Not yet, but it is in its shadow. Jupiter is direct at 19°42′ Leo, slowing, and stands still and turns retrograde at 27°01′ Leo on December 13 at 12:58 AM.
The giver of more stops on the road, sets down the sack, and asks whether more was ever the point.
| Entered shadow | September 17 at 4:34 AM | 16°59′ Leo |
| Stands still, turns back | December 13 at 12:58 AM | 27°01′ Leo |
| Stands still, turns forward | April 13 at 2:13 AM | 16°59′ Leo |
| Leaves shadow | July 11 at 4:42 AM | 27°01′ Leo |
Jupiter entered its shadow on September 17, at 16°59′ Leo, the degree whose image is a choir in ordinary dress singing together, the voices all the ceremony they need. It will cover these degrees three times over the better part of a year. Astrologers treat the first pass as the promise, the retrograde as the review, and the third pass as the delivery, so what is begun in this stretch is the thing the year will keep returning to, and the thing it will finally keep.
Retrograde from 27°01′ Leo, the degree of many small birds perched along the limb of a great tree, back to 16°59′ Leo, the degree of a choir in ordinary dress singing together, the voices all the ceremony they need. One hundred twenty-one days.
Jupiter today: 19°42′ Leo, the twentieth degree. An indigenous people performing a ceremony to the sun, in a tradition older than memory.
Jupiter retrogrades every year for about four months, when the Earth passes between it and the Sun. From here it seems to back through Leo, though nothing in the sky reverses; we are overtaking it. Because it comes round so faithfully, astrologers read Jupiter retrograde less as an event than as a season of the year, the way a farmer reads the fallow. Growth turns inward. Faith is tested rather than proclaimed. The reward for the year’s expansion is found in what one already holds rather than in what arrives, and the interval is good for digestion, for letting the meal become the body. The retrograde ends when Jupiter stands still and turns on ; it clears its shadow on .
Jupiter retrogrades once a year for about four months, so it is retrograde a third of the time.
| Enters shadow | Stands still, turns back | Stands still, turns forward | Leaves shadow |
|---|---|---|---|
25°09′ Cancer | 15°05′ Cancer | ||
27°01′ Leo | 16°59′ Leo |
About 30 percent of people were born with Jupiter retrograde. Enter a date and time and Moondark will tell you, along with the Moon’s sign and phase and whether she was void.
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