Jupiter the Greater Benefic arriving at 0 Aries, sign of the self, is a massive and passion filled fanfare for the ego, as in returning to a healthy ego state. It’s time to choose what is right for you, especially if you’ve been living your life in a way that suits others but is making you personally miserable.
The encouraging news is that once these squares are over Saturn will then not be on a collision course with any of the other planets. Astrologically speaking, we’re coming to the end of the worst, but it was never going to be an easy end to the year.
Zeitgeist is a concept that means the “spirit of the age”. The first showings of the Jupiter – Saturn message were unmistakable over the weekend. Jupiter = freedom including long distance travel and all matters related to overseas, Saturn = restrictions and rules, Aquarius = the collective, everything from small groups to mankind as a whole.
Symbolically this is the stuff of the darkest hour is the one before dawn, that the relationship between light and dark is dyadic (two parts making a whole), that we can’t have one without the other. We know daylight only because there is darkness, and vice versa. We know and value life because we know there is death. In our lifetimes we all go through probably hundreds of “deaths”, those moments when things come to an end but which are not the end of our life experiences.