Jupiter is the planet of growth, expansion, and positive energy. It is often associated with good fortune and joy.
Cancer is the sign of the mother – nurturing, caring, protecting energy. It is associated with home and family, and the sense of emotional security and protection that home ideally provides.
Together, Jupiter in Cancer provides an opportunity for you to grow and expand your capacity to nurture, care for, and protect what you love and care about. It increases your capacity to love who and what you love.
However, when Jupiter in Cancer goes into retrograde motion, it shifts the focus of that energy inward. Now, and for the next months, Jupiter Retrograde in Cancer calls upon you to grow and expand in your capacity to nurture, care for, and protect yourself.
How much do you really love yourself? Under Jupiter Retrograde in Cancer (which began at 9:04p PST on November 6th, 2013), now’s the time for you to find out.
This may be a confronting time for some of you, especially if you tend to put others first in your life. Taking time to nurture and care for yourself isn’t easy and certainly won’t be comfortable. Yet you are being asked to incorporate some time to see how you are being nurtured and protected and cared for in your life. This is not only about how you provide nurturing and loving care for yourself. In fact, a large part of this process will occur through your recognizing how your loved ones treat you. Do they nurture, care for, and protect you? Do they give you a sense of home and family?
One of the things that may come up during Jupiter Retrograde in Cancer is how people in your life have become ‘the family of your choosing’. They may not be related to you by blood, but they may be as close if not closer to you in how you relate to them or with them. There is a comfort and ease you feel with them – a trust and confidence that you have with them. It is a powerful distinction to make with the people in your life – noticing which ones you would treat as family, and which ones treat you that way.
During Jupiter Retrograde in Cancer, you will likely become more aware of which people in your life treat you like family and which ones feel like family or feel like home to you. This could be a time of great joy and positive feeling when you start to become more aware of the people in your life who reciprocate your love. However, it can also be challenging as you may begin to notice how you may resist or push away others’ efforts to love and care for you. If you find that you are hesitant or resistant to the nurturing and care of others, you may get to explore that resistance during this Jupiter Retrograde in Cancer period. This is especially true if you say that you want to have deeper or closer emotional connections with people. You may come to realize that it’s not the people around you who aren’t giving you love – it may actually be that you’re not allowing that love to come to you. You may get to learn how to receive love during this time, and it may start by learning to love yourself.
Make the most of the opportunities to learn and grow your love during Jupiter Retrograde in Cancer, which will be in effect through March 6th, 2014.
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~ Light, Love, and Blessings,
Grace
