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s much as I think about what Jupiter’s move into Leo
means in terms of the basic symbolism—what we would
expect every twelve years—this time around I’m focused
on what it will mean in terms of the configuration of the outer plan-
ets. I’m almost tempted to think that it is more significant that Jupiter is
moving out of Cancer, and so out of a harmonious relationship to Saturn in Scorpio, than
that it is moving int o Leo.
The two major configurations over the past year have been the Grand Cross and the
Grand Trine. While the cross has correlated with increased strains and tensions that high-
light the need for change, the trine has fed a more conservative, traditional approach to
things. Jupiter in Cancer trine to Saturn in Scorpio certainly suggests an energy that main-
tains the status quo, while the sextile between Saturn and Pluto provided connection to the
edgier energies of the Grand Cross.
With Jupiter in Leo, the energy will shift. Instead of supporting Saturn in Scorpio,
Jupiter will now be in trine to Uranus in Aries, pushing the revolutionary energies forward.
Jupiter will even square Saturn from late Leo to Scorpio next summer, perhaps undoing
some of the deals made when they were in a cozier relationship.
We can each riff on how this will play out in collective world of politics and social phe-
nomena, but I would suggest also paying attention to how it will affect us (and our clients)
on an individual level. The changes we have felt coming—whether desired or feared—may
have a greater opportunity to manifest when the pull towards personal conservatism abates.
Those who have been held in check, stopped at the light with the engine revving, may fi-
nally get a green light and release the parking brake.
W
hen Jupiter makes its journey
into Leo this month which
will last for one year we can ex-
pect romance in the air, an abundance in
socialising, over-spec-
ulation in the mar-
kets and perhaps a
few diva’s to be
born (note; Diana
Ross, Elizabeth
Taylor, Celine Dion,
Mick Jagger all have Jupiter in Leo). It is a
mood lifting time which brings a promise
of better times and a reason to celebrate.
During its tenancy in Leo, Jupiter will
make trines to Uranus (September 2014,
March and June 2015) which will hopefully
bring some ease (and much hope) to the
continuing challenging Uranus-Pluto
squares. Whilst these two provoking plan-
ets ( Jupiter and Uranus) trine in the fire el-
ement they will bring fireworks around the
globe and perhaps some dare devil scenarios
in sports with some new initiatives in the
arts, cinema and in music - note the last
time Jupiter was in Leo (2002), songs such
as ‘Hero’, ‘Without Me’ and ‘What About
Us’ were all nominated for VMA awards.
As it starts its exit in August 2015
Jupiter makes a square to Saturn in the last
degrees of Scorpio and here we might wit-
ness events to do with regulation or policy
changes in the entertainment industry
(particularly gambling) and issues to do
with children and survival (such as fertility
advances or abuse). An appropriate quote
for this period might be ‘The test of the
morality of a society is what it does for its
children’, from Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906
- 1945). One of the great things about
Jupiter in Leo squaring Saturn in Scorpio
is that we strive to be the best that we can
be – interesting that the Guinness Book of
Records was first published only days after
the last exact square from Jupiter in Leo to
Saturn in Scorpio in August 1955.
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THE CAREER ASTROLOGER
SUMMER 2014