Once a year, from our perspective on Earth, the planet Jupiter meets up with the Sun and disappears into its rays. This moment is called a Cazimi.
The alignment is a conjunction; it’s the same alignment that happens with the Sun and Moon at a new moon. Like a new moon, a Jupiter Cazimi marks the start of a new cycle between Jupiter and the Sun.
Also approximately once a year the planet Venus meets up with the planet Uranus in a conjunction.
This marks the start of a new cycle between Venus and Uranus.
There’s a saying that a man never crosses the same river twice, because the river changes and the man changes.
The same is true for planetary alignments. Each one is different.
Because it takes Jupiter about a year to complete a cycle around the zodiac, each year’s Jupiter Cazimi happens in a different sign if the zodiac. This means it brings different energy and correlates to a different area of our lives.
Last year’s Jupiter Cazimi in Aries encouraged us to take bold action with faith.
Two years ago, the Jupiter Cazimi in Pisces invited us to receive life’s blessings.
Uranus spends approximately 8 years in a sign, so we’ve seen a Venus/Uranus conjunction here before.
But the other planetary alignments are different, which means the energy of this conjunction is different.
That’s especially true this cycle. Both of these happening at essentially the same time, in the same part of the same sign, makes it feel like one big event.
In part it calls back to the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction that occurred on April 20, which kicked off a new 14-year cycle between those two planets.
That moment was reinforced by the Taurus new moon on May 7, the subsequent Sun/Uranus conjunction, and today’s alignments.
And what, exactly is that energy?
Pop culture memes often equate Jupiter with luck and abundance, which many take to mean financial windfalls or other “lucky breaks.”
It’s more accurate to say that Jupiter is the planet of expansion. Like a magnifying glass, it makes things bigger. It expands.
Abundance doesn’t only mean financial wealth. Jupiter brings a lot to whatever it touches. Conjunct Uranus it could mean a lot of change and innovation.
Jupiter is also the planet of wisdom, faith, spirituality and growth.
It teaches us lessons, although not necessarily in the harsh way that Saturn can teach lessons.
It can bring a lot of challenges as a way to catalyze you into exploring your faith and how you’ve grown.
At its most basic, its annual alignment with the Sun is a time marker that invites us to examine how we’ve grown in a certain area of life, and what wisdom we’ve acquired here.
With astrology, there’s no need to wait for your “year-end” review. A new cycle is always starting.
Meanwhile, Venus/Uranus helps us examine the revolutionary changes we’ve experienced in matters related to money, beauty, art, relationships, and our resources and self-worth.
You don’t need to look too hard for this. Maybe the revolution is simply in how you’re relating to the change in these areas, such as your ability to be less reactive and more responsive.
How these alignment will land for you — and whether they will at all — also depends on how they interact with planets in your natal chart and your solar return chart for this year.
Understanding your own chart and planetary alignments is a crucial foundation for working with the timing of the planets.
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