The Jupiter/Pluto align­ment is one that I exam­ined for the Overview for 2011. Here is what I wrote then:

Jupiter Trine Plu­to (Jul. 7, Oct. 28, Mar. 13, 2012)
The cycle of Jupiter and Plu­to moves into this more pos­i­tive phase for the next 9 months. Hav­ing faced the chal­lenge in late Feb­ru­ary, we will find our­selves able to expand more effort­less­ly now in our mate­r­i­al life and spir­i­tu­al under­stand­ing. Because Jupiter has moved into Tau­rus (Earth) and Plu­to is in Capri­corn (Earth), this cre­ates very pos­i­tive con­di­tions for real eco­nom­ic growth. Though there are always expand­ing and con­tract­ing forces at play in any year, this is cer­tain­ly a strong fac­tor sup­port­ing those areas that are capa­ble of growth, espe­cial­ly those which have read the signs of change and adapted.

Spir­i­tu­al­ly, to the extent the right choic­es were made in Feb­ru­ary, the oppor­tu­ni­ty now is to bring about a real evo­lu­tion in our moral affir­ma­tion of one anoth­er. We are will­ing to seek accom­mo­da­tion with each oth­er as an expres­sion of our under­stand­ing for one another.

I would add that this align­ment brings a per­son­al oppor­tu­ni­ty to delve deeply into the col­lec­tive arche­types that shape, inform and inspire your rela­tion­ship to your life. Jupiter rules your prin­ci­ples, truths and beliefs which are being shaped by Tau­rus now. Plu­to rules the uncon­scious pat­terns, embed­ded in what Carl Jung termed the “col­lec­tive uncon­scious”, which are being expressed through Capri­corn now.

This felic­i­tous join­ing of Jupiter with Plu­to will open a por­tal to the deep­er con­structs that under­lie your identity/relationship prin­ci­ples. You will find your­self, your mean­ings and your truth in the myths that sur­round you. The ancient arche­types like “The God­dess”, “The Heal­er”, “The Hero”, “The Grail King”, “The Wound­ed Heal­er”, and so many oth­ers, strike chords with­in your soul as you con­nect to the myths of your jour­ney, to the seed songs of the sil­ver chain, the shin­ing path of life after life that came before and stretch­es out beyond the beyond.

These shad­ow-songs of your past sculpt, shape and inform you now; their mean­ings bind you to the one sto­ry, the great jour­ney you are upon. Their mes­sages guide you as you seek to face the future with under­stand­ing. You are the seek­er; you are the story.

Now you fash­ion one more pearl on that great sil­ver chain of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it. Once more, it is time to con­nect the past and future as you face that pre­cious present, the razor’s edge, upon which you dance the dance of the creator. 

Mars aligns beau­ti­ful­ly with Sat­urn; now you are advanc­ing with style, grace and substance!

Mars trip­ping through Gem­i­ni is filled with eager­ness, nim­ble­ness and orig­i­nal­i­ty. How­ev­er, with Gem­i­ni in the lead, you may become dis­tract­ed (or be the dis­trac­tion) as all man­ner of myr­i­ad pos­si­bil­i­ties beck­on along your path. Your won­drous exer­cise of inge­nu­ity, intel­li­gence and panache may come to naught with­out some guidance.

Sat­urn in Libra offers a steady­ing influ­ence that shapes, steers and grounds the eclec­tic bril­liance of Mars/Gemini. Sat­urn forms real­i­ty struc­tures, the bound­aries that real­ize, shape and gov­ern the world around you. With­out this real­i­ty to move through, with­out rules, objects and sub­stance to play in, what would Mars do?

By encoun­ter­ing these very lim­its set down by Sat­urn, that encounter is what engages Mars/Gemini to find new and excit­ing ways to work in, through and even­tu­al­ly beyond those very Sat­urn­ian realities…so as to even­tu­al­ly pro­duce a bet­ter world. At times their encounter is more, shall we say, prob­lem­at­ic. Mars feels frus­trat­ed by the lim­its imposed upon it, the old order resists, and there is frus­tra­tion and denial of your desire.

But today Form and Action, Sat­urn and Mars, dance the dance of cre­ation in per­fect har­mo­ny. Enjoy this oppor­tu­ni­ty to fur­ther your aims as move through your world with the style and sub­stance of a mas­ter builder. Remem­ber, always, the key to your suc­cess is self-mas­tery.

Today you will move for­ward and you will do it with style…

Today you are Mas­ter­ful!

Her­mes “the fleet-foot­ed” is tripped up by his coun­ter­part Jove; the “low­er” mind of Mer­cury needs to be teth­ered, turned and ground­ed by the “high­er” mind of Jupiter. Inspired by the ide­al­ism of Leo, you must bring your vision into the world by sub­stan­tial acts of mean­ing, beau­ty and car­ing as guid­ed by Taurus. 

Mer­cury has just entered Leo; your mind is infused with ide­al­is­tic fer­vor and the joys of lead­er­ship, cre­ativ­i­ty, and love. Jupiter in Tau­rus comes along as a “tem­per­ing” agent that bends Mer­cury’s zest onto more prac­ti­cal path­ways. Dra­mat­ic strut­ting about, declaim­ing on this or that prin­ci­ple may cap­ture their atten­tion, but your pur­pose will not make it if there is no shar­ing of sub­stance behind it.

Raise your col­or­ful ban­ner; but you must lead through prac­ti­cal demon­stra­tions that build self-con­fi­dence in oth­ers. Daz­zle with your orig­i­nal­i­ty; but cre­ate so as to inspire the gift of imag­i­na­tion for all. Sing your joy­ful heart-songs; but you must live by love in pur­pose­ful acts of kindness

Lead, cre­ate and love…truthfully, reflec­tive­ly and soul­ful­ly, for you walk the path­way of self-unfold­ment with many oth­ers who need you as much as you need them.

Venus the plan­et of love & beau­ty slips into the source-waters of life, Venus has come home. Venus moves into Can­cer for over 3 weeks and your appre­ci­a­tion and need for secu­ri­ty, nur­tur­ing and fam­i­ly is deeply felt. You are drawn to those val­ues in and around you that res­onate in your soul; the echo of fond mem­o­ries, feel­ings and car­ing is what attracts you now.

Venus rules val­ue, it is what you wish to attract, touch and be part of; your out­er real­i­ty needs to match your inner famil­iar, your core, your heart of hearts. Your world becomes infused, breathes and sighs, with rec­ol­lec­tions, remem­brances and long­ings of yes­ter­year. These heart­felt stir­rings are there for you now; yet these soul­ful songs of what was shape your heart’s intent for what is and what is to be.

Past is Pro­logue, you are the becom­ing, as you move with the care you have felt to the care you must bestow. Venus in Can­cer sings the Truth that to be cared for, you must care; to be nur­tured, you must be nur­tur­ing, and to be cen­tered, you must share your space with another.

As Venus slips into Can­cer she encoun­ters Nep­tune who abides now at the thresh­old of Pisces. Cre­ativ­i­ty and Love will soar to new­found heights today. Enjoy good­ness and beau­ty around and with­in you; cel­e­brate the love that is the foun­tain-source of your universe.

Venus the beau­ti­ful opens her heart to the dream songs of Nep­tune; you feel inspired as the mus­es sing to your soul their celes­tial melodies of cre­ation. Venus the lov­ing opens her heart to the self-less source-love of Nep­tune; you are embraced by the truth that you are loved, as is all of cre­ation, because we abide in the One shin­ing Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it as it becomes the becoming.

Join­ing the dance, you wel­come Mer­cury and Uranus lat­er today as they bestow their bless­ings of men­tal bril­liance, lucid­i­ty and insight. The solu­tion to the puz­zle, the dilem­ma that you could not fathom…well today you will have the insight to tran­scend the ordinary!

Mer­cury sail­ing through Leo is quick­ened by the mag­i­cal pow­ers of Uranus, the awak­en­er. Mer­cury is very good at observ­ing, cat­e­go­riz­ing and build­ing your knowl­edge of the world. But you need to “think out­side the box” if you are to find the path­way that leads to a greater under­stand­ing. Today is such a day.

Uranus in Aries opens your mind to spir­i­tu­al intu­itions; he brings you the joy of epiphany as you pass through appear­ances and so approach the thresh­old of truth. Your assump­tions, con­cepts and facts were nec­es­sary to bring you to knowl­edge, but you must go beyond the ordi­nary to reach the shores of under­stand­ing. Let Uranus guide you now to the shin­ing halls of the illu­mined mind.

Last­ly, let us give thanks…and a very Hap­py Birth­day to America!

It was just three months ago that you faced the Sun oppos­ing Sat­urn; that was a moment of rev­e­la­tion. It was a poignant les­son about the unfold­ing rela­tion­ship between your Pure Poten­tial­i­ty (Sun) and your present man­i­fes­ta­tion (a lim­it­ed expres­sion of that poten­tial) also known as Real­i­ty (Sat­urn).

Now you come to a turn­ing point, the square; the road forks…and you must choose a fork! You need to cleave to some­thing, and some­thing must be let go. Since this is the “wan­ing square”, the choice is more about your beliefs, ideas and atti­tudes than about a “thing”.

The Sun in Can­cer is fol­low­ing the path of feel­ing and secu­ri­ty which emerges from fam­i­ly expe­ri­ence; to be nur­tured or nur­tur­ing is all that mat­ters. Sat­urn in Libra is assert­ing the prin­ci­ple of rela­tion­ships based upon choice and free will; it is forc­ing the Sun to shape those more per­son­al or insu­lar needs and fam­i­ly rela­tion­ships with ref­er­ence to jus­tice, equal­i­ty and mutu­al understanding.

What do you do? Which is more impor­tant? How do you choose? Which is it: Fam­i­ly or Friend­ship, Secu­ri­ty or Shar­ing? Well, of course, each is true. What real­ly is being asked of you now is to more con­scious­ly live these two “truth-ways” as they must be…together.

You need your roots from which to pro­ceed; you need to feel secure in order to reach out.  But you need those wider rela­tion­ships to explore your world and your­self, to extend your­self and so find your­self in another…And you then take those expe­ri­ences of social exten­sion back to your “roots”, and so deep­en, refresh and renew your sense of self.

As always it is all about the bal­ance, the great dance of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it, which you must hon­or, cel­e­brate and fol­low on your jour­ney of becom­ing the Becoming.…

Dance the dance…