In September, we see expansive Jupiter continue its journey through Taurus that it began on May 20. Importantly, Jupiter will station retrograde on September 4 at 11:11PM Pacific.
As we covered last month with Venus, retrogrades are simply an illusion to our eyes here on Earth. Planets in retrograde motion appear to move backwards, but they are still moving forward in space.
Jupiter as a planet is large and in charge: a massive and expansive gas giant. Astrologically, it’s almost difficult to determine where it ends and the next planet begins, particularly in tight aspects. Anything Jupiter touches, it makes bigger. Those with Taurus or fixed sign placements might have been feeling Jupiter’s presence as it emphasises certain areas of life this year. For the fixed signs of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius, those areas would be self expression, career, relationships and family respectively.
As with any retrograde, Jupiter Retrograde gives us a time to do all the “re-” things — reassess, reflect, rest. Use this time to cultivate your introspectiveness. Jupiter is retracing its steps, and in that enables us to do some reflection on ourselves, our beliefs, and our connection to something larger than us.
Amplifying the energy of this retrograde is the fact that Jupiter has been energetically sidling up to the unconventional Uranus since moving into Taurus in May. Coming just within 8 degrees of rebellious Uranus, Jupiter takes a turn backwards. This is a blessing from the stars: it gives us ample time and opportunity to get ourselves situated and ready for some transformative and potentially unexpected changes when Jupiter is exactly conjunct Uranus in April 2024.
As Jupiter begins its backwards journey, I invite you to work with affirmations. Jupiter loves affirmations; the bigger, the better is Jupiter’s own mantra and it loves to see us working with affirmations that feel almost too big and foolishly positive.
Read these affirmations for your rising sign and feel into which one (or more!) feel resonant with where you are at. Take your affirmation(s) of choice, and write them on a post-it and place on your mirror, or near your coffee machine, or somewhere else you will see them every morning. Take just a couple moments every morning to recite them to yourself with mindfulness. Allow the affirmations to create ease and grace with which you can move through this Jupiter retrograde.
ARIES
I am a magnet for abundance.
Money flows around and to me with ease.