What if the support you need is already flowing toward you, hidden within the day's small reversals and delays? This is the profound question at the heart of our current astrological moment, as a powerful Grand Water Trine is activated by Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio, all under the generous gaze of a well-dignified Jupiter.
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Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].
Happy Friday, everyone. Today, we are going to take a look at Mercury Retrograde backing its way into the Grand Water Trine once more, and we're going to take an especially close look at the role that Jupiter is playing right now. Jupiter has a ton of power in the dignities of the sky.
At the moment, I'm going to explain to you what I mean by that, show you just how pronounced and loud Jupiter is, and what we might take away from that given the Grand Water Trine configuration coming back with mercury retrograde and Scorpio leading the way, I think this will be helpful, because it's a configuration that's unfolding slowly over the next couple of days and then being reactivated once more by Mercury toward the early part of December, it's going to be reactivated by Venus and Scorpio once more.
So a really good time to refresh on what we might be seeing, and especially the, I think, very loud and benefic role that Jupiter is playing, which could slip under the radar if we weren't paying close attention. So anyway, that will be our goal for the day.
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We've been talking about this for a few months, and Jupiter is so importantly configured right now and so in a really similar way, this Kickstarter is something that opens channels throughout the year. I was thinking about how perfect a time it is to be trying to gather the resources and support of our community for this channel.
It feels very much like the reflection of the Grand Water Trine, your support allows for the flow of everything we do. It becomes the medium that provides for the blessings that support many, many people who take this course at very, very low rates because they can't afford to study otherwise.
So once a year when you support Nightlight, you are letting the nourishment of astrological education circulate in the community. I thought that was kind of neat, as I was thinking about it, prepping my notes for a talk today on the Grand Water Trine. So that's why I think, you know, it's worth supporting and pitching in.
So anyway, you can learn more about it at the end of today's content. All right, here's the real time clock. Let's get into it now. What I've done here today is I have actually eliminated all of the outer planets and paired this down to just the traditional seven, so that I can show you the dignities arranged in the sky right now and really make a point up.
Really make the point of Jupiter being so pronounced, so this will just kind of aid in that evaluation. Of course, I'm not unaware of the outer planets. Of course they're important, but just for the sake of this demonstration, I think it's going to help.
So let's start off with this idea that Jupiter is very loud right now. There's a reason that I titled this talk about Jupiter raining down blessings, because I can't, I can't think of a configuration that's more Jupiter and then a grand Trine, first of all, and then within the grand Trine, so many of the planets are in the dignities of Jupiter.
And Jupiter is itself very well dignity. At the moment. So let me just show you what I mean before we go further, and I'm going to give you a list of things to watch for. But first, we need to understand how I'm getting to this conclusion that Jupiter has a lot to provide us with right now, and Jupiter being a planet of blessings and abundance, I think a significant amount of us may feel that support or recognize it in some area of our lives, depending on, of course, of so many other things that might be going on in your birth chart, if you're in the midst of a very intense transit, you know, and Jupiter is not configured so loudly in your chart, then maybe not.
But you know, I think again, for a lot of us, we will notice the blessings and support of Jupiter. So let me explain why. First of all, one thing to notice is that Jupiter is a significant part of the Grand Water Trine. It's one of three parts, so there's the big arrow.
It's one of three parts of the Grand Water Trine, and it is exalted in its sign of its own exaltation and cancer. And it is also in its own bound in cancer. That means it's occupying at the 24th degree, a portion of the sign of cancer in those degrees that also belong to Jupiter.
So all of that grants Jupiter in Cancer a lot of a lot of power. That's one way of putting it, or as a benefic, the ability to bestow all of its best qualities. But this is actually augmented by several other things. Let me show you what I mean.
Trine are of the nature of Jupiter and so the aspect connecting what four planets in the sky, the traditional planets, not including Neptune, Venus at Mercury in Scorpio, Saturn in Pisces. Whole sign configuration to the North Node in Pisces, and then Jupiter and cancer are all Trine.
Trines are of the nature of Jupiter, which means that the major configuration in the sky right now also resembles the nature of Jupiter. So do you see how that continues the trend? Now, let's go a little bit deeper. Saturn is in the sign of Pisces, the North Node also in the sign of Pisces.
This is the feminine domicile of Jupiter. And so you have Saturn and the North Node hosted by an exalted Jupiter in its own bound, configured by a Trine, which is of the nature of Jupiter to that Jupiter. Now, if we go another step, here we are Friday, November 21 and we're going to find that the sun has moved into Sagittarius.
The moon is in Sagittarius, just after our new moon. And Mars is in Sagittarius. The Sun is Also so all three of these planets are in the masculine sign of Jupiter, and the sun is in the domicile and the bound of Jupiter. So now we have four planets, plus the North Node in the domicile of Jupiter, and we also have Jupiter configured in a grand Trine at the moment, from the sign and a sign of its exaltation and its own bounds.
See how it's like stacking up. There's more. Let's go now to Mercury, who is the planet that is about to trigger the Grand Water Trine. So the Grand Water Trine will be made by Mercury over the weekend, as Mercury activates the Grand Water Trine.
Now the Grand Water Trine first moment is the Trine that mercury makes through its retrograde to Saturn. Now that Trine comes in between today and tomorrow, Friday, November 21 to Saturday, November 22 as that Trine comes through, it backs into the 24th degree of Scorpio, where it will meet the exact degree based trine to Jupiter.
And as it does so, it backs into the bound of Jupiter. So even though Mercury is in the domicile of Mars in Scorpio, Mars, in turn, its host is hosted by Jupiter. So the dignity trail keeps leading us back to Jupiter. But then Mercury is moving into the bound of Jupiter.
Venus, who will make the next Grand Water Trine, I'll be talking about that later next week, is also moving into the bound of Jupiter. So even the peripheral presence of Venus starting to enter the Grand Water Trine, the other benefic is in the bound of Jupiter.
Let's add that up. Let's reiterate all of that. We have Saturn in the north node in the bound of Jupiter, configured by a Jupiter in trine to Jupiter. We have Mercury and Venus moving into the bound of Jupiter, configured by a Trine, which is of the nature of Jupiter to Jupiter.
We have the sun the moon and Mars as of Friday. Rey, when we're listening to this all in the sign of Jupiter with the sun in the bound of Jupiter. And Jupiter itself is in its own bound and exalted. So Jupiter is loud right now, and because Jupiter is very well dignified, that's why I don't think it's an exaggeration at all to say that there are some really this is a really fortunate moment in the sky.
Now Jupiter is retrograde. That means that some of what Jupiter is bringing could be slightly delayed or drawn out, or it could be that Jupiter is bringing good fortune, but through reversals. So think, for example, about the recent Mercury Retrograde starting point in Sagittarius.
When Mercury went retrograde in Sagittarius, hosted by Jupiter, I noticed that quite a few people experienced setbacks, delays. You know, the kind of typical Mercury breakdowns. However, those breakdowns often were in some unexpected way beneficial. Let me give you a quick example.
My wife had to teach a class. She was really exhausted and drained. She didn't really want to teach it, because she was feeling just like so tired. She got to the place where she was going to teach, and in the building she was going to teach, the power had completely gone out, and it was not easily or quickly being restored, so they had to cancel the class.
That was on the day Mercury turned retrograde, an unexpected turn of good fortune, although on another level, it was sort of unfortunate, like the power going out in the building and canceling the class is like, oh, you know. But for her, it was unexpectedly lucky, because she needed a break.
That's a great example. Another example for me involved sort of unexpectedly and beneficially reconfiguring my car insurance, for example, to get a better rate. And you know, so anyway, the point is that when a Mercury Retrograde is ruled by Jupiter. It's not totally dissimilar from a Jupiter retrograde itself, when Jupiter is very well dignified, which is just to say that the blessings that we may be experiencing through this configuration, which I'm going to talk more about next, could come through things that, on one level, look like a breakdown, a delay, an unexpected turn of circumstance that, on one level is inconvenient, or might, you know, might be a little bit of a pain in the butt, but at the exact same time, this is a very well dignified Jupiter, and whatever delays breakdowns could have this kind of really beneficial silver lining.
So that would be the worst, but otherwise, set aside the retrograde of Jupiter. It's in great condition to just offer some really profound forms of support right now. So I have a list of five things to watch for, and these things are keeping in in mind everything that we've said about the power of Jupiter.
They also, of course, consider the fact that the quickest moving planet is mercury and Scorpio triggering This Grand Water Trine. So that trigger planet, the fast moving planet, will often have a way of becoming the channel or medium for the greater configuration to speak.
So in this case, Mercury sort of lights or leads the way. But again, given the power of Jupiter and the the expansiveness of of the water in the sky with Jupiter, this list is is coming from, from that space. All right. So here we go.
Number one, watch for flow, life, fertility and nourishment when we think about the natural way that, you know, babies seek out the mother's breast, I remember when my daughter, my first daughter, was born, especially this first time I had ever seen this in my life, right? It's like, here's here's a little child that's just come into the world, and as soon as she was placed on on Ashley's chest, she started searching for, for her breast and for milk.
It was so natural. It was, it was like, oh my god, we're, we're, you know, for me, it was like, we're animals. Oh my god, you know, it was so such an embodied moment. But life, metaphorically, provides us with the instinct and the natural flow and direction to find sources of nourishment.
Sometimes we lose our way. But Isn't it funny how you look back at so many different stages of your life and when you needed help or support, you had a way of finding it, or it had a way of finding you, the cosmic breast, or mother finds us and we find it.
We have some natural homing honing beacon. Is that homing beacon? It brings us there anyway. So what I'm thinking about right now is the flow of life. Flow of fertility, the flow of nourishment, the way that creative energies have a way of congregating and flowing together.
And when something is in a state of need, Jupiter and cancer is such a great provider. It really is like the Great Mother archetype. So the we're at the breast of the cosmos right now, in a way. And I think the if I'm not exaggerating when I say I think many of us may feel I am so supported, even if it's in a small way.
Take a moment to make that small moment of support a great moment of appreciation, and watch that that that will have a way of magnifying and opening more blessings and more gratitude. And where there's more gratitude, there's more flow, there's more life.
So watch for small moments that can create big openings if you if you have big appreciation for any support you're receiving right now. I think some of these transits, you know, they give in accordance with our ability to receive. So receive whatever support is there right now and watch it continue to open and expand.
Number two, watch for blessings in the whole sign house of cancer. So we've done some horoscopes on this already focused on that whole sign house of cancer in a number of different talks that I've done, but the point here is look at that whole sign house of cancer in your chart, and think about it as a place that is providing you with something that you need on a soul level.
If you take that perspective, sometimes even things that are difficult can be understood as something that you still need. Nonetheless, I had some for me. Some of the transits of this fall when Jupiter was going over my son were surprisingly difficult for Jupiter. Sun transit, you know, I, I, I'm, I'm not saying it was all bad or anything.
There was a mix of things that came as Jupiter can join my son, and it's sort of stationing right now on my son as I'm making this anyway. But I was like, gosh, if this isn't what I needed, though, you know, and that's how Jupiter and cancer can feel.
If you just take a moment, it can be like a wise mother in hindsight, most of us look back at our moms, especially many of you out there who have actually become moms yourself, and then reflect on your own mom and so your own mom and so forth, you become a better mom because you see all of the things that your mom gave that were good, and you emulate those we all do this as parents, and then you pick up on the things that maybe we're lacking, but it's usually in hindsight that we can appreciate what was Given and how much support we've had in life.
But right now, this is an opportunity, you know, to see and appreciate the specific kinds of blessings that are coming through the whole sign house, topics of cancer in your birth chart. So take a little time there. Spend a little time thinking about that and see what you come up with.
I know, for me, there's a whole story with my car in the third house that is where cancer is in my chart there, like, really, pretty amazing, and I'll tell it at some point. I feel like a bad thing happened, but I was saved from a much worse thing, because a bad thing happened.
It was I was under the Mercury Retrograde ruled by that Jupiter. But mostly Jupiter in my third house, for example, has been about the writing and editing of my book that's now finished. The book is finished. I'm just finishing edits before, because the editing is a big process, but the process of publishing, editing, writing has been a really well supported place in my chart right now.
So taking some time to say thank you for that, yeah, because otherwise, you know what, we become entitled. And it's easy to become entitled because we think, Well, I did this. So anything good like I earned and anything bad is undeserved, you know. But if we take a moment when things are going really well to say thank you.
I don't know that I necessarily deserved this. I have no idea if I did or I didn't, so I'm just going to say thank you. Anyway, what could go wrong if you have that attitude? Anyhow, all things verbal, mental, emotional and communicative are being supported. So remember that mercury is triggering this.
Mercury in a water sign tends to bring up the connection between verbal, mental, emotional qualities, verbal, emotional connection, intimacy, depth, you know, bonding in relationships, emotional health, emotional intelligence, being able to communicate or articulate what's inside of us and feeling like there's support for what's inside of us, these are some of the best things that mercury can contribute to the Grand Water Trine, considering how loud and supportive Jupiter is at the moment, number four, therapeutic support, or community social resources are available right now.
Grand Water Trine. Trine and trine in general tend to bring up issues of community support. So Jupiter is associated the 11th house was called The Joy of Jupiter. That's a place of allies and communities and benefictors and so whether it's therapeutic, emotional, mental support right now, we're finding the right doctors.
We're finding the right healers. We're finding just support through synchronicities that give us some emotional healing that's much needed, or some form of emotional nourishment that's needed. Whatever the case might be, I think it's it would not be surprising to see either therapeutic, healing, nourishing forms of support for mental and emotional issues, or community and social resources available to us right now that feel connected and that grant greater emotional depth and support.
So when I think of the people that are most supportive in my life on this level, on a kind of Water Trine level, I think, for example, of like my colleague, Ari Moshe Wolf, comes to my mind. He is a good, like spiritual ally. We have totally different schools of astrology, but he is such a deep, thoughtful person who is, you know, really trying in his life.
As I feel that I am to walk my talk, not that anyone's perfect, but I feel so deeply supported and nourished by that professional relationship that would be a Grand Water Trine kind of relationship, as opposed to say, other forms of support. Like, you know, at a business you have a really good accountant or a really good CPA or a really good business or financial advisor, what a nice form of support it is to have people who counsel and advise and give advice or strategize.
But those might be very earthy for example, or very airy. They help organizationally or technologically, or they help in terms of practical plans. Water Trine. Help is the kind that provides support primarily through the feelings that it contributes good feelings, supportive feelings, nourishing feelings.
So feelings are a form of support and a need that we have to collaborate with others that we share emotional resonance with. These are very important and really pronounced right now, a lot of very positive support that can come through the Grand Water Trine, with respect to these kinds of things.
Okay, last but not least, with so much water in the sky right now, anything that has a lot of history memory and ancestry behind it can become more prominent or important. I feel like history, memory, ancestry, are often present within us in ways that are less visible or conscious.
For example, you know, the way I move about the world as an astrologer is, you know, and just the way I speak and carry myself and convey things has a pretty deep connection to my upbringing here in like, small town, Midwest Minnesota. You know, a lot of people will feel that, or they'll notice it, but it's subtle.
It's not it's not super pronounced all of the time. It kind of rises to the surface here, there, and the reflections of my past and my roots and so forth will kind of show themselves. You guys probably notice it on the channel, and it's the same for all of you, wherever you came from, whatever your past looks like, on a soul level, on an ancestral level, it's there as this living part of you that's not kind of silent and in the background, it's almost like the negative space between the stars, the darkness that connects them almost invisibly.
So we all have constellations of karma in our lives that have these dark spaces in between. You call that dark space unconscious, but we can also call it soul history, Soul Memory, ancestry, the past, etc. And what I find so interesting about Grand Water Trine is that there's so much water in the sky, and water tends to be connected to these kinds of spaces, that suddenly those spaces become more prominent or visible.
For once, I think, for example, that right now, whatever is happening, your ancestors could be here to support you or the past and some clearer understand, understanding of where you've been and where you've come from could make its way to the forefront, which often provides us with some opportunities for emotional healing or catharsis.
So. Watch for what the water brings up to the surface, maybe from the past, from Soul history, and consider right now that what is coming up on that level is here to support you. It's here to bring blessings. It's here to bring you know abundance and flow, grace and healing.
So these are some of the things that I am seeing activated at the moment by Mercury and Scorpio. Anything deep, probing, invisible, secretive, would also be important for mercury and Scorpio in general. But marry this to a very benefic Jupiter, and it's kind of like, Look, your research is going to pay off dig and you're going to find treasure.
So keep that in mind as well. Some deep probing right now, some deeper, more honest emotional and emotional probing or researching, delving into things that are deeper, more like murkier, more complex emotional territory could be very rewarding. So I will leave it there after I sign off.
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