No charts today- we are just
going to use our imagination and the hints given by the zodiac.
Jupiter travels a twelve year
cycle whose first completion is associated with adolescence. Cancer is whatever we see due south when we
are at the bottom of our daily revolution.
We are currently lined up
with the sun so that it is just visible as we begin our daily descent, referred
to by ancient astrologers as the time when Capricorn the Goat is on the
midheaven. While the Archer is on the
midheaven we are in the last section of our arc toward the daily peak. When contemplating the zodiac, it doesn’t
matter whether we can see stars beyond our solar system or which constellations
happen to be visible during the age of our existence--what matters is that we
see the planets lowest in the sky because we are as high on the Earth as we can
get. Capricorn-as high
on the Earth as one can get.
In other words, at this time
of year while the Sun is 2/3 through Pisces, day begins, for anyone around
35degrees north of the equator, at the moment they get to the top of the
spherical mountain. Night, when the Sun’s
radiation is completely blocked by earth’s great mass, begins as we are almost
to the bottom, reaching down for the Crab.
During this age, called by
many the Age of Aquarius, we face away from the center of our galaxy every time
we reach the bottom of our daily revolution.
During this Age of Aquarius, we see planets just East of Orion when we
are down with the Crab. In fact, right
now, Jupiter in Cancer is lined up with our neighbor star Sirius, which is
bright and visible in the same direction of the sky as Jupiter, but much lower. But that won’t be till tonight, when our part
of Earth is turning its back to the Piscean Sun.
Jupiter exalted in Cancer is
an astrological formula handed down through many centuries along with the
zodiac. We have been given these riddles
that were probably at one time methods for remembering where we actually are on
the Earth when the light comes from various angles. Jupiter’s 12 year cycle is not as mature as
Saturn’s of about 28 years, but it marks a point in the human life cycle when
one can do for oneself what was once done for them by others, including
thinking, reasoning and most fun of all, philosophizing. When we receive Jupiter’s signal from the lowly position
of the Crab, every day, for a year, it is like –well I don’t know what the
ancients thought and it would probably be wise to read what other astrologers
have to say about this, but it makes me think of a twelve year old being
applauded for philosophizing. Is this philosopher coming up with original
concepts? If so how well have they been
tested? What will happen if every one
takes these new ideas and adopts them as a religion or creed? Cancer is associated with religion and
nationalism, which is quite different from philosophy and higher learning. It seems to me that religion and nationalism
are ideas that are handed down from on high and accepted by those at the
bottom, because they are at the bottom.
And Jupiter in Cancer represents the excitement of new untested ideas, inspiring
us while we are crawling with the Crab.