Jupiter in Pisces May 13 - July 28, 2021: 0-2 degrees
Just two days after the New Moon in Taurus, symbolizing a fresh start to our Lunar cycle, Jupiter, our luckiest planet, changes signs from heady Aquarius to watery and emotional Pisces. Since December 3, 2019, Jupiter has been traveling through the signs of Capricorn and then Aquarius and will finally move into one of the two signs of it’s rulership on May 13th. This is the moment all Astrologers have been looking forward to - this is a light at the end of a dark tunnel moment.
Jupiter’s light and abundance has felt dim with it’s movement through the two Saturn ruled signs of Capricorn and Aquarius. Jupiter is associated with abundance, growth, fluid movement, and luck itself. Saturn, on the other hand, represents restrictions, boundaries, and hard-work. Restrictions and boundaries have been central themes in our consciousness for the last two years and this is no surprise with the amount of planets traveling through these two Saturn ruled signs. However, on May 13th, Jupiter changes signs from Aquarius to Pisces and we now get a fresh break, a moment to catch our breath, and we can start to look forward with a bit more optimism and hope. Jupiter will live in Pisces for the better part of 2022 as well, so this is a moment to feel what may lay ahead in the following year through contemplation rather than force.
Pisces is a spiritual sign. It’s the last sign of the zodiac and there is a deep wisdom to it that I have personally become obsessed with. The Zodiac starts with Aries, where we are born with the will to survive. As we walk through the remaining eleven signs, we learn to eat food that nourishes us, to talk and share our ideas, to partner up, to build friendship and community, to hold a job. We learn about hard-work, love, and honesty. And our final lessons are symbolized through the archetypes of Pisces, the sign associated with “all that is”, spirit, the collective, and endless all-encompassing and unwavering devotion to each other. With Pisces, the walls of self-protection we learn to guard ourselves with in adulthood become dismantled and unconditional love becomes possible. This process reminds me of the trope in films where before their death, the elderly character is finally able to utter the words, “I love you,” to their child after a life-time of being unable to.
The Pisces archetype and this journey remind me of the process of going to therapy. In therapy, we find softness. We learn why we are the way we are, where our strange anxieties and neuroses stem from. We often experience a period of serious anger and hurt upon reflecting on our past and our childhood and it becomes abundantly easy to point a finger at others for our problems. But the point of going to therapy is not to discover our anger and fester in it forever - the goal is to find compassion for those who have hurt us so we can in turn find that same compassion for ourselves. How we view the world is mirrored in our perception of ourselves. We learn that those who raised us are also humans, they were flawed but did their best. And by opening up those old wounds and filling them with something much lighter, we are able to connect with fellow human beings through our similarities rather than differences.
As a collective, we have gone through a necessary breaking down of structures and a re-evaluation period of unjust systems we are told we should be thriving in. We have shared these ideas on the internet in the form of text, through memes and on apps. In the past, how well has an argument gone for you via text message? Probably not very well, and this is the reality we have been forced to live in during a long stretch of isolation. On top of that we are fed information through a feedback loop orchestrated by an algorithm whose main goal is to keep us in fear and in a never ending cycle of consumption. As a result, multiple realities exist that are dictated by technology and not by real human interest. While on one hand our collective trauma has united us, the physical separateness and feedback loop has also created a divide for many. Jupiter in Pisces offers an antidote to this dilemma.
Both Capricorn and Aquarius are about systems and structures, and we have done a healthy amount of critiquing in those departments. A life-time of wounds have been laid bare and finding softness after this period will be a transition like any other. With travel becoming more possible, we now have the opportunity to reconnect with other humans in person and have real conversations with one another in the flesh. We are able to hug our families and be a little more in the present and less in our fears.
Jupiter in Pisces opens more room for healing, for spirituality, and for connecting back to our purpose. We have undergone a deep Plutonian rebirth-process and it’s likely we will never feel like we did prior to 2020. This is an opportunity to move forward and to hold the hands of our neighbor despite our many differences to find common ground, so that we can continue to do work that will benefit the collective through love rather than fear.
“Enter the room of self-knowledge first, instead of floating off to other places. This is the path. Traveling a safe and level road, who needs wings to fly? Let’s make the best possible use of our feet first and learn to know ourselves.” - St. Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle
Jupiter in Pisces Dates:
May 13 - July 28, 2021: 0-2 degrees
Dec 29, 2021 - May 10, 2022: 0-29 degrees
Oct 28 - Dec 20, 2022: 28-29 degrees