the puer on a fancy free or taking an epic flight into fantasy (the escapist’s control mechanism). While suffering can and will provoke Jupiter into a quest for meaning, our success depends on our ability to integrate wisdom of experience and cope with paradox.
If you were to have a square between Jupiter and another planet, known as a ‘hard’ aspect, this highlights a sense of tension between what feels like two disparate needs or areas of life. When Jupiter is in opposition, if it doesn’t feel like we are being victimized by someone or something outside of ourselves, then it may feel like we rely on them to complete us. Often, planetary aspects and placements tell us much more about our inner reality and how we cope than about any specific external circumstance. Even then, Greene cautions that “the nature of the aspect won’t tell us whether we’re experiencing the creative or destructive side of Jupiter, because both expressions can emerge with any aspect, alternatively or simultaneously.”
Likewise, it’s not just Jupiter that tasks us with embracing paradox, that forks into higher and lower roads of potential, sometimes both at once. Let’s take the Moon, for example, the source of the all-powerful divine feminine, the churner of the waters, the womb and the women of the Earth. The focal point of Vedic astrology and the original calendar. By some standards, it’s untouchable, the unconditionally loving mother that can do no wrong. By others, a poorly aspected moon tends to bring out all those qualities of the Moon the world hates, dismisses, loathes, projects onto the single mothers, the smother mothers, the lonely old hags and the ‘lunatics’ of society (it’s no coincidence that the Spanish ‘Luna’ is also the operative root of our word lunacy). What if Jupiter were the hype man of your natal moon? Jupiter will inflame whatever the moon is feeling. Sadness becomes despair. Happiness becomes ecstasy. A little crush becomes the romance of the century.
Hitler, as Greene makes a case study of in her book, exemplifies just how sinister Jupiter-Moon aspects can be. In her reading of Hitler’s cosmic blueprint, Greene writes that Jupiter was mobilized to compensate for a painful Moon-Chiron opposition and Venus/Mars conjunction square Saturn, writing, “Hitler projected his feelings of damage and became a destroyer…the enemy lurking inside this narcissistic black hole is a profound self-loathing, and the millions of people whom Hitler murdered had to carry the projection of what he secretly felt about himself.” Consequently, on the Zeus-worthy scale of destruction, four out of five of the women Hitler took as lovers died of suicide or attempted suicide. Just as vengeful Jupiter knows no moral bounds, Hitler is our most horrific example of the Gas Giant stretched to its darkest extreme.
Just as the Gas Giant has a way of inflating us, he can and often does just as powerfully ‘puncture’ the hot air balloons of our greatest longings. Inspiring us to new heights, suturing those painful cracks in our self-esteem, savagely mowing down our walls of self-doubt, and yet, the higher the high, the lower the low. Or as the saying goes, new level, new devil! Nothing in our chart is strictly ‘good’ or ‘bad,’ but rather, it hinders or furthers our growth, contingent on our level of consciousness and how well we integrate self-understanding. Whether we are mobilizing Jupiter to disguise the fact that deep down we feel unlovable and worthless, or we are using it to transform our defeats into miracle moments of refinement and reflection, that’s up to us.
Collectively speaking, we’ve all been under the spell of Jupiter since 2020. If you follow astrology, you probably heard many chattering about the ‘Great Conjunction’ that occurred in December 2020, right at the onset of the pandemic. Occurring roughly every twenty years, the term ‘Great Conjunction’ refers to the Jupiter-Saturn cycle, which has been the subject of much talk and debate within the astrology community and beyond. The early Persian Muslim astrologer, Abu Ma’shar, thought by many to be one of the greatest astrologers of all time, preached that under a Great Conjunction, Kings and Prophets rise to power (sometimes dethroning someone else in the process). In contemporary terms, Saturn-Jupiter cycles punctuate major political and religious shifts. Often associated with the birth of Jesus, when the two planets meet in a new sign (what occurs roughly ever 240 years) this is known as a ‘Great Mutation,’ marking the unfolding of a new 20-year cycle. During the recent ‘Great Mutation’ of Saturn conjunct Jupiter at zero degrees in Aquarius in December 2020, with Saturn stationed in its ruling sign, its energy was more dominant than Jupiter’s. Additionally, Saturn in fixed air signaled a time of sterility of the Earth and severity of cold.
Pandemic aside, many of that era’s astrological reports were nothing if not grim. Chani Nicholas reported that Capricorn Season of 2020 was stamped with an “astrological ‘this is going to hurt’ signature,” noting how ‘Great Malefic’ Saturn’s influence puts emphasis on themes of boundaries, restrictions, denial, restraints, responsibilities and downturns. Many called the conjunction the ‘Christmas Star,’ one reason being that it was the closest observable Jupiter-Saturn conjunction since medieval times. Many others spoke of the Great Conjunction in Aquarius as an initiator of the collective into what is known as the Aquarian Age of enlightenment, equality and collectivism. Again, in its place of rulership, Saturn has concentrated powers in Aquarius. Which is why if you made an important life change or planted the seed of a long-term venture back in December of 2020, you may very well be reaping some of the benefits of that now. Calling it very much a year of straddling a ‘gaping chasm,’ Chani wrote that with the conjunction of Saturn-Jupiter, it was a time of bearing witness to what is decaying (Saturn) while at the same time tending to the long-overdue reconstruction (Aquarius).
Fast-forward five years, and this past month, on November 9th, we collectively experienced Jupiter trine Saturn. The trine operates much like a blessing; it was additionally part of what is called a Grand Water Trine between three planetary bodies, an occurrence which suggests free-flowing, positive influences within the realm of emotions, spirituality and creativity. According to Molly McCord, this particular Grand Water Trine presented real opportunities that not only moved us into uncharted territories but also permanently evolved us. With Jupiter exalted in Cancer, the Great Benefic very much played the role of the sage in this auspicious moment of heightened healing and self-understanding.
While the Saturn-Jupiter trine manifested as divine timing at play, meanwhile, Mercury Retrograde aligned us in a new and better direction, a cosmic reset in anticipation of the New Moon in Scorpio November 20th. Because many of the planets involved were retrograde, the waves of change felt more internal, very much like a process of purging blockages, reshaping our intuitive and emotional faculties as part of a larger collective ascension process. With Jupiter retrograde from November 11th through March 2026, it’s an ideal time for spiritual and metaphysical reinvention. As if conducting an internal audit of the ‘Divine Mind’ and all of its glittering potentials, use this period leading up to the New Year to access more grace and ease in your mental faculties, stepping courageously into the flow of fate.
If you don’t already know the house of your natal Jupiter, download a free natal chart HERE. To illuminate planet Jupiter, locate the ? GLYPH. Read on for personalized insights on the Great Benefic through the zodiac, with healing Jupiter Rx prescribed by Midheaven Or Nah.
Jupiter in Aries *Overzealous Individualism*
Celebrity Doppelgänger: Flo Milli, rapper
Fueled by innate courage, leadership and initiative, you succeed because you’re always willing to try. Self-focused and self-sufficient, embrace constructive leadership, harnessing your natural drive to inspire and guide others. Preferring to fly solo (because others tend to slow you down), a generous and optimistic outlook contributes to a happy-go-lucky attitude and a love of adventure! A leader rather than a follower, use your electric creativity to build and achieve great things. Standing up for your values, channel your courage to support worthy causes, advocating for those who are vulnerable or oppressed. Caution around a potential for recklessness, overconfidence, impulsivity and overextension. A tendency towards fearless expression and strong, unyielding opinions defines you. Are you acting recklessly or engaging in uncalculated risks? Do you have a God Complex?! Don’t let an inflated ego cut your hour of power short. The desire to act quickly can sometimes overshadow thoughtful deliberation, potentially leading to negative outcomes. Focus on purposeful projects and noble goals, finishing what you start! With instinctual humor, you laugh unabashedly at life! With a level of confidence others can only dream of, you’re an active learner who leaps before you look. At times, impulsivity leads to major breakthroughs, while at others, it leads to abject misery. Many admire your gung-ho nature; just take care to temper your enthusiasm with a bit of skepticism from time to time. The more knowledge you acquire, the more doors fly open.
Rx: SuperHair Multivitamin
Hitting hard and hitting early is your M.O., Jupiter in Aries. Motivated by doing, you’re like a walking spectacle in the best way. With Aries ruling the head, Jupiter can be known to inflame this highly sensitive area of the body. Likewise, it’s crucial to practice impeccable head, hair and scalp care. Not only that, with Jupiter in the Mars-ruled sign of action, you may want to consider what type of fuel you’re putting in your body, if not simply reminding yourself to stop and eat once in a while. Don’t let chronic restlessness get in the way of having locks that turn heads. Introducing SuperHair®, the comprehensive, bioavailable multivitamin by Moon Juice. An easy way to address nutritional deficiencies that inhibit the growth of healthy hair, it’s packed with Vitamins A, B, C, D, E and K! Added adaptogen ashwagandha balances all those stress hormones contributing to thinning hair. Iodine-rich kelp prevents thyroid imbalance, a primary contributor to hair loss in women. Botanical follicle protectors saw palmetto and pumpkin seed promote thickness. Additional micronutrients like horsetail and biotin promote hair strength and smooth texture. Although Jupiter in cardinal fire has been known to resist routine, with daily use, you’ll see results in just four weeks.
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Jupiter in Taurus *Sacred Cow or Sensual Magnet?*
Celebrity Doppelgänger: Sarah Jessica Parker
Directing you to attain success with a determined and righteous approach, Jupiter in fixed earth signifies a focus on material security, gradual growth and pleasure. Emphasizing steady, long-term success via patience and dedication, this placement fosters a deep appreciation for the physical world. Cultivate abundance by valuing nature, comfort and the freedom afforded by financial stability. Endless patience and dedication mean you adopt a steady and persistent approach to achieving goals, emphasizing hard work over speed. Functioning at a comfortable pace, you turn activities into habits. Cultivating a practice of life while illuminating the pleasures of embodiment, heightened sensual awareness means you revel in nature, art, food and tangible pleasures. Recognizing the value of comfort and material possessions, you also understand their cost. Stubbornly full of self-belief, you express yourself in repetition, knowing that growth is only certain when it’s practiced. Willing to do the ‘sure thing,’ you savor the simple sweetness of life and share it with others. Jupiter’s desire for stability and Taurus’s conservatism make you hesitant to challenge existing norms, systems, or beliefs. Has your Taurean self-belief become a ‘sacred cow’ above criticism? Caution around insatiable desires, overindulgence, scarcity mindset, rampant materialism, wastefulness or greed. Rather than seeking instant gratification, tune into what your insatiable hungers are trying to tell you. Instead of consuming for the sake of it, investigate the deeper needs that drive your desires. Journaling, therapy and meditation can help you trace your cravings to the root.
Rx: Melrose Place Super Dry Shampoo
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Jupiter in Gemini *The Edge of Curiosity*
Celebrity Doppelgänger: Ana de la Reguera, Mexican Actress
With a powerful drive to learn, Jupiter in Gemini lives to converse in open, truthful dialogue. Prioritizing breadth over depth, one is thirsty for knowledge. Jupiter loves a philosophical deep dive, Gemini prefers quick scene changes, micro curiosities and flitting along the breezy surface. Not confined to any single perspective, your mind is a fertile garden where thoughts flourish and expand. Propelled to connect with others, you are here to share ideas and learn through mutual exchange. A tendency to dabble in multiple fields expands your skill set and makes you a versatile thinker. Caution around restlessness, anxiety or infomania – all of which could leave you feeling overwhelmed and scattered. Embracing a beginner’s mindset means becoming more patient and open to exploring new horizons. Avoid spreading yourself too thin by striking a balance between variety and commitment. Listen to your gut; your intuition knows best what is truly beneficial to your growth. Decisiveness is a superpower, commitment is an act of courage. Learning that you can’t say yes to everything, Jupiter in Gemini both amplifies information overload and teaches us to make choices that narrow our scope. In the Mercury-ruled trickster sign of Gemini, Jupiter has no rules, only unexpected ideas. Understanding the weapon of mockery too well, Jupiter in Gemini kills dogma and has no problem being oppositional. But can you use doubt to cultivate faith?
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Traditionally considered in ‘detriment’ in mutable air, an internal push-and-pull between the desire for expansive wisdom and a more detail-oriented approach makes Jupiter uncomfortable in Gemini. While the pressures are surely felt, keep your eye on the prize, as well as all those important life-changing lessons along the way. As the Renaissance folk of the zodiac, you’re as active as they come. Take your performance to the next level this winter with V Cross Over Leggings by MUEV! Designed for comfort, flexibility and style – they’re the elegant, get-up and mainstay for busy bodies. From the lifestyle brand designed for pickleball players, by pickleball players, these leggings elevate style on and off the court. Moisture-wicking, stretch jersey fabric moves with you, keeping you dry and unrestricted during intense play. The sigh-waisted fit provides support and coverage flattering to all body types. From the brand known for its love of sports, MUEV brings meticulous attention to detail to every piece they create, crafting performance-driven designs with a commitment to innovation, function and style. Making your perma-hustle look and feel good, move confidently this season with MUEV. V Cross Over Leggings are available in Lilac, Cloud Blue, Floral Pink and Navy.
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Jupiter in Cancer *Joy Luck Club*
Celebrity Doppelgänger: Ariana Grande
Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, bringing significant positive energy and good juju into your life. Whether a devout lover, brilliant teacher or shining star on the stage – in the sign of the crab, Great Benefic Jupiter raises the bar on human experience to the most dazzling of celestial heights. As Jupiter transits Cancer June 2025-2026, natives with this placement experience their ‘Jupiter Return’ aka ‘Emerald Year’ as a delicious double dip of luck, growth and opportunity. With Cancer ruling the stomach and Jupiter keeping the faith, you generally operate at the level of gut instinct. Emotional intelligence abounds, as you can easily sense what others are thinking and feeling. Well-known in your field, you’re likely endowed with abundant creativity. A person of virtue winning respect and admiration in your field of work, growth is driven from a place of authentic emotional fulfillment (rather than material success). Acting in accordance with your highest values and ideals, you tend to be generous, faithful and nurturing. Deceiving or taking advantage of others is simply not part of your vocabulary! Family is important, you love and treasure parents, siblings, spouse and children. Amplifying themes of home, family, and emotional bonding, you’re an expert at giving and receiving care, with a strong sense of inner security and belonging. A comforting, sentimental presence to many – caution around dramatic mood swings, oscillating between alternating periods of optimistic highs and depressive lows. Try not to over-give too much of your energy to those who don’t deserve it, the same goes for any tendency to be over-dependent or over-protective of loved ones. Increase self-awareness to balance out any shadow tendencies.
Rx: Milk Bling Shadow
Ruled by the Moon, physiologically Cancer governs the breasts, stomach and womb. Recalling the nature of humankind as inherently Matriarchal, Cancer represents the Mother Principle. For this Moonchild, Mother is sovereign, her body made of stars and streams, her breasts, the pillows of soul-union. Presiding over all those flows and fluids in the body, from menstrual blood to tears and breastmilk, Cancer is the great nourisher of the zodiac. In the name of all things edenic and divine, your Rx is Milk Bling Shadow. This long-lasting, fallout-free, quick-drying liquid eyeshadow glides on effortlessly to lock in maximum wear. A pigmented, glistening liquid glitter eyeshadow infused with pearls, Milk Bling Shadow serves long-lasting shimmer fit for a pearl of a girl. Unveil your shining beauty with the latest in eye-catching glide-on-bling by COLORGRAM.
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Jupiter in Leo *Does a Sensitive Alpha Male Exist?*
Celebrity Doppelgänger: Jason Momoa
The energies of expansive, benevolent Jupiter combined with the charismatic, creative and leadership-oriented flair of Leo means you’re in for a wild ride. Jupiter in Leo natives are generous, confident, natural leaders in the sacred drama that is life. A strong desire to inspire others leads you to excel in creative fields and attract good fortune. Integrate into society by serving as a source of inspiration, invigoration and guidance to others, harnessing your captivating presence to rally individuals towards a shared vision. Natural charm, confidence, and self-belief help you achieve anything you set your mind to. Commanding attention, you’re well-loved and generous with your knowledge, time, and resources – although you do expect appreciation and loyalty in return! Are you truly using your influence to help others, or is arrogance getting in the way? Don’t let an overzealous, overly passionate nature lead to rash decisions or a self-centered approach. Principled, you’re known for taking a stand with courage and sincerity of heart. Check your ego at the door to avoid problems! With the potential to cultivate a righteous, sincere and authentic character, the more you embrace those most noble of qualities, the more honor, social standing and prestige are bestowed upon you. Is an inflated father complex holding you back? This might appear as over-identifying with a father figure, or alternatively, using antagonism as motivation—avoiding Daddy’s way of life at all costs. Striving to do things as independently as possible, perhaps you feel forced to create in someone else’s world. Your best bet is using all that innate passion and conviction to motivate those around you to pursue their own aspirations.
Rx: Golden Renewal Duo
With heroic actions that invite praise, in Leo, Jupiter becomes admirable. Holy, resplendent, majestic and shiny at all hours of the day, your halo makes the holiday decorations look drab. For the most regal of all Jupiters, your Rx is the holiday-ready glow-up of the century. Introducing the Golden Renewal Duo by VOESH. Luxuriate in the benefits of healthy hands and feet with gold collagen gloves and socks that hydrate, soften and pamper winter-ravaged skin. Imperial Gold-foil technology locks in moisture for deep, fast absorption, leaving skin radiant and smooth in just 15 minutes. Infused with vegan collagen and niacinamide, this dermatologist-tested formula brightens and rejuvenates skin, delivering spa-quality results to you and yours. Because keeping hands soft and feet happy keeps the spirits bright.
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Jupiter in Virgo *Practicality over Gaudy Trinkets*
Celebrity Doppelgänger: Dalida, Italian-French singer/actress GAY ICON & Pop Saint
Grand and magnificent, Jupiter likes adventure and risk – not exactly your textbook Virgo! Productive, harmonious, helpful, healing, insightful and moral, with celestial nomad Jupiter in Virgo, you can rely on your hard work and patience to manifest your wildest dreams. Jupiter affords insight through knowledge, harnessing earthy Virgo’s qualities of service, honesty, orderliness and attention to detail to attract and maintain good fortune. Service, nutrition and health are prosperous avenues. Valuing practical and technical knowledge and skills, you’re a humble problem-solver appreciated by many. Particular as they come, any task you undertake will be completed to perfection. A consistent ability to deliver makes you highly valued by colleagues, friends and family. A ‘can-do’ attitude paired with high standards leads to lasting success. Hardly fueled by ambition nor reliant on luck, practicality and persistence bring sustainable results with very little adverse consequences. Taking pride in rational thinking, an overly cautious nature means you’re not one to grab life by the horns, nor shake every ounce of wealth and satisfaction out of it. Rather, the wealth you are accumulating is sustainable and future-minded, and you will never lack for anything.
Rx: LIVER VITALITY Greens Daily Cleansing Powder
With Jupiter in mutable earth, expecting and achieving great results is the order of the day. In the sign of holistic health, the Great Benefic stops at nothing to achieve impeccable vitality that keeps your engine chugging efficiently no matter what. While you may be the least prone to excess of all Jupiters, you intuitively understand the value of preventative health and food as fuel. Because Jupiter rules the liver, your Rx is the LIVER VITALITY Greens Daily Cleansing Powder, the latest in cellular renewal gut health daily nourishment by Anima Mundi.
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Jupiter in Libra *Big Ups*
Celebrity Doppelgänger: Sloan Stephens, top-ranking WTA Player
Libra, being one of Jupiter’s favorite signs, these natives tend to be extremely successful. Why? Because Jupiter loves friends. You don’t plan on doing it alone, you share the glory, outshining others would be tacky! Celebrating friends and then asking them to do things for or with you, you prioritize the people in your life over everything. Sourcing abundance, wisdom, and meaning in and through relationships, Jupiter in Libra invites their friends to be powerful alongside them. A socially conscious jewel with an appreciation for beauty and fairness – you strive to create balanced, equitable outcomes. With relationships a primary path of growth and meaning-making, you’re an effective communicator, a peacekeeper striving for the betterment of humanity. A love of luxury is not inherently bad, just make sure to be conscious of wants v. needs. More often than not, the beauty of hearty conversation keeps you satisfied. Libra craves a level playing field, Jupiter insists on expanding that field as far as possible. Justice and harmony are the goals, making you just as likely to be seen at a protest, court case, rap joust, art museum, concert, or cute backyard BBQ. Thriving in social justice settings, you love to protest, march and big up the underdog. Galvanizing folks towards a positive collective pursuit, you’re here to create an unstoppable sphere of mutual influence. An exceptional aesthetic sense makes you suited to fields like fashion, beauty, arts or design. A wonderful, loving, supportive partner, you excel at conflict resolution and bridging divides. Just don’t let a deep-seated desire for acceptance lead you to become too agreeable. No one is asking you to prioritize others’ needs over your own.
Rx: Legendary Glow Rosie Cream
Taking responsibility for your mega impact, this Jupiter is beautiful inside and out with a graceful, composed quality that accounts for your perma-glow. In the sign of the rose, the lover, the face that sailed a thousand ships, illuminate thyself this holiday season with radiance-enhancing aromatic rose oil. Instantly transform a dull, tired, dry complexion into soft, luminous, age-defying skin with Legendary Glow Rosie Cream by Mimi Luzon.
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Jupiter in Scorpio *Shadow Lord on Blast*
Celebrity Doppelgänger: First Lady Melania Trump
Jupiter seeks freedom, Scorpio seeks control. Jupiter toots its own horn; Scorpio hates a braggart. Cult leader or cult following, does it even matter? With an appetite for power, you’re a party animal that doesn’t like to be used. In fact, you might just disappear once your own popularity becomes oppressive. And yet, shying away from your boatloads of charisma, charm, and impenetrable strength serves nobody. Once you learn to wield power with wisdom, you can heal others with your presence alone. The King of Abundance meets the Queen of Fixation in Scorpio, channeling passion and intensity to reap huge rewards. With the planet of expansion in the sign of other people’s money, this native is born well-endowed, if not literally trophy wife material. When it comes to work, power, love and sex …you go all-in! With a magnetic and polarizing persona, you are either loved or hated! Privileging character over status, risky goals and rooting out evil appeal to thy triumphant inner compass. Did I mention a capacity for enormous wealth? Jupiter in Scorpio natives are the great reapers, the shadows themselves. With magnetism off the charts, the public’s got a spiraling crush on you. The planet of hot air in the sign of mystery? Be careful not to gas up all your admirers. Fiercely loyal, one’s deep love feelings can easily blur into hate. Attracting the most good fortune when you put your all into an undertaking, you value decisiveness, intensity, willpower, commitment and strength. An obsessive love of learning means you sink your teeth into all the taboo subjects others wouldn’t dare touch – psychology, sexuality, the mysteries of death, the occult. Feared for your intensity as much as your sex appeal, caution around the lesser expressions of this aspect, including narcissism, stubbornness, and obsession, all of which can have lethal consequences. Using your immense power to manipulate or hurt others only solidifies a very heavy karmic burden.
Rx: Probiotic for Vaginal Health
There’s a serious reason why the Scorpion requires so much therapeutic isolation, why they must descend into the underworld to purge, transmute and cleanse all that energy they’ve sponged up from their loved ones and society at large. In the sign of sex, death and taxes, Jupiter screams: lighten thy karmic load! With Jupiter in Scorpio, the sign that rules the genitals, Great Benefic meet Happy V – the brand that wants your vaginal flora to flourish. Whether you’re currently experiencing vaginal health imbalances (it’s Scorpio’s weak spot) or simply looking to tackle vaginal, gut, immune and skin health, Happy V’s staple broad-spectrum Prebiotic + Probiotic destroys bad bacteria from the inside out.
A leader in natural defenses against a fluctuating pH, science-backed ingredients and delayed-release capsules engineered for optimal effectiveness deliver safe, ethical results you can trust. Sugar and antibiotic use can disrupt vaginal microbiota, increasing irritation risk during the holidays. In a clinical study, 83% of women reported improved comfort in 6 months and 71% reported fewer symptoms like itching, discharge or odor. Upping the anti on gut-friendly bacteria, Happy V is vegan, non-GMO, natural care. In addition to the Probiotic, I’ve been enjoying Happy V’s Liquid Chlorophyll. A serving a day in water or juice prevents unwanted toxins from being absorbed into the bloodstream, reducing cell inflammation and oxidative damage. With 150k healthier, happier women and counting, click below to learn more!
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Jupiter in Sagittarius *Big Time, Big $$$, Big Team!*
Celebrity Doppelgänger: Doja Cat
Blessed be you! Born in a year of expansion. Running on high-octane fuel, more expansive, daring, adventurous, optimistic, confident, happy, and carefree by the second! The Great Benefic Jupiter at home in Sag wants more. For all of us. This native lives to share, builds a big team. Their grand vibes positively imprint upon all their endeavors and impulses in one way or another. Always confidently moving forward, expanding your friend group, running your big mouth, making big money moves, giving your time, attention and money to all. With truth as your underlying principle, you identify strongly with your own beliefs, trusting that you are protected. An underlying self-confidence is connected directly to your faith that everything will work out for the best. Fortunate, free-thinking and future-focused – a wealth of interests keeps life bustling. Jupiter in triplicity in the sign of travel? Expanding your horizons geographically or metaphysically is what motivates you, along with those lessons, experiences and treasures of experience that await you in the whole wide world. The unknown excites you. You make your own luck, pouring into life, and pulling even more back out of it in return. Shadow work: commitment or contentment issues, growing too restless with relationships and jobs, tendencies toward anger or selfishness. You could be prone to authoritarian arrogance, inconsistent, unfaithful, unreliable, reckless or tactless. Bellowing with praise, hype man of the century, cheerleading your beloveds, you’re a verbal fireworks show. Jupiter in fiery triplicity runs its mouth a lot, spirals, and gets carried away. Avoid becoming an accidental bully. The mind/emotions/body is rushing with aliveness; everything is always growing exponentially for this Jupiter. Chip away at excessive tendencies to boil more slow-cooked, sustainable bonds.
Rx: Ashwagandha Gummies
No more fit Rx for the planet of higher wisdom in the sign of the archer/centaur than Ashwagandha, and with a name that translates to ‘strength of a horse,’ it will give you just that. Helping the body maintain homeostasis as you navigate environmental stressors, Ashwagandha is part of a group of herbs and mushrooms called adaptogens designed by nature to help the body ‘adapt.’ Sometimes called winter cherry, the ancient superfood has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years. Used medicinally for anti-aging, hormonal balance, boosting immunity and supplying micro-nutrients to the body, studies have shown that Ashwagandha supplements can reduce inflammation, bust stress and boost immunity. And all that just got sweeter with the release of Ashwagandha Gummies for calm, relaxation and immune support by Dr. Mortiz.
The 12-In-1 power-packed formula features l-theanine, lemon balm extract, chamomile, GABA and 7 essential vitamins and nutrients to support immunity, rest, and overall wellness. Say goodbye to tough-to-swallow pills and feel more centered naturally. A fruity strawberry flavor makes them perfect for kiddos and picky eaters. Designed for Ages 4+ – they’re sugar-free and non-GMO.
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Jupiter in Capricorn *Strategic Success*
Celebrity Doppelgänger: India Westbrooks, Reality-TV Star
Jupiter is traditionally in ‘fall’ in Capricorn, meaning its expansive qualities are tempered by the goat’s restrictive, cautious and ambitious nature, requiring a slower, more conservative approach. The last time Jupiter transited Capricorn, a global pandemic began. Prior to that, a global recession. Jupiter is a dreamer, Capricorn a realist. You’re not into lofty hope, but hope as a discipline. Strategic ambition makes you a realist with a methodical mindset and stellar work ethic. If the focus is solely on material success, satisfaction is fleeting. Caution around self-centeredness, maintaining humility and a sense of perspective is key. One values long-term achievement, responsibility and manifestation, finding success through resourcefulness. Avoid activities that waste time, energy or resources. Status is important; an innate capacity for structured growth helps you guide yourself and others toward meaningful achievements. The ability to persevere despite setbacks helps you achieve your objectives. Rather than grand leaps of faith, you excel with a cautious, structured and even skeptical approach to life. Peer pressure fails because you’re willing to be ideologically lonely. Just be sure not to dismiss your own dreams. With a natural inclination to cultivate a deep sense of responsibility and integrity, you are here to be a disciple of truth, but not its prophet. Developing a strong moral compass and mature judgment, you excel in executive roles. Striking a balance between external achievements and inner growth, affirm that true power lies in your ability to lead with wisdom, compassion and authenticity.
Rx: Bioactive Soap
With achievements built on hard work and perseverance, Capricorn’s influence makes your Jupiter a ‘cosmic architect’ of the zodiac, rather than a flash in the pan. Building success via structured insights and discipline, you’re not above a day’s, weeks, or even a month’s hard work, but when is the last time you took out time for you? In the sign of elder wisdom, superior efficiency and success off the charts – your Rx is a practical little treat that will make bath time feel truly succulent. The Ekos Holiday Creamy Bar Soap Set by Natura Brazil features not just one but four deliciously scented soaps in one elegant gift box. With unique bioactive properties rooted in Brazilian biodiversity, these aesthetically pleasing bars are built to protect, revitalize and moisturize skin. Bring the fruits of the jungle to your evening soak with these medicinal and beautifying bars built for ritual care. Active ingredients like castanha (brazil nut), revered locally as the Queen of the Forest, deeply nourish, literally ‘feeding’ skin for intense hydration. Maracuja (passion fruit oil), rich in omega-6, affords emollient properties that help maintain moisture in the skin while adding a light, pleasing texture and scent. Amazon superfood acai, energizing and richly nutritious for its potent blend of antioxidants and vitamins, fully revitalizes the skin barrier for a softer, smoother feel. Added raw tukuma oil and butter, from the region’s native palm tree, known for its ability to sprout and grow back even after fires, stimulates the body’s natural hyaluronic acid production. For a no-fuss Jupiter with super high standards, it’s your ticket to smooth, hydrated, uniform skin.
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Jupiter in Aquarius *Tuned-in Big Picture Thinker*
Celebrity Doppelgänger: Saleisha Stowers, America’s Next Top Model
The planet of expansion and abundance, stationed in Aquarius, proves a spiritually uplifting and intellectually stimulating combo. A visionary in the realm of ideas, you are detached, friendly and popular. Prizing freedom above all else, you love to go against the grain. Linked to humanitarian interests, innovative ideas and a desire for social progress – you excel when embracing original thinking, community efforts and future-forward causes. A humanitarian at heart, advocating for equality and working towards the betterment of society, brings you to life. Building new friendships, expanding social circles and fostering community spirit, you see it as your responsibility to stand up for the collective and make sure no one’s voice goes unheard. The more like-minded people you align with, the more easily you can put your ideas into motion. Seeing the best in everyone, your limitless optimism goes a long way when you’re not enabling others or putting folks on an unearned pedestal. Is an intellectual approach creating a disconnect from emotions or practical reality? Is a singular vision of social change accompanied by unrealistic expectations about how to achieve it? Caution around a tendency to be impractical, detached, or overly idealistic. Ground visions into reality while deeply engaging with philosophy and higher wisdom. Cultivate an atmosphere of trust and become more flexible in your views, clearing grudges and misunderstandings to lead a more purposeful and intentional life. Breaking out of any box society attempts to confine you in, sometimes your ways of rebelling alienate you. Luckily, fitting in is not on your agenda, and your eccentricity always shines through.
Rx: Liposome Advanced Repair Eye Serum
People always wonder why Valentine’s Day happens in Aquarius season, a time when birds in the wild choose their mate (not necessarily humans). Representing the ‘bird’s eye view,’ Jupiter in Aquarius’ superpower is rising above the drama to serve all. A wizard and big-picture thinker who makes waves, you recognize the power in numbers, and you’re at your best when bringing together networks of like-minded individuals. As you cultivate all that ‘enlightened detachment’ via the sign’s corresponding third eye, make sure you’re staying grounded in gravity-laden, brick-and-mortar reality! The revolution must also involve the body, and as the sign known for elevating dissociation to an art form, you had better start paying more attention to yours.
Introducing Liposome Advanced Repair Eye Serum by Decorté, the brand where tradition and techno-innovation coalesce. With advanced nano-bicelle microcapsules that repair the eye area, it’s your no-frills solution to reducing puffiness, dark circles and fine lines. From the brand known for superior, high-performance formulations, each ingredient is carefully chosen for its exceptional benefits and meticulously sourced for purity. Shirakaba Water (white birch), rich in natural minerals and amino acids, helps to reactivate and restore the skin’s natural vibrancy. Alteromonas ferment extract, found in deep-sea water, promotes epidermal cell division. Hydrolyzed rice leaf extract stimulates dermal fibroblasts to promote firmer skin. Antioxidant-rich purple rice bran extract increases natural luster, while okra fruit extract helps to promote dermal hyaluronic acid production. With 24-hour time-released moisture that helps to visibly improve any dullness and wrinkles around the eye area, this super concentrated rejuvenating eye serum brightens, firms and lifts. Even after hours of surfing the information super highway, the ‘windows to your soul’ appear rested and luminous as ever.
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Jupiter in Pisces *No Dream Left Behind*
Celebrity Doppelgänger: Eva Longoria
Traditionally its co-ruler, Jupiter is ‘exalted’ aka ‘at home’ in Pisces. Signifying enhanced compassion, intuition and creativity, this placement highlights spiritual journeys, artistic expression and expansive imagination. An overflowing reservoir of human empathy, service comes naturally. With the Piscean influence amplifying spiritual awareness, inner wisdom, and psychic unity, one is a lover of intimacy, melancholy, and mystery. Life whispers to you in the most quiet and surreal of moments. With a powerful ability to feel and understand others’ emotions, this placement fosters a vibrant imagination and many creative talents. Jupiter is a dreamer, Pisces comes alive at night. Jupiter is galvanizing, while Pisces’ influence feels more elusive and hallucinatory. Pisces is less trying to achieve your dreams than interpret them, fantasies and nightmares both. The expansive mindset of Jupiter, combined with Pisces’ boundless nature, fosters open-mindedness and a desire for exploration or learning. Guided by an unshakable sense of faith, one is both a big dreamer and a magical manifestor. At times, one might struggle with emotional boundaries, perhaps becoming overwhelmed by the suffering of others. More susceptible to emotional fluctuations than most, are you comfortable living in the liminal spaces of life? In the great abyss that is the collective’s hopes, fears, dreams, treasures, danger and madness? Nothing can damn the floods of spiritual abundance rolling your way. Eventually, you will find your treasures lurking like deep-sea creatures, gliding on the mist like mermaids dressed in clouds.
Rx: Facial Cream Wash
Believing in the unbelievable, you’re fluent in the languages of energy and frequency, having reincarnated to help everyone open their heart. What happens when Jupiter is stranded at sea? Besides being cleansed of all those sins of the body, you are connecting the dots of ancient wisdom to weave realities from the scraps, crevices and cobwebs of life. Sometimes called the ‘dustbin’ of the zodiac, Pisces energy excels when it has boundaries to withstand the flood! The skin being our first and primary boundary with the outside world, your Rx is the best J-Beauty has to offer, a Facial Cream Wash infused with powerful herbal extracts of fermented coix seed, angelica, melothria, moutan bark and ritha tree.
Elevate your skincare ritual to the max with SEKKISEI, Japanese skincare infused with ancient Asian herbal remedies. Meticulously formulated to rejuvenate and revitalize your complexion, SEKKISE’s gentle and effective Facial Cream Wash eradicates pore-clogging impurities to leave your skin feeling soft, refreshed and hydrated. An ideal choice for anyone looking to leave harsh chemicals behind, SEKKISEI Skincare is made in Japan and has been trusted by millions since 1985.
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