Why Jupiter in Cancer Is Something to Celebrate

Monday June 24th 2013

Charles Robinson’s illustration
for Shelley’s The Sensitive Plant.

I asked Cancerian fellow astrologer Renée Lascala to write about Jupiter’s ingress into her Sun sign, which takes place this week.  Jupiter will travel through Cancer for a full 12 months, so we’d better get used to this energy. I love what Renée had to say, and in truly generous Jupiter in Cancer style she wrote so much, that I’ve split her article into two parts. Here is the first part.

Jupiter’s arrival in one’s sign is auspicious.  Of course it’s natural to expect something big or fortunate, something great. And Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, which means that Cancer provides the ideal setting for Jupiter’s expression:  self-knowing, emotional happiness, self-realization and enlightenment.  

Cancer, given the slightest opportunity, provides full realization of place. A true Cancerian IS home to loved ones. So it should come as no surprise that welcoming Jupiter is a mandate and a great joy for we children of the Moon. 

I’ve been missing Jupiter since 1 August, 2002.  And like many Cancers, can vividly remember the halcyon years past in which Jupiter came to stay.  Some of the most important yeses of my life were said in those times. 

We Cancers also recall that bereft feeling and maybe more than one hard come-down from June 2003 through July 2005 when Saturn, in detriment in Cancer, fell on us all like a great leaden anvil.  It’s been eight years, and I still cannot dream as expansively, nor suspend disbelief fully, or play ‘what if’ with such abandon as I did when this century began. 

Last October, Saturn departed his place of exaltation, our Fourth House, Libra.  Many people lost homes or faced terrific pressures to keep them in the Libra years. Flaws in any and all structures we were nurturing resulted in collapses.  If we were not directly affected, surely we knew those who were.  Watching suffering is hell for Cancers. 

I wonder if many Cancers learn The Hard Way. I don’t. I only remember the hardness, not the learning.  I’m barely cognizant of anything being taught when my consciousness is taken up by pain.

With Saturn established in Scorpio, the relief has been palpable.  I’ve loved creating behind-the-scenes structure, admiring the discipline of good design, solidifying that which is most meaningful – what I would die for.  I can learn from Saturn where he is now. There isn’t the discomfort of Saturn in Libra, the feeling that direct aim was being taken at I, me, mine. 

Why should we dare to hope now? Because we now have friends in low and high places, astrologically speaking.

Cancerian best-selling author and legendary self-improvement teacher Anthony Robbins advises us to ask meaningful questions. These make expansive, Jupiterian thinking possible for anyone, whilst honouring Saturn, the Lord of of Karma, trining from over there in Scorpio.  Because meaningful questions do elicit big ideas, and those big ideas that resonate within us naturally beget structure.  In this way, Saturn can be a great help to us. 

Add to this Neptune’s trining from Pisces,helping to dissolve areas in which we have become calcified, and even some external obstacles we thought were cast in stone. 

 

Wedgewood crab

As a well respected cook and a credentialled scientist, I assure you cooking and science are very, very similar.  Many Cancers are wonderful at cooking, and naturally excel at it.  Other famous Cancers made their marks through describing or adapting the cardinal scientific properties of structure and function.  Consider Josiah Wedgewood, born 12 July 1730, who transformed the manufacture of pottery and china, to say nothing of table settings, and created items of transcendent, and translucent beauty.  And George Eastman, also born 12 July 1854, who invented a means of capturing memories by safely encasing them on a gel matrix then bathing them in solutions, playing on the properties of that most Cancerian of metals, silver. 

Practical examples, both, of this configuration of Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter.  Big ideas that really work because of rigorous structure and perfectly timed maturation.  Concepts that make life better because the obstacles to their manifestation were worn away.

What about the huge, dark counterpoint of Pluto in Capricorn?  Perhaps I’m drunk on optimism, but it doesn’t worry me all that much.  I think we can collectively expect Pluto to defer to his more powerful brother, especially with the promise of obliterating things that don’t work, and other brother Neptune wholly on board for it.  Moreover, Pluto has Earth to himself, and a huge terroir below the horizon as well as Titan (and Father) Saturn more or less sextiling from Scorpio.  As the Coen Brothers wrote, “The Dude Abides.”

What about Grandfather?  The Wild One Uranus squares Cancer and Pluto from Aries.  What’s good about that?  A number of things.  Ideas out of the blue, flashes of genius, just enough impetus to get started, to get on with it … that unlikely ingredient that catapults our cocktail or ensemble or business plan to stardom, that makes us stand out, that makes something we make or write or do capture attention.

Yes of course there are counterpoints, and downside potential.  But for once, we don’t court doom or elimination by emphasizing those less. 

Renee’s practical suggestions for how to celebrate the Big Guy’s sojourn in Cancer will come in Part Two. You can follow Renée on Twitter.

@ReneeLascala

 

 

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  1. Link says:

    0º Cancer starts my 7th house and my Northnode is at 10º. I’m hoping that Jupiter’s transit will sort me out a bit with the, what to do, what to do’s. I’m certainly glad to see the last of bloomy Jupiter in Gemini–transiting my 6th hasn’t let me do sweet diddley squat for ages, always knitting or something . . . Have decided that Gemini occupying my 6th house is a bit of a dud for me. Also looking forward to a good night’s sleep.

  2. Gilly says:

    So Jupiter will be crossing into my 1st house soon. Is this a good thing? I don’t know… Jupiter: he’s supposed to be so lucky, but I find him a tricky cove. I don’t trust him.

    • Gilly says:

      He’s quite pleasantly situated in my natal chart: in Sagittarius, conjunct Venus, trine Uranus, making no nasty aspects that I can see, but my Jupiter returns have always been disastrous. On the last one, my mother died. I’ve looked forward to every return, waiting and hoping for the magic but… nothing to report yet. 🙂

    • Christina says:

      I do think it all depends on what he’s like in the natal chart…. and no, it’s not always so great.

  3. acqualdy says:

    7 degree cancer sun in my 7th, thank you for this article. i look forward to part 2. im really struggling in a relationship that i’ve dreamed about and have hoped to begin with someone for a long time… the full moon yesterday certainly has marked a turning point, i hope that jupiter brings positive transformation for us.

    i especially relate to this paragraph – I’ve been missing Jupiter since 1 August, 2002. And like many Cancers, can vividly remember the halcyon years past in which Jupiter came to stay. Some of the most important yeses of my life were said in those times. We Cancers also recall that bereft feeling and maybe more than one hard come-down from June 2003 through July 2005 when Saturn, in detriment in Cancer, fell on us all like a great leaden anvil. It’s been eight years, and I still cannot dream as expansively, nor suspend disbelief fully, or play ‘what if’ with such abandon as I did when this century began. – yes, yes, and yes… very hopeful for the year ahead…

  4. Anonymous says:

    It has been a very bumpy road indeed. Thankfully with the rare alignment (star of David ) happening on July 29th will be blessed with a lot. Not just for us cancerians , but all children of the zodiac. We just need patience, positivity and love.