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Birthday Uranus in the 2nd House - Alien Aesthetic Meets Galactic Gadget Girl written by #astrolocherry

People born with Uranus in the 2nd House receive energy in the form of money to play in life. The individual is a Uranian electronic bank for the Heavens to send transactions to earth through. The physical body, and specifically the fingertips are magnets to attract the material resources required to practice her path and purpose. It’s also for receiving all of the magical treasures that the universe can offer - from golden opportunities to special instruments and unusual gifts, to advantageous meetings and lustful advances that spark the art.

The Uranus in the 2nd House astral anatomy is electric and makes the physical body tingle with sensations like desire and inspiration. She concocts original concepts and money-making schemes like she is stirring potions of wish fulfilment. A fondness for strange inventions and contraptions in childhood grows into an appreciation for all the technological advances of modern age. Along with impulses to experience the latest features of artificial intelligence, like extensions of her own self, she learns the user’s manual of new devices with intuitive ease.

Her aesthetic is cool and coquette, styled by originality and a wild inner revolutionary. She may be completely avant-garde, or uniquely simplistic. There is something about the way that she wears the clothes and creates a personal style, rather than the clothes wearing her. She is often desirous to explore new tactile sensations and ways of experiencing her physical body. As a child, staring into her mirror reflection may have felt like an alien-encounter of its own. It is strange to be, she would have likely insisted.

The 2nd House is an element of earth belonging to the sign of Taurus, so there is ceremonial magick in getting back to nature. Her natural body is distilled with organic talent nectarous in vigour and virtue. And succulent somatic miracle fruit only coaxes and sweetens the deal.  A unique creative style may seem to possess her, rather the other way around. 

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~ The inner chaos of Uranus #astrolocherry

The Realm of Heavenly ideas on Uranus is a dimension of personal consciousness inside all of us. Far beyond and unlimited by the confines of human awareness, the activity of Uranus is strange and arrives in the expected fashion.  Unusual glitches, inexplicable intuitions, symbolically distorted dreams, and sudden epiphanies that make us sit-up, pay conscious attention, and think ‘wow’.

Uranus is our experience of cosmic consciousness, a communal union with the fabric of the universe and facilitator of spiritual communities in groups of constellations and evolution. It is the sense of primordial chaos active in our brainwaves,  the chaos inside that Nietzsche remarked as necessary to give birth to a dancing star.

Uranus is uniquely formed in our unformed birth chart image. The birthday conditions of Uranus suggest the archetypal role Uranus plays through us,  such as the Chemist,  Alchemist, the Astronomer, Astrologer, the Spirit Scientist, the GodFather, The Atlantean Ancestor, the Awakener.

Cherry

art of Kurtis Rykovich

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Mars in Virgo - Where can I rest the inside of my head?

“All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.” - Walt Whitman

The mind is stimulated, intensely active, and buzzing madly like a hummingbird with Mars in Virgo. The mind is the focal point of energy combustion, and residual energy from the physical body, nervous system and obstructed impulse is swept in by the high force velocity. When the individual is unsettled or anxious she can become terribly agitated by minor problems in her environment and any scope of malfunction or mistake that disrupts her schedule. While the aim is to maintain an exemplary routine of balanced order, she cannot seem to abstain from satisfying the short acting supplies of excitement and fanatical energetic streaks that border on panic. The energy flow swells the nervous system with Mars in Virgo, so anxious arousal accompanies juicy excitement and carnal inflammation. The combination of Mars and Virgo triggers a trance state of automatic, ritualistic focus and mental machinery that spins like cosmic clockwork. She concentrates so hard that she becomes lost inside her mind pipes, chasing encounters that test her will, discipline, self-control, and skillset. She approaches challenges with sharp strategy and precise preplanning that ensures she is always one mental step ahead. Mars fires the combat for battle, but these weapons are double sided in Virgo. The combat field is inside her head and daggers are shot throughout her body. She may struggle to demonstrate her best qualities during examination or competition due to nerves and apprehension draining her vital forces beforehand. There can be an excessive fixation and strict self-regulation in the pursuit of perfecting the mind, appearance, health or athleticism.

The condition of Mars in Virgo can harsh considering the egocentric demands of Mars that conflict with Virgo’s sacrificial service and selfless obligations. Impulse hits hesitation and assertion diffuses beneath doubt and self-blame. Rage can be deeply internalised and become sharp blades that slice critical wounds. She can project her inner state of dissatisfaction and disorder onto the surrounding environment and become frantically preoccupied with order, arrangement, and symmetry. This is until she undergoes routine burn out and reconditioning. Typical orderly arrangement goes affray, she exists surrounded by the chaos she feels inside, there can be complete physical exhaustion, lost appetite or digestive changes, and dull mental and physical paralysis. These are periods of internal detoxification where everything breaks down and reconstructs again. Contaminating thoughts, unmet and unrealistic desire, internalised energy, and the toxins of gluttonous behaviours such as substances and overeating are decomposed and renewed to breathe a fresh life force through the mind, spirit, and body. The individual is made to be very aware of the minutes passing and the time wasting. Like everyone, the individual can procrastinate, become unwell, and have sleepy days. However, there is a fierce internal reprimand and sense of guilt associated with lost productivity, satiating egotistic pleasure, inertia, and neglecting responsibilities. There can be a strong feeling of being dispensable and easily replaceable. It can make her shudder during instances she fears showing weakness, inability, or vulnerability. The individual may resonate in accident, health, and emergency services professions due to the ability to work better beneath higher pressure. There will either be an intrigue and delicacy with medical procedures and wounds, or fainting at the sight of blood.  

Mars in Virgo people have an unusual eye for playing with the universe in its most pure, powdery and unviolated form. But these eyes can also become red and burn with critiques and the cracks emerging everywhere she goes. There can be the constant low volume state of hyper vigilance triggered by intrusive threats of impending disaster and anxious trembling between countless variables. This longstanding tension can cause the tendency for sleeplessness, trouble settling the mind, difficulty focusing, impractical self-expectations, somatic pain, and a sense that life is merely a leap from chaos to chaos. It’s also very possible for Mars in Virgo people to adopt basic habits that progress rapidly into compulsive routine. This is why it is so vital for the individual to integrate a routine of meditation, self-reflective writing, tranquil physical activity, prayer in nature, eating in tune with her body clock, and breathing exercises into the daily and weekly plan. These practices can generate the mindful sensation of her physical body becoming her temple, the inexplicable unity that she has with the mood and the vitality of the seasons, the peace of unity in the space between her thoughts. In doing so her nervous butterflies become marvellous flutters of inspiration, she can settle her mind amidst any storm, and she can discriminate between real and imagined threat. The desire for routine or daily sex as a momentary release valve for energy and tension can become more of a shared sensory dance, a physical and mental unity that absorbs into the satisfaction given and experienced by the partner. Mental stimulation and intellectual challenge is also imperative with Mars in Virgo such as crossword and puzzles. Though it’s also important to re-engage the unfulfilled child inside and rest the mind with a good dose of fantasy and fiction, a quiet reminder that not every mental pursuit is a test and reflection of value. The maiden is dressed in red with Mars in Virgo, her battlefield is the war on suffering, and the other battlefield waits in her mind. 

-Cherry

art by Kurtis Rykovich

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Transiting Venus in Scorpio Nov 22-Dec 16 2020 💋🔮

The sweet and innocent girl picking the wilting flowers of fall with roots that reach down to hell. Her petals of peace threatened by the incoming storm, the war of scorned and secret lovers of her past

returning for vengeance - the vindication of conquering her heart and these old wounds struck with the same weapons starts bleeding the love right out of her heart, deadness inside

This was the salute of Hades, one she knew very well but it seemed so long ago that centuries had passed. The black chariot arriving to take her back home

seducing her with the spells of too special, too beautiful, too eternal to be broken and used by mere mortals

a love note written in a eulogy

“I will bring heaven down from the sky

on the earth and at your feet

because I learned before so well

how to raise the flames of hell

but I promise that as my Queen you deserve everything, and I will give you both at the same time”

and now Venus has returned to Scorpio, it's her cosmic coronation ceremony.

Scorpio is a place that Venus does not want to go. She is in detriment, and she is dragged into hell and mourns just like Persephone who took the whole of Spring down with her.

When Venus is in Scorpio she is attracted to those who are forbidden, those who seduce the psychic senses and turn love into addictive danger. Relationships can seem fated, intoxicating, and tantalising - for better or for worse. This is because our vulnerabilities and secrets are exposed before our lovers, erupting emotions carnal, raw, and uncontrollable.

Venus in Scorpio is like a drug - a complete loss of control and surrender into the unknown possibility that tastes like sugar poison candy. And threatening in its potential to resurface wounded lovers and unmet needs within us, manifesting shadow personalities with relentless desires that can activate the most extreme and obsessive behaviour that almost appears foreign or out of body.

The story of our relationships are written by hidden lovers banished into the unconscious, some are desperate that they will die without the partner, or if alone they will die lonely

and others are desperate to end a relationship or else they will die. Both lovers will walk into the dark chrysalis together, and each will emerge as new. Some burst forth transformed as one exquisite butterfly, closer than ever with a love than the physical can contain. Others will fly out alone, shooting into the sky - the most exquisite butterfly free of the chains, the lies, the dead space that was poisoned. And that old wound that attracted this partner to meet these destructive needs is now burning in the flames where the relationship used to be.

The great potential lies therein this theme. Despite making a fairly quick appearance in Scorpio upon her Black Chariot, the potential is the completion of remarkable, lifelong, and evolutionary transformations that bring Venus closer to the truth about who she is, and why such lovers are walking amongst her world, closer to the pure truth of who she is - the dangerous, dark, ravishing darling of Hades, the one who is thrown the sacred black roses grown from the underworld, just for her. For all of eternity. Cherry 💋

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Uranus in the 2nd House - Designing with Lightning

Self value fluctuates with Uranus in the second house. The individual has sporadic revelations of self love and indulgence that alternate with self contempt and feelings of detachment from the body and spirit. She may feel the ecstasy of silk skin wrapped around her bones but there can be a hollowness inside or the feeling of being an alien in her own body, like it doesn’t fit or mold to form. The sensory reception, delight, and stimulation is acute with Uranus in the second. It’s like there are electrically charged sensors that glitter from the individual’s fingertips, and so every touch and taste and texture is a light show of pleasure and internal activation. Her genius is her ability to beautify the material plane, to sink into the fabric that sews life together, to decorate life using the creative sparks of God’s mind.

Cash flow can be volatile and undergo sudden changes with Uranus in the second. Uranus rarely lets life flow on by without chaos and change. The individual likely knows the feeling of living comfortably with a generous income. This could come through unexpected windfalls and opportunistic visions for accumulating money. But this can be quickly blown to pieces by Uranus lightning bolts. Work, employment, and circumstances where she can make quick cash arrive out of the blue and then disappear just as swiftly. There is a strong resistance to societal structures and security measures. The individual may distrust corporate banking systems, government spending, and resist having other people interfere with finances. There is a tremendous need for complete independence and control over her own resources. This includes cash, her body, personal expression, and talents. She will only perform when she is willing and ready. Her belongings and talents are an extension of her individuality. Decorating and personal style may be unusual or classed as eccentric.

Uranus in the second is dressed in bolts of star lightning from outer space, like  she wears the rings of Uranus on her fingers and the dust of exploding nebulas as starfish in her hair. There is a high vibrating frequency that emanates from Uranus in the second, it can be somewhat nervous but cool and collected, like the body is always charged and active but there is an ease in the world like she recharges via beauty and colour, light, and sound. Because the charge seems so high, electronics and gadgets seem to destruct or start exhibiting eerie glitches. She may focus on developing skills that are considered unusual, like she paints with a blindfold or writes a book back to front. It is these skills and qualities that become personal pots of gold and provide the individual with a sense of security and place in the world. Pleasure, creativity, bliss, and the resources that activate her genius and her ability to turn a desert into a palace. Electric showers of decorative delight flicker from her fingertips and light neon fairy lanterns through every material particle.

-Cherry

doll by Marina Bychkova.

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The Voices of Fairyland ~ 1883 ~ Cuno Bodenhausen (German painter, 1852-1931)

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Jupiter in the 3rd House - It’s all in your Head 

“Be realistic - plan for a miracle” - Osho

You are a microphone Jupiter in the 3rd house can speak into. The voice expresses from a large auric field and carries an immense emphasis of its own. Grand delight generates through the exchange of ideas and communicating with anyone in contact. Jupiter is abundant and loving, so it is important the individual shares what is meaningful, it’s like her mind and spirit blows her words up like a giant balloon. The satiation of her curiosity is a quest she undertakes with enthusiasm and obsession. Her perception of the world before her is larger than life. It makes little things big things, so there can be a natural dramatisation and tremendous fascination when she learns something new. Jupiter in the 3rd people need to stay connected, and it’s almost impossible not to share what’s on her mind during the moment. In every perspective there is a silver lining. She has tremendous faith in the universe, although she is not sure why. She can perceive spiritual laws and patterns in her immediate environment. Even if she is not conscious of this process, it can create a universal perspective as if viewed from heaven. The higher mind conduits through the lower with Jupiter in the 3rd and makes for a philosopher with an insightfully slanted perspective. 

Jupiter in the 3rd have a wonderful way with words. The verbal delivery is typically loud, colourful, rich, and inspiring. The 3rd house indicates the conditions of early education. Because Jupiter reigns fortune, it relates to positive and expansive educational experiences. The individual may have been favoured by teachers or received extra help. There can be an uplifting mental confidence that makes her unafraid of answering questions or speaking in front of crowds. She can break the ice in awkward social situations by breaking the silence and generate the never ending conversation. She can inspire excitement, activity, and imagination through her verbal presentations and make a natural teacher, politician, writer, sociologist, or narrator. The flow of ideas is typically generous with Jupiter in the 3rd, the individual can be excessively talkative, prolific, and fill her mind until it bursts. She can be in danger of mental burn out because she can overthink, under sleep, and consume intellectual stimulus like there is no tomorrow. This expansive Jupiter quality can also create quite the embellishing factor, the individual can be hyperbolic and exaggerate details. She may share private details during inappropriate circumstances or speak what’s on her mind without regard to the consequence. The mind can frequently change its perception of truth with Jupiter in the 3rd. It uses a magnifying lens to inflate information to consolidate a view from the top, but vital details are easily missed. The individual can be more interested in acquiring quantity of mind than quality of mind. There is an echo of bliss in every word she speaks, so even if she is deeply troubled inside, the world may never know or acknowledge it. 

With the grand intellectual jubilation always occurring, Jupiter in the 3rd people can have a great sense of humour, wit, optimism, and general faith that things will work out. There can be almost constant stimulation inside and outside. The lights can switch off and the celebration continues, roaring thoughts like fireworks. It can produce significant restlessness and tendency to blow anxieties out of proportion. But because Jupiter amplifies whatever it contacts, the individual’s mind can be a resource that grows considerable inner and outer wealth. She can have awakenings with her daily activities and the spiritual teachings provided constantly by her everyday environment. Dane Rudyhar comments that the individual is able to control his environment and build poetic and religious escapes and constructive imagination. Osho was born with Jupiter in the 3rd. He talks about taking notice of celebration in existence because he could perceive the general joy and delight that surrounded him in nature. The more she learns, the richer she feels. A soda fountain of universal cheer is directed back at her general faith. The Jupiter pot of gold shines through the temple of the mind. 

-Cherry

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Sun in the 11th, Sun-Uranus aspects: A restless, almost anxious social persona, appearing and disappearing, craving connection but breaking under expected demand

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Moon in the 11th house - Unicorn Dancer 

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.

With Moon in the 11th the emotional spectrum is highly sensitive to mass humanity. The highs and lows experienced by the global consciousness are felt like translucent waves of squeals and delight. Moon in the 11th people have a tremendous social conscience and easily intuit the invisible feelings and longings of their friends and loved ones. Any vibration or desire circulating will enter the individual’s open and perforated auric field. The individual brings a responsive touch and magic essence to the Aquarius home while dispersing a warm, maternal and nurturing expression amongst friends. The individual may be endearingly known as the ‘mother’ of the social group. But like the moon waxes and wanes, and hides away, the individual can frequently vanish from the social scene. Friends satisfy emotional needs.

Moon in the 11th people have a great sense of equality and prefer to see the poor, abused, and disadvantaged taken care off. They can be a light lamp of comfort and safety for those who are dazed and confused, a cloud of a dream, a moment of elusive safety, because this is a guardian of humanity. It’s like the moon light radiates outward, and they are the light of nurture for the lost ones humanity has forgotten. The individual simply cannot be indifferent to the suffering of humanity, because they are so hypersensitive. The person could be a passive radical, humbly assisting those who have been broken in the rampage. Emotions may be swept away with the crowd, but the individual can still be private and long to escape the attention. The individual will likely let only a select few into his emotional circle. The moon is within eye sight for much of the time, and the 11th house represents society, so the individual could become quite renowned or publicly recognisable. The individual identifies closely with his social ties and can lose sense of self and purpose to the needs of friends and wider networks. Maybe the individual experiences a tremendous fear of abandonment from friends or rejection from society. If this self fulfilling prophecy unfolds, the individual’s sense of exile and isolation will be consuming. It is these groups of people that provide feeling of safety and comforting that is residual from childhood. Despite this, the individual has a very natural flow in the social scene, the essence is well received and they know how to coax and soothe. The individual can create innovative ways to problem solve personal problems and fractures in the fabric of society. Social causes can erupt tense emotional eruptions.

There is something extra solar about the 11th house moon, the way they touch people they’ve never met halfway across the globe. It’s as if they have adopted every child as his own. The individual takes friends in as family and may be emotionally remedied by time spent around friends. There is an exquisite intuition that can guide them toward the golden handshake, and this will in someway relate to a social encounter, social standing, or network. It is important for the individual to fit into a group and maintain contact with others on deep emotional levels. The 11th house is the dream weaving Aquarius cove, so there can be tremendous leaps in consciousness when the individual is amongst friends in shared delight, it’s like the group hang out is a sort of temple. The individual is capable of the peak collective experience, the experience of divine unity, harmony between all beings, splaying out into every oracle and milky way, entering the tapestry of every soul. They are in the company of the stars, drifting on the edge of a cloud, watching over every being, pregnant with the ideas of salvation, the inventions that will suture the broken, watching cautiously and adoringly, like the mother of humanity.

-Cherry

[art: kukula art]

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Sun in the 11th house - Sunday School for Strange Girls 

People with Sun in the 11th house could lead a mass exodus into the wilderness. Her lustre is not a sunny spotlight and she rarely performs traditional hours. She conducts her own form of solar electricity to glow beneath vivid and one-of-a kind limelights. She has a way of leading the crowd while completely avoiding it, like a rebel seen fighting their cause, a loner that other loners look up to and feel less alone, a misfit that others want to fit in with. It can be a strange experience for the individual who can struggle with the old pain rejection, and yet become wanted or desired for those same qualities. Sometimes this becomes anger, and the individual withdraws and refuses to supply any demand, feeling like she already gave people every chance. And sometimes this resentment and self-exiling behaviours are repeated cycles she is forced to fight inside. The tension is that she is energised and raised by people, but she is also horribly heartbroken and hurt by them too. Her dreaming is done on behalf of humanity and her imagination is all about imagining a new nation for the people of the world. But then she can hide and stifle herself because she feels they don’t deserve it, or they would never take her ideas seriously anyway. It comes back to that inner tension of these contradictions, in this sense having the desire to remain authentic to her true self, but needing some form of acceptance or validation that she belonged somewhere. 

The Sun in the 11th can make one quite socially unpredictable and enigmatic. She may interact like a completely different head on the same body depending on the company and setting, and in the early years it can be largely the result of genuine shyness or nervous trouble. She blooms in comfort though she isn’t afraid to make her voice heard and stand up for goodness if human integrity, wellbeing, and justice is concerned. Although she can be quite the social chameleon, there always seems to be that crackle of sass, sharp wit, raw heart, and good intentioned deviance, she can’t hide that little spark of mischief and mayhem in her eyes. There is playfulness and hide-and-go seek with this ego, but also seriousness at virtue at the appropriate moments. Foremost, this girl is a thinker. She could stay up all night converting her thoughts into fantasies and vice versa. And she could do the same twisting anxieties and suffering bursts of nervous pulses through her body. Her intellect is tuned into higher dimensions and it gives her that appearance of being ‘switched on’, like you can see the lightbulb of ideas sparking behind her eyes. The price she pays for her unique genius and slant of ease and talent can be an enduring sense of vagueness, maybe emptiness, or as if she will lift and float alone and into the end of outer space. It’s something like sensing being on the brink of her mind, the edge of her sanity, or that already losing her marbles. This is often the side-effect of an identity that radiates and demands and stands firm, then suddenly shrivels away to leave her in a seemingly empty place. It all comes and goes in double-lined waves. It’s all too strange for her to explain. 

The adolescence and early adulthood can be the troublesome time for this placement. Friends can shatter this heart. There’s love in this heart for friends, and it’s important for lovers to be best friends foremost. Also it may seem as though the universe provides her with multiple paths at the one time, suddenly deprive her of everything, and then flashes her countless possibilities at once again. It can make her feel like the world is her’s. But it can be terribly overwhelming at the same time, and she can be consumed by this fear of failing her own potential, as if she won’t be ‘enough’ to fill in her own life. The years beyond 40 tend to bring ease with this placement, mostly because she has learned about herself in that time, and she now views herself in a very different light. She has learned the people who are the most important and who she is worthy of giving herself too, the ones that accept her for who she is and cherish those qualities that once made her feel rejected. She has found her niche and the group that love her for it. Many of the blessings that come with Sun in the 11th are delivered when everything seems the darkest. That’s the only way she could ever see gifts so rare and remarkable. She is meant to polish her diamond in the rough and share it with the world and receive the audience’s love. She cannot hide herself or her talent away, or it becomes a great loss for everyone - including herself. That they cannot hear her song, watch her dance, or listen to her speech, applaud her innovation, or experience her presence, or whatever her muse is capable of. That she will never be presented with the award, adoration, affection, or the love that people want to give. She is made to shine on that celestial side-show with a character that was written for her, and no-one else will do. And when she does - all of the love comes. 

This is a girl who marches to everyone’s beat of the drum, but she does it with such cool and refreshing vibrance that suddenly the drum is the instrument everybody wants to play in their own unique way. She is a trendsetter in the sense that her disinterest becomes a trend in its own. Whatever she does, she’ll do it her way, be it sideways, backward, upside down, or in reverse. Anything you can do - she can do it wildly and weirdly better. 

written by Cherry

art by Kurtis Rykovich

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~ The Moon

You are not alone child, Will never be, have never been. Someone surely needs you, To whom, you surely do mean.

If you feel down and out, Look around, open your eyes. You will definitely find someone, Waiting to hear your beautiful voice. 

 This is just a phase, my dear, This too, shall pass away. Look around, with you we stand, Through the darkness, we’ll find our way.

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“An authentic guru does not go around boasting about it. The authentic guru is the Inner Christ. A true master goes around everywhere anonymously and unknown. He does not exhibit his deeds or powers, and is filled with modesty. The authentic master is never an intellectual, since the intellect is an animal function of the human “I.” The true master is like a child, pure, holy, simple, and natural. The true master is the Inner Christ “that is the true Light, which lightens every man that comes into the world”

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Transiting Jupiter in Capricorn - 12/19~12/20

Transiting Jupiter is entering its final stage of the Capricorn cycle. It's an unlucky dip of karmic debt, it's also a period of reward for temperance, quiet spiritualism, and patience with seemingly drawn-out or stagnant time

sometimes the conditions of a transit can seem to increase or accelerate as it reaches the end degree,

sometimes it seems to fade out as if we become so accustomed to it we barely notice.

Jupiter is the greater benevolent and bringer of the jackpot, but the Capricorn sign is not interested in taking the winnings and claiming the prize without the labour or the inner recognition of what has been achieved. There's still fun and games with Jupiter in Capricorn, but it's more about strategic and reflective play. It's about being cautious and knowing the right time to stop, you can still win big within these conditions, but you must recognise the limits of the universe, take only what you need, practice appreciation and restraint,

because under the influence of Jupiter in Capricorn, it can all be instantly taken away

Cherry

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