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Busting Out and Shaping Up: Jupiter Opposite Saturn
Monday August 16, 2010
Jupiter and Saturn are often talked about as a duo. Jupiter is the thrill of learning and expanding, while Saturn is the sense of structure we need to feel that our lives have stability. They are expansion (Jupiter) and consolidation (Saturn) and we need both. Today, Jupiter is in its second of three oppositions to Saturn, putting that delicate balance to the test. The first was May 22nd, and the third is on March 28th, 2011.
This time around, Jupiter is in Aries and Saturn is in Libra. Look to the houses these two are transiting to get a bead on where you're busting out (Jupiter Aries) and where you find a balance through order (Saturn Libra).
What's up for many is pushing against your own edges, to take risks, or revive that fighting nature. It's bringing forward parts of the self that are more forceful, direct, and urgent about the future. It's the one that lives in the now, with trust, and thrives on challenges (Jupiter Aries). This opposition to Saturn in Libra, the relating sign, reminds us of all the times we came close to that edge, and the reactions of others (parents, friends, teachers). Did they try to put out the fire? Or did they offer wise words that helped you find a measured approach? Did that part of you get encouragement to be, grow and do? Or did you others' fears and controlling behavior shy you away from really going for it?
Too often, that wild and free part of us that learns by doing, is conditioned out of us. And we live in a culture that encourages passivity and inactivity from the get go. As we feel that call of Jupiter Aries (with its jolts electrified by Uranus), how does this alter who we are in relationship? Some are making tough decisions, finding out that the relationship is not a structure that supports all that explosive growth. But like Jupiter and Saturn, in a duo, you can move together one from extreme to the other, with many moments in between.
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