Astrologer Laura Craig

Jupiter in Pisces: Part One

Still shot from Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby”

May 13 - July 28, 2021

Astrologically, it’s the headliner event of the summer: Jupiter moving into Pisces and kicking off the Great Gatsby-esque all-night pool party, replete with nymphs, crooners, drifters, the beautiful and the damned—real Deco decadence. In truth, this is just the preview, as the Lord of Louche is only dipping his toe into the first 2 degrees of the sign before going retrograde, but it is still a much-needed getaway to the place he shares with his brother, Neptune, and for us, a welcome change from all the hard edges and limitations of the past year and a half. Enough to tide us over until next year, anyway, when the Big Guy will really be able to settle in for an extended stay.

Jupiter in Pisces cuts a glamorous figure. He is a magnetic combination of power and pathos; a libertine with a faraway look in his eye, a bad boy with melancholy and mystique. He has the debauchée appetites one would expect of the king of the gods, but with depth, feeling and compassion to match. Not as detached and secular as he was in Aquarius, here he consorts with all walks of humanity, wading into the mosh pit, holding down the dance floor, all to stop the world and melt with you. Jupiter thrives in the limitlessness of Pisces, loves the thrill of escaping his boundaries, the freedom of dissolving into the psychedelic abyss. With license to ill, and nowhere else to be, he’ll gladly follow the White Rabbit or the Playboy Bunny, if they seem like they might lead him to nirvana. 

It feels like a wild time, no? Or perhaps like a dream… As is always the caution with any Piscean story, beware of illusion and loss of time, the temporary high and the false prophet. And with Jupiter transits, it is excess. The pull to indulge will likely be matched by the need to withdraw, so allow yourself space for introversion, meditation, or sleep. Caveats aside, wherever the cusp of Pisces falls in your chart is the area of life where you can be on the lookout for the good fortune that our Greater Benefic will bestow upon you. It’s a sea change and a balm, in a year that is hard at work on the collective, so allow yourself to enjoy it—go ahead and kick off your shoes and jump in. 


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