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by Brian Habit

You have Jupiter in Leo in the 4th house.

Jupiter is that part of us that wants to believe, no matter how dark things look, that the Sun will always come out tomorrow. It represents how we develop and maintain faith, confidence, and optimism. With Jupiter, the issue is whether you can develop faith in yourself and in life without taking things for granted.

When you're feeling Jupiter, you're feeling a sense of contentment, freedom, and success. Jupiter is buoyant and indomitable. He’s cheerful, expansive, and generous. Jupiter doesn't know a sense of defeat, and Jupiter’s place in your chart indicates an area in which you could be very lucky. In the end, Jupiter is nothing if not resilient.

In your chart, Jupiter is located in playful, dramatic Leo—the sign of the Performer, the Child, and the Queen. Developing your confidence and expansiveness requires developing a distinctive, spontaneous personality—a self that exists apart from the outside world and other selves that are in it. In order to feel good about yourself and hopeful about the world, you need to use a positive, grand, uninhibited strategy. Let yourself develop trust in the world by acting playfully and dramatically and expressing your warmth and creativity. Leo celebrates itself unselfconsciously, as reflected in the words of a Jerry Herman song: “I am what I am …/ I bang my own drum / Some call it noise, / I call it pretty.” When you’ve really accomplished this, you won’t even worry about your reviews.

Dramatic, creative moments can help you feel more joyful and hopeful about life. When you put your personal touch on something, when you express your creativity in the broad sense of the word, you feel confident. The same thing happens when you play, when you do something for the sheer joy of it without a lot of planning or demands or expectations. You thrive on the electric chemistry that flows between an artist and an audience, whether it’s through words or music or pictures. To have a sense that your life is thriving and growing, use a Leonine strategy. Act playfully and dramatically. Express your warmth and produce something that is beautiful, thought-provoking, original, or imaginative. Show your childlike delight in the world.

What can help you do this? Several things. You have a natural charisma and a gift for entertaining others. You also have an instinctive knack for enjoying yourself in the present moment. And you have the ability to lead others, to pull them together with your generosity and bright exuberance. Acting confidently for you means giving tangible expression to whatever is going on inside you—dramatizing it with color and creativity. All of these gifts can help you withstand life’s adversities (dry spells, uncertainties, setbacks) long enough to succeed. In order to feel optimistic and happy, you have to use these gifts, and when the going gets tough, they can help renew your faith in life and in yourself.

Where do you most stand to apply such dramatic expansiveness successfully? In your 4th house, the house of roots. We all need some safe haven or safe nest in the world, and that’s what the 4th house is about.

We all need home and hearth. We need both a physical and an emotional environment in which we can feel safe and act freely, without inhibition. Having a place to hang our hat is important. So is being connected to people who will be loyal to us and committed to us throughout our lives. Whether or not they are related to us by blood, we need family. We need roots. We need to be part of a clan. It’s a little like what the poet Robert Frost said (“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in”), except that, in a healthy situation, the people would take you in not out of necessity but out of love. The 4th house describes our attitudes toward our home, our private life, that haven that we create from the world and how we relate to people who sleep (or used to sleep) under the same roof, including our family of origin and the second family that we create for ourselves. This part of the chart represents who we are at the deepest, most internal level. The 4th house also describes the emotional underpinnings of our personality. It symbolizes both the most heroic images and the darkest images that we have of ourselves (“I’m an invincible superhero,” “I’m a dastardly villain”). Even though these images are caricatures of ourselves, they’re still important. They inspire us or scare us, and they help us understand what we really want. They tell us what we need to do to create balance between who we are (or are afraid of being) and the personality that we show the rest of the world. In order to absorb these self-images, we’ve got to have some peace and quiet, some time away from the hustle and bustle of life. That’s where having a safe haven in the world can come in handy.

With Jupiter in Leo in the 4th house, you need to act like a leader or a performer in your private life. Doing that will help you feel hopeful about yourself and about life. Cultivate a role as the master of ceremonies for the family. Organize family reunions, vacations, volunteering, or parties. Get everyone excited about researching your family tree and sharing the information with each other. You need optimism, adventure, and warmth under your roof. You need the freedom to explore philosophical ideas, religious precepts, or intellectual perspectives in your most private moments and share these with members of your “clan.” Aim to build a home life for yourself that accommodates such needs. It’s also important that you take time to cultivate as positive a relationship with yourself as you might with someone else. Despite what you might like to think, you’re probably not the incredibly generous star shining in the firmament of society. At the same time, you’re also probably not quite the naïve, attention-starved fool, despite whatever doubts you might have about that. Take time to reflect on such fantasies and fears, and figure that the truth probably lies somewhere in between them.

If you make the worst of your Jupiter, then you could act like a foolish prima donna or a pompous, spoiled brat.

If you play the foolish prima donna, then you put your pride ahead of good judgment. I’m reminded of the saying that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. If you suffer a blow to your ego, then you might unleash your anger on others (for example, if someone impugns your character). Whether it’s in matters of the heart, or professional competition, or some other arena, you play the fool by trying to impress others. Suppose you’re a runner who’s competing in the Olympics. You don’t want to risk not winner, so you act as if the normal rules don’t apply to you. You take drugs to enhance your performance, and you get caught and disqualified. Rather than running a clean race, you played dirty and ended up looking worse than you would if you had competed honestly and lost. Or suppose you’re a relatively inexperienced amateur pilot. You’ve planned to take some friends on a flight, but the weather turns bad. You’re not accustomed to flying in such conditions, but you say, “It’s no big deal. I can do it.” Rather than change plans, you forge on and crash the plane.     

Like a pompous spoiled brat, you could expect to always get your way. You operate according to a double standard. You bully or mistreat other people, but you expect them to treat you wonderfully. You’re the unfaithful lover who lets loose with an explosive temper when she doesn’t get what she wants. If you get jilted, then you set out to get revenge, or perhaps someone else acts this way toward you. If your romantic partner or relative does something that you consider philosophically objectionable, then you retaliate in a disproportionately violent fashion.

Another way that you could get into trouble would be by trying to satisfy your need for love and appreciation by impressing people. You could act fussy, temperamental, or self-centered. If you do that, you could come across as a royal pain. They might think that you’re bossy, arrogant, or condescending, rather than self-confident, and then they may either ignore you or try to bring you down a peg a two.

If you make the best of your Jupiter, then you conduct yourself like a visionary performer, a happy child, or a successful movie star.

If you act like a visionary performer, then you rouse people’s spirits by pursuing some idealistic goal. You’re the director who puts together an epic cinematic experience that delights millions of moviegoers. You’re the researcher who develops entirely new fields in science, or the psychologist who describes the stages of child development. You learn so much that you become an authority on literature, or art, or architecture. Maybe you’re the civic-minded activist who fights to protect the environment or advance humanitarian causes. You pursue your creative visions with fervor, but you don’t go overboard. You maintain a sense of proportion. You’re confident but not overconfident. You’re bold but not arrogant, and there’s a sense of nobility about what you do. You’re like a journalist who believes that it’s her job to report information accurately, whether or not she agrees with a particular point of view.

Like a happy child, you could enjoy yourself by living in the moment. Playful and dramatic, you take delight in the things you do and the people with whom you spend your time. You give of yourself generously to people will applaud your efforts and affirm your special contributions. You’re demonstrative and devoted to others. You’re the diehard romantic who sends flowers to your partner decades after you first walked hand in hand. You’re the loving parent who takes the kids with her whenever possible.

If you act like a successful movie star, then you exude charisma. You shine brightly, but you do it without overshadowing others. You’re like the news broadcaster who likes to be at the center of the action as events unfold, rather than just sitting behind a desk, describing it to the world. With your personality or flamboyant style, you brighten up the scene wherever you go. You also put your interest in having strong, supportive roots ahead of your pride. You take the time to tune you’re your inner self. You reflect on your feelings and reach an understanding of your hopes and fears. When you interact with others, you ask directly for the affection and validation that you want. If you feel like others have ignored you or mistreated you, you don’t become a recluse in your wounded pride. If you get a cold response, then you take your show on the road and find a more appreciative crowd elsewhere. At the same time, you don’t roam the world endlessly, like an applause addict who’s looking for her next “fix.” You put down roots in terms of a home life and a family—whatever family means for you.

With Jupiter in the 4th house, you could be especially lucky in connection with 4th-house subjects, such as family, home, or real estate, so keep your eyes open for opportunities in those areas. What seems at first glance to be luck often is what happens after a person lays the groundwork for future success. For example, you come into some unexpected money, and it allows you to pay off your mortgage, look for a new house, help out your parents, and buy Christmas gifts for the kids. Maybe you invested a relatively small amount of money, and it paid off more than you expected. You laid the groundwork for success by taking a risk. Suppose relations are strained between you and some member of your “clan”—say, your parent or your child. One of you knows a lot about a particular subject, and the other has some interest in it, too. If you build on your shared interest by spending some fun time together exploring it, then it help the two of you draw closer over time. Maybe you go into business together with a relative, and it flourishes. Circumstances become intolerable in your homeland, and you have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to pursue a better life in another country. You and your romantic partner find that you can’t make the relationship work, so you break up, but you remain good friends for years afterwards. Even during tough times (when the house needs repairs but money is short, when everyone in the family has the flu, when the in-laws are being difficult), you’re resilient. You don’t accept defeat when it comes to matters of home and hearth. You rely on your strong religious faith or you look at life philosophically, and it helps you go on.

Someone passed a quote on to me, one that is often misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson. While the original source of the quote is unclear, the writer seems to capture a lot of the joy and goodness that’s possible with Jupiter in Leo, so I though I’d share it with you.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.

 

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