by Robert Wilkinson
On October 9, 12:05 am PDT, Jupiter goes stationary retrograde at 22 Gemini and will remain retrograde until February 4, 2025 when it goes direct at 12 Gemini. What does this mean?
First, it means that the Jupiter adventure we’ve been doing as it raced through Taurus between January and May has now hit a high water mark at 22 Gemini, and we will begin to review all the Jupiter related things that have come up since mid-July, when Jupiter went into its shadow zone for the first time. Since then we’ve gotten a look at the span between 12 and 22 Gemini, and now get another look at that same span of experience, but from a retrograde angle instead of a direct angle.
This span involves the individual, mental, and spiritual levels of the Scene of Discovery (the first half of Gemini), as well as the entire actional, material, and physical levels and part of the social and emotional span of the Scene of Exteriorization (last half of Gemini.) That means we get a review of these parts of Gemini, giving us a “future look” at Gemini insights and understanding to be applied when Jupiter moves through its shadow zone the third time between February and early May 2025.
Jupiter will retrograde back to 12 Gemini by mid-January 2025 and remain there until late February, setting the platform for all Jupiterian things in 2025. Be ready to free yourself from the “ghosts of the past” so that you can move into your “new lands” offering opportunity in the future. Between now and then, find a way to rebuild, have happy interactions with others, and celebrate the joy of being natural and healthy socially and emotionally.
By late October fate “moves its invisible hand,” so that by mid-November we’re seeing our “supply” from a different angle so that we can reconsider “root knowledge” to find new pathways to our Higher Self in the last half of November. December is a transmutation of “life into mind,” with a lot of sharing and comparing in late December leading to a reinterpretation of our telepathic aptitude in late December and early January. That prepares us to rehearse “putting on the show” a final time before we leave the past behind and get on state “for real” in March.
So we now review the emergent factors in our lives since July, seeing the potentials, protections, blessings, opportunities, and newer, more expansive ways of expressing ourselves. This assists the rapidly unfolding Aquarian work set into motion at the Grand Mutation of 1 Aquarius in December 2020, affecting us all for 200 years to come. This impacts our group work, our ability to contribute to a greater good, and find “new wineskins for new wine.” We now review the future we’ve glimpsed so we may come to understand our higher potentials in the Gemini part of our chart.
Jupiter in Libra (9/16-10/17) taught us ways of being balanced as we move through our world, and new perspectives in our life interests. Jupiter in Scorpio (10/17-11/18) taught us about desire, loss, and magnetism, and our need to eliminate all that would block us from living our higher values. Jupiter in Sag (11/18-12/19) took us beyond forms, beyond binding forces, and gave us a greater adventure wherever it falls in our chart. Jupiter in Capricorn (12/19-12/20) brought many things together, gave us new Jupiter/Saturn and Jupiter/Pluto cycles, and taught us the value of using power in disciplined ways.
Jupiter in Aquarius (12/20-5/21, 7/21-12/21) taught us ways of opening to a greater vision, a greater good, and a greater ideal. Jupiter in Pisces (5/21-7/21, 12/21-5/22, 10/22-11/22) opened us to a greater compassion, a greater “collective feeling experience,” and for those who are in training for world service, a greater empathy and ability to know, both near and at a distance, what is going on anywhere the consciousness is focused on. Jupiter in Aries (5/22-10/22, 12/22-5/23) taught us ways of questing on our own initiative into newer, more pioneering openings. Jupiter in Taurus (5/23-5/24) opened us to more enjoyable ways of securing what we need to sustain our momentum which has led us during Jupiter in Gemini to new discoveries, new ways of seeing and doing things, and new ways of seeing “opportunity through knowledge.”
The Sabian Symbol for Jupiter’s Stationary Retrograde Degree
The Sabian symbol for the 22nd degree of Gemini is “A Barn Dance.” In the Astrology of Personality, where Rudhyar uses the original Dr. Jones' class notes on the symbols, he states this degree is about “richness of life in associations based on natural instincts,” “warmth of simple living,” and “normal fulfillment of self.”
In "The Astrological Mandala he states this degree is about “the wholesome enjoyment of organic processes and emotional drives.” He goes on to say the village is a place where “men and women live in far greater harmony with natural and seasonal processes, giving free rein to their emotional instincts.” He offers that this symbol is inclusive of the two poles of a wholesome society (industrial cities and agricultural villages) as well as the two poles of a healthy personality (“mind and natural emotions”) being active.
He finishes his commentary with noting this symbol “stresses the value of rhythmic, healthful activity in a natural setup, for this leads to an often much needed process of bioenergetics rebuilding.” He states this degree falls in the Span of Restlessness, and is the second degree in the Scene of Exteriorization on the emotional and social level of the Act of Differentiation.
Dr. Marc E Jones, creator of the Sabian Symbols, says this is a degree of “complete self-fulfillment through the established or normal activities of the community at large, and of a consummation of self by the broadest possible participation in the divisions of labor which constitute a human society.” He states that “richness of living comes from an uninhibited sharing of everyday potentialities, together with a maximum of happy give-and-take between any one individual and any other.”
He offers us the keyword GREGARIOUSNESS. He says when operating in a positive manner, this degree is “an ability to plunge into major and rewarding experiences without the least self-reservation”
So we enter a 4 month period of learning to see how we may need to “rebuild” some part of our body, feelings, mind or life to feel more fulfilled in a natural way. This is a look back at how to have a balanced life or a more fulfilling “give and take” with others. This is a Jupiterian platform to review what we first began to realize in July, so take a new look at finding new ways, new ideas, new points of view on what you’ve discovered and how it’s been externalized, as well as what’s been externalized to you that led you to a new discovery of your spiritual individuality.
This retrograde will help us see the larger picture of the greater truth and future in any group work we’re doing, so keep integrating your vision, your commitment, and your sense of spiritual-social connections to “pre-form” the pathways to a greater adventure in giving and receiving information in the first half of 2025 as prelude to the change of allegiance coming next Summer. Keep moving through the world living and speaking the highest truths you can, allowing your Soul to express through your Higher Self using your mind, feelings, and bodies as a perfectly attuned vehicle to demonstrate your spiritual truths.
Summing Up
As Jupiter now retrogrades, preparing to take us “back to the future” in Gemini, we now get a new look at the area in our charts between 12 and 22 Gemini. As this span helps us to new discoveries of a spiritual nature and a sending and receiving of information on material, emotional, and social levels of life, we’ll have opportunities to find new “rhythms of interaction” where we give and receive abundantly. Because Jupiter teaches us what is possible and what it not, it’s time to take a look back at the rapidly developing opportunities and/or truths we’ve experienced since May, and take a new look at how we’re expanded our knowledge and relationships in the past three years.
Just remember to enjoy the ride, and try not to get too freaked out while you’re seemingly in reverse motion re-approaching another passage through what began in a great upheaval in August with the Mutable squares involving Saturn in Pisces and Venus in Virgo. We'll be experiencing the oppositions to Jupiter and squares to Saturn throughout November and December, so hang in there and stick to whatever plan you can manage!
This is a time to get our values aligned with our ambitions, not get discouraged, and break free of rules, “shoulds,” and restrictions which inhibit to opportunities we’re seeing. Either use the discipline to fulfill the vision, or allow the vision to break free of unnecessarily restrictive assumptions.
Jupiter retrograde in Gemini will be good for glimpsing how individual perception works from multiple angles to gather information within the collective field. Keep integrating your body, feelings, and mind into the larger benevolent consciousness that you ARE behind the masque of personality. This offers us a period of reflections and revisions in our sense of how the mind works within the dualities of perception.
During the coming months, Jupiter will be quincunxed by Scorpio transits, opposed by Sagittarius transits, quincunxed by Capricorn transits, and trined by Aquarius transits. That implies many adjustments and sacrifices as we come to a clear awareness that will enable us to move into the next Aquarian expansion in December, January, and February. During Jupiter’s retrograde, we will again see our spiritual Brothers and Sisters in a new light, adjusting our rules, structures, and process of actualizing our ideals in light of new information, and come to a new vision and understanding in early 2025 which will lead to new directions in Summer.
Use this time of review, reflection, and reconsideration well. There is a lot of work to be done as we open to the New Era and its changing requirements in action, feeling, and thought. Flexibility is a virtue while Jupiter is in Gemini!
There will be a lot of forward, sideways, and backward motion due to the square to Saturn and Mars retrograde, so slow down, adapt to the different pace, redirect actions to support what is as foundation to moving forward in late February. Beware of situations which escalate out of proportion to the alleged problem. See if there are alternative ways to approach resolving a problem, with a mind to the permanent patterns you’re being shown. What is long term and what is passing? That’s the key question for December and January.
Because Jupiter is retrograde, expect reviews and returns of a Jupiterian nature wherever you have 12-22 Gemini. So whether you’re looking back at how you came to the knowledge and mindset you have, or how your journey brought you to this spiritual understanding, you are now glimpsing a future which will expand quickly in the Spring of 2025.
You entered the Mystery in 2018, and allowed your life to be transfigured by previous inspired truths and teachings. 2019 offered wide open spaces of spiritual expansion as prelude to major shifts begun at the Grand Mutation of 2020 at 1 Aquarius, ushering in the pre-initiatives of a new great Age. 2021 took us into glimpses of “the Edge of the Great Age,” and 2022 launched us into a new identity and a last look back before we realized the old answers couldn’t solve the questions and the old approaches wouldn’t get the job done in 2023.
We’ve now been in a process of discovery and exteriorizing information and knowledge since May. Review how you got here, and practice skills which will make you a Master of your future Destiny. You’ve had many new beginnings since 2021 - now it’s time to see how widely your life has expanded since May!
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