And Leon's getting larger!

Jupiter has been making a nice aspect to my moon, and I've been gaining weight. This is also partially because I re-started swimming again (I am a former competitive swimmer), which makes you voraciously hungry for about the first month while your body wonders why you are trying to drown it. But Jupiter aspects are notorious for portending weight gain, especially when it's in aspect to either of your lights (sun or moon), your chart ruler, or Venus. When it's transiting your 1st or 6th house, it's also known to make you bigger. Literally. If you're prone to weight gain, that is.

Jupiter, Venus, and Neptune are all planets that dislike boundaries for different reasons. Venus wants what it wants, regardless of what it costs or the perceived barriers to the thing. Neptune's energy is diffuse, and you may remember a certain nun in the Sound of Music asking about how to catch clouds and pin them down? It's like that. Jupiter is like the energy of a fun uncle. Your parents say bedtime is at 8, but they left you with your fun uncle, who doesn't believe in clock time or nutritional labels. Actually, if you'd like to get a really good sense of Jupiter, go watch Uncle Buck. Especially the breakfast scene. (Jupiter also has moral leanings and a dislike of commitment, as Buck does.)

I scoff when people tell me a planet made them do something. An entire planet has not arrived at your front door with a birthday cake to force-fed it to you. But what the energy of Venus, Neptune, and Jupiter will do is make you lax about what a reasonable amount of anything is. One cookie is the same as 10: if you're going to eat cookies, you might as well do it big (Jupiter logic). Venus's is "I like cookies, so what?" And Neptune's is more "eat all of them, or none. It makes no difference in the scheme of things. But I do feel strangely empty, so maybe you SHOULD feed me all the cookies."

The antidote to any of these things, is, of course, Saturn. It loves rules and limitations. LOVES THEM. It would say something like "you get one small oatmeal raisin cookie of organic origin (that may also contain dust for some reason, but I'm sure it's organic dust) ONLY IF you work out that day and do your laundry since you've been putting that off." Jupiter, when it's active in the areas I mentioned, will be louder than Saturn with its rationale. "But it's Saturday! But you work so hard! But you deserve nice things!" You have to not listen to that, so much, and stick with the Saturn logic on most occasions if you want to avoid discomfort. And enjoy that one minuscule, sad, lonely organic oatmeal raisin cookie.

So basically, when you see Jupiter coming, get ready to either flex your rule-abiding muscles or buy new pants.

XO,

J