Jupiter Preparing to Enter Its Exaltation in Cancer — 5 Images to Meditate On

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

Today we are going to take some time to begin meditating on Jupiter's upcoming move into the sign of cancer. This is the traditional place of Jupiter's exaltation. So the Moon and Jupiter are thought of as co-hosts of the Temple of cancer. We're gonna talk about why that is today.

And then I'm going to give you five images that you can begin to meditate on, given that Jupiter is going to be entering the sign of cancer in June, just about a month from now, in my opinion, it's really good when a slow moving planet is preparing to change signs, that we begin welcoming that planet into our psyche, so to speak. So we're going to start doing that today, especially since it's a little bit of a slower week.

Astrologically, also, at the beginning of today's talk, I will outline the Venus sextile to Pluto that is coming through today. I'll give you a few keywords and ideas to think about for that very brief, fast moving transit that's happening today. And then we'll get into Jupiter and cancer. So that is our agenda for the day.

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All right, it's so cheesy, but it makes me so happy to have that little thing going on. Okay, so let us now take a look at our transit. So today we're going to start by today we'll be focused on Jupiter's entrance into cancer. I'm going to give you five images that you can use to start meditating on and sort of welcoming Jupiter into cancer in June.

But before we do that, let's take a look at today's transit. We do have a little sextile This is may 6, Tuesday, and as you're listening to this today, Venus in Aries is making a brief little sextile to Pluto in Aquarius. Now I mentioned this and talked about it a little bit more in yesterday's weekly overview video as well. But let's say a few more things about it.

First of all, we have Venus going back through the sign that she began her retrograde in Aries at the beginning of March. She's now recovering the same degrees that were covered in the morning star position in a fire sign in Mars's sign, with an upcoming trine to Mars. This is a Venus that wants to is very bold and provocative, Morning Star Venus, and the sign of Aries, very fiery, fierce kind of warrior goddess.

Energy behind this Venus in Aries, she's inceptional In these early degrees of Aries. It means that she's really bringing forth new things. And when we consider that, against the backdrop of March's retrograde, we might say that she's bringing forth new things that have come through a process of personal revision or reflection over the past few months.

It's kind of like, you know, you go to a yoga class, let's say you have some insights that come up for you during a particularly special class. After those insights come up, you got to go and carry those insights into action. She's very action oriented right now. The morning star position grants her that sense of being like a trumpet blaring at dawn.

She's in that those early degrees of a cardinal fire sign. She's Mars. She's got a trine to Mars. This means she's she wants to carry things forward, effectively, strongly, directly, action oriented Venus. But she's coming from having learned something, reflected upon something, gathered some insights over the past couple of months.

Remember all of those insights, because it's Venus are typically going to constellate around things like love, relationships, sexuality, intimacy, friendships, our social life, the social and pleasurable dimensions of life, creativity, the arts, women, sisters, friends, all things that Venus has done some work on in our lives over the past couple months, the pleasure principle, what's your relationship to pleasure been like.

So all of that being said, Venus is carrying that kind of energy forward, especially all the way through the ninth degree, where she really got started with the retrograde is around nine or 10, so she's going to hit that degree the ninth degree around May 14 and 15th, where she moves through the degree of the eclipse that we had in Aries, and also through the initial starting point of the retrograde.

So between now and the middle of May Venus is really kind of boldly declaring new ideas and actions that are really rooted in that retrograde. This is a particular point within that process of bringing those insights forward that she hits Pluto in a harmonious sextile sextiles are said to be of the nature of Venus. So they harmonize very easily, connecting with Pluto in Aquarius.

I think part of what we could say is that Venus is implementing new ideas, because Pluto in Aquarius has the power of transforming our mindset, our concept, the concepts by means of which we live, the ideas that guide and shape the direction of our lives, whether that's professionally, creatively, religiously, socially, culturally, politically, all of those spaces in life that have a social and ideological dimension to them, Pluto has been working on within us now Venus catching a little sextile from Pluto might mean that what she's bringing forth is being informed by that process of transformed ideas that lead or guide the direction of our lives.

Could also say that Venus hitting the sextile to Pluto brings things that are subterranean or a little buried or repressed up to the surface, but it's able to do so in a way that's relatively harmonious. You might be just a little bit you might find it a little bit easier to address things that are a little heavier, weightier, deeper, darker, more difficult. But there may be some hidden value in doing so, such that it makes it a little easier, or there's a bit more of a silver lining by entertaining things that are darker or heavier Venus, sextile and Pluto can also just be about the art, the eroticism, the topics that come up in relationships just being a little deeper and more taboo or exotic or erotic, Pluto can represent those things that are repressed, that aren't necessarily bad or dark or heavy in any sense, as much as they are repressed misunderstood, things that just need to come out.

Well, this is a more harmonious moment for some things to come out that maybe at some other time we would have been more scared to let breathe or see the light of day. So I like this. It's a nice little contact today. Just wanted to start off today's talk by reminding you that's coming through today. If we let give this a few degrees of separation, we'll notice that by oh, about Saturday, they're three degrees apart. That's the engagement range.

So you could stretch this effect out through Saturday, although yesterday, today, tomorrow probably. Probably the most intense effects. And just to give you those dates, that would be Monday, May 5, Tuesday, today, May 6, and tomorrow May 7. As probably the target range within which you'll see the more acute expressions of the transit.

However, sextiles, fast moving sextiles, they are sometimes very subtle. So don't be surprised. If it's not the loudest transit in the world, it's a reason that I don't usually spend a ton of time. Ton of time on fast moving sextiles. But anyhow, all of that being said, what I'd like to do now is just very briefly introduce you to the timeline of Jupiter moving into cancer in this in June.

I, as you know, on my channel, whether it's been Saturn in Aries Neptune in Aries Pluto and Aquarius. I like to get out in front of these slow moving transits and start almost I consider it almost like we're about to entertain a god or a goddess, an archetype, an archetypal field, and as it's coming in, it's almost like a guest coming into the city of our heart and soul.

Let's honor it as it comes in. Let's throw up the banners and start playing the music and light the candles on the altar, and symbolically, we can do that by simply starting to meditate on the archetypal images that the symbol conveys. So that's what we're going to do today. This will be the first of several passes that we'll take, right?

Because every archetype is really a jewel. The images that we use get at the heart of what is in the jewel, but it's as though, you know, if you just stared at the jewel itself, the face is like too dark. You can't see the core. But if you catch light off from the different angles of the jewel, somehow you start to feel like you're being led into the center of the temple inside the jewel you start it's a feeling of entering into the heart of an archetype that starts to happen when you actively meditate on it.

So all of that being said as to why we're doing this, let's go ahead and do it. I'm going to put the chart up on the screen. Let's take a look at the upcoming entrance of Jupiter into cancer. So the month of May is really all about Saturn entering Aries. And we will be spending more time with that as well, though we already have taken some time with it, and we're going to look at June 9, if I have my calculations Correct, yeah.

So it's about 430 central time on June 9, Monday, that Jupiter will enter cancer. Now, if we spread this out, I'm going to go forward a year, and we'll see that Jupiter starts on June 9 of 2025 in the sign of cancer, and then it doesn't enter the sign of Leo until June 30, roughly, if I have that right, it might be the 29th let's go back just a touch more.

So it's June 30, about 12:30am Central time that it changes signs. So if you're Pacific Time, it would be the 29th still technically, but either way, June 29 into the 30th about a full year later. Now that's standard, right? Because Jupiter takes about 12 years to go through the Zodiac, which means we get about a year per sign the any transits that spend as long as Jupiter or beyond.

So Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. Maybe you track some other planets too, but certainly in my practice, those are the transits that last through a sign a year or longer. And when that kind of movement is about to happen, it becomes significant from a variety of perspectives. For one, not what we're covering today, but what we will end up covering is that it's going to enter a new whole sign house in your chart, and that whole sign house will mean the activation of a new set of topics that will last a full year.

So you get this kind of concentration of Jupiter's meaning and symbolism in a new area of life. That's why we're going to do horoscopes and talk at length about what to expect from exalted Jupiter in a new place in your chart. The other level at which it becomes important to think about is in terms of a prolonged visit with an archetypal field.

When we get Venus moving through a sign, you know, it's like a less than a month when we get mercury, it's sometimes quicker than that. You know, the moon's a couple of days. The sun is 30 days. So most of our planetary experiences, from Jupiter down, in order in the called the in order of the planetary speeds. We never get a planet in a sign for a whole year.

When you do, it becomes really important to continue turning the jewel of that archetype, because it gives you so many different ways of seeing the field that's that's present, so to speak, of seeing the God in our midst, or the Goddess. So all of that being said, I have five images that I think will be useful ones for us to meditate. On Now, are these exclusively the five? No, they're just five that I think are useful.

We'll probably add more to this as we go. There will be at least three or four more talks that I do on the entrance of Jupiter into cancer, right? So we're just kind of warming up today, but I want to focus on the pairing of planets that reside in this sign as a way of understanding Jupiter and cancer, because within the ancient logic of the Zodiac, the planetary placements are arranged according to the logic of the solar year.

This is what makes our tropical zodiac so beautiful, and its fundamental logic is rooted in the unchanging rhythms of the solar year that we fix as zodiacal markers for the 12 signs through the equinoxes and solstices. Those are symbolic markers. They're not meant to be taken literally. So you can use this system as a symbolic system in the same way anyone can use a Tao deck.

Doesn't matter which hemisphere you're from, because we're not taking it on the level of literalism. We're taking it on the epistemological level of symbolism. That doesn't mean that there isn't a logos in the patterns of the sky. It just means that there's those patterns can only ever be relatively oriented. So on that level, it's better to treat the entire system as relatively, as a relative symbolic orientation.

I've said a lot on that before. That's a kind of deeper epistemological conversation. If you're interested in more of that, I highly recommend the book by Jeffrey Cornelius called the moment of astrology, origins and divination. Anyway, before I get lost in one of my favorite soapbox topics, those of you listening to my channel know I can just go on about that, so let me stop myself before I do and let's talk about the pairing of Jupiter and the moon that is rooted in the logic of the solar year for the sign of cancer.

So this sign takes place. The sign of cancer starts at the moment of the Summer Solstice. At that point, the sun is at its highest arc or peak in the sky in terms of its latitude. So you go 23 and a half degrees north of the equator, 23 and a half degrees south, and you get the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. And when the sun is at that peak, it means that it has reached its high point in the solar year.

The ancients saw that as the sun's closest the moment of the moment it was closest to the Pole Star. Excuse me, and the Pole Star was a symbol in the ancient astrological imagination for everything that is eternal, that transcends the fluctuations and permutations of the world. The world is, by its nature, a changing place. And this world, in that sense, this material world, is was considered lunar.

It was considered lunar insofar as the world is thought of as an embodiment of eternal forms, the archetypes, but their nature, when embodied, when taken physical form, is to only be temporary. So the face of the moon that is a reflection of the sun, the sun is the light of the eternal forms. And so similarly, the Pole Star, like the sun, is associated with that which is eternal and unchanging, like the perfect image of a triangle in the mind of God or the universe in this material world, those triangles take on particular forms that then experience a process of coming to be and passing away.

And the circle of life is reflected by the circle of the moon, waxing and waning, endlessly moving in its latitude, up and down. So the moon was called was called fortune, and this world was called fortune in so far as it was like the Wheel of Fortune, the image of the wheel of fortune, constantly changing, constantly turning. The rules of karma, the rules of cause and effect, choice, action, reaction, coming to be, passing away, life and death, the seasons moving cyclically.

All thought to be about the way that this world reflects the eternal, but it reflects it in the dying edges of the Moon's face. Everything in this world is impermanent. All of the archetypes can only be temporarily reflected in our lives and in experience, and they're constantly changing. Now the sign of cancer is unique in so far as it is the moon sign, and it represents the world of embodied forms.

The reason that it represents the world of embodied forms, from the standpoint of that solar logic, is because from the top of the sun's journey closest to the. Pole star. What happens to the arc of the sun from this moment forward, it starts to set, it starts to decline. So the arc starts dropping down, and the sun is slowly moving down into the earth.

From our geocentric perspective, that was thought of as the descent of the eternal spirit, soul, or of God, or of the one down into the manifest realm of the many. And of course, in so many mystical traditions, the one and the many are really thought of as two aspects of the same thing. It's like the yin and yang of creation.

The one are the forms. The many is the forms reflected in the ongoing fluctuations and permutations of embodied life. So the sign of Cancer shows us the arc of the Sun at its highest point, closest to the ideal, to the transcendental realm of the forms, descending down into the world of form. Cancer was called the gateway of mankind for this reason, and the moon, not surprisingly, who is the emblem of embodied material life?

Is the planet given rulership of the sign of cancer, because this, this moon represents our mother. It represents embodied life. It represents the midwifing of spirit into matter, one into many. And it represents the the many phases and faces of the moon represent the great diversity of life forms that the one inhabits so as to relate to itself, one in many, relate to its itself in uh, by means of splitting itself and then interrelating itself.

This is beautiful, beautiful metaphysics you see repeated in so many ancient mystical schools, especially those that practiced astrology. Anyway, the point being that the first level at which we have to understand the sign of cancer is as the sign of the many, the sign of life, the sign of fortune, the sign of the embodied world, the reality of forms taking on shape in life, right?

It's it's a beautiful sign in that respect that honors and treasures the vulnerability of being alive, but in a mortal frame that will someday die, the need for safety, the vulnerability of that position, the fragility of that position, the care and concern that we foster, a feeling of safety, that there's a lot of like subtle survival instincts in this sign, just like the mother is so protective and caring over the child, the sign is a sign that midwife's life in the cosmos itself.

It was put on the ascendant of the thema Mundi, the mythical chart of the universe that ancient astrologers used because it was thought of cancer as the midwife of material creation itself. So we have the great goddess, the Great Mother, the great Yin, represented by the forms becoming embodied in the cosmos itself. This is cancer.

Now, the planet cooperatively placed in the sign alongside of cancer, given its exaltation, is Jupiter. Now the basic reason for this is twofold. One, Jupiter was a planet alongside of Venus that represented the flourishing and fertility of life itself. Jupiter was the ruler of sperm, for example, and was a planet associated with the rise and proliferation of life.

So Jupiter's, one of Jupiter's domiciles comes when the light starts returning from the depth of winter Sagittarius midwife's the return of light that begins in Capricorn and Pisces hands over to the takeover of light that comes at the beginning of spring. Both Jupiter signs are about the building of light within the solar year. Those developmental turns that lead to light returning, or light taking over, are Jupiter signs in sag and Pisces that there's a logic behind that, because Jupiter is a planet that is Association associated with the proliferation of life.

Not only that, Zeus Jupiter is a very complicated planet, but the second reason that Jupiter is placed in the sign really has to do with Jupiter's primary role as cosmic orchestrator we think of Zeus. Zeus is, in many ways, a very imperfect God to understand the metaphysical and philosophical Jupiter by means of certainly we can connect to some of Zeus mythology.

Liz Green has done a great job of that. I just read a new book she wrote called By Jove that book was really great. If you want a good read on Jupiter. Read that book, but she said what astrologers have said about Jupiter for 1000s of years in that book, which many people don't even know. They're not even aware of I think Indian astrologers are much more aware of it, frankly, than a lot of Western astrologers.

But that is that Jupiter rules coherence. So what do we mean by coherence? The sun is also connected to coherence. As the law giver, for example, the sun was sometimes associated with kings in so far as kings were thought to be. Emblems of divine order and law, that which gives a sort of gravitational center to a society, a monarchy, a kingdom, God is embodied in an emperor, all of that kind of stuff.

That's all I ideally the idea behind those things. It's not that it actually plays out that way in the human world, right? We know that there's been tons of problems with kings thinking they're God and the embodiment of law and then becoming tyrants. And you know, so we're talking about the human world here, where we can only approximate the ideals of something like the sun or whatever.

But Jupiter is very similar to the sun, and that they could both represent kings or emperors or empresses or queens, insofar as the planet is a fundamental planet of coherence and order. Socially, religiously, academically, Jupiter represents things like the doctrines and dogmas, dogmas of a religious institution like the Catholic Church.

Jupiter represents the ideal systems of government, whatever they may be, whether it's monarchy or democracy, Jupiter represents things like courts of law. Jupiter represents things like universities and colleges. Jupiter represents things like philosophical systems like astrology, insofar as we all need a sense that our life is personally meaningful and held together by a sense of order, meaning, purpose and direction that is partly fulfilled in the symbolic sense when we do astrology by the role of Jupiter.

Why do we say all of this with so what does this have to do with cancer? Because cancer is the sign of life, one of the things that life needs in order for it to not just be a bowl of teeming chaos and now that there isn't a very beautiful chaotic dimension to life, there is, but there, there comes with the for the one to become many and to become meaningfully differentiated, meaningfully meaning that The parts can meaningfully relate to one another and connect in ways that are coherent and beautiful and esthetically pleasing, that there has to be a principle of order that is capable of allowing everything to be cohesive, so that unity presides within diversity, that there is some sense in which we're all one, even though we're many, that there is some way in which meaning can be established, even though there is a sense of chaos that's present in so much life and diversity.

So Jupiter is not only a planet that's associated with procreation and life and sperm and abundance and all of those things that have a very direct connection to the embodied material universe, in the same way that the moon does in the sign of cancer. Remember cancer called the gateway of mankind. But also Jupiter presides over a sense that life itself is sort of meaningfully ordered, that there is, there are laws, karmic laws.

Not surprisingly, Zeus is thought of as the orchestrator and administrator of cosmic and karmic law. He's the king of the gods. Now, again, you don't have to. Zeus is one of many mythic figures that we can use, and many of them could be feminine. So don't get me wrong here. I'm not trying to say that this all needs to be understood in some patriarchal way, or, you know, something like that, but it's important, because for for us humans, there are two things that we really need for life to feel good.

If I had to boil it down to the most two basic things, you can find them in the rulers of cancer. One is a sense of safety, comfort, ease and security in our bodies, which is typically created through our early childhood experiences, how we are raised, how we're parented, how we get our needs met, how we're fed. It's very biological. It's very instinctual. It's very emotional, but we all need that kind of lunar dimension of life to feel like it's it's okay to be here, it's safe to be here.

It's very, very basic, and it the images of mothers and children always come to mind in cancer for this reason. But it's deeply existential. It's about eternal forms coming to life in a world of impermanence. You know, that's a fragile, beautiful, sacred and very mysterious place to live in, and the moon has always represented that great mystery and great nurturance and devotion.

Now Jupiter is placed here in its exaltation, because the other thing that we all need is a sense that this place is meaningful. Meaningful has this kind of when we talk about the word meaning, we all know it's a highly subjective word. One person's meaning is another person's chaos is, you know, so there's a bit of relativity baked into this.

But there we have it. That's the material world. Nonetheless, we all need a felt sense that life has a teleology, a sense of direction, purpose, a meaningful end that is wrapped up in it, that life. Is not purely random and chaotic. Now I'm not saying there's only one meaning, or that meaning isn't participatory or but nonetheless, we need a sense that life is coherent, that there is a kind of unity in diversity, that there's there's some kind of order.

Cosmically, we need that felt sense, which is this higher and somewhat more abstract nuose, you know, it's like a, it's a, it's a Gnosis. There's a sense of knowing. And I think that we provide that for our kids through things like ritual, through things like traditions and customs. They could be very communal and cultural. They could be religious, they could be educational.

But there's a way we introduce children to life and the respect for life and the way of life, the Tao we we there's this way that's there, right? So Jupiter represents that this is the second fundamental thing that's needed for life in the cosmos to exist. So we put these two planets together in the sign as a way of talking about the necessary ingredients for life itself.

So with that philosophically in mind, let's talk about these next images, which I think get at not just Jupiter in Cancer, because you have to remember that Jupiter in Cancer is exalted in a temple in which it shares its duties, so to speak, with the moon. So whenever you think about a planet in its exaltation, you're like Venus in in Pisces, you have to think about Jupiter alongside of Venus's exaltation in that sign, because it's really not about one planet.

When a planet is exalted, it's about understanding it's pairing with the secondary planet. So Jupiter and the moon images to meditate on for this upcoming transit. The first one has to do with building a nest. Now what I did to get these images, I just want to take you behind the curtain. I looked back at the last time that Jupiter was in cancer.

So I want to take you back there really briefly, so that you could do the exact same thing, because you may find that the images that come to your mind are very different from the ones that come to my mind. And I'm going to tell you exactly why I think building a nest is a really good one, but I'm also going to tell you exactly why I chose it, because it has to do with what was happening in my life the last time Jupiter was in cancer.

So let's pull up the real time clock again, and let's go into Jupiter's entrance into cancer in June of 2013 take this forward about a year to June of 2014 again, enters Leo in about what July of 2014 so you could say June of 2013 to about July of 2014 so the reason I use The image of building a nest to begin with, is that during that period of time, I proposed to my wife.

We got our first dog, which was like our first little life form, and we were planning our wedding. During that period of time, I also had a really intense Pluto transit, my parents ended up getting divorced, and then by the end of it, we were just about ready to get married, and we're in the process of starting to save up for a down payment on a home.

Just after this happened, we got pregnant, you know. So that phase that year was really about the beginning building process of marriage, home and family in my life. It also happened to come on the heels of metaphorical death in the family, with my parents getting divorced. Nonetheless, that was Pluto on my moon during that time, right?

So you can see how that was affecting it. Not saying Jupiter in Cancer will bring that But Jupiter in Cancer during that year, we get a dog, we get engaged, we plan our wedding, we start saving for a home, we start planning pregnancy, all of it. So when I say building a nest, I think about that period of time in my life and how much was going into the building of cohesion, meaning and purpose within a very lunar framework, home, family, living environment.

And you may find that in the year ahead, building a nest is a metaphorical image that is really apt. You might be building it out in terms of changes within your existing home, or getting married, or having a family or moving in with someone, or relocating, or things happening within your family, your sisters getting married, but you may notice the need to create a richer, more coherent, diverse, substantive framework for the living of your life that feels more emotionally supportive, that feels safer, that feels more satisfying, that feels. Is more joined in meaning with other beings.

There's a sense that the order of Jupiter in Cancer is not so highfalutin and ideological that it discounts the biological. It the kind of order that Jupiter and cancer brings is so instinctual, so basic, so bio so honoring of our bodies and our in embodied life. So think about building a nest as an image in a particular area of your life that may be developed.

That image could literally be taking place in your workplace. You know, the next one that comes to my mind is breastfeeding. I think that this is an image that would become a lot more noticeable for me the next year, you know, after my wife gave birth in 2015 to our first daughter. But nonetheless, when I think about the image of breastfeeding as a metaphor, what I think about is the kind of nourishment that can't be replaced with just about anything else.

I mean, think about it, even formula or bottles or pumping or whatever, any way that women, you know, feed their child. The image is that of a kind of sweet, soft fluid nectar that little children need before they can eat anything solid. You know, it's like, there's, there's this liquid gold. And I think that, like, I'm noticing, for example, we just brought home a puppy, and his name's Thor.

He's a really sweet little Connie Corso, we have an English Mastiff, so we're going to have two big dogs in the house. But he's been, he's just so handsome. I just, we're all in love with him right now, anyway. But, you know, we've noticed he's about 12 weeks old, which is, I guess, you know, pretty good time to take a dog home from the breeder.

And at 12 weeks. You know, you notice that he's still you can see at moments where he's trying to figure out if he can breastfeed our older dog, Hilda, like he tried to breastfeed her. It was pretty cute. She, uh, punched him. But anyway, I'm I'm messing around the image of breastfeeding to me, metaphorically, has to do with how do we nourish ourselves?

How do we care for ourselves? Something that happened for me during that 2004 13, June to 14, I began resistance training. I began weight training. That has been quite a journey for me. I mean, a lot of people know that it really took. I took a huge shift in my life with regard to how I look and appear and my physical frame, because I got even more sort of into the hobby of bodybuilding the past three or four years.

But anyway, that was when it all began for me. Though physical exercise. I did yoga, of course, all the time, hot yoga. We owned a yoga studio. So I mean, yoga was part of my life, but resistance training and cardio and a shift in my diet to Whole Foods really cutting out a lot of anything processed. And it was always like I was trending in the direction of healthier, cleaner eating for a long time.

But this was the Jupiter and cancer year. Was a year in which both my wife and I started cooking at home a lot more, rather than picking things up as we went. Because we were really busy, we started working out together. We got in really good shape for our honeymoon, you know. And so it was a year where the prioritization of self care became a lot more important, and I noticed it.

I now recognize that that form of self care, and I'm a cancer son, so I can say this without shame, is like, it's like a kind of gold. It's a it's like breast milk. There's certain things we have to do for ourselves. We have to be so gentle to ourselves, so devoted to our self care, softly, gently, not being, not being like all self absorbed in our self care, but being tender and devoted to the care of our own physical, mental, spiritual temples, so that thought can carry over into our relationships.

Because there's a there is a way in which we're not the self care gospel is like you, yourself and you, but I think that's pretty foreign to a lot of the way that people have operated spiritually and emotionally for 1000s of years on our planet where, yes, you have to take care of yourself, yes, you have to be independent.

You can't lean on other people so much that you become co dependent or needy or a drag, that people feel like they have to constantly take care of you because you can't take care of yourself. On the other hand, life is meant to be cooperatively lived. We are meant to nurse and nurture each other, to midwife each other's experience.

This is a relational matrix that we live in, the one and the many are, by very definition, relating to each other in the cosmos and. So for us to think that self care is purely an isolated, internal, solo act is, in a sense, to masculinize something that is very feminine and and I say that metaphysically, not necessarily in terms of literal gender, the point being that this journey will also teach us that my very being is a source of nourishment for other beings.

There is a sacred sense of care and devotion that I should carry for other beings, compassion, gentleness, kindness and Jupiter and cancer can greatly augment our lives in so far as we start receiving more, because we're giving more, we start giving more, and then we know how to give more to ourselves. We give more to ourselves. We have more to give to others.

All of those things can start working cooperatively. Number three is baptism. So when I think about baptism, I think about a rite of passage, a ceremony, an initiation, a ritual that, to me, is transcendent of any one religion or religious tradition. Of course, that word is going to be associated for most of us with Christianity, and that may cause some of us to bristle.

I get it. I think when, when we consider the meaning of that act from the universal standpoint of water and the purification of water that I am going to you know when I think about a little baby and putting water on its head, which we did for Virginia, we had a Indian ceremony that we did when we were part of Temple tradition for summer.

In either case, what we're really doing is we're sort of anointing like with water, especially because water is the basic ingredient of life. And when we put water on the head of a child, regardless of all the doctrines in Christianity, what I what comes to my mind is saying, Welcome. Welcome into the village of things.

Welcome into the village of life. Welcome into the village of being alive, where death is a very real thing, but for now, we celebrate, protect, nourish, care for this life that you are here to live. I think that there is a way in which this, the transit of Jupiter in Cancer, is about a process of knowing how to baptize ourselves daily.

The the ways we daily baptize ourselves, so much of it goes back to self care. We metaphorically put water over our own heads when we bathe. Or my wife likes to put, you know, after she bathes, she likes to have different plant oils and essential oils and stuff like that that she puts on her skin. I think that, or I think of, what's the what's the process in Ayurveda, too, of like body oiling, anyway, all of those things are really just a way of saying, I am alive, and it's good to be alive.

You see, there's a lot of repression in religious traditions all around our planet, and a lot of that repression is rooted in the idea that physical nature is evil. This world is an illusion. This is a fallen place. This is a place we have to overcome. This is a place of endless illusions and desires and detours. And there's a way in which I think we have to honor and acknowledge the potential for entanglement in this world, such that we lose our orientation, or we lose remembrance of the fact that we are eternal.

Not surprisingly, though, the moon was a part of that path of remembrance and devotion. Think of the mala whose lunar number of 108 the prayer beads is meant to be circumambulated in your fingers, just like the moon circumambulates. And the moon as a reflection of the eternal sun, is, in a sense, about remembering our divine nature.

So Jupiter in Cancer can be about a year in which the opportunity to remember our divine nature, while also taking that water over our head, so to speak, and saying, This is holy. This place is not fallen. This place is not wrong. My life is not wrong. Nothing that happens in my life is wrong or bad or sinful or stained or lost or without cause or reason or purpose.

There can be some basic, deeper faith in the manifest cosmos itself that Jupiter and cancer provides us with. This place is mysterious. It is often fraught with peril and danger and fear and suffering, and yet I take that water and I say, it is good, it's good. It's well with my soul, and we can do that regularly.

That's the spirit of baptism that I think is universal. And we all need to go back to, you know, not surprisingly, there's, you know, even when Jesus is on the cross and he's dying, you know, there's what. Washing of his wounds, washing of his body and death. And so I think the point being that Jupiter and cancer can restore a very basic and primal faith in the reality of living an embodied life itself.

It's very basic. It needs no larger sense of the why, as much as it just needs a kind of deep breath, a hug. It's okay. This is good. You're here. Remember your divine nature. Don't forget it. But also, this is a blessed, sacred place, even though it's a little fraught, it's safe to be here. Okay, so number four sitting on grandma's lap.

I think of the wisdom of the Crone, the wisdom of the mother, even the wisdom of the maiden, the different faces of the Goddess, but really, especially Jupiter in Cancer, to me is the wisdom of women. And I mean that in of course, the most inclusive sense this is a metaphysical category, not just a literal gender category, though, I don't dismiss the reality of those categories altogether, either.

It's just we have to be we have to remember that we all have those, those archetypes live in all of us and express so differently from person to person, sitting on grandma's lap. Is an image. I think that works, though. What is the wisdom of the wise woman and the wise woman could be different stages of life. There's different wisdom.

But I love this, because Jupiter and cancer really is about the wisdom of the moon, the wisdom of the I think of my wife, who's a cancer rising, and I just think about, you know, there's, there's, there's a way she has of knowing things as a mom that are different than the way that I can know things as a dad.

I mean, that's just our relationship. I'm sure there's some men who maybe have that just as much. But there's like a knowing that moms have, and there's a knowing that women have, and I find that it is often far less conceptual and even verbose than, you know, the masculine or someone like myself sitting on, you know, prattling on here.

So anyhow, sitting on grandma's lap. Are can we allow the goddess to be our teacher in the next year? I like that a lot. Even bringing goddess worship onto your altar could be a good thing. Finally, an archeological dig. One thing that is very interesting is that the wisdom of life is the wisdom of time.

I say this because, like Plato said, Time is the moving image of eternity. So insofar as we think of cancer as the sign of the moon, we also think it think of it as one of the primary Coronavirus that means a Time Lord. You could think of the embodied world and the experience that we have of time right, as a kind of framework through which we understand eternity.

Well, one of the things that cancer is so good at doing is remembering, cataloging, archiving, collecting photo photo albuming, you know, journaling, the stack of diaries that represent the last 10 years of your life sitting on your shelf when you think about people digging up ancient ruins and finding the wisdom that has existed for 1000s of years that maybe we've forgotten, the way in which any excavation of ancestral material, Family material, ancient wisdom from other worlds that, in a sense, is timeless, but may involve needing to go back in order to go forward, or going forward allows us to shed new light on the past.

So plays throughout the excavation of time become really important, because the moon was along with the sun, the primary Coronavirus of the entire Zodiac. Why do we have 12 signs? Great circle is defined by the sun. That's the ecliptic. The great circle, broken into 1230 degree portions, rooted in the solstices and equinoxes, is attributed to the 12 Lunation Cycles and changed the rounded off.

It's a rounded number, so that 12 signs of the zodiac are thought of as the 12 lunations of the year. That reason cancer has this phenomenal way of helping us dig into cycles of time history and its relevance. So don't be surprised if there are things that come full circle. I wasn't shocked, in a sense, to see that my marriage was coming together.

The building of my life was coming together during a Jupiter and cancer year, while my parents marriage was falling apart. You'd say, well, Jupiter and cancer shouldn't bring any heartbreak. Yeah, it's not really exactly how to think about it, right? Because cycles completing themselves and sealing their cycle completion with. Wisdom is not always easy, but it is usually.

It's what deepens us, it's what sinks our root system into this earth and our respect and appreciation for it. All the more I want to finish by reading you a poem that I think perfectly embodies the the energy of of this transit. So this is a poem that some of you have heard me read before, but I if there is a poet that I think deeply embodies the wisdom of cancer, through Jupiter, through the moon, through water, the gateway of mankind.

I think it's Mary Oliver. I love her poetry so much. My wife is an even bigger fan. There's a poem that many of you know. I've read it once before. I think it's called Wild Geese. So I'll seal our considerations of Jupiter and cancer with this. You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for 100 miles through the desert.

Repenting, you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile, the world goes on. Meanwhile, the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile, the wild geese high in the clean blue air are heading home again whoever you are, no matter how lonely The world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting, over and over, announcing your place in the family of things. I'll leave it on that note, and if you stick around next, you can hear more about the upcoming program, ancient astrology for the modern mystic, which begins in June.

I hope you're having a good day, and that this will set us up to welcome Jupiter into cancer coming up here in June. Take it easy. Everyone. Bye.