The pace of life is about to intensify for all of us for about the next several months as the planet Jupiter completes it’s journey through the last sign of the Zodiac, Pisces, and enters the fire sign of Aries on Sunday, January 22, 2011.
The startlingly swift and symbolic transit of gas-giant Jupiter through the fire zone of Aries will last less than 5 months until June 4th, 2011. It may seem as if life on earth has combusted: bigger, faster, more intense for everyone, both individually and collectively.
Aries is the starting point for the 12 signs of the Zodiac, so Jupiter’s entry signifies beginnings. Many opportunities now arising will arise One Time, and One Time only.
While Jupiter is racing through Aries, the planet Pluto will continue its epic plod through the sign of Capricorn (11 more years until 2022). The interplay of Jupiter and Pluto will symbolize a more direct focus on basics such as food, clothing, diet and health. For it’s part, Jupiter is offering, for a limited time, opportunity to take actions that have real promise. What can you get started right now to ensure that you, your family, and your community can master those basic realms?
The cardinal fire sign of Aries is associated with impulse, directness, initiative, strength, courage, and the positive polarity. As the first sign of the Zodiac, Aries represents a field of energy understood to symbolize the start of things, beginnings.
Jupiter’s transit in Aries can expand your potentials and help you to move forward in connection with the House in your personal Horoscope that Jupiter is moving through, as well as the House in your chart ruled by Sagittarius.
The planet Jupiter is visible to the naked eye in the night sky and can occasionally be seen in the daytime when the sun is low. Thus, the planet has since ancient times been known as an auspicious day star to observers of the firmament.
A sculptural image of Jupiter at the Capitoline Museum in Rome.
For the Babylonians, this great celestial marker was personified as their god Marduk. Babalonians used the roughly 12-year orbit of Jupiter along the ecliptic to define the constellations of the zodiac, and that conception has come down to us today in the art of astrology.
In their time, the Romans of antiquity called the planet after Jupiter, the principal god figure of their mythology. This Roman name, in turn, derived from Indo-European terms denoting “Father Sky-God.”
When this mammoth planetary factor comes prominently on to the scene, as it is now, and when its potentials are understood and acted upon, great opportunities can become grand realities.
