posted January 15, 2009 06:15 PM           

but! i've gotten close to someone who's jupiter conjuncts my sun, mercury and mars in aquarius and i've felt a whole new energy that i've never felt before. he doesn't have any other air besides chiron, and his other placements aren't very aquarian in nature. and i've come to find that, at least with him, he seems most comfortable RELATING in a very aquarius-like manner. not that he behaves particularily aquarian, but when he's feeling most comfortable in interactions, the most basic aquarian ideals seem to be at play! and as such, i find i'm relating to him in a very intimate, understandable way (which in itself is a feat, considering the emotional aloofness of aquarius, generally speaking) that incorporates the sign.

so then i began to understand that this probably relates to jupiter's intermediacy. and being the first of the intermediates, and the giant that it is, it would seem to make sense that it have the most thrust and relevance in terms of interaction, and advancing the greatest good of any socal interaction.

haha maybe this is a well known part of jupiter that i've just never read about (honestly i don't think i've read anything other than sign descriptions on this planet until just the other day when i skimmed an article gemini lover sent me!). cuz yeah i could never quite reconcile the stuff about jupiter being an intermediate with the concept of luck and what comes to you.. (and so i dorkily did not look into it further. haha what can i say, i'm a rebel) being that it's expansive it seems to make sense that it's about interaction and how to best relate. ooh i'll go get the link of the article too.

posted January 15, 2009 06:40 PM         

Jupiter can bring you luck but it's also about expansion, enthusiasm, the higher mind in terms of philosophy, higher education, excess. With Jupiter you can have either Santa Claus or Jabba the Hut.

Last year around this time I did a short reading for someone in the Linda Land Central thread. Her husband was in the hospital with cancer of the spine. I saw that transiting Jupiter was approaching an important point in his chart and I couldn't say whether it would bring him luck or expand his tumors, and that's a very real situation when dealing with Jupiter sometimes. I'm very careful about assuming that luck will come. But I will say that it was lucky for her husband. He went into remission and he will soon be fine.

But Sun and Jupiter together is REWARD, it's The Oscar, it's Santa Claus. Jupiter is Zeus. I LOVE JUPITER!!! He's the man.

posted January 15, 2009 06:58 PM         

You know what I was curious about? Like if there's an order to relating in the houses...say, first we relate according to th 11th, and then the 5th, and then finally, the 7th, when we feel super close.
And if people's planets fall in those houses in synastry out of order, I wonder if they make the process different...like if someone's Sun were to fall into our 7th first, it might come off a little jarring. Especially if the 7th house cusp is in a sign that's hard to relate to immediately, like Capricorn or Scorpio.

posted January 15, 2009 07:26 PM         

True to your Virgo nature (and my Mercury-Saturn conjunction) you are overthinking it, but most people do. The answer is both. But there's no way to tell which planets affect you more; the planets in the houses or the planets that rule the houses. But I get more concrete results with the planets rule the houses.

For example, my 5th house is Virgo and I have Pluto-Uranus conjunct inside of it. But Mercury rules my 5th House. If I meet someone whose Venus conjuncts my Mercury, I'm all his. If someone has Sun conjunct my Pluto or Uranus in my 5th House, it's a different feeling. It's more playful, but it doesn't feel as romantic, except for the guy whose Venus was conjunct my Pluto in 5th House, yes, it was passionate love, but it didn't last long because his Venus was closer to my Uranus.

posted January 15, 2009 07:57 PM         

but this is where it gets confusing for me a little...i have no planets in those houses, just planets nearby, and then depending on what house system i use i get sun in the 5...but Geo said that my moon rules it..

posted January 29, 2009 07:30 AM           

Lots of friends, in high and low places, all over the place. Too many acquaintances. 100s of them. Having sun AND mars in 3rd house which is ruled by gemini makes me social butterfly chatterbox along with moon in libra, which makes me totally sociable and in my element when im making social connections and partnerships b/w ppl.

But i have a very short list of ppl i have time for, who know me personally behind the public persona. Maybe thats to do with my cancer sun? The jupiter being Rx in the natal...that i gotta figure out a bit more.

:P