Building belief — Jupiter work pt 1

Hold onto your wands, witches

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(Hey there, friend! This is a multi-part series. If you want to start from the beginning, just click here. If you’re looking for the previous installment, click here.)

Jupiter is the boastful big daddy himself. He’s the literal giant at the center of his community, his influence so mammoth he affects the gravitation of all other planets in our solar system. They all live in his shadow, but it’s a surprisingly sunny one to be in.

Jupiter serves all those committed to their own evolution. He’s always here to get behind the boldest strategy, the most audacious of aims.

But you’d be making a mistake to get too distracted by his benefic qualities. Because Jupiter—much like Saturn—is a stress test. Where Saturn is the test of contraction or solidification, Jupiter is the test of scale. Jupiter warns us that, as astrologer Samuel F. Reynolds puts it, we must deal with our excesses to unlock our excellence.

Jupiter doesn’t directly generate abundance so much as he creates opportunities to rise to. He doesn’t hand you anything that wasn’t already coming for you and it’s up to you what you do with it. If you’ve set yourself up for success, Jupiter will serve you an experience to reap the rewards. If you’ve been squandering your talents or collapsing under the weight of your overgrowths, he’ll send you more of the same—blowing up the problem to gargantuan size so that you can’t miss the clues for how to fix it.

The great expander teaches that the only failure is not trying; refusing to summon your strengths and set yourself free.