Jupiter in Pisces

January 2010 – January 2011

By Julie Loar

“When you come close to the edge of all

the light you have, and must take a step into

the darkness of the unknown, either there

will be something solid for you

to stand on,

or you will fly."

Patrick Overton

The constellation of Pisces resides in the “watery” portion of the sky, which also includes Aquarius, the Water Bearer; Cetus, the Whale, and Pisces Austrinus the Southern Fish. This group of stars has been associated with fish in all ancient cultures. The two fishes of Pisces are depicted swimming in opposite directions but connected by a cord. The alpha star of the constellation is Al Resha, the “knot” in Arabic and this star symbolically binds the pair together.

Pisces is sensitive and emotional and feels things keenly. Take to extremes, Piscean sensitivity can result in self-inflicted martyrdom. Pisces is also the most collective of the signs and has always been associated with those in society who suffer or who have been disenfranchised in some way. This includes those who are imprisoned, repressed, rejected, or mentally ill. The humanitarian response of Pisces springs from a spontaneous desire to ease the suffering of others because of a deeply felt empathy for their anguish. Pisces is connected with those who withdraw, or who choose to live an alternate life style such as mystics, poets, artists and recluses. This group includes those who just don’t fit in for whatever reason. Through their separation or isolation, they can offer great art on the one hand or drain society’s resources on the other.

Astrologically, Pisces is the twelfth and final sign of the zodiac and therefore represents the final stage in the hero’s journey and the last phase of evolving humanity on the path of return. The final stage is the transcendence of the self, or ego-based personality, through renunciation of self centered motivations. Therefore, compassion and willingness to sacrifice are hallmarks of conscious Pisces.

Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in our solar system. Along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, Jupiter is classified as a gas giant. It is the third brightest object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus. However, at certain points in its orbit, Mars can briefly exceed Jupiter’s brightness. Known since prehistoric times as a bright “wandering star,” Jupiter is twice as massive as the rest of the planets combined. The famous Great Red Spot, which is larger than Earth, is actually a giant storm that is known to have existed since the 17th century. Jupiter has a system of faint rings; but unlike Saturn’s intricate and complex ring patterns, Jupiter’s simple ring system is composed of an inner halo, a main ring, and a faint Gossamer ring.

On July 19, 2009, something hit Jupiter and no one saw it coming. Thought at first to be another storm like the Red Spot, astronomers now believe that a comet or asteroid, as large as several football fields, impacted the giant planet. The object emerged from darkness, unknown and not cataloged; and before anyone could photograph the body intact, it had shattered and became a cloud of debris. The new spot on Jupiter is now called the “Wesley debris cloud” after the amateur astronomer who first observed it. The collision released 2000 megatons of energy. If an object that size were to hit Earth, there would be widespread devastation.

Mythically the Rome Jupiter was the earlier Greek Zeus and the Egyptian Mon-Amon, King of the gods. Zeus was the authoritarian sky father who appeared in many cultures around 1,800 BCE. Zeus was the son of Cronus, or Saturn, who escaped death because his mother Hera wrapped a rock in swaddling cloth and fed it to Cronus. Cronus has already gobbled up the rest of his children to stay in power. To protect him, the infant Zeus was hidden in a cave on Lykos and fed milk from one of the horns of the goat goddess Amalthea of ancient Crete. He horn was the origin of the cornucopia. In one myth, nectar flowed from one horn, and ambrosia, the drink, which gave the gods their immortality, flowed from the other. Later, her skin became Zeus’s aegis, or shield of protection. Amalthea was immortalized as the constellation of Capricorn, and the related goddess Aega became the bright star Capelle, “Little She Goat.”

Astrologically, Jupiter is larger than life and difficult to contain, but he is uplifting, and aspires to greatness. Jupiter is thought to bring abundance and prosperity and to have an expansive and preserving influence. Jupiter helps us look on the bright side and adds a generous does of humor. As a god of light, Jupiter is said to deal with the realm of super consciousness, and therefore he can be a widener of horizons. His domain includes religion and philosophy and he supports an expansive view of life.

Jupiter’s positive qualities include a jovial expansiveness, a sporting approach to life and unquenchable optimism. The glass is definitely half-full, and it is large vessel. Exaggerated, or used unwisely, the same qualities can become extremist in viewpoint, wasteful and disregarding of resources, trusting too much to luck. Because Jupiter always wants to take the larger view, there is a risk of dismissing details as insignificant.

Jupiter in Pisces

Before Neptune’s discovery, Jupiter was seen as the ruler of Pisces. Therefore, the giant planet maintains a co-rulership with the sign of the Fishes. So Jupiter’s presence in Pisces is comfortable and familiar. Here, Jupiter’s expansiveness energy operates in the emotional arena and on the challenging side of things can stir the feeling nature to an exaggerated expression and blow emotional response out of proportion. Acting in his role as a god of light and wisdom, however, Jupiter can bring insight into the deeper and unconscious level of our feelings, illuminating things hidden in the shadow side of the psyche.

As ruler of wide-ranging Sagittarius, Jupiter wants to look through a telescope, exploring far and wide, expanding his vast knowledge and eventually gaining wisdom through diverse experiences. Therefore, as he aims his lightening bolts into the deep waters of Pisces, a search for a deeper meaning is possible. When we gaze at the night sky in a place removed from the light of the cities, we can see about 2,000 stars with the naked eye. This is symbolic of our limited vision and scope before technology expanded our view of our solar system and universe. Jupiter expands the nature of whatever sign he visits, so this is an apt analogy for Jupiter in Pisces, shining light into formerly unseen places and causing us to reach for the stars.

Jupiter wants bigger of everything. As a planet of opportunity, he gives the ability to prosper; however, this can lead to excess if not constructively channeled. In Pisces he broadens relationships and expands consciousness, bringing his light to our collective existence. Here we are seeking wisdom and the evolution of consciousness itself, not just an increase in knowledge. Here Jupiter is receptive, impressionable and has the capacity to heightened imagination and mystical states. There is a desire for peace of mind, rather than exaggerated stimulation and a quick adrenaline rush. There is a potential for expansive introspection and a capacity for devotion. The combined energy wants to understand the meaning of life, not just explore for the sake of it.

The archetypal combination creates an energy of healing which engenders a desire to act for the public welfare. There is a spirit of sympathy and charity in this synergy, which could offer a conductive influence for health care reform. Jupiter in Pisces is seen as the quintessential good Samaritan but prefers to act from behind the scenes. However, this blend of energies can be overly sensitive to the point where common sense disappears in a well of self-indulgence. There is unwillingness to compromise integrity for material gain, so this influence may also help with the healing and reformation of current financial conditions, potentially providing a higher principle to aim for.

Jupiter orbits the Sun in about twelve years, so the transit through Pisces marks the end of a full cycle through the zodiac. When Jupiter enters Aries in January 2011, a new circuit will begin. Jupiter will move into Aries during the summer of 2010 for a short time, giving us a preview of this energy, and then Jupiter will retrograde back into Pisces until January 2011. While in Aries in 2011, Jupiter will join Uranus and become part of a cardinal T-square. This will create a three-way face-off between Jupiter and Uranus in Aries, opposing Saturn in Libra, while all three square Pluto in Capricorn. This will from an intense energy, which challenges the status quo, and has the potential to deconstruct outgrown paradigms. It is a tremendous growth opportunity.

Star Lore

Early in February 2010, as Jupiter reaches 4 degrees of Pisces, he will conjoin Formalhaut, one of the four Royal Stars of Persia, bringing the god of light into alignment with one of the great stars of the sky. Formalhaut is the alpha star in the constellation of Pisces Austrinus, the Southern Fish, and is one of the brightest. Formalhaut is the only first magnitude star in the autumn sky of mid-northern latitudes and is a solitary brilliant beacon in an otherwise unremarkable part of the sky.

Formalhaut made the news in November 2008. This star is at the center of a solar system with an extra solar planet. This was the first planet outside of our solar system to be seen with visible light and photographed. The striking image, showing the planet orbiting just outside Formalhaut’s debris ring, was captured in Science in November 2008. The planet, now known as Fromalhaut b, orbits its parent star once in 872 years at a distance of eleven billion miles. Astronomer Paul Kalas of Cal Tech thinks there might be other planets in orbits between Fromalhaut b and the star, possibly even a planet with liquid water.

The name derives from the Arab fum al Hut, ‘The Fish’s mouth.” The star’s influence is generally considered beneficial and has been associated with eminence, fortune and power. Said also to heightened awareness of the suffering of others. Formalhaut will infuse Jupiter’s energy with added power and compassion. Martha Evans Martin in the Friendly Stars, says Formalhaut suggests only sweetness and serenity. Astrologer Diana Rosenberg says this star gives a longing for utopia and a search for the ideal forms of human relationships.

Certain ancient traditions, such as Tibet, believe that stars are vastly evolved and conscious beings, each having their own great and unique nature. Some occult traditions teach that the planets act like lenses to capture and focus the energies of the stars. A planet in conjunction with a star blends and concentrates their light and radiates this towards earth like an intensified frequency. Considering Formalhaut’s lore, this star’s power, combined with Jupiter in Pisces may offer a glimpse of heightened wisdom, giving us a chance to sense what is best for collective humanity. Like a flash of lightening in the darkness, this vision illuminates the landscape. The light may be momentary, but it can reveal the path and gives us hope and a sense of direction.

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For the Love of Gaia

Let us Rise to the Task Before Us

By

Patricia Cori

Children of Gaia, we are at the threshold. A world ruled by Kings, warriors and Priests has, in its final hours, clearly proven to be a failed, self-extinguishing model of arrogance and omnipotence – unyielding, cruel and destructive. The Age is ending, (let the bells ring!), and as it goes, it takes us to the absolute breaking point of social upheaval and ecological decline. The Age of Reason, with all its peaks and valleys, bows out without reason, broken and tattered – wounded and detached from the beauty of all that which makes of life a magical wondrous honor.

As it slips into the darkness of a time that can’t be gone soon enough, it leaves in its path a trail of destruction; the killing fields of endless wars; unrivaled toxic abuse of our magnificent planet; the shattered dreams of a civilization. Everywhere around us, it seems, chaos reigns, as the Earth changes unfold with eerie, clockwork precision, honoring the time lines of the Maya and other indigenous cultures, which were able to foresee the future. The old structures are falling down, all around us, heralding the way of the New World.

The Return of the Divine Feminine

On the other hand, lest we lose site of the nature of the universe, it lets go to the Age of Awakening, the New Dawn – the return of the Divine Feminine, a time of rebirthing, healing and renewal. The pendulum, which swings the pulse of cyclical time, returns to the yin vibration. The time for celebration is upon us!

Gaia, the goddess who so lovingly carries us through the realm of sacred space, has simply had enough. She has been stretched to the absolute limit, raped and abused and she finally rebels – demanding our immediate attention! The time has come to give back to her what has been stripped, soiled and stained upon her boundless body and restore the harmony of a world which we know can be better than this….. a world in need of nurturing and compassion; a world we can weave back together, on the light strings of the One Heart. To do that, however, we must free ourselves of the ‘disaster’ mindset and understand that all that is occurring now is for the highest good and that requires focus and a vision of what we are capable of creating.

Let us be clear about our current global situation, as it affects every man, woman, child and living being on the great planet Earth. We are here, at the midnight hour of humankind’s evolution on this planet, aware that we must raise our consciousness as a civilization, if we are to move quickly into the New Dawn of Awakening… aware that the old must go, so that we can usher in the New. When we let go of the fear, we understand and we derive power from it. When we bow down, overwhelmed by the magnitude of the disharmony that has taken us to the ‘breaking point’, we simply feed the mechanism that has brought us to our knees.

Despite the alarming cataclysms of what appears to be our disintegrating reality, what is actually underway is a form of global feng shui - a dynamic process of clearing the clutter of what has been, to make way for what can be, what soon is to be birthed. When we remind ourselves of how and why this purification process occurs, to clear the way for what our communities of light will create in the near future, we release the fear that shrouds the dying structures of all that is collapsing, right before our eyes. We find the strength and we raise the inner flame to stand, together, as a force that can truly change the world – a force determined to shine the light through the shadow land of ignorance, rage and resignation.

Our generation is now experiencing an unprecedented spike in the tumultuous changes in human and planetary evolution – changes that have been foreseen by every prophet and seer through the age, from the indigenous grandmothers and fathers who have handed down the wisdom for so many generations, to the visionary of our day.

It is the time of prophecy unfolding, right now – a time the Elders recognized as the moment we would face the consequences brought about by our misguided shift to materialism and might (a path of self-gratification, separation and detachment), one that our societies propagated in our race towards an insatiable greed at every level.

Whatever beliefs we hold about the future, we cannot deny that we have reached the evolutionary breaking point of immense change and upheaval, from where so many have become conditioned to believe that there can be no return to sanity and peaceful co-existence. We are, without question, at the galactic crossroads of our species and our planetary home, as we spin through the immensity of this tempestuous storm of change and renewal – rebirth at the solar and planetary levels. How we respond to the challenges inherent in the forming of the new World? How will we, daughter of Gaia, move into our key positions as the guardians of the living?

Let us examine where we stand in the playing out of duality in the most extreme manifestations, at this time of immense transformation in our world and throughout our Solar Deity’s network of celestial bodies.

We are learning more every day about how we are all responsible for the creation and outcome of all that occurs within our lives and upon this blue-green globe that carries us through infinite space.

As women, we have made enormous strides in achieving a greater understanding of our role as Earth Keepers but, unquestionably, there is still along way to go before we are empowered to bring to the foreground the alternative of dialogue over war, community over separateness, life over death and love over the rage and violence that mark our present days. This time of the yang-dominant leadership, men against men, women and children – against all the living – coincides with the time of the decline of our civilization, true, but it is the impetus for a revolution through which the divine feminine spirit rises to guide the living back to sanity and love.

The task before us is enormous. We are called upon to release ourselves from whatever submission we have allowed until now, and to meet the challenge of restoring balance to our planetary and community environments. We are in position, breathing in the wonder of the new paradigm for the human race, where we join together to heal, nurture and restore.

We know what we are capable of and what we must do.

Not that we are elitists’ that feminine aspect of our beings, our magnetic selves is not limited to gender. Indeed, it is a celebration to find so many men now reaching that nurturing, loving potential within themselves, a reflection of how we all are moving towards the yin vibration. Yet, as we look out upon the darkness of so many misdeeds and the enormity of the pervading violence that lords over humankind, we cannot help but notice that these scenes of inhumanity seems, by and large, to be perpetrated by the masculine, electric impulse. We cannot help but notice that while the majority of men are raging, warring, fighting and destroying, women are crying… healing… trying to pick up the pieces of the broken hearth and home.

Perhaps if we observe our reality in terms of the electromagnetic polar opposites that define the physical realm, we might be able to understand the dynamics that have driven us to conflict. Can it be that our condition, as a collective of souls, is dominated by an unprecedented surge of electric fields, clashing and exploding as the pour into our realm, from our explosive Solar Deity in transition? I dare suggest that our very Sun is helping us through this great shift by changing the entire planet with an excess of that electric Yang force that so manifests through the overabundance of testosterone as unbridled emotional explosion.

Time is an Illusion

With what we are learning about the multiverse and our growing understanding of how we co-create the cosmos, we are rapidly becoming aware of how our perception of time is an illusion and that our existence in the 3D framework is merely a point on the time-space continuum where we hold resonance. It is a frequency with which, for some indefinable reason, we vibrate. It is where we have chosen to take part in the drama that now unfolds before the human race. And it is real to us – so real that at time we find it almost impossible to imagine that all that to which we are witness is but a small part of our multidimensional experience as soul essence emerging.

We look out into our world and see much darkness, this cannot be denied - darkness is – as it the light. Our leaders are corrupt, shameless and unrelenting; the fiber of society is unraveling and shredding into increasing disharmony and discontent. The Earth is rebelling violently against our abuse and disregard. Fear is sweeping over human collective consciousness – fear that is being sculpted in our minds, crafted with masterful precision, chiseled into our consciousness into what seems could well become a permanent scar upon our spirit and the will of the human collective.

Yet – we feel a quickening in our veins – racing us towards the unknown of our emerging reality and it is this very sense of urgency that forces us to face ourselves as we never done before, to search for the ever-elusive explanation for what is happening everywhere around us…. To question just how we will survive what lies ahead and what we can do to understand that all that occurs is in divine order.

One thing is for certain: the time has come to decide how we want to live out these years – however many remain in our current density. Today increasingly catastrophic events and the insanity of those who ruler over us are driving mankind to seek and make meaning of our lives while compelling us to ponder our immortality – and that is light shining through darkness.

We gaze beyond the smoke and destruction, the raging waters, the secrets and lies, the hopelessness and despair and we recognize that the time for being in our highest humanity is upon us. To each, a call is sounded – the soul shouts out crystal clear through the cacophony of turmoil, We run our minds over the keyboards of our souls, like fingertips of the greatest maestro, realizing that we are as much a part of the orchestra of life as every other living being and its music… it is all music. The drum – the flute – and the rattle.

However discordant, however magnificent, we sound the music of our souls with every thought we send into the cosmic sea, every word we speak and every action we take.

Gaia, the archetypal mother, is our teacher. She speaks to us of what she needs now – of cleaning and the giving back of what she has forever given the living of Earth, so that we can know the gentle passing of her re-birthing into the light body.

Let us take the power now; no more fear, no more blame, no more suffering. We have the love, we have the wisdom; we have the experience to weave a new tapestry for all humankind.

United in ego-less service we can create a better world.

We can!

Gaia calls out to her daughters for help, to be nurtured at this pivotal time of her extraordinary passage.

At this hour of the Fifth Sun, let us find the unity, through which we will rise to the task before us – for the love of Gaia.

2009 Patricia Cori printed with permission. Thank you.

Patricia Cori is a messenger from the Sirian High Council. Please visit her website

Author of The Sirian Revelation www.sirianrevelations.net

We thank Marlenè Eagle Druhan for her wonderful portrait of Gaia. Marlené is a multi-media artist and the author of the metaphysical title “Naked Soul” (Llewellyn Publication, 1998) with upcoming title in the genre of literary fiction. You can visit her website Wind Muse Studio at www.marlene.embarqspace.com

“Children, we salute you. Yours is the task of reaching

the light and then assisting the others, and you will,

for you are the seekers of truth.

Your hearts are opening your minds alert and inquisitive,

And the light of your souls is ever brighter.

You are the emerging – the clear, shining faces – seeking

That eternal radiance which has drawn you upwards – higher and higher

Still,

And we recognize you, \

Lighworker of Gaia.

We know you.”

The Speakers of the Sirian High Council.