Greetings Fellow Immortals! Congratulate yourselves, you have incarnated into the least boring period in human history. In July the two social planets, Jupiter and Saturn, who orbit between the inner and outer planets work, together to turn the Wheel of Fortune. On July 16 Jupiter enters Leo to stay until 11 August 2015 for the first time since 2002, starting a new 12-year cycle. Five days later on July 21, Saturn turns direct in Scorpio. Jupiter and Saturn form a pair of opposites, defined as the principles of expansion and contraction, faith and fear, enthusiasm and inhibition. When these two planets are supporting each other, Saturn will provide structure and shape to the vision and faith of Jupiter. Without Saturn, Jupiter would remain ungrounded and unrealistic, unable to manifest itself in the world. Without Jupiter, there would be no purpose or meaning to the structures created by Saturn. Jupiter is the entrepreneur with the vision, and Saturn is the ability to turn the vision into reality. We need both. In esoteric astrology, the Mysteries were presided over by Jupiter and Saturn as the Guardians. Everything seethes and churns in this region, but that's okay: it's all part of July, and soon you won't notice it anyway as you enter into your own state of turbulescent grace. Whatever calls you from outside the curtain can wait. You're here now, and ready at last to open your eyes. When you do, you'll see that Time is a soft jagged wave moving through you and Space is a malleable domain sculpted by perception. Rest assured: the voluptuous terror you feel swiftly gives way to splendour. Suddenly you will be more awake than you've been since retiring from the womb. The secret phenomenological truth, encrypted against
corruption at your birth but now transmitted lucidly across every synapse, is that the World is determined by
imaginative volition. How much love can one being express? Now that this has been revealed, your purpose is clear. You might as
well get used to it: YOU ARE A GLORIOUS NEW REALITY! In the birth chart, Jupiter is the key to spiritual purpose. His House placement reveals the way to the fusion of information into wisdom. Along with the North Node of Fate, Jupiter points to our life purpose. Key words for Jupiter are: good judgment, expansion, religion, philosophy, good fortune, rewards. Jupiter is a Yang planet, so in Leo, a fiery Yang sign, overdoing, over optimism or pouring petrol on flames are the shadow manifestations. As is religious fanaticism, terrorism and black-and-white “I am right and you are wrong” thinking.
Since April and through the summer solstice we’ve been going through a major untangling from the tendrils of our past,
to begin to reclaim our supporting soul aspects. The New Moon in Cancer, the Full Moon in Capricorn and Jupiter’s
entry into Leo have all the resonance of renewal. Aren’t you beginning to notice your creative engines refuelling and
recharging after six months of inner work through the cascade of retrogrades? From mid-July, as Jupiter enters fiery Fixed sign Leo and Saturn turns forward, we will have so much to restructure in support of our newfound capacities that the next six months between the Summer and Winter Solstice will buzz. Ideas, projects, dreams and visions we left by the wayside will tug at your heartstrings again. New connections and opportunities will appear out of nowhere that in reality we’ve been creating from the deep structure causative level since 2011 through the tsunamis of change. The way to make headway out of all the void slumps is to deliberately amplify the soul qualities of Jupiter in Leo by being playful, childlike, pure and creative. Then the mastery of our newfound flow will allow us to accept and inhabit the role of teacher, mentor, coach and model. We are all teachers now. The phrase “you learn what you teach” has special resonance in this yearlong transit—the very opposite of “teach what you know.”n July, emotions run high as we learn how events so far this year have made us feel. We can’t escape the feelings we have when we come in contact with Cancer’s watery depths, and this time there’s a lot more than usual to process. We’re still getting over Mars’s retrograde, and we’re still trying to squeeze as much joy out of Jupiter as we can before it leaves this sign on
the July 16. So much remains to be accomplished. We feel frustrated by lack of progress, although June brought some relief, a proof that Mercury’s retrograde often furthers our plans. On July 1, when it returns to forward motion, we stand ready to move fully into the next three months, when we will establish in our life the deeper level of fulfillment and the stronger sense of belonging that we’ve been gestating in recent months and years. There is a distinct rhythm to the interplay of the planets in July. The inner planetary order has shifted: Now the Sun holds the vanguard in braving the Cardinal battleground (July 4–18), followed by Mercury (July 21–28), and then Venus (July 27–31). The whole game changes and new forms settle into place once Mars enters Scorpio on July 25. Mars in Scorpio is strong and decisive, based on emotional drive. Our challenge is to temper this instinctual power with wisdom. The changes we’ve been working so hard on will come into form more firmly now. Things settle into place and find a home in the visible world. The String of Pearls is formed again, at 13–17° as the outer bodies hang at these degrees, apparently motionless in the process of changing direction. Participating in this pattern are (in degree order):
Pluto (13 Capricorn), Saturn (16 Scorpio), Chiron (16 Pisces), and Uranus (16 Aries). When the Moon, Sun, Venus, and
Mercury reach these degrees, a cascade of related events is inaugurated, with just enough sugar and spice to get us to
the other side of some long-standing obstacles, particularly those that have been blocking relationship harmony.
Knowing the tendencies of Water will help us through this time. Water’s movement is downward, and that’s the way our
energy and mood go with Water—downward and inward to reveal what is hidden. Water is flexible and takes the shape of
what holds it. If Water is pure e-motion (energy in motion), what it becomes for us depends greatly on how we shape it
with our thoughts. Shaping our thoughts around a belief in what is helpful (rather than what is debatably “true”) gets
the best results. Finally, Water is highly empathic. It carries the slightest whisper of movement or influence, albeit
with distortions that allow us to see what’s swaying us, in magnified form. Since Water has no sense of time, what we
feel seems like it will last forever, however much we remind ourselves that feelings change as quickly as the clouds in
the sky. If we can keep a toehold in our eternal center, our True Self, our emotions become waves lapping on the
shore—they do not overtake us.
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