The cycle of Venus and Jupiter

The planet Venus represents that which we draw in order to make our lives easier and more pleasurable. This includes both material possessions that help automate our lives, as well as relationships with people that reflect a joy of living and give physical reality true meaning. We chose to incarnate on earth for a reason. Venus represents that reason as pleasure and enjoyment.

Jupiter represents the principle of expansion. It is motivation to grow and prosper. It represents the capacity for whatever reality it touches to expand into truth or law as the natives "truth" ripples throughout humanity. All spirits live in their own reality, and often there are others that share this reality. The relationship between Venus and Jupiter dictates the cycles of one's truth and its relationship with others that either share this truth or are in some form of polarity to it. The nature of these planets is usually very positive, and when Venus and Jupiter come together, the chances of an idea or thought taking hold and expanding into a reality of a more stable truth is greater.

The cycle of the above two planets then, at the highest form of expression, would make for great teachers and communicators that are capable of sharing what it is that they value, drawing relationships that share the joy and appreciation for this value, and through "spreading" the seeds of this joy, eventually hope and maintain motivation that this value will become a forever part of the value system within the universal whole....that it will become a part of truth. Jupiter deals with universal law, philosophy and the realms of higher learning. The Venetian principle adds a love for this and a value, as well as a charm and gift for sharing it.

However, in our day and age, the purity of planetary expression is rarely the collective consensus. As we begin the cycle of Venus and Jupiter with a conjunction, we find most natives of this aspect to be quite self indulgent and their values driven to acquiring material comforts. These material comforts allow them to "automate" their mundane lives so that they never have to miss out on the abundance of social and pleasurable opportunities. There is a great charm and social grace as well as an outstanding ability to communicate. Natives of this aspect or most aspects of these planets make great teachers, directors of social causes, or in the field of travel. They are easily taken advantage of because of their generous and giving nature. However, they are this way partially because they have a great need to feel valued and appreciated as much as they seem to value and appreciate others...however scattered this energy may be. Most all relationships that this native enters begins with the "sky's the limit"feeling, all part of usually an unconscious desire to procreate the value system, religious belief, and ultimately the self. These natives make great "Witness bearers" to any religious institution they value, however they will do so with grace and tact and show appreciation for what it is that you value if your differ from theirs...but this is much of the trait that enables them to draw so many that will love and appreciate what they have to offer. Ultimately they love the love, in mass quantities and large doses from each that they touch...the logical nature of adjoining Venus and Jupiter.
As the cycle continues, these two planets will ultimately come to what we call the square aspect. For natives, what started out as a grandiose beginning....be it a personal or material value, or a relationship with that"sky's the limit" potential....now sits in the position of "To Be or Not to Be". The square indicates the natives "responsibility" to follow through with the grandiose plan..to "practice what he preaches" or to ultimately realize that roots cannot grow long and the tree cannot grow high under the shade of so many other plants that represent scattered promises, distractions and desires. This is a good analogy for this aspect, as it reminds me of the potential one has in growing a garden in a greenhouse. The house is large representing a large capacity to love, and for natives of these planets, anything they plant bears fruit easily and flourishes with little to no struggle. However, they must choose whether to grow 100 plants (each plant yielding only a little fruit which is frustrating to the large scale way of the Jupiter aspect that wants everything he touches to be GODLIKE) or grow 6 plants by supercropping methods and have each one truly grow large. Both ways are a large scale value and process, but distinctly different approaches, as the small number of plants also may not sit well with the Jupiter native. There is conflict here.

Before we truly reach the point in which this choice is made, it must be understood that the affection, generosity and passions are scattered. Self indulgence and carelessness yield a complete lack of true responsibility. This is especially the danger in any material possession or even religious belief or value that automates something that originally we took responsibility for. Our lives in this day and age are so automated sometimes that we often forget the value that our products provide for us, taking them for granted. In religion for example, the belief in an all loving God that dies for our sins or that takes our confession can become a way to avoid the responsibility of what was the original truth. The conflict goes both ways as the native, in having such a people pleasing and giving nature carrying over from the conjunction, has alot of people that now project grandiose expectations upon him and he is unable to be "responsible" for all that he set out to do. Often this results in being generous on the surface or only when it satisfies an ulterior motive, the generosity being withdrawn at a later time. This is not because the native doesn't want to help everyone and give love to all. It is simply facing a crisis in body that they cannot please everyone, but they still show people this high level of pleasing charm because they do not know how to do otherwise. Under the surface they may withhold generosity only as a way to try and reign in a scattered sense of values. The native of this aspect must first discipline himself in the values he chooses before seeking indulgences. Ultimately, the native..much like the conjunction, is in love with love and appreciation and is desperate for the attention of others and will do just about anything to receive it. Because they not only are able to truly nurture all that they want to put out, as well as truly receive what they expect from relationships, they have a tendency to overly indulge themselves in order to compensate, and thus have problems with obesity.
On the closing square (Venus waning back towards Jupiter), values seeking to launch into the collective often meets another culture. Depending on some other aspects (Neptune especially), the expansion of values here must be resolved within relationship with another culture or religious group...with the native often expanding the family seed into an eastern or western culture as the case may be....upsetting the family paradigm in the process. This is the way the universe diversifies further, by becoming one..marriage must occur between east and west...between Christian and Muslim or Buddhist. In this way we have new systems of beliefs that begin as the values of today, and become the paradigms and belief structures of tomorrow. This all goes back to the original and pure nature of the two planets. In the mundane world, this translates into "love being the universal language" and feeding off the appreciation of diversity. It is the responsibility of the native with the strenuous aspects between the planets to cultivate the grand potential of the new creation that can come about these marriages rather than projecting or scattering seeds of love and generosity into a situation which it views as impossible to truly bear fruit due to an uncooperative environment or family structure.

So what happens now? What becomes of the native if they continue to scatter their love and affection with desperation to receive it without cultivating anything by choice that can truly grow large and ripple throughout humanity? When the two planets make opposition, fulfillment in relationship ultimately remains in "polarity". Because of the nature of these planets, generosity and grandiose idealism still exists, but one may draw relationships in which the archetype of Jupiter is embodied in the other person but is not received or that they remain at odds with. Examples of this would be a woman who marries into money, but marries a man incapable of seeing her through all that money..incapable of giving her true love. Another is of a man that marries a gold digger with a great hole in her pocket and a heart for charities galore. She will spend and give of his resources in his place, scattering them into a number of values that may not be fully known to him..himself not the recipient of the generosity or love that he values. The drama behind all of this can be exaggerated greatly by the native. What the native must learn is to fully and truly love and value the SELF. Again here, we may find overweight bleeding hearts that overindulge themselves as compensation for that desire to have appreciation and love shown in so many ways. If they ever truly learn to value and love themselves for the true VALUES that they have, remembering that which sought to automate itself in the beginning of the cycles (often past lives in the case of the native with the opposition), then they will draw a relationship that can truly give them everything their heart desires because it is a refection of their own heart truly loving the self. In the case that, at the square, full responsibility was taken, then the aspect of the opposition can indicate a great leader or teacher. Priests, leaders of great social or religious reform and movements are included in this, great teachers of young people..planting the seeds of value and knowledge to many with EACH the ability to grow endlessly (a true resolve to the above dilemma in the greenhouse example)! The native of the opposition can manipulate others easily and win their hearts and minds in order to further his objectives. In the world of business and philosophy, the native greets the reality that other choices and values exist in the world that are not their own. They seem to enjoy the competition with others in what essentially amounts to a "paradigm war". Warriors and leaders of men who seek to spread their belief and values and can easily manipulate others easily and win their hearts and minds in order to further his objectives.
The native who did not take responsibility in past lives at the square of planets does not have the grounded value and objective at hand, and so they either carry a bitterness towards opposing views that may be winning the war of paradigm, or they isolate themselves through feeling unloved and appreciated, overindulging the self and seeking love and affection wherever they can find it, being taken advantage of continuously as the generous martyr in the process.

The other strain free aspects in this cycle such as the sextile and trine bring about easy going, affectionate and generous natives that have the ability to draw people out and make people feel good about themselves. The trine is a bit more grounded in the choice of values that he seeks to give appreciation to.
The inconjunction of these planets brings about the need of adjustment in giving too much or expecting too much from one source of relationship. Remember that we get what we give, but we cannot expect others, no matter how much we may give of ourselves, to respond by healing a wounded need to receive love or appreciation that has been previously automated or not fully given to the self.

Through the energy of the planets Venus and Jupiter is reflected our capacity to appreciate and love our diversity as Gods/Goddesses incarnate. Through this appreciation, we feel a great love for everyone and feel that love returned on a grand scale. This is not possible to feel unless we fully love ourselves, and fully value the unique perspective that we have come to share with the world. We are all great teachers, all communicating our truth through simply being true to ourselves. We have molded the matter of this plane in order to help us facilitate the expression of these truths...to allow us to love more deeply and fully...not meant to be a replacement for it.

To Be Thyself is to Love Thyself, and to Love Thyself is to Be Loved a Thousand Fold