HERE<\/a>.) We have also tackled Jupiter as the co-ruler of Pisces, with his inherent ability to cause loss, disillusion and deflation (not always Neptune\u2019s territory).<\/p>\nBut there is an element of the Jupiterian archetype that is little-mentioned, and that is Jupiter as the seat of consciousness (or, as I prefer to put it, conscious awareness). At a core level, Jupiter is not only the teacher and guru, but the student striving ever-forward, expanding horizons via both experience and the subsequent heightened perception.\u00a0 Mercury describes how we take information and communicate it once it is processed, but Jupiter represents the process of understanding itself.\u00a0 Our process determines our experience , and our experience determines our awareness, the way in which we view the world. Thus, the greater lengths we travel (Jupiter), the more we are capable of becoming, and the more we are capable of seeing.<\/p>\n
If we use Mercury without Jupiter, we \u2018have the experience but miss (sic) the meaning,\u2019 to borrow from T.S. Eliot (The Four Quartets).\u00a0 Mercury without Jupiter is information without understanding.\u00a0 When one really understands something, not just knows it, it becomes part of one\u2019s being.\u00a0 One sees the world through a different lens\u2014or perhaps, the lens is taken away, and we are closer to experiencing the truth of something as we are capable of defining it.<\/p>\n
In our Alchemy class, we have been exploring the close alchemical ties between Mercury and the Moon.\u00a0 In alchemical terms, they are bound together, each reflecting the silvery, and perhaps unknowable, shadow-light of the universe. It brings me back to the idea, going back to Buddhism and beyond, that the world is, in essence, changeable and un-knowable.\u00a0 As Plato said, we may only see the world as shadows projected on a cave wall.\u00a0 We can only experience a thing as reflective of a concept of that thing.\u00a0 If we see a cup, we understand it only as a representative of \u2018cup-ness.\u2019 \u00a0If we see a horse, we can only understand it via an a priori<\/em> concept behind \u2018horse-ness.\u2019 During the Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant, one of the first, if not the first, Western philosophers of the transcendent, divided the world into our experience of the world via the senses (The Moon\/Mercury) and the world that actually is. The appearance of things as we perceive them he called phenomena. The actual world he called the noumena, or the \u201cthing in itself.\u201d Kant said we cannot know the noumena directly, but we can apprehend it, based on the way we perceive the phenomenal world.\u00a0\u00a0 What allows us to understand are a priori <\/em>concepts, which exist beyond our sensate \u2018reality.\u2019<\/p>\nFrom The Idiot\u2019s Guide to Philosophy<\/em>, by Jay Stephenson: \u00a0(C 2002, DK Publishing)<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cA priori <\/em>concepts, according to Kant, are concepts that \u201ccome before\u201d experience, making it possible for us to understand things. An example is the concept of substance. Categories of understanding are a priori <\/em>concepts that refer to the way the understanding makes judgments about such things as quality, quantity, time, and space\u2026<\/p>\n\u2026People in Kant\u2019s time were having trouble explaining how we get knowledge from experience, since that knowledge seems unreliable. Kant said that what actually happens is that we get experience from knowledge. That is, our ability to know makes it possible for us to have and to understand our experience.<\/em>[Italics mine.] In this way, like Copernicus, Kant started looking at things from a whole new perspective\u2026<\/p>\n[Kant\u2019s] work suggested that there is a unified reality based on categories of human understanding, and that this human understanding is something that is built into reality itself. The human mind, in other words, has a lot to do with the way reality takes shape\u2026 Kant suggested that the mind and the rest of reality are part of the same unified picture, a \u2018transcendent unity.\u2019<\/p>\n
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Experience coming from knowledge\u2014where have we, as astrologers, heard that before?\u00a0 We know it as a result of the march of mutable signs, two belonging to Mercury, two to Jupiter.\u00a0 We have discussed this before, yet it is an important concept and can be repeated:\u00a0 the information and rationalism of\u00a0 the Air Mercury, Gemini,\u00a0 turns into the \u2018proof in the testing\u2019 of the Earth Mercury, Virgo.\u00a0 In Virgo, it becomes knowledge.\u00a0 When this knowledge is processed via the Fire of Sag\/Jupiter\/and the 9th<\/sup> house, it becomes understanding, it becomes conceptual.\u00a0 It becomes the higher order of the thing it once was (Sag as polar opposite to Gemini).\u00a0 The conceptual world, the world of higher thought, and of higher order, belongs to the best of Jupiter.\u00a0 It becomes part of our awareness, our being.\u00a0 It allows us to have vision, to make a plan of higher order. This is where we begin to deal with a moral universe, with concepts of fairness and balance.\u00a0 Of faith.<\/p>\nJupiter is considered lucky not because it\u2019s a big, optimistic airbag, but because it makes connections of a higher order.\u00a0 (Okay, perhaps the optimistic airbag represents a mind\/matter positive reinforcement.) Jupiter can work on us without our effort.\u00a0 Things happen with \u2018good\u2019 Jupiter.\u00a0 (Things happen with \u2018bad\u2019 Jupiter, too, but that is for another day.) The higher forces, the forces beyond the sensate world, are looking after us, because we become closer to them via our understanding.<\/p>\n
Jupiter is about intuitive perception; intuitive perception goes beyond the sensate.\u00a0 It knows what is \u2018right\u2019 and \u2018true\u2019 according to the way it frames experience.\u00a0 Our experience of the world would seem to be entirely individual, with each of us locked into a personal bubble of reality, if it weren\u2019t for the second phase of Jupiter, which links it to Pisces and the 12th<\/sup> house.\u00a0 In moving from the 9th<\/sup> house to the 12th<\/sup> house, our conceptual\/experiential universe becomes universal.\u00a0 We are not alone.\u00a0 The \u2018transcendent unity\u2019 of Kant has grown into the \u2018morphic field\u2019 of Rupert Sheldrake and beyond.\u00a0 Jupiter is not only about our highest thought and vision, but about how that vision is shared and experienced among us.\u00a0 The Piscean expression of Jupiter is \u00a0where we connect on a universal level.<\/p>\nAnyone with planets in the 12th<\/sup> house has some direct experience of this.\u00a0 It goes double if you have the Sun or Jupiter there. [ Well, we can have direct experience of the universal if we stop thinking of our lives in terms of personal gain.\u00a0 Not that you can\u2019t have personal gain, but it shouldn\u2019t be the purpose of the exercise.]\u00a0 Planets in the 12th<\/sup> are forced to go through this universalizing process of the mutable houses (no matter what signs are on the cusp\u2014signs only give you the flavour of the experience).\u00a0 All planets in the 12th<\/sup> have a duty to focus on the universalizing forces in life.\u00a0 Call them \u2018higher powers\u2019 or whatever you will, these forces focus the planetary energy to experience the world as a unified whole.<\/p>\nJung found the model of his psychology while examining the dreams of patients.\u00a0 The patients all began to experience alchemical symbolism in their dreams, even though none of them had ever had any knowledge of or exposure to alchemical symbols.\u00a0 This coincided with Jung\u2019s own study of alchemy. If alchemical symbolism could be shared like this, then what else is possible?\u00a0 How unconscious is the collective unconscious?<\/p>\n
Astrological truth states that, the more we become aware of ourselves, our processes and our perceptions, the less will \u2018happen\u2019 to us from the outside.\u00a0 This is because the more aware we are, the more we are at one with the world.\u00a0 Of course, sometimes we are part of happenings that involve us on a group or collective level, and are not part of our individual awareness.\u00a0 Why some of us get involved in collective issues and some do not is one of the great mysteries astrology cannot explain.\u00a0 However, when it comes to individual consciousness and growth, we need to look at the Moon, Mercury and Jupiter as part of a process.\u00a0 Jupiter, by house and sign, points us to a way of deriving meaning from experience.\u00a0 More on this next time.<\/p>\n
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We have previously discussed Jupiter both as the benefic of common astrology and Jupiter in his Janus guise as guardian of the threshold. (For the two part article, click HERE.) We have also tackled Jupiter as the co-ruler of Pisces, with his inherent ability to cause loss, disillusion and deflation (not always Neptune’s territory). But […]<\/p>\n
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