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Spiritually, Jupiter is the generous eureka! experience, an insight that provides the larger context in which to understand your life. This can mean, simply, space in which to grow and contemplate who and where you are. Whenever you look up on a clear day and recognize the ease with which you can think, you are merging with your Jupiter. Details take on a different perspective under that blue sky. We could call this Blue Sky Mind. With Blue Sky Mind, you let details take care of themselves as you recognize the larger context in which they have meaning.

Jupiter also illuminates where the universe supports your growth - not 100 percent, but 200 percent. You may in turn become an expansive coach, helping others grow similarly: a benevolent power, capable of improving the human lot, making the world a better place.

Jupiter's purest instinct is to discover quality rather than quantity while embodying new options and inclusive truth rather than elitist energies. Jupiter is a magnifier of what you've created (both positive and negative), giving you an opportunity to learn lessons, see the obvious, sum it all up, and take risks while the winds are with you.

Find Jupiter 8 at work in your life by completing this sentence:

I love exploring this area of my life because it gives me a larger perspective on things: _________________________________.

To further define your Jupiter, answer these questions:

What activities have I found that consistently give me appreciation for how much more there is to know - and the joy of discovering each step?

Where do I discover Blue Sky Mind - the ability to remember the larger truths I trust, that do not judge but encourage me to begin again, exactly where I am, with enthusiasm?

Where do I enjoy being the generous educator and ambassador to new possibilities for others?

Intuitive assignment:

Imagine yourself in the company of someone you respect, who sees your potential and beams it back at you in an act of wholehearted faith. How does this feel?

Your Jupiter knows the answers to this question.

Saturn:
The instinct to commit

Saturn is the instinct to commit to growth. Saturn shows up before you are even born, as your skeletal system, the first thing to form in a fetus. The skeletal system gives you the physical support to move around the earth upright. It gives you spine. Likewise, Saturn teaches, step by step, maturity, self-responsibility, the capacity to commit, to develop a support system for yourself. Within your inner family, Saturn is the father figure, the teacher and authority to whom you look for steady, certain support. In your village, Saturn is the 200-year-old tree in the center of the field, complete unto itself. Saturn is the mentor, the grandparent, seasoned with the wisdom of years.

Saturn is in charge of your ability to recognize which decisions no one else can make for you, including where your boundaries are. It is Saturn that teaches you to build boundaries by informing others, Ask, don't assume (that I am available, that I am who you think I am, etc.). Saturn teaches you how to give reality checks to yourself and others.

Saturn also shows up within your inner family as the crippling critic. It tenses at the possibility of imperfection. Saturn in this role can exhaust you and others with its judgments. Yet the same Saturn is capable of being discerning without being judgmental. Saturn can identify what is off and describe how it could be more on - without charging the situation with negative judgment. This is Saturn as kind and patient teacher who honors errors as learning experiences. Saturn asks: Did you finish what you started, even if it wasn't perfect? Goethe spoke for Saturn when he said, "The master first reveals himself in limitation." Saturn is your weakest link, but it is capable of becoming your greatest strength.

Saturn loves clear form; clean boundaries; the ability to define small, realistic steps, one after the other, until the job is done. Wherever Saturn is in the birthchart, it reflects the vow that was upon your lips when you were born: "if I do nothing else, I will make my best effort at this."

Saturn is ultimately the ticktock of the clock saying: You weren't born to die, but you were born with a deadline. So get on with it: Build the backbone of a life story that supports you to become who you always intended to be.

Find Saturn at work in your life by completing this sentence:

I want to mature over time in order to build: ______.

To further define your Saturn, answer these questions:

Where do I excel when I have total control and work hard?

What do I most enjoy organizing in order to "get to work"?

Copyright © 2003 by Elizabeth Rose Campbell.

Tags: Astrology

About the Author

Graduated form the University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill with a degree in journalist. Though she initially worked as a writer for a literary magazine, The Sun: A Magazine of Ideas, Elizabeth was quickly drawn to the human potential movement and became a program coordinator for the Omega Institute of holistic Studies in 1982. Based on earlier astrological studies with Steve Forrest, she began giving informal astrological consultations to Omega staff and faculty. Elizabeth became the first astrologer invited to offer consultations to participants in their Wellness Center.