Jupiter Enters Taurus: May 16, 2023

 

Jupiter our biggest neighbor

Jupiter enters Taurus 

May 16, 2023 

10:20am PDT 

June 11, 2023 Jupiter enters shadow 

Sept 4, 2023 Jupiter station retrograde 15 Taurus 34   

Dec 31, 2023Jupiter station direct   5 Taurus 34 

March 24, 2024 Jupiter exits shadow 

 

 

A couple days after Mercury turns direct at 5 degrees of Taurus where we will have just spent three weeks considering and editing our life in some fashion to be more practical and in alignment with our values, Jupiter the biggest planet of all moves into Taurus.   

 

Jupiter suggests, that money, properties, possessions could be improved or expanded.   Perhaps all the hard work of the Mercury retrograde has cleared space for better quality _____(fill in the blank) in our life.   The last time Jupiter was in Taurus 2011-2012.  Consider what you were doing at that time.  How was it expansive?   Where were you inclined to go big?  Did that big improve your life?  Did you do something big that held up and is still working?   Or did it not survive the test of time?   Or was it just too much?     How can you be sensible, (good Taurus word) with any expansion?    Globally, we should take note of money, including digital currency.   Land and real estate is very critical during Jupiter in Taurus.   Will it get over heated?   Or will there be big swings?  Will there be big money gains or losses?  It is hard to tell because Uranus is still in Taurus mixing things up in its famous unpredictable Uranus way.   

 

One of THE biggest aspects next year will be the conjunction between Jupiter and Uranus on April 20, 2024.   This aspect happens about every fourteen years, and it drafts on new Tech, new ideas, new waves of something that have big impact.   In astrologer Chris Brennan’s podcast from earlier this year he discussed that Steve Jobs was born with a natal Jupiter Uranus conjunction in Cancer.  And Chris points out that Jobs launched Apple’s -Think Different campaign in 1997 during a conjunction between Jupiter and Uranus.  God knows Jobs iphone made it to homes and pockets across the world (perfectly Cancer).    

 

One thing that makes next year’s conjunction a bit concerning is that the last time Jupiter and Uranus shared Taurus and formed a conjunction was at the end of Taurus in May 1941.    You don’t need to have a PHD in world history to know that by May 1941, greedy, ruthless, power-hungry autocrats were popular and causing pain and a world war.  Who followed them?  Lots to unpack and we’ll be talking a lot about the conjunction as we head into 2024.   Watch this space. 

 

As for the retrograde of Jupiter later in the year,  it is interesting that Jupiter will be retrograding exactly over the same Taurus degrees that Mercury just went back and forth over during its retrograde.    This gives more reason to watch what comes up during the Mercury retrograde and then the Jupiter transit especially between the shadow points of June 11, 2023 and March 24, 2024 to see if there are any common themes both personally and globally. 

Finally, the next day on May 17, Jupiter forms a square with Pluto.  As we have discussed, Pluto is barely in Aquarius and this aspect happens at 00 degrees 18 of Taurus and Aquarius.    Aquarius and Taurus are fixed signs which lean into rigidity and unwillingness to bend.  Jupiter is our biggest neighbor, and he likes to go big or go home.  In the sign of Taurus there is a focus on acquiring wealth.   If there are any moves to acquire wealth that are not above board, Pluto will have a heat seeking missile on the corruption and have no qualms exposing it.    We will probably see this play out in some news event.   Personally, those people with planets at Zero Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius will feel the challenges.    Greed not good under this aspect.   But rolling over and letting resources be taken not good either.    Try to find a balance.