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Jupiter in Taurus May 30th 2024 until May 14th 2025
The guru moves to Taurus on April 30th, 2024 for one year. Jupiter is the planet of knowledge and wisdom, essential for your dharmic path and soul nourishment. He provides the learning and insight that are essential for feeling satisfied in life. As an expansive planet, Jupiter brings growth. Akasha is the ruling element of Jupiter as well as the dosha Kapha. His excess can often bring too much of a good thing or a gentler path of resources and support.
When Jupiter offers his life-supportive qualities he expands nourishment, resources, and a wealth of support on all levels of life. This may be through important teachers, knowledge or life lessons. Jupiter can also bring challenges like hard knocks, painful experiences, and teachers that are rajasic or tamasic.
In the body, Jupiter challenges often look like stagnation, phlegm, constipation, and excess kapha. Increased fat, lethargy, disease, growths, tumors, and excess ama occur when Jupiter goes unchecked by Saturn. Jupiter requires discipline, dinacharya, commitment, boundaries, structure, and effort for balance.
The nature of any Jupiter transit and how it impacts your body and life will depend on your natal relationship with him. Does he bring nourishment and support in your natal chart, or harsh lessons? Your natal chart will determine your life long experience of the guru, or dharmic teacher.
This year-long transit of Jupiter in Taurus offers growth and expansion on the material level of existence. Taurus is an earth sign that correlates to the second house of speech, food, money, voice, throat, and the organs therein. Expansion in these areas of life can be helpful or challenging depending on your relationship with the guru.
Your relationship with Jupiter is based on your natal chart placement. This birth placement will determine if gathering support from Jupiter will arrive easily or painfully. Too much of Jupiter’s benevolence can make you lazy and miss opportunities for change and transformation. Too little support from Jupiter can make healing impossible due to lack of resources.
The dharmic path requires that you seek balance and ask for help along the way. Resources, support and guidance are essential for the healing and transformation process. Are you actively allowing guidance and support into your life consistently? Or are you complacent, avoidant, and trapped in maya, soul avoidant behavior, and illusion?
Jupiter does not allow impurities, and loathes shadow and darkness because his nature is sattva, purity. His intention is to purify what is impure and to awaken pure knowledge. He prefers the spiritual realms and offers pure knowledge, support and guidance when well placed in the natal chart. When you go against him, he can be overpowering in his attempts to bring you back to spiritual harmony and balance.
As the planet of expansion, satwa (purity) and akasha (space), Jupiter brings knowledge and wisdom as well as expanded awareness. The Sanskrit name for Jupiter is guru (teacher), expressing the support and nourishment he provides. When Jupiter moves around the zodiac, he sparks learning and growth through wisdom, guidance, support and resources. Whatever he touches, he expands- which may feel helpful or uncomfortable at times.
Jupiter transits are roughly one year long and impact all levels of wisdom, knowledge, comfort and support. He leads you to your dharmic path and supports the nourishment gained along the way. Positive effects of Jupiter bring comfort, support and understanding. Learning through greater awareness and expansion of consciousness is his domain- which of course is not always comfortable. Guru is the ultimate teacher (for better or worse) providing some of the most poignant life lessons.
Challenges with Jupiter include lack of support, knowledge, and dharma. When Jupiter is not strong in the chart, there may be little to no support offered, few resources or missed opportunities. Dharma may be impossible to find with a weak or challenging Jupiter in the natal chart. Everyone can benefit from the helpful and supportive resources that Jupiter provides. However, without his support, challenges and struggles increase- which often bring tragedy, struggle and chaos.
As the guru, he represents teachers of all sorts- including coaches, healers, guides, mentors, therapists, wisdom keepers and shaman. Receiving the blessings of Jupiter requires that you allow the nourishment and wisdom of this type of support to be received. Negative influences upon Jupiter in the Jyotish chart will create challenging experiences with teachers and a resistance to pure knowledge and wisdom. Whereas positive influences upon Jupiter in the Jyotish chart will offer nourishing and supportive experiences with teachers, wisdom and guides.
If Jupiter is a naturally benefic, or positive planet, in your chart, the coming transit can naturally offer more gains, expansion and support on your spiritual path. This can be an especially powerful time for your material world gains because Taurus naturally correlates to the second house of wealth. Jupiter loves dharma, right action, spiritual gifts and wisdom. He is a great support for aligning with and clarifying your dharmic path. Using this time wisely will be important for making progress on your path and getting soul level support- especially on a material world level.
If Jupiter is not a positive resource for you, this transit can offer certain challenges with knowledge, wisdom, guidance and support- especially for your dharmic path. You may lose support, be forced to restructure, face hardships and lack of resources. There may be challenges, losses, disruptions or complacency with matters of money and wealth. You may miss opportunities or fail to use your voice effectively to create success.
The impact of this transit either positively or negatively is also determined by your natal relationship with Venus and Moon- as well as the transits of these relationship planets. Venus rules Taurus and Moon is considered exalted in this earthy sign. Taurus naturally effects relationships, co-creation, comfort, nourishment, health and vitality as well as abundance because of its connection with Venus and Moon.
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