Jupiter Squares Neptune — 5 Things to Watch For

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

Today, we're going to take a look at Jupiter square to Neptune, which is coming through today. It's coming through yesterday. It really is the transit of the week. Yesterday, we took a look at it from the standpoint of historical tracking. Today, we are going to put it into that archetypal vacuum, as I like to say, and sort of turn the jewel.

We're going to give you five things to watch for given the archetypal combination of Jupiter and Neptune. I'll be taking into consideration the position of Jupiter in Cancer and Neptune in Aries as well. But a lot of these delineations should work when it comes to understanding the combination of the two planets in general, so that you could always use this as something to work with going forward, anytime you see the planets combining in the future as well.

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I hope you'll be able to attend and come along and study with us. So on that note, let's turn our attention to the real-time clock. All right. So we are today, Thursday, June 19, and we've got coming into the last part of this moon cycle. And as we do so, what we have is this historic square that's just finished between Jupiter and Saturn, and that is now completing with the subsequent square to Neptune.

So if we go back to yesterday, we'll see that between yesterday, June 18, and today, June 19, the square has perfected. They're still just within minutes apart of an exact square today. So if we take this forward just a little bit, give it a full degree of separation after the square June 23, we get the cazimi with the sun and Jupiter on the 24th, and then we get the new moon on the 25th.

Those are going to be our points of interest next week. Really epic start to the new moon cycle in Cancer. It is fascinating to me that we've got a cazimi with Jupiter, a new moon following directly after it, and both coming right off from Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune squares. Again, we're going to take a lot of time with that next week, but for today, we're going to continue our exploration of this historic Jupiter-Neptune dynamic.

This is, of course, hard to separate from the Jupiter-Saturn dynamic, which is also happening. The Jupiter-Saturn dynamic is often will often coincide with major historic shifts in things like government and policy, in the way we shape and structure meaning, purpose, direction, philosophy in our personal lives, or any specific area of our life, what to speak of, historically, societally, collectively, and it's been a big moment.

I'm recording this right now, a week prior to your hearing it. I always record a week of content in advance, and so as people right now on my channel last week are watching the Mars-Uranus dynamic unfold in the collective with riots and protests and demonstrations, and that major Jupiter-Saturn moment set right next to Mars-Uranus was something I covered on the channel a week prior to it all happening.

So collectively, there's been quite a showing of these energies that's dynamic and concerning. And yeah, it's like right on time. History is right on time, isn't it, with Jupiter square Saturn providing major moments of inflection for the direction of a country or policies and laws. It's, as you guys know, on my channel, I stick to coverage of things that are affecting us personally, psychologically—that tends to be my focus.

And you know, I let people, other astrologers, whose focus is the mundane, really cover those topics much better than I do or care to. But it is worth mentioning that these historic outer planetary cycles—Jupiter-Saturn, Jupiter-Neptune, Saturn-Neptune, conjoining—these tend to coincide very predictably with major shifts in the story that's unfolding in different collectives, a nation or a country.

Right now, obviously, I'm thinking of the United States, but I know a lot of people listen to this from all parts of the world, and things going on all around the world and the tracking of outer planetary cycles will often coincide with major narratives that are unfolding in other places as well. So anyway, all of that is just to say that by the time this transit comes through and you're listening to this real-time, it'll be interesting to see where things stand.

Because I'm just now seeing after making all the Mars-Uranus-Jupiter-Saturn content a week prior. Now, as I'm recording this this week, I'm watching all of this stuff unfold very Jupiter-Saturn-like. So all right, so we have the Jupiter square to Neptune that is technically taking place yesterday, Wednesday, but it's still very present today, has been present for at least a week, and will continue to be present the next few weeks, and really does tone the entirety of the next lunation cycle.

As I said, we'll talk more about that at the start of next week. So five things to watch for given this combination: what can we expect anytime Jupiter and Neptune meet that will be through the history of their cycle, as we outlined yesterday. So I really highly recommend doing the tracking that I recommended from the entirety of the last cycle and the start of our new cycle, which began in April of 2022.

Just so that you can have a feel for the kinds of things that tend to unfold along the entirety of their cyclical dynamic. That's a much better way to practice astrology, frankly, than just putting it into a vacuum and saying what's happening right now, because these cycles in particular tend to describe big sweeps of our personal and collective history.

So when we do put them into an archetypal vacuum, and we turn that jewel to catch light bouncing off the different angles of the archetypes, here are some of the things we're going to see with Jupiter and Neptune. In particular, one of the things that tends to be associated with Jupiter and Neptune is the two, when you put them together, have this way of delivering us narratives, meaning storylines that are very epic and grandiose.

The two come together, and there's something kind of oceanic and huge and all-encompassing about the stories that they tell. Let me give you an example. Throughout thousands of years of astrological history, we have seen the planets used by people from all different groups and nations and communities, because astrology has really been stewarded by a lot of different peoples and groups over a long period of time.

Horoscopic astrology, of course, there's forms of astrology, not horoscopic astrology, that come from all over the planet, and you'll say that the same epic narratives are present in all places across the globe. It's something very human about these stories that we tell. But the stories, for example, that are common within the use of horoscopic astrology are narratives of apocalypse, meaning a story of maybe everything falling apart, or the epic conclusion of history itself.

There's a great book that was written by Nicholas Campion, who's a history of astrology teacher and expert, and he has written several books on the history of Western astrology that are just completely awesome if you want to get into understanding the history of this art form. But he wrote a book called *The Great Year*, and in that year, he talks about recurring prophecies about the end of days or the end of times.

And those narratives typically fall along two lines. One is disaster. Everything's going to hell. All right, everything epically going to hell, falling apart, going into a dark age. You might even think of something exemplifying this, like the Kali Yuga. Like we're entering the Kali Yuga as a dark age. I'm not saying we are or we aren't. It's above my pay grade, but certainly, human beings have told stories about how everything is descending into chaos and disaster.

Whether it's ecological—a narrative about the globe and climate change—or it's a narrative about political demise, or it's a narrative about the improper use of or understanding of technology that's going to lead us to completely annihilate ourselves. There are recurring narrative arcs that we place over our personal and collective lives. One has to do with disaster. And let's just broadly use the word, very loosely, using the word sort of like damnation, like we're worth everything's going to hell.

Don't take that super literally, right? Just archetypally. And then the counter-narrative is one of salvation. Things are, there's an Aquarian Age coming. There's a bright light, you know, at the end of the tunnel, there's a sense that everything will be redeemed. This is a birth canal that we have to go through. And this darkness is nothing more than the contractions of collective labor, birthing out the enlightened version of humanity, of our potential as humankind.

So take that as another massive, epic kind of narrative Jupiter-Neptune, that their transits tend to coincide with imagined storylines of everything—everything very—you see Jupiter-Neptune love to unify things and bring coherence, and then Neptune sort of grants this imaginative largeness to things. And I think that's why, collectively, we're drawn time and time again to narratives about history itself.

It's all heading toward a light at the end of the tunnel. It's all heading toward—it's all going to hell, you know, but watch for the attraction that we feel within ourselves to something that can make sense out of all of it, that can pull it all together, that can pull what looks like just a vast ocean that can be very overwhelming and sort of perplexing, like, what is it all? What does it all mean? Why is it all here?

Jupiter-Neptune contacts will tend to try to pull it all together. Well, it's all heading toward heaven, or it's all heading toward hell. Those are two examples. But on the level of our personal lives, when I reflect back on the last cycle, as we were doing in that exercise yesterday, I'm pretty amazed by the way in which the narrative that appeared in my life was one that it was like a rainbow, you know, like a huge arc of an imagined trajectory.

Me and my wife will have a family, will get married, we'll have kids, and we have to separate this from the studio. This is the long and now I'm in that arc. I'm like in the process of it. It was real. It wasn't like total fiction at the same time, once you're within it, I think there's a way in which it has still has to become like an everyday, mundane human experience.

So often the inflection points of Jupiter and Neptune are like these moments of the renewal of our sense of vision and faith and purpose and the sense that I'm on this rainbow-arching path into the future. But then so too, and I think a lot of the Eastern traditions and their emphasis on impermanence and suffering and illusion that we have to square with the fact that this great arc—for me, for example, I look back on that Jupiter-Neptune dynamic that I unpacked yesterday about family and work, and there's a sense that this is the path that I'm meant for.

It's very imaginative, very—there's a lot of fantasy in it, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. But once you're in it, there's like, Yeah, but there's suffering, there's impermanence. You're not gonna—it's not like you'll finish this path at some point and go, "Ah, yes," no, you'll still have to die, you'll have to let go of all of it, and you'll still have to live day to day with an understanding of the shortcomings, the disappointments, the reality versus the expectations that we project onto things.

Jupiter-Neptune can be quite sparkly, so we have to be—we have to allow for grand, epic narratives to shape and sort of guide our path. But at the same time, we have to be, I think, just aware of the fact that isn't—I mean, for example, speaking of not illusion, but I guess fantasy and reality having they need to have a conversation with each other, which is that, hey, look, you know, the Mayan calendar ended, and I was a part of RealitySandwich.com.

We were so—a lot of emphasis placed on a collective transformative shift that was going to happen in alignment with that calendar. I was never so invested in it, but like that was a big part of my life for a while. I know a lot of others—well, time keeps going on, and there's new end dates, and there's new Kali Yugas, and there's New Age of Aquarius, and there's—those cycles recur because they are the imaginative lens by means of which we live a life.

And that doesn't mean that they're fake or false or untrue or that they're merely fantasies or total illusions, but it does mean that they are recurring, and if they are taken literally—not metaphorically, not imagistically, not imaginatively, because there's a reality to the imagination that's fundamental—but if they're taken literally, then there tends to be this way in which we project too much onto history.

We forget that it's cyclical. We forget the "there's nothing new under the sun" perspective, and we have to hold those two things at the same time. So these are just things that come along with Jupiter and Neptune interacting. Now, I don't mean for that to be a buzzkill. Certainly, these are moments—Jupiter-Neptune moments—that can also be deeply inspiring. And we touched on that yesterday.

And it's important to have inspiration, to have dreams, to have visions. And in a way, I mean, especially my experiences with Ayahuasca taught me that there are fundamentally—reality is fundamentally multi-dimensional, and that realms of Heaven and Hell, Apocalypse and salvation, or redemption and fallenness, is something we weave in and out of cyclically in this world.

So rather than thinking about it as one final end state, I like to think about the experiences of heaven and hell as ongoing aspects of reality itself. There's hell realms, there's heaven realms, and certainly, history has a way of dipping its toes into either at different times. I've also been really drawn—I think, personally, I'm drawn to the idea of cyclical ages and stages and things like that.

But anyway, that's neither here nor there. Certainly, like I like to say about all this, you know, what do I know really, at the end of the day, nothing? Number two on my list is expanded horizons, exploration, pioneering, in the sense that more is now possible when Jupiter and Neptune get together. The richness of the imagination, the subtlety, the invisibility, and the sense that Jupiter contacting that realm of invisible, subtle, intangible or ineffable things makes it suddenly possible to reach or touch or understand or comprehend or bring into life through some kind of guidance system or paradigm.

I think a lot about Jupiter-Neptune when I think about the transmigration of—or the migration, I should say—of yoga and yogic technologies to the west. Remember, you know, the 60s and onward, as these things were coming in, and they were really tapping into people's sense that there is a lot more out there that I thought there was in terms of my religious participation as a human being.

I thought it was just sort of like Catholicism or nothing. You know, like a lot of people in just the last 100 years are now way more aware of the tapestry of religious and spiritual traditions on our planet. It's a very Jupiter-Neptune kind of phenomenon. So more being possible, spiritually, psychologically, and in any given field of life, any given industry, the sense of expanded horizons is a real Jupiter-Neptune theme.

Also, the sense that I can move into or beyond ordinary consciousness—the sort of non-ordinary, mystical, non-dual kinds of states. These moments—Jupiter-Neptune—often coincide with a feeling that I'm at a crossroads spiritually, that there's something almost slightly miraculous taking place. That doesn't always mean it's easy, but that there's something fated or destined, that sense of synchronicity, historically, personally, that takes place over the course of a season of our life where everything feels like, "Oh, I'm in a little fast-moving channel of destiny," and that can enhance our sense of life's meaning and purpose.

Even if the channel we're running through is filled with some turbulent events, there's still a sense that, "Oh, here's Destiny again. And we're channeling it really quickly." Number three: an all-embracing attitude or approach. I've done a little bit of work with the—oh my gosh, now I'm going to forget it. There's a type of therapy that has to do with honoring and acknowledging the different inner voices. And I'm forgetting the name of it.

I read a book on it last summer and have brought a little bit of that into my life after reading this book and taking some of the techniques that it recommended. It was basically like, who's on your inner committee? What are the voices? How do you repurpose some of the really harsh or cruel voices inside? You don't just kick them out, but you give them a different job, or you acknowledge them, and you try to understand where that voice is coming from, but then maybe repurpose it.

I have been really impressed by that kind of work. It's so astrological because a lot of those voices can be found in our charts. Those voices are reflected by the psychic and psychological dimensions of a birth chart. I think what I love about Jupiter-Neptune is it really is the overarching philosophy governing the inner committee that says everyone is welcome here, even little shit-sticks, even the voice of that stupid little asshole who's always complaining, always telling you you're ugly, you know.

But I'm kidding. Jupiter-Neptune, to me, is this very all-embracing. It's very positive, but it can be positive without being sappy. If you've ever been around people who are truly open-minded—I don't mean like, "I'm open-minded" stamp, you know? I mean, the open-mindedness is like, "Oh, this person's really, honestly curious." They don't divide their life in terms of, like, these are the things I believe and I think, and the people who believe the other things I don't are my enemies.

And they're over there, and I'm over here. I guess I'm kind of making fun of that. But the idea really that I'm trying to get at is that you'll meet people from time to time—even if they have their own defined beliefs, views, commitments on any level, politically or religiously or philosophically—that they don't carry those things in a way that's exclusive or divisive.

There's a bigness of heart, a generosity of spirit that lives in such people, and it's very inspiring if you ever come into contact with them. And some of—I'm blessed to say that I have had a few teachers in my life who've really modeled that for me. And it's something I don't feel like I accomplish, but I certainly strive for, which is, you know, I've got my commitments and my convictions, I try to remain open to the fact that those things are usually evolving and changing.

And I try to be someone who has a generous spirit that can kind of see that there's a purposefulness behind every last thing in creation, that there is a meaning and a rhyme and a reason, a season for everything. And I don't have to understand it. I don't have to like it. I don't have to feel, you know, I don't have to come up with some falsely positive attitude about it, but still, there's something deep inside that just says yes, yes, yes, okay, I accept, I don't understand, I don't like, but okay, remaining curious, remaining thankful, remaining open.

Jupiter-Neptune has a very all-embracing, kind of gracious space. It's funny, one of the things that happened when I was working with Ayahuasca that really helped me take a step in the direction of what I'm describing here was—I would say all the way into my 20s—I, and I'm not kidding when I say this, and I'm sure some of you can relate—there was rarely a day ever in my life that I can remember looking in the mirror and liking the way I looked.

There was always a negative voice that was present that said, "You don't look good enough," or sometimes even meaner, "You're ugly," and lots of other very specific criticisms. I don't remember—really, don't remember ever looking and liking what I saw. I know a lot of people can relate to that. I know because I've talked to so many people over the years in astrological counseling that I know I'm not alone in that.

Then these Ayahuasca ceremonies came into my life, and I developed new eyes. I don't know how else to put it. In fact, I was just writing about this in my book, and I was just saying, like, I somehow just learned to love what I saw. I considered a miracle that I developed different eyes for myself, that I somehow just said yes to all the parts of myself.

Now, I should qualify that—it's not that there was a major shift that happened, but it's, you know, there's still a voice there that doesn't like what it sees or that criticizes, but I've learned how to work with that voice. I've learned how to repurpose it. Maybe it has certain kinds of critical discriminating skills that are really nice, but not when it comes to looking in the mirror at me, you know, like with a mean voice.

So anyway, I think one of the hardest things to do internally is to develop a true, honest—not embellished—sense of self-love and acceptance. Very Jupiter-Neptune. These two planets coming together are about the larger embrace that we can have for ourselves. And the basic thing that I learned in those Ayahuasca ceremonies was just a different way of seeing myself in the mirror—and also not to go in the opposite direction of being like, "You're wonderful. You're just the most amazing thing ever."

You know, it wasn't like that. It was just, "You're good enough. You just are what you are." There's a more like an acceptance than like some inflation, right? But then in time, acceptance leads to appreciation, and appreciation leads to a more intimate connection with yourself. That's certainly been my experience, although it's, I think, like probably many of you, it's an ongoing thing.

I love Jupiter-Neptune moments in terms of the ability I have to say yes to more than I thought I could, especially about the things that I find unlovable about myself. Usually, that work, by the way, for me, most directly translates into being a better parent for my kids. There's a lot of the child within us. I think that Jupiter and Neptune helps us to—it's like the wisdom of a child, you know, like that.

You know, look at children if you want to see and understand heaven. There's something in us that, like my experience is a lot of children—not all in all moments—are very all-accepting and embracing, similar to my dog. My dog loves me like no matter what, all the time, always happy to see me. I think that Jupiter-Neptune often brings in more of a childlike, accepting, inviting, embracing energy.

Now, number four on my list is what gathers versus what separates. Here, it's very simple. Jupiter and Neptune are together in some interesting signs. Neptune in the sign of Aries—although Neptune always has a way of emphasizing unity, like the ocean as a single thing—in Aries, it's interesting because people can gather and unite around what divides and separates.

Jupiter in Cancer loves to gather things together along bonded emotional lines—groups, families, clans, tribes, cultures, races, religious groups. Jupiter in Cancer can be very communal and very much about, like, you know, "blood is thicker than water." Is that how it goes? You get it. So when Jupiter and Neptune come together, I really think in these signs—in Aries and Cancer—I think we're looking at the potential for that sense of where are the dividing lines between groups or communities and competing definitions of what we should all be united under, philosophically or emotionally.

This is the Neptune in Aries, Jupiter in Cancer, to me, feels a little bit like the Hatfields versus the McCoys. You remember that there was a show, I think it's like an old West story about rivaling families. I think the question behind this philosophically, given the intense presence of Saturn with Neptune, both in Aries, a martial sign, and then Jupiter in Cancer, this sign of emotional and familial, tribal, communal, ancestral unity and legacy—is what brings us together versus what separates us into various groups or factions.

The sense that those grand narratives are being guided by different emotionally charged affiliations—one type of unity versus another. Not surprising that when Neptune was in Aries, the Civil War began. So I'm keeping an eye on that personally and collectively, because there's very—where very well could be something coming up that says, "Oh, you have to make some kind of choice across, you know, firing lines or something."

What is the deeper sense in which we can invite unity, a unity consciousness amidst times of great division? I think that's a profound and not easy question right now. Number five: origin myths and redemption narratives—also questions about where things come from. What is the origin of this problem, and how is it solved? What is the origin of our issues, ancestrally, karmically, historically, and familiarly—or ancestrally, I guess, is good enough.

So anyway, so Jupiter square Neptune, to me, has to do with questions about where everything came from, and how do we redirect something with a problematic beginning toward a promising end? Again, kind of going back to those grand narratives about history, Jupiter-Neptune can also be very personal in that sense, though, where the question is, "What are my roots? Am I still loyal to them? Am I going in a new direction relative to where I started?"

So questions about where everything comes from and how things can be corrected if they need to, or how things can be open to change, even if it's not continuing on the same path that it started from. These are the kinds of things I would not be surprised to see given the incisive, martial quality of Neptune in Aries along the unity and origin themes of Jupiter in Cancer, a sign associated with the birth of the cosmos, the birth of humankind, and birth in general.

Also, births that have a tremendous, impactful starting point come to my mind with Jupiter-Neptune right now, like the promised child motif. Jupiter-Neptune feels to me—and I said this when I was looking at Jupiter-Saturn—a little bit like, you know, in the beginning of the Christian story is the promising young child that has this kind of prophetic power coming behind it, the star that's followed, the attempt by a king to kill this child because it's threatening an old way of life, the hiding of the child, the birth of the child, the promise—all of those things.

You can feel how charged they are with meaning and hope and redemption, but they're clouded with a sense of danger and maybe a rocky start. I think that's probably getting at some of the presence of both Saturn and Neptune in the mix of the square to Jupiter. But anyway, I'm rambling a bit now, so I'm going to stop here.

We'll have a little bit tomorrow looking at transits coming in over the weekend. And I want to also remind you that right now, we are in the process of co-host auditions for the show. So if you are very thankful for Alex and Dana's year of service and Whitney and Alexandra's year of service, they will be around creating some bonus content in the channel over the next year.

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We use this as a way of helping promising astrologers coming through our programs to build their platforms and their careers. And you know, to me, if my platform and the community—the school—can be a place that builds the success of the larger field of astrology and a promising, you know, generation of young, new astrologers, then I feel like that's the kind of legacy I want to leave behind.

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