Why Jupiter and Venus Are Quietly a Big Deal Right Now

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today we're going to talk about why Jupiter and Venus are quietly a really big deal right now; I don't think most people are going to pick up on or notice the fact that Venus and Jupiter are doing some really important things so I felt like this would make for a really good topic.

Also, I'm doing this because I think it's going to be a good way for us to fill out some of the transits that we've been looking at this week, including the Sun and Mars going through their square to Saturn by looking a little bit more carefully at the scheme of essential dignities and the way that those dignities are reflected in the sky right now, it turns out that Jupiter and Venus have a lot to do with what's going on. So we're going to kind of unpack that and explain why there's such a big deal and give you some things to think about that will hopefully be useful. All right, that's our agenda for today.

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Okay, so on that note, we are now going to talk about why sort of low-key Jupiter and Venus are a really big deal right now. They are, and it's kind of surprising; you wouldn't think necessarily that this is the case. But let's take a look at the real-time clock, and I'll try to explain why I'm gonna give you eleven reasons why Jupiter and Venus are a big deal right now and then what do we do with that?

First of all, when you look at the sky at the moment, this is important. We're looking at it from the standpoint of classical aspects, which are trines, sextiles, squares, oppositions, or conjunction, and conjunction actually wasn't considered an aspect. It had its own sort of special category.

Nonetheless, when you look, you see that there aren't really any aspects being formed and forget the moon because the moon moves so quickly; we're just looking at the other traditional planets, and I've excluded this, the modern outer planets for the sake of looking at the dignities the ancient dignity scheme is really appropriate for the seven traditional planets, but not the outer planets.

So you look, and you see that there aren't any aspects forming by degree with these planets, and Venus doesn't see Jupiter. So it's like, well, you know, there's no aspects being formed to Jupiter. So why would Jupiter be a big deal? And that's what most of us will think, and you know, including myself, when I was earlier on in my studies, I would just be like, oh, well, Jupiter is not that loud in the sky right now, and look at Venus. I mean, no exact, I mean, Venus and Mercury just had a sextile. But there are no exact sextiles happening, and nothing else is aspecting this; Venus doesn't see Saturn, the reverse to one another, it doesn't see Jupiter. So it doesn't look like Venus is doing all that much. Of course, she is approaching the south node of the moon, and we're going to talk about that.

But it's not like Venus is super configured to other planets at the moment, and neither is Jupiter. In fact, the action, as we've talked about all week, really looks like it's between these planets, Mars and the Sun, squaring Saturn, which has been the story of the week that we've covered at length in several videos now.

So you might go like, Okay, well, like, why would Jupiter in Venus be a big deal? Well, there are 11 reasons why let's go through them one at a time. One, we have to look at the dignities. Right now, the Sun is in the temple of Jupiter, so it's in Jupiter's sign or Jupiter's home temple. So, we have the Sun in Jupiter's power. It's like a houseguest in Jupiter's temple.

Number two, Mars, is also in Jupiter's temple. Right, so now we have a little bit more emphasis on Jupiter. The ancient astrologers often looked at the temples as likened unto the planetary deity that was associated with the temple, and the planetary deity was likened unto the temple, so Sagittarius is Jupiterian, and Jupiter is Sagittarian. You can think about it that way. There's a kind of affinity between the two of them.

So when you have two planets like Mars and the Sun in Jupiter's temple, it means that Jupiter has a lot of hosting responsibilities or hosting power right now. Imagine if you had a bunch of people in your house; your hosting responsibilities would be greatly amplified. You'd be a really important player if, all of a sudden, 17 People from your neighborhood were in your house. Well, let's keep going. Turns out Mercury's in Jupiter's sign. Look at that. There we go. There's another planet in Jupiter's power.

Let's go down the list. Oh, look, Saturn in Pisces is in Jupiter's feminine domicile. That's Jupiter's feminine temples; you got kind of a watery feminine double body, Jupiter, and you got a fiery masculine double body, Jupiter. Different aspects all the traditional planets except for the Sun and the moon had two signs, one masculine and one feminine.

So now we have Saturn in Jupiter's power. Okay. All right. Well, let's keep going. If we look carefully, and I'm going to show you this, this will show you that the Sun is in Jupiter's term. Now, what is a term? A term or a bound, the signs are all 30 degrees, and they are broken into five unequal set sections that have degrees that are ruled by a planet. These are called the bounds of the terms, and so the first number of degrees here in Sagittarius, and I tell you the exact number, but I don't have my cheat sheet handy. So, you'll see, though, that the Sun is in that section of degrees that are also ruled by Jupiter.

So, in other words, the Sun is in Jupiter's sign and Jupiter's term or bound. Keep going, Mars. Well, look, Mars is right next door. So, we also know that Mars is also in Jupiter's term. So, we have two planets in Jupiter's term and Jupiter's domicile.

Then we go forward a little bit more, and it turns out that when you look at Jupiter, we're kind of turn on an interesting corner here. So we have we have four planets in Jupiter's sign. We have 32 planets in Jupiter's sign and Jupiter's term.

Okay, so that's a lot of emphasis on Jupiter in the sky this week, and those two planets that are in Jupiter's sign and term are the ones squaring Saturn, who is also in Jupiter's sign. So you see how Jupiter is like hosting this encounter between the Sun, Mars, and Saturn. Right now, let's turn our eyes to Jupiter's actual position. So Jupiter, interestingly enough, is in Venus's sign of Taurus, and if you look, you can see that Jupiter is also in Venus's bound or term. Interesting.

Let's go forward once more. Saturn is in Venus's exultation. Pisces happens to be Venus's exultation, and Saturn is in Venus's term. So Saturn is in the exultation of Venus, and in Venus is bounder term Jupiter is in Venus's domicile while in Venus's term are bound. Ha. So now we're starting to see that Venus also has a lot of power in the sky. Let's keep going and kind of weaving some things together here. Look at Venus. Venus is in her own home sign in Libra. So she's empowered. She's in her own sign and, but look at this. She's also in Jupiter's term. She is in the term of Jupiter.

So, they have a form of mutual reception by term. That means that Jupiter and Venus are working together right now, and we also know that Venus has the most essential dignity of any planet in the sky at this time and that Venus's host exultation ruler and bound ruler for Jupiter and Saturn. So, do you see how when you start looking at these essential dignities, all of a sudden, you get a clearer picture of what's actually going on.

We've been looking all week at the archetypes of Sun and Mars, square to Saturn. But we haven't been thinking about the fact that that dynamic is hosted by or it's like, it's like being looked over, you know, and taken care of by Venus and Jupiter.

Okay, well, then it becomes very important to understand what Venus and Jupiter are doing in the sky right now. Venus is approaching a conjunction with the south node of the moon, and when Venus actually conjoins the south node of the moon, Venus will not only be in her own sign but also will move into her own term.

So Venus, again, is very powerful in the sky at this time; she's in the morning star position. She's got a kind of weighty, brilliant morning star quality. She's in her own sign; she's in her own term, and she's approaching a conjunction with the south node of the moon. She has tremendous power right now through rulership and exultation rulership over Jupiter and Saturn, who are both also in her bound. Okay, and we know that that little little chain of command here also tells us that Jupiter is hugely important at the moment.

So both Jupiter and Venus are working together through mutual reception; both have a lot of power, Venus, slightly more, but the other thing that's happening is Jupiter is approaching its station to turn direct. So what will happen is, once the Sun enters Capricorn, it'll move into a whole sign trine with Jupiter. That's only eight days from now or so. So, you know, we're talking about within four weeks of right now, Jupiter will approach its station point and sit down, stop moving, and then turn direct again, for a planet in the synodic cycle, that station to turn direct with a superior planet like Jupiter is something like its third quarter moon. It's a place of having realized the fruit of a cycle and now releasing and letting go of the cycle so that something new can get started.

So, releasing of the fruit of a cycle so that we can fully realize what we've learned and we can let go. That's what Jupiter is pointing to, as it also has power over everything happening in the sky right now. In the meantime, Venus is approaching the south node of the moon, and what does that represent?

Well, it's right near where the eclipse was, and so we have in the sign of the harvest, we have Venus, tremendously empowered, approaching the south node, which speaks with it sort of rings out also, like the conclusion of a cycle, or the revisiting of something from the past, or the bringing of peace and ease and resolution to something that has a history of greatly empowered benefic like Venus coming through the south node is sort of like saying, let's let the past go, let's bring some peace or resolution to the past.

Jupiter is also approaching a third quarter in Venus's sign; it's time to let go of something, something that's run its course; it's offered its fruit that's ready to, you know, fall off the tree and a new cycle is ready to get started from this point forward.

So, if you look carefully at dignities, they'll tell you a story about what's going on in the sky in more detail. We've looked carefully all week at Mars in the Sun squaring Saturn, and we've said a lot, I think, of pretty helpful things. But what's interesting right now is to consider the Sun and Mars's square to Saturn set against the backdrop of Venus approaching the south node, empowered as she is and working cooperatively as she is with Jupiter, who also has so much power over all the other traditional planets in the sky right now.

So now comes the interesting part where we say okay, we can understand like the chain of command, so to speak, where we can understand like, who has who's, whose archetypes are amplified as sort of these overarching, like the overseers of everything else that's going on in the sky. So what does that mean? What do we what do we do with that?

Well, the first thing that I would say is that when you look at the conflict between, you know, a debilitated Mercury in Jupiter sign, the Sun and Mars in Jupiter sign all square to Saturn and Pisces, you get a to me, what comes up is conflict around Jupiterian things. So what would that be?

Political, ideological, moral, spiritual, ethical, philosophical, intellectual, but the principles that we live by, the principles that act as the compass that orients our life, that is, quite frequently what so much emphasis on Jupiter will be about and with the Sun and Mars squaring Saturn, I could see this week being about sort of rigid, principled, fixed beliefs, dogmas, doctrines that are clashing somehow, and somewhere and likely, in relationships or in places where, you know, some degree of political tact or social savvy is needed.

You get the feeling that extreme ideas are at work right now and that Jupiter being in a Taurean, you know, a Venusian sign and Venus being in the balance hitting the south node is asking us to look for temperance or peace or asking us to soften our stance or to look at ways we can compromise to let go of old rigid ways of thinking or being that just don't work to let go of internal voices that are too strict, too loud, too proud too know it all too dominant. Yeah, well, that's good enough.

So there's some question right now. Is love and peace and harmony just as important, if not more important, than being right? You know, the temptation of self-righteousness with also an underlying sense that I should be looking for a diplomatic solution right now, and there's tension between the two diplomacy and on the one hand and like standing firm in your convictions on the other.

I think that the topic of beliefs, religion, spirituality, and romantic relationships and partnerships could easily come up right now. I think questions about how we can look for common ground with people who have very different ideas than we do. There are questions also about to what extent we try to keep the peace at all costs because we don't want people to think less of us, or we don't want to be counted out or ostracized, we don't want to be looked down upon, or we need that validation. But to what extent are we willing to compromise our beliefs or our principles for the sake of getting along? That could be just as important.

This also has history; the retrogradation of Jupiter approaching at station direct is that third-quarter moment and Venus approaching the south node, we've been here before. We've seen this dynamic play out; it has a history; the eclipse in October may have recently brought it up; I think of that October 14 eclipse in particular. So how do we move forward?

Sometimes, I don't know that the universe issues tests as though we're being graded and moving up a ladder toward, you know, some higher degree in spirit spirituality. But I do think that there's something like a test that happens; I've been here before; can I make the right mature choice right now that's reflective of what I've learned since I was here last.

The fruits are also like on the vine; you're gonna see the Venus with the south node. So well dignified and Jupiter approaching to station to turn direct, maybe something you've been waiting for is ready to appear, you know, it's like it's, it's manifested, you've long wait, you know, waiting for things over a long period of time and now seeing that they're, they're coming to fruition, that comes to my mind as well, but not without some kind of test or test of patience or metal or some kind of affront to your very being that might present itself at the same time with that Sun-Mars square to Saturn.

So I thought I would do something interesting today; in addition to presenting all of this, you know, these thoughts about the dignities, I'm going to cast the I-Ching live while I'm talking, and I'm going to pull one tarot card live, while I'm talking and we're going to see how that reading contributes to what we're talking about. So I'm going to do the I-Ching first, so the I-Ching reading, and I'll just like I'm going to actually type this in so that you guys can look it up if you want to. Let me just get a banner up.

So I just asked the question to the I-Ching that I had ready to go in an online I-Ching program that I use sometimes I like to use coins or yarrow stalks if I have enough time. But certainly, you know, this works just as well in my experience. But anyway, I just asked how can we think about the power of Jupiter and Venus in the sky right now, given all that is going on. So, the first hexagram that came back is number 57.

If you want to look this up and read more about this particular hexagram in the I-Ching. I recommend it because it might be a good meditation for you that is meaningful this week.

Anyway, I'm going to read you some of the text analysis and offer some reflections. So this one is called sometimes called Sun, the gentle the penetrating and it is wind over wind. So it's a double trigram with the upper three lines representing the trigram of wind and the lower three lines also representing the trigram of wind. Sun is one of the eight double trigrams; it is the eldest daughter and symbolizes winter wood; it has four attributes gentleness, which nonetheless penetrates like the wind or like growing wood with its roots.

The dark principle in itself rigid and immovable is talking about, you know, is dissolved by the penetrating light principle to which it subordinates itself in gentleness in nature. It is the wind that disperses the gathered clouds, leaving the sky clear and serene. In human life, it is penetrating clarity of judgment that towards all dark, hidden motives. In the life of community, it is the powerful influence of a great personality that uncovers and breaks up those intrigues which shine the light of day. The gentle

The judgment portion success through what is small; it furthers one to have somewhere to go, it furthers wanting to see the great person. Penetration produces gradual and inconspicuous effects that should be effected not by an act of violation but by influence that never lapses. Results of this kind are less striking to the eye than those one by surprise attack, but they are much more enduring and complete. If one would produce such effects, one must have a clearly defined goal; only when the penetrating influence works always in the same direction can the object be attained; small strength can achieve its purpose only by subordinating itself to an eminent person who's capable of creating order.

The image winds following one another one on the other, the image of the gently penetrating thus, the superior person spreads his commands abroad and carries out his undertakings. Sometimes, there's almost a military connotation to some of these are, like a leadership connotation, because the I-Ching was used as a form of advice for politicians and rulers within this kind of Dallas confusion background of ancient China.

The penetrating quality of the wind depends on its ceaseless softness; this is what makes it so powerful time is its instrument. In the same way, the rulers thought should penetrate the soul of the people. This, too, requires a lasting influence brought about by enlightenment and command; only when the command has been assimilated by the people is action in accordance with it possible. So what I love about this hexagram I get this hexagram frequently as a parent; I have asked questions about how to get through or how to parent through a difficult moment with my kids, and one of the things that will come back is hexagram 57. Sometimes, I use the Tarot; sometimes, I use astrology.

What I always take from hexagram 57 Is that I've been coming at it too directly to forcefully trying to assert or impress my view my principle upon my kids, as opposed to modeling it, which is not easy, and I know that's just like the tritest thing in the world to say when, you know, whatever the kids are screaming, and you feel like you're having a nervous breakdown. But it's still true, which is that modeling our principles and gently letting them influence and change behavior over time is almost always better than a nuclear moment of trying to impress the Jupiterian rule, the higher principle, even if it is a good one, right? It's Jupiterian upon my kids.

I've gotten that hexagram a bunch as a dad; other times that I've gotten that hexagram in the past have been when I feel like there's an intractable person who can't see things in the way that is actually like, right, it's like this is the this is like the right way to see things in a situation and you know, someone's being stubborn or selfish or whatever and I'm getting really frustrated, and I'm like, I'm trying to work with this person. They're being really selfish, and they're not seeing this kind of higher truth that would be good for everyone. Like, you know, something like that.

Hexagram 57 will come back and say your self-righteousness isn't going to help anything. Do you know what I mean? Gentle modeling and influence over time win hearts and souls. Okay, so a simple truth that immediately the I-Ching as I'm casting it live, right beautiful oracular response. Here, the I-Ching says something like look right now we've got the Sun and Mars in the Jupiter-ruled fire sign squaring Saturn in a double body Jupiterian water sign with a debilitated mercury, and you might be feeling the need to you might be hot-headed. Or you might be dealing with people that are sort of intractable or stubborn.

You might be trying to assert your will and your ideas too forcefully. So Jupiter in Taurus, retrograding, third quarter Venus crossing the south node of the moon. It's time for us, not that we have the wrong ideas. But we have the wrong way of trying to assert though our tone of voice isn't right. Our approach is too dogmatic, too hard-headed to self-righteous. There's something in the sky right now that supports a gentle, easy hand because the stubborn, dogmatic, assertive, fanatical way, even if there is some truth to it, isn't going to work. So I read that as a pretty simple, nice dovetail with what's going on.

Now, there's a changing line. The changing line is line five. The changing line reads determination has settled into a steady course to wear Good fortune; that was no way to start but it will lead to a glorious ending. Consider any crossroad three days before pressing on; check your bearings for three days following to ensure you won't have strayed from your course. So the fifth line is always the ruling line of the hexagram, and it sort of represents the king, and we're talking here about like a good king or queen.

That changing line is just saying things might not have started out so great, and again, maybe we hit some rocks this week with Mars and Saturn square. With Mars in the Sun square Saturn, maybe there was some bumpiness, maybe we didn't get off to the right start, or we didn't get off on the right foot, or whatever. This line says once you've kind of checked yourself and you realize the steady, slow, process-oriented, gentle but persistent, like the wind way of moving, you'll reach your goal, and it will be okay.

However, the hexagram does change into 18, which is repairing the damage, which is a warning if you have gone too far. If you keep persisting, you're going to have a mess to clean up; you're going to have damage someone or something, including yourself or your own position, and you'll have to clean it up later.

Or the other side of hexagram 18 in repairing the damage would be Don't forget you're on the right study course, but because he got off to a little bit of a rocky start. You may have some damage to, you know, like there may be some hurt feelings or some a little bit of a mess. You have to clean up, so don't forget to do that. That's hexagram 18. If you want to look that one up to brilliant, right?

Now, let's go ahead; we're gonna cast one tarot card and see what the Tarot might add in. I also want to say there seems to be every time I mentioned this on my Instagram last week; every time that I include the Tarot, there are usually a few people who will make a comment. It's like, without fail, that they believe that Tarot is inferior to astrology. So, first of all, I couldn't disagree more. I see Tarot as one of many beautiful, valid, intelligent forms of divination.

Mostly people think that Tarot is inferior to astrology because they think that astrology is a science and that Tarot is a form of divination. Well, on this channel, you will find a person who believes very deeply that astrology is nothing more than a form of divination. It's not some special science that's better than anything else. It is a form of divination, and I believe divination is a very beautiful and highly intelligent form of epistemology. Right? There's a way of knowing truth that belongs to divination, all different traditions of divination all around the world, and I think astrology participates in that legacy of epistemology.

I think you can camp astrology in a divinity way of knowing that is like its own epistemological category and that's what my book is about. That's what the book is about that I'm writing right now, and also, you know, when I see people saying things like, Oh, God, you brought in the tarot, how terrible it's, so you know, it's so it's beneath Astrology. I'm like, You know what, honestly, like, not only do I think that that's super shitty, and it's just annoying and rude, but it's just ignorant.

So if you're one of those people, I don't mean to be like, you know, calling anyone out or getting really antagonistic or whatever. But it's like, no, if you're one of those people, like you probably shouldn't watch this channel. You know, rather than saying really crappy things, if I include the I-Ching or Tarot, just change the channel.

Aside from my little rant, I know that most of the people here appreciate different forms of divination, and while you may like it that we mostly stick to astrology, you may be surprised to know that 50 to 60% If I had to guess of my daily talks when I prepare every morning before my talk through meditation, prayer, writing out what I'm going to speak for the day those these talks are informed by me usually casting a card or two and the I-Ching in exactly the way that I'm doing for you live right now.

So I'm just showing you what it's like when I don't use it as part of my prep, but it is part of my prep quite regularly and helps inform the way that I approach talking about the astrological archetypes, so put that in your book.

So we're gonna just pull up one card I don't like for the often what I do is single cards, single card pulls, so and we're just again approaching from the standpoint of getting more insight about Venus and Jupiter's role in the astrology of this week. So, the card I pulled was the Ace of Pentacles. I like this because it's almost like it to me; this gives a very different angle from the one that I-Ching gives.

One thing that's also really interesting here is about the potential for something to be; when I think of the Ace of Pentacles, I quite frequently think about the seating point; of course, Aces are like that, if you know the Tarot. Aces often represent beginnings; they're a little bit like the new moon. I think of ace cards a little bit like the new moon. A lot depends on which suit we're talking about. But the Ace of Pentacles will quite frequently represent the seeding point of something that can become fertile, very earthy.

So I think of Jupiter in Taurus stationing and turning direct, or Venus crosses the south node in themidst of this and being like, you know, we should be really, one of the reasons we might want to be careful and cautious about any kind of principled ideological conflicts that we run into right now is that this is a seating moment that has the opportunity to grow into something in the future, and so being careful and having being tactful and careful right now, with what we're doing and how we're doing it is important because I see this card as offering us the starting point of something that can grow and you want to be mindful with starting points because they, you know, the seed of the cycle is intimately tied to the fruit that the cycle bears.

We're reaching some interesting transitional space; I do think of, for example, as I mentioned earlier, Jupiter turning direct Venus crossing the south node, as the fruit that's coming from a cycle that has a real history behind it and it has the feeling of the end of a cycle. But I like about the ace is that you know, there's like a revolving door between endings and beginnings, and so the integrity, the care, the patience, the gentle, persistent, peaceful manner in which we approach conflicts, or whether they're ideological or religious, or they're, you know, rooted in our principles or beliefs.

Those conflicts coming up, if you handle them with care, can move us in seamlessly into the start of a new cycle that can bear fruit and time that can become prosperous or that has a promise of fertility behind it. That's interesting; it's as though we're on the brink of a time that may be very fertile. But how we handle it is really important.

When I combine that, I always juxtapose the symbolism, right? So take that alongside the I-Ching and everything else we've been saying today, and what I get is this sense of, like, handle this with care, and you have something that in time can bear fruit. That's an interesting thing to think about; there's a real fertility in the air to Venus and Jupiter are the planets that were associated both of them, the benefics, with the ideal conditions within which plants can grow babies can grow. So there may also be a kind of a message of this being a very fertile moment with the potential to become prosperous or abundant in time.

But that probably depends, again, given the juxtaposition of hexagram 57 of being gentle and persistent over a long period of time with something that's manifesting it, and again, the reason I would think about that is that the hexagram 57 is so much about slow, persistent efforts that deliver results in time not through forceful sudden actions, that we might be wanting to resist the temptation of that right now, because maybe that's not the thing that's going to get the cycle to grow, or the seed to bear the best fruit.

Now, that's my creative take on the card that I drew, the Ace of Pentacles. But I would love to hear from you guys in the comment section. Given what we've been talking about today. Is there some other way that you see the Ace of Pentacles maybe speaking right now? I know lots of you love the tarot. Some of you probably have been using it for way longer than I have.

So, I would love to hear your thoughts on that card and how it may play a role right now. Or anything else that we brought up today. If you're someone who knows the I-Ching, please contribute your thoughts about the hexagram that we pulled.

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