Jupiter + Venus = Magnified Love, Beauty, Compassion

By Molly Hall, About.com

Jupiter + Venus = Magnified Love, Beauty, Compassion
Tuesday February 16, 2010


Today's aspects are magnificent -- Venus (love, beauty) is conjunct with Jupiter (luck, faith) in the ecstatic sign of Pisces. Your cup can runneth over in this water sign, maybe literally like my coffee did this morning. Whatever love you feel is magnified by Jupiter, making it a day for heart healing and growth. There's a lot of suffering in the world, and this is a day of pulsing with the One Heart. There may be imaginative breakthroughs (Jupiter) that bring you close to expressing the ineffable, the divine, the sublime.

Looking at today's astro weather, we see that this beneficial conjunction makes a sextile to Pluto. Since we're in Pluto's crosshairs these days -- targeted for extreme change -- we can use today's expansion to meet what's happening in our lives. Growing exponentially, is our awareness of mystery, magic, our own divine potential, and the power of the imagination.

In myths about the Greek god Hades -- a parallel to the Roman Pluto -- it's interesting to note he only showed mercy once. It was when Orpheus played the most hauntingly sad music ever, in a bid to get his wife Eurydice released from the underworld. After hearing it, Hades allowed Orpheus to take his wife back to the land of the living. Today's Jupiter-Venus conjunction stretches us to meet the magnitude of what's happening. When we express the authentic depths of it -- it's sadness and it's joy -- then like Orpheus, we are released.

Some possible themes:

•A sudden awareness of your multi-dimensional nature (past, present and future lives).
•An overwhelming desire to love the world back to balance.
•Expressing yourself through sound, images, dance, improv, etc.
•Tell someone you trust the true depths of your suffering.
•Listen to someone else's story.
•Stop pretending everything is ok if it's not -- give yourself time to move through it, not deny it.
•Forgive someone that you have resentment toward.
•Celebrate your imagination in some way.