Jupiter in Pisces ~ Frothy and Exuberant with Neptune & Pluto Themes

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JUPITER NEPTUNE CONJUNCTION PERFECTING 9 APRIL TO 13 APRIL NZT

Jupiter has a twelve year cycle, so to give you some context for this event and to understand the larger cycles playing out, we can look at what happened last time Jupiter joined Neptune. Jupiter last crossed paths with Neptune on 23 May 2009 in Aquarius, then retrograding away a few degrees, perfected again in December 2009.

The notable events of that year were the ongoing financial crisis, the worst since the 1930’s. Then Russia shut down oil and gas supplies in the Ukraine in its attempts to dominate the region. There was the pirate hijacking of the Maersk Alabama and the subsequent hostage drama which inspired the film Captain Philips starring Tom Hanks.

The H1N1 virus was spreading rapidly and became a global pandemic in December of 2009. The deadliest bushfires in Australian history emphasised the catastrophic impact of climate change, and Barrack Obama was inaugurated.

In pop culture, Michael Jackson (the pop star), died under strange circumstances. US flight 1549 crash-landed in the middle of the Hudson River inspiring the film Sully, also starring Tom Hanks (who has a Neptune-Jupiter sextile), and the film Avatar screened later that year, breaking box office records.

Some of these events have an obviously watery Neptune theme, as well as some classic Neptune and Jupiter signatures, such as cinema, Hollywood and film stars.

We are seeing some of these themes return with variations and developments (pandemics, fantasy and escapism, fuel and oil, global agression) as these larger Jupiter cycles come full circle, which is why the study of archetypal patterns in astrology is so good at prediction.

Neptune rules liquids, gases and chemicals: Oil, gasoline, gases, chemicals, poisons, medicines, drugs, alcohol, addiction, anesthetics, perfumes, smoke, water, fog, mist, steam, clouds, oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, waterways, swamps, swimming, fishing, fish and all creatures and plants of the water. Michael Ziziz Medium.

Neptune has a dissolving influence in aspect with other planets, while Jupiter, has an expanding and increasing influence on other celestial bodies. Jupiter makes everything bigger and because he is in his own house he is more than happy to make these water themes bigger, as well as inflating Piscean idealism, optimism, vision, imagination, ecstasy, ceremony and the sacred, as well as creative and spiritual inspiration.

Frothy, exuberant energy is typical with these archetypes near eachother. So how can we expect to see these themes show up on a wider, global scale?

1. Successful creative projects; for example in image making such as film, photography, fashion trends and fads, conceptual art, painting and music, as well as a feeling of a cultural flowering. In cinema think of special effects and escapist fantasy worlds in films like Dune, Avatar or Game of Thrones, which was released just as Neptune ingressed into Pisces in April 2011.
2. Beliefs and religion; deep faith in an encompassing deity or desire to surrender to a god, or a guru, to transcend the ordinary, to devote to sacred traditions or spiritual traditions like meditation, prayer and chanting, new messiahs appear and normal people suddenly have god-like experiences, awakening, deja-vu, synchronicity or a life-changing epiphany.
3. Travel; especially relating to water, freedom, new horizons opening up and the appearance of new possibilities, especially in underwater or ocean themes, such as shipping and cruise tourism, also sacred journeys, ocean race with philanthropic themes and pilgrimages to holy places.
4. Connection and emotion; a feeling of human unity and oneness, of connection to the divine, universal consciousness and compassion for all living things, dreams and prophecy, longing for the unattainable or unrealistic, a feeling of disappointment and failure, unrequited feelings, lack of purpose and meaning, psychic and clairvoyant experiences, the revival of esoteric philosophies with themes of renewal and redemption also.
5. Finance; financial growth, greed and foolish optimism, naive investments and financial charlatans, unwise speculation, fantasies of abundance, over-indulgence. It’s too good to be true situations, or boom and bust investments that don’t last, delusions of grandeur, self-deception, hubris and ungrounded or unrealistic expectations, pie-in-the-sky, la la land, pomp and posturing of the elite and those in power.
6. Health and wellness; Neptune is connected to infections, poisoning and toxic reactions. Themes of water purity, poisoning, environmental poisoning like oil spills, toxic liquids or allergic reactions and water-born infections. Also the healing power of water, purification by water or emotional release, tears of grief and sacred water rites such as baptism, such as the healing and renewal connected to sacred rivers such as the Nile or the Ganges.
7. Intoxication and escapism; Drugs and alcohol leading to addiction, new forms of addiction, surrendering to addiction or to healing formulas such as AA, psychedelic experiences and healing through psychedelics and plant medicine, new drug treatments and vaccines.

JUPITER SEXTILE PLUTO

Following its transit of Neptune in early April, Jupiter is moving quickly toward a sextile with Pluto at 28 degrees Capricorn. As Pluto Stations then retrogrades on 30 April, the sextile perfects just two days later, on May 2 NZT through to 6 May.

This is a similar pattern to the 2009/2010 transit of Jupiter, where Jupiter in Pisces formed a sextile to Pluto in Capricorn. 2010 was a tragic year in New Zealand with the Pike River Mine disaster where 29 men died and the Christchurch earthquake in 2010.

That year, Jupiter triggered square configurations between Uranus, Saturn and Pluto then a strong T-square from April/May through to October 2010 as Jupiter joined Uranus at 27 Pisces.

While these Pluto and Jupiter sextile alignments will be potent and potentially transformative, they will be more gentle. It is no coincidence that recently families of the victims of the Pike River Mine disaster have had some closure. Note that Pluto is lord of mines and all things underground, including the excavation of human remains.

We have described Jupiter’s expanding and increasing influence on Neptune in the conjunction and we can expect these Jupiter energies to impact Pluto in a similar way.

Pluto typically has an empowering and transforming influence, but as this planet is retrograde as Jupiter perfects the aspect, the energy of Pluto will harmonise and soften, increasing its light rather than its darker, shadow qualities. Like all the planets and their archtypes, Pluto has positive and negative, shadow and light, manifestations. According to the law of duality we cannot have a manifestation without it’s opposite.

The sextile is of the nature of Venus, and with the intensity of Pluto’s station over with, we can expect to see some of Jupiter’s benefits manifesting in more obvious ways, with the potential for sweeping constructive changes.

Jupiter’s strength in Pisces also elevates the expression of these two planets to influence events on a wider scale, especially with Jupiter considered the greater benefic in traditional astrology, with its ability to bonnify (meaning to improve) potentially difficult situations.

The narrative arc of the final few weeks of Jupiter’s path through Pisces will show up in the archetypal themes of these alignments and as Jupiter leaves Pisces on 12 May (briefly visiting again in December) we will be closing another chapter of this water themed story.

1. Healing and regeneration through catharsis, detoxing and cleansing, purging both physically and emotionally, spiritual rebirth through a near-death-experience, past wounds bringing power to heal others.
2. Karma, release of karmic debts, revisiting and releasing karmic patterns, forgiveness and redemption, evolution of the soul’s journey, purification of DNA or inherited patterns.
3. Sustained success in career or financial investments, mining for hidden treasure, wealth and resources made available for a good cause, a power that benefits the many, empowerment and elevation through teaching or education, increase in status from education or research, powerful truths revealed or the unveiling of the power behind the scenes.
4. Reorganisation of systems and structures of the elite, redistribution of power, resources and wealth, expanding boundaries, walls and limitations, faith to move mountains, successful activism especially in environmental issues or water issues, philanthropy, selfish personal gain exposed, corrupt institutions (especially themes relating to religious organisations and child abuse), governments and corporate greed held to account, the power of truth and enlightenment to alter beliefs or inspire new beliefs, social justice or successful environmental or architectural projects, corporate collaborations for the benefit of culture.
5. Royal or noble leaders, the philosopher king, a powerful new leader, teacher or spiritual guru, the enlightened, wise leader or benevolent dictator, an obsession with glory or greatness, naked ambition, political power harnessed for social change or to channel resources for social wellbeing, new political leaders who are more humane and compassionate.
6. High drama and international intrigue, the glamorous spy, a scandal involving an actor and a politician, oligarchs and white collar criminals, sophisticated charlatans and scammers, self-serving elites, wealthy drug lords or the mafia empire bought to justice.
7. The rise of powerful archetypes of death and rebirth such as Jesus, Kali, Persephone, Orpheus, Dionysus, Innana, Hathor, Shiva. Themes of rebirth and resilience, the revival of ancient mythology and the power to transcend death. Hubris and humility in stark contrast. Destruction that paves the way for new life.
8. Death and discovery; state funerals, pomp and ceremony of death, the death of an old ruler and old patterns and structures they represent, redefining boundaries, destroying walls and redrawing maps, unearthing ancient ruins, cities or ships under the sea, underground tombs or burial sites, buried treasure bought to the surface or discovery of lost civilisations, cultures and artefacts.

The sextile between Neptune and Pluto is within orb during Jupiter’s transit of Pisces offering an opportunity for these larger, slower archetypes to have a voice on the world stage. Although they won’t perfect until mid 2025 they are very close until then, and it is very possible we will see similar themes to those of the 1960’s; a decade of profound social change and a cultural revolution that transformed how we see the world.

Astrologers are commenting on these alignments as being predominantly favourable. The Saturn-Uranus square has eased off and we can expect a period of relative astrological smooth sailing with Venus coming through Pisces and Jupiter’s ingress into Aries on 11 May.

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