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FOR FEBRUARY THROUGH DECEMBER 2004

by Brian Habit

Jupiter sextiles your Neptune from roughly October 2003 till August 2004.

Now that Jupiter sextiles your Neptune, your desire to enlarge and expand your life has evolved to the point that it stimulates your idealism. In turn, your growth in terms of identifying and capitalizing on opportunities is stimulated as it triggers your imagination. Your idealism is temporarily aroused by a sense of hopefulness. You can expect a period in which enthusiasm feeds your idealism. It’s time to trust that needs to believe that the Sun will always come out tomorrow. Jupiter offers the potential for resilience and self-confidence. The question is whether you’ll capture the visionary energy that’s aroused now and channel it to your advantage. It can be a time of increased spiritual charity, while your idealism is uplifted and expanded.

Before we get into the more positive potential of this period, let’s run through some sobering thoughts, to keep matters from getting out of hand. Both Jupiter and Neptune are visionary, big picture, idealistic planets, so whenever they are connected, there’s a need to maintain some realism and sense of proportion.

Be careful not to let your enthusiasm get the best of you. Don’t let foolishness becomes your own undoing. Look before leaping in to a situation that might leave you weaker rather than stronger. If something seems like a ticket to success, or you’re tempted to take advantage of a situation for personal gain at someone else’s expense, think again. Reconsider both your ultimate goal and your plan for getting from here to there. Consider the ethical or spiritual implications that apply. Run your inspired idea by someone who’s less enamored of whatever you find appealing about it. Get that person to point out the possible drawbacks or contingencies that you need to include in your planning.

If you see others as having treated you unfairly now, run a reality check. That may not have been the case. Allow for the possibility that you don’t see matters in a clear, accurate light. Before you risk going off half-cocked in a blind, indignant rage, check both the facts and your conclusions carefully. Don’t act in a brazen misguided way, based on what might be faulty perceptions.

If you do find that you truly have been victimized, or you’re confined by circumstances that are beyond your power to change, take care to do what’s in your spiritual best interest. Will you let yourself become demoralized, or will you take the high road? Will you become resigned, or will you do whatever it takes to keep your spirit alive, until circumstances change and you are “freed from captivity”?

This can be a spiritually trying time, a time when a person is reminded of how tenuous matters can be on the material plane. If this happens for you, seek strength in your spiritual practice or other activities that help you find comfort during a time of sadness. On a concrete level, you may also need to spend money or otherwise extend yourself to restore or replace something that has been lost or damaged.

Now let’s look at the brightest potential of this transit.

At best, this could be a time when dreams come true, romantically, artistically, athletically, financially, or otherwise. It could be a time when you break exciting new ground and capture the imagination of others.

To accomplish this, consider how you might enlarge your world to touch someone else’s life in a caring, compassionate way. Whether you have a child or start volunteering as a Big Sister for someone, you could enrich both someone else’s life and your own.

Think about how you might take some artistic or imaginative activity into new territory. You might break new creative ground, like a screenwriter who sells her first treatment or a rock band that puts out its first album. You could act confidently and boldly, perhaps by competing for a coveted prize. Whether or not you win it, you could wow people with your style and grace--your ability to make the difficult look easy.

If you’ve acted boldly, imaginatively, compassionately in the past, then you might be honored for that now. In that case, maybe you get recognized for your imagination and creativity, your physical gracefulness and athletic prowess, your compassion or selflessness altruism. You’re like a musical performer who is honored as a newcomer to the field, or a spiritual leader who wins the Nobel Peace Prize for promoting mutual understanding and respect among diverse people. Perhaps you’re honored by being asked to act in an advisory capacity to someone in a relatively “high place.”

You may reach a spiritual fork in the road now. If that happens, then it seems like a make-or-break time, a time to decide whether to commit yourself to trying to make a dream come true.

If you take one fork, then you give up on some dream. You give in to your frustration, sense of discouragement, or nearly-broken spirit. You take the easier way out by not striving to achieve something more than what currently exists. If you go there, then you can expend to lead a smaller, more limited life. You can expect to do permanent damage to your outlook on life, to lose your faith in yourself.

If you take the other fork in the road, then you decide to go for some dream. You know it’s an uphill battle, and they’re no guarantees. But you also know that you want some pot of gold that seems to lie at the end of a long rainbow. You know that the only way you’ll ever get your hands on it is if you embark on an uncertain, demanding journey. You know what you’re getting yourself into. You go into it with open eyes and a hopeful spirit.

Jupiter relates to improvement, and Neptune is associated with healing. If you’ve been suffering under some physically or spiritually debilitating condition for a while, you could alleviate your pain and suffering by trying something new now. For example, if you’ve had an intractable physical condition, you might try using some new diagnosis method or treatment to finally “turn the corner” with it. Another place that we sometimes find relief is in humor. Therefore, you might also lighten your outlook by making light of your past troubles, by writing or singing or talking about them and sharing it with others. Even if your situation was (or is) no laughing matter, it can help put experiences in a healthier perspective to look for the humor in them, wherever you can find it. 

For you, Jupiter is moving through the 8th house, a financial area in your chart, and he’s triggering Neptune, which rules another financial area (the 2nd house). Your Neptune lies in Scorpio, a sign that (like the 8th house) is associated with passion, deep bonding, and transformative experiences. Based on this, I’d say that you might do some major spiritual healing now by combining finances or otherwise entwining your fate with that of someone else. Maybe this means going into uncharted, more sensitive territory with a romantic partner. Maybe it means joining forces with a helper or healer type of person, to accomplish more in a broad spiritual or social context. Whatever the case, it could help you feel more inspired and spiritually satisfied about what you have going for you.