What to Expect Now that Jupiter and Uranus are Together in Taurus

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today we are going to talk about the fact that now that Jupiter has entered the sign of Taurus, it will be with Uranus in a whole sign co-presence. Eventually, a conjunction by degree for the next year, and that's really special. The conjunctions of Uranus and Jupiter signal the beginning of a new cycle that is defined by some pretty benefic and exciting themes.

Today we're gonna talk about what those Jupiter Uranus themes are like and the timeline of the Jupiter Uranus transit over the next year. And we're going to also talk about some of the previous Jupiter Uranus conjunction periods so that you can look back in time and see how they have played out for you. So a lot to get to today, and I'm really excited because to me, you know, Jupiter-Uranus periods when their co-present coincide with some of the most exciting and uplifting astrology that we have to talk about when it comes to the slower moving planets and their combinations. So I think this is a great one for us to take into the weekend here.

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All right, so today we are going to be looking at the Jupiter-Uranus in Taurus timeline to start with, and I'm going to open up the real-time clock. And let's take a look at this configuration. So I've just eliminated everything but Jupiter and Uranus so that you can see that they are traveling together at the moment. Now this, of course, just began here in the month of May. And let's take this forward and watch how the transit evolves over the course of the next year.

So when a planet like Jupiter is in the same sign as Uranus, you notice that they're both turning retrograde around the end of the summer. So Uranus right around the end of August, the beginning of September, and then Jupiter retrograde right around the beginning of September as well. When planets are in the same sign but not yet conjoined by degree, they are called in ancient astrology; they're called co-present.

It's like two people that are in the same temple or the same house. So because they're in the same space, that space in your chart, let's say it's the eighth house or the seventh house or the first house or something like that, will be impacted by the combination of those two planets, even if they are not conjoined by degree. It's as though the conjunction is already affecting the whole sign house and its topics by virtue of the fact that those two planets are present in the sign at the same time. So from the whole sign House perspective, in other words, Jupiter and Uranus are going to be acting as though conjoined well before they joined by degree.

So you can start looking at that whole sign house of Taurus and your birth chart and applying all of the archetypal combinations that we're going to talk about today; we have five Jupiter-Uranus themes we're going to talk about, and you can start looking at those themes in terms of the topics of that whole sign house in your birth chart that Taurus occupies.

Now, they're going to configure by degree, and so we have to ask, well, what's the difference between being co-present in the same sign, blending their significations together by whole sign co-presence, and then the actual moment of conjunction by degree so when the planets get to within three degrees of an exact conjunction, ancient astrologers call this an engagement, and here you can see I've fast-forwarded the clock. We're in the early part of April 2024 when Jupiter comes to within about three degrees of Uranus.

So at this time, they become active in an engagement in the bodily union or what we now call a conjunction is about to occur. So let's watch how that happens in April, the significations come together, and this is April 19. Let's take it forward one day to April 20, and then that crosses over by April 21. So if we take this back to within the three-degree range, let's get it to about exactly three degrees. This is three degrees on April 3, and the conjunction then occurs. So that's April 3; it starts the conjunction and then occurs about April 20. And then April 21, you're starting to see them separate. And then let's give them three degrees of separation. And here we have that three degrees of separation by about May 7.

So that's almost a full month, really; when you think about it, you're so close to a month where these two planets will be in engagement. So April to May of next year is the kind of like the, what do I want to call it, the grand finale of the fireworks show. If the two of them are co-present, it's like going to see fireworks on the Fourth of July, you got a lot of interesting things to watch, and the show has begun. When it gets to that engagement range, you're reaching the grand finale, where the biggest and brightest, most spectacular display of fireworks are all going off. And that's the difference for ancient astrologers between a co-presence and a bodily union; the bodily union and that engagement range are like the grand finale that co-presence moving through the same sign but not yet joined, would be more like the show but not the peak of the show.

So then, Jupiter in Taurus will switch signs, and it does so right around May 26, that might be May 25, somewhere in there the 25th to 26th of 2024. Jupiter's then in the sign of Gemini, and we have effectively begun a new season. And so we have, for if you think about it that way, we have from May of this year 2023 to May of 2024 to enjoy the co-presence of Jupiter and Uranus and then to, especially in the month of April in May to enjoy the grand finale.

Now that grand finale is going to be the greatest intensification of the themes that we will visit today, all of which will be active throughout the entire year, peaking in April and May, just so that makes sense to everybody. Now what I want to do before we go into those Jupiter Uranus themes is to look back actually, you know what, I'm going to reverse this order; I just changed my mind. I can change my mind; as my wife likes to say, when our kids are getting stuck in something, you can change your mind.

So alright, let's look at five Jupiter Uranus themes. Now, you're going to apply these to that whole sign house of Taurus in your birth chart and the topics of that house if you know them, and we'll be doing horoscopes on Jupiter Uranus as co-presence down the road a little bit. So I'm not going to go into that today. But if you're like, well, I don't know, just stay tuned because if you know your rising sign in the next couple of weeks, I'll probably be doing a horoscope for Jupiter-Uranus. Now these five themes we want to apply to the year ahead, in that whole sign house of Taurus in our birth charts, are just generally these themes that will be active in your life, and if you don't know your chart well enough to follow, that's okay; you can just take these themes and notice that they'll be present in your life in general.

Then what we're going to do after we go through these five themes is we're going to look back at the last couple of Jupiter Uranus conjunction periods so that you can also go back in time and get a feel for what those previous periods were like. You could maybe look at your birth chart and those whole sign house areas to get a feel for what might have been happening, and from there, you can then have more of a history of this transit, kind of fresh in your body and mind to work with as Jupiter and Uranus are now co-present again.

So let's get into the five Jupiter Uranus themes, and I want to also point you to one of my favorite books. The archetypal universe by Renn Butler. This is one of the books that I researched took a couple of things from him today that I'm going to mention. I also like I always like to reference it if I use him. The other thing that I want to point you to is the fact that on July 2, Becca Tarnis will be visiting us to give a whole talk on the Jupiter-Uranus archetypal combination and Jupiter-Uranus cycles and how they've shown up in the collective and how they tend to affect us psychologically.

The Summer Speaker Series, if you go to my website, nightlightastrology.com, and go to the Speaker Series page, it should be up by the time this video is public. If you go there, look at the speaker series page, you can sign up for free for any of our summer speaker series, and Becca will be one of the speakers giving a talk on these themes.

I have taken these themes very much from the world and writings and teachings of Richard Tarnas. Renn Butler, of course, comes out of that lineage as well. So these themes are ones that I remember reading about, you know, going back to cosmos and psyche; I remember reading that book in, I think, was like 2006 or seven or something like that. And if you've never read that book, that's another great place to look for more information about Jupiter-Uranus. There's a section in there that talks about Jupiter-Uranus periods and what kinds of archetypal themes they bring.

So those are the references that really informed this talk today, The Archetypal Universe and Cosmos and Psyche anyway, and also in experiencing the transits of Jupiter and Uranus, their squares, their opposition's and their conjunctions in my own life in the lives of clients and reading charts for people. And in looking back historically at the previous Jupiter-Uranus conjunction periods.

I think that there are some really beautiful things that we can say about this combination. It's a very special pairing in terms of being overtly one of the more positive, uplifting, exciting astrological transits; I feel like we often have to talk about the heavy, transformative, painful, necessary, but ultimately good work of Pluto or Saturn or whatever.

Jupiter-Uranus is like subjectively one of the more exciting, positive, uplifting, kind of put-a-bounce in-your-step kinds of transits. So, legitimate reason to be excited, and it's okay like not every transit in the world has to be like, alright, let's just shove your face in the impermanence of everything you know.

Anyway, number one, sudden, unexpected breakthroughs or awakenings. Now that may seem Uranian, just that may just sound like Uranus. But what makes it really positive is that Jupiter adds the idea of it being uplifting and beneficial. So you have that Uranian potential for something to happen that is sudden, disruptive, shocking, usually with a feeling of awakening involved, but it can be like the tower card in the tarot. It can like it can, bolt down and destroy things.

When you have Jupiter, the sudden unexpected Lightning Bolt has more of a positive, optimistic beneficial; it has the feeling of like a lightning bolt of mercy, of blessing of redemption, of faith of hope of success. And so, you know, where Uranus and Jupiter come together in the same sign, they're planting a seed, and they're starting a new cycle, and how does it begin by the sudden rapid developmental positive blessings that come on sort of unexpectedly, and like liberate, break up the mundane and the old in the usual and the habitual, but with a feeling or an aura of like positivity, and like the rain coming in a drought, it just feels like ah, it's like relieving and unexpected and beneficial. I can't say it any other way.

That is the like the end. That's why people love this transit. Genuinely astrologers who know this transit on the archetypal level, you won't find them saying like, Oh, you know, this is gonna be, like, so hard or difficult. This is a transit that, for many people, depends on where it's landing on your chart, what it's touching on, you know, everything like that; it's contextual, based on each one of us.

But this is a transit that I mean when I tell you these previous periods, and I'm going to share, as I always do, my own detective work and what I found, these periods in my own life have been some of the most expansive, positive, unexpected, exciting periods that I've had, and so I think we have that to look forward to the rapid, unexpected onset of expansion, growth, development, blessings, optimism, hope that come with this. Now that's going to peak, especially in April and May, right when we get into that space where the actual bodies of the planets are coming together by degree, but it's in the air until then, growing.

Number two is rapid development toward greater freedom, success, and innovation. So one of the things that happens is you'll get an idea, and the idea will grant greater freedom or flexibility or could make something more successful, and it represents some kind of innovation And then what happens is the idea is rapidly developed and implemented very quickly. I'll never forget there was when there was a Jupiter-Uranus opposition.

Now opposition's will bring this same quality on, but they'll often bring it on because you've reached the kind of full moon crisis of a cycle in your life, and so expansion and rapid development and innovation moving toward greater freedom is coming because of like a crisis or a tension that's reaching a breaking point. That's like, the opposition tends to be like that. This is a conjunction.

So it's, in a sense, it's much easier. But when that happened, the place where we had our yoga studio located, in the DC metro area, there were putting in a parking lot next directly next door to our yoga studio, and they were like using dynamite and like blowing things up. And it was, like, the world's least peaceful environment all of a sudden, and so we suddenly found ourselves in the crisis of having to relocate, and the place we found happened to have the same basic amount of rent, which was about twice as big.

So suddenly, we were faced with the need to expand and grow, which was positive, but it was coming under the stress of, you know, the opposition in this really intense situation with a parking garage going up. That was a Jupiter-Uranus opposition. I'll tell you more about the conjunctions in my own history going back, but conjunctions are a bit more like the seating or starting point. So there's, it's not like what's happening as being born out of, you know, the crisis or drama of a square or an opposition; there's a smoother feeling of like a new era, a new beginning, and everything feels kind of young and more hopeful, and in a sense, sort of innocent and exciting.

That idea, that seeding idea that appears with Jupiter and Uranus, will develop very rapidly and very quickly now; it may take a long time to like fully develop and mature and things like that. This is the start of a cycle, after all, but you will be surprised at how quickly things will take off, especially things that come into your life and offer the promise of greater flexibility, freedom, happiness, openness, and more of yourself coming forward somehow. Usually, there's also associated with it the need to innovate or think outside of the box. The Uranian pieces should be familiar, but it's the rapid success and kind of enthusiasm and like, oh my god, this is going to work. Right? That is so Jupiterian.

Number three is hope, optimism, and experimentation. Now, these are all similar themes, right? But there are a few little nuances I want to riff off from. So, in general, these eras in any kind of Jupiter transit will be defined by opportunity, but the opportunity has to be taken advantage of, right like, they say, you know, good luck is nothing more than when preparation meets opportunity, this transit is a little bit like that, in terms of like, you know, amazing miraculous things are not always going to just like land on your doorstep and surprise you and you have to do nothing. There will be a feeling in the air of hope and optimism, but also the need to take risks to take opportunities.

I use the word experimentation, but it could be risk-taking, or it could be, you know, putting yourself out there somehow or taking an opportunity or jumping at an opportunity leaping at an opportunity. You know, some transits are very look before you leap; in some ways, Jupiter-Uranus is a little bit leap, and then look, it truly is.

There's an aura around this transit of hope, optimism, possibility, and opportunity. But it doesn't get us anywhere unless, at some point, we say I'm going to experiment with something, I'm going to take a risk, I'm going to try something. So different words to get at the same thing. But don't just sit on this period. In other words, you have to do something with it. The good feelings are amazing.

Sometimes, when the good feelings come around with Jupiter-Uranus, it's almost like you don't think that you have to do anything because everything feels so good that the world is your oyster, and you kind of feel like everything's just gonna fall into place and sometimes it will but a lot of the times it's because we take some risks, and we have to put ourselves out there take advantage of opportunities, even if we don't feel totally ready Jupiter Uranus somehow likes that it says you're not ready. Who cares? Do it? I don't always give that advice, as you guys know on this channel, but every archetype is different.

Too good to be true, over-promising, and under-delivering. Now, this is the flip side; sometimes, this transit will hold out an ideal image of what something could be, and you have to be ready for the possibility that it will be something good. But it may not be everything that you hoped for. It's sort of like, I remember that that period where we expanded the yoga studio, you know, that was, we had so many dreams and hopes and wishes that were coming with that, and a lot of them came true, but not all of them. Some of them were a little far-fetched. And we figured that out, you know, in time.

There was a kind of feverish optimism, a gold rush that comes in with Jupiter-Uranus, and the things that we desire that we find attractive and compelling as a Venus-ruled sign. Some of them will, will be, they will become concrete realities vary, it's sometimes very quickly and unexpectedly, but because there's such an ease and a smoothness, it's like taking flights, like growing wings and becoming like a Pegasus or something. All of a sudden, you feel sort of invincible. But you know, I'm sure in myths and fairy tales, like, the Pegasus probably has natural enemies, you know, what I mean?

So you, you have to be careful not to get intoxicated, with the sense of being immortal, and have, you know, you can fly too close to the sun and burn your wings and come flying back down, and so you have to be, you don't, this is not the kind of things where you want to. You don't want to clip someone's wings or clip your own wings; that would be equally unfortunate, it would be an equally bad thing to do under this transit, but you also have to be careful not to fly too high, or at least to be okay with the fact that if you fly too high, you know, you aim too high, like you're not going to achieve every last thing that you think you will.

But isn't that how? I think back to, you know, when, like, my wife and I were dating, you know, and like, when you're so in love, and you're just in the fever of, you know, puppy Love or whatever, you're just like, Oh, my God, you're intoxicated, and you dream what your life will be and what you'll do and like a lot of that stuff, if you're actually in love, and you have a great relationship, like I'm thinking about my wife, and I like a lot of stuff that we dreamed about, we've done, you know, we've made a business together and had kids and like, you know, it's like, a lot of that has been in, it's been amazing.

Now, there are some things that we dreamed about that, like, we just didn't have the bandwidth for we couldn't pull it all off, you know, and that's fine, that's normal, that's healthy, that's natural. You have to keep that in mind under this transit because people will sometimes quit on themselves or throw away opportunities if they can only get eight out of ten things and not 10 out of 10. So weird transit in that sometimes people get a little all-or-nothing with it. All right.

Then five would be the sort of manic and grounded enthusiasm. I don't mean that in any clinical sense; I just kind of mean that the mania and an ungrounded enthusiasm that comes with this can be problematic in terms of becoming self-righteous, or, you know, thinking again, thinking you're invincible, or potentially having some kind of unhealthy view of the way things are, that's fueled by overconfidence or something like that.

You want to; again, I think the far greater danger with this transit would be clipping your wings, sitting on your hands and not doing anything, not taking opportunities, not taking risks, not following the urge to do something out of the box. I think that's a far greater danger. I hate it, for example, when people talk about Neptune transits, and the first thing they say is, don't go getting caught in an illusion or something. It's like, you know, yeah, that can happen, but I'm far more concerned about people not having an imagination and not taking advantage of the timeless, subtle, imaginative, romantic dimensions of Neptune than I am people, you know, somehow falling asleep at the wheel and, you know, getting caught up in an illusion as it does happen with Neptune.

But I think far more regularly, people don't recognize the benefits and blessings of Neptune and how to engage with them. Right? The same thing is true for Jupiter-Uranus. Yes, you can get ungrounded, and you can get into the overpromising and under-delivering or no kind of self-righteous aggrandized all-or-nothing thinking or manic ungrounded enthusiasm. Those are dangers, but far more dangerous would it be, in my opinion with this, to not follow your heart, take flight and do that experimental, you know, create the renaissance in your life, the rebirthing of Jupiter-Uranus, I think it's far more dangerous that people feel the nice feelings and do nothing about them. Do you know what I mean?

This is an opportunity, this transit, to participate in great rebirths and awakenings and experimental, innovative, revolutionary activities with a spirit of hope that can move your life along and help you evolve and grow. So to me, I hope that we heed that calling while Jupiter and Uranus are together.

Now s promised, let's go back to the previous Jupiter-Uranus conjunctions and take a look at what they have offered us. I'm going to put the real-time clock back up, and I'm going to tell you what I found in doing this research only so that it can stimulate you to do your own kind of research. So we're going to go back in time, and we're going to find their last conjunction. So here is their last conjunction; we're going to see them coming together in the sign of Pisces starting in January of 2010.

Now we're going to watch as they kind of moved through Pisces together, and this is all the way through the spring of 2010. Then they can join actually in the early degrees of Aries. So for the last conjunction, you're actually looking at the whole sign house of Pisces and Aries.

Pisces and Aries because after they can join in Aries, they both turn retrograde and go back into Pisces, where their second conjunction through retrograde occurs in the late degrees of Pisces in September of 2010. It then comes back one more time and conjoins in January of 2011.

So for me, as a Taurus rising, let me show you how that falls into place. Okay, so as a Taurus rising, and I'm just using this as an example because this is what you guys should do, apply it to the whole sign houses of Pisces and Aries and look at what was happening. So when the two of them and I'm gonna go back in, so I'll just spell it out more generally.

So the 11th House dynamics coincided with me launching Nightlight Astrology, and more specifically, a meetup group in Manhattan that was devoted to I facilitated a meetup slash study group that was donation based, which would become my school in several years at the same time that I was launching my astrology business.

So I launched an astrology community and my astrology business with Jupiter Uranus in the 11th house. Nightlight literally got started with that Jupiter-Uranus conjunction; it went into the 12th house. And as it went into the 12th house, I was engaged to be married to a person who I still think of as a wonderful friend and a really wonderful soul, but that relationship wasn't working out, and so as Jupiter Uranus conjoined in my 12th house, I realized that it was time to end the relationship, which was a very difficult 12 house like event, but ultimately one that was very liberating.

The final conjunction of Jupiter Uranus, which went back into the 11th house, I met Ashley, my wife, with who I would start working within the context of a yoga community and retreat and a community gathering space that would eventually lead to us dating and then starting our own yoga studio and getting married. So those were some pretty powerful conjunctions in my birth chart, right?

So look at 2010 and 2011; you could rewind the video and look at the timeline again if you need it repeated. But let's go back in time. Here's the next one. This one took place as Jupiter entered Aquarius in the winter of 1997, and then Jupiter-Uranus were co-present all the way this is through the fall of 1997. Then they finally separate when Jupiter enters Pisces in February of 1998. So we're talking about the winter of 97 to the winter of 98.

Now again, I'm going to show you how this showed up in my chart and what was going on, so that conjunction fell into my 10th house. Now I was just I was in high school. So this was not like something I didn't have a career yet. Right, but something that was interesting that happened at that time was that I got more intensely involved in a large statewide church youth group committee. It was like youth as leaders of various programs for other youth, like a peer leadership group that I got really involved in.

Through my involvement in that group and community, I became really interested in theology and philosophy, and so I was getting really involved in these state Christian youth councils and starting to get really interested in philosophy and theology, and that was the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus and Aquarius in my 10th house. So a lot of group and leadership kinds of things and programs and communities that I was getting involved in, as well as starting to develop an interest in theology and philosophy and world religions in general. So, really interesting developmental period.

Now let's go back in time again, so do that for yourself and look at the whole sign house of Aquarius during that 97 to 98 period. Let's go back yet again. Now, let me just back this up a little bit. So here's Jupiter in Sagittarius, and this is in 1982. Now, for me, I was too young to have any meaningful things to say around this time because I was just a year old into like two years old. So I don't have any memories that I can remember.

But for those of you out there who are a little bit older than me, I was born in 81. For those of you out there a little bit older, this transit came through between December of 83, and the conjunction would have come through a few times during 83, and then the final passage moves on to Capricorn by January of 84. So you can do that and look at the whole sign house of Sagittarius. You can keep going back in time to see how those previous alignments worked out.

The point for me in doing that, the thing that was really interesting was in noticing what happened during those periods, sudden, unexpected breakthroughs or awakenings; for example, when I was in high school, I would say that the thing that happened to me that was really profound was I started realizing how deeply I was interested and fascinated by religion, theology, philosophy, and so forth.

In the next period of my life, you know, the sudden unexpected breakthrough happened when I got out of a relationship where I was engaged to be married, and also started Nightlight and started a community centered around astrological learning.

Those were, you know, major periods of unexpected breakthroughs, rapid developments, and, you know, there was a spirit in the air, you know, in that last Jupiter-Uranus period, that was filled with hope, optimism, and experimentation that led me, you know, in and out of, of a really, you know, out of a relationship, and into a new community where I met my wife starting my own astrological community.

That was a very expansive period. Not I mean, I had a little bit in the 12th house. So some of it was not totally easy, but it was still very expansive, but 12 Little 12 house with the breakup I went through. But, yeah, I highly recommend, and also, I will say that you know, during those periods, you know, there was some ungrounded, like enthusiasm to it, was, like, totally a part of those periods of my life. And I look at it, and I think that's just, it's just kind of sweet, though, you know, it's like, it just comes. It's just part of the territory. It's like spring fever or something.

So anyway, I hope this was useful for you and that you had some good takeaways and that, you know, just what I like to do is share a few stories in the exercise that you can, you know, just get into that mode of remembering, and hopefully, you can apply by whole sign house. Now we're going to do some horoscopes where I help you, you know, guide you with that a little bit more. And during those horoscopes, I'll bring up those previous periods as well. Anyway, that's it for today. I hope you guys are having a good one and that this gave you some useful things to think about as we go into the weekend, and we will see you again next week. Bye, everyone.