The gist of this book is to establish Self Reliance; to bring to the attention of man the nature of his True Self which has been called the I Am or Christ-consciousness; and to cause him to see that by becoming one with this Power he is the power in action. No more will he attempt to use this Power, once he understands that he is the Power.
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Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England. The book discusses both through anthropological research and reviews of contemporary literature that conscious family limitation was practised before the nineteenth century. The volume describes a surprising number of rules, regulations, taboos, injunctions, charms and herbal remedies used to affect pregnancy, and shows the extent to which individual women and men were concerned with controlling the size of their families. The fertility levels in England – as in Western Europe as a whole – were a very long way from the biological maximum in these centuries, and the book discusses the various reasons why this was so. The book reviews traditional ideas concerning the relationship between procreation and pleasure, drawn from a range of contemporary sources and discusses ways in which earlier generations sought both to promote and limit fertility. The book also examines abortion and shows how much evidence there is for its actual practice during the period and of traditional views towards it. This book provides a detailed understanding of historical attitudes towards conception family planning in pre-industrial England.
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From a 19th century edition of Aesop’s Fables illustrated by Charles H Bennett. Courtesy the British Library
David Eganhas taught at a number of institutions in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. He also teaches philosophy classes online for the general public. He is the author of The Pursuit of an Authentic Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the Everyday (2019). He is currently working on a book about animals.
Edited by Sam Dresser
12 MAY 2021 (psyche.co)
Human hatreds take on a depressing variety of forms: in addition to individual hatreds, the world roils with xenophobia, racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and on and on and on. Less remarked upon is an underlying zoophobia – a fear of, or antipathy towards, animals – that’s manifest in many of the slurs and insults directed at other human beings. Calling a person an animal is usually a comment on their unrestrained appetites, especially for food (‘like a hungry animal’), for sex (‘they went at it like animals’), and for violence (‘they’re like wild animals’). We also have purpose-made insults comparing people to specific kinds of animal: pig, chicken, rat, cow, slug, snake, cockroach, bitch, etc.
But aren’t humans notorious animal lovers? How do these insults square with the sentimental affection people profess for pet cats and wild tigers alike? The fondness for beloved pigs like Wilbur and Babe and the insult of calling someone a ‘swine’ have more in common than first appearances suggest. Both the sentimentality and the insult rest on distortions that reinforce notions of human supremacy. The parallels between assertions of human dominance over other animals and over other humans are striking, and worth a closer look.
The mode of thinking that associates animals with unrestrained appetite is at least as ancient as Plato. What separates humans from the other animals, on this line of thinking, is our rationality. Plato conceives of the human soul as composed of three parts: the reasoning part, which loves the truth and seeks to learn it; the spirited part, which loves honour and is prone to anger; and the appetitive part, which attends to bodily desires.
In the Republic, Plato pictures the tripartite soul as three different creatures enclosed within our human frame: a rational human, an honour-loving lion, and a terrifying multi-headed beast, like one of the monsters from Greek mythology. Some of the heads of this beast are of gentler animals and some are of wilder animals, and they shrink and grow depending on how they’re fed. A just person submits to the rule of the best part. But when the ‘beast within’ runs free, all hell breaks loose:
Then the beastly and savage part, full of food and drink, casts off sleep and seeks to find a way to gratify itself. You know that there is nothing it won’t dare to do at such a time, free of all control by shame or reason. It doesn’t shrink from trying to have sex with a mother, as it supposes, or with anyone else at all, whether man, god, or beast. It will commit any foul murder, and there is no food it refuses to eat. In a word, it omits no act of folly or shamelessness.
This way of picturing the soul makes us out to be two-thirds animal and one-third human. In this conception of human nature, the animals don’t come off well. If the only thing keeping us from rape, pillage and murder is the controlling hand of our highest, rational part, and if animals lack this rational part, then animal nature comes off looking, well, beastlike. Hence Plato’s fevered fantasy of the omnivorous, omnisexual, omnicidal monster who seeks sensual gratification without shame or reason.
To call a woman a cow is at once to call her stupid and to reduce her to her gendered role as a source of milk
Plato’s myth recognises that not all animals are equal. Not only does the lion come out looking pretty good but, among the multiple heads of the monster of appetite, Plato marks a distinction between domesticated and wild animals. The animals are emblems of how we might fail to live up to our human calling and those failings, on Plato’s telling, are diverse. So, as we’ve seen, are the varieties of animal insults that target different humans.
Let’s start with the wild animals. Plato’s vision of non-rational wild beasts has played a significant role in xenophobic rhetoric. Champions of colonialism likened Indigenous populations to wild animals – the word ‘savage’ has etymological links to wilderness and forests. Like wild animals, these people were said to lack the rational capacity for self-governance or participation in the political community. There’s no reasoning with them – all you can do is subdue them or destroy them. We find a descendant of this idea in anti-immigrant rhetoric that likens migrants to wild animals. They’re the predatory outsiders, the proverbial foxes in the chicken coop that we need to keep from entering our communities for fear of the damage they’ll do.
Other animals belong to our communities – hence the chicken coops – and they feature in pejorative language of a second kind. Domesticated animals provide a service to the human community – they’re sources of meat, eggs, milk, wool, and, before the advent of heavy machinery, they were essential to transport and farming. But this service is purely bodily. Their place in the human community is essentially subordinate.
No coincidence, then, that comparisons to domesticated animals reinforce subordination within the human community. This is especially evident in misogynistic language. In her book The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990), Carol J Adams documented the various ways in which women are compared to animals raised for meat and for the ‘feminised protein’ of milk and eggs. To call a woman a cow is at once to call her stupid and to reduce her to her gendered role as a source of milk. Unlike xenophobic rhetoric, which targets outsiders, misogynistic rhetoric takes for granted that women are essential to the flourishing of the community – but implies that, like domesticated animals, they must be kept in their subordinate place.
Plato distinguishes between only wild and domesticated animals, neglecting a third category of animal, which lives within the human community without belonging to it. In their book Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (2011), Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka call these creatures ‘liminal animals’. For the most part, people don’t like them, especially when they’re in the home. Rats and cockroaches are ‘vermin’ who take without giving, spoil food, and spread disease. They’re also a favoured trope of a different kind of xenophobic rhetoric, this time targeting the enemy within. Hutu Power propagandists during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda incited violence against Tutsis by comparing them to cockroaches. Nazi rhetoric frequently compared Jews to vermin. Where wild predators inspire fear, vermin inspire disgust.
Terms of endearment such as ‘babe’ and (tellingly) ‘my pet’ express affection while also reinforcing a power differential
Three kinds of human denigration – the unruly outsiders who have to be subdued or kept out, the subordinate insiders who have to be kept in their place, and the unwelcome guests who have to be expelled or eradicated – matched with three kinds of animal – wild predators, domesticated chattel, and vermin. The distortions that are required to degrade humans and animals complement one another. Recall Plato’s myth of the ‘beast within’. No actual animal fits the profile of this imagined beast. Natural selection would make short work of any creature that comported itself according to Plato’s description. But if animals are nothing like the beasts of popular imagination, that also means that there are no such beasts lurking within us. I’m not one slip of the executive function away from barbarity. My untamed impulses can also be loving, or just plain lazy. And if I do undertake a bit of rape and pillage, it wasn’t a beast within me that did that. It was me. Mary Midgley, who in her book Beast and Man (1978) does an elegant job of unpicking this mythology of the ‘beast without’ and the ‘beast within’, calls the latter ‘a scapegoat for human wickedness’.
But what about the less hateful attitudes that humans have toward animals? People spend billions on preserving habitats for wild species and billions more on pampering domesticated pets. Not even all liminal animals are hated – squirrels and songbirds usually get a pass. To see the dark side of these forms of affection, consider again the human parallels. White settlers produce and consume an abundance of kitsch sentimentalising Indigenous North American cultures while perpetuating the suppression of those cultures. Like wild animals, Indigenous people are loved in the abstract and at a distance – in effect, when they don’t come too close. Likewise, misogyny has its sentimental side. Terms of endearment such as ‘babe’ and (tellingly) ‘my pet’ express affection while also reinforcing a power differential. Your pet – whether human or animal – doesn’t get an equal say how you run your home. When we see it in parallel with human-to-human condescension, affection for animals appears more clearly as just the gentler side of zoophobia.
When we invoke animals to demean our fellow humans, we also thereby reinforce an underlying conception of animals as contemptible. In most areas of dense human settlement, wild predators have been hunted to extinction. Most livestock live out a short existence in conditions so hellish that agricultural lobbies have pushed for so-called ‘ag-gag’ laws that criminalise their documentation. Rodents and many other liminal animals are exterminated remorselessly.
In ways both obvious and subtle, our language desensitises us to this cruelty. Consider this familiar protest against inhumane treatment: ‘They were treated like animals.’ If being treated ‘like animals’ means being treated with cruelty or neglect, we shouldn’t treat animals ‘like animals’ either. Amending our language so that ‘animal’ ceases to be a byword for contempt won’t in itself transform human behaviour. But it might be a start.
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At one point, Giants minor-leaguer Drew Robinson believed he would never play baseball again after surviving a suicide attempt last year — but by the time the Triple-A season started, he had so much confidence in himself that, despite a rough start, he predicted he’d go deep in Tuesday’s game.
“Drew called his shot,” pitcher Scott Kazmir said by text. “He told me he was going to hit a homer before the game started.”
Robinson, 29, lost his right eye when he shot himself in the temple, and no player is known to have played big-league baseball with one eye, and no hitter at the Triple-A level. Tuesday night, in his hometown of Las Vegas, Robinson homered for Triple-A Sacramento.
“We were going crazy in the dugout!” Kazmir said. “We were so happy for Drew.”
He nearly did it again three innings later, doubling high off the wall, with friends and family in the seats to share his moment.
“My first reaction was: I was just so happy for Drew. One, to obviously have success on the baseball field, but also to take the pressure off his shoulders and, show people that this isn’t just a story of a guy making a comeback — he’s actually a really good baseball player,” Giants director of player development Kyle Haines said. “He always was and he still is. I just really felt great for him that maybe he can start to feel a little more like a normal baseball player again.”
Few outside the Giants’ organization would have expected this extraordinary turn of events: Robinson, missing his lead eye, can hit pitching at the level just below the big leagues. Even Robinson had his doubts, especially after seven strikeouts in his first two games.
“I’ve reminded myself as often as I can that I wasn’t perfect when I had two eyes,” Robinson said on The Chronicle’s “Giants Splash” podcast this week. “I still swung and missed. I still made mistakes and made errors and stuff like that. I’m doing a better job recently reminding myself, ‘What are we really comparing these things to?’ Because before, I did all the same things I was streaky. I went in and out of slumps and hot streaks when I had two eyes.”
Chills.
Tears of every emotion in the book while rounding the bases.#BiggerThanMe #BiggerThanBaseball pic.twitter.com/kTBiuOYy26— Drew Robinson (@Drewrobbb) May 12, 2021
On April 16, 2020, Robinson, plagued by anxiety and depression, tried to take his life and when he survived, he waited 20 hours before calling for help. Police officers who arrived couldn’t believe he was alive. Doctors saved his life and after surgeries, he is physically fine apart from the loss of his eye. He has dedicated himself to sharing his story and to promoting the importance of mental health.
The medical professionals who treated Robinson, and his psychiatrist, were all on hand for his return to pro ball last Thursday, and he was emotional taking the field, knowing so many people who love him and who had helped him were there.
“It was just about everything that I was envisioning throughout the whole offseason. I had been looking forward to that moment for so long and worked super hard for it to become a possibility,” Robinson said. “There were so many times where I didn’t think it was going to actually happen, but I was able to appreciate it and take it all in for the first time, which is something I wasn’t very good at doing before my incident.
“I was always very businesslike and tried to not show any emotions.”
He didn’t have the best night at the plate, but absolutely no one cared about that, starting with Robinson.
“I was aware that just being out there was was a lot bigger than than any kind of performance I could have achieved,” Robinson said. “I told my manager the next day, ‘Man, I don’t know if anyone will ever enjoy four strikeouts as much as I just did.’”
Two nights later, he delivered his first hit, something of a relief.
“It took a while, but I was able to stay on a pretty well-located fastball down and away and shoot it the other way, which is something I wasn’t very good at doing before the incident, so it’s kind of funny,” he said. “When I saw it go through, I was able to kind of ease up and really enjoy the whole route to first base and understand that it was a big moment, and I was able to appreciate the cheering that was happening for my family in their section. … To be able to acknowledge my family and friends and everyone that was there was so meaningful and so powerful.”
Robinson sounds like any other hitter when addressing his issues at the plate — it’s all just a matter of timing, really. But he’s had to account for the fact that, as a left-handed hitter, he now must rely on his back eye to pick up the ball. He has learned to adjust his stance to account for it.More for you
Initially, fielding was a challenge — backdrops could cause problems on flyballs, but he can handle that now. Infield work is a little more difficult than the outfield, but then, that has long been the case for him. He’s a utilityman but more comfortable in the outfield.
When he got to minor-league spring training in Arizona in April, Robinson wasn’t quite sure how his teammates might react. He found that it’s a mix, just as it is when he speaks to people outside of baseball. Some are curious and ask him directly about the suicide attempt, others have less of a comfort level with the topic.
“It was a little bit of all of that,” he said. “Some players were really interested, some were giving that side-eye look like, ‘Has that guy got one eye? What’s going on here?’ Eventually, I addressed the whole thing on a spring-training-wide Zoom call and shared some stuff that I’ve learned and my experiences.
“Everyone just kind of accepted me and let me do my thing and treated me like another player, which is just so cool. Because it could be easy to tiptoe around me or treat me a little hesitantly, Once I got it all out there, some players did get the urge to ask me more about it and ask what I’ve learned from this whole process, and sharing things like that shows that the openness to this is important — and to not just me.”
The Giants have supported Robinson at every turn. President of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi and manager Gabe Kapler are among those who text him regularly, along with retired outfielder Hunter Pence. Even before Robinson’s suicide attempt, the club had emphasized mental health, with a team psychologist, Dr. Shana Alexander, along with a mental-skills team.If you need help
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During Mental Health Awareness month, the issue is even more in the forefront. “It’s in that phase where it’s coming to light more often, which is always the more uncomfortable phase of any kind of awareness movement,” Robinson said. “It’s kind getting it all out there at first and then understanding why things are happening and what’s happening.
“Unfortunately, a lot of players do have similar feelings, and at times just some unneeded pressures from themselves. … I think it’s going to make a big, big impact on a lot of players and a lot of organizations because it’s like physical rehabilitation, to apply the learnings and things that are important to help players balance their lifestyle with a really stressful job.”
The Giants couldn’t be more proud of Robinson, far beyond anything he might do on the field. He’s someone who might contribute to the organization for decades, should he so choose, given his eagerness to help anyone who has struggled the way he did.
“What inspires me most about what Drew is doing is his openness,” Kapler said. “He’s sharing all the emotion, all the insight into what’s happening in his mind, all of his fears with us. It’s an example of vulnerability that we can all aspire to.
“It’s that vulnerability, coupled with the courage, that impresses me most. It’s not the one-eyed first hit or home run or the diving catch. It’s the relentless authenticity and message of ‘I’m scared, but f— it. I’m going hard, anyway.’ At the end of the day, that’s what mental strength is really about.”
Susan Slusser covers the Giants for The San Francisco Chronicle. Email: sslusser@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @susanslusser
Written By Susan Slusser
Susan Slusser has worked at The San Francisco Chronicle since 1996. She is the Giants beat writer. Previously, she covered the A’s full-time from 1999 to 2021.
Slusser’s book about the A’s, 100 Things A’s Fans Need to Know and Do Before They Die, came out in 2014 and she and A’s radio announcer Ken Korach released a new book, If These Walls Could Talk, Tales from the Oakland A’s Dugout, Locker Room and Press Box, in 2019. She is also a correspondent for the MLB Network.
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Before you read this, realize that you are okay and that what you are experiencing is “The SHIFT”. This is a normal process when the universal vibrational energy forces you to rise above your normal 3D level of existence here on Earth. It’s all okay.
1. Feeling as though you are in a pressure cooker or in intense energy; feeling stress. Remember, you are adjusting to a higher vibration and you will eventually adjust. Old patterns, behaviors and beliefs are also being pushed to the surface. There is a lot going on inside of you.
2. A feeling of disorientation; not knowing where you are; a loss of a sense of place. You are not in 3D anymore, as you have moved or in the process of moving into the higher realms.
3. Unusual aches and pains throughout different parts of your body. You are purifying and releasing blocked energy vibrating at 3D, while you are vibrating in a higher dimension.
4. Waking at night between 2 and 4 a.m. Much is going on in your dream state. You can’t be there for long lengths of time and need a break. This is also the ‘cleansing and releasing’ hour.
5. Memory loss. A great abundance of short term memory loss and only vague remembrances of your past. You are in more than one dimension at a time, and going back and forth as part of the transition, you are experiencing a ‘disconnect’. Also, your past is part of the Old, and the Old is forever gone. Being in the Now is the way of the New World.
6. ‘Seeing’ and ‘hearing’ things. You are experiencing different dimensions as you transition, all according to how sensitive you are and how you are wired.
7. Loss of identity. You try to access the Old you, but it is no longer there. You may not know who you are looking at in the mirror. You have cleared much of your old patterns and are now embodying much more light and a simpler, more purified divine you. All is in order, You are okay.
8. Feeling ‘out of body’. You may feel as though someone is talking, but it is not you. This is our natural defence mechanism of survival when we are under acute stress or feeling traumatized or out of control. Your body is going through a lot and you may not want to be in it. My ascension guide told me that this was a way of easing the transition process, and that I did not need to experience what my body was going through. This only lasted a short time. It passes.
9. Periods of deep sleeping. You are resting from all the acclimating and are integrating, as well as building up for the next phase.
10. Heightened sensitivities to your surroundings. Crowds, noise, foods, TV, other human voices and various other stimulations are barely tolerable. You also overwhelm very easily and become easily overstimulated. You are tuning up. Know that this will eventually pass.
11. You don’t feel like doing anything. You are in a rest period, ‘rebooting’. Your body knows what it needs. In addition, when you begin reaching the higher realms, ‘doing’ and ‘making things happen’ becomes obsolete as the New energies support the feminine of basking, receiving, creating, self-care and nurturing. Ask the Universe to ‘bring’ you what you want while you are enjoying yourself and having fun.
12. An intolerance for lower vibrational things of the 3D, reflected in conversations, attitudes, societal structures, healing modalities, etc. They literally make you feel ‘sick’ inside. You are in a higher vibration and your energies are no longer in alignment. You are being ‘pushed, to move forward; to ‘be’ and create the New.
13. A loss of desire for food. Your body is adjusting to a new, higher state of being. Also, part of you does not want to be here anymore in the Old.
14. A sudden disappearance of friends, activities, habits, jobs and residences. You are evolving beyond what you used to be, and these people and surroundings no longer match your vibration. The New will soon arrive and feel so-o-o-o much better.
15. You absolutely cannot do certain things anymore. When you try to do your usual routine and activities, it feels downright awful. You are evolving beyond what you used to be, and these people and surroundings no longer match your vibration. The New will soon arrive and feel so-o-o-o much better.
16. Days of extreme fatigue. Your body is losing density and going through intense restructuring.
17. A need to eat often along with what feels like attacks of low blood sugar. Weight gain, especially in the abdominal area. A craving for protein. You are requiring an enormous amount of fuel for this ascension process. Weight gain with an inability to loose it no matter what you do is one of the most typical experiences. Trust that your body knows what it is doing.
18. Experiencing emotional ups and downs; weeping. Our emotions are our outlet for release, and we are releasing a lot.
19. A wanting to go Home, as if everything is over and you don’t belong here anymore. We are returning to Source. Everything is over, but many of us are staying to experience and create the New World. Also, our old plans for coming have been completed.
20. Feeling you are going insane, or must be developing a mental illness of some sort. You are rapidly experiencing several dimensions and greatly opening. Much is available to you now. You are just not used to it. Your awareness has been heightened and your barriers are gone. This will pass and you will eventually feel very at Home like you have never felt before, as Home is now here.
21. Anxiety and panic. Your ego is losing much of itself and is afraid. Your system is also on overload. Things are happening to you that you may not understand. You are also losing behaviour patterns of a lower vibration that you developed for survival in 3D. This may make you feel vulnerable and powerless. These patterns and behaviours you are losing are not needed in the higher realms. This will pass and you will eventually feel so much love, safety and unity. Just wait.
22. Depression. The outer world may not be in alignment with the New, higher vibrational you. It doesn’t feel so good out there. You are also releasing lower, darker energies and you are ‘seeing’ through them. Hang in there.
23. Vivid, wild and sometimes violent dreams. You are releasing many, many lifetimes of lower vibrational energy. Many are now reporting that they are experiencing beautiful dreams. Your dream state will eventually improve and you will enjoy it again. Some experience this releasing while awake. My mother commented one day that she believed I was having nightmares in the daytime.
24. Night sweats and hot flashes. Your body is ‘heating’ up as it burns off residue.
25. Your plans suddenly change in mid-stream and go in a completely different direction. Your soul is balancing out your energy. It usually feels great in this new direction, as your soul knows more than you do. It is breaking your ‘rut’ choices and vibration.
26. You have created a situation that seems like your worst nightmare, with many ‘worst nightmare’ aspects to it. Your soul is guiding you into ‘stretching’ into aspects of yourself where you were lacking, or into ‘toning down’ aspects where you had an overabundance. Your energy is just balancing itself. Finding your way to peace through this situation is the test you have set up for yourself. This is your journey, and your soul would not have set it up if you weren’t ready. You are the one who finds your way out and you will. Looking back, you will have gratitude for the experience and be a different person.
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On May 13th, 2021 Jupiter enters Pisces, the sign of its domicile.
Jupiter is in Pisces for a brief stay, until July 28th, 2021. In the next 2 and a half months we will get our first taste of this transit.
Jupiter re-enters Pisces on December 29th, 2021, stays in Pisces until May 10th, 2022 and is again back in Pisces from October 28th, 2022 until December 20th, 2022.
Many people look forward to Jupiter in Pisces, and for good reasons. Jupiter is in domicile in Pisces so it feels at home in this sign. In Pisces, Jupiter can be as wise, spiritual, and big-picture as he wants.
The last couple of years, when Jupiter shared signs with Pluto and Saturn, have not been easy. Now that Jupiter moves into Pisces, our sense of faith and optimism will finally be restored.
But what makes this particular Jupiter in Pisces transit even more special, is that Jupiter will be together with Neptune in Pisces.
This is very interesting because both Jupiter and Neptune rule Pisces. To have both rulers in the sign of their rulership is pretty magic… and I use the word “magic” on purpose.
When Jupiter, with its larger-than-life optimism and sense of expansion, and Neptune with its mystical vision are in the same sign, we will start to see the magic everywhere.
Pisces, and especially Neptune is in Pisces, may make you think of angels playing the harp. But Jupiter is expansive, loud and showy. If Jupiter was a music genre, Jupiter in Pisces would be the arena rock of the 80’s.
Bon Jovi’s “Living on a Prayer” was released in November 1986, when Jupiter was in Pisces (Jon Bon Jovi himself has 3 planets in Pisces). The lyrics of the song are of course, very Jupiter in Pisces:
“Woah, we’re halfway there
Woah, living on a prayer
Take my hand, we’ll make it I swear”
The song was an instant hit because it tapped into the trends of the time. In November 1986, everyone had a Jupiter in Pisces transit, and everyone was ready to receive a Jupiter in Pisces message.
This is what Jupiter does. It sets trends. It tells what’s in the psyche of society in that particular year.
Let’s not forget that Jupiter is the planet of truth and coherence. Jupiter is the planet of what everyone agrees on. That’s why Jupiter rules knowledge, education, the moral code and the law.
When Jupiter is in Pisces, everyone agrees that, no matter what life throws at us, we will eventually make it.
Jupiter in Pisces has nothing of Saturn in its DNA.
Trying to tell someone that the apocalypse is around the corner will not work, because Jupiter in Pisces has a different energy than Jupiter in Capricorn.
Asking someone to be socially responsible will not work either (not because being socially responsible is not a good thing), but because Jupiter is no longer in Aquarius.
With Jupiter in Pisces, what works is painting a positive vision for the future, based on faith, compassion, growth, and infinite possibilities.
Jupiter has been in Aquarius since December 2020. Jupiter’s ingress into Aquarius was a big leap forward from Jupiter in Capricorn and has brought some much-needed relief. That being said, in Aquarius, Jupiter had a very serious (some say grumpy) roommate: Saturn.
Jupiter and Saturn in the same sign is great for “manifesting” Aquarius topics. When Jupiter and Saturn join forces, things get done.
And this is great. What’s not that great is that Jupiter’s expansive function is of course inhibited.
While Jupiter (with the help of Saturn) may get things done in Aquarius, the process may not feel as joyful as when Jupiter does NOT share the sign with Saturn.
Jupiter changing signs means that Jupiter is now ‘free’ of Saturnian influence. It gets things done his way. It gets as expansive, joyful, optimistic and hopeful as it can be.
Not only that. Jupiter in Pisces is in domicile, which means it functions at 100% capacity. So Jupiter is even more joyful, expansive and optimistic than it is in any other sign.
Jupiter’s ingress into Pisces will instantly uplift our mood. And this is a reason to rejoice.
Of course, the downside of this is that we may become TOO optimistic. And since Neptune is in Pisces as well, the optimism may turn into wishful thinking and living in Lala land.
Let’s put things straight: while Jupiter is synonymous with growth and expansion, Jupiter can also be a bit unrealistic.
People with strong Jupiter placements have big goals which they rarely achieve.
People who have Jupiter transits take big risks, are overconfident and oftentimes get into trouble and even lose what they had in the first place – which is pretty much the opposite of what a Jupiter transit promises.
So is Jupiter really the good guy astrology is portraying him to be?
A better question to ask is “Where would we be without Jupiter?”. You may not achieve everything you hoped for, but you may still be “halfway there” and that’s much better than being in the same place you were before.
You may not become a millionaire, but Jupiter’s growth mindset may help you get to a much better place than people who don’t share your abundance goals.
People who want to become best-selling authors may not sell 1 million books when they have a Jupiter transit (there just aren’t that many J.K. Rowlings and Stephen Kings out there).
But they may still become best-selling authors in one of Amazon’s many categories, and they may still change the lives of the 1, 10, 100, or 1000 people who read their book.
When we DO engage with Jupiter’s energy, we are much more likely to achieve our goal, or at least to get closer to it.
And that’s precisely why Jupiter is considered to be the great benefic in astrology. It’s not that when you have a Jupiter transit, divine luck pours on you.
It’s because when you have a growth mindset, when you are optimistic, when you’re actively pursuing opportunities, you are much more likely to make progress in your life.
It’s not Jupiter that brings abundance and luck to you. It’s you, embracing Jupiter’s vibrational frequency, that attracts these things into your life.
There are so many people who wait for years for a Jupiter transit, but when they have it, they do nothing, and of course, nothing happens. With Jupiter, – as our Age Of Aquarius member, Marc beautifully put it – you have to actually throw the dice and put yourself out there.
That being said, if there is any transit that can bring divine luck seemingly out of the blue, that is Jupiter in Pisces.
Pisces is the sign of endless possibilities. Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac and encompasses all the other signs, with all the opportunities that get their last chance to materialize, before we start again in Aries.
Jupiter is in domicile in Pisces, and that’s great news for you and your natal chart.
The best thing about having a ruling planet transiting the sign of its rulership is that it makes things happen.
If you have a Gemini ascendant for example, then Pisces is your 10th house. Since Jupiter rules Pisces, when Jupiter transits Pisces (like it does now), you will have the ruler of the 10th house in the 10th house.
There is a sense of flow and progress. Things finally come together. Projects materialize.
To find out how Jupiter in Pisces will influence you look up the house where you have Pisces in your chart. This is where you will receive Jupiter’s blessings.
You will need to have an accurate time of birth, or at least to know your Ascendant sign.
Using whole sign houses, these are the areas of your life that Jupiter in Pisces will influence:
Jupiter in Pisces also influences you if it makes aspects with planets or angles in your natal chart.
If you have planets or an angle (Ascendant, IC, Descendant, Midheaven) in Pisces, then at some point Jupiter will conjunct this planet or angle, and this is when you will experience the peak of this transit.
