by Jude Cowell, posting on behalf of the common good
As you know, the GOP and their comrades, both foreign and domestic, are working hard to crash the US economy and may shut down the government once again because they hope that President Biden will be blamed in time for Election 2024, and that Republican candidates, such as they are, will be victorious in November 2024 - despite all common sense to the contrary.
Well, since the GOP's authoritarian agenda is harmful and brutal, how else can they 'stand for election'? It isn't as if Republicans can be open and honest with voters about their anti-societal, anti-constitutional, anti-democratic, misogynistic "policies," now can they? Plus, most folks realize that Nazism was tried and found wanting decades ago, so which society in its right mind would want to make such a hideous mistake again?
Since our good news planet Jupiter is known as The Great Benefic perhaps his example, influence, and protective function can help steer us toward Election year 2024!
Therefore, let's consider The Path of Jupiter from 2023 into Election Year 2024, with the planet's Zodiacal journey having begun on January 1, 2023 with Jupiter @1Aries (just beyond the Aries Point), and ending December 31, 2023 with Jupiter @5Taurus. His stay in comfort-loving Taurus extends until he reaches Gemini in late May 2024, a sign through which Jupiter tends to relate to others with his more carefree and loquacious qualities, but the Mercurial placement can also be on the superficial side at times. And obviously, travel-loving Jupiter in chatty Gemini suggests a larger volume of communications including the technological kind, plus, an emphasis may become more obvious regarding Jupiter's hierophant leanings. Here's the Big Fella now (NASA):
Then look below for a view of the DC Horoscope of the very moment that transit Jupiter reaches his shadow degree where he turned Rx on September 4, 2023 (@15Tau34), for then he'll begin to lumber forward into new territory. Because after all, Jupiterian realms tend to run more smoothly when Mr. Moneybags moves in direct motion so the chart (March 23, 2024) is added below the dual charts, with study notes penned on. In fact, all my study notes are penned on for your consideration: the Rx and Direct charts (dual images, below), and the 'Jupiter leaves its shadow 2024' Horoscope, as promised.
But first, some basics concerning Jupiter and Venus, with finances and funding as key elements, of course, but also Jupiter is active in such fields of endeavor as politics, legal affairs, religion, broadcasting, propaganda, ideology, philosophy, higher education, corporate enterprises, travel, and discovery. Then with Venus on a positive level: relationships, diplomacy, beauty, and luxury are involved. The negatives such as jealousy, envy, and revenge you already know. With negative Jupiter, it's often a question of overdoing issues, recklessly speculating, and/or overpromising with overblown, grandstanding, or boasting rhetoric. So basically, Jupiter can represent the windbag personality who loves the sound of his own voice. You know the type.
Potentials of Jupiter in Venus-ruled Taurus include:
Generosity; liberality; trusteeship; love of comfort; the capacity for enjoyment; financial interests; wastefulness; illness through excessive pleasures; the urge to gain financial security (R. Ebertin). I would add humor and comedy to his list!
Then there's Venus, symbolizing smaller amounts of money - and showing her more avaricious side when in Taurus - but in Leo, Venus indicates a love of luxury, romance, pleasure, games, and entertainment.
September 4, 2023: Jupiter turns Retrograde ('Rx') @15Tau34 between Moon and Uranus (grand ambitions: to shut down the US government? or to improve the economy?); on December 30, 2023, Jupiter turns Direct @5Tau34 with the 12th house Moon @25Leo25 as the focus of activity (as handle planet of a Bucket pattern; 12th house = behind the scenes; are ladies and/or their issues secretly directing the action?).
And of course, manipulative Pluto, still within orb of our transformative US Pluto Return/s, has the most filthy lucre of all: there 'he' is, sneaking around the IC, the Foundation of the Matter, as Jupiter turned Rx September 4th. Then by the end of 2023, there's Venus in Jupiter-ruled Sagittarius conjunct the IC instead which suggests that things may pan out optimistically, after all, if the stability of US currency isn't under more threat than usual of being discarded.
Annoyingly, those familiar with the natal positions of Trump's planets will recognize that the Leo Moon reflects the abrasive rising Mars in his natal chart. Try as I might, the blighter's natal and progressed planets continue to assert themselves in every horoscope I study. Have you found this to be the case, too? And this includes the Inauguration 2025 Horoscope.
Then noting that financier Jupiter can also wear political, religious, and military hats, here's a dual image of Jupiter Rx and Direct circa 2023, both charts set for Washington DC and with plenty of study notes penned on; obviously the current GOP threat to shut down the government is involved with the path of transiting Jupiter since the US government 'runs out of money' on September 30, 2023 (Jupiter Rx), a stupid political construct by which power games are tiresomely played by Republicans attempting to blame Democrats:
We should add a final note: that banking planet Jupiter turns Direct in late December 2023 while sextile US 1776 Jupiter (5Can56), and when in Taurus, Mr. Moneybags, scion of corporations everywhere, tends to treat the US Treasury and the economy fairly well - except for foreigners and their domestic shills who have a habit of raiding our coffers. Plus, our Tuberville-inspired military troubles are in desperate need of resolution since National Security is negatively affected, and Jupiter the General prefers his major role as our nation's protector rather than as a political tool for Mr. Tuberville and his comrades to utilize on behalf of America's enemies.
The 'Jupiter leaves its shadow 2024' Horoscope:
And here's a previous post concerning Jupiter in Taurus which may be of interest: A Horoscope for the Pilgrim Fathers which, via Pluto, brings in to America a fanatic streak of Plutocracy - very much like We the People now face with Christian Nationalists trying to turn America into a fascist police state. Like that.
A Recommended Post: Donald Trump: In the Realms of Jupiter.