Jupiter in Taurus; Embodied Wisdom

Jupiter moves into Taurus today, rooting down into the abundant earth after the creative but potentially also devouring fires of Aries. I’m a bit impatient with the conventional symbolism applied to Jupiter, of wealth and prosperity and good fortune. For me, Jupiter is about where and how we find meaning, about where and how we can grow. And in Taurus, that has to be embodied. In the sign of fixed earth, Jupiter is the wisdom we carry within our bodies. Instinct and intuition and a deep knowing that we are nature, that nature is us. That meaning does not reside only in the abstract, the intellectual, the head. We are body, the earth is body, all is body. I’m impatient too (as I’m sure you are, if you’re reading this) with traditional religious ideas about having to transcend the body to reach spirit. We can meet spirit through our physical bodies just as we can in many other ways. And it’s not exactly news, or shouldn’t be, that reconnecting with nature and our embodied wisdom is so so important right now. It might be what saves us. Not just the intellectual understanding (although it’s nice to see the academy finally catching up with that) but a deep visceral understanding of how entangled, how interdependent, how interconnected we are. Taurus is ruled by Venus - earth is relational. Jupiter in Taurus brings us a reminder of the spirit in every living thing, in everything. It’s appropriate perhaps that Jupiter moves into Taurus at the height of Taurus season, when nature here in the northern hemisphere is all green and growth, thriving and flourishing and multiplying.

We’ll get a stronger reminder of that tension between the abstract and the embodied in a couple of days, when Jupiter squares Pluto in Aquarius. But I like to think there is common ground here too. Pluto for me is raw and visceral, more deeply embodied that you might expect of a transpersonal planet. And Jupiter partakes of the same current of idealism as Aquarius brings. I’ve talked a lot about Pluto in Aquarius as a transformation of knowledge, of how we understand the world. Jupiter in Taurus adds some energy to Uranus in Taurus, reminding us that without a deep connection to physical nature, we only leave ourselves further behind.