Gratitude vs. Delight
Your Mileage Will Vary
“Her name derives from the Sanskrit word ‘lakṣ,’ meaning ‘to perceive’ or ‘to observe,’ and is associated with goals, aims, and prosperity.”
— WISDOM LIBRARY: Lakṣmī (definition)
Almost 3 months into my Jupiter and Venus profection year, so they’re demanding a public accounting of how it’s going so far ESPECIALLY with the new moon in Libra on Tuesday, October 21st at 6:25 AM MDT fueled by Venus (finally at home) in Libraand squaring an exalted Jupiter in Cancer slowing down before its retrograde on November 11th
This won’t be joining the readily available plethora of “this is a great new moon for manifestation” information that’s in circulation currently on social media — because, depending on your natal placements, yes. It can do.
Instead, let’s dig into what seems to be a central topic in our collective consciousness these days — especially thanks to the real estate that Venus and Jupiter are covering currently: How to manifest EASE, PROSPERITY, ACCEPTANCE in a system that seems allergic to granting these without major transformations of inner scripts (aka nervous system patterns) and outer structures (aka economic and political systems).
Hot Take: It Starts in the Cradle
Jupiter is the planet that asks: What do you believe about how reality behaves? Who or what has the ultimate power over your experience here in on planet Earth and how do they treat you?
It’s seen as the energetic archetype that culminates in wisdom — which, ultimately, is the recognition that surrender is the only viable strategy to life on Earth particularly surrender to a “higher power”. Why? Because, as we travel along the arrow of time, it becomes increasingly clear that ease and joy exist on the other side of our personal accountability for the controllables and surrendering what’s outside of your domain to affect to whatever’s “out there”. (Believe you me, several of the younger Anaks riding along in my neural pathways is pitching a hissy fit and current me writing this — how dare I think that she can’t completely figure out how to bend reality to her will. Lol.)
(Side note: But, hold on, isn’t Saturn the planet of limitations and boundaries? Isn’t Jupiter supposed to be the one who sets you free and grants your wishes? Well, think of it as two different parenting styles: Jupiter will tell you not to touch the hot stove, but he won’t stop you from doing it. Saturn will ask you not to touch the hot stove, and he’ll build an impregnable baby gate around it. In the first case, Jupiter teaches you by letting you have what you want. In the second case, Saturn gives you the time to grow up and understand. Either way, you learn the lesson — the stove is hot and will burn you. Some of us like the former — we’d rather take our own lumps. Some of like prefer the latter — we’d rather learn from someone else’s lessons.)
But let’s get to the salient point about Jupiter’s role in manifesting abundance and ease: Parenthood, grace, and gratitude.
