by Robert Wilkinson
in the first post I gave you a quick update about what to expect now that Jupiter is entering Gemini. Today we take an in-depth new look at the qualities of Jupiter in Gemini, since we can use them to great benefit during the next 12 months.
Jupiter now enters Gemini for the first time since 2012-2013 on May 25. Here the planet of expansion and new openings to wider views and greater truths finds expression in all things involving the distribution of information and new vistas of mental exploration and understanding.
Jupiter gets to 22 Gemini before going stationary retrograde on October 9. This year's retrograde period will take it back to 12 Gemini, where it goes stationary direct at the beginning of February. Thus it'll be in Gemini for the rest of this year and the first half of 2025.
From there Jupiter rockets forward from 12 to 30 Gemini until it enters Cancer on June 7/8, 2025. So as with its year-long stay in Taurus, Jupiter has a year-long stay in Gemini. By way of contrast, Jupiter was in Aries less than 3 months during Summer 2010 and 5 months in 2011, and spent almost 6 months there in 2022 and only 4+ months there in 2023.
So let's revisit Jupiter's nature. As I noted in previous articles on Jupiter, that planet rules Pisces as well as Sagittarius. Those two signs offer us a glimpse of Jupiter's nature. We could learn a lot by examining how Jupiter functions in those two signs.
Jupiter was in Pisces from mid-May through late July 2021, January through early May 2022, and November through the December 2022 Solstice. In Pisces, the water quality is emphasized, just as the fire quality was shown to us back in 2019 when it was in Sagittarius and the times it was in Aries mentioned above.
Being a combination of Sagittarius and Pisces, Jupiter rules "the open sky" as well as "the vast depth." Jupiter symbolizes ever-expanding forms of Higher Truth as well as deep feelings we share with all other humans throughout time.
So Jupiter is both Fire and Water, and Mutable by nature. In Fiery Aries, Jupiter was in its element, in a sign that takes the initiative in embracing the new. In Aries the expansive principle flames on in dynamic ways, opening new doors after closing the old ones in Pisces. What is initiated in Aries is substantiated and secured so it may endure in Taurus.
Like the Earth of Jupiter in Taurus, the Air of Gemini is an unfamiliar element for Jupiter. Earth and Air are “cool” signs, while Fire and Water are “hot” signs. So Jupiter’s essentially a “hot” planet, and is in the heart of a 2 year period of “cooling off.” The Earth of Taurus is practical and steady, bringing focus as a Fixed sign. Now Jupiter gets to experience a year of “cool air,” and while the element is foreign, Jupiter IS a mutable planet now experiencing the world of distributive ideas.
Jupiter rules Fiery Sagittarius and is in “exile” in Gemini. That means it’s in a sign opposing its home. However, while mental restlessness is a quality of Gemini which would prove distractive to Jupiter, Jupiter’s expansive nature has a lot to learn in the sign of mental discoveries and interactivity.
We can understand even more by contemplating that Gemini is the 4th sign from Pisces, and the 7th sign from Sagittarius. Thus Jupiter in Gemini anchors and consolidates the pulses which began when it was in Pisces, made concrete in Aries, and steadied in Taurus, and exteriorizes and brings to surface its Sagittarian side, as well as any promise, truth, or vision we got when Jupiter was in Sagittarius.
So Jupiter has now entered “the hemisphere of the non-Self” and finds itself discovering entirely new vistas, new ideas, new perceptions, and new connections. In this cycle, Jupiter gave us the chance to BE our emergent potential in Aries. This is what was stabilized this past year. We now have a type of momentum in life areas related to Jupiter.
Now that our slow and steady expansion of Jupiter in Taurus has brought us a measure of resource and endurance, we have the ability to take the next step and try on ideas we might not have considered before now, or see opportunity where we didn’t see it in the past. When offered the opportunity, get out of your “personal pasture” of Jupiter in Taurus and walk around the metaphoric Gemini “neighborhood” and check out what’s going on there.
Jupiter in a sign ruled by Mercury brings the Shamanic Healer Guide to the sign of the questing, wandering Magician. Prepare for a lot of “thought experiments,” some of which will go in circles while others will reveal facets of things you’ve never thought of. It’s great for considering many points of view as long as we don’t get lost chasing endless riddles down mazes constructed with no clear center and no clear outcome.
There will be plenty of opportunities to meet others and get the information we need to move our grounded vision forward. Try to take a “both-and” rather than “either-or” approach, since Gemini is a sign of several specific dualities. The first decan has a Mercury/Jupiter duality. The second decan has a Venus/Mars duality. The third decan has a Sun/Saturn duality.
During the year Jupiter is in Gemini and bringing us opportunities for “protected thought experiments,” explore ways to figure out how to use the planetary energies to transcend those particular dualities. You can find out more about the planetary dualities and how to transmute unproductive to productive planetary responses in my book Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend.
Jupiter in Gemini should bring us confidence in the life areas where we have Gemini in our chart. Jupiter in Gemini may flit around a bit, but allows us to solve puzzles and bless daring ideas. It should help us find solutions to problems fairly quickly. It should be a very active time where we free ourselves from inertia going nowhere, time wasting distractions, and old notions of futures that were never ours to begin with.
What Two of the Greatest Say About Jupiter in Gemini
Grant Lewi, in his masterwork Astrology For The Millions, says Jupiter in Gemini takes “an adventurous attitude toward opportunity.” He says “the far-off, dangerous, exciting venture is where you chance lies,” but this position may be “following the light that never was on land or sea.” He says this position is impractical and charming, willing to try anything once because the view is one of “seeing life, doing things, and going places.” This is the “wanderer of the wastelands, a hobo, a traveler, an adventurer of the spirit or of the flesh.” He makes it clear that unlike Jupiter in Taurus, this is NOT a materialistic position.
Marc Edmund Jones, in his masterwork Astrology: How and Why It Works, says Jupiter in Gemini "indicates the development of a consciousness which is characteristically self-projective, and generous in its response to human relations.” It is motivated by "the full appreciation for its efforts which it is able to gain from others” and “interested in every chance to stimulate people” while needing “a multiplicity of personal contacts.”
Main Jupiter Aspects in 2024
During this year of Jupiter in Gemini, we will all learn how to use Jupiter wisely. First up, Jupiter trine Pluto!
Jupiter’s entry into Gemini brings quick and dynamic expansion and stabilization to the Pluto in Aquarius energies now transforming our world. This is extraordinarily harmonizing and will prove very favorable to any planets we have in the early degrees of the Fire and Air signs. It also releases seed potential which will be activated by Mars in late July. Expect an explosion of ideas (and media babble!) in July and August as Mars tracks Jupiter’s path between now and mid-August, when they conjunct, setting a 2 year Mars/Jupiter cycle into motion.
As 1 Gemini also marks a trine to the 2020 “Grand Mutation” point at 1 Aquarius, we should see a natural expansion of what began then with Jupiter’s conjunction with Saturn. As Jupiter expands whatever it conjuncts, we are at a point of stable extension of the ongoing Plutonic energies AND more of the long wave Aquarian promise being manifest in our world for the rest of this century and beyond.
By late July, Jupiter will begin its sesquisquare with Pluto which will last the entire month. Jupiter makes no aspect to Pluto in September and October, and then makes another sesquisquare from late November through late December. It then forms a quadrelftile in January, February, and March 2025, is in another sesquisquare in April, and then a biquintile in the last half of May and early June before it slips into Cancer.
Jupiter’s dance with Neptune brings a bielftile in mid-June and a quintile in July. They make a binovile from mid-August through late September, and again all of November and the first half of December. They are again in quintile all of January and February, and are back in binovile by mid-April. As the quintile is specializing and the binovile brings revelations, I’m expecting unique breakthroughs in collective consciousness leading to revelations where some duality can be seen as sharing a common base.
During this year, Jupiter is expanding from its April conjunction with Uranus, and won’t make any aspects except the vigintile and quindecile beginning in July 2024 and lasting through June 2025.
Jupiter’s aspects with Saturn are extremely dynamic! As it enters Gemini it immediately quintiles Saturn, setting off high specialization for those with planets or points near 17-21 Pisces, 29 Taurus-3 Gemini, 11-15 Leo, 23-27 Libra, and 5-9 Capricorn. It then moves into a binovile to Saturn in the last half of June and first half of July before joining the very powerful conflict in August, when Jupiter squares Saturn and sesquisquares Pluto as Saturn retrogrades back into a tight semisquare with Pluto between August 2024 and February 2025!
In August the three points of this Great Octile “8 Pointed Star of the Need for Right Action” will be triggered by Mars conjunct Jupiter, square Saturn, and sesquisquare Pluto during the 2nd and 3rd weeks of August, and then by Venus in Virgo in the 3rd week when it squares Jupiter, opposes Saturn, and sesquisquares Pluto, forming a “Hammer of Thor” with the Gemini planets also sesquisquare Pluto! This is guaranteed to create friction for all planets and points we have near 30 Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn, 1-5 Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, and 15-20 Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces.
By mid-September Jupiter is no longer square to Saturn, and makes the trielftile from mid-September through mid-November, after which Jupiter is again in square to Saturn in December through late January from 15 Gemini to 15 Pisces. They’re back in binovile for February, March, and April and don’t make the square again until after Jupiter enters Cancer.
Mars is in a waning novile with Jupiter in late May, a waning decile with Jupiter in early June, and then makes only interior minor aspects until it conjuncts Jupiter at 17 Gemini in mid-August. It then makes interior minor aspects until it deciles Jupiter the last week of October. Mars noviles Jupiter in early November and then makes a semisquare from early November through late January while Mars is retrograde.
Mars is decile Jupiter all of February and March 2025, and novile for most of April. It semisquares Jupiter in the first half of May, and then makes the “fateful” septile the last half of May. Clearly it’s going to take until the Spring of 2025 for the Mars/Jupiter conjunction of August 2024 to take off.
From Here We Go On
Obviously, all the lessons I've discussed so far are playing out in the house(s) that transiting Jupiter is moving through in our charts. This is a time when the deeper feelings and connectedness we initiated with Jupiter in Pisces, opened in new ways of doing our Being during Jupiter in Aries, secured as a steady movement in Taurus, can now open to new views and new understanding while Jupiter is in Gemini.
By examining the life areas of each house, we can see the progressive lessons Jupiter teaches us on a year-to-year basis. Since it takes about 11-12 years to make an entire circuit through all the signs, we can learn how the expansions and openings that happened when it crossed our Ascendant, Sun, or planets are related to what we learned in subsequent year periods about those life qualities.
It's also a time when the Gemini energies can "teach" our natal Jupiter more about exploring new ideas and new understanding, regardless of what sign our natal Jupiter is in. Our natal Jupiter in its sign shows us where we naturally learn and embrace various kinds of "quests." Jupiter transits show us how we relate to our natural openness to a greater truth or future.
Regardless of how we're living the adventure of our life, Jupiter in Gemini shows us how that quest or adventure is related to our understanding, education, mindset and view. We now can expand our understanding and communication style as well as our connections with others. This transit encourages us to take what we’ve acquired which sustains our outreach in life and use it to expand our ideas and friendships. We now begin an adventure into a whole new view of things!
© Copyright 2024 Robert Wilkinson
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