Jupiter's Excellent Adventure in 2024

Part One of an in-depth look at the mind-altering Jupiter/Uranus conjunction this spring.

Jan 08, 2024

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MANY OF THE MAJOR astrological events in 2024 involve Jupiter. Namely, the planet’s entrance into Gemini and some key aspects with the three outer planets (Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto).

If not for the astrological Jupiter, we’d be locked into a limited, tunnel-vision take on reality. Jupiter is a cosmic stand-in for what the Bible calls the ‘comprehension’ of life’s ‘breadth and length and height and depth.’

In Greek, ‘comprehend’ implies something more than a mental understanding. Translated literally, comprehending means ‘to take hold of something and make it one’s own.’ Our understanding is beyond the conceptual because it’s tattooed under our skin.

Jupiter finesses our urge for freedom (not the radical, blow-it-all-up Uranian style freedom), but something more constructive and life-enriching.

Jupiter: Pluto’s Midwife

Here’s a weird thing I’ve noticed over the years while studying moment-of-death charts of friends, family, and clients. Jupiter is often the most pronounced transiting event in the chart during lift-off. Over time, I came to see how this made sense.

I’ve no clue as to what, if anything, ‘happens’ after death (no one does)—but Jupiter's transits in the death chart appear to coincide with transitioning from one realm or form into another (even if that ‘other’ is simply the decay of the molecules that comprise an organism).

And so I associate Jupiter with replenishment and clearing the decks—a rebooting of the OS. I mean, what’s considered a loss for the human kingdom is a feast for the Pluto-like organisms that break down a corpse, even if it’s just fuel in the crematorium.

Think about what a nightmare it would be if death weren’t an integral component of life. The never-ending engagement with neighbors that bore us, the need, three times a day, to find another meal to eat—ad infinitum. The constant stream of newborn babies arriving each day. And where would everybody live? Texas?

So, as Jupiter progresses through 2024 and then shifts from Taurus into Gemini, we can step outside the confines of our habits (Taurus) and into the effervescence of our imagination (Gemini). Perhaps through some revelation or profound ‘a-ha’ moment. Remember those? This latter possibility relates to Jupiter’s upcoming conjunction with Uranus in April of this year.

Jovial Disruption

Do the math regarding the conjunction—the two planets we associate with different expressions of the urge to rearrange, if not remove, all the furniture in a room.

Attorneys (Jupiter’s denizens) will play a significant (and surprising) role in how events unfold through 2024—and we’re seeing this in detail with the Supreme Court (and how its ruling on abortion galvanized revolt within local and state elections in 2022).

And then there are Donald Trump’s four indictments, a couple of which are very sketchy regarding efficacy. And the ridiculous removal of Trump from the primaries in Colorado and Maine—sure to be reversed by higher courts.

And in typical Jupiter/Uranus fashion, while half the country sees this as judicial comeuppance for Trump, the other half interprets his legal entanglements as MAGA rallying cries. With each indictment, Trump’s poll numbers increased (if we can put stock in polls nowadays, which, as the past eight years have shown, is risky).

Rebooting the Cycle

Remember that as planets approach each other before their new conjunction, the off-gassing of their previous conjunction reasserts itself into the theater of reality for one last pulse. Jupiter and Uranus last formed a conjunction at zero degrees Aries—the most explosive point in the Zodiac—in 2010.

Geologically, 2010 was a wildly volatile and violent year. The year opened with a destructive earthquake in Haiti. And then, a month later, a devastating 8.8 earthquake struck Chile, followed by a tsunami.

This was followed by the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which canceled air flights across Europe for a week. Months after the Chilean earthquake, 33 miners were trapped underground for 69 days, and all of the men were eventually rescued.

And then, in April, the Deepwater Horizon explosion caused the deaths of 11 people and the worst oil spill in US history.

After the successful rescue of the Chilean miners, 29 miners became trapped underground in New Zealand's Pike River mine. Sadly, an explosion ripped through the mine, killing all of the men in late November.

Given the conjunction degree in Aries, most of these 2010 disasters have the volatility of fire in common.

And so, as Jupiter approaches Uranus through the winter and early spring of this year, the violent agitation of the past conjunction is reverberating around the globe. People are crawling out of their skin, braced for some imagined (or literal) global catastrophe.

As I’m writing this, fears are mounting that Israel, the US, and Iran’s allies are inching closer to all-out war. Last month, the US movie distributor A24 released the unsettling Civil War trailer—an implied prelude to the explosive facets of the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction.

Although the upcoming conjunction doesn’t occur until April, the two planets are close enough in Taurus that we’re feeling the perturbations and pre-shocks in our nervous system.

How does this show up for each of us? Other than a heightened sense of itching to remove oneself from constricted—and perhaps compromised—conditions, there is a blast of force stimulating your natal chart’s Jupiter position by sign.

What about that?

In part two of this post, for my paid subscribers, I’ll consider the impact of the ongoing Jupiter transit and eventual conjunction with Uranus for each of the 12 natal positions of Jupiter. As well as suggestions for reawakening your innate chutzpah in 2024.

Love,

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