Jupiter focuses the most benevolent rays through which the more lasting
joys and achievements of our lives come. He travels around the Sun in about 11
years, and aspects every planet from all angles during that time, while Saturn
requires 29 years to obstruct us from similar positions. Thus what we call
"good" predominates overwhelmingly over the so-called "evil", and the
realization of this fact should be ever with us to inculcate and cultivate an
optimistic frame of mind. Present trouble is not so hard to bear when we can
see "the turn of the lane," and as the student of Astrology has a sure
foundation for his hope of better things he should be the most contented
person in the world, even when in the midst of a period of trouble. An aspect
of Jupiter is always about to form, and whatever department of life he is in
(shown by the house), will be the avenue through which opportunity will come
to you. One of the easiest methods a young student may use to predict events
is by these transits, as we call the ephemeral passage of planets in the
heavens. All that is required is an ephemeris for the current year and your
own figure. The ephemeris shows Jupiter's position at a glance. a look at
your own figure tells what house he is traversing and gives the key to his
influence. You know the nature of the cardinal signs; in the answer to your
last lesson you gave a description of Jupiter's influence in these positions,
and if you are not fortunate enough to have him thus well placed, maybe you
wished such good fortune had been yours. But cheer up, though you may have not
have the life-lasting benefit of a well placed Jupiter, he traverses the
cardinal signs and the angles 4 to 8 times in an average human life; each time
he comes to one of the important places in your horoscope, opportunity knocks
at your door and offers you preferment and the realization of the dreams of
your life in one direction or another. Be on the watch, however, for you must
do your share and grasp the proffered hand of Dame Fortune or she will pass
on. But even if you miss some of your chances, keep cheerful, attune yourself
to the Jupiter ray, try to spread sunshine in other lives, and some day you
will learn to live yourself into all the aspects of his benevolence; some life
you will be born with Jupiter as the most prominent planet in your figure.
Letter Number Twelve
It may be well to take up the subject of Synthesis at the very start of
our study of the meaning of the stellar script, for lack of this knowledge
often causes much confusion to young students.
Contradiction is a fact which early impresses itself upon the minds of
young astrologers, and the brighter the mind, the keener the feeling of
distress and helplessness arising from this source. Sometimes beginners become
cynical and skeptical because unable to reconcile one influence tabulated in a
horoscope with another of a diametrically opposite import. Suppose, for
instance, that we find the Sun conjunction Venus in Leo and Saturn in the
fifth house. According to the configuration of the Sun and Venus the person
would have an ardent love nature and attract the affections of the opposite
sex, but according to the placement of Saturn in the fifth house he would meet
disappointment in courtship. At first sight this seems a bald contradiction.
When Venus, fortified by a trine from Uranus, designates a person as an angel
of purity, it is disconcerting to find that a square from Mars brands him as
sensual to a degree. But philosophy shows us the reason of these contradictory
omens and the art of Synthesis teaches us how to balance them and extract the
kernel of truth from horoscopic symbolism.
In the first place, if it were possible to find a horoscope without
contradictory testimonies, that would mean that the person born under such
stellar influences would pursue a certain course through life either wholly
good or thoroughly bad. It would be absolutely impossible for him to swerve.
If his stars pointed towards the path of rectitude, his integrity would be so
impregnable that never for a moment could temptation to wrongdoing find
harborage in his consciousness; were his face set downwards, no ray of
aspiration in the direction of higher things could ever enter his dark soul.
Truly, the horrors of the dreadful theory of election and predestination pale
by comparison with such a condition; were this condition a fact, soul growth
would be an impossibility, for the man who cannot be tempted to do wrong
acquires no merit by goodness, any more than the man irresistibly impelled to
evil deserves censure. Choice is the prime essential in soul growth and that
comes from the contradictory influences registered in the horoscope; thanks to
that puzzling factor and the will, which is above the horoscope, there is hope
in even the most afflicted chart; the good is always there to grapple with the
bad. And temptations overcome give added merit to the good. Thus the square of
Venus to Mars impels to wrongdoing, but the trine of Uranus to Venus gives
power to overcome passion and acquire purity. May we use the squares we dread
to rise to the trines we prize.
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